Tuesday, November 2, 2010 Slaughter as “Stimulus” Their Fascists, and Ours: Fuhrer, Il Duce, and FDR. Militarism is the one great glamor public-works project upon which a variety of elements in the community can be brought into agreement. —  John T. Flynn, As We Go Marching (1944) The Keynesian welfare state is best described as […]

Sunday, November 7, 2010 “We’re the Government — We’ll Catch You” Band of Brothers, or a band of robbers? U.S. troops in Afghanistan. There is …no human right, natural or Constitutional, that we have not seen nullified by the United States Government.  Of all the crimes that are committed for gain or revenge, there is […]

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 The War Party’s Jihad in Oklahoma A small but passionate segment of the population is sick with worry over the incalculably small possibility that Muslims may someday force their daughters to wear burqas, yet indifferent to the fact that those same daughters can’t board a commercial flight without being virtually strip-searched […]

Saturday, November 13, 2010 Daedalus Shrugged: The Mounting Resistance to the TSA’s Grope Gauntlet The function of any “security” checkpoint, as Richard Ben Cramer observes in his valuable book How Israel Lost, “is to show who’s boss.” “I know of one school headmaster, a dignified older man, who passed the same checkpoint every morning, and […]

Thursday, November 18, 2010 Practicing Airport Security Without A License Dude looks like a lady: Kristina Ross is a MAN, baby! My first question is this: How on earth did this person dream up the pseudonym “Berlyn Aussieahshowna”?My second question is: Why isn’t this person employed by the TSA? A few weeks ago police were […]

Monday, November 22, 2010 Stealing Camp Zoe: The Federal “Forfeiture” Gang Strikes Kids terrorized, dogs killed, a family traumatized: Welcome to Missouri. Mike Johnston’s first hint that something unusual was happening at Camp Zoe was the presence of four police officers at Tiffany Hall, the campground’s dining area. “I wondered if the police might be […]

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 From G-Men to Pig-Men: The FBI’s Stalinist Homeland Security Theater Paramilitary “Security Organs”: An FBI recruitment ad. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”  — George Orwell, Animal Farm […]

Monday, December 6, 2010 Take Pity on Goliath “Oh, it is excellent to have a Giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”  Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, II:2 How does one simultaneously swagger and simper? Is it possible for someone to beat his chest even as his lip quivers in self-pity? […]

Friday, December 10, 2010 “V” for Vigilante For months, Ada County Sheriff David Updyke had been investigating a secretive group of armed extremists living at the periphery of his southwest Idaho jurisdiction. When an informant provided him with a membership list of the armed band, Updyke wasted no time. He obtained arrest warrants, organized a […]

Wednesday, December 15, 2010 Coda to a Killing: No Justice for Derek Hale Derek with his wife, Elaine.   The practice of police “accountability” generally consists of using money stolen at gunpoint to buy off victims and survivors of officially sanctioned criminal violence. Few better examples can be found than the $975,000 settlement paid by […]