Fair-weather Politicians
It’s tough to feel sorry for a billionaire who’s also a powerful politician, but once in a rare while I almost manage it. And then my sympathies extend not...
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The American Church and State: Cozy Comrades
Communists have warred against Christians since Lenin and Trotsky first imposed Karl Marx’s horrific nonsense on reality. Whether it was the Soviet Union’s exiling of converts to mental hospitals...
Manufacturing Monsters to Mash
Civil libertarians pitched their usual fit last week over the revelation that the NYPD is collaborating with the CIA to spy on New Yorkers — and folks living, working, or...
Administrative Law: The Second Set of Books
At 5:30 p.m. on a Wednesday in June, Thomas James Ball of Holden, Massachusetts (left), drenched himself with gasoline and struck a match. He burned to death at the...
“Fair” Taxation
Pretend you’re at church for Morning Worship, or attending a crowded lecture, or watching Hollywood’s latest with a few hundred other fans. Suddenly, a SWAT team breaks down the...
Leviathan’s Laws: The Insanity of New York City Housing
I’ll be the first to agree that politicians and bureaucrats have no principles. But government itself does; like other entities, it operates according to certain precepts. We who loathe...
Why Don’t BDO’s Stop Screeners from Robbing Us?
On a single day last month, a screener at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport helped herself to $100 in cash from a 16-year-old passenger’s bag while another...
Bobby Franklin, Liberty’s Hero
I was researching REAL ID, the Feds’ scheme to turn driver’s licenses into a national ID, when I stumbled across this bombshell at the National Motorists Association: Eliminate the...
Liars to the Left of Us
Watching DC’s spendthrifts and Keynesians try to resolve the nation’s catastrophic debt is like watching witch doctors try to cure cancer: We know the patient’s gonna die, and painfully,...
Legal Abracadabra: Why the TSA’s Sexual Assaults Are “Constitutional”
If you aren’t already convinced that judicial robes cloak the biggest set of fools and tyrants outside Congress, a decision last week from the DC Court of Appeals should...
Belly-Bomb Baloney: the TSA Lies Yet Again
Ah, belly-bombs -- the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) newest scare-story for frightening us into its porno-scanners and sexual assaults at airports. Belly-bombs play right into the TSA’s hands even...
D.C.’s Dim Bulbs
Like me, you’d probably find it creepy and extremely unsettling were a total stranger to obsess about you. Indeed, you might even degenerate from Peaceable Person to Screaming, Cursing...
Flights of Fancy: Apologists for the TSA
Believe it or not, sexual assault has its defenders — and they’re not just behind bars for rape or pedophilia.Nor do they exclusively “work” for the Transportation Security Administration...
Of Sausages, Opera, and the TSA
Somebody once said that making laws is a lot like making sausage, so we’re better off not watching the process.* But Texas’ bout with a bill to prohibit Leviathan’s lackeys...
TSA “Protects” Us From 95-Year-Old Ladies Dying of Leukemia
It’s hard to know which is the more infuriating, the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) initial barbarity in picking on Mrs. Lena Reppert, a 95-year-old lady dying of leukemia, or...
TSA’s Checkpoint Charade
We have seen the checkpoint of the future, and we are not impressed. But Our Rulers certainly are. ...
Hunting Mexicans at the TSA
“They earned the nickname ‘Mexican Hunters,’ a special unit of screeners at Newark's Liberty-International Airport, who singled out Mexicans, Dominicans and other Hispanic passengers for extra scrutiny.” Of course,...
Grilling Weiner
“And another one gone, and another one gone Another one bites the dust…” — Queen, Another...
Memorializing Leviathan
Candy flies through the air. Flags flutter from lamp-posts, bunting festoons every porch. Veterans of America's various imperial wars wave from their cars. So do members of the Town...
Camping on the Promises of God
While the media excoriates Harold Camping and infidels exploit his heresies to ridicule Christianity yet again, I vote him a big measure of thanks. Hal’s resurrected that long-dormant American...