Francis W. Porretto
Mount Sinai, NY USA
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May 22 2025
No Title Would Suffice Part 2: “Ambush!”
The media have received the DNC’s post-Ramaphosa talking points, including the Word of the Day: Fake News Word of the Day: “Ambush!" pic.twitter.com/uAfLjgEh9n — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 22, 2025 Applause to Andrea Shea King!
May 22 2025
No Title Would Suffice
No doubt you’ve heard about this: 🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump just DIRECTLY confronted the President of South Africa with videos of his government calling for WHITE GENOCIDE "Turn the lights down and roll the video!" "These are burial sites — crosses marking murdered White farmers" The President of SA looks… pic.twitter.com/WHr5zxDVO3 — Nick …
May 22 2025
Dust, Ashes, And Excrement
An interesting snippet from Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed came to mind just a moment ago: “All right, maybe, but our society, here, is a true community wherever it truly embodies Odo’s ideas. It was a woman who made the Promise! What are you doing—indulging guilt feelings? Wallowing?” The word he used was …
May 21 2025
Looking Ahead
Just now, things are going pretty well at the federal level. Yes, they could be better – when in American history has that not been the case? – but the Trump II Administration is certainly an improvement on both Trump I and the Biden Interregnum. In particular, there’s been a marked increase in both …
May 21 2025
A Blockbuster
In pursuit of the documentation so long sought about the “Russiagate” scandal, Sundance at The Last Refuge has produced a stunning piece that trails from the 2008 campaign for President all the way to today. I can’t usefully excerpt this piece. Let it suffice to say that after you’ve read it, your view of …
May 21 2025
Occupational Hazards Dept.
Every trade has its peculiar hazards. Priests agonize over confidences. Engineers become obsessed with perfection. Lawyers argue about everything. Writers read obsessively, ever anxious that someone’s “been there before them.” Accountants – no! Sweetie! Put down that cleaver! Anyway, he who chooses some occupation should be aware of its specific dangers before he decides …
May 20 2025
Day Off
Apologies, Gentle Reader. I’m in a state of “too much to do and not enough of me” once again. And believe it or not – persons with delicate palates prefer not, but we needn’t belabor the point – much of the to-do list involves cooking! I have to get on it right away if …
May 19 2025
Miracle Required
“Don’t believe in miracles – rely on them.” – Originator Unknown Sometimes, there’s no temporal answer. Sometimes, mortal power is unequal to the task. When the problem is rooted in open, widespread, unconcealed malice, and its severity threatens the very existence of the Republic, all that’s left is prayer. I’m neither a …
May 18 2025
What Failed, The State Or The People?
Two pieces of interest: One from Arthur Sido, The other from T. L. Davis, …speak of failure, albeit from markedly different perspectives. Let’s start with the Sido piece: We see the signs all around us, signs of a society that has stopped functioning. Momentum is carrying us forward but each day something …
May 18 2025
Vaccines, Placebo Testing, And Litigation
The following graphic captures the current indignation over the absence of placebo testing from vaccine-approval regimens: For those who aren’t aware, though I doubt there are many, placebo testing is a form of double-blind testing in which a control group receives a placebo instead of the drug being tested. It’s commonplace in the …
May 17 2025
MoveOn, 2025 Edition
Apparently, the Democrats are reviving this old tactic from the Bill Clinton years: Brutal. Hakeem Jeffries gets pressed for two straight minutes about covering up Biden's decline and refuses to answer a single question. "Why should voters trust Democrats when it's clear so many in your party went to great lengths to keep Biden's …
May 17 2025
Which Side Are You On, Boys?
Here’s a quick jaunt down Memory Lane from the 2016 presidential campaign: Cernovich: She had a seizure and froze up walking into her motorcade that day. Pelley: Well, she had pneumonia. I mean— Cernovich: How do you know? Who told you that? Pelley: Well, the campaign told us that. Cernovich: Why would you trust …
May 17 2025
Emotions Of A Different Kind
Shamelessly stolen from Weird Dave at AoSHQ: I’ve felt a great deal of both monachopsis and liberosis in my time. What about you, Gentle Reader?
May 17 2025
Women, Children, And Natural Law
Natural laws baffle quite a lot of people. They’re not in the lawbooks. They don’t have a legislature’s seal of approval. The police don’t arrest offenders and the district attorneys don’t prosecute them. Yet they exist. They sneer at those who sneer at them, for they are un-repealable, um-modifiable, and self-enforcing. Here’s one …
May 16 2025
The Ultimate Implication Of “Equity”
I know this has been much discussed in the Blogosphere these past few days. Yet it remains unaddressed in the most important of all contexts: that of public policy. It’s public policy in black-ruled South Africa that the government may take land from white farmers without compensation. Granted, that only formalizes what black …
May 16 2025
For Euthanasia Boosters
As it’s a key initiative of the death cults, I’m firmly against legalizing “assisted suicide” in all its variants. Read this X thread and come to some other conclusion. Life is a gift. You don’t earn it; it’s given to you. You may dismiss the notion that there’s a Giver to whom you …
May 16 2025
Quote Of The Day
This one comes from a beloved and unusually reliable source: Unfortunately, the idea of the Great White Father died out with European colonialism. If the mightiest empires in the world could spend decades imposing Western values, the rule of law, modern medicine, engineering and farming techniques on these countries only to have them …
May 15 2025
Human Depravity Knows No Depth Limit
Oh, you want proof? GENOCIDE: Top Democrat, Rick Stengel justified the genocide of white farmers in South Africa explaining the ought to be punished for the sins of their forebears. Their ‘collective guilt’ justifies seizure of their farms and their lives. h/t @Babygravy9 pic.twitter.com/DhLJ6pXKhu — @amuse (@amuse) May 15, 2025 Can you imagine …
May 15 2025
Abundance And Priorities
First, Edward Ring has a worthwhile column at American Greatness today. It’s largely about internal contradictions in Democrat policy aspirations, but it’s valuable for all that. Pointing out the lunacies in Democrat proposals is particularly important today. Got to keep kicking them if you want to keep them down. It’s the title of …
May 15 2025
A Newscast You Must See
Applause to IOTWReport: Not so different from “real” newscasts, is it? And it’s over a lot faster, too.
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