Thursday, September 8, 2016 The Stolen Life of Cathy Woods Survivor: Cathy Woods, following her exoneration. Former police detective John Lawrence Kimpton had crested the biblical threescore-and-ten in 2011 when he passed away in the company of loved ones in a Reno hospital room. He should have died in the prison cell that by that […]

Monday, August 22, 2016 Sheriff Zollman — What Will You Tell Jack Yantis’s Widow? No, they won’t forget: Adams County residents at the site where deputies gunned down Jack Yantis. Residents of Adams County, Idaho, should compel Sheriff Ryan Zollman – by nailing his feet to the floor, if necessary — to answer this question: […]

Monday, August 1, 2016 Beware, Adams County: A “Sociopath” Will Soon Return to Duty “I’m a man of faith, and I believe nothing happens without a reason,” insisted Adams County Sheriff Ryan Zollman after Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden placed the state’s imprimatur on the murder of Council rancher Jack Yantis. To the family and […]

Saturday, August 13, 2016 No Justice for Jack Yantis: The “Smoking Gun” is a Bloody Bullet Jack Yantis with his now-widow, Donna. (See update below.) “Perhaps you can account also for the bullet which has so obviously hit the window?” “By George! How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.” Sherlock Holmes […]

Friday, August 5, 2016 Mundane Lives Don’t Matter, So Don’t Try to Exercise Your Rights (UPDATED October 4) See update below.  In every encounter between a police officer and a citizen, only one life matters to the former – and it isn’t the latter.  “Follow the commands of a police officer or risk dying,” snarled […]

Sunday, July 24, 2016 The Right to Resist and the Vindication of Julius Holmes Julius Holmes was in his Macon, Georgia apartment cooking dinner when Officer Rogers arrived to arrest him.  “I’ll be damned if you will,” Holmes hissed, making a furtive move toward a handgun he had placed on a nearby bed.  Miraculously, Holmes […]

Tuesday, July 19, 2016 We Have a “Duty” to Submit; They Have No Duty to Protect “Somebody is going to die tonight,” a visibly agitated Anthony Lord told a close friend on July 16, 2015. Lord, a resident of Benedicta, Maine, was a registered sex offender who displayed symptoms of violent derangement. His anger had […]

Sunday, July 10, 2016 Seek Ye First the Protection of Property Rights…. When Screwtape, depicted by C.S. Lewis as a mid-level administrator in hell’s Lowerarchy, gloated that “Prosperity knits a man to this world,” he might well have been thinking of tax-exempt religious corporations.  The “Utah Compromise” on religious liberty, which was enacted with the […]