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)

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Anything but a look in the mirror.

Robert Parry has an excellent article on the dark night of the soul of the Democrats: By insisting that Hillary Clinton be the Democratic n...

Something rotten.

Deir ez-Zor, Syria, was the site of a (anti-Assad) Coalition air strike on a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) position. Some eight minutes later ISIS ...

Reverse Donald Trump.

". . . Paris [Macron] will no longer insist Assad leaving is a pre-condition for peace talks. " * * * * Between introducing a m...

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Islam Is Toxic To Human Life

I’ve said it before. I’m saying it again. Islam Is Not A Religion. It’s a totalitarian political system with some pseudo-theol...

And your first clue was . . . what?

“I think we’re in a time when we can’t ignore the extremism from the Left,” said Oren Segal, the director of the Center on Extremism, an ar...

The Fear Weapon

"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass o...

The Heritage Foundation signs on to aggressive war.

Nile Gardiner, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, doubted Moscow would follow through on its threa...

Great headlines.

The Russians Do It Again: Democrats Get Crushed In Georgia Election Despite 7x Spending Advantage. By Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge , 6/21/17.

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

The Power Canard

[Inasmuch as the Left has been laboring mightily to eliminate freedom of expression, I’ve decided to resurrect yet another piece from t...

“Them”

[The following brief piece first appeared at the old Palace of Reason on June 7, 2002. It provides a conceptual supplement to yesterda...

Monday, June 19, 2017

Enforcers

I’ve waited, and waited, and waited. I’ve prayed! “Please, Father. Let this cup pass from me. I’m old and tired, and no one listens t...

Sunday, June 18, 2017

The Food Chain: A Sunday Rumination

[The following piece first appeared at Eternity Road on May 29, 2005. In my opinion, it’s by far the most important thing I’ve ever wr...

Clapper on intellectual integrity.

Subsequently, Clapper led the charge against Snowden, while excusing his own false congressional testimony by saying, “I responded in what ...

Saturday, June 17, 2017

Assorted

Once again I’m badly pressed for time, so have a few quick observations on stories and opinion pieces of recent note. 1. A Useful Li...

Friday, June 16, 2017

A Public Service Announcement

Perhaps my guiltiest pleasure is really silly movies: movies of such cartoonish implausibility that complete (albeit temporary) paralys...

Enough Of Us

If you’ve been reading my drivel for any length of time, you’ve surely noticed that I don’t like to write about what other Internet Com...

50 years down the pike.

For decades white America made a desperate attempt to raise blacks to the level of the First World. It didn’t work. Instead [it] saw a drag...

Stupidity is a polite word for it.

The European Union is not about cooperation for protecting the best interests of Europeans; it is about turning the entire continent into a...

Thursday, June 15, 2017

The Seduction Of Violence

The following Mark Steyn video was recorded six hours before James Hodgkinson’s attack on the Republican Congressmen at the softball fi...

Toward A Single Standard

There’s been a lot of angry talk on the Right in the aftermath of yesterday’s murderous attack on a group of Republican Congressmen. An...

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