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)

Monday, October 21, 2013

Who'd a thunk?

The system of hitting up The Man in order to buy votes from a captive electorate dependent on the federal government, so successful during...

A hard look at ourselves.

Witness the ultimate reality of the totalitarian progressive state. The North Korean government is also concerned about how much ordinary N...

Saviors

Disillusioned saviors search the sky, Wanting to just to show someone the way, Asking all the people passing by, "Doesn't anybo...

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Disrupting The Conversation

This is going to be an unusually busy day for me, so I must limit myself to one brief but important observation. Leftists have found a ne...

Saturday, October 19, 2013

A Threat Catholics Should Have Seen Coming

Let's be candid here: Most people have about as much ability to project future developments, including even the nearest-future developme...

Friday, October 18, 2013

Assorted

1. "Settled Law" Ann Coulter's column of yesterday makes a very important observation: No law, certainly not one that fund...

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Misleading Yourself

...is an offense for which you'll never find someone else to blame. Consider the following: Libertarianism is spreading on our college...

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Glitch Or Threat?

Sometimes, it can be hard to tell: Shoppers around the country could not use their EBT food stamp cards because of a computer problem Satu...

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Betrayal Guaranteed

These past five days, I've rigidly refrained from reading anything about politics, legislation, or events relevant to either. That's...

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Quickies: Peacemakers

Among the least comprehensible practices of awards committees, from the highest to the lowest, is the habit of “peace” groups of giving thei...

Friday, October 11, 2013

Reduced Blogging Ahead

Apologies, Gentle Reader The next few days are likely to see a decline in postings here at Liberty’s Torch. I’m headed out of town on busin...

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Compassion: Reasoning Backward

I'm sure you can imagine what sort of hate mail this post provoked. Apparently I want to starve old people and children to death, assum...

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Tells

Devoted poker players constantly look for their opponents' "tells," habitual behaviors that reveal the actual state of their h...

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

"Our Church" -- ?

Courtesy of our beloved InstaPundit comes this curious report: How Far Should Churches Go to Appeal to Men? One question has plagued th...

Sunday, October 6, 2013

The Great Mistake

"Never interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake. That's bad manners." -- Attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, possibl...

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Uncategorizable

The CSO has just sent me a subscriber-only article from the Wall Street Journal that contains the following bit of ... interesting advice:...

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