…except possibly “Holy shit!” They’re not even trying to hide it any longer: The owner of a New York City supermarket chain predicted the food prices will increase sharply in the coming months, with some increasing 10 percent in the next two months. John Catsimatidis, the billionaire supermarket owner of Gristedes and …
Category: Usurper Regime
Oct 02 2021
“We Can Afford To Spend As Much Of Your Money As We Like.”
Listen as a top Congressional Democrat tells you exactly that: On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth (D-KY) said that $3.5 trillion in spending under the reconciliation bill “is pretty inconsequential when you consider all the benefits to the American people,” and “The federal government can afford anything …
Sep 18 2021
Fences
Why does anyone, anywhere and at any time, erect a fence? I have one around my backyard. It’s to keep my dogs in: that is, to lessen my fear that my dogs will run away, possibly to their deaths. When the patricians of other places erect fences, it’s usually to keep other …
Sep 17 2021
You Have Been Told
You have been told that you, Mr. Unvaccinated American, are by your stubbornness endangering your own life and the lives of others, including the already vaccinated. You have been told that your conduct is unpatriotic, in violation of the “social contract.” You have been told that this is a crisis, the moral equivalent of …
Sep 16 2021
The Mind-Bogglings Continue
I have learned an important lesson: Never imagine that it can’t get worse. As a corollary, never imagine that it can’t get more absurd. There’s no limit apparent to the clownishness of American politicians. They’re beginning to make their colleagues in Italy and France look like sober-minded statesmen. Consider this bit of nonsense, …
Sep 11 2021
Chronicles Of The Collapse
It is characteristic of collapsing regimes that as they feel their subjects turning against them, possibly preparing to rise, they strive to tighten their grip to the maximum. This is happening in the United States as we speak: Policymakers in Washington have proposed requiring banks to report virtually all their customers’ bank account …
Sep 10 2021
Bluster Means Nothing When The Enemy Holds All The Trumps
I’ve long encouraged Americans to present their “leaders” with a healthy spirit of defiance. It’s as American as apple pie – considerably more so than any of the “woke” pro sports leagues. But it’s not enough to be verbally defiant when the Schutzstaffel is at the door, armed and ready to drag you to …
Sep 03 2021
State Of Fear
I apologize to the ghost of Michael Crichton for appropriating the title of one of his best novels for this piece. Sorry, Mike, but it just fits our milieu too well to pass up. The theme for a Liberty’s Torch piece often comes to me in the middle of reading something from another …
Aug 20 2021
The Gap
The days have acquired an eerie regularity. I rise early – typically between 4:00 and 4:30 – get my (cardiac starter fluid) coffee, and settle at my computer to read through my list of news sources. As I read I make a handful of notes about topics for future essays, though on some …
Aug 18 2021
Defiance Or Gloom?
Your Curmudgeon isn’t sure what he’s hearing. Some voices are elevated in anger, furious about events in Afghanistan and seemingly resolved to expel the villains and incompetents in Washington who are responsible for the debacle. Many of these are persons who’ve expressed similar intentions for some time. But other voices speak in the …
Aug 15 2021
War Has Been Declared
…and there’s no such thing as a one-sided war: The United States Department of Homeland Security made a quiet and alarming announcement yesterday, creating the official position of the United States Government under the Joe Biden regime. [SEE DHS STATEMENT HERE] According to the statement, if you question the orthodoxy, mandates, or COVID-19 …
Aug 13 2021
The Fallen Republic: A Summing-Up
I found this at IOTW Report. I hope that site’s proprietors won’t mind that I’m reproducing it here. It deserves the widest possible audience: I never dreamed that I would have to face the prospect of not living in the United States of America, at least not the one I have known all …
Aug 06 2021
Your Decision Tree And What It Means For You
You’ve probably seen the phrase decision tree before. It’s become a frequent element in op-ed columns such as this one. While it looks forbiddingly formal and technical, it refers to one of the most pedestrian things in human life: our priorities and how we use them to make choices. Everyone has priorities. However, …
Aug 04 2021
One Of These Days
“One of these days, I’m going to cut you into little pieces” – Pink Floyd, “One Of These Days” One of these days, we will reckon the fall of the Republic from a point that’s already in our past. The Constitutional bounds of the federal government are violated daily. Thus it should …
Aug 02 2021
The Paramount Social Principle
Way back when the world was, if not new, still only gently used, I wrote a rather melancholic piece about the loss of trust. It evoked a range of reactions from “C’mon!” all the way to “It’s even worse than you think, Fran.” But I was mostly right. Where I failed was in noting …
Jul 28 2021
Ch-Ch-Changes 2021
The attempt to subjugate Americans has run out of new ideas. The giveaway is the Establishment’s propagandization of the “Delta variant” to frighten us back into face masks and isolation. The bad news is that some people are buying the scare propaganda. The good news is that they’re greatly outnumbered by those who aren’t. …
Jul 17 2021
Corporate Misbehavior
“A corporation has neither a body to be kicked nor a soul to be damned.” – Isabel Paterson There’s quite a lot of it, these days. It’s damnably difficult for ordinary citizens to do anything about, too. But then, that’s what the corporate form was intended to facilitate. The corporation, you see, …
Jul 09 2021
Collected Evidence On the Coup
Ace pieces together a long string of tweets, interspersed with his own commentary, on all that we may have seen and sometimes have forgotten. Highly recommended. I’d normally add a few good excerpts here, but I’ll leave for all of you to tell us what bits you find most infuriating. Here alone is Ace’s closing …
Jun 26 2021
The Price Of Clarity
Our favorite Bookworm has produced her best column ever. I hope she’ll permit me a lengthy excerpt: For several decades, leftism has been that ghost in the American machine. For decades, leftists were the “good guys.” While they were already haunting the Democrat party, they were still invisible. The Democrat party was able …
Jun 18 2021
A Critical Inversion
Forgive me, Gentle Reader. I’m barely awake, but I had to get this down before it could slip away. Near the end of the 1978 movie made from Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, when Inspector Javert finally has Jean Valjean at his mercy, he asks Valjean why Valjean set him free of the rebels …
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