Friday, August 5, 2016 Mundane Lives Don’t Matter, So Don’t Try to Exercise Your Rights (UPDATED October 4) See update below.  In every encounter between a police officer and a citizen, only one life matters to the former – and it isn’t the latter.  “Follow the commands of a police officer or risk dying,” snarled […]

Sunday, July 24, 2016 The Right to Resist and the Vindication of Julius Holmes Julius Holmes was in his Macon, Georgia apartment cooking dinner when Officer Rogers arrived to arrest him.  “I’ll be damned if you will,” Holmes hissed, making a furtive move toward a handgun he had placed on a nearby bed.  Miraculously, Holmes […]

Tuesday, July 19, 2016 We Have a “Duty” to Submit; They Have No Duty to Protect “Somebody is going to die tonight,” a visibly agitated Anthony Lord told a close friend on July 16, 2015. Lord, a resident of Benedicta, Maine, was a registered sex offender who displayed symptoms of violent derangement. His anger had […]

Sunday, July 10, 2016 Seek Ye First the Protection of Property Rights…. When Screwtape, depicted by C.S. Lewis as a mid-level administrator in hell’s Lowerarchy, gloated that “Prosperity knits a man to this world,” he might well have been thinking of tax-exempt religious corporations.  The “Utah Compromise” on religious liberty, which was enacted with the […]

Wednesday, July 6, 2016 Too Big to Jail: Amanda Marshall, Hillary’s Oregon Avatar “I love the law,” lied Amanda Marshall, who actually just loved putting people in cages. As we were recently reminded, lying to federal investigators is a monumentally serious criminal offense, except when it isn’t. While the language of the relevant statute is […]

Monday, June 27, 2016 Bill Keebler and the FBI’s Entrapment Elves Keebler hunting coyotes. Who is William Keebler, that the Regime’s secret police took such an interest in him? A resident of minuscule Stockton, Utah (population circa 700), Keebler, 57, earned a modest measure of media attention five years ago when he was profiled in […]

Tuesday, June 21, 2016 Eco-Leviathan Rangeland Management: Lock It Up, Burn It Down — Then Blame the Ranchers When one says of Don Barnhill that a given challenge confronting him is “not his first rodeo,” the expression is not a wearisome cliché. Rodeo championships figure prominently in Barnhill’s life, which is cluttered with enviable achievements.  […]

Thursday, June 9, 2016 The Peacemaker and the Psychopath The Psycho (Love) is on the left; Peacekeeper Dave Bundy is in the center. Dave Bundy was working on his home in Delta, Utah, when a caravan of at least 20 federal vehicles invaded his property last March. The vehicles decanted a platoon of FBI personnel, […]

Saturday, June 4, 2016 The “Hate Crimes” Lure Shortly before dawn on April 30, Steve Nelson was robbed and fatally beaten by three assailants at near Lake Lowell in Canyon County, Idaho. Nelson had contacted Kelly Bryan Schnieder, who has admitted his role in the attack, through the “male escort” section of the “Backpage” social […]

Thursday, May 26, 2016 The Leo Soell Doctrine: Palpable Punishment for Intangible “Harm” Two Democratic congressmen, always seeking madder music, stronger wine, and new ways to punish people for holding opinions they despise, have introduced a bill they call the  “Do No Harm Act.” The purpose of that measure is to abolish the religious liberty […]