“Nothing’s Either Good or Bad….” (pt.II): Some of the Missing “Family Jewels” “I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic, but I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun…. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, rape, and pillage with the sanction of the all-highest?” — Federal counter-narcotics […]

How I Spent My Sommerferien Liebe Mutter und Vater: This summer vacation has been the best ever! I’m so grateful to the local branch of the Heimatsicherheitsdienst for letting me attend the Junior Police Academy.Things are looking pretty tough for the economy, and I’m sure that by the time I graduate from High School jobs […]

Praying for a Terrorist Strike: The GOP’s Newest Political Strategy Nuclear terrorism: If it happens, it will be an answer to Republican prayers.Former Republican Senator Rick Santorum made the grand crusade against “Islamic fascism” the central focus of his unsuccessful 2006 re-election effort. On numerous occasions the preening Keystone State solon – who couldn’t glance […]

Too Short a Season: Derek Hale, Victim of the Homeland Security State, as Remembered by a Friend Sgt. Derek J. Hale, USMC, who was murdered by police in Wilmington, Delaware last November, was a “great kid — responsible; well mannered,” recalls a man who knew him as a child in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. “It’s a […]

Praetorian “Conservatism” “I took an oath to the president, and I take that oath very seriously.”This declaration was offered as a pious summation civic duty by former White House Political Director Sara Taylor. She stated this without irony or self-awareness. Clearly, she was someone who had been immersed in a culture of fuhrerprinzip, in which […]

Briefly Considered: A “Weimar Moment” Approaches “We are in danger of having … a Weimar moment in our politics. German politics was embittered disastrously by the belief that they were on the cusp of victory in 1918 and were stabbed in the back by the civilian leadership that didn’t understand Germany’s military prowess. There is […]

The Bubble Collapses, The Police State Expands (Quick Update) I want to thank Jerri Lynn Ward for inviting me on her program “I Object! Justice Examined” to discuss (along with Dr. Herb Titus) the right to keep and bear arms. Those interested in listening can hear the program on Right Talk radio; click on Miss […]

The Reich Wing: Bush-Era Conservatism as Reductio Ad Absurdum As the Iraq war ripens into the largest strategic catastrophe in our nation’s history, dead-enders among the Bu’ushist faithful confront a sobering question. No, that question is not how to extricate our nation from the Mesopotamian morass, but rather how to deal with internal dissent.It’s really […]

Your Next “Landlord” Will Speak Chinese Meet your future landlord: Thanks to the Federal Reserve and our own profligacy, Washington is looking to China to bail out the distressed mortgage industry. It takes a mind better attuned than mine to the arcane science of high finance to understand why the Dow briefly crested 14,000 today […]

Your Kids as Collateral: The Coming Blood-for-Debt Swap Feeding Molech: How it was done in ancient Israel (above), and how it is done today (below). To the surprise of no sentient being, our rulers have been deceiving us regarding their plans for the restive Mesopotamian province of their empire.General Petraeus, the military messiah du jour, […]