Francis W. Porretto
Mount Sinai, NY USA
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Apr 25 2022
Rejecting The Evidence…(UPDATED)
…doesn’t make it dissolve into the mists and float away. We’ve had a rather substantial amount of evidence to the effect that organized pedophilia is rampant among the higher-ups in government, entertainment, and the media. Jeffrey Epstein was incarcerated for suspicion of it, and died while awaiting trial. Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of …
Apr 24 2022
The Touch-Off
It doesn’t take much to get the Left shrieking as if it were being castrated without anesthesia. But you may be sure that the screams and howls will erupt at maximum volume whenever any executive or legislator dares to “infringe” upon their “academic freedom.” Consider this spate of lunacies from Randi Weingarten of …
Apr 23 2022
Sorry!
Apologies, Gentle Reader. I’ve been fighting a rearguard action against the destroyers of my lawn until just a few minutes ago. (See here for further commentary on this vital suburban chore.) At this point I’m wiped out, so no essay today. Tomorrow…if I recover by then from being bent double for six hours.
Apr 22 2022
The Educracy’s Pincers Are Closing
Only the day before yesterday, I wrote: The escalation in the cost of living, which includes rapidly rising levels of taxation, is making it ever more difficult for families with minor children to forgo public schooling. Just to maintain a decent suburban standard of living practically requires two incomes. There are exceptions; certain …
Apr 22 2022
Perhaps It’s To Be Expected
Persons who develop high expertise in a specialty purely hate to see that specialty abused. That’s certainly the case with me. During my wage-earning years (I refuse to call them my “working years;” I work more and harder today than I ever did when I was getting paid for it), I became an expert …
Apr 21 2022
Some American Music
Yes, I’m old. Yes, my tastes are “fossilized,” even “petrified.” But I know what I like – and I claim I have good reasons to prefer it to the modern crap, even if I decline to discuss them. Accordingly, have a terrific tune from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s classic album Uncle Charlie …
Apr 21 2022
From The “No Comment Required” Files
If this isn’t a mask-drop, what could possibly qualify? Former Obama era intelligence officials, those who helped construct, organize and assemble the public-private partnership between intelligence data networks and supported social media companies, have written a letter to congress warning that any effort to break up Big Tech (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google, Microsoft, …
Apr 21 2022
A Comment On Contemporary Journalism
Some Gentle Readers might have seen this joke in an “earlier edition.” *** One fine day a young mother brought her toddler to the zoo. It wasn’t for educational purposes; she merely wanted her daughter’s attention on the animals so she could chat with her friends on her cellphone for most of the …
Apr 21 2022
Things That Shouldn’t Need To Be Said Dept.
While this story is a few days old: Two inmates serving time in New Jersey’s only state prison for women became pregnant after they had sex with a transgender inmate, according to a report Wednesday. The unidentified jailbirds became pregnant at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility after engaging in “consensual sexual relationships …
Apr 21 2022
Concerning Yesterday’s Emission
Make that “mentally disturbed and / or utterly evil adults” and you’ve got the whole of the Left’s educational “project” in a sentence. Once again, applause to Mike Miles at 90 Miles from Tyranny.
Apr 20 2022
I Thought We’d Hit Peak Insanity Already
Ragin’ Dave provides evidence to the contrary: Families that may have turned to homeschooling as an alternative to hastily assembled remote learning plans have stuck with it — reasons include health concerns, disagreement with school policies and a desire to keep what has worked for their children. Maybe it’s because parents actually …
Apr 19 2022
An Undiscussed Legal Rule
We’ve talked about “the rule of law” here on several occasions. I’ve taken pains to point out implications of that principle that others – some deliberately – tend to miss. But there’s an aspect of it that I don’t think I’ve covered, though it could hardly be more significant. A law that cannot …
Apr 18 2022
Day Off
We’re doing a little celebrating at the Fortress today, so I shan’t be posting one of my “traditional” (i.e., interminable) pieces. However, do have a look at this Deanna Fisher piece at Victory Girls. She cites a terrific example of a process that’s been in process for quite some time now, summarized in this …
Apr 17 2022
A Promise Kept
Many of the promises men make to one another are broken. We have learned, often painfully, that to trust is to gamble – that no man’s word, however solemnly given, is absolutely reliable. There was, however, one exception: And in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the …
Apr 16 2022
The Suburban Horror
Homeowners know it well. At least, they do in the moist and temperate Northeastern United States. Each of us who opts for the privacy, space, and comfort of a single-family home must cope with it. The more spacious your domain, the more burdensome it is. No, it’s not the traffic, nor the property …
Apr 16 2022
An Eloquent Yet Melancholy Summary
From the Web’s foremost one-legged blogger: Outdated, clapped-out concerns such as Constitutions and Founding Fathers and principles and the like hold no sway over such duplicitous frauds, being no more meaningful to them than the oaths they dishonestly swear when they take office—oaths they never had the slightest intention of even attempting to …
Apr 15 2022
What It Means To Be Ruled By Criminals
The weight of the law is never turned on a member of the ruling elite. Instead, it marshals all the oppressive force it possesses to break anyone who stands in opposition to it. Would you like a demonstration? Here’s one from the 2020 campaign season: When [Barack] Obama first ran for the …
Apr 14 2022
He Meant What He Said!
Elon Musk is my new hero: Elon Musk has launched a $41.39 billion hostile takeover of Twitter, the world’s most influential social media platform. On early Thursday, Musk made his “best and final” offer to buy Twitter Inc., stating that he intends to unlock the company’s “extraordinary potential.” As predicted by Rebel …
Apr 14 2022
Groomer-Adjacent
This image speaks concisely and clearly of what has been done to normal Americans in the name of “tolerance:” If it’s normal and wholesome, whatever it is, it’s under attack today. From the Left, of course. The Left must destroy the chief buttresses to our sense of normality before it can remake the …
Apr 14 2022
Concerning Grooming
As a follow-on to yesterday’s rant, ponder well this article by Thomas Lifson. It and the other items it links will reinforce your fears. Yes, it is happening. Yes, there’s a lot of it. Yes, it’s across the nation. If your children are in a government school, they are not …
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