Category Archives: Freedom

Draft: Against All Enemies: Ethical Resistance

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[This is still a bit rough. The beatings will continue.]

Ethical Resistance in a Constitutional Republic

Are we in the grip of domestic enemies of the Constitution? I believe so.  Because I believe so, I have a duty to consider action to defend the Constitution.  Much hinges upon two questions:

  • Am I correct?  and if so,
  • What action is appropriate?

I will attempt to answer both of these in a train of thought I call Ethical Resistance.  More pointedly, I will try to set up a framework for answering these questions rather than answer them specifically, and hope thereby to teach a man to fish, rather than provide fishsticks.

Duty

Employees of the United States Government including all members of Congress are required to take the … Continue reading →

Lawrence O'Donnell, Herman Cain, and the White Hippie Apocalypse

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[pullquote]blackness is not a scale on which I measure a Presidential candidate[/pullquote]Everybody who cares has seen or heard clips of MSNBC anchor and self-described socialist Lawrence O’Donnell engaging GOP hopeful Herman Cain in a series of racially-motivated attack questions, the point of which seems to be that Herman Cain is not authentically black, didn’t march at Selma, what-have-you.  I’m not going to lecture either of these men on how to be black, as that is of no concern to me; blackness is not a scale on which I measure a Presidential candidate, but integrity is.

[pullquote]the White House calls the Tea Party “terrorists”[/pullquote]First, the media has gone out of its way to promote and euphemize the groups and their lawless, unsanitary goings-on.  The contrast between the tongue-bath for … Continue reading →

Marxism Colonizing Pentagon

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This is bad.

POLICY BOARD SHIFT

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta this week moved to replace key members of the Defense Policy Board, the advisory group of former officials that serves as a brain trust.

“He made it more ‘Democratic,’” one board member quipped about the changes.

Liberals added to the board include former Clinton administration Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, retired Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright and Jane Harman, a former Democratic congresswoman from California. Also added: former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead.

Most notable among the new members is Ms. Gorelick, who was notorious for erecting the so-called bureaucratic “wall” blocking law enforcement and intelligence agencies from cooperating closely before the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The … Continue reading →

Who is "Occupying Wall Street" and Why?

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[pullquote]this President toys with civil war[/pullquote]If you have ever wondered just what a “Community Organizer” actually does, look no further than this evening’s coverage of unemployed masses now demanding the livelihoods, the liberties, and the very lives of their fellow Americans.  No President has ever been more divisive.  Abraham Lincoln led us into war to abolish slavery–the divisions were already there and in the end, he united us.  This President toys with civil war as an acceptable collateral risk inherent in his program, and if you are reading this, odds are he is not on your side.  If you are reading this, odds are he has already lumped you in as an enemy.

[pullquote]I find it difficult to criticize the individuals[/pullquote]I look at the news and I reach … Continue reading →

Uncomfortably Numb

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In our dark moments, we wonder: If this is freedom, what’s the big deal?

China

China is undergoing its most significant upheaval since becoming a communist state.  Any communist revolution is by definition an attempt to deny and suppress the spirit of man.  The current transition will be both more important and more successful than the revolution there, because this move has been anticipated for thousands of years–it is led by reality, rather than the other way around.  China, long famous for deprecating any knowledge or influence from barbarian realms, is becoming oriented beyond its own borders.

While we dither and kowtow by re-forming NASA into the North African Space Administration (with a mission to make Muslim countries feel proud of their accomplishments, no less), the Chinese are … Continue reading →

Anti-American Hikers

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Boy, no sooner do you extend a bit of patience than you realize how late it really is.  I hadn’t done any reading on the three hikers who have now all been released by Iran, so when I saw some comments on FaceBook which I thought were harsh and critical, I responded that I thought they were just granola hippies caught up in the Iranian propaganda.  I figured their criticism of America was just reflexive parroting of the Iranian line they had had no choice but to hear for a couple of years.

I wrote, in closing:

“They are hippie hikers who never understood the danger they were in, and I would not expect them to have a moral core to rely on to resist having their thoughts … Continue reading →

The Ides of September

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The President has been speaking for about five minutes.  It’s way too early for the “early returns” on his speech, but I have a prediction: I think that his high-handed yet empty rhetoric about what he will and will not tolerate or allow, and all the rest of his claptrap is going to bang hollow in a silent room.

I do believe that I am not alone in being spectacularly unimpressed with this moron upon the occasion of this part-campaign, part-lecture.  Now I have never been for the man, but tonight marks a special moment.  I have never heard him more urgently condescending, as if he must somehow pound his elementary knowledge into the heads of a bunch of retards (that would be us) before heading out for … Continue reading →

Amy vs TSA

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Amy Alkon is taking on the TSA.  After her unreasonable search (or sexual assault) at the hands of the TSA and the TSA agent’s subsequent attempt to shake a cool half-million dollars out of Alkon, she’s is lawyering up.  Except that the lawyers refuse payment, and have leapt at the opportunity to do this stuff pro bono.

I have written that we should abolish the DHS, releasing its constituent agencies back into the wild, and amputating many duties from the TSA.  Amy’s experience  is not only a prime example of why: it is a valuable lesson in how:

TSA Searches: “Obedience Training For The American Public”

That’s how Zahir Ebrahim, of Project Humanbeingsfirst.com, rightly termed the TSA searches — in … Continue reading →

Solyndra: Perpetual Motion Machine Wrapped in a Ponzi Scheme

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Now I know why the goofy name for this company.  Their one-trick pony is a cylindrical solar panel.   Solyndrical, plus a suitable Kumbayah web 2.0 ending, I get it.

The problem with these panels is the same problem with water injection to boost the expansion of an internal combustion engine.  Sounds dumb right?  Water kills fire.  Oh, but wait, if the heat of the fire is used to power the unbelievably explosive power of steam expansion, then you actually get MORE power from each ignition, right?  Amazing!  Oh, but… water kills fire.

Even if you can get the system to work consistently, the steam expansion would remove so much energy from the cylinder that a tremendous amount of fuel would be required just to keep the engine … Continue reading →