by Didact | Nov 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
What Cap said What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly… it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. — Thomas Paine In this consumer-driven, materialistic, selfish age, it is unfashionable in the...
by Didact | Nov 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
“But this universe consists of paired dualities. What is the converse of authority? Mr. Rico.” He had picked one I could answer. “Responsibility, sir.” “Applause. Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral ones, to permit...
by Didact | Nov 4, 2015 | Christianity, Uncategorized
My reading list of late has included a couple of books by one Emmet Scott which have not only cast doubt upon, but completely destroyed, the canonical origin story of Islam. It is now clear that the story of Mohammed, the so-called “prophet” of Islam, is...
by Didact | Nov 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine— Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! The tumult and the shouting...
by Didact | Oct 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
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...
by Didact | Oct 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
When the average student of history is asked to name the greatest military strategists of all time, the list is usually a pretty predictable one. The usual suspects show up on such a list. Sun Tzu, author of the classic treatise on strategy, deception, and tactical...
by Didact | Oct 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Prince_Laqroix had an interesting follow-up question to my latest, rather grouchy, take on the Joint Strike Flying Piano: Perhaps I must have missed it.. I’m new to this and my knowledge is extremely limited, but does Lind mention or do you have any thoughts on...
by Didact | Oct 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
And once again, the tinpot would-be dictator shows us his true colours by hinting at going well beyond mere gun control and straight into gun confiscation: In the mid-1990s Australia and Great Britain both instituted what were virtually complete bans on...
by Didact | Oct 1, 2015 | Christianity, Uncategorized
The best thing about reading iconoclastic, revisionist historians is that, in the process of reading and understanding their works and their ideas, you learn just how badly your schooling has let you down. Such was certainly the case when I read the truth about the...
by Didact | Sep 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
I came across a powerful video today, just at random, on the Vickers Tactical channel, about one Tyler Grey, an ex-RANGER who was severely injured over in the Sandbox. He is a quiet man. He speaks with dignity and grace about what happened to him. He doesn’t...
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