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, November 18, 2014

Evidence Trails

First, a video from the very bowels of the controversy: And from more recently: “I just heard about this.” “Some advisor.” From the ma...

Monday, November 17, 2014

Rants From Runts, Pants That Punt, and Cant From...Oh, Never Mind

If you’ve been waiting for the: Social Justice Warriors Professionally Aggrieved Feminists (i.e., the angry ugly girls) “glittery hoo-hah” ...

Conversations

After a grumble this morning at our capricious, wholly untrustworthy bathroom scale, I noted to the C.S.O. that, back when I was a physicist...

Sunday, November 16, 2014

For Israel And The Jewish People Worldwide

[I have nothing original to say this morning, but the plight of Israel, now under unprecedented pressure to permit the Palestinian irredenti...

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Double Standards Dept.

Have a gander at this column by Paris Lees, which I found via our beloved Instapundit: I'm sick of being told that being sexual is b...

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Fundamental Corruptions

First, one of Bill Whittle’s most striking videos: For those Gentle Readers who prefer text – I do, most of the time – here’s Whittle’s h...

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Quote Of The Day

“In this administration, a surfeit of words is used to cover a deficit of meaning.” -- Paul Greenberg Gorgeous.

The Anti-Transparent Administration

Remember when Barack Hussein Obama promised us “the most transparent administration in history” -- ? Remember when he vowed to set a new eth...

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The Nadir Of Statism

These past few years have seen statist encroachments into every area of American life. One of the least appreciated of these is Michelle Oba...

Monday, November 10, 2014

Assorted

Sheesh. It’s not enough that I have to kill a seemingly inexhaustible supply of Solarii. Now I have to kill Oni, too! The supernatural imm...

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Means And Ends: A Rumination Through Fiction

For this morning, a brief story about morality through teleology. “But surely,” she said, “the context is what determines the rightn...

Libertarianism in a nutshell.

Too often, public libertarianism is reduced to a cartoonish state by overcompensating on liberty and leaving unconsidered other important c...

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Quickies: The Left And Proportion

A fascinating look at the sort of “selective high dudgeon” Mr. Goska cites in the article linked in my previous post is available from this ...

Quickies: The Impact Of Character

There is no substitute for character, and there is no rule about where you’ll find it. -- Louis Nizer Today will be put mainly to fiction ...

Our best thinking.

Right now, JPMorgan Chase has more than 67 trillion dollars in exposure to derivatives but it only has 2.5 trillion dollars in assets. Rig...

Goodbye to the Age of Acquarius.

This essentially means that the state’s economic apparatus is now all about stimulus, all of the time. In fact, the state’s central bankin...

Friday, November 7, 2014

T Plus Three: Hope Yielding Self-Deception

Three days is an important time interval in sociometry. Among other things, it’s the interval between the emergence of a significant ideon –...

Thursday, November 6, 2014

T Plus Two: What Has Not Changed

It was predictable. Indeed, it was inevitable. I won’t chastise you should you choose not to watch the video linked above. You’ve probabl...

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