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, March 23, 2014

Female Idiocy (UPDATED)

[A Public Service Announcement, brought to you by Men Who Have Had It With Women's Pretensions To Equality Coupled With An Insistence On...

Rand And Orlov: A Guest Post by Ol' Remus of The Woodpile Report

[Guest Contributor Ol' Remus has once again favored Liberty's Torch with a pithy and disturbing piece. It will also appear in a for...

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Recent history – executive summary.

There are 4 principal presidents that presided over and pushed this country over the edge. Woodrow Wilson (FED, IRS, League of Nations), F...

An apt comparison.

One notable thing about [heroin] addicts is all they focus on is their next fix...regardless of the fact that the building is burning down a...

Our balkanized minds.

No man was more sensitive than [Stefan] Zweig to the destructive effects upon individual liberty of the demands of large or strident collec...

The stealth tax – inflation.

But unfortunately, everything has a price, even free money. ~ Peter Schiff. Quoted at Peter Schiff: Debt And Taxes . Submitted by Tyler D...

Ukraine, Russia, And America

As if it weren't perfectly obvious from his entire record in the public eye, it is now pellucidly clear that Vladimir Putin means to rec...

Friday, March 21, 2014

The socialist essence.

Mises, Hayek’s mentor, refuted socialism by 1922. It is my belief that we are on the (long) road to a massive financial crises, brought abo...

Quickies: The Criminalization Of Justice

My day has already been overfilled with obligations, so I must content myself with a brief piece that proceeds from Glenn Reynolds's exc...

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Activity at www.franciswporretto.com

I've just added an article, "Show Them A Hero," to my fiction promotional site.

Threats Real And Imagined

Probably the most important distinction Americans could possibly learn to make is that between real threats and figments of someone's im...

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Assorted

Look at it this way: when you see that title at the top of a post, at least you know I won't be droning on for a thousand words or more ...

"Fundamental transformation" explained.

Commenter KO: Fjordman addresses the great mystery of leftism: is the true motive of leftists to build the just society, or to destroy the...

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

The EU’s Stunning Hypocrisy on Crimea

The European Union’s characterization of the Crimean vote to join Russia as “undemocratic” is laced with stunning hypocrisy given that the ...

Reviving The Constitution Part 2: Marque and Reprisal

Congress shall have the power...To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.....

Bonfire of the absurdities.

Rage Boy, Sen. John McCain, has called Russia “a gas station masquerading as a country” and called for military aid to Ukraine [1] : If on...

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Christianity And Power: A Sunday Rumination

I've written on several occasions about the evil of the politicized pulpit -- more specifically, the modern tendency clergymen have disp...

Quickies: When You Don't Know Where You're Going...

...you need a very detailed map: In an autobiographical essay published 20 years ago, the left-leaning economist Kenneth Arrow recalled e...

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Government Lexicon

By Michael S. Rozeff Words no longer mean anything stable and therefore laws mean nothing stable at the highest level of U.S. government. ...

An Ides Of March Victimism Review

"I love Mankind. It's people I can't stand." -- Origin unknown Good morning, Gentle Reader. I'm in perhaps the foule...

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