The last 24 hours have truly been historic, and for many reasons.  To begin with, the idea that you can judge a person based on the melanin content of their skin is, hands down, the brain dead dumbest idea ever spawned by the human race.  To go from Jim Crow to an African-American in the White House in fifty years - actually within a single human lifetime - is an achievement we can all be proud of.Is Barack Obama, this brilliant and highly educated man with the calm and discipline t... Read Full Story

What happens when a law enforcement officer - especially a good one - goes to prison?According to one anonymous prison nurse in Texas, the guards may not like everything that happens, but for the sake of peace, they will all look the other way.  There is an unwritten rule in all prisons that any cop is fair game.How about a top DEA agent who put a lot of drug lords away and who subsequently has to spend some time at Club Fed?  Especially one who is not so young anymore and is in phy... Read Full Story

Is this the same country that I grew up in?When I was twelve years old, my father gave me a battered paperback copy of Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers and told me to read it.  Please don't confuse Heinlein's original book with the dreadful movie made from it decades later - there is simply no comparison, and apart from a character name or two, almost no resemblance.  When I returned the book to my father, I told him I was going to enlist in the U.S. military on my 18... Read Full Story

Or what is the matter with me?A few days ago, I was having a brainstorming session with a young neighbor of mine (from my perspective, 40s is young) about how to survive this coming economic depression and exit better off than we are as we enter it.  He asked me if there was something terribly wrong with him, because despite the fact that he genuinely felt terrible for those people who were losing everything, he was actually enjoying himself.I didn't hesitate to tell him that he was ... Read Full Story

I owe Mike Ruppert of From The Wilderness and Catherine Austin Fitts of Solari everything for my understanding of what follows.  Both are geniuses.  Many years ago, Fitts began to use something she called the Solari Index to measure the health of our society.  Put simply, the Solari Index is the percentage of ordinary people in our cities who actually believe that a child can walk from his/her home to the nearest place to buy a popsicle and come home alone, unharmed and unmoles... Read Full Story

Most commonly, the period of history that we call the Dark Ages refers to the years between 476 AD (when the Roman Empire fell) and the year 1000 AD, or about 95 years before The First Crusade.  Some writers, including myself, prefer to carry the "Dark Ages" forward to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th Century, viewing the Crusades and the various witch hunts of the intervening centuries as an extension of the Dark Ages.  Although there were certainly witch hunt... Read Full Story

Is it just me, or are the choices this election year the worst in living memory?Both the major candidates support the grand theft of almost $1,000,000,000,000 from the American taxpayer to buy assets that are already known to be worthless - but the purchases will prop up the value of the stocks that line the pockets of this administration.  It's the worst robbery in living memory.Both the major candidates support endless war in the Middle East - the very wars that have bankrupted us ... Read Full Story

For many years, in the less fortunate countries around the world, a distinct leadership pattern has emerged. First the leader steals the elections and assumes dictatorial powers. As the word gets out about the elections being stolen and unrest appears in the streets, the leader declares martial law. Finally, when the leader can't steal any more elections, he robs the Treasury blind and flees the country. read more Read Full Story

I have observed that the following conditions exist: 1. The Libertarian Party has consistently failed to educate the voters of the United States on the meaning and purpose of libertarian/objectivist ideals. 2. The Libertarian Party has consistently failed its membership by not mounting a campaign to win, despite the real and heartbreaking efforts of many individual candidates. 3. And finally, the Libertarian Party has chosen former Georgia Representative Bob Barr, a conservative with a sev... Read Full Story

I was actually having as nice a day as is ever possible in a fascist police state when I happened to notice the headline: "Bob Barr To Run For President As Libertarian" That's just what we need, folks. I'm done. I've finally had enough. I've been careful and cautious since I've been living in Kansas, which can otherwise be described as "Fundie Paradise." Pagans don't have martyrs, just idiots who should have known better than to shoot off their m... Read Full Story