Wednesday, August 1, 2012 The Police: Useless, but not Harmless Lying motto: “To Protect with Courage; to Serve with Compassion” The bad news for Rafael Lopez was that the 27-year-old Iraq war veteran had been robbed and severely beaten by a gang of at least 10 men on the street outside the Aqua nightclub in […]

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Your “Duty” To Protect and Serve the Police Police converge on Cullen Multrie’s home, April 2012   Police have no enforceable duty to protect an individual threatened by criminal violence. A lawsuit recently filed in New Hampshire demonstrates that police are taught to assume that citizens have a moral and legal […]

Thursday, August 16, 2012 “The Threat of Authority”  The evils of obedience: Louise Ogborn is abused on the orders of “Officer Scott” Skepticism, Santayana observed, is “the chastity of the intellect.” In similar fashion, resistance – not compliance – is the default response of a free person to a directive issued by someone acting in […]

Tuesday, August 21, 2012 “This Isn’t America” — You Can’t Say That Here Brandon Raub is abducted, August 16, 2012 Martha Dodd wasn’t particularly happy when her father was appointed U.S. ambassador to Germany in 1933. When the family arrived in Berlin, Martha found the city irresistibly fascinating, and she immersed the tour guide in […]

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 Ruby Ridge: The Age of State Terrorism Begins Enemies of the State: Samuel and Vicki Weaver (left and rear-center) pose with Sara and Rachel.   Sara Weaver has forgiven the people responsible for murdering her mother Vicki and younger brother Samuel twenty years ago. Lon Horiuchi, the FBI sniper who shot […]

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 The Triumph of the Reich-Publican Party “There’s nothing American about what just happened,” protested Nevada Republican delegate Wiselot Rouzard after the convention refused to seat the delegation from Maine. “This is the death of the Republican Party.” What Wiselot and fellow Ron Paul delegates had experienced was a memorable display of […]

Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Living in Amerika Not a scene from “Red Dawn”: Local police in Ahaheim, California. When he gazes into the mirror, Lubbock County Judge Tom Head apparently sees the Lone Star State’s equivalent of the Roman military hero Horatius, or perhaps Wang Weilin, the “Tank Man” of Tiananmen Square.  During a recent […]

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Of Bidens and Bikers: Does Anybody Remember Derek Hale? A fragment of folk wisdom dubiously attributed to Bismack informs us that God watches out for “fools, small children, and the United States of America.” During a campaign stop in Seaman, Ohio, Joe Biden’s proprietary blend of foolishness and childishness may have […]