Thursday, May 29, 2008 Martial Law on the Installment Plan Photo courtesy of Jim Bovard”I abominate and detest the idea of a government, where there is a standing army,” exclaimed the immortal George Mason, during his state’s constitutional ratifying convention of 1788.A a forceful and principled defender of individual liberty, Mason was the irritant in […]

Monday, June 2, 2008 The Child Snatchers Win (Updated) According to police in Austin, Texas, Billy Dan Carroll spent the better part of the past three decades assaulting and raping dozens of victims — from girls as young as two years of age to adult women whom he lured to his home and then drugged […]

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 “Tumult and Blood” (Updated, June 5) A troubled, and troubling, fellow: Former Denver police officer and accused sexual predator Joseph Bini.The arrest yesterday (Tuesday, June 3) of 39-year-old Denver resident Joseph Bini on charges of sexual assault and child sexual enticement is an unsavory coda to a really bad decade in […]

Friday, June 6, 2008 The Depraved Majesty of Totalitarian Democracy Is it Krushchev? Is it Lancelot Link’s nemesis, Baron von Butcher? No, it’s a little of both: It’s the Grand and Glorious Decider in full General Urko mode. After four Blackwater mercenaries were killed and their lifeless, butchered bodies publicly displayed by gleeful insurgents in […]

Monday, June 9, 2008 “Stimulus” Spending: Making The Dead Parrot Twitch Last week, published comments by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert regarding the likelihood of war between the U.S. and Iran caused the price of oil to surge to roughly $138 a barrel — and the Dow to shed nearly 400 points. It’s actually worse […]

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Have Pity For the Bullies Does she look like a teenager to you? If so, you’re qualified to work for the Texas CPS: Sarah, a 37-year-old (yes, that’s thirty-seven) “disputed minor” parent, embraces her beautiful daughter after the child was pried from the hands of her State-employed kidnappers. It still isn’t […]

Sunday, June 22, 2008 Martial Law: A License to Loot, a Permit to Plunder (Updated) Breaking and entering: Where does this fit under the heading “To protect and serve”? A paramilitary “strike team” commits a felonious break-in of a home in the flood-ravaged Midwest. Digging up the planted axioms that litter our ordinary conversations can […]