Thursday, February 18, 2010 Who’s Afraid of “Interposition”? Those who are mystified by the political concept called “interposition” can find a very compelling tutorial in a vignette from Larry McMurtry’s novel Lonesome Dove.Led by former Texas Rangers Augustus McRae and Woodrow Call, the men of the Hat Creek Cattle Company left their village of Lonesome […]

Monday, February 22, 2010 Tyrants, Torturers, and Taxmen: Pillars of “Civilization” Not a scene from a movie: Stormtroopers assault a legitimate, lawful business in Las Vegas at the behest of the criminal terror syndicate called the Internal Revenue Service. Maxwell Smart (referring to various implements of torture): Are you sure KAOS has all these devices?CONTROL […]

Thursday, February 25, 2010 Sheep-Shearing Season on the Revenue Ranch During the most recent Federal Reserve-engineered economic bubble, state and local governments made extravagant promises to their tax-feeder constituencies regarding pensions and other benefits. Now that the bubble has burst, sales and property taxes — once a mighty, roaring river of revenue — have been […]

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Grand Distractions Eeek, a Nazi: Somehow people like Paul Mullet (yes, that is his actual name) don’t leave me palsied with terror. “… it will never be known what acts of cowardice have been motivated by fear of looking insufficiently progressive.” — Charles PeguyIf I were seeking to unload a piece […]

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Czars to Serfs: Pay Up and Shut Up “A Peasant Leaving His Landlord on Yuri’s Day,” by Sergei V. Ivanov. A wealth of unnecessary and petty [regulations] here engenders a whole army of clerks, each of whom carries out his task with a degree of pedantry and inflexibility, and a self-important […]

Sunday, March 14, 2010 Animal Farm in Atlanta (Photo used for illustrative purposes only.)[Civilized peace among people requires] that each man shall do, towards every other, all that justice requires him to do: as, for example, that he shall pay his debts, that he shall return borrowed or stolen property to its owner, and that […]

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Career Opportunities in the Torture State (UPDATE) Astonished and terrified by an unexpected reversal of fortune, three thugs formerly employed by the Gotham City crime boss Gambol suddenly find themselves kneeling on the floor with guns pressed to their heads. The lifeless body of their erstwhile employer is a bloody heap […]

Monday, March 22, 2010 Dr. Leviathan Will See You Now I’m tempted to say that someone should have the strength of her convictions.”I observe a benevolent feeling here…. There is also tenderness…. But, beware, tender hearts! Don’t you know where tenderness leads? To the gas chambers….Never in the history of the world have there been […]