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Why Veterans Exist
These days, I have a hard time blogging. For the most part, it seems a pointless exercise — at least, it seems pointless to do the kind of blogging that changes minds and convinces people that we...
View ArticleWhither Freedom of the Press?
Increasingly, it’s difficult for me to write this blog. I find myself wanting to be involved in something more than empty words. Blogging seems pointless when there is so much news out there already...
View Article“We Are The Law”
According to this story, teens celebrating their graduation from the eighth grade made the mistake of being in the same area of the world where someone had discarded an empty bottle of alcohol. Seems...
View ArticleGodwin’s Constitution
The latest blog posting of a man — a criminal defense lawyer — whose opinions I very much respect, even if the feeling does not appear to be mutual, and (Scott says this isn’t true, so I’m crossing it...
View ArticleThe Way SWAT Does Business
An article on Wikipedia — usually, if not always, a fair source of reliable information — notes: The establishment of a standing army in Britain in 1685 by King James II and the later assumption of...
View ArticleA New Kind of System
Scott Greenfield may not be blogging anymore, but he’s still a good resource for keeping up with things.1 “If you or I did that to somebody on the outside, you’d be sitting in jail talking to (an...
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Beyond This Point
One reason I haven’t been blogging as much lately is I’m too angry. I’d be calling for a bloodbath: shoot all governmental authorities on sight, I’d be saying. To avoid doing that, I’ve just stopped...
View ArticleA Shot in the Dark
The past week, two shootings — one of which has everyone talking and the other, for reasons that escape me, appears almost nowhere in mainstream media — have caused me to come back to the keyboard. The...
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To Serve & To Protect
Once upon a time, Americans actually valued life. Hell, we even valued liberty. And the purfoot of happyness. Legally, that’s still true; in practice, not so much. The law of the land of the free and...
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Time…for Poopy Fingers?
There was a time when the United States of America was known as the land of the free. Home of the brave. And some very inventive people. Early Americans invented things like passenger ships powered by...
View ArticleBecause They Can
An article in yesterday’s New York Times caught my attention. It wasn’t so much because of the topic: the pervasiveness of police officers who lie. I’ve written about that a number of times myself,...
View ArticleWhat Makes A Police State?
I have long tried to convince people that the United States is well on its way to being a full-fledged police state. I’ve even written on “How Police States Are Born.” Despite the signs, people who I...
View ArticleBecause You’re Still Free To Be Crass
A prosecutor in Charleston, West Virginia, got a little pissed off apparently, because he couldn’t convict someone for doing something he didn’t appreciate. So Delegate George Ambler, R-Greenbrier —...
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Overlords
I have thought, for some time now, that I knew just how bad things were getting in the United States, in terms of us becoming a police state. Today, I was shown just how wrong I am. In fact, I didn’t...
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A Government of Men, Not of Laws
Many years ago, when there was less knowledge in the world, but people were generally smarter, a doctrine developed — an ideal — which was to form the very basis for a new nation, conceived in liberty,...
View ArticleLife in a Post-Constitutional World
As I watched the unfolding of events in Boston this past week, I have several thoughts on my mind. Two have been pre-eminent: I feel deeply for those who have suffered losses of life, and limb, which...
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It Can’t Happen To Me
More people than normal are reading my blog the last few days. Given that a few weeks ago, after I was confronted by members of the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department — more on this later — and wrote...
View ArticleMisplaced Faith
We open today’s blog post with a quote from George R. R. Martin, affectionately known, I am told by friends who know him, as “GRRM”: “You esteem this Penrose more than you do my lords bannermen. Why?”...
View ArticleWhen Cops Act Badly
Anyone who reads even a few of my articles — and perhaps is privy to things I’ve said about cops elsewhere — will almost certainly know that I’m not a cop-worshiper. Harder to discern is the fact that...
View ArticleOpen Your Eyes and Act
Paul Virilio offers up this observation taken from an unknown science-fiction story: There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We’ll dream...
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