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)

Sunday, November 17, 2013

The Last Amen

She returned to me on Friday. She looked less agitated than she had a few days before. I put down my work, composed myself for a serious exc...

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Book Notes: Controversialists At Loggerheads

Sorry, Gentle Reader. If I write more about politics just now, my brain is likely to explode. As I expect to need it for a few more years, I...

Friday, November 15, 2013

Tightening Down

Yes, you are being watched...and followed...and recorded: In downtown Seattle, the authorities have installed a system that can allegedly...

Leftist hypocrisy.

Radical leftists (communists, Marxists, progressives) tear their hair over the enslavement of Negroes. What they will not do, however, is c...

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Not Enough Part 3: The Triumph Of The Iron Triangles

Once in a while, I stumble over an essay that reminds me of my own writings... of thirty years ago. There's no need for me to excerpt ...

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

An Intellectual's Duty

[John Derbyshire, one of America's brightest opinion writers, has produced a subtly satirical screed about the electoral dangers of lett...

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

An Unexpected Encounter

She took me by surprise. We’d been "hall friendly:" routine acknowledgement of one another's existence, occasional banter in ...

Quickies: "Good Intentions"

I have a mountain or two to scale today, so I must make do with a "quickie" and then be off. Victor Davis Hanson produces a lamen...

Monday, November 11, 2013

Red, White, and Blue blindness

The author in 1975. Way too trusting. The next “greatest generation” could be home schooled Americans…if enough of them take a partic...

For Armistice Day

World War I remains the greatest man-made tragedy in all of history: a brutal, pointless, utterly avoidable conflagration that ended a centu...

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Fools In Cassocks

Prosperity destroys fools and endangers the wise. -- George Herbert There is nothing so pernicious, so evilly enticing, as the love of th...

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Not Enough Part 2: Enablers

Persons cloaked in "authority" and minded to brutalize generally don't do it all "on their own." Indeed, they couldn...

Friday, November 8, 2013

Not Enough

Excuse me, Gentle Reader? You've voted, and voted, and voted some more, and even when your preferred, seemingly noble-hearted candidates...

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Conversations

CSO: I’m having dinner with Anya tomorrow night. FWP: ...grunt... CSO: Don’t worry, I won’t be home late. FWP: ...grunt... CSO: She...

Not Today

[My friend and colleague F. J. Dagg has blessed us with another short story. Read it. As you pass through knots and crowds of your countrym...

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