Saturday, November 5, 2016 (Not) Keeping Up with the Cardassians: The Regime’s Failed Show Trial in Portland “A salutary experience”: Residents of Cardassia give audience to a show trial. Cardassia is a fictional planet in the Star Trek universe ruled by a totalitarian state with a court system quite similar to our own. Trials on […]

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Free Kelsey Osborne! Victims of the Prohibitionist Cartel: Kelsey with her abducted children. If 23-year-old Gooding, Idaho resident Kelsey Osborne is sent to prison for using medicinal cannabis to treat her daughter’s seizures, Governor Butch Otter should immediately grant her a pardon. If he fails to do so, he should be […]

Thursday, October 20, 2016 Sheriff David Clarke: The Warlord of Milwaukee County Now that Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County faces a possible federal felony conviction that would dislodge him from office, the floor is open for nominations to replace him as the preening figurehead for the Punitive Populist constituency. Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Sheriff […]

Tuesday, October 11, 2016 Who Protects Kids from Predatory Police and Prosecutors? Raising teenage girls in the age of Snapchat exhibitionism is a challenging proposition – and it’s not made any easier by ambitious prosecutors seeking to criminalize unwise acts that fall within parental jurisdiction.  Last April 6, two parents from Knoxville, Iowa were summoned […]

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 “Let’s Convict Him and Get It Over With”: The Framing of Lanny Smith A picturesque landmark in a troubled county: The Idaho Falls LDS Temple James Swogger was a terrified 25-year-old awaiting trial on a charge of sexual misconduct with a child when he contacted Detective Victor Rodriguez of the Bonneville […]

Wednesday, September 28, 2016 Rather than Indulging the Reparations Racket, Why Not Abolish Enslavement to the State? Forty-five years have elapsed since the passing of Sylvester McGee, the last black American citizen who had been claimed by another American as property. Eighty-one years have elapsed since the death of Cudjoe Lewis, the last black American […]

Wednesday, September 14, 2016 Make This Right, Jared: Help Free Chris Tapp Put former Idaho Falls Mayor Jared Fuhriman in a room filled with people, wrote the Idaho Falls Post Register’s editorial board in an encomium to the retired politician, “and warmth radiates from him. His decency is genuine, not the fabricated kind that can […]

Monday, August 29, 2016 The State as Accomplice: Did Idaho’s “Justice” System Shield a Serial Murderer? See an important update below. “Our investigation in the death of Angie Dodge is not over,” insists Idaho Falls Police Chief Mark McBride. “It will never be considered a closed case until after we have identified and brought all […]