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A School Shooting: Pull Out the Old Scripts

by | Feb 15, 2018 |

Last night I went to bed after watching a couple of hours of coverage on various networks about the horrific school massacre in Florida.  This morning I got up at 4:45 and began watching more coverage. When retiring last night, I mentioned to my wife that it was...

Time for a New Works Progress Administration

by | Feb 14, 2018 |

My fellow libertarians will become hysterical with this commentary and send me to the intellectual gulag.  Conservatives and liberals will join hands with them. Why?  Because they won’t like my alternative to Trump’s plan to rebuild America’s infrastructure. Instead...

A Surreal Scene from American Healthcare

by | Feb 6, 2018 |

Scene:  A luncheon on Superbowl weekend at a resort in the foothills of the Catalina Mountains in metro Tucson, Ariz.  In attendance were about 200 patients of a local family physician, who hosted the luncheon to show his appreciation to his patients. I’m not...

Torture by Smartphone

by | Nov 8, 2017 |

A museum in Paris features torture devices used in the middle ages, such as the rack. Centuries from now, a torture museum of the 21st century will feature smartphones as the most popular torture device of the times. My latest torture by smartphone began with the...

An Environmentalist Applauds Trump

by | Jun 2, 2017 |

Twenty-five years ago I founded and headed a large and influential environmental grassroots group in metro New York. One of my biggest challenges was to keep my board of directors and rank-and-file from embellishing, exaggerating and distorting the facts in the heat...

Thou Shalt Not Commit Acts of Unlicensed Charity

by | Feb 13, 2017 |

In keeping with the unofficial but universally enforced government mandate to obstruct human progress and cultivate misery, the Arizona State Government’s Board of Cosmetology is investigating a complaint against a cosmetology student from Tucson who has been giving...

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F35 Fat Amy Follies: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Two Trillion Dollars... Pretty soon, we're talking real money. So we put this in perspective: Two trillion U.S. dollars in $100 notes would be 1,356 miles high. If they were one dollar bills, it would be 135,600 miles high (the moon is 238,900 miles from Earth)....

New Hampshire GOP Adds ‘Defend the Guard’ to Party Platform

With a resounding "Aye," Defend the Guard was made an official part of the New Hampshire Republican Party platform. On Saturday, April 13, the New Hampshire GOP held a meeting to vote on platform amendments. Among the list of proposals was the following text: "Demand...

Failure Follies: The US Navy Continues the Race to the Bottom

The collapse of western martial civilization is sticking to its schedule. The Wasp class LHD, USS Boxer, has suffered yet another engineering casualty. On this, the Navy delivers with a spectacularly consistent track record of failure with the Little Crappy Ships, the...

More on Immigration and Public Property

Inspired by scholar Simon Guenzl, it occurred to me that regarding "state-claimed" so-called public property, people have been wronged not primarily as taxpayers but as potential homesteaders. (See Guenzl's "Public Property and the Libertarian Immigration...

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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

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Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

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