Will Saudi Arabia Bail Out Bush Again? The unspoken – or at least rarely spoken – consensus of establishment scholars holds that presidential “greatness” is made manifest in an aggressive disdain for the Constitution. The “great” men who dominate the presidential pantheon — tyrants and usurpers like Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR — ignored the constitutional […]

Perverts With Power, Revisited Doug Melvin: Sexual deviant, former Homeland Security commissar — or do I repeat myself? For those frequently sentenced to commercial air travel, few things are less welcome than the following thought: The taxpayer-fed Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at the airport security checkpoint could be a petty thief or a sexual deviant. […]

The Scum Also Rises Those are supposed to go on beneath your slacks, idiot.Sewage, like water, seeks its own level. A suitable illustration of this principle is found in the recent agreement between the Homeland Security Department’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division and Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County. Doubtless there are many […]

National ID: Wearing the State’s Brand Rudy Giuliani — the Stasi Years? Not quite: It’s Capt. Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe) of the East German Ministry for State Security in the recent film “The Lives of Others.”Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle […]

Confronting the Latter-Day Reich: When Insubordination is a Moral Duty This was a man: Helmuth Hubner was executed on October 27, 1942, at the age of 16, by the Hitler regime. His “crime” — for which he was excommunicated from the Mormon Church — was circulating anti-Reich leaflets with the help of two young friends.One […]

The Right to Resist John Coffin heard his wife Cynthia screaming. After racing to the garage, he saw her prone, agonized form pinned to the floor by two armed strangers who had violated the sanctity of his home. Despite the fact that he was an unarmed, 55-year-old heart patient, Coffin did the right thing: He […]

The Terrorists Among Us “If it were up to me, I’d line ’em all up against a wall and shoot them.”Such was the sentiment expressed by one of Richard Yancey’s supervisors during his brief and robustly unpleasant stint as a collection officer for the Internal Revenue Service. Yancey has recounted his experiences in exquisitely revolting […]