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, October 26, 2015

Those thousand of U.S. air "attacks" on ISIS.

There is another story, "even more curious and telling than the others," that was not reported either. [Former Marine Gordon] Duff...

A good summary of cultural Marxism.

It is perhaps no mistake that cultural Marxists in the form of “social justice warriors”, PC busybodies and feminists tend to create artifi...

Putin can save us from ourselves.

Consider the result of all that we've done since invading Afghanistan. We know that Afghanistan is deteriorating and our hugely expens...

Collaboration?

Failed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney lamented that the demise of traditional media is empowering Republican “insurgents” and prevent...

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Cargo-Cult Christianity: A Sunday Rumination

We have sacraments, prayers, and rituals. We have vigils, novenas, and adorations. We have relics, statues, and crucifixes. We have par...

Tyranny of the neurotic.

Things that seemed the obsessions of the occasional lugubrious neurotic are so common that they represent a change in the national characte...

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Quickies: Thoughts On Trump, Carson, and Fiorina

I limit my exposure to the ongoing campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, mainly out of my propensity for boredom-induced...

Quickies: The New Censorship

Technically – i.e., according to the formal definition – censorship requires that the political authority be involved, specifically to...

Quickies: Controversializations Dept.

I’m not a big country-music fan, but I find myself drawn to the music, and not coincidentally to the personae, of a number of country ...

U.S. policy in Syria.

I pretend to no expertise in Middle East affairs and humor myself by trying to state what seems to me to be obvious about what the U.S. is d...

U.S.A. – destroyer of nations.

A propos of my post above here are a couple of choice quotes summarizing the Obama Middle East policy: There’s no way to overstate the Obam...

Friday, October 23, 2015

Why Bother?

Tranquil times are the op-ed writer’s version of the Gobi Desert. No wars or insurgencies? No mounds of corpses? No screaming victims o...

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Synthetic Outrage

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Heresy.

I suspect world opinion is not buying our claim that Bashar al-Assad has to go because he bombed his own citizens and used gas on them. I me...

Makes you think.

Yes nsa [who had asked if anyone had worked in an Arab country or had actual dealings with Arabs], I lived and worked in the Middle East. As...

Wisdom from the usual suspects.

Numerous actors, musicians, writers, and DJs – the really deep thinkers of this country – have endorsed a "new vision for our country,...

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

“Them”

[Another oldie from Palace of Reason days. This one comes to mind because of this story from Washington D.C. I’m sure you’ll see the ...

An American woman speaks the truth.

We're jumping continents here but Tomi Lahren (Rapid City, San Diego, Texas) effortlessly puts her finger on the Muslim threat to Am...

The song that never grows old.

Downtown Toronto. Liberal leader Justin Trudeau had a rallying call that struck a much more powerful chord, saying he would run a budget de...

Swedish model – epic fail.

It will not be long until the Swedes realize that the state will not look after them. The country that just 20 years ago was considered one ...

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