“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.”

Take your “law” and shove it

That’s the only appropriate response to the latest bit of nanny-state stupidity that has been proposed on this side of the Pond: Labour wants to stop drinkers having more than a pint of beer a day – sparking fresh accusations that it is out of touch with...

When chauvinism saves lives

Feminists have long argued, with no empirical or biological justification whatsoever, that women can and should serve in front-line combat positions alongside men. And for the last thirty years, against our better judgement and in the face of all common sense, men...

The anti-freedom party

The Conservative Party in dear olde Englande appears to be thoroughly rattled, and rightly so, by the rapid rise of the UK Independence Party. Unfortunately, the Conservative party’s nominal media backers appear to have serious problems understanding exactly...

The value of your vote

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. — Quote often misattributed to Benjamin Franklin “I find your lack of cookies disturbing” Today America’s voters went to the polls in one of the country’s innumerable...

The Speech

On October 27th, 1964, a handsome-looking former actor in his early fifties took to the stage of the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, California. He was there to deliver a message that he, and he alone, had spent years of his life honing on the...

It is still murder

A woman who aborted her baby when she realised that it would be born with Down’s Syndrome tries to sound appropriately contrite and begs our understanding: One in 1,000 babies in the UK — about 750 a year — is born with Down’s syndrome. But with better...

Stupidity is contagious

And you’re surprised that I’m wearing a HazMat suit in public? But we knew that already. Guess what else is highly contagious? Two patients who had symptoms similar to those Ebola and were rushed to a New York hospital today do not have the virus, it was...

Globocop

The Mantle. You still hold to that [fairy tale] after all that has happened? After this thing has consumed a million worlds? Can’t you see? Belief in the Mantle sealed our doom! Weakened our [protectorates], bred dependence and sloth. Our [so-called...

Because they’re fat, dammit

(Credit goes to El Capitan for finding this little gem.) Apparently our intrepid Benevolent Government Overlords are now spending damn-near half a million dollars to figure out why fat girls can’t get dates: The federal government is spending nearly a half a...

An African future

Via good ol’ Derb over at Taki’s place, take a look at this projection of the world’s population over the next 50-odd years: “Charty goodness”, as ye olde Capitaine would say… Basically, by 2100, Asians and Africans will dominate...