Francis W. Porretto
Mount Sinai, NY USA
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Jan 26 2024
What Is The Border Patrol’s Job?
The law in these United States, as in most First World countries – I don’t think there are any exceptions – is that entry to the U.S. must occur at one of our designated ports of entry. There are several such along the American border, and their locales are widely known. Any American consulate …
Jan 26 2024
Genocide Canadian Style
We will all die. It’s the price of life. And eventually, the fact of it will be acted out by every living thing. But some folks want to hurry the process: With lethal-injection euthanasia now legal in Canada for patients age 18 and over whose deaths are “foreseeable” (a vague limitation sure …
Jan 26 2024
The Case That May Upend The Regulatory Applecart
About forty years ago, the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the most odious organizations in the enviro-Nazi coalition, received a huge gift from the Supreme Court. However, the case that granted that gift awarded an even bigger gift to the regulatory bureaucracies. That gift has since become known as Chevron deference: the requirement …
Jan 26 2024
The Best Piece Of Political Combat Advice Ever Dispensed To Anyone
God bless and protect Tucker Carlson: Yes, it’s a video. Yes, it’s over twenty minutes long. Watch it. Absorb and internalize its mighty wisdom. Then act on it. Freedom requires free men. Free men precede political freedom and always will. There will never be a free society that’s erected by slaves…and slavery, …
Jan 25 2024
A Concession On Every Point Is Not A “Deal”
But it appears that that’s what the Republican Senatorial caucus is being asked to swallow: A number of Senate Republicans are extremely concerned with the ongoing border deal negotiations between the White House and GOP leadership, expressing their frustration with a number of leaked proposals that are being considered and saying they would …
Jan 25 2024
Is This Credible, Or Is It Meant To Scare Us?
According to Radar Online: President Joe Biden is stubbornly ignoring polls, pals, and former President Barack Obama, who are all allegedly telling the 81-year-old he needs to quit the 2024 race to save America and the Democratic Party, RadarOnline.com has learned. Insiders snitched that tensions between the two presidents recently exploded after …
Jan 25 2024
Another Non-Surprise
That perennial loser “Beto” O’Rourke wants the invasion of Texas to continue unbounded: Abbott is using the Texas Guard to defy a Supreme Court ruling. When Gov. Faubus did this in 1957, Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas Guard to ensure compliance with the law. Biden must follow this example of bold, decisive leadership to end …
Jan 25 2024
“You Are TOO FREE!” Say The Elite
Somehow, that doesn’t surprise me: The nation’s ruling class holds deeply authoritarian opinions widely divorced from the rest of the American electorate, finds a survey out this week. It found nearly 60 percent of American “elites” think there is too much individual freedom in America. Meanwhile, nearly 60 percent of registered voters have …
Jan 25 2024
The DEI-Hustlers Won’t Relent
They’re a bit like the Chinese that way: they just keep coming: The Wizard Of Oz and It’s A Wonderful Life are going to get a ‘diverse’ reboot, a Hollywood director has revealed. Kenya Barris, who created the ABC sitcom Black-ish, is working on scripts for the Warner Bros adaptations of the …
Jan 24 2024
Extra! Extra!
If you’ve read this essay of a few years ago, you know how I feel about “white privilege.” Well, as it happens a particularly incisive writer has penned a piece that summarizes and celebrates “white privilege.” If you’re already seen it, please ignore this notice…but if you haven’t, it’s a howl a second. Hie …
Jan 24 2024
“Galting” Or Despair?
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson For many years, the “work ethic” – i.e., the idea that work is worthy and will be rewarded according to its merits – dominated Americans’ thinking on workplace behavior and employer / employee relations. Granted, the idea wasn’t reflected in the behavior …
Jan 23 2024
Said But Not Heard
Much of the evil perpetrated upon the world could have been averted had people paid proper attention to critical statements made by key public figures. The potentates of interwar Europe dismissed nearly every indication that Adolf Hitler meant to conquer Europe, including Hitler’s own words to that effect. How many lives were lost because …
Jan 23 2024
The Ultimate “Non-Starter”
This requires no comment: Now they’re coming for your coffee. Swiss banker and World Economic Forum “agenda contributor”, Hubert Keller: “The coffee that we all drink emits between 15 and 20 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of coffee… Every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting CO2 into the… pic.twitter.com/4tRj2fXJaw — Wide Awake …
Jan 22 2024
The University Cesspool
Via Maura Dowling comes this set of horrors being perpetrated upon first-year students at the University of Wisconsin Law School: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) is alerting the public to a mandatory “Re-Orientation” session happening tomorrow, Friday, January 19th, for all first-year law students at the University of Wisconsin Law …
Jan 21 2024
Poverty In Spirit
[This piece first appeared at Liberty’s Torch V1.0 on November 1, 2015 — FWP] Perhaps the most famous of all Jesus’s words: And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, …
Jan 20 2024
Blinding Flashes Of The Obvious Dept
Today’s fearless probe into the wilds of cause-and-effect reasoning comes from Roxbury, Massachusetts: As this CBS “journalist” summarizes the issue: “Why do you think Walgreen’s is targeting black and brown neighborhoods?” She refuses to ask anyone about rampant looting putting this store out of business. “Predominantly black neighborhood.” Okay, got it. …
Jan 20 2024
Matter And Spirit
The following passage from C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity has me thinking about things most theologians don’t – or perhaps won’t – address: There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread …
Jan 19 2024
Let’s Play “Spot The Loony”
[Seeing the sign embedded below at WRSA sent my thoughts hurtling back twenty years to the following piece, which first appeared at Eternity Road of fond memory. Be aware that the embedded links no longer work; not my fault. — FWP] Heather at Lil Cup Of Love has a half-hilarious, half-ominous post up …
Jan 19 2024
It Might Not Have Started That Way…
…but in our time: Besides, how else could all those autocrats and tyrants in Third World hellholes get so rich? Did you know that infamous “Palestinian” terrorist Yasser Arafat had accumulated a personal fortune of over $1 billion before he died? Where do you suppose it came from, considering that the man never …
Jan 18 2024
Music From A Great Old Movie
My favorite two tracks from the 1981 animated classic Heavy Metal: Ah, to be young and stupid again!
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