Tuesday, March 25, 2008 The Rights and Wrongs of Reverend Wright “There is a purely civil profession of faith of which the sovereign should fix the articles, not exactly as religious dogmas, but as social sentiments without which a man cannot be a good citizen or a faithful subject. While it can compel no one […]

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 The Palace Prophets A King’s fatal folly: Assured by his palace prophets that his sneak attack on Ramoth-Gilead would succeed, Ahab, ruler of Israel, leads both his army and Jehosaphat’s army of Judah to a crushing defeat. (See the editorial note at the bottom of this essay.) A wary and uneasy […]

Thursday, July 24, 2008 Abetting Police Aggression: The “COPS Effect” Publicly funded poseurs: The tax-funded cast of the “reality” TV program Dallas SWAT, who — unlike other television performers — have official permission to shoot some of their co-stars. They really didn’t have to wreck the house, but they did it anyway.There was no tactical […]

Sunday, July 27, 2008 The Big Bailout: America as a Full-Spectrum Kleptocracy Where this is headed: Eventually the thieves will turn on each other. In fact, it’s happening right now. Its name somewhat anachronistically means “assembly of old men.” George Washington famously — and, it must now be admitted, with excessive optimism — characterized it […]

Monday, January 7, 2008 Dhimmi Shelter (UPDATED) You think I want to send my teen-age son to die for Kuwait? We have our white slaves from America to do that. — Unnamed “Senior Gulf Official,” quoted in the pro-war Wall Street Journal prior to the first Gulf WarIn clarifying his candid remark that U.S. troops […]

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Servile Nation Time to even things up: Advocates of universal enslavement are planning to hold a “National Service Summit” in New York City this September. In anticipation of the advent of St. Barack’s Millennial Kingdom, advocates of state-mandated “service” will push for enactment of legislation requiring all 18-26 year olds waste […]

Friday, August 1, 2008 Police Impersonators: Never There When You Need One Hey, you sure you’re safe there, Bubba? Dibor Roberts, a 48-year-old, 120-pound naturalized citizen from Senegal, is led into a courthouse in a Yavapai County, Arizona jail to talk to the press. She is shackled, both hands and feet, because she supposedly “assaulted” […]

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 Pre-Crime and Pre-emptive Civilian Disarmament Why wait for a crime? Raiders from the Department of Pre-Crime in the film Minority Report carry out a pre-emptive strike in the name of public order. No portents of violent tragedy were apparent when Matthew Beck arrived for work at the Connecticut Lottery Corporation the […]