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)

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

The Vent: A Coda

Many are the mornings I awaken feeling, in Carole King’s well-known words, uninspired. I suppose a goodly fraction of my morning dreari...

Obtuseness.

Mark Steyn is substituting for Rush today. He just had this gem on the reason for Trump's election: The reason for the election of Trum...

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

A Time To Vent

When my greatly esteemed colleague Charles Hill of Dustbury has something he needs to say at length, he calls it a “Vent.” In truth,...

What Will It Take?

“The news is all bad, but it’s good for a laugh.” – Tom Paxton, “Jimmy Newman” How strange, to be quoting an old communist peace...

Monday, August 21, 2017

Quickies: There Is No Bottom

Today promises to be an extremely busy day, filled with lawn mowers, hedge clippers, and related implements of destruction, so I’m goin...

Eclipse.

Eclipse humor.

From the RT live feed on YouTube : The moon is square. It only look round because our eyes are round Gravity is a hoax. The CIA is behind t...

Sunday, August 20, 2017

Teaser Two

[I didn’t expect to do this, but the torrent of email demanding “just a little more, Fran” of Innocents, despite the two or three mon...

Russian dance "Berezka" "Birch" "Березка."

H/t: " Bluebird of Bitterness ."

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Tea Leaves In The Dawn Drizzle

(Yeah, yeah, they’re soggy. So what?) I’ve written before about the Left’s tactic of infiltrating institutions and corrupting th...

The stench from the MSM.

Next The New Yorker cover:

Modern discourse.

If you take the way soi-disant “anti-racists” talk about white people and substitute “Jews” for “whites” you will end up with something that...

Friday, August 18, 2017

What The World Needs Now

What the world needs now is love, sweet love It's the only thing that there's just too little of What the world needs now is love...

Thursday, August 17, 2017

“Survived By His Wife”

They say married men live longer! Well, don’t they? But...longer than whom?? Just a little levity for an otherwise drea...

A Teaser

[As I’m not in the mood to write about “serious” stuff this morning, I thought I’d fill in with a teaser from my novel-under-developmen...

Fact free MSM analysis.

" CNN's Chris Cuomo: 'Extreme Right Is The Number One Domestic Terror Threat In The U.S.' " Yale grad.

On removing Confederate monuments.

Why not just remove the name of anyone who was ever wrong about anything from the beginning of time from the history books ? Get it over wi...

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Had It

I think I’ve reached my limit. For twenty years I’ve been writing analyses and opinion about various matters of public policy, po...

To serve and defect.

It’s worth remembering that Charlottesville did everything it could to prevent the demonstrations, issuing permits only after being sued by...

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Action And Reaction

As my regular Gentle Readers will surely know (and if they don’t, they can learn about it here ), I have a Newfoundland. The Newf is a ...

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