When a man shows you who he is, believe him. – Maya Angelou Among the great weaknesses of the Right is our powerful desire to believe that our opponents are fundamentally just as decent as we are. There’s actually some rationality behind that assumption. If our opponents are not fundamentally decent – that …
Category: The Left
Dec 02 2023
Just How Does Harvard Award Professorships?
You really have to wonder: Scientific American, which dates to 1845 and touts itself as “the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States,” recently ran an article arguing that scientists should prioritize “reality” over scientific “rigor.” What would make a publication with a name like this one set empirical evidence at odds …
Nov 17 2023
Pride Crap
[I’m in a bit of a state just now, for reasons that don’t bear on anything my Gentle Readers would (or should) care about, so have a reprint from January 2017, over at Liberty’s Torch V1.0. After rereading it, I must report that my attitude toward “pride crap” has only hardened and grown more …
Nov 08 2023
I Really Don’t Like To End A Day This Way
…but events have me boiling with rage yet again. What events, you ask? Why, these events: Can you believe it? Leftists are furious with this YouTuber – apparently a man who does a lot of philanthropy – for “reinforcing the stereotype that Africa is dependent on handouts.” Great God in heaven! Africa IS …
Nov 08 2023
A Brilliant Insight
No, not one of mine. Courtesy of Mike Miles: Let that sink in for just a moment.
Oct 15 2023
The Battle For Your Soul
What’s that you say? You don’t feel as if you’re being fought over? Well, I’m not one to argue feelz. However, the objective evidence is as plain as a fart. Would you like some? Church music director cleared of assault charge. Where dialogue with “liberals” gets you. Hillary’s “deprogramming” program. A pro-life…bank? This tidbit …
Oct 01 2023
Three Graphics For Our Time
Shamelessly stolen from The Feral Irishman: The first two graphics speak softly but firmly. The third one speaks in a voice of thunder. Way back when, the New Left had a mantra: “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.” Reflect on what you see and hear, here …
Sep 29 2023
Beware “The Procedure”
It looks like a harmless word. At one time it was. It merely denoted a way of doing something, like the equally dreaded word process. And to be fair, there are times when it doesn’t stiffen my neck hair or move my hand to my sidearm. But that’s not what I have in mind …
Sep 27 2023
Virtue Signaling At Others’ Expense
I’m sure it feels great…until the chickens come home to roost: CHICAGO – Chicago’s newest migrant shelter has opened up in the West Loop, and it’s creating tension between a landlord and tenants. The bottom floor tenant at a warehouse-style building at 344 N. Ogden is a retail business. The owner tells …
Sep 27 2023
The Left Cannot Afford To Be Wrong In Public
Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth. — 1984 Which way would you bet? “On what?” you ask. On whether this brief interview will be quietly suppressed: Phillip: I should note that you did vote against the defense appropriations bill this week, the …
Sep 24 2023
Trustworthy Motives
It’s all too often the case that one is tempted to do something he knows is wrong by a prospect for personal gain. Temptations of that sort are the most reliable for the evocation of evil. And of course, the larger the gain at stake, the stronger the temptation. In a column of …
Sep 22 2023
“As A Matter Of Principle”
Fear not, Gentle Readers. I shan’t torture you with another long exposition on the real meaning of the word principle. Rather, I’d like to underscore an important aspect of the campaign to silence anyone who dissents from the Left-approved narrative. I don’t know much about Russell Brand. He’s described at Infogalactic as “an …
Sep 17 2023
Marriage And The Loneliness Epidemic
There have been some articles and videos on “male loneliness” recently that have struck a chord with me. (Yes, I’m male; don’t let the androgynous first name fool you.) I sense that the problem is both real and extensive. I’ve known men of all ages who suffer from it. And while there are some …
Sep 16 2023
How Much Evidence Is Enough?
So you don’t think things are that bad? You think dialogue between Left and Right is still possible? You think when the consequences of their insane policies become sufficiently obvious, our political opponents will come to their senses? No, Gentle Reader. It cannot be, for a simple reason: The Left is now a …
Sep 13 2023
Has The Left Reached Peak Viciousness Yet?
It doesn’t look like it: Far-left MSNBC columnist and radio host Dean Obeidallah said that Trump, “must die in prison,” to send a message. “I think Donald Trump must die in prison because I don’t care if he was 45 years old. You should get life in prison if you attempt a …
Sep 02 2023
Percentages And Concentrations
There have been several posts by other bloggers that address what happens to a society when Muslims reach various percentages of the population. History confirms the dangers such accumulations of Muslims present to a previously free and peaceful society. Moreover, Muslims’ reproduction rate far exceeds that of Western non-Muslim whites, which puts time on …
Aug 25 2023
Crime And The Individual Perspective
John Hinderaker asks in a plaintive tone: Is Crime Still Illegal? All of these descriptions are somewhat sanitized. We have seen the videos: gangs of twenty or more criminals will descend on a store, often blocking the street in front of the store with their vehicles, and rampage through the establishment stealing whatever …
Aug 19 2023
Right, Wrong, Or Socially Unjust?
In analyzing the phrase “social justice,” we see how prefixing the word justice with any modifier inverts its meaning. It turns something easily understood – inherently unambiguous, in fact – into something for noisy groups to argue and negotiate. But then, attempts to redefine “justice” to accommodate some trendy Cause are as old as …
Jul 31 2023
Calorie Counting
The rise of a tolerable level of civilization – i.e., a state of society in which our lives aren’t characterized by constant predation against one another – is largely due to advances in agricultural production. Indeed, a case could be made for the proposition that until the available calories per capita passed about 1500 …
Jul 11 2023
Premises And Precedents
Richard Lyons has given us some background on the contemporary oppression of political opponents. Most critical is this observation: Let’s now go back to the era of Woodrow Wilson. Our 28th president spent his life on Ivy League campuses, being steeped in the “Ideal State” philosophy by his intellectual mentors, Richard Ely and …
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