by Runaway Slave | Feb 2, 2007 | Freedom, Government, Iraq, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Liberty, Politics, Terrorism, War On Terror (WOT)
“The practices of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.” ─ Alexander Hamilton Since the events of 9/11/2001 particularly, but even before that, the shepherds of the Nanny State in Washington, D.C. have...
by Runaway Slave | Jan 7, 2007 | Essays & Articles, Fraud, Iraq, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, Terrorism, War On Terror (WOT)
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ─ Aesop There’s nothing quite like a public hanging to brace the spirits and fortify a sense of moral rectitude. The days are long gone when engraved invitations were sent out for the executions of...
by Runaway Slave | Feb 28, 2006 | Economics, Essays & Articles, Inflation, Iraq, Libertarian Curmudgeon, War
Saddam Hussein once toyed with the notion of pricing his country’s oil in Euros rather than Dollars. It wasn’t long before George II began chanting “Axis of Evil” and “WMD’s.” The U.S. Air Force created a steel thunderstorm over Baghdad. A hundred thousand Iraqis,...
by Runaway Slave | Dec 28, 2005 | Economics, Essays & Articles, Iraq, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, War, War On Terror (WOT)
America trudges down the road to imperial ruin like an ogre with a big stone hammer. I keep expecting the final pratfall, the step off the cliff into the void, the drop into the pit full of sharpened stakes, or just the steady banging of a great shaved head against a...
by Runaway Slave | Jul 26, 2005 | Draft, Essays & Articles, Iraq, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, War On Terror (WOT)
The editorial page of the New York Times last Monday was full of war babble, and a peculiar nostalgic longing for past global conflict. Mr. David Douglas Duncan, a veteran and war photographer pines for the days of WWII and Korea when the U.S. fielded vast armies of...
by Runaway Slave | Jul 5, 2005 | Education, Essays & Articles, History, Iraq, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, War
“It is impossible to give the soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.” — Henry David Thoreau The leader of the Free World, Emperor George II, recently referred to our excellent adventure in Iraq as a...
by Runaway Slave | Feb 21, 2005 | Education, Essays & Articles, Iraq, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, Rights, War, War On Terror (WOT)
George II recently described his campaign to bring democracy at gunpoint to the Mesopotamian desert as a “catastrophic success.” Our silver-tounged leader inadvertently hit on the perfect description not only of the results of the Iraqi war, but of most government...
by Runaway Slave | Dec 16, 2003 | Essays & Articles, Iraq, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, War
The guy in the picture looked like a panhandler, scruffy, pathetic, and careworn. Before I could work up much sympathy, however, I realized he was the Evil One, the Butcher of Baghdad himself. The guy the U.S. Army has been alternately trying to kill and capture for...
