Liberty's Torch

(a.k.a. Bastion Of Liberty)

"Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy,
And the dogs that bark revolution.
Drunk with talk, liars and believers.
I believe in my tusks.
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies!"
(Robinson Jeffers)

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Reflections on The Nature of Human Evil, Part I: Evil as Childishness

I often encounter the argument that libertarianism as a political philosophy must make exception for children and mental invalids on the b...

Competition, Seen And Unseen

There are two important articles at TownHall.Com today, both on the subject of competition. The first, by Daniel J. Mitchell, addresses the ...

Monday, April 16, 2012

Predictions

"Prediction is hard, especially about the future." -- Author unknown Quite a lot of people are nervous about the November election...

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Heroes

Yesterday afternoon, Beth and I indulged our taste for action movies and went to see Lockout, Guy Pearce's near-future star vehicle abo...

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Capital Ideas

In the ongoing presidential campaign, we may expect a handful of broad themes to receive the overwhelmingly greater fraction of the Democrat...

Friday, April 13, 2012

Come Back! Come Back!

The reader response to my offhand suggestion that the old band of Eternity Road Co-Conspirators might be reassembled here was quite positiv...

Gender Galtery?

Dr. Helen Smith has posted a curious inquiry at PJ Media today: I have spent the week talking with experts and others about how men can ...

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Please Allow Me A Day Off

Composing yesterday's post was a wearying adventure, and as I've been cranking 'em out furiously in hope of rebuilding my reader...

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Terminus Part 4: Fight, Flight, And The Approach Of The Cusp

It's time to round off this short series of screeds. If these "Terminus" posts have struck you, Gentle Reader, as unusually a...

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Terminus Part 3b: Hurry, Hurry, Hurry

Permit me to speak in abstractions for a moment. Imagine that the Wazznians have been eyeing the possibility of invading neighboring Brux, t...

Monday, April 9, 2012

The Test Of Fire

It is beyond question that in the past, the Catholic Church in America has unwisely taken political positions that are antithetical to the A...

Terminus Part 3a: Thoughts About IQ

With regard to the previous segment, John Derbyshire's citation of the measured IQ differences between American Negroes and non-Negroes,...

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Terminus Part 3: Suppressing Communications

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell Sharp-eyed readers will note that...

Saturday, April 7, 2012

No More Color Changes

Please stop asking for changes to the colors used here. Being partially color-blind, I'm usually receptive to readers' suggestions a...

Terminus Part 2: Divide To Conquer

Divide et impera. Divide to conquer. Julius Caesar knew it. He wasn't the first. He's certainly not the last. Robert A. Heinlein m...

Logic Obeys Its Own Rules

To all defenders of abortion on demand: This is what we who oppose abortion predicted forty years ago. This is the logical conclusion of eve...

Friday, April 6, 2012

Terminus

I have had enough. The progression that has driven the original, relatively constrained welfare system of the United States to its present,...

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