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)

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Quickies: For The Other Writers In The Audience

Perhaps you’re familiar with the relatively recent phenomenon of authors putting playlists at the ends of their novels. Sometimes they...

Conversations

Today you get two for the price of one. 1. Traditions For yesterday evening’s Passover dinner, Beth made sauerbraten, o...

Quickies: Islam And The “Racism” Gambit

One thing we can count on from Islamic apologists is that they’ll use any tactic that seems effective: Anti-Muslim bigots often ...

Friday, April 22, 2016

Quickies: A Truth Insufficiently Often Expressed

This comes from Jonah Goldberg’s G File mailing of today, and it’s a gem of the first water: To borrow a phrase from the Marxist...

On Living Beyond Your Means

It’s a story that’s been played out a million times and more: It’s a story of a well-educated, exceptionally accomplished fathe...

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Quickies: A Bit Of Musical And Artistic Whimsy

I’ve been typing these essays with my fists lately. It’s not good for the arthritis, so here’s a little something lighthearted while I ...

Quickies: Christianity And Freedom

When young people are asked, “What is the antonym of freedom?” the most common answer is “Slavery.” Yet the majority of those who answe...

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Quickies: Something For Nothing?

I’ve been noticing a certain trend in human relations, and I must say, I can’t find it in me to approve of it. Quite a lot of folks hav...

Quickies: Safety In Reality

This is a sort of continuation of the previous piece, as you’ll see in just a moment. A number of persons of outsized ego and shr...

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up Dept.

Well, we’re finally there. It’s no longer a distant image shimmering ominously on the horizon. It’s no longer possible that it’s a mira...

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Some Midweek Ruminationish Thoughts

I know, I know: You expect this sort of thing to be reserved to Sundays. Well, usually my musings on faith and the spirit do appear on ...

Quickies: Tribalism Redux

Yesterday, SF / fantasy writer Sarah Hoyt posted an essay on tribal phenomena in our time. While it was generally on the mark, it cont...

Advanced decay of America.

If no change is forthcoming, the US will self-destruct. Along that path it is far advanced. What once made the US exceptional was its commi...

The customer is never wrong.

Academic cowardice explained: I submit the reason that college presidents are not pushing back against the Maoist coercions of the undergra...

Monday, April 18, 2016

Coordination Chronicle

I feel a certain admiration for those who openly speak of conspiracies against the commonweal. I don’t admire them out of agreement wi...

An Extraordinary Cultural Stroke

No one makes music more American than Charlie Daniels: Spread it far and wide.

Washington's core assumptions.

In his inimitable way, Trump is offering a powerful challenge to many of the core assumptions of Washington’s bipartisan foreign-policy eli...

Angry Foreigner on Sweden's celebration of the lie.

Angry Foreigner is an immigrant to Sweden himself (from the Balkans) and is a brilliant observer of Sweden and its official culture of lie...

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Sapir-Whorf In The Saddle

If you’re unfamiliar with the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, it’s time to get acquainted with it: Linguistic relativity, sometimes cal...

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Democracy Is Not Freedom

[I wrote what follows in 1988, when I was in the process of rejecting conventional political ideas and reaching conclusions of my own. ...

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