Friday, November 21, 2008 Unwarranted Violence Henry Blake: Pierce…. Hawkeye Pierce: What is it? What? Blake: I wouldn’t try to leave camp. Hawkeye: Wha — I’m under arrest? Blake: I didn’t say that. You’re restricted. Hawkeye: That means I’m under arrest. Blake: Not at all, you’re only restricted up to the point where, er – […]

Friday, January 25, 2008 A Snitch In Time “You … agreed to become an informant for the government.” “Yes, sir.” “To do whatever they wanted you to do.” “Yes, sir. “To tell on whoever they wanted you to tell on.” “Yes, sir.” — Key exchange between defense attorney Leonard Goodman and Sherman Bell, a convicted […]

Monday, September 1, 2008 Idolatry and State-Sanctioned Murder (Updated, 9/2) (For reasons that should become obvious, the essay that follows is not intended to express the smallest particle of disrespect for the two people who figure most prominently therein.)”While it’s true that God commands us `Thou shalt not kill,'” explained the grandmother in a gentle, […]

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 Behold a Palin Horse Where do God and Family fit if “Country” — meaning the Government — comes first? Republican cultists perform on cue at the GOP convention.”`We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity, and dignity.’ I know just the kind of people that writer had in […]

Sunday, September 7, 2008 Washington’s Kleptocratic State: “More Communist Than China” (Illustration courtesy of I can haz bailout?)Bold architect of Amerika’s Brave New Socialist Order, Benjamin “Lenin” Bernanke: Socialism isn’t “dead,” it simply adapted. Unlike the Creator, Who rested from his labors on the seventh day, the architects of our kleptocratic State do their most […]

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Stormtroopin’ In the early morning hours there’s a din in the air; mayhem’s on the loose. Stormtroopers comin’, and you better be prepared. Got no time to choose…. Comin’ up that street, jackboots steppin’ high. Got to make a stand. Looking in your windows and listen to your phone. Keep a […]

Monday, September 15, 2008 The Denouement (Updated) Hail comrades well met: In this famous 1911 editorial cartoon, Karl Marx is rapturously greeted on Wall Street and taken to the bosom of Carnegie and Rockefeller. This tidily sums up the relationship between Wall Street corporate socialists and the non-housebroken Marxist revolutionaries who are their distant kin. […]

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Dispossession by Decree Don’t be so glum: The “common people” can’t count on an $85 billion lifeline from the Fed. We just get to pay for it. During the frontier period, when the government that afflicts us was still in its pupal stage and (therefore) most of North America remained relatively […]