Monday, January 17, 2011 Who Gave You Permission to Notice? Bizarre totem: Jared Loughner’s notorious skull altar.  Among the “warning signs” of  Jared Loughner’s derangement, Time magazine instructs us, was his criticism of Federal Reserve Notes as “worthless.” According to the custodians of acceptable opinion, this isn’t a rational assessment of the intrinsic value of […]

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 About that “War on Cops”…. The War on the Streets: This is Miami, not Mogadishu. What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive?…. The [Security] Organs would very quickly have suffered […]

Monday, January 31, 2011 Saviors in Uniform? (Updated, 2/2) “The Army and the People Are One!” Don’t count on it. “The army is all good men but the police, every policeman is bad,” explained Egyptian demonstrator Mustafa Abdel Wahab to Time magazine. Mr. Wahab is as tragically mistaken in the first assessment as he is […]

Monday, February 7, 2011 Ave, Imperium! Officer Dianobol, I presume? Yes, this pic (from the 2010 Super Bowl) just screams “Freedom!”  Superbowl Sunday, the High Holy Day of our de facto state religion, has become such a brobdingnagian spectacle of militarist self-worship that Leni Riefenstahl would probably find the proceedings a bit excessive. The Caligulan […]

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Let’s Play “Name That Arab Despotism”! There is a large and powerful Arab state ruled by a Soviet-trained military dictator. The figure he has chosen as a successor, the head of the secret police, was also trained in the Soviet Union, and the apparatus of terror and repression he supervises was […]

Friday, January 21, 2011 Fewer Snouts in the Trough, Less Crime in the Streets Officer Roid Rage: New Jersey tax victims footed the bill for this poser’s hormonal enhancements.  “What happens when you lay off nearly half of the police in one of the most dangerous cities in America?” begins a recent account of personnel […]

Monday, February 14, 2011 “Don’t Resist”: The Refrain of Rapists, Police, and Other Degenerates A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothes and wounded him…. Now by chance three men — a priest, a Levite, and a Samaritan — came down that same road, […]

Sunday, February 27, 2011 The War Party’s Atrocity Porn “This is a massacre,” the frantic Libyan woman, speaking by telephone while cowering in her apartment in Tripoli, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I hope you know that people around the world are watching and praying and wanting to do something,” Anderson told her, as if he […]

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 They Call That Scam “Sharia” “I’ll break your back, and make you humble!” Tennessee state senator Bill Ketron insists that his proposed anti-Sharia measure (formally known as the “Material Support to Designated Entities Act”) is not intended to criminalize the peaceful practice of the Muslim religion. Instead, it would permit the […]

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Radicalizing the “Homeland” UPDATED, August 11, 2016 They make a cute couple, huh? Terrorist fundraiser-turned-Homeland Security Commissar Pete King poses with an unidentified unlawful combatant.   (See the update at the end of the essay.) “We’re talking about a radicalization in this country that is linked to an overseas enemy,” insists […]