Friday, January 25, 2008 A Snitch In Time “You … agreed to become an informant for the government.” “Yes, sir.” “To do whatever they wanted you to do.” “Yes, sir. “To tell on whoever they wanted you to tell on.” “Yes, sir.” — Key exchange between defense attorney Leonard Goodman and Sherman Bell, a convicted […]

Monday, September 1, 2008 Idolatry and State-Sanctioned Murder (Updated, 9/2) (For reasons that should become obvious, the essay that follows is not intended to express the smallest particle of disrespect for the two people who figure most prominently therein.)”While it’s true that God commands us `Thou shalt not kill,'” explained the grandmother in a gentle, […]

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 Behold a Palin Horse Where do God and Family fit if “Country” — meaning the Government — comes first? Republican cultists perform on cue at the GOP convention.”`We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity, and dignity.’ I know just the kind of people that writer had in […]

Sunday, September 7, 2008 Washington’s Kleptocratic State: “More Communist Than China” (Illustration courtesy of I can haz bailout?)Bold architect of Amerika’s Brave New Socialist Order, Benjamin “Lenin” Bernanke: Socialism isn’t “dead,” it simply adapted. Unlike the Creator, Who rested from his labors on the seventh day, the architects of our kleptocratic State do their most […]

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Stormtroopin’ In the early morning hours there’s a din in the air; mayhem’s on the loose. Stormtroopers comin’, and you better be prepared. Got no time to choose…. Comin’ up that street, jackboots steppin’ high. Got to make a stand. Looking in your windows and listen to your phone. Keep a […]

Monday, September 15, 2008 The Denouement (Updated) Hail comrades well met: In this famous 1911 editorial cartoon, Karl Marx is rapturously greeted on Wall Street and taken to the bosom of Carnegie and Rockefeller. This tidily sums up the relationship between Wall Street corporate socialists and the non-housebroken Marxist revolutionaries who are their distant kin. […]

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Dispossession by Decree Don’t be so glum: The “common people” can’t count on an $85 billion lifeline from the Fed. We just get to pay for it. During the frontier period, when the government that afflicts us was still in its pupal stage and (therefore) most of North America remained relatively […]

Saturday, September 20, 2008 Entreating the Beast They really need to find a fresher angle: Jewish activists try on an already threadbare trope in a protest against Iranian figurehead Mahmoud Ahmadenijad. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad, we are insistently told by advocates of further military adventurism in the Persian Gulf region, is the most recent version […]

Sunday, September 21, 2008 The Triumvirate and the Plunderbund (Major Update, September 25) Ave, Triumvirate — the MMVIII version, in any case. “The risks of doing nothing far outweigh the risks of whatever it takes to disarm Saddam Hussein.”George W. Bush, February 10, 2003 (and several other occasions prior to the second Iraq war) “The […]

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Elmer Gantry Economics Fleecing the Faithful on behalf of the Fed: Gary Bauer, prophet of the plunderbund. A vast potential for infernal mischief can be found in some otherwise harmless adverbs. Let us examine the specific case of the seemingly inoffensive modifier “normally.”Incorrigible cynic that I am, I’ve long believed that […]