The New Criterion has sent around an email to subscribers that reads as follows: Dear Online Readers, I am writing to encourage you to pencil into your diaries “The New Criterion” for the evening of Thursday April 26, 2012. That’s the date we will inaugurate The New Criterion’s Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society [...]

I wonder if Santa will go down the chimney with the flag in hand?

On the LewRockwell.com blog, Laurence Vance mentions the parade in Richmond, Michigan that become the Red Square on 9/11. To quote from Vance’s blog post: There were the usual state police, county sheriff cruisers, SWAT vans, motorcycle cops, town cops, bicycle cops, dune buggy cops, and other assorted representatives of state sponsored terrorism; but then [...]

A public service announcement from the Hitler-American Youth. Make sure you hang on until the very end.

Anytime I have to do something that has to do with government providing a “service,” the outcome is a predictable sort of pathetic. Today I went to the Secretary of State (the SoS is Michigan’s department of motor vehicles) about mid-morning, figuring that I would miss the early morning wait-outside-the-door crowd and the “I’ll swing [...]

When “sick” equals cool. Dylan Harbison said that the weapons simulator she got to use as part of Fun Day with the Missouri National Guard was “sick.” It’s the 10th graders way of saying it was fun. “It was pretty cool,” Harbison said of the high-tech, computerized simulator that allowed her to shoot bad guys [...]

Robert Wenzel has a funny post at his website. He notes that with March being “Women’s History Month,” the Treasury Department, “in partnership with The White House Council on Women and Girls, will convene a Women in Finance Symposium in celebration of Women’s History Month.” Here’s his point: It is very instructive to review the [...]

Do you notice that we are all being subjected to a minute-by-minute play-by-play about another ex-dictator who had a heart attack and gets the 50 best doctors in New York to fuss over him? Last week it was John Murtha (may he rest in bloody hell), and now it’s Clinton. This statist worship is sickening. Americans [...]

It ain’t been on my blog lately – that’s for sure. I’ve been off the blog for a week (busy, busy), but I’ll be back to tending the blog between now and the weekend. There’s so much stuff to comment on… I’ll be posting a short interview with Steve Lee, the guy who did the [...]

There are a couple of very notable posts on the LewRockwell.com blog. Lew Rockwell posts this comment, with a link to a most incredible video of a painting being created by an artist who equates the state – and all of its agents – with Jesus. Or as Charles Featherstone put it, “Jesus descending upon [...]