Friday, June 27, 2008 The Heller Misdirection Freedom! Glorious freedom! A young American celebrates the freedom to pee under the kindly gaze of one of our nation’s many fine paramilitary police officers. “A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master, who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not […]

Friday, July 4, 2008 Happy Insurrection Day! Our Glorious Insurrectionary Heritage:Minutemen gun down soldiers of the Empire, April 19, 1775. Sic semper tyrannis!It has often been said that if voting actually changed things, it would be illegal. In much the same sense it could be said that if the genuine meaning of the event commemorated […]

Thursday, July 10, 2008 When Patriotism Becomes a Cult The State uber alles: Roman patriarch Horace offers his sons as a sacrifice for the State, as rendered by18th Century revolutionary French artist Jacques-Louis David. The heroic, stiff-armed pose offered by the sons was to become a salute favored by totalitarians of various hues. “Patriotism is […]

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 It Begins Saddled up and not sparing the whip: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”If they’re hungry, they can eat grass, or their own dung, for all I care.” –Andrew J. Myrick, a trader affiliated with the notorious mid-19th Century “Indian Ring,” responding to complaints from Sioux that they were starving […]

Thursday, July 17, 2008 Women And Children Last Compelling confirmation that we’re in the early phase of a world-historic economic collapse can be found in this fact: Our rulers are moving quickly to redistribute blame for the disaster from those who precipitated it to those who are seeking to protect themselves from it. In the […]

Saturday, July 19, 2008 The Economic Show Trials Begin The inverted pyramid of corporate socialism: The wealthiest are subsidized, through inflation, by those who can least afford it. Could it be that our ruling elite has effectively transcended hypocrisy? As the aphorism informs us, hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue; it is […]

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 The Rights and Wrongs of Reverend Wright “There is a purely civil profession of faith of which the sovereign should fix the articles, not exactly as religious dogmas, but as social sentiments without which a man cannot be a good citizen or a faithful subject. While it can compel no one […]

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 The Palace Prophets A King’s fatal folly: Assured by his palace prophets that his sneak attack on Ramoth-Gilead would succeed, Ahab, ruler of Israel, leads both his army and Jehosaphat’s army of Judah to a crushing defeat. (See the editorial note at the bottom of this essay.) A wary and uneasy […]