“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 shadow soldiers

“… The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion… and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself- ultimate cost for perfect value.” — Lt. Colonel Jean V....

Accountability

Matt Forney’s latest featured post opened up a can of weapons-grade whoop-ass on a number of topics and people: Yesterday morning, I had a realization: I don’t want to be part of the manosphere anymore.  I remember the exact moment when it happened. I...

Gettin’ rid of the varmints

This is how you resist unwarranted aggression and overbearing intrusions from the Federal government: Citing safety concerns, federal agents are withdrawing from the Nevada cattle ranch where they had engaged in a week-long showdown with Cliven Bundy, a...

The Mozilla mess

So Mozilla CEO Brendon Eich stepped down this week because of internal backlash over his political contributions to a group that supported a state-level ban on gay marriage: The decision to remove the man who invented the web scripting language JavaScipt did not sit...

The lesson of the Spartan women

Helen of Sparta I don’t remember how I came across this- my opposite number from the old homestead probably sent it to me at some point- but if you want a great argument against universal suffrage from the past, look no further than the example of what happened...

Freedoms are not free

They come with attendant duties and responsibilities. And as the mainstream media is beginning to find out, far too late, if those who claim specific freedoms and rights refuse to uphold those duties, then they do not deserve those freedoms: New York Times reporter...

The phalanx

laidnyc wrote a very interesting post recently about his thoughts regarding an impending usurpation of the ‘Sphere by those who seek to hijack our mad little corner of the world: In ancient times, walled cities were built to protect against invading tribes. As...

“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...