Ron Paul: This Is A Man. Take Notes. Courtesy of the indispensable Scott Horton, here are the key excerpts from Ron Paul’s performance at the New Hampshire Republican “debate”:By now it should be obvious even to the most insensate observer that the Republican Party — with the heroic exception of Ron Paul and a few […]

Power vs. Authority (UPDATED, 9/11) “Power is the ability to force compliance with one’s demands; authority is the ability to command voluntary obedience.” — Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt was a diligent and widely respected student of totalitarianism. It is not necessary to agree with all, or even most, of her assumptions and conclusions to appreciate […]

Wasn’t The Suspense Terrific? (Updated, 12/3) Brown-shirted Utah Highway Patrol Officers stand in solidarity with Officer Jon Gardner during a November 30 press conference announcing that an internal inquiry found that his use of a Taser on motorist Jared Massey was “lawful.” The suspense was hardly unbearable when the Utah Highway Patrol (UHP) announced that […]

A Programming Note… My good and dear friends:With my wife in the hospital again and a full house of sick kids (or should that be called a “royal flush”?), I’ve been inundated with domestic chores. This explains my scandalously long hiatus, which will end tomorrow — I promise.Mientras tanto, and apropos of nothing, I’ve decided […]

Beware the War Propheteers Playing the Christian “Bass” with the skill of Cream-era Jack Bruce: Like his notorious predecessor in Arkansas, Mike Huckabee is a high-viscosity politician advised by Dick Morris. Like too many other Republicans, he’s a Christian “pro-lifer” not unduly burdened by the death of thousands of children in needless foreign wars. One […]

Captain Blackadder’s Lament: Imperialism Isn’t Fun When The Enemy Can Shoot Back “I did like it [soldiering] in the old days, back when the prerequisite of a British campaign was that the enemy should under no circumstances carry guns. Even spears made us think twice…. The kind of people we liked to fight were two […]

Single-Serving Pre-emptive War: If George W. Bush is Right, How Can Ivan Oliver Be Wrong? Assuming that he committed the act for which he’s been arrested, Ivan Garcia Oliver shouldn’t be prosecuted as a murderer. Instead, he should be commended for his diligent application of the principle of pre-emptive warfare that is the moral foundation […]

The Gulag State, Take Two: Breyer Proposes an American “Law of Suspects” “For several centuries we had a proverb: `Don’t fear the law, fear the judge. But, in my opinion, the law has outstripped people, and people have lagged behind in cruelty. It is time to reverse the proverb: `Don’t fear the judge, fear the […]

Huckabee Hound: The Face of the GOP “Honor-Killing” Cult Christian statesman Ron Paul confronts Mike Huckabee, the War Party’s Elmer Gantry. “The word `honor’ in the mouth of Daniel Webster is like the word `love’ in the mouth of a whore.” — John RandolphDespite the commendable achievement of losing roughly one hundred pounds of bodyfat, […]

Of Course He’s a Fascist A little man in search of a balcony: Mike Huckabee, practitioner of pseudo-Christian statism.The gang at Fox & Friends was happily engaged in their familiar morning routine – applying a glaze of insipid cheerfulness to their network’s authoritarian partisanship – when one of them made the mistake of asking Rep. […]

The Hopelessness of Neil Cavuto [Caveat lector: There is a photograph below that can properly be considered offensive. It is included here to illustrate a point, not to cater to prurient interests. ]Nature played a vicious trick on Neil Cavuto by making him a near clone of Eddie Munster. Being victimized by a cruel caprice […]

Ron Paul: The Smearbund Hates What It Can’t Control and Doesn’t Understand (Updated, 12/26) “Uncompromising men are easy to admire. They have courage – so has a dog. But it is precisely the ability to compromise that makes men noble.” The Earl of Carrick, leprosy-stricken and utterly amoral father to King Robert I of Scotland, […]

Establishment “Libertarianism”: Better Living Through State Aggression Father Abraham, Progenitor of the Modern Fascist State — a fact attested by the Roman-style fasces displayed in this familiar monument in the Lincoln Memorial.(Thanks to Lew Rockwell for pointing out this significant artistic detail.)When it comes to the matter of individual liberty, there is no fact too […]

Building a Fence to Nowhere: The Real Border Invasion Government action generally splits the difference between “useless” and “harmful.” Although it began as a perfectly useless and demented idea, the federal campaign to build a fence on the southern border has graduated from mere uselessness into a genuinely harmful undertaking. Perhaps the only unintended benefit […]