Incremental Civilian Disarmament: Strip-Tease of the Liberties A gun in the wrong hands: Chuck Schumer, seen here compensating for some hidden shortcoming (but not for all of his obvious ones).“When the NRA and I agree on legislation,” oozed the incarnate glob of viscous evil known as Senator Chuck Schumer, “you know that it’s going to […]

Siege in New Hampshire: Operation “This Will End Badly” Is Well Underway Quick, call the ADL: A skinhead carrying an assault weapon has been spotted outside the home of a peaceful New Hampshire couple!Ed and Elaine Brown, middle-aged residents of Plainfield, New Hampshire who have never done any material harm to any living being, are […]

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 […]