“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 Didact’s Top 10 Posts of 2015

Not surprisingly, this assclown’s face is among the top image search results for “narcissism” Yes, I know, this is navel-gazing of the worst kind. Fortunately I only get one chance a year to do it. The list below is in descending order, and is...

A simple equation

Here is something for my fellow maths geeks to ponder. What happens when you allow mass invasions from Third World nations, with Third World standards of hygiene, medicine, literacy, and sanitation, into First World nations with far stricter controls on all of those...

r/K theory and conservative principles

Ever wondered what happens when you put two highly intelligent and well-read conservative/libertarian types on a podcast and get them talking about r/K selection theory and its applications to politics? Wonder no more: Grab yourself a tall drink, sit back, relax, and...

The coming of the tide

That speech from Bill Whittle is from nearly 3 years ago, right after the electoral disaster- and that is what it was- of November 2012. In it, he raises a number of critically important points that I think need to be kept in mind as America enters yet another...

#DraftBillWhittle

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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...

Red-card the whole thing

The folly of unlimited immigration becomes more transparent by the day: The overwhelming majority of immigration to the United States is the result of our visa policies. Each year, millions of visas are issued to temporary workers, foreign students, refugees, asylees,...

Peace through strength

The Gipper’s core philosophy continues to make sense: As much as I respect and admire Bill Whittle, it is worth pointing out one big problem with his analysis. The reality is that the cancellation of the F-22 is probably one of the very very very...

Getting pimp-slapped by reality

If I still used social media, I’d think strongly about making this my profile picture You know the old saying, “a conservative is a liberal who got mugged by reality”? Well, an ex-CNN anchor discovered just how true that saying is, the hard way:...

“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;...