Friday, August 6, 2010 Shadows and Foreshadowing at Nagasaki Atomic shadows at Nagasaki          When U.S. Secretary of War William Howard Taft arrived in Nagasaki Harbor on July 31, 1905, he and the huge imperial retinue about the SS Manchuria were given a rapturous welcome.  As the ship departed that evening, notes James Bradley in […]

Thursday, August 12, 2010 The War Party’s New Torchlight Parade Contrived Controversy: Protesting the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.” The most powerful patron of radical Islam is not Iran, Iraq, or Saudi Arabia. It is the government headquartered in Washington, D.C., which for more than a half-century has diligently cultivated Islamic terrorism. Yet millions of Americans […]

Monday, January 25, 2010 Debt and Debtor, or When Timmy Met Benny Sure, they’re intellectually stunted, sartorially handicapped, and stranded in perpetual adolescence, but their grasp of economics rivals that of Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geithner: Dumb (Lloyd) and Dumber (Harry) live it up on money “borrowed” from a blackmailer. What is this? Where’s the […]

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Of Motes, Beams, and Holy Wars  In his Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, James Madison famously denounced the proposal that Virginians — or, for that matter, Americans anywhere else — be compelled to pay so much as “three pence” to support the establishment of religion. A lawsuit filed in late […]

Sunday, August 22, 2010 Is the Muslim My Neighbor? “Pure Religion, and undefiled,” as practiced by an infidel: The Good Samaritan.   As violence raged through Gaza, Esther Najjar feared that her family — which included two young girls — would be the next target of the mob that had just firebombed the local Catholic […]

Friday, August 27, 2010 “Showtime Syndrome” Strikes Las Vegas Bryan Yant during his 2002 coroner’s inquest. “He made me do my job,” insisted Bryan Yant when asked to explain why he gunned down 21-year-old Las Vegas resident Trevon Cole last June in what was clearly an act of criminal homicide. Yant, who is employed by […]

Thursday, September 2, 2010 “Criminals With Badges”: Denver’s Militarized Police   “I been forced to write my own laws, and you violated one in there. I just have to find you guilty of contempt of cop.” Bumper Morgan, Joseph Wambaugh’s eponymous Blue Knight, justifying his brutal assault on a young man who had casually insulted […]

Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Gypsies, Tramps and Thugs Would-be murder weapon: Fred Ensminger’s pickup.  “This guy …  just tried to run my husband over!” exclaimed Arkansas  resident Cindy Nelson in a frantic  911 call on July 21. “Oh, my God — he’s shooting at us! Oh, my God!” A few minutes later, Fred Ensminger — […]

Saturday, September 11, 2010 Blowback, Provocation, and Perpetual War No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures, Dr. Johnson informs us. In a somewhat similar vein,  the Regime’s post-9/11 “counter-terrorism” stings have avoided the official fiction that Muslim terrorism is inspired by a hatred for our “freedom.” The preferred bait to lure marginalized Muslims — […]

Friday, September 17, 2010 Support Your Local Army of Occupation Boys and their toys: Members of the Malheur County (Oregon) SWAT team out having “fun.” “Wouldn’t it be great if it were like this all the time?” commented a pleasant middle-aged gentleman as the two of us contemplated the large gathering of armed men in […]