…still has a few desperate players: It happened again on Monday. Mr. Biden appeared alongside Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to brief reporters on new efforts to force airlines to compensate passengers when a flight is canceled. As soon as his remarks ended, Mr. Biden turned and walked off, ignoring questions from reporters. This …
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Apr 27 2023
Recent Revelations
“You still haven’t got over the idea that politicians are important because the newspapers tell you so.” – Sir Frederick Hoyle It’s become critical to our individual and social mental health that we draw a firm distinction between two categories of vermin. The first of these, the politician, runs for elective office. If …
Apr 25 2023
No Pretense
The “media megaphone” (William E. Simon) will no longer tolerate sharply dissenting voices: Now, for a Gentle Reader of Liberty’s Torch, this is “yesterday’s news” – literally. But Beck makes a connection that’s likely to have evaded even some of our most vigilant: the major automakers’ rumbling about no longer building AM radios …
Apr 24 2023
Aspects of This Are Worth Cheering
Do you see why? Note how this recent(?) video becomes more significant after Tucker’s abrupt firing.
Mar 29 2023
Deprogramming: The First Step
Dio of the Workshop reminds us what it must be: Saw a few commercials recently, and PROGRAMMING thats all it is these days. boy kids celebrating by dancing down school hallways while sporting a skirt… NOT A KILT- a damnable skirt,,, If he had been wearing a kilt with a set …
Mar 23 2023
We’ve Been Here Before, Haven’t We?
The Left’s pet media are reading Trump’s obituary again: .@JoeNBC on Trump likely being indicted today: “The walls are closing in” pic.twitter.com/f0FUfZTqEd — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 22, 2023 Seems I remember comments of this sort from just a few years ago… “Do not count a man dead until you have seen …
Mar 19 2023
Courage Or Opportunism?
At this point, I’m unable to take any mainstream “journalist” seriously. They strike me as a clique of toadies, ever willing to kowtow before power in the hope of ingratiating themselves and winning “access.” Thus, I entreat you to view the following: I don’t know the “reporter” who condemned Lori Lightfoot to her …
Jan 03 2023
It’s Hard…
…to be as frequently and consistently wrong as the notorious Paul Ehrlich. Nevertheless, the mainstream media can’t seem to stay away from him: CBS’s “60 Minutes” welcomed the new year with a doomsday message from Paul Ehrlich, a well known eugenicist who has called for population control due to ‘limited resources’ on planet …
Oct 20 2022
Good reason to be suspicious of “Citizen Free Press”
To this post, 80 Canadian doctors have ‘died suddenly’… I left a short comment that read something like “Of course. Killing off effective healers would be a primary item on the agenda of our ever more openly active Death Cults.” I went back today to see if anyone responded to it and it was gone. …
Oct 02 2022
Is it Safe? Part 1
The wannabe despot is a coward. Before he acts he needs to feel the environment has been well prepared before he makes the next move. The title of this series comes from the line endlessly repeated by the Lawrence Olivier character as he tortured the one portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man. Well, in …
Sep 27 2022
When The Newsies Are The News
Sometimes what the “journalists” are doing is just as important as what they’ve been “reporting.” Now might be such a time. The tweet referenced below embeds a clip everyone ought to view: two solid minutes of American media doing their damnedest to paint Giorgia Meloni, the probable next prime minister of Italy, as …
Sep 27 2022
The Most Important Things
…in any man’s life are the permanent ones, the ones that provide him reliable stars to steer by regardless of season or weather: God Family Country But the most important thing in electoral politics is making the right enemies: “God, Family, Country” is fascism? What is fascistic abt that? Repeating “Meloni is a …
Sep 13 2022
Twenty-One Years
A few Gentle Readers have written to ask “Why no 9/11 post, Fran?” Honestly, I thought about it for a while, and decided that I had nothing sufficiently fresh to say on the subject. Anyone who’s been following my screeds will know how the event affected me, and frankly, I can no longer afford …
Sep 10 2022
“Our” Media
Democrat Robert Telles, an official in Clark County, Nevada, recently stabbed a journalist, Jeff German, to death. You had to be pretty sharp-eyed to discover Telles’s political affiliation, but it did come out – usually in the 36th paragraph of reports on the homicide. But have a gander at the following: A Democrat elected …
Sep 06 2022
The Undiscussed Nationalization
Just a quick thought this morning, as I’ve decided to give today to people and things fictional. Fiction is a restful place for me. While our nation swells with lunacy and strife, I can compel my characters and the consequences of their actions to make sense. Ever since the World Wars, the attention …
Sep 04 2022
A Quick Thought
Just now, the nation is highly exercised about the Vegetable-in-Chief’s “Soul of the Nation” speech of a few days back. Why? Yes, it was a dark and threatening bit of rhetoric, but rhetoric was all it was. Why allow it to upset us? Couldn’t we just ignore the senile old crank and his …
Aug 22 2022
The Church Under Attack
Political matters can go hang for the moment. Just now, my focus is on more permanent things…some of them eternal. *** Surely this piece is not so far in the past that my Gentle Readers will have forgotten it. It may have drawn more giggles than sober ponderings, but the true import of …
Aug 20 2022
The Cancelers’ First-Priority Target (UPDATED)
It’s none other than Libs of TikTok: These are the people teaching your kids pic.twitter.com/2xGO1UYM8R — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 9, 2022 This is but an item from the fringe of the transgender-evangelists’ madness. Madness, when both tolerated and celebrated, engenders further madness. The unwillingness to confront madness and label it as …
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 …
Jul 12 2022
Hero Hunger: A Report From 2022
They little knew of brotherhood – The faith of fighting men – Who once to prove their lie was good Hanged Colonel Jacques Chretien. [Gordon R. Dickson, “Brothers”] The C.S.O. and I recently watched this Amazon Prime mini-series and loved it. The headliner and co-producer is Chris Pratt, one of entertainment media’s disfavored for …
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