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)

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Quickies: Those Maddening Christians!

The Democrats are pissed. The mass murder in Charleston isn’t inspiring the necessary outrage required for new gun-control legislation....

Quickies: An Israeli Speaks The Unspeakable

Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren’s new book has Washington in a lather, but his recent article in Foreign Policy i...

Quickies: The Racism Double-Bind

Ed Driscoll calls out the Washington Post: From Piyush to Bobby: How does Jindal feel about his family’s past? .... Jinda...

Quickies: The “Fast-Track” Trade Bills

These bills have been represented as everything but a cancer cure. Their supporters claim they would be nothing but good for America. T...

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Freezing The Pipes

The Internet, with emphasis on the two-way facilities of the contemporary World Wide Web, has provided freedom lovers with the most imp...

Monday, June 22, 2015

New Fiction

Henry Hallstrom, a widower in his middle years, has unexpectedly encountered a woman who strikes him as perfect... almost. Having co...

Dynasties, Courtiers, And Wars

Bill Whittle’s recent video manifesto: ...got me thinking hard about one of the great historical transitions in Western sociopo...

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Probability And Plausibility: A Kinda-Sorta Rumination

Any number of persons who call themselves atheists do so because, as they would put it, “I just can’t believe all that stuff.” If you ...

Conversations

FWP: You know, one of the best things about being retired is not having to deal with people. CSO: But that just means that everyone you d...

The plague years.

There are estimated to be 1.8 billion M*sl*ms in the world making up about 25% of the population. But though M*sl*ms are just 25% of the wo...

Saturday, June 20, 2015

“Compelling Government Interest”

Time was, I wrote more than I do today about the abstract ideals that undergird freedom. These days, my attention is more focused on cu...

Politics of exclusion.

[Aldous] Huxley thought this [social control and the propagation of ignorance] might take place through drugs and genetic engineering, but t...

Friday, June 19, 2015

And Now For Something Completely Different

The world of independently published fiction is exploding, which is a mixed blessing. The garbage still heavily outweighs the good stuf...

The Vicious Among Us

Apologies in advance for this one, Gentle Reader. It’s a few minutes after one AM as I write this. I can’t sleep and am cranky from chr...

Thursday, June 18, 2015

“Shut The Barn Door, Sadie! The Horse Is Gone!”

You might find this hard to believe. As one who has worked with – indeed, alongside – far too many government functionaries, I don’t: ...

Human conceit.

From what I've seen over the past 43 years, attempts to bypass the negatives of "organized religion" while still maintaining ...

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Quickies: This Post Will Have No Title

You’ll see why from this Washington Post article by Eugene Volokh: One of the latest things in universities, including at Univ...

Quickies: This Morning’s Mass

One of the more pleasant things about retirement is the opportunity to attend Mass every weekday. As it’s scheduled to begin at 8:30 AM...

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