Treason Behold the face of a traitor: David Addington, Chief of Staff to Dick Cheney, who spoke of collaborating with terrorists in an assault on the United States Constitution. He deserves the long, lonely drop to the end of a hangman’s rope* — along with several others we should compel him to name. “Treason against […]

Jury Rights Day “How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today?” wrote Henry David Thoreau in 1849. “I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.”Thoreau’s assessment was inspired by his disgust over Washington’s war of aggression against Mexico, and — what was much the same thing — […]

UPDATED — Briefly Considered: Gen. Petraeus — US Security Not An “Objective” in Iraq [The following transcribed excerpts have been updated and corrected from the first version, thanks to a suggestion from a reader — WNG.]Senator John Warner: “[I]f we continue what you have laid before the Congress here as a strategy [to continue the […]

The Untouchables (Updated) Of course, what they don’t tell you is that “combative or resistant behavior” can include a word, glance, or momentary hesitation that a State-employed thug doesn’t like. I know little about the political views of the Rev. Lennox Yearwood of the “Hip Hop Caucus,” and I care even less. For all I […]

Briefly Considered: Scrimp and Save, Make Your Payments … And Lose Your Home Anyway We’re going to see a lot more of this: Iraq War vet Shawn Howell worked two jobs but still couldn’t keep up with his ARM payments and had to sell the house to avoid foreclosure. Thousands of families who made payments […]

I Can’t Stand Bullies, Revisited* Don’t you just love it when a soft-handed, soft-bodied, lisping, chinless neo-con nebbish like Thomas Friedman gets all butch?”We hit Iraq because we could,” concludes the Stone Cold Steve Austin of the New York Times op-ed page, who establishes his bad-ass bona fides by exclaiming, “Well, suck on this!”That defiant […]

The Kitty Genovese Effect: How The Regime Endures (Updated) By mid-April [1965], the Kitty Genovese story had taken hold and the nation began a lengthy period of analysis and self-deprecation. Why would civilized people turn away from another human being in dire need of assistance? As the details of the killing emerged, it became plain […]

“Liberation,” Then and Now A representative of the “Coalition of the Willing” confronts an ungrateful Iraqi.*(Warning: In the essay that follows there is one historically accurate vulgarism.)Oliver Otis Howard was, by most accounts, an earnest Christian and a genuinely decent man — in the conduct of his private affairs, in any case. Like too many […]

How The “War On Drugs” Brought Communism To America Alan and Stephne Roos of Bothell, Washington are victims of Communism. The couple — a butcher and dental assistant, respectively — lost their automobiles to the officially sanctioned form of theft called “asset forfeiture” because their 24-year-old son Thomas has used them to conduct drug transactions.Neither […]

Weimar Republicans “Patriots” from the pro-war group “A Gathering of Eagles” swarm anti-war demonstrator Carlos Arredondo, a Gold Star Father whose son, Lance Corporal Alexander S. Arredondo, USMC, was killed in Iraq. Carlos Arrendondo, a native of Costa Rica, wasn’t even a citizen of the United States when he learned on August 25, 2004, that […]