Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Globalizing America’s “Divorce Regime” A “single `no’ vote” by the Idaho Legislature disrupted “the finely crafted choreography” behind a UN child support treaty, laments the New York Times. Unless this is reversed in a special legislative session, the paper tremulously informed its dwindling band of readers, the legal architecture of international […]

Thursday, April 30, 2015 “Nickel Rides,” “Houdini Suicides,” and the American Torture State Like iron filings rearranging themselves in the presence of a magnetic field, reflexive apologists for the police quickly adapt to every official explanation for egregious misconduct. Knowing that official insinuation suffices when facts are withheld, the Baltimore PD leaked the suggestion that […]

Thursday, May 7, 2015 “This is America”: The Day Police Firebombed West Philadelphia “Let it burn”: Osage Avenue, Philadelphia, May 13, 1985 By the time Lt. Frank Powell hurled a satchel bomb onto the roof of a three-story row house on Philadelphia’s Osage Avenue, the siege had gone on for nearly twelve hours. Powell was […]

Tuesday, May 12, 2015 Support Your Local Private Peace Officer: He Has A Dangerous Job Peace Officer Down: The aftermath of the fatal shooting of Alvin Kinney in Houston. At the end of every shift, police officers call their loved ones to assure them that they “made it through another day without injury,” observes a […]

Monday, May 18, 2015 Pity the Poor Stormtroopers: Baby Bou-Bou Ambushed Them (Updated, May 21) The truth in black and white — but don’t believe it: Sheriff Joey insists that this is the face of a criminal. (See the update at the bottom of the essay, or click here.) It was the baby’s fault that […]

Friday, May 22, 2015 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: None Are Safe from the State’s Plundering Parasites All aboard Amtrak — in Germany, circa 1938. (Still from “The Mortal Storm.”) “Is anyone present carrying more than ten marks, or planning to take out of the country any foreign money, gold, jewels, or other valuables?” demanded the […]

Monday, June 15, 2015 The Trouble with Kids Today: Too Much Deference to “Authority,” Too Little Respect for Property Staking his claim: A state-authorized dispenser of violence asserts ownership of a Mundane. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is least in danger and fix its approval on […]

Thursday, June 18, 2015 Ain’t That Amerika: Routine State Terrorism in the Imperial Capital “Officer Safety” uber alles, you know. The eleven-year-old girl shrieked in horror as the shower curtain was ripped away, leaving her exposed to the view of a large male stranger. Her sense of  violation was compounded by the threat of immediate, […]