“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

I gotta get me one of these

Proton torpedoes very sadly not included: I don’t suppose anyone has a scale-model replica of the first Death Star, so that we can setup a mock version of the Trench Run? Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)...

The princess and the shiv

Somewhere in Washington, D.C., or wherever the hell it is that Chateau Heartiste is based, He-Whose-Name-Keeps-Changing must be positively crapping himself with delight to see that SCIENCE has once again confirmed he’s been preaching for years: Whether they...

r/K selection theory made simple

It would appear that Bill Whittle picked up a copy of Michael Trust’s Anonymous Conservative’s best book, The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics, and came to much the same set of conclusions that I did when I read it. And, in his usual lucid style, he...

A case for faith

There’s no sense in going further — it’s the edge of cultivation,” So they said, and I believed it — broke my land and sowed my crop — Built my barns and strung my fences in the little border station Tucked away below the foothills...

Finally he’s talking some sense

Republican candidate for the Presidency Ben Carson appears to understand the deadly threat that Islamist ideology poses to the ideal of republican government: Ben Carson said that he doesn’t believe a Muslim belongs in the White House.  ‘I would not...

Europe belongs to Europeans

The flood of immigrants invaders coming from the Middle East would do well to remember that fact: Make no mistake. The Second Reconquista is coming. The elites that the Europeans keep electing were able, for a time, to hold it at bay by promising their citizens...

That’s what goats are for, buddy

Unsurprisingly, the Koran really doesn’t have an equivalent to the Tenth Commandment A British Muslim who decided to defect to ISIS is finding out the rather less savoury aspects of Arab culture, and took to Tumblr to document his travails in typically...

The Jacksonian Tradition by Walter Russell Mead

I ran into a reference to this classic essay on the American electorate thanks to a John Ringo book (go figure…). That book referred to “the Jacksonian tribe” as the backbone of America, the moral and political compass that has, for decades, defined...

The sexbot and the feminist

WYB? That image is from a criminally underrated show on Fox from last year called “Almost Human”, starring the even more criminally underrated Eomer SSGT John Grimm Karl Urban. (Fox very sadly cancelled that show waaaaay too soon- what is it about the...