Monday, March 2, 2009 Why Liberals Should Support the Right to Armed Self-Defense “[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.”– John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Chapter VII: Of Political or […]

Monday, March 9, 2009 The Martial Law Mind-Set Immortal scholar, noteworthy victim of lethal police brutality: The heroic Archimedes. While Archimedes is rightly revered for his many imperishable contributions to science, he could also be considered the first recorded victim of lethal police brutality. A native of Syracuse, Archimedes did his considerable best in the […]

Thursday, March 12, 2009 Of Paper “Money” and “Paper” Terrorism Proving his antagonist’s point? Socrates insisted that justice was something other than the “advantage of the stronger” — yet he submitted to an unjust death sentence, thereby apparently validating the idea that citizens have a moral responsibility to submit to officially sanctioned injustice. “Justice is […]

Monday, March 16, 2009 Dismantling The Killer Elite Maintaining the pretense of authority: “Nothing to see here! Please disperse!” commands Frank Drebin, Lt. Detective, Police Squad — a special division of the police force. Sometimes the truth is best told through fictional allegory, especially when a dash of comedy is used to make the parables […]

Thursday, March 19, 2009 Remembrance of Recessions Past The greatest man I will ever know: My father, L. Richard Grigg, holding his grandson, Jefferson Leonidas Grigg (age 3 at the time), circa 2004.At some point in each visit we pay to my parents’ home I find myself pondering a curious object found in their washroom […]

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Liberty and Law, not “Law and Order” (Brief Programming Update, 3/26) With our days as a manufacturing power a wistful memory and the marketing of fraudulent Wall Street “financial products” an infinitely self-replenishing source of national outrage, incarceration may soon become — by default — our leading national industry. The United […]

Monday, March 30, 2009 The Collaborator’s Song (Updated with a brief afterthought, March 31) “Avenge me!” Tom Eckert, bloodied but unbowed, gazes through the wire of a “re-education” camp at his sons Jed and Tom following the totalitarian takeover of America in the 1984 film Red Dawn. While that movie depicted a Soviet occupation of […]

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 DARE and Back Again Not an equal “partnership”: The DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) logo illustrates the conceit that the state’s instruments of indoctrination (schools) and coercion (police) are “partners” with the parents in molding the character of young people. Sitting through a DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) graduation ceremony is […]

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 The Ballad of John Singer ***A brief, inadequate, and highly tendentious summary of the John Singer case. The Singers, sans John: Vicki Singer is second from the right in the back row; below, right, the Singer farm (or, as the media put it, “compound”) as it appeared in 1988. In the […]

Thursday, April 9, 2009 The Pogrom That Wasn’t [By way of preface: I’m tired, and by that I mean I am weary at the molecular level. I have no fewer than three partially completed essays — and what promises to be a fairly huge investigative piece — in the works, but domestic concerns have made […]

Saturday, April 11, 2009 “Mo’ Money,” Less Wealth (Second update 4/14) You get mo’ money from the Gub-MINT! Whiz and Ice, key economic advisers to the Obama regime (as well as its predecessor). In comoedia veritas est. In comedy, the truth is found. As a 23-year-old “social organizer” in Chicago, Barrack Obama had an encounter […]

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Revenge of the “Waco Gene” (Update/correction, April 20) The Regime has made it official that “right-wing extremism” is a threat to Homeland Security.That genus is divided into two species — “white supremacist and anti-government groups” — with the latter further differentiated into various sub-species, including immigration reform activists, “disgruntled military veterans,” […]

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 “Bright, Dead Alien Eyes” Live, from Metaluna, it’s Crossfire! Dr. Cal Mecham consults with Metalunan emissary Exeter, living proof that Paul Begala (below, right) has sired extra-terrestrial offspring. Whenever I mischance to see Paul Begala reciting collectivist talking points on television, I’m struck by his resemblance to Exeter.No, I’m not referring […]

Friday, April 24, 2009 The Triumph of the Torture State He was tortured, too: Our Lord was “scourged,” which means that He was turned over to the ministrations of professional torturers, before being sent to the cross. And of course, crucifixion itself was a method of state execution through torture. Jailer: Do you believe in […]

Sunday, April 26, 2009 The “Practical Politics” of a Presumed Plague (Second Update, April 28) An artifact from a time when civilization itself was in peril: This tapestry captures some of the many horrors of the 14th Century Black Death, which claimed an estimated 75-200 million people, many of them perishing from secondary causes created […]

Thursday, April 30, 2009 Pinning Us Down: The “Public Health” Rationale for Tyranny Like the H1N1 flu virus that is the focus of growing public alarm, the Homeland Security State is a recombinant entity. The H1N1 pathogen is composed of strains of influenza that don’t naturally fuse together. In similar fashion, the Homeland Security apparat […]

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Free Ashton Lundeby! (VERY IMPORTANT Third Update, 5/7) (Expanded) Special Update, May 7 Wired News’s Threat Level column is reporting that Ashton Lundeby is not being held under the USA PATRIOT act. Since the case is under seal at present, the only source for the relevant details is Annette Lundeby; admittedly, […]

Friday, May 8, 2009 Painting the Lily: The Lundeby Case, In Perspective [T]o be possess’d with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow… Is wasteful and ridiculous […]

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 Criminalizing Citizen Activism: The Chris Pentico Case Who owns this joint? The Borah Building in downtown Boise provides temporary office space for Governor Butch Otter, who — as a state employee — doesn’t actually own the building, nor does he pay the rent. So by what supposed right does the Governor, […]

Monday, May 18, 2009 Don’t Tase Me, Big Bro! With respect to the use of stun guns to administer electro-shock trauma to small children, the State and its agents apply a sliding scale of official charges and punishments. When a police officer subdues a child as young as five years of age by treating him […]