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)

Monday, August 24, 2015

Simply Stellar

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Spend some time around Soldiers and you’ll inevitably hear some of the funniest, most quotable quips ever. The combination of hardship an...

Day Off

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     ...kinda-sorta. Actually, I plan to spend it on fiction. Back tomorrow.

Off the reservation.

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As an airline pilot I have stayed in many US and foreign [cities] and the only two that we, me and my crew, were told to not venture out of ...

Trust the experts.

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. . . Central banks have never stopped intervening since 2008. The market is in effect a reflection of 6+ years of unprecedented central ban...

Goodwhites.

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[On his show with Ann Coulter, Bill] Maher went for the race angle at the first opportunity. The fondest conceit of the goodwhites is that t...

Only one?

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I have only one loyalty, and that’s to the immigrant community. ~ Mexican United States Congressman Luis GutiĆ©rrez, quote in " Ann Cou...
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Sunday, August 23, 2015

For The Sheer Joy Of It

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     ...because we all need a little joy now and then:      You will never see a man more in love with his instrument and the music he a...

Extremely Quickies: “Sad Puppies,” The Denouement

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     Milo Yiannopoulos has the story:      At the seventy-third annual Worldcon science fiction convention on Saturday night, social justi...
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“Where Do Nazis Come From:” Further Thoughts

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     First, for all those correspondents who expressed incredulity at the central thesis of yesterday’s short story: Yes, I meant it. Every...
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Friday, August 21, 2015

Ashley Madison, Contemporary Mores, And The Christian Ethos

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     From what I can discern from the Web chatter, the excrement has well and truly hit the fan in the “Ashley Madison” security breach. Not...
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Emotional Inoculation: A Guest Column by Mark Clausen

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     [Mark, a longtime reader of Liberty’s Torch, emailed me this yesterday. I found it insightful and illuminating. Enjoy! -- FWP ]   ...
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Quickies: Advanced Mascotting

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     Yes, I’ve coined another word. But Dystopic made me do it -- and may God bless him for it:      From time-to-time, more moderate folk...

Quickies: The Richest Poor On Earth

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     Kevin D. Williamson whacks us across the teeth with it:      What is it, in terms of physical goods and services, that we wish to pro...

Anathemizing Trump.

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Second in a series. We must go to press so soon after our last offering because the Torrents of Calumny respecting Mr. Donald Trump are onl...
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Good news, bad news.

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Another asset purchase program by the Fed will not help this time. It’s like if you are lying in the hospital and the doctor says «The good ...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

The liberal agenda.

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The process of death wishing, in the guise of liberalism, has been eroding the civilization of the West for a century and more, and now woul...

Quickies “First World Problems”

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     I have a lot of obligations before me today, so please enjoy: Colonel Bunny’s excellent article below; and: The following wildly funny...

Recent history and the current danger in 118 words.

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The baby boom generation which started with so much promise when it came of age in the 1960s has ended up a colossal failure. It has turned...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Nothing, Everything: A Midweek Rumination

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Paradox is everything when searching for the truth You look for black and white and find the grey And things that filled your heart don’t ...
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Quickies: There's New Content...

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     ...at my fiction-promotion site.
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