Wednesday, January 14, 2009 The Bipartisan Homeland Security State For two years, Bart McIntyre was deeply involved in the insignificant, thinly populated white supremacist movement.Though it may be difficult to believe, this actually represented something of an improvement in McIntyre’s social circle, since his paying job was a position in one of our country’s most […]

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Limbaugh-Leninism The de facto Dear Leader of the Republican-centered conservative movement: Rush Limbaugh, seen here in front of a large portrait of the object of his greatest affection. “Kto kogo?””Who/whom,” or “Who does what to whom?” — the central question of politics, according to Vladimir Lenin.A nineteenth century pundit wearily observed […]

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Rubicon in the Rear-View, Pt. IV: The Chicago “Surge” Urban warfare, here and abroad: Marine CWO James Roussell (back row, third from left)supervises counter-insurgency warfare in Fallujah, Iraq; below, right, Roussell, a 30-year Chicago police officer, back on the streets of his hometown,where he heads a special gang unit designed to […]

Thursday, February 19, 2009 Turning “Mr. Hand” into “Mr. Fist” The embodiment of bureaucracy: Arthur Dent, left, and his alien friend Ford Prefect, are menaced by a representative of the Vogons, a slimy, officious, dull-witted race of interstellar “public servants,” in the film adaptation of Douglas Adams’s masterpiece The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The […]

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Set the Spin Cycle to “Race Agitate” Firefighter by day, arsonist by night: Attorney General Eric Holder,a man I liked a lot more three and a half decades ago when he played the heroic Dr. Bob Matthias on Space:1999 (below, right), appears determined to ignite racial conflicts the Regime can triumphantly […]

Friday, February 27, 2009 A “Reckoning” Amid the Wreckage Space Keynesianism: All hail the grand architects of our renewed prosperity, Ben Bernanke (nearest to the nosecone) and Tim Geithner (straddling a fin), who for some reason decided to bring along Henry Paulson (clinging to the underside of the rocket). “At this very moment, the President […]

Monday, March 2, 2009 Why Liberals Should Support the Right to Armed Self-Defense “[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.”– John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Chapter VII: Of Political or […]

Monday, March 9, 2009 The Martial Law Mind-Set Immortal scholar, noteworthy victim of lethal police brutality: The heroic Archimedes. While Archimedes is rightly revered for his many imperishable contributions to science, he could also be considered the first recorded victim of lethal police brutality. A native of Syracuse, Archimedes did his considerable best in the […]