The Real Drug War Kingpins Not a scene from a movie, or from the streets of Baghdad: “Police” — that is, Pentagon-equipped and federally-funded occupation troops — conduct a raid in Detroit. Mike Nifong’s career as the Torquemada of Raleigh, North Carolina is over, although the self-enraptured prosecutor couldn’t resist one final lachrymose moment in […]

Flesh For War Fantasies One significant problem with being an Empire: Everything is supposedly “our” business. To my considerable shame, I just realized that it had been a long time since I had thought of Angola. In fact, it occurs to me that I really don’t have a feeling toward that country one way or […]

Romney: Official Candidate of the War and Torture Party? Mitt Romney (right) stands with George W. Bush and International Olympic Chairman Jacques Rogge at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. “Paris is well worth a mass,” insisted Henry of Navarre as he underwent a politically motivated conversion to Catholicism that secured his throne […]

One Small Victory Over Leviathan The son of an FBI agent, Richard Mack attended the Bureau’s training academy and aspired to become a G-Man himself. When that career didn’t materialize, he ended up in Provo, Utah, the community made famous (after a fashion) in Fletch. It was the early 1980s; hair was big, ties were […]

Private Vices, Public Crimes Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property.Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, […]

10,000 Ways To Die “It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo […]

The Reign of the Bullies (IMPORTANT UPDATE; see bottom of page) Kevin Bearly became a Los Angeles policeman for an eminently commendable reason: An idealistic young man with a deep streak of Irish pugnacity, Kevin couldn’t countenance lawless bullies, and during his years on the LAPD he dealt with more than a few of them.A […]

Nothing’s Either Good or Bad — Unless the State Says So (Pt. 1) Hamlet: Denmark’s a prison. Rosencrantz Then is the world one. Hamlet A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o’ the worst. Rosencrantz We think not so, my lord. Hamlet Why then ’tis none to […]

Biden Gives His Blessing to Derek Hale’s Murderers Sgt. Derek Hale, in Iraq serving the Regime that would later murder him. Delaware’s Attorney General is Beau Biden, who issued from the loins of Senator Joseph Biden — serial plagiarist and democratic presidential aspirant. Beau Biden’s office is presently defending the ten-man police squad that murdered […]

Derek Hale’s Murderer Is Back On The Streets Lt. William Browne of the Wilmington, Delaware Police “did not violate police department policy or procedures” when he gunned down Derek Hale (left, in Iraq with a Marine buddy) on the front porch of a friend’s house last November 6. This was the long-anticipated and utterly predictable […]