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)

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

A Monitory Message For America

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     If you enjoy historical fiction, you may already be familiar with the work of Taylor Caldwell. Her great historical novels are among t...
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Monday, September 14, 2026

Showing Their Colors

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     The contemporary Left is a vile thing. Its adherents behave atrociously whenever they get to “acting out.” Yet many of us in the Right ...
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Indictments

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     Relax! You haven’t missed a stunning development in some high-profile legal drama. This is just your old Curmudgeon warming up for an “...
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Sunday, September 13, 2026

The saviors

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     Yes, yes: I know there’s only one Savior. That’s why I departed from longstanding practice by not capitalizing the word in the title. ...
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Saturday, September 12, 2026

Today’s Thorn In My Flesh

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     Get a load of this: I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm over escapism as fiction's driving force. It's been so...
Friday, September 11, 2026

Anniversaries

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     Anniversaries pile up on us as we get older. Birthdays, wedding anniversaries, the days of our beloveds’ passings, other significant ev...
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Thursday, September 10, 2026

Light, Sweet, Crude

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     [A short story for you today. This one is for all the men in overalls and hardhats. The ones with dirt under their fingernails. The guy...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2026

“The Winning Side”

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     I’ve been having some exchanges with a brilliant fellow, Armond Boudreaux, about the different mindsets of materialists and theists. My...
Tuesday, September 8, 2026

I Almost Missed It

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     Glory be to God! Today, as I’ve only just discovered, celebrates my favorite ASCII character: one without which a great many important ...
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Monday, September 7, 2026

A Study In Passion And "Cool"

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     [This piece first appeared at the old Eternity Road website, on November 12, 2004. – FWP ]      Your Curmudgeon had a strange expe...
Sunday, September 6, 2026

Enforcers

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     A great many people, most of them good and decent people, have fallen for the notion that if something is generally deemed “bad” by som...
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