Tuesday, December 11, 2012 “Damned from Memory”: When the Drug War Turns on its Own   John McLaughlin, known to his friends as “Sparky,” was a True Believer in the War on Drugs. He was convinced that his work as an agent of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement (BNI) was protecting innocent people from […]

Friday, December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Massacre: Sympathy from the Devil “They had their entire lives ahead of them — birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own,” intoned the murderer of 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki as he began the liturgy of official mourning for the victims of the Newtown massacre.  Every time children die in an […]

Thursday, December 20, 2012 Scratch a “Liberal,” find a Fascist: The Case of Barbara Boxer Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer of California, a bottomless fountain of foolishness, has proposed a measure that would permit governors to deploy National Guard troops to provide “security” at government-run schools.  “Is it not part of the national defense to make […]

Thursday, December 27, 2012 Prosecution as Persecution: The Carol Asher Case  “Hi, my name is Larry Wasden,” explained the short, stocky man, flashing a politician’s practiced smile and extending a hand. “I’m the Attorney General.” “Mr. Wasden, my name is Will Grigg,” I replied, shaking his hand. “Several years ago you tried to put a […]

Saturday, December 29, 2012 Sandy Hook and Pre-emptive Civilian Disarmament Civilian disarmament advocates insist that the Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre illustrates the dangers of inadequately restrictive firearms laws. That assumption is impossible to reconcile with the fact that Connecticut’s state government regards individual firearms ownership not as a right but as a highly conditional […]

Monday, December 31, 2012 Jerrold Nadler, Gun-Grabbing Leninist A victim of “Legitimate” Federal Violence at Wounded Knee.   When the “heroic” (and much-decorated) Seventh Cavalry slaughtered hundreds of starving, freezing Indians at Wounded Knee Creek in December 1890, the perpetrators of that massacre weren’t committing an atrocity. Instead, they were exercising what New York Congressman […]

Wednesday, January 5, 2011 From Terrorist Bagman to Homeland Security Overlord: The Curious Career of Peter King There’s only two things wrong with him — his face: Congressman Peter “Janus” King In the person of Congressman Peter King (R-New York), the incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, the abstraction called “hypocrisy” has acquired […]

Monday, January 10, 2011 The Cult of Sanctified Violence A Mundane kneels  before a royal carriage bearing the Sanctified Personage of the Killer-in-Chief. Force — Force to the utmost; Force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant Force which shall make Right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down in […]