“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.”

Ants and Grasshoppers

Now that he’s retired, my father has vastly more time for reading and keeping up with news and op-eds than I do. Which means, of course, that he sends them to me and to his friends around the world whenever he can, to gauge our views on a variety of subjects. He...

Why I am a Libertarian

The Pointless Divide Danger & Play posted a brief but very good take on why he is neither a liberal nor a conservative: Big Government: Liberals say, “We need a strong social services program since I am afraid of losing my job and being unable to support myself.”...

Asians and Freedom

Normally, I delete anonymous comments out of hand. I do make exceptions once in a while- and let me reiterate, once more, that I do NOT want anonymous commentary on this blog. If you have something to say, do so under a name to which I can respond. I don’t care...

What Freedom?!

Courtesy of Bill Powell (and if you’re not regularly reading his blog, you bloody well should be), here is a video that shows you just how far gone this country truly is: Watching just part of this video brought to mind a list of accusations against an old...

Revolution Calling

Normally I would have posted some sort of weekend link list, to promote the good works of other bloggers, but the fact is that last week was insanely busy, and I’ve spent the weekend basically resting and catching up on my HALO. Not exactly a...

Feminism and Economics

The two don’t seem to work well together: The reason “gender equality” stalled is because it is an economic impossibility.  The reason the average hours worked is so much higher than in the more “sexist” 1960s is because primarily...

His Palantir Might Need Cleaning

VDH looks into his normally spotless crystal ball and sees a silver lining: There are reasons for pessimism about the world in general and America in particular, which is more divided politically than at any period since the turbulent 1960s—torn apart by fresh...

The Welfare State and Islam

The reality of Islam is that it is a political ideology first and a religion second. When you remove the political component of Islam, and de-fang its core ideology of expansion through warfare, Islam becomes pretty much harmless, exactly as Islamophile and...

Why Anarchocapitalism Cannot Work

(Note: This post was written in two parts with about 9 hours of extremely necessary sleep in between them, so if it seems a little disjointed or the publication time doesn’t jive with events described, it’s not your imagination.) God’s Teeth, but I...

Ten Lessons Learned from Pistol Shooting

Just got back from a day-long basic handgun course. It’s colder than a witch’s tit outside, and it’s actually going to get worse (somehow) over the next couple of days, so I figure I might as well blog while my brain is still defrosted. Taking...