Fencing Us In, Not Keeping “Them” Out To say that Congress’s vote to erect 700 miles of “secure” fencing along the southern U.S. border is an “empty” gesture is a felonious act of understatement. It is barren of any meaning save cynical political opportunism: The fence offers politicians on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border […]

Cultists, Counterfeiters, and Cop-Outs Bush’s Conservative Critics are HELPING THE TERRORISTS!Isn’t it fun to see a mind-wiped cult adherent get caught in the coils of a cult conundrum?Last month, the Bush White House convened an off-the-record meeting with the GOP’s chief herd-poisoners: Talk radio personalities Mike Gallagher, Neil Boortz, Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved, and Sean […]

Habeas Corpus Delicti corpus de-LIC-ti (n) — The material evidence in a homicide, such as the discovered corpse of a murder victim, showing that a crime has been committed; a corpse.“This is not a time of rebellion,” points out John D. Hutson, dean of the Franklin Pierce Law School in New Hampshire and former judge […]

The Romney Candidacy, or Will The Saints Go Marching In? (Part 1 of 2) For the Republican Party, particularly the Christian Right (or what I have come to call the “Ecclesio-Leninist” faction), the chief objective of modern politics is to preserve and expand executive power in order to continue the war against “Islamo-Fascism” — and […]

The Romney Candidacy, or Will The Saints Go Marching In? (part 2) Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has attracted predictable support from his fellow Mormons, including critical covert help from the upper echelons of the Mormon leadership in Salt Lake City. What is somewhat surprising is the help Romney is receiving from Evangelical Christians, who historically […]

Rented Thugs What stuck in the minds of these men who had become murderers was simply the notion of being involved in something historic, grandiose, unique (“a great task that occurs once in two thousand years”), which must therefore be difficult to bear. This was important, because the murderers were not sadists or killers by […]

There Go De Judge? Let’s Hope So A little more than a week from now, if Jesus tarries* and Utah voters are wise, Judge Leslie Lewis will be out of a job. Utterly devoid of judicial temperament or corresponding intellectual endowments, Lewis, who has afflicted the state’s 3rd District Court for several years, has been […]

Jihadi, or “Jackass”? Either Way, the Joke’s On Us What if Adam Gadahn, rather than engaging in treason or sedition, is simply involved in an elaborate “Jackass” stunt?Some people inclined to recreational self-destruction put leeches in their eyes, or commit self-lacerating acts of mayhem with heavy machinery. Perhaps Gadahn’s conversion to radical Islam, and his […]