Wednesday, July 22, 2015 First, They Came for the Bar Owners….   Mission Accomplished: The shuttered Twilight Room Annex, a casualty of Oregon’s anti-Business soviet. Chris Penner, owner of the Twilight Room Annex club in Portland, Oregon, had bills to pay and a payroll to meet. He called up his business account only to find […]

Saturday, October 24, 2015 Commissar Avakian’s War Against Property Rights Keeping — or making — Portland free would be even better. Until April of this year, Christopher Penner was an entrepreneur. Now, despite the fact that he has never committed a crime against persons or property, he is an indentured servant. For several years, Penner […]

Friday, October 30, 2015 The Chain of Command and the Executioner in the Classroom “You know what the chain of command is? It’s the chain I go get and beat you with ’til ya understand who’s in ruttin’ command here.” Jayne Cobb, demonstrating why he should never be left in charge of anything, from “The […]

Thursday, November 5, 2015 Open Range, Open Season: The Killing of Jack Yantis (UPDATE, November 8)   Open range: A typical Adams County vista. “They’re calling us murderers,” protests Adams County Sheriff Ryan Zollman, referring to local residents and others who have contacted his office to express their outrage over the November 1nd killing of […]

Saturday, April 18, 2015 Protecting the Vicious, Punishing the Virtuous: Marijuana Prohibition and Idaho’s Prison-Industrial Complex From gubernatorial protege to prison commissar: Protected felon Josh Tewalt. Josh Tewalt has a drug problem that led to several arrests. Like many others afflicted with that weakness, Tewalt eventually wound up in prison. Unlike most of them, however, […]

Sunday, June 7, 2015 “Blue Privilege” and the Criminal Enterprise Called The Idaho State Police (UPDATE December 13) Homicide in progress: Seconds later, Deputy Scott Sloan killed Barry Johnson. “They’ve laid us out,” Idaho State Police Trooper Sam Ketchum reported in a text message to his superiors during an April 13, 2012 court hearing in […]

Saturday, November 14, 2015 Justice for Jack Yantis: Don’t Leave the Investigation to the “Professionals” Scene of the crime shortly after Jack Yantis was fatally shot. The first rule of bureaucratic crisis management is: “Find someone else to blame.” This is true even in agencies as small as the Adams County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Ryan […]

Sunday, November 22, 2015 Donald Trump’s Presidential “Heel Turn” Ladies and gentlemen, the 45th President of the United States. Donald Trump’s presidential campaign makes perfect sense once it is understood to be the political equivalent of what is called a “heel turn” in professional wrestling.  In 2007, before becoming a “reality TV” star in his […]