Feb 23 2025
For many years, Palestinian irredentists have counted on “international opinion” to restrain Israel’s responses to Palestinian terror strikes. And for many years, they got their wish. But the attack of October 7, 2023, which reaped 1200 lives that day and carried off a great many hostages – the majority of whom are either dead …
Jul 05 2024
From: The Media Think They Run The Country. Maybe They Do. Reporters have dropped all pretense of being concerned about democratic process. “Here,” wrote New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait on the Fourth of July, “is what I think should happen. A small group of party leaders — say, Biden, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, …
Mar 05 2024
The following snippet is from a column by Jeffrey A. Tucker, the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute. The column, ”What Happened To Intellectual Life?” appeared at the Epoch Times on February 26, 2024. It seems that not even the specialists can tell the science from AI-generated caricatures built from utter rubbish. …
Feb 02 2024
The great leftist pronoun obsession is rooted in the idea that everyone has the right to vomit their feelings and preferences all about the place, but that others shouldn’t be allowed to offend them if they find them irritating. I don’t want to be a complete jerk, but I’m growing fonder of offending people …
Jan 23 2024
This requires no comment: Now they’re coming for your coffee. Swiss banker and World Economic Forum “agenda contributor”, Hubert Keller: “The coffee that we all drink emits between 15 and 20 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of coffee… Every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting CO2 into the… pic.twitter.com/4tRj2fXJaw — Wide Awake …
Jan 19 2024
[Seeing the sign embedded below at WRSA sent my thoughts hurtling back twenty years to the following piece, which first appeared at Eternity Road of fond memory. Be aware that the embedded links no longer work; not my fault. — FWP] Heather at Lil Cup Of Love has a half-hilarious, half-ominous post up …
Dec 28 2023
Have you ever taken notice of the letters that spell out progressive? They can be used to make many new words. But could it be accidental how many of those only or mostly convey unpleasant meanings? Vipers Grieves Grievers Gripes Gripers Gropes Gropers Pigs Spies I’m sure I’ve forgotten a few more. I will leave …
Oct 25 2023
…a better condensation of my attitude toward airliners than this: Nervous of flying? Don’t be. As long as 2 million parts in a plane work perfectly while traveling at close to the speed of sound as sharp metal blades rotate at supersonic speeds in temperatures of -65 degrees 7 miles above the earth …
Aug 22 2023
If you’ve been a regular Gentle Reader of Liberty’s Torch for any length of time, you’re surely aware of two things about my crap: It’s long, wordy, and circuitous; There’s a lot of it. Well, that’s your humble Curmudgeon. I’ve had that sort of writing style all my life, though I struggle against …
Aug 19 2023
You say your country’s been stolen from you? That the man in the big chair is a vegetable, his administration is filled with lunatics, and his son is a degenerate? That the “woke” military you pay a trillion a year for couldn’t beat Equatorial Guinea? That your throat is hoarse from hollering, your ballot …
Aug 14 2023
Just a little something to kickstart your day. However, some of it has a point, an edge, or both, so watch your fingers. *** 1. The Anchor Men On The IQ Curve. From Divemedic, we have this: …which – of course! – reminded me of this: Yes, Gentle Reader: there really …
Jan 27 2023
One of the enduring characteristics of the Leftist is that he refuses to accept the responsibility for anything that goes wrong. This is utterly evident in matters of public policy, but it’s also visible as regards personal decisions. Two graphics – one intended as black humor; the other a fake headline – illustrate the …
Jan 17 2023
Money is like matter and energy. That is, it obeys a law of continuity. Every dollar must come from somewhere and go to somewhere. Yea verily, even if the destination is an incinerator. He who attempts to “launder” ill-gotten gains must respect that law. He must prepare to be called to account – …
Dec 27 2022
I don’t know. Given the precipitous deterioration in male-female relations these past few decades, maybe this is the way things must go: Seoul has joyous tidings for South Koreans who found their Christmas haul lacking a little je ne sais quoi: After years of being stymied by customs, the AP reports that citizens …
Oct 15 2022
Courtesy of Ninety Miles From Tyranny, and in “honor” of National Grouch Day: But of course, that was: Before the “New Frontier;” Before the “Great Society;” Before the Vietnam War; Before Watergate; Before the Arab Oil Embargoes; Before the Seventies and “America’s Suicide Attempt.” (Cf. Paul Johnson) It was also before Richard …
Sep 19 2022
…this one from “You can’t make this stuff up” to “OMG, does he have any idea what he’s saying? Biden: People disapprove of me because they are psychologically unable to be happy pic.twitter.com/syg1nNPtJw — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 19, 2022 There are days I have to doubt my own eyes and ears. Well, …
Sep 16 2022
As, for example, in the Left’s reactions to the Abbott / DeSantis / Ducey relocation of a few busloads of illegal aliens to “blue” states: CNN’s fulminations. The Black Lesbian Immigrant’s “thoughts.” Fauxcahontas Had To Weigh In. Martha’s Vineyard “homeless coordinator:” “They’ve Got To Move!” Kamala “The Border is Secure” Harris can’t cope, either. …
Sep 05 2022
Macron: France, Germany to provide each other with gas, electricity, to weather crisis appears to be remarkably similar to
Aug 23 2022
As my Gentle Readers might have expected, I got a number of emails about yesterday’s piece. There were a few mild disapprovals (“too long”), a few strident disagreements to be expected a priori (“religion is for fools and the weak-minded”), and two missives I’d rather not discuss in detail. But one rather interesting case …
Apr 21 2022
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 …
