Cancel Leviathan’s Invitation to the Wedding
No surprises here: “A federal appeals court today declared California’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional … The three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that...
About: Becky Akers
Posts by Becky Akers
“Deal Me a Hand and Let Me See What I Can Make of It”
Alas, we enter February and another “Black History Month.” Yep, I'm white, and no, I'm not a racist; rather, I object to propaganda and pandering. And I merely echo...
Rand Paul’s Stand Against the TSA
The TSA didn’t just “detain” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) Monday: it showed us another of the agency’s many uses to Our Rulers. Not only does it teach the serfs...
The TSA: Ruining Lives Over Forgetfulness
Item: A Chinese woman studying at Hays State University in Kansas tried to board a plane with a stun gun in her purse. The TSA called the cops to...
The NDAA and Suspension of Habeas Corpus: Not Just for “Enemy Combatants” Anymore
Remember all those neocons and Republicans who cheered George W. Bush’s “indefinite detainment” of “enemy combatants”? Many of them — though, amazingly, not all — have lost their enthusiasm...
The TSA’s Voodoo Security
Along with perpetual metastasizing and nauseatingly double standards, another of the State’s principles is insatiability — on everything, all the time. For example, it can neither consume enough of...
The NDAA: Great Losses, Small Gains
The old chestnut has it that there is seldom any great loss without some small gain. We’ve lost the incalculably precious, ancient right to habeas corpus with the National...
Loving Freedom Enough to Defy the NDAA
You might assume that revolution brews here in the “Homeland,” given Our Rulers’ paranoia: both the House and Senate have passed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA);...
“Putting Terror in Every Heart”
Are African elephants an endangered species? Like so many questions, the answer depends on who’s giving it. Villagers in northern Uganda whose food the animals devour would likely call...
The TSA: More Crimes, More Lies
Now the government-goons who molest little kids while claiming without a single blush that pedophilia is “proper procedure” are strip-searching grannies with the same excuse — even as they...
How the Gingrich Stole Freedom
It’s rare that a contender for his party’s presidential nomination calls for his own execution, but Newt Gingrich did exactly that on Monday. ...
Politics Is Money — Other People’s, And Lots of It
We frequently hear from the particularly naïve that they want to take the money out of politics. That claim recently resounded from the Occupiers of Wall Street and other...
Disarming That “Important Layer of Aviation Security”
We probably all agree on the worthlessness of the New York Times. For starters, it publishes propaganda it barely bothers to disguise as news, relentlessly pushing its various agendas...
Do-It-Yourself Taxation
Boy, but it was a Red October! Polls conducted throughout the month just ended confirm that Karl Marx has won the hearts and minds of the American people. Two...
A Tennessee Trucker and the TSA
You might assume that unconstitutionally searching Tennessee’s trucks while recruiting their drivers to snitch on us would keep the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) too busy for further evil. You...
The TSA’s Gingerbread Man
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has long turned a deaf ear to criticism and complaints. Whenever its groping of toddlers sets the country howling, the TSA responds that employees...
OWS: Overlooking Corporatism’s Silent Partner
"Occupy Wall Street” has become something of a Rorschach test: observers find in it whatever they want to. If you consider protests a left-wing remnant from the turbulent 1960s,...
We All Have Something to Hide
Apologists for the State often excuse its surveillance by claiming that those who’ve done nothing wrong have nothing to hide. This implies that only criminals object to Leviathan’s all-seeing...
The Moral Market Provides
A church I visited recently announced a seminar for “financial professionals” who lament their industry’s “fallen ethics.” In 2009, USA Today reported that “the top Roman Catholic bishop in the...
Fumbling Freedom at the NFL
I’m not much of a football fan. In fact, we can broaden that to say I loathe every sport but Scrabble. If the entertainment involves chasing a ball, count...