Enemy Congress
As America travels the well-worn and brutal path earlier empires paved, it increasingly disdains the pretense of ruling “of, by and for the people.” And so the führer in the White...
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Standing Naked in the Gap
If you’re wondering what’s wrong with the country, you have only to watch American Christians’ acquiescence as government’s agents strip passengers naked at airports. ...
Lessons on Leviathan: Tarps and Tents
People weren’t the only casualties of Haiti’s horrific earthquake last month. Also devastated was the constellation of virtues and blessings we call “the market.” The resulting poverty, which exceeds even Haiti’s...
Who Cares?
I’ve stayed home lately, and no doubt you’re leery of traveling too, given that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) still limps along without a director. This “important homeland security post will...
Mission Impossible: Suppressing the Government from All Tyrannical Oppression
The evening of Saturday, February 3, 1787 was “mild and serene” in “the Massachusetts,” as Mercy Otis Warren called it. And she should know: she wrote her History of the Rise,...
Listing Towards Tyranny
It’s hard to decide which is more infuriating: the fact that the United States’ government continues to blacklist us after its malfeasance in the 1950’s, or its sophomoric, silly parsing of...
Uncommon Sense
It was a runaway bestseller before the concept existed, when printers set type by hand and the average American owned a Bible and perhaps a couple other books. Depending on the...
Green Government
You may not recognize the name John Rapanos, but officials know him well. Some consider him a vile criminal worthy of prison and millions in fines. Did he murder someone? No....
Mythbusters
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) gropes us and rifles our belongings at airports while robbing us of $7 billion annually. It spends some of that loot on propaganda, whether press releases...
Times That Try Men’s Souls
Leviathan’s lackeys grope passengers at airports while their bosses salivate to virtually strip-search travelers. Former bureaucrats suggest that we crack down on “homegrown terrorists” (sic for “dissidents”) rather than that the...
Government: The Only Institution that Grows Through Failure
If you want to bring down a plane, blowing off parts of your own body is not the preferred method. It’s failed both times nuts have tried it: neither Richard Reid’s...
A Parable of Obamacare
(With apologies to St. Luke) And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from the American Congress that all the country must buy medical insurance....
Obamacare and Economic Stimulus Logic
“For decades rising health care costs have unleashed havoc on families, businesses and the economy,” President Barack Obama declared in October, during his surge for socialized medicine. Indeed, he frequently inveighs...
Liberty’s Limits
Government is — or ought to be — limited. Severely, in fact. But what about liberty? Does it have limits, too?We’re tempted to answer, “Heck, no!” because freedom is so intoxicating. Who...
Clemmons’ Clemency
Cheer that rarest of events: one of our rulers told the truth! Granted, presidential wannabee Mike Huckabee has an ulterior motive — but heck, he wouldn’t be a politician otherwise. ...