Francis W. Porretto
Mount Sinai, NY USA
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Jul 20 2021
Giveaways 2021-07-20
Very few people ask “why?” with sufficient frequency. Even fewer demand an answer and refuse to rest until they get one. Consider the following three pieces: Get Vaccinated – Or Else Concerning recent church burnings in Canada The changing tone of the Mainstream Media The unifying factor here might take a moment …
Jul 19 2021
Something Unexpected
Liberty’s Torch isn’t a well-known, heavily-trafficked site. Thus I don’t expect to receive a great deal of email from persons with a significant public profile. I get a little of it…evenly split, as you might imagine, between applause and razzberries. So the following, which arrived in the email moments ago, came as a surprise. …
Jul 19 2021
No Remedy
It’s easy to castigate men long dead. It’s especially satisfying – for persons of a certain disposition, anyway – when those men have an achievement to their names that their critic could never have equaled. When the achievement is the founding of the greatest nation in history, the castigator has a hard time not …
Jul 19 2021
I’d Been Wondering When We’d See This
It wasn’t quite unprecedented…but it certainly hasn’t been common: Los Angeles cops in riot gear went toe-to-toe with antifa yesterday outside the Wi Spa, where a transgender man took off his clothes in the women’s locker room two weeks ago, setting off a firestorm. The riot was clearly planned. Despite the naughty …
Jul 18 2021
How To Say “Repressive Tolerance” So Anyone Will Understand!
Twitter may be more poison than nutrition, but every so often a gem appears there: If you’re unfamiliar with Marxist theorist Herbert Marcuse’s concept of “Repressive Tolerance,” you could: Read his 1965 essay; Use the “capsule” formulation above; Simply shrug and say “I don’t care what Marxist theorists say or think.” My …
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 17 2021
Modern Conveniences (UPDATED)
Have you been pondering how to blow up the world, but keep laying the question aside because adequate means are just too hard to acquire? Well, perhaps your time has come! Ten ounces of Antimatter in a conveniently recyclable can! That’s 283.5 grams of Antimatter. When Antimatter meets “regular” matter, the two mutually …
Jul 16 2021
Laughing At The Devil: 9mm Edition
“The devil…the prowde spirit…cannot endure to be mocked.” – Saint Thomas More Ridicule is a terror weapon. Making your enemy look ridiculous can be more effective than a bullet between the eyes. For one thing, it deters others from following in his path. For another, it energizes your side by reminding them that …
Jul 15 2021
Unspeakable Truths
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.” – Robert A. Heinlein First, have a piece that appeared at “Liberty’s Torch V1.0” two and a half years ago: My sainted father, may he rest in peace, was the source of many a sad wisdom. He wasn’t an educated man – he’d dropped out …
Jul 14 2021
Recourses
Things are being done to us that we seem unable to countervail. The destruction of the dollar. The strangulation of our energy supplies. Limitations on our travel. The privatization of censorship. The monitoring of our personal communications. We could see much of it coming from far off, decades ago. The explosive acceleration of …
Jul 13 2021
Turbid Thoughts For A Torpid Tuesday
Yes, your Curmudgeon is in one of those moods again. *** There are days when I strain to produce a Grand Unified Theory of Irritations. It’s among my fondest desires to pull together all the seemingly disconnected threads of bother and nuisance, weave them into a coherent tapestry, then set it alight and …
Jul 12 2021
Body Armor II: Vaccine Fascism Privatized For Your Convenience
Yesterday’s brief piece was only one conception of how things could go. There are others – and one of them was stated explicitly by one of CNN’s “medical analysts:” A CNN medical analyst, Dr. Jonathan Reiner said on Thursday that it’s time has come for private industry to demand that employees take “the …
Jul 11 2021
It’s Time For Body Armor, Gentle Readers
For more than a year, we were told that it was legally and morally imperative that we: Wear face masks; Stay away from one another; Stay away from churches, concerts, sports events, etc. All this for an infectious disease no more dangerous than common influenza. Then came the “vaccines.” For reasons too …
Jul 10 2021
Running Scared
I have a number of things to attend to this morning, but I do have something to “tide you over.” The collection of links below presents a convincing picture of Left-wing panic and the reasons for it: Here’s why we know the 2020 election was stolen. Maricopa County continues to stall Arizona Election Audit …
Jul 09 2021
Diseases And Cures
Informal conversation, and most writing, tend to be casual about the exact meanings of words. That doesn’t mean the words we use don’t have exact meanings. Moreover, those meanings are more important than most people are aware. For example: What is a disease? Could you define the word intensively, with confidence that your …
Jul 08 2021
For The Masculine Readers Of Liberty’s Torch
Has a woman ever betrayed you? Has a woman you’ve cherished abandoned you? Do you live with the inability to trust to this very day? Then this is for you: They think we do not value them. They think their bodies are all that matter to us. They …
Jul 08 2021
The Petty And Mealymouthed We Will Always Have With Us
First, please read this article: Hobby Lobby is embroiled in another controversy after running a full-page advertisement in numerous newspapers throughout the United States on July 4 that appeared to advocate for a Christian-run government. The arts and crafts giant’s ad, which ran in newspapers on Independence Day included the Bible verse …
Jul 08 2021
Another Dropped Mask
I’ve known for some time that male homosexual activists seek to “convert” young boys – typically before they hit puberty and start to feel an attraction to the opposite sex – to homosexuality. The fictional group “Inclusivity” in my novel The Wise and the Mad was intended to represent the attitudes and operations of …
Jul 08 2021
The “1000 Words” Edition
There are days when a single graphic expresses my sentiments better than any essay I could write. Here’s one, courtesy of our favorite Bookworm: Militant anti-theists tend to preen themselves as brighter than believers. Yet all their arguments are patterned after the “argument” in Bookworm’s graphic. There’s a moral in there, somewhere. …
Jul 07 2021
So You Think?
Matters are coming to a head in several ways. A collapse into complete civil chaos looms on America’s horizon, and we’re speeding toward it in a Bugatti Veyron. The evidence is available to the eyes, ears, and sometimes the noses of anyone who ever ventures out of Plato’s Cave. Even so, there are forces …
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