Sunday, April 20, 2008 Quid Spucatum Tauri Est? (Second Update, April 22) This is the new “normal”: A teenage skateboarder maneuvers through a pack of paramilitary thugs practicing urban warfare tactics. In the Texas government’s war against the women and children of the FLDS Church, Colorado Springs resident Rozita Swinton, a 33-year-old woman (a precinct […]

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 The Real Cult Menace (Part Two): “Freedom” Through Submission (Updated) Consecrating a collectivist child sacrifice: Hitler Youth and members of the League of German Girls gather for a Jugendfeier, or “youth ceremony” — a type of National Socialist confirmation service, held at a German church, circa 1934.”Never make the mistake of […]

Sunday, May 4, 2008 An American Gulag Sixty years ago a young American named Alexander Dolgun was accosted on the streets of Moscow by a couple of affable fellows working for the Soviet secret police (known at the time as the MGB).Assuming he was the victim of mistaken identity or some innocent bureaucratic bungle, Dolgun […]

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 This Is A Man: The Heroic Intransigence of James L. Woodard “I don’t know your `philosophy’ of life, but I assume you wouldn’t take a man’s freedom just because you can. That’s why I keep sending these letters to you…. I’ve been locked up 3 1/2 years now and it’s been […]

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 One Of These Things Is Just Like The Other How we live now: Riding the subways in the “Land of the Free” in the Year of Our Lord 2008.In late April, the mortal remains of 65-year-old Norman Stamp were interred in Essex, Maryland. Mr. Stamp, a member of a motorcycle club […]

Sunday, May 11, 2008 The Ordinary Face of Everyday Evil Photos courtesy of captivefldschildren.orgHavin’ a good time, guys? SWAT operators wearing Nazi-style bucket-head helmets enjoy a mirthful moment on the YZF Ranch as child “protection” workers prepare to kidnap the FLDS community’s children. What stuck in the minds of these men who had become murderers […]

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Child Theft, “Concentration Camps”: It’s Happening Here “The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment [he] was born. ” (Rev. 12:4b)*Even before Dan Jessop’s son was born, the State had already made a proprietary claim to […]

Friday, May 16, 2008 The Texas Child Grab: Cowpie ala Mode (Updated) The news was simply too good to hide under a bushel.Arrow Child and Family Ministries, a foster care and adoption agency with headquarters near Houston, “found out today that they will be receiving 80-100 permanent placement children,” exulted the sister of an assistant […]

Sunday, May 18, 2008 Texas Child Grab: Possession Is The Entire “Law” Ready to kill for the State: A sniper takes aim at unarmed parents at the YFZ Ranch, prepared to kill any who resist as their children are stolen by lying, corrupt strangers. “The important thing to understand,” insists former Texas judge Scott McCown, […]

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 The Real Cult Menace (Part One): “Waco” in Slow Motion “I hope very much that others who will be tempted to join cults and to become involved with people like David Koresh will be deterred by the horrible scenes they have seen over the last seven weeks…. There is, unfortunately, a […]

Friday, May 23, 2008 An Ambiguous Victory (Updated) Yes, the Constitution applies even to them: FLDS member Willie Jessop turns away a CPS commissarina who demanded access to the YFZ Ranch to conduct a warrantless search. Mr. Jessop told the finger-wagging shrike to get the constitutionally mandated paperwork together, and he’d let her in.It was […]

Sunday, May 25, 2008 A Bureaucracy Bares Its Teeth Entrenchment: FLDS members at the YFZ Ranch huddle behind padlocked gates while Texas State officials pursue new strategies to make their mass child abduction “legal.” There are many millions of adults who suffer from a peculiar logic disorder I call “Severe Ipse-Dixitism” that leads them to […]

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 They Have a Little List The business end of government: It always comes down to the barrel of a gun or the edge of an Executioner’s blade.”As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I’ve got a little list — I’ve got a little list, of society […]

Thursday, May 29, 2008 Martial Law on the Installment Plan Photo courtesy of Jim Bovard”I abominate and detest the idea of a government, where there is a standing army,” exclaimed the immortal George Mason, during his state’s constitutional ratifying convention of 1788.A a forceful and principled defender of individual liberty, Mason was the irritant in […]

Monday, June 2, 2008 The Child Snatchers Win (Updated) According to police in Austin, Texas, Billy Dan Carroll spent the better part of the past three decades assaulting and raping dozens of victims — from girls as young as two years of age to adult women whom he lured to his home and then drugged […]

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 “Tumult and Blood” (Updated, June 5) A troubled, and troubling, fellow: Former Denver police officer and accused sexual predator Joseph Bini.The arrest yesterday (Tuesday, June 3) of 39-year-old Denver resident Joseph Bini on charges of sexual assault and child sexual enticement is an unsavory coda to a really bad decade in […]

Friday, June 6, 2008 The Depraved Majesty of Totalitarian Democracy Is it Krushchev? Is it Lancelot Link’s nemesis, Baron von Butcher? No, it’s a little of both: It’s the Grand and Glorious Decider in full General Urko mode. After four Blackwater mercenaries were killed and their lifeless, butchered bodies publicly displayed by gleeful insurgents in […]

Monday, June 9, 2008 “Stimulus” Spending: Making The Dead Parrot Twitch Last week, published comments by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert regarding the likelihood of war between the U.S. and Iran caused the price of oil to surge to roughly $138 a barrel — and the Dow to shed nearly 400 points. It’s actually worse […]

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Have Pity For the Bullies Does she look like a teenager to you? If so, you’re qualified to work for the Texas CPS: Sarah, a 37-year-old (yes, that’s thirty-seven) “disputed minor” parent, embraces her beautiful daughter after the child was pried from the hands of her State-employed kidnappers. It still isn’t […]