“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.”

The Holy Land

God didn’t pick us because we were weak or would run from danger. We’ve taken murder and sorrow and humiliation for six thousand years and we have kept faith. We have outlived everyone who has tried to destroy us. Can’t you see it, Kitty? … this...

Geeksploitation

Vox Day had some rather trenchant things to say about the H-1B “worker visa” programme yesterday, on the back of an interesting article that pointed out that companies are now using the H-1B system to force domestic IT workers to train their foreign...

Paleo won’t feed the world

If you haven’t yet read John Ringo’s The Last Centurion, I highly recommend it. For all of its flaws in writing style and narrative flow, it is a highly entertaining, very memorable, and quite enjoyable near-future military fiction novel. It is also a...

The false prosperity of the banks

The last five years have certainly been… eventful when it comes to the world of high finance. In 2008, the world discovered that the geniuses to whom the public had entrusted trillions of dollars didn’t really have a clue how to manage it responsibly....

Sliding rapidly down that slippery slope

I stand before you. Accused of the sin of ensuring Forerunner ascendancy. Of attempting to save us from this fate where we are forced to… recede… We squander eons in the darkness, while they seize our triumphs for their own… Think of my acts as you will, but do...

“Come, then, and- if you can- take them”

It doesn’t matter how many times the gun-grabbers try to argue otherwise- it turns out that letting citizens arm themselves is actually good at reducing crime: This week, the FBI issued a report comparing the numbers of violent and...

Yes, Hitler WAS a socialist

Recently a minor kerfuffle erupted between two well-known bloggers for the Daily Telegraph over the precise ideological nature of the Nazis. On the one side you have Daniel Hannan, who claims that the ideological roots of fascism and Nazism lie well and truly on the...

The false refuge of Utopia

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything. — G. K. Chesterton Among the many- far too many- books that I find myself reading at any given time, one of the most interesting,...

The stupidity of genius

Not too long ago I wrote a post about free trade and I mentioned something in passing that I think needs some elaboration. I stated that India followed openly socialistic policies designed to produce self-sufficiency in most basic goods and services from the time of...