Francis W. Porretto
Mount Sinai, NY USA
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Apr 07 2024
The Inversions Are Legion
Some of them exceed even my capacity for fury: The FBI trained personnel on countering extremism with material from the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), according to former special agent turned whistleblower Steve Friend. In an interview with the Tennessee Informer last month, Friend recalled his experience at the FBI Academy …
Apr 06 2024
Wirings And Rewirings
Sometimes, a colloquialism will take us somewhere we need to go. People speak loosely of being “wired.” Most commonly, the term refers to a kind of addiction made manifest in observable behavior. I have no idea whether the origin of the term has any connection to the adaptive physiology of the brain, but …
Apr 06 2024
When Someone Else Says It Perfectly…
I can only cite, quote, and applaud: If you’re on the fence or thinking of sitting this one out because Trump offends your sensibilities, then please be aware that your sensibilities are going to get this country killed. Really. The Democrats are right about one thing — there is a threat to democracy, …
Apr 06 2024
Rants From Runts, Pants That Punt, and Cant From…Oh, Never Mind
[While searching for something else of no particular import, I ran across this piece, which first appeared at Liberty’s Torch V1.0 on November 17, 2014. To my considerable surprise and pleasure, the embedded links all still work. – FWP] If you’ve been waiting for the: Social Justice Warriors Professionally Aggrieved Feminists (i.e., the angry …
Apr 05 2024
Islam: A Reminder
Islam holds that non-Muslim women taken captive by Muslims are fair game to be raped. Even the famously leftist New York Times admits this: In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old [non-Muslim] girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a …
Apr 05 2024
If The Headline Says “Scientists Say”…
…or any approximation, it’s odds-on to be scare talk: Bird flu pandemic could be ‘100 times worse’ than COVID, scientists warn A bird flu pandemic with the potential to be “100 times worse than COVID” may be on the horizon after a rare human case was discovered in Texas, experts have warned. …
Apr 04 2024
For The “Post-Humorists”
The Left is rabidly opposed to a huge fraction of our cultural heritage. Possibly all of it, really. Historical totalitarians have usually striven to destroy their subjects’ cultural memory. The contemporary Left is as totalitarian as any of its ideological predecessors. Why let it happen? Preserve what you can. Make sure your children …
Apr 04 2024
Have We Given Up On Ourselves?
First, a brief Tucker Carlson video: Carlson is asking a critical question here. It pays to spend a few moments over it. There are three polar attitudes toward time that a man can have: Past-oriented: He can spend his conscious hours reminiscing, recalling past experiences and achievements, and grousing over past failures …
Apr 03 2024
Things That Make Me Sad
Good morning, Gentle Reader. It’s Wednesday, or “Hump Day,” as the gainfully employed have long styled it. The rain is pissing down on my kinda-sorta-beloved Long Island home, yet the dogs keep demanding to be let out…and let back in five minutes later. Thus, the house is accumulating a great number of muddy tracks …
Apr 02 2024
“…But I know it when I see it.”
Does anyone remember that little phrase? It became notorious in the early Seventies, after the Supreme Court issued a ruling in a pornography case. The original speaker was Associate Justice Potter Stewart. The stimulus, of course, was the question “What is pornography?” The Court did not issue a definition. Instead, the ruling centered …
Apr 01 2024
From Tolerable To Intolerable…
…can be a very short journey indeed. Whether it’s possible depends on whether the State decides the protection and promotion of some human aberration would serve its interests. Buckle your seat belt and fold your tray-tables; this ride could get bumpy. *** I’ve ranted before about how the politicization of transgenderism has transformed …
Mar 31 2024
Evidence That Demands A Verdict
That’s the title of a famous book by a notable Christian apologist. It’s also suitable for labeling this obscenity: Protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza interrupted a Saturday night Easter Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, chanting “Free, free Palestine” before being removed from the service. Thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators gathered in …
Mar 31 2024
Promise Kept
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from …
Mar 30 2024
Fears And What Lies Behind Them
If a man should tell you that he’s “extremely fearful” of some possibility, it immediately has you inquiring for his reasons. In some cases, some of those reasons will be (damn it all) “obvious.” You might have known about them before he expressed his fear. But in others, the more important of his reasons …
Mar 29 2024
On Being Alone Far From Home
[After returning to and contemplating this piece, I was moved to repost an old item. It first appeared at the late, lamented Eternity Road in December, 2007. – FWP] He was far from home, alone in a sterile room in a cookie-cutter businessmen’s hotel, a storage warren for men on the road for …
Mar 29 2024
The Beginning Of The End
The materialists say that there is nothing beyond the veil of Time, that the material is all. They say that life begins, and ends, and is over. But then, they say a lot things. They have a lot to say… and one can’t help but get the sense that their aim is mainly to …
Mar 28 2024
Concerning NBC And Ronna McDaniel
I sometimes wonder if my function in this life is simply to remember things others have forgotten. The recent hiring-then-firing of former RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel has widely been treated as an unprecedented event…which it isn’t. Hearken to Ann Coulter’s narration of the media “career” of one Susan Molinari, former Congresswoman from …
Mar 27 2024
Based Book Sale
Hans G. Schantz, author of the Hidden Truth trilogy, has once again organized a Based Book Sale. It runs from today, March 27 through Wednesday, April 3. All the books in it are available in their Kindle editions for $0.99 or less. Many are free. If you like to read, are dissatisfied with the …
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