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, January 25, 2016

The Gender War: An Outcropping Of Significance

You wouldn’t expect the more arcane scholastic pursuits to be (or become) hotbeds of male-female strife, but then, you wouldn’t have ex...

Quickies: More Aliens?

Jeez, I can’t throw a snowball into a herd of “independent minds” without hitting still more aliens: A star named KIC 8462852 ha...

Quickies: Where The Aliens Are / Aren’t

Extrasolar planets seem to be pretty common; at least, something over 2000 have already been detected and mention of new ones occurs fa...

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Day Off (UPDATED)

Very sick. Can’t concentrate. See you tomorrow, I hope. UPDATE: Better now. My thanks for all the comments and emails expressing...

The world's doormat.

“America should be a destination for hard-working immigrants from all over the world,” according to a press release from “top national Repu...

Reverse neo-colonialism.

The default mode of our elites is that anything that happens--from terrorism to tsunamis--can be understood only as deriving from the pern...

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Of course.

Of course the US, Saudi, UAE, Jordanian, Israeli, and British air forces have been blasting anything that moved in Syria for years, but tha...

Financial oligarchs?

Something to consider. Since the Norman Rockwell vision of America has been retired -- with a vengeance -- we must search for better explana...

Sounding the depths.

We're in uncharted waters these days. It wasn't that long ago that we were on the way to the "end of history" according ...

Cassandra.

It is difficult to blame Marine Le Pen for the December [electoral] failure. A large portion of the Western world has lost the ability to ...

Western suicide.

Mark Steyn has written a seminal article on the likely extinction of the West. Western intellectual confusion and political dishonesty have...

Friday, January 22, 2016

Leavenings Dept.

I had a serious subject in mind for this morning. Really serious. My word, what a subject! The sort of subject that gives you a sharp ...

Eternal Truths Dept.

The electoral political system is a subsidiary of those who rule the economy. " Bernie Sanders and the Failure of Propaganda ....

Where's the outrage?

The "conservatives" over at National Review are in a tizzy over Donald Trump's not being a conservative. Like them. Well, ...

Philip Giraldi on the State of the Union address.

A light unto the nations. The perpetuation of myths that the U.S. must lead and should take steps to correct the policies of other nations,...

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Principles Versus Power

Perhaps you’ve already seen the following: The statement supposedly comes from one of the Dune novels. Wherever it may have or...

100 years of fairy tales and subversion.

For a long time it's been clear the Constitution was abandoned. Thinkers speak of "post-constitutional America" and they are ...

Once we took the high road.

During those decades the Saudis used their oil wealth to seed human societies with the most virulent totalitarian doctrine of governance --...

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Leavenings

Serial liar Hillary Clinton had Special Access Program information in her unsecured email server. Rabidly left-wing Website Salon has d...

More Pearls of expression.

I have several reasons for keeping a half-century-old “Goldwater for President” poster on a wall of my university office. It serves as a re...

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