May 02 2023
First, a little “inspirational” music: The wheel is turning and you can’t slow downYou can’t let go and you can’t hold onYou can’t go back and you can’t stand stillIf the thunder don’t get you then the lightning will Won’t you try just a little bit harderCouldn’t you try just a little bit more?Won’t …
Apr 17 2023
I can’t speak for anyone else, but for me, dark, damp weather is the occasion for my gloomiest thoughts. It’s that sort of day on eastern Long Island. I’ve spent most of the day dealing with household chores and minor necessities, basically trying to keep from thinking about “big stuff.” While the “big …
Mar 05 2023
…and the attempts to silence those who know the truth have become supremely frenzied. Good morning, Gentle Reader. I have a slew of things to deal with today, and must soon turn back to them, but the following three stories strike me as imperative to publicize, despite Liberty’s Torch’s modest readership: The wholesale …
Nov 06 2022
I’ve written before about the Usurpers’ employment of cognitive dissonance as a tactic for inducing paralysis in the populace. It appears that the powers behind the throne have decided that no lie is too extreme for their purposes: During a visit to California yesterday, President Biden gave a speech in which he made …
Oct 24 2022
…and it will return to that status after I get this off my chest. I just paid $5.18 per gallon for a tankful of home heating oil. That’s roughly $1.00 per gallon more than the gasoline that fuels my car. New York winters aren’t the worst in the country by a long …
Oct 14 2022
Many preclassical religions employed the notion of a “scapegoat:” an animal to whom the sins of a penitent could be mystically transferred, securing forgiveness for the penitent at the cost of the animal’s life. This practice was in deference to the old maxim that “there can be no remission without the shedding of blood.” …
Oct 13 2022
Mike Hendrix has the story: I shouldn’t find this all that shocking at this stage of the game, I know. And yet. Severely Abused in D.C. Jail, Jan. 6 Prisoners Ask for Transfer to Guantanamo I shan’t excerpt it here. If even 10% of the claims made in the prisoners’ …
Sep 24 2022
…it can still surprise onlookers with its boldness: Mark Houck is the founder and president of The King’s Men, which promotes healing for victims of pornography addiction and promotes Christian virtues among men in the United States and Europe. According to his wife Ryan-Marie, who spoke with LifeSiteNews, he also drives two …
Sep 22 2022
And from a really interesting source: “Putting people’s lives at risk,” eh? Which people? The illegal aliens, or the residents of the areas to which Abbott and DeSantis are sending them? Who is in danger from whom? Would you care to expand along those lines, Miss Black Lesbian Immigrant White House Press Secretary? …
Sep 14 2022
This morning, Julie Kelly writes: After nearly two years of lies related to the events of January 6, 2021, the regime finally has admitted the truth: The widening legal dragnet to scoop up Donald Trump, his associates, and his voters has nothing to do with the four-hour disturbance on Capitol Hill that afternoon. …
Sep 12 2022
Scene-setting, stage-dressing, “battlespace preparation,” call it what you will. It didn’t begin with Biden’s fatuous and inflammatory “soul of the nation” speech. It’s been going on for years. It can be traced back at least as far as the November 2000 election of George W. Bush as president. My fear is that it’s …
Sep 05 2022
The title phrase is a reaction, elicited from some, to the most “extreme” news. It’s the verbal equivalent of putting hands over eyes and screaming “Make it go away!” And sane Americans are having it ever more frequently. However, it’s dangerous. What makes it dangerous is the word can’t, which is always a …
Sep 02 2022
No, I didn’t watch or listen to it. I have a very low tolerance for political blather from anyone…well, other than myself, of course. But from the snippets I’ve been reading, it was at least as bad as We the Normals® expected it to be: America, ladies and gentlemen, is under attack and …
Sep 01 2022
If you don’t believe me, believe him: Joe Biden made a bizarre and passive aggressive comment targeting “brave right-wing Americans” Tuesday, during an political rally in Pennsylvania touting his latest gun grab…. Rather than attack Republicans in Congress who might oppose the initiative, Biden mocked all conservative Americans who support the Second …
Aug 30 2022
…shouldn’t be surprised if they get war in return. Consider the implications of Usurper figurehead Joe Biden’s declaration of war on American conservatives: Here’s what the president told a Democratic Party fundraiser near the White House on Thursday. “What we’re seeing now is either the beginning of the death knell of the …
Aug 28 2022
Joseph Sobran once composed an instructive parable that went something like this: Davis is listening to Jones speak of some injustice done to him by Smith. Davis waits until Jones runs down, and then says, “Oh, that’s all right. I forgive Smith for what he did to you.” How do you suppose Jones …
Aug 10 2022
I’m on an “Internet retreat” at the moment, in case you’ve been wondering where the interminable essays have gone. But I want to post a quick word before returning to my fiction labors. Perhaps it will serve to explain why I’ve absented myself. You don’t need me to read the news to you. …
Aug 03 2022
(Apologies to the greats of Monty Python.) It is a terrible mistake ever to trust a government agency that has a medical or “public health” ambit. Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy applies to such agencies with lethal force: Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be …
Jul 30 2022
My thoughts are more scattered than usual this morning, for a bevy of reasons my Gentle Readers would probably find uninteresting, excessively personal, or both. But when I sense that the floor of our national handbasket is being ripped away by flesh-eating zombies, such that the lake of bubbling lava below is plainly visible, …
Jul 26 2022
To learn who rules over you, simply look to those you are not allowed to criticize. [Multiply attributed, most often to Voltaire.] The above seems sound. Certainly many aristocracies treated the criticism of the rulers — lese majeste — as a serious offense. In some such lands it was treated more harshly than …
