Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Santorum: State Murder as a “Moral Enterprise” “God did not just give us rights,” pontificated His High Holiness Rick Santorum during a January 17 campaign stop in Lexington, South Carolina. “He gave us a moral code by which to exercise them. See, that’s what Ron Paul sort of leaves out. He […]

Sunday, January 29, 2012 The Shadow of Claude Dallas  Senseless, lawless violence — government reduced to its essence: BLM employee C.J. Ross commits a felonious assault on Nevada property rights activist Ken Greenwell, in Palomino Valley, Nevada, November 13, 2001. Greenwell had staged a peaceful protest of the BLM’s theft of cattle belonging to rancher […]

Sunday, February 5, 2012 The Pseudo-Courage of Chris Kyle Chris Kyle as a Navy SEAL sniper in Fallujah, Iraq. That kind of courage, which is conspicuous in danger and enterprise, if devoid of justice, is absolutely undeserving of the name of valor. It should rather be considered as a brutal fierceness outraging every principle of […]

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 The Global Land Grab Retaliation: Peter Doan Van Vuon’s wife examines the rubble of their demolished home. In Vietnam, Peter Doan Van Vuon, a farmer who fought back when police came to confiscate his farm, is widely regarded as a hero. His neighbors have actually considered building a statue in his […]

Thursday, February 23, 2012 Officer Safety Uber Alles: The Coercion Cartel’s Prime Directive The Minnesota state legislature is debating a measure that would amplify that state’s “Castle Doctrine” by recognizing that innocent people have no “duty to retreat” in the face of criminal aggression.  This would expand existing legal protection for the defensive use of […]

Thursday, March 1, 2012 The “Uniformed Sexual Predator Deterrence Act”     Sarah Smith was driving to work when her car was sideswiped by a man on a motorcycle. Like many people in straitened financial circumstances, she had let her liability insurance lapse. To make matters worse, her driver’s license had expired. So she was […]

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 The Death-Dealing “Divinity” in the White House “I could be well moved, if I were as you But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament. The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks; They are all fire, and […]

Friday, March 23, 2012 Trayvon Martin and the Cult of Government Supremacy (Update, March 24; Second Update, March 28; Third Update, April 20; Fourth Update, May 17) Editorial note: There is a revised and expanded version of this essay at LewRockwell.com. Nineteen days before Trayvon Martin was gunned down by self-appointed block “captain” George Zimmerman, […]