Betraying Friends to Friends
Seems the late Ernest C. Withers, a.k.a. “the Original Civil Rights Photographer” whose iconographic pictures recorded the turbulent 1960’s, was also a snitch for the FBI. A paid one,...
About: Becky Akers
Posts by Becky Akers
Inflaming Moslems
Were I the sort of barbarian who burns books, I’d roast all 75 volumes of the Federal Register rather than the Quran. ...
Our True Enemy, The State
Just as the State’s wars and taxes, oppression, corruption and cruelty are a worldwide curse, so is its xenophobia. The United States has plenty of company as it erects...
The FDA: Egg on its Face, Yet We’re the Butt of the Yolk
You might think that incompetence so massive it results in the recall of over half a billion eggs would also result in the recall of those responsible — or...
Liberty Mugged and Murdered
This is a story of oppression and atrocities, of a supposedly constitutional government mushrooming into dictatorship, of a once-free people shrugging at the coup so long as their wardens...
Another Wrong for Civil Rights
In propaganda disguised as a legal decision, California's Judge Vaughn Walker decreed last week that "moral and religious views form the only basis for a belief that same-sex couples...
Drum Out the VA
On May 7, 1818, a veteran of the Revolutionary War named Asher Wright "personally appear[ed]" before Presiding Judge Sylvester Gilbert in the "District of Connecticut, ss. County of Tolland."...
The Most Effective Weapon of Every Arbitrary Government
Government Security News reports that "the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now interested in acquiring portable versions of [advanced imaging technology (AIT) systems] which could be transported anywhere...
There Oughtn’t To Be A Law
Pick your peeve: illegal immigrants, toxic television with its pornographic programs, second-hand smoke, ballooning budgets. Even the smallest of small-government advocates sometimes assume that fixing such entrenched or annoying...
Ding Dong, The Pork King’s Dead
Tragically, Robert Byrd has died. Don't get me wrong: it's a stellar day whenever one of Leviathan's lackeys departs for the nether regions and leaves us in peace. But...
In Immigration Debate, Politicians are the Problem
A recent influx of Hispanic workers attracted by jobs at local meatpacking plants” has so “angered” voters in Fremont, NB, that they “approved a ban on hiring or renting...
The Fourth and Freedom
If you had to choose one amendment from the Bill of Rights that most undergirds liberty, which would it be? I’d probably go with the Second, because guns are...
Killers-cum-Cannon-Fodder
Anyone who loves liberty must have relished the criticism Memorial Day earned this year. Whether at the mainstream Los Angeles Times or alternative websites, Americans increasingly condemn the holiday’s...
Amtrak and the Railroads
Amtrak and its lobbyists at the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) recently invited us to commemorate the third annual National Train Day on May 8. Supposedly celebrating “America’s...
Yet More Reasons (As If We Needed Any) to Abolish the TSA
What would enrage you enough to “kick a wall, throw a suitcase or make a pithy comment to a screener” at an airport? How about the screener’s ...
The Filthiest Criminals
Among criminals, perhaps the vilest are politicians and pedophiles. So we can expect little outcry at the Supreme Court’s decision to expand the former’s power over the latter: it...
Politicians: Far More Dangerous than Terrorists
So the dictatorial Attorney General of a dictatorial administration has opined that keeping the homeland secure requires “modifying” the Miranda warning read to criminal suspects (“You have the right...
Dispatch the War Department
However small or large a government you consider ideal, whether you’re left, right or center, you probably agree that the military is indispensable and legitimate. You may quibble about...
How Bureaucrats Solve Problems
As if the indignities, gross inconvenience and downright danger of commercial aviation weren’t enough, your flight now stands as much as a 15 percent greater chance of cancellation. That’s...
Decency Takes Flight
The War to Terrorize Americans continues. This week our fearless rulers protected us from a 93-year-old invalid in a wheelchair, her munchies, and her concerned daughter when they tried...