It’s distressing to feel that I must write about such things, but why else would I blog? There are plenty of softer types to handle the easier stuff. Throughout America, there’s a near-overpowering awareness that things are going to Hell. Indeed, the bottom of the national handbasket has started to smolder. The sense …
Category: bigotry
Dec 24 2023
They Who Have Not Joy
There are…people whose entire mission in life is to despoil the lives of others. Any Gentle Reader of Liberty’s Torch will be able to name a few categories thereof. But just now, we’re seeing one of the most odious of all in inglorious death-dealing Technicolor®: the rabid anti-Semites who cheer whenever a “Palestinian” murders …
Aug 29 2022
A Strong Sense Of Confidence?
We know – those of us who’ve been around, at least – that that’s always an invitation to a visit from the Flying Purple Shaft: Governor Kathy Hochul is taking a page out of Charlie Crist’s book and alienating voters. Yesterday Hochul, who is running for reelection against GOP pick Lee Zeldin, told …
Aug 15 2022
“Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition” — ?
If you seek to destroy a community united around a set of ideas, but you can’t effectively refute the ideas or persuade the allegiants to abandon them, the most promising alternative is to attack the community’s icons and its symbols. We’ve already seen quite a lot of this, these past few decades. Note …
Apr 30 2022
Stolen From Bookworm
Simply this: It says a lot, doesn’t it? And for the cherry on top, those illustrious names are all white males. No wonder the activist identity groups are up in arms about them. White men invented the modern world. The lunatics raving about “cultural appropriation” would prefer that you not notice that. …
Dec 07 2021
Separations
(No, not “reparations.” Spelling matters at Liberty’s Torch. We’re carful about it. We proofread very carfully, both for spelling and to make sure we don’t any words out.) These days it seems like every noisy group in America wants “our own space.” That means different things to different people, of course, but the …
May 17 2021
Six Foot Women And Five Foot Men
Gentle Readers with long memories might recall the romance between the late Dudley Moore, star of Bedazzled, 10, Arthur, and other comedy gems, and the gloriously beautiful – and much taller – Susan Anton. Many remarked upon this inversion of the regular “rule” that “he should be taller than she is.” Mind you, that’s …
Jun 06 2017
Elites And Contempt
Today’s stimulus for thought comes from this nicely pointed op-ed from William McGurn: In the last week or so a flurry of articles have appeared arguing for toning down the looking-down. In the New Republic Michael Tomasky writes under the heading “Elitism Is Liberalism’s Biggest Problem.” Over at the New York Times , …
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