“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.”

“We might have been a great and free people”

That about sums up the state of the culture On this day in 1776, 56 free-born Englishmen signed a document in Philadelphia that became the rallying cry for a new nation. The text itself is a masterpiece of rhetoric. It follows a simple and well understood structure;...

Joint Strike Flopter: flying piano edition

Well, that was some $400 billion well spent, then: It’s the most expensive weapon in history but America’s F-35 stealth jet has been outperformed by a 40-year-old F-16 jet in a dogfight.  A mock air battle was held over the Pacific Ocean between the...

President BAMF

Getting shot by a would-be assassin tends to give one a certain perspective on things… I’ve known for quite some time now that Ronald Reagan was underestimated and written off many times during his lifetime by his opponents- though never by his true...

Someone fetch the smelling salts

Whatever this dude’s smoking, it’s clearly hazardous to your health Clearly, the jug-eared buffoon in the Oval Office has gone round the bend: On Tuesday, former Obama advisor David Axelrod informed an Israeli television channel that President Obama...

Horatius at the bridge

There is yet one Republican in the Senate who understands why freedom is precious, and why it must be defended: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is already back at work after he filibustered on the U.S. Senate floor for about 10 and a half hours on Wednesday. He’s declaring...

How stupid can a neoconservative be?

Joel Pollak over at Breitbart.com inexplicably chose to tie a noose around his credentials as a conservative- and then proceeded to kick the chair out from under himself: Though the execution of the war was deeply flawed, there are at least five reasons it was...

It only took 40 years…

It would appear that the received wisdom about hearthealthywholegrains is finally dying the ignominious death it so thoroughly deserves: For decades they have been blacklisted as foods to avoid, the cause of deadly thickening of the arteries, heart disease and...

Honour the fallen… by bringing the rest home

The fact that this country still takes, even today, such enormous pride in its soldiers is one of the many, many things that I love about it. You have to travel outside of the US to understand just how unusual it is to find a country that not only loves but...

Just SHOOT the RINO already

The GOP’s 2016 electoral strategy George W. “Compassionate Conservative” Bush’s brother apparently seems to think that having yet another progressive Republican cast in the mould of Theodore Roosevelt and John McCain leading the US would be a...

Effing the ineffable

Just when you thought the US government couldn’t get any more retarded, they manage to take that incredibly low bar- and then smash headfirst into it: The federal government missed an estimated $41.1 million in “cost savings” transporting immigrant detainees on...