Author Archive

"The forces of tyranny and destruction are targeting more and more ordinary, innocent people all over the country, and one can't help but see at least a few pleas for financial assistance in their daily rounds of blogs and new sites. Most are asking for help with legal expenses, and a few with basic living costs. Often they've had their total assets seized by government as well as being incarcerated—many times without even being charged with any crime at all." (05/19/13)

"The EU’s latest mad ban is revealing, suggesting it doesn’t even trust ordinary people to pour their own olive oil." (05/20/13)

"For many, Mexico remains a land of Pedro sleeping away his days leaning against an adobe hut, sombrero pulled low over his face, with a burro drowsing nearby. Apparently this is actually believed. An American woman of immoderate idiocy once asked me by email whether Mexico had paved roads. Such folk seem to have in mind, if mind they have, the Mexico of the age of Pancho Villa. As best I can tell, they have no ideas at all of the rest of Latin America." (05/15/13)

"I went online, searching for the parody The Dangerous Book for Dogs. In the mysterious ways of the library’s search engine, the words 'dangerous' and 'dogs' popped up a few other titles, as well. Children’s books. Hm, I thought. Pretty soon both Dangerous and two other titles were waiting for me. While I expected to be just mildly entertained (because a good kid’s book is a good book, and usually easy on the brain), I was blown away by a pair of freedomista stories." (05/19/13)

"The left will gladly have you killed if you resist being taxed to fund national healthcare. The right will gladly have you killed if you resist being taxed to fund a fleet of submersible nuclear aircraft carriers. The operative word, in each case, is 'killed.' In each case the individual counts for nothing against some 'greater' collective good." (05/19/13)

"I suppose I had wanted to begin this essay talking about a piece published back in January by Jay Bookman, 'Second Amendment is Not License for Treason, Armed Revolt.' I further suppose I had wanted to point out how, from a libertarian/market anarchist/voluntaryist perspective, it matters little what any amendment in any government document has to say about individual self-protection -- it is an inherent and most obvious requisite of any human life. I would’ve pointed out how 'treason' is based on the intrinsically flawed idea that government is a legitimate ideological construct, and that one is somehow in turn bound to it by non-consensual obligation." (05/16/13)

"Let’s face it, finding another survival-minded partner isn’t the easiest task in the world. Sometimes it can feel like trying to start a friction fire with water soaked wood. Or, like trying to find the one edible cattail in a marsh of poisonous water irises -- darn near impossible! And let’s face it, survival-types aren’t known for being the most socially suave category of people, am I right?" (05/13/13)

"But as outrageous as the admitted facts are, the story’s larger implications are even more disturbing. It’s bad enough that the Obama Administration has grossly violated fundamental constitutional rights, acknowledged the violation and defended their legality. Even worse is that likelihood that the intrusion will probably be ruled legal, that it has been ongoing against other targets for some time and that this is only the tip of the intelligence-abuse iceberg." (05/16/13)

"With the veritable plethora of scandals abounding now in Obama’s DC, it’s fun wondering which will become the Scandal du Jour -- that is, the one that’ll last more than a week." (05/15/13)

"But who could be surprised? From the very start of Obama’s presidency, he and his administration have managed to take the Bush-era attack on civil liberties and not just continue them, but in many cases, significantly expand them" (05/15/13)

"Support for imperialist interventions used to be mustered in terms of nationalism and national interests. But over the past couple of decades, the terms have shifted. Today, Western states are far more likely to solicit support for a foreign venture in terms of our fears, our insecurities, our sense of ever-proliferating threats." (05/15/13)

"And people wonder why I home school. Yet another example of a 'Zero Tolerance Policy' from the supposed promoters of tolerance, the liberal left. A 7 yr old boy pretends his pencil is a gun, and 'shoots' a kid he's playing army with. The school suspends the boy, claiming 'some would consider this threatening behavior.' What I consider threatening behavior is the relentless pursuit of a mindless, conformist society that is afraid of weapons and also cannot even consider playing cops and robbers or army. C'mon, folks. Kids play these games ALL THE TIME! 99.99999999% of those kids never go out and do something wrong with a weapon. Grow a brain." (05/12/13)