Thursday, July 10, 2008 When Patriotism Becomes a Cult The State uber alles: Roman patriarch Horace offers his sons as a sacrifice for the State, as rendered by18th Century revolutionary French artist Jacques-Louis David. The heroic, stiff-armed pose offered by the sons was to become a salute favored by totalitarians of various hues. “Patriotism is […]

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 It Begins Saddled up and not sparing the whip: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”If they’re hungry, they can eat grass, or their own dung, for all I care.” –Andrew J. Myrick, a trader affiliated with the notorious mid-19th Century “Indian Ring,” responding to complaints from Sioux that they were starving […]

Thursday, July 17, 2008 Women And Children Last Compelling confirmation that we’re in the early phase of a world-historic economic collapse can be found in this fact: Our rulers are moving quickly to redistribute blame for the disaster from those who precipitated it to those who are seeking to protect themselves from it. In the […]

Saturday, July 19, 2008 The Economic Show Trials Begin The inverted pyramid of corporate socialism: The wealthiest are subsidized, through inflation, by those who can least afford it. Could it be that our ruling elite has effectively transcended hypocrisy? As the aphorism informs us, hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue; it is […]

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 The Rights and Wrongs of Reverend Wright “There is a purely civil profession of faith of which the sovereign should fix the articles, not exactly as religious dogmas, but as social sentiments without which a man cannot be a good citizen or a faithful subject. While it can compel no one […]

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 The Palace Prophets A King’s fatal folly: Assured by his palace prophets that his sneak attack on Ramoth-Gilead would succeed, Ahab, ruler of Israel, leads both his army and Jehosaphat’s army of Judah to a crushing defeat. (See the editorial note at the bottom of this essay.) A wary and uneasy […]

Thursday, July 24, 2008 Abetting Police Aggression: The “COPS Effect” Publicly funded poseurs: The tax-funded cast of the “reality” TV program Dallas SWAT, who — unlike other television performers — have official permission to shoot some of their co-stars. They really didn’t have to wreck the house, but they did it anyway.There was no tactical […]

Sunday, July 27, 2008 The Big Bailout: America as a Full-Spectrum Kleptocracy Where this is headed: Eventually the thieves will turn on each other. In fact, it’s happening right now. Its name somewhat anachronistically means “assembly of old men.” George Washington famously — and, it must now be admitted, with excessive optimism — characterized it […]

Monday, January 7, 2008 Dhimmi Shelter (UPDATED) You think I want to send my teen-age son to die for Kuwait? We have our white slaves from America to do that. — Unnamed “Senior Gulf Official,” quoted in the pro-war Wall Street Journal prior to the first Gulf WarIn clarifying his candid remark that U.S. troops […]

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Servile Nation Time to even things up: Advocates of universal enslavement are planning to hold a “National Service Summit” in New York City this September. In anticipation of the advent of St. Barack’s Millennial Kingdom, advocates of state-mandated “service” will push for enactment of legislation requiring all 18-26 year olds waste […]