Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Obamacare Begins — In Idaho When the Regime sets prices, this is called “applied compassion.” When producers organize to complain about price controls, and then freely decide not to offer their services at the artificially low price, this is called “a criminal conspiracy to fix prices.” This is the central claim […]

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Tortured by Self-Pity: The Sociopathic Judge Jay Bybee The pious torturer: Jay Bybee, with his family and then-AG John Ashcroft. Of those in the dock at the Nuremberg War Tribunal, Franz Schlegelberger was considered the most sympathetic, writes historian Doug Linder. In fact, he was the model for the character of […]

Friday, July 23, 2010 The Regime’s War on Food (Updated, July 25) Enemies of food fascism: Max Kane (left) and Canadian dairy farmer Michael Schmidt Many thousands of years ago, two men came across a dairy cow, a beast neither had previously beheld.  One of them, seeking to impress the other, pointed to the creature’s […]

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 The Plunderbund’s Persecution of Phil Hart (Good News Update, July 30) See the update below. The memory of man runs not to a time when an elected representative faced an ethics inquiry over official actions involving the theft and redistribution of the property of other people.  By way of illustration, consider […]

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Presidential Dictatorship: Not Thinking Things Through He sees the flaw in your logic: Lucius Fox Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare […]

Friday, August 6, 2010 Shadows and Foreshadowing at Nagasaki Atomic shadows at Nagasaki          When U.S. Secretary of War William Howard Taft arrived in Nagasaki Harbor on July 31, 1905, he and the huge imperial retinue about the SS Manchuria were given a rapturous welcome.  As the ship departed that evening, notes James Bradley in […]

Thursday, August 12, 2010 The War Party’s New Torchlight Parade Contrived Controversy: Protesting the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.” The most powerful patron of radical Islam is not Iran, Iraq, or Saudi Arabia. It is the government headquartered in Washington, D.C., which for more than a half-century has diligently cultivated Islamic terrorism. Yet millions of Americans […]

Monday, January 25, 2010 Debt and Debtor, or When Timmy Met Benny Sure, they’re intellectually stunted, sartorially handicapped, and stranded in perpetual adolescence, but their grasp of economics rivals that of Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geithner: Dumb (Lloyd) and Dumber (Harry) live it up on money “borrowed” from a blackmailer. What is this? Where’s the […]