Briefly Considered: Repeat Offenders Carol Anne Gotbaum’s husband Noah and their three children, seen here with their Rabbi following Carol’s October 7 funeral at New York’s Congregation Rodeph Sholom. The funeral for Carol Anne Gotbaum had barely ended before we learned that she was not the first innocent, emotionally disturbed woman to die at the […]

Want To Do Something About Immigration? End the “War on Drugs” Militarizing Mexico: What “bi-national” cooperation in the “War on Drugs” has wrought. “You can’t buy those two together,” the checkout clerk informed me, referring to two over-the-counter children’s cold remedies. “The computer won’t let me process the purchase.””Oh,” I replied, a puzzled scowl taking […]

To “Protect” and Sue The littlest “Roman Gladiator”: That’s how Richard Cosmillo describes his 22-month-old grandson Joey, who was left a complete invalid from a terrible drowning incident at the family pool.You won’t believe what one of the police officers who responded to the 911 call did to exacerbate the Cosmillo family’s agony. A well-established, […]

The “Showtime Syndrome” You’ve been protected and served! Josh Adams displays the wounds of honor he received while attempting to protect his wife from a criminal police assault. The injury was inflicted by a police-issue Maglite flashlight (see below a photograph of the bloodstains left on the floor of the Adams’ home.)Owing to budget shortfalls, […]

Briefly Considered: A Prediction Partially Fulfilled “Dr. Bob Jones III, chancellor of the fundamentalist Christian university in Greenville that bears his name, is looking past his religious differences with Gov. Mitt Romney and endorsing the Mormon for the Republican nomination for president, he told The Greenville News this afternoon.`This is all about beating Hillary,’Jones said. […]

S-CHIP Of Fools “You know, I was amazed how easily people fell for the idea that we actually disagree! Um, Bill — could you spot me an intern until next Tuesday?” Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich, co-architects of the much-discussed S-CHIP program. Nothing of substance stands to be accomplished as a result of the “debate” […]

The Dividing Line: HR 3835, The “American Freedom Agenda Act” Reporter: Mr. President, following up on Vladimir Putin for a moment, he said recently that next year, when he has to step down according to the [Russian] constitution, as the president, he may become prime minister, in effect keeping power and dashing any hopes for […]

The Prosecutor as Jihadist: Andrew Thomas vs. Justice Margaret Vitale is a 57-year-old nurse who lives with her daughter Tina in Glendale, Arizona. A while ago, Tina decided to move out, and – concerned for her mother’s safety – she urged Margaret to purchase a handgun. After Margaret tried many different handguns and found them […]

Mike Nifong: Your Time Is Coming…. No ceremony that to great ones ‘longs, Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe, Become them with one half so good a grace as mercy does. If he had been as you and you as he, You would have slipt like […]

To The Gulag, But For The Grace Of The State, Go I A “Crime” is invented: New Hampshire anti-tax activist Russell Kanning is “arrested” — the common euphemism for an officially sanctioned assault — for the supposed crime of handing literature to employees of the criminal syndicate called the Internal Revenue Service. It’s not necessary […]

“Diplomacy” As The Art Of Cultivating Conflict The purpose of diplomacy is to protect our independence and security through means other than war. Those occupying the upper echelons of the Bush Regime define diplomacy as the practice of removing impediments to war. Indeed, for Dick Cheney and his cohorts, manufacturing pretexts for war is the […]

Bloodsuckers In Blue To “Protect” and Siphon: A “Phleboto-Cop” prepares to drain the blood of a “volunteer.”(Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix) During the mid-1980s, a state radio broadcast in East Germany proudly announced a record-breaking national blood drive. In the audio equivalent of fine print could be found the critical, defining detail: “Most of the donors […]

Robin Prosser: Victim of Paternalistic Totalitarianism “Eeet’s naht a TOO-mah!” If it were a tumor, and Arnold’s treatment program included marijuana, the Feds would intervene. Arnold Schwarzenegger suffered a fit of clarity during a recent interview with GQ, creating a small pseudo-controversy quickly cleaned up by a press aide.Asked about drug use during the 1970s, […]

Federal Prosecutors: A Human Pestilence There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. […]

Further On Up The Road By now, we’ve become inured to the grotesque spectacle of Bush Regime appointees behaving as if the rules of reality can be suspended at the whim of the Grand and Glorious Decider. Thus it is with a dull sense of soul-weary duty, rather than with an acute sense of outrage […]

Right and Wrong There’s a short update below.So Pat Robertson, an individual who looks as if he had been given life by the pen of a Disney animator (and speaks as though delivering in earnest lines written as satire by Sinclair Lewis), insists that only Adolf – whoops, I mean Rudolph – Giuliani can defend […]

What’s So “Sinister” About “Liberty, Prosperity, and Peace”? “Setting the realm at rest” through foreign wars: How many of the honored dead whose remains are interred at Arlington really died on behalf of freedom — rather than for the greater glory of the State?The true means of setting the realm at rest is by keeping […]

A “Cunning” Plan, A Wrongfully Convicted Man “Baldrick … are the words `I have a cunning plan’ marching with ill-deserved confidence in the general direction of this conversation?” Edmund Blackadder, from “Blackadder Goes Fourth” Time, the subtle thief of youth — with a corrupt “justice” system as a cohort: Tim Masters as a 15-year-old (left), […]

Anatomy of a Highway Patrol Heist Last June, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals placed its imprimatur on a stunt pulled by the DEA and Oregon’s Deschutes County Sheriff’s Department: The police staged an elaborate phony carjacking in order to seize a car from a suspected drug courier. The driver and his companion were deposited […]

The Robber State Strikes (Updated) There are occasions – and they are coming with increasing frequency – on which the Regime ruling us is laid bare to confront us in the stark majesty of its unalloyed evil. For many of us, such incidents resonate with those awful hours on April 19, 1993, when the Regime’s […]