Friday, November 16, 2012 Boise’s Proposed Thoughtcrime Ordinance “Law is concerned with external behavior and not the inner life of man.” — Justice Felix Frankfurter, West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (dissent) Ordinance O-36-12, a proposed municipal “anti-discrimination” measure being considered by the Boise City Council, would do nothing to protect people from acts […]

Monday, November 26, 2012 Predators with Impunity (Update, December 4) If resisting arrest is a crime, does a woman have the right to resist a sexual assault by a police officer? Last May 5th, Magdelena Mol, a young wife and mother from Burbank, Illinois, went to a nearby village called Justice to visit a friend. […]

Friday, March 16, 2012 Meet Officer Michael Reichert: Professional Liar, Pride of the Collinsville PD A liar at work: Officer Michael Reichert (back to camera) harasses Terrance Huff. “Cops lie. Most of them lie a couple of times per shift, at least.” This assessment was offered not by an embittered critic of the police, but […]

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 Michael Reichert and the Road Pirates of Collinsville, Illinois Professional liar Michael Reichert describes how he plants drug evidence in “training” exercises. Michael Reichert is a professional liar and, therefore, a decorated police officer with the Collinsville, Illinois Police Department. Thanks to a video of a recent deposition, Reichert may become […]

Tuesday, December 11, 2012 “Damned from Memory”: When the Drug War Turns on its Own   John McLaughlin, known to his friends as “Sparky,” was a True Believer in the War on Drugs. He was convinced that his work as an agent of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement (BNI) was protecting innocent people from […]

Friday, December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Massacre: Sympathy from the Devil “They had their entire lives ahead of them — birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own,” intoned the murderer of 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki as he began the liturgy of official mourning for the victims of the Newtown massacre.  Every time children die in an […]

Thursday, December 20, 2012 Scratch a “Liberal,” find a Fascist: The Case of Barbara Boxer Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer of California, a bottomless fountain of foolishness, has proposed a measure that would permit governors to deploy National Guard troops to provide “security” at government-run schools.  “Is it not part of the national defense to make […]

Thursday, December 27, 2012 Prosecution as Persecution: The Carol Asher Case  “Hi, my name is Larry Wasden,” explained the short, stocky man, flashing a politician’s practiced smile and extending a hand. “I’m the Attorney General.” “Mr. Wasden, my name is Will Grigg,” I replied, shaking his hand. “Several years ago you tried to put a […]

Saturday, December 29, 2012 Sandy Hook and Pre-emptive Civilian Disarmament Civilian disarmament advocates insist that the Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre illustrates the dangers of inadequately restrictive firearms laws. That assumption is impossible to reconcile with the fact that Connecticut’s state government regards individual firearms ownership not as a right but as a highly conditional […]

Monday, December 31, 2012 Jerrold Nadler, Gun-Grabbing Leninist A victim of “Legitimate” Federal Violence at Wounded Knee.   When the “heroic” (and much-decorated) Seventh Cavalry slaughtered hundreds of starving, freezing Indians at Wounded Knee Creek in December 1890, the perpetrators of that massacre weren’t committing an atrocity. Instead, they were exercising what New York Congressman […]

Wednesday, January 5, 2011 From Terrorist Bagman to Homeland Security Overlord: The Curious Career of Peter King There’s only two things wrong with him — his face: Congressman Peter “Janus” King In the person of Congressman Peter King (R-New York), the incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, the abstraction called “hypocrisy” has acquired […]

Monday, January 10, 2011 The Cult of Sanctified Violence A Mundane kneels  before a royal carriage bearing the Sanctified Personage of the Killer-in-Chief. Force — Force to the utmost; Force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant Force which shall make Right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down in […]

Monday, January 17, 2011 Who Gave You Permission to Notice? Bizarre totem: Jared Loughner’s notorious skull altar.  Among the “warning signs” of  Jared Loughner’s derangement, Time magazine instructs us, was his criticism of Federal Reserve Notes as “worthless.” According to the custodians of acceptable opinion, this isn’t a rational assessment of the intrinsic value of […]

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 About that “War on Cops”…. The War on the Streets: This is Miami, not Mogadishu. What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive?…. The [Security] Organs would very quickly have suffered […]

Monday, January 31, 2011 Saviors in Uniform? (Updated, 2/2) “The Army and the People Are One!” Don’t count on it. “The army is all good men but the police, every policeman is bad,” explained Egyptian demonstrator Mustafa Abdel Wahab to Time magazine. Mr. Wahab is as tragically mistaken in the first assessment as he is […]

Monday, February 7, 2011 Ave, Imperium! Officer Dianobol, I presume? Yes, this pic (from the 2010 Super Bowl) just screams “Freedom!”  Superbowl Sunday, the High Holy Day of our de facto state religion, has become such a brobdingnagian spectacle of militarist self-worship that Leni Riefenstahl would probably find the proceedings a bit excessive. The Caligulan […]

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Let’s Play “Name That Arab Despotism”! There is a large and powerful Arab state ruled by a Soviet-trained military dictator. The figure he has chosen as a successor, the head of the secret police, was also trained in the Soviet Union, and the apparatus of terror and repression he supervises was […]

Friday, January 21, 2011 Fewer Snouts in the Trough, Less Crime in the Streets Officer Roid Rage: New Jersey tax victims footed the bill for this poser’s hormonal enhancements.  “What happens when you lay off nearly half of the police in one of the most dangerous cities in America?” begins a recent account of personnel […]

Monday, February 14, 2011 “Don’t Resist”: The Refrain of Rapists, Police, and Other Degenerates A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothes and wounded him…. Now by chance three men — a priest, a Levite, and a Samaritan — came down that same road, […]

Sunday, February 27, 2011 The War Party’s Atrocity Porn “This is a massacre,” the frantic Libyan woman, speaking by telephone while cowering in her apartment in Tripoli, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I hope you know that people around the world are watching and praying and wanting to do something,” Anderson told her, as if he […]