2015

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: None Are Safe from the State’s Plundering Parasites

Friday, May 22, 2015 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: None Are Safe from the State’s Plundering Parasites All aboard Amtrak — in Germany, circa 1938. (Still from “The Mortal Storm.”) “Is anyone present carrying more than ten marks, or planning to take out of the country any foreign money, gold, jewels, or other valuables?” demanded the […]

The Trouble with Kids Today: Too Much Deference to “Authority,” Too Little Respect for Property

Monday, June 15, 2015 The Trouble with Kids Today: Too Much Deference to “Authority,” Too Little Respect for Property Staking his claim: A state-authorized dispenser of violence asserts ownership of a Mundane. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is least in danger and fix its approval on […]

Ain’t That Amerika: Routine State Terrorism in the Imperial Capital

Thursday, June 18, 2015 Ain’t That Amerika: Routine State Terrorism in the Imperial Capital “Officer Safety” uber alles, you know. The eleven-year-old girl shrieked in horror as the shower curtain was ripped away, leaving her exposed to the view of a large male stranger. Her sense of  violation was compounded by the threat of immediate, […]

Heresies Against the Imperium

Friday, June 26, 2015 Heresies Against the Imperium Pontifex Maximus If Barack Obama is correct that white Americans are racist at a genetic level, shouldn’t this tendency be considered an inherent trait? Given the persistence of racism in the face of unremitting remedial action by government, should we regard it as an ineffaceable characteristic to […]

Administrative “Law” and the Tyranny of “Tolerance” (Update, July 18)

Monday, July 13, 2015 Administrative “Law” and the Tyranny of “Tolerance” (Update, July 18) In most jurisdictions, an entrepreneur could be prosecuted for posting this sign. See the update below. In a collectivist society, “offenses” aren’t defined by behavior, but rather by identity. This is compellingly illustrated by cases of Antonio Darden and Elaine Huguenin, […]

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