“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.”

“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...

And in other news, water is still wet…

… and the CAGW crowd are still idiots: There is no scientific evidence that human activity is causing the planet to warm, according to Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who testified in front of a Senate committee on Tuesday.  Moore argued that...

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...

There really is no fun in Islam…

You can’t even get spaced if you’re a Muslim, according to the UAE’s government: The United Arab Emirates issued a religious law Thursday banning Muslims from manning a spaceflight voyage to Mars. Starting in 2024, Dutch...

Frack ALL The things!

I have a fairly (un)healthy contempt for the Obarmy administration’s general cluelessness about most things in general, but when it comes to domestic energy production, I find myself wondering if anyone who works for the current Executive branch, from 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 chicken-or-egg question

Uh… it does? As mentioned in my review of David P. Goldman’s book, How Civilisations Die (and Why Islam is Dying Too), the author, better known as the online conservative columnist Spengler, peppered that same book with a series of thought-provoking...

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...

Stock up on wool coats…

The next few years (or decades) could be very, very cold: The Sun’s activity is at its lowest for 100 years, scientists have warned.  They say the conditions are eerily similar to those before the Maunder Minimum, a time in 1645 when a mini ice age hit,...

Five problems with a very obvious solution

Normally I rather enjoy Cracked.com’s highly irreverent and thoroughly offbeat commentary on issues large and small. Recently, however, they published a list that purported to show how hard life is for women in the military, and I have to say that I got more...