Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Rubicon in the Rear-View, Pt. IV: The Chicago “Surge” Urban warfare, here and abroad: Marine CWO James Roussell (back row, third from left)supervises counter-insurgency warfare in Fallujah, Iraq; below, right, Roussell, a 30-year Chicago police officer, back on the streets of his hometown,where he heads a special gang unit designed to […]

Thursday, February 19, 2009 Turning “Mr. Hand” into “Mr. Fist” The embodiment of bureaucracy: Arthur Dent, left, and his alien friend Ford Prefect, are menaced by a representative of the Vogons, a slimy, officious, dull-witted race of interstellar “public servants,” in the film adaptation of Douglas Adams’s masterpiece The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The […]

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Set the Spin Cycle to “Race Agitate” Firefighter by day, arsonist by night: Attorney General Eric Holder,a man I liked a lot more three and a half decades ago when he played the heroic Dr. Bob Matthias on Space:1999 (below, right), appears determined to ignite racial conflicts the Regime can triumphantly […]

Friday, February 27, 2009 A “Reckoning” Amid the Wreckage Space Keynesianism: All hail the grand architects of our renewed prosperity, Ben Bernanke (nearest to the nosecone) and Tim Geithner (straddling a fin), who for some reason decided to bring along Henry Paulson (clinging to the underside of the rocket). “At this very moment, the President […]

Monday, March 2, 2009 Why Liberals Should Support the Right to Armed Self-Defense “[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.”– John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Chapter VII: Of Political or […]

Monday, March 9, 2009 The Martial Law Mind-Set Immortal scholar, noteworthy victim of lethal police brutality: The heroic Archimedes. While Archimedes is rightly revered for his many imperishable contributions to science, he could also be considered the first recorded victim of lethal police brutality. A native of Syracuse, Archimedes did his considerable best in the […]

Thursday, March 12, 2009 Of Paper “Money” and “Paper” Terrorism Proving his antagonist’s point? Socrates insisted that justice was something other than the “advantage of the stronger” — yet he submitted to an unjust death sentence, thereby apparently validating the idea that citizens have a moral responsibility to submit to officially sanctioned injustice. “Justice is […]

Monday, March 16, 2009 Dismantling The Killer Elite Maintaining the pretense of authority: “Nothing to see here! Please disperse!” commands Frank Drebin, Lt. Detective, Police Squad — a special division of the police force. Sometimes the truth is best told through fictional allegory, especially when a dash of comedy is used to make the parables […]