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 […]

Saturday, September 15, 2012 Rand Paul, Meet Timon of Athens Another triumph courtesy of Washington’s Foreign Aid Program. Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul is flogging what he considers to be a brilliant idea: He suggests that the federal government should take “half of the $4 billion that we’re squandering” on foreign aid “to people who […]

Monday, September 17, 2012 If This is “Christian Patriotism”….  Bob Revere is the Mayor of Mount Columbus, a one-stoplight town in the Rocky Mountains. As a young man, Bob fought in the Vietnam War. He was proud to see his only son, Tom, enlist in the Army, but ambivalent when the 20-year-old was sent to […]

Thursday, September 20, 2012 “Sovereign Citizens” and Government’s Monopoly on Crime Police close in on Jerry and Joseph Kane, May 20, 2012 Robert Paudert refers to May 20, 2010 – the day his son Brandon was killed — as the “worst day of my life, ever.” Given that losing a child is the worst thing […]

Friday, April 27, 2012 Officer Regina Tasca Goes “Rogue” A peace officer on duty: Regina Tasca intervenes to stop a criminal assault. Regina Tasca is a “rogue cop” – and God bless her for it.  Tasca is in the middle of disciplinary hearings that may result in her termination from the Bogota, New Jersey Police […]