“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.”

What’s the German word for “schadenfreude”?

Remember how the Left went into a warm-n-fuzzy swooning meltdown when an eeeeeevil corporate CEO finally turned from the Dark Side and started paying his employees a Living Wage by massively slashing his own salary? To the point where he was paying ALL of his...

Steynisms

If you’re of an economically, politically, and/or socially conservative mindset, you have almost certainly heard of Mark Steyn. And if you have heard of or read Mark Steyn’s work, you know full well just how erudite and articulate he is. If you don’t...

Outward to convert, then inward to destroy

You keep telling yourself that, bucko The whole LGBTIQWTFISTHISBS movement appears to be having a severe identity crisis (pun intended): A Pride event in Scotland has banned drag queens because they might offend trans-gender people. Organisers of the show, established...

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...

“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;...

Joint Strike Flopter: flying piano edition

Well, that was some $400 billion well spent, then: It’s the most expensive weapon in history but America’s F-35 stealth jet has been outperformed by a 40-year-old F-16 jet in a dogfight.  A mock air battle was held over the Pacific Ocean between the...

Guest Post: The narrative is wrong

A fellow Vile Faceless Minion commented at some length on my post from the other day regarding the recent shooting in Charleston, SC. I judged his comments to be worthy of their own full-length post. I present those comments here with minimal editing and cleanup...

Leave the flag alone

My little sister, being considerably more emotional and therefore more liberal than I am, sent me a link to a write-up by a chap named Ta-Nehisi Coates in the wake of the church slaying down in Charleston, demanding the immediate removal of the Confederate flag from...

President BAMF

Getting shot by a would-be assassin tends to give one a certain perspective on things… I’ve known for quite some time now that Ronald Reagan was underestimated and written off many times during his lifetime by his opponents- though never by his true...

Someone fetch the smelling salts

Whatever this dude’s smoking, it’s clearly hazardous to your health Clearly, the jug-eared buffoon in the Oval Office has gone round the bend: On Tuesday, former Obama advisor David Axelrod informed an Israeli television channel that President Obama...