Monday, May 18, 2015 Pity the Poor Stormtroopers: Baby Bou-Bou Ambushed Them (Updated, May 21) The truth in black and white — but don’t believe it: Sheriff Joey insists that this is the face of a criminal. (See the update at the bottom of the essay, or click here.) It was the baby’s fault that […]

Friday, May 22, 2015 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: None Are Safe from the State’s Plundering Parasites All aboard Amtrak — in Germany, circa 1938. (Still from “The Mortal Storm.”) “Is anyone present carrying more than ten marks, or planning to take out of the country any foreign money, gold, jewels, or other valuables?” demanded the […]

Monday, June 15, 2015 The Trouble with Kids Today: Too Much Deference to “Authority,” Too Little Respect for Property Staking his claim: A state-authorized dispenser of violence asserts ownership of a Mundane. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is least in danger and fix its approval on […]

Thursday, June 18, 2015 Ain’t That Amerika: Routine State Terrorism in the Imperial Capital “Officer Safety” uber alles, you know. The eleven-year-old girl shrieked in horror as the shower curtain was ripped away, leaving her exposed to the view of a large male stranger. Her sense of  violation was compounded by the threat of immediate, […]

Friday, June 26, 2015 Heresies Against the Imperium Pontifex Maximus If Barack Obama is correct that white Americans are racist at a genetic level, shouldn’t this tendency be considered an inherent trait? Given the persistence of racism in the face of unremitting remedial action by government, should we regard it as an ineffaceable characteristic to […]

Monday, June 29, 2015 Love of Power Wins – Now the Yezhovschina Can Begin The Secret Police in Orwell’s dystopian society were employed by the Ministry of Love. In that ironic designation we find the genuine meaning of the insistent refrain that “love” triumphed when the US Supreme Court consummated the long campaign to bring […]

Monday, July 13, 2015 Administrative “Law” and the Tyranny of “Tolerance” (Update, July 18) In most jurisdictions, an entrepreneur could be prosecuted for posting this sign. See the update below. In a collectivist society, “offenses” aren’t defined by behavior, but rather by identity. This is compellingly illustrated by cases of Antonio Darden and Elaine Huguenin, […]

Monday, July 6, 2015 Of Wedding Cakes and Puritanical Collectivism (UPDATE, July 10)   Thought criminals: Melissa and Aaron Klein (center) with their children. UPDATE — Yes, the Kleins were fined — or, if you prefer, hit with a “civil penalty,” which is the same thing — for not baking a cake, the tortured sophistries […]