(A word to the wise—verb. sap. to the saps—: turn speakers and headphones down.) Civility and charity are virtues. Truth is an indispensable virtue. I am not giving up the latter for Lent, even for the sake of the former. I have ripped into the populist Euro-style ‘Right’—with a whole damned book —; it’s theContinue reading “A Philippic Against the Left: Culling the Herd”
Author Archives: Markham Shaw Pyle
The lickspittle Left and the repellent ‘Right’
Turns out there is a ‘permanent fusion party’ in the United States: Jew-haters. Last evening (and, from a quick look, it’s starting up again this morning as these reptiles slither out and begin warming up), I got unexpectedly crosswise with some dime-store, mom’s basement conspiracy-caster when I made one of my customary statements of supportContinue reading “The lickspittle Left and the repellent ‘Right’”
Th’ Ould Sod? Sod ’em.
I am hardly what people mean when they refer to ‘Irish-Americans’, nor should I care to be so identified: when My Fellow Americans use the term, they have in mind some pathetic, sentimental mythos of immigrants escaping the Famine and ‘the English’ and flocking to Ellis Island and All That. The Kennedy Family Myth, forContinue reading “Th’ Ould Sod? Sod ’em.”
Congress and the War Power: Thoughts on a Constitutional Problem
As the 36th Congress of the United States ended and again as the 37th began, there were vacant chairs: more and more by the day. This was a fortunate thing for the incoming administration and the incoming President, who as a result gained outright control of both Houses of Congress. And gained something more—and moreContinue reading “Congress and the War Power: Thoughts on a Constitutional Problem”
The Moral Calculus of War
Politicians—like every man jack and woman jill of us—are inherently motivated primarily if not wholly by their own several self-interests … precisely as are the most ostentatiously and performatively pious, peace-preaching lefties. This does not change the moral calculus of war. Anyone who denies that is a fool, a liar, or, of course, both. TheContinue reading “The Moral Calculus of War”
This is Texas Independence Day.
May all nations and peoples likewise have one.
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus. Now do the little things.
The 28th February is, when it is not a leap year, the feast day of S Oswald of Worcester, Bishop and Confessor: Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York. He was of an Anglo-Danish family from the old Danelaw—his uncle Oda was Archbishop of Canterbury and his kinsman Oskytel preceded him at York—, living andContinue reading “Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus. Now do the little things.”
A look at how properly to observe Independence Day.
Because hubris—particularly in the achievements of others, and not of oneself—is no true patriotism, a few quiet, Anglican words from the ’28 BCP on the proper observance of US Independence Day, brought to you by a thorough conservative.
Repent ye…
I am grieved, disgusted, and enraged by the murder of two—of two more—young Israelis, as I am by all the evils going unchecked in this day: the assailing of Israel and of the Jewish people not least, whom the Almighty shall doubtless vindicate and avenge in accordance with His ancient promises and which wickedness weContinue reading “Repent ye…”
Magnificat
Today being a red-letter feast day, that of the Annunciation, I pop by to check up on y’all before resuming my Lenten silence. And, as I’m here, let me remind you that, although we are to pray daily for our various heads of government, that does not mean we pray that their policies, aims, ambitions,Continue reading “Magnificat”
Markham Shaw Pyle, author & historian 