Red Light Cameras, Drones and Surveillance: Fleecing the Taxpayer in the Age of Petty Tyrannies
We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the name of the national…
Category: Commentary
Transforming America’s Schools into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance
These days, it is far too easy to rattle off the outrageous examples of zero tolerance policy run amok in…
From NSA Spying and VIPR Sweeps to Domestic Drones: A Round-Up of the Police State Programs NOT Affected by a Government Shutdown
Like clockwork, we’ve ticked back to the annual government shutdown scare that invariably dominates news headlines and sends stocks seesawing…
Why Terence Sellers is Too Outré for Bohemia
In autobiographical fiction, Terence Sellers aptly predicted her fate as a writer. Her chosen subject matter, sadomasochism, was considered too…
Common Core: A Lesson Plan for Raising Up Compliant, Non-Thinking Citizens
As I point out in my new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, there are several…
Licensed to Kill: The Growing Phenomenon of Police Shooting Unarmed Citizens
Here’s a recipe for disaster: Take a young man (or woman), raise him on a diet of violence, hype him…
Farewell to Big Sister: Janet Napolitano’s Orwellian Legacy Lives On
....And then there’s the news about Friday, September 6, 2013, being Janet Napolitano’s last day as head of the Department…
Ten Reasons Why America Does Not Need to Go to War Over Syria
For once, I would love to hear a government official reject a call to war because it is immoral; because…
Miley Cyrus and the Pornification of America
There’s a strange irony to the fact that on the same week of the 93rd anniversary of the ratification of…
The NSA: ‘The Abyss from Which There Is No Return’
We now find ourselves operating in a strange paradigm where the government not only views the citizenry as suspects but…