About: Becky Akers
Posts by Becky Akers
Body Scanners: Irradiating JFK
In its zeal to peel every last shred of dignity from passengers, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) foisted its strip-search scanners on New York City’s John F. Kennedy International...
Our Masters, Not Muslims, Are the Enemy
You, too, may have received this email or one of its variants: the subject heading reads: “This is NYC on Madison Ave,” while the body contains pictures showing scores...
The State, Serfs, and Suicide
Sodomy’s advocates want us to believe that evil is good, that sin is simply a “lifestyle choice,” and that such hellish ideas have no consequences. Their agenda has claimed...
Learn or Else
Barack Obama, that noted educational authority who’s taught public school for decades, has again blessed us with his expertise by touting longer incarceration for the victims. “[A] month [less...
UNending Poverty
With its “peacekeeping” that kills folks as dead as warfare does and its international meddling, you might think the United Nations would spawn enough evil to satisfy its sociopaths....
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,...
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...