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)

Friday, October 17, 2014

Quickies: A Dead-Center Bull's-Eye Diagnosis

Please read this entire article. Here's the meat of its thesis: The zeitgeist we are swirling in demands cold, hard decision making c...

It's On, The Ongoing Saga

From Colin Flaherty: Some stories you have to read 10 times before deciding: ’Yes: What I thought was too crazy is really true.’ This is ...

Quickies: A Pontificate Bent On The Destruction Of The Church?

From Ann Barnhardt's latest: Q. How could Pope Francis keep making blunder after blunder, saying and doing things that are turned...

Quickies: The All-Purpose Governmental Excuse

First have a gander at this revealing story about the recent behavior of the Centers for Disease Control: Top public health officials have...

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Quanta Of Wasted Verbiage

1. Ebola, Ebola, Ebola... Our latest national scare-package is being unwrapped gradually, lovingly, such that with each new revelation a f...

The Horrors Of Math

In 2012, Paul Ryan gave it its day in fiscal and budgetary matters. Today, Ben Shapiro does the job on Islamic radicalism: Watch it all. ...

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Long Divisions

One of the most important pseudo-conflicts in Western society is that between employer and employees (or "management" and "wo...

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The Convergence Of The Fears

The list is growing very long: Islamism on the march. Russia remilitarizing as it absorbs Ukraine and eyes the Baltics. China preparing its...

Sunday, October 12, 2014

We different.

All these foreign and economic woes led to political instability [in the Chinese Ming Dynasty], which led a centralized imperial bureaucrac...

This just in.

France’s generous welfare system has come at a price - a budget that hasn’t been balanced since 1974 . . . . [1] Hopes that the magic fairy ...

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Leftist betrayal of America.

Read the disgusting story of U.S. leftists’ support for Communists in Vietnam here: " When Night Fell In Indochina ." By Bruce Her...

Friday, October 10, 2014

Assorted Thoughts

Yes, it’s another one of those mornings. I wasn’t sure why, but for a long time whenever I went a day without posting something here, I ...

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Black to basics.

But Democrats no longer on the ballot believe the president should focus his time on his most loyal constituency. “I’d have Obama on an e...

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Contemplating The Eschaton: Protecting The Status Quo

Thanks to commenter Obola, I’m feeling quite a bit cheerier today. Nevertheless, this is an important subject that should be explored somewh...

Progress.

When I was a boy my momma would send me down to a corner store with $1 and I’d come back with 5 potatoes, 2 loaves of bread, 3 bottles of m...

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Contemplating The Eschaton: An Introduction

In one of the blackest moods I've ever endured -- I'll tell you about it later; it's a "First World" problem if ever t...

Monday, October 6, 2014

Squirrel Food

This promises to be an unusually hectic Monday, so please enjoy the following brief bits in place of the usual master's-thesis-length sc...

Sunday, October 5, 2014

The Ebola Farce: A Guest Post by Ol’ Remus of The Woodpile Report

[It’s an all-Ebola weekend here at Liberty’s Torch. To continue the festivities, we have an unflinching, unsparing piece from one of my fav...

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Ann Barnhardt Speaks On The Ebola Crisis

[I have a tremendous admiration for Ann Barnhardt, who might just be the ballsiest person currently writing for the Web. This is a woman wh...

Unspeakable tragedy.

"Average_guy" comment on The Guardian ’s Sophie Heawood’s angst at her failure to rear a "gender-neutral" daughter (who ...

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