by Runaway Slave | Feb 27, 2009 | Essays & Articles, Freedom, Government, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Rights
You don’t hear much about States Rights these days. The death of some 650,000 Americans in Mr. Lincoln’s war in the early 1860s firmly settled the issue. After wrecking the economy and burning a few cities, the Yankees rode Dixie like a rented mule for many...
by Runaway Slave | Dec 28, 2006 | Essays & Articles, Fraud, Freedom, Government, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Liberty, Politics, Rights, 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 | Jul 13, 2005 | Essays & Articles, Law, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, Rights, Taxes
Liberals demanding Constitutional shelter from big government, like thieves demanding justice, are always good for an ironic chuckle. Except for the sacred right to kvetch in print, I no more expect to hear the left hollering about Constitutional rights than I expect...
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 | Feb 1, 2005 | Essays & Articles, Law, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, Rights
A rash of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuits here in sunny Key West reminded me of the catfish lawyer joke sent to me by my brother-in-law, the attorney. Question: What’s the difference between an ADA lawyer and a catfish? Answer: One is a scum sucking...
by Runaway Slave | Jan 25, 2005 | Essays & Articles, Freedom, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Liberty, Politics, Rights, War
“Delusions are states of refuge. The mind, unable to comprehend realities or to deal with them, finds its ease in superstitions, beliefs and modes of irrational procedure. It is easier to believe than to think.” ― Garet...
by Runaway Slave | Jan 18, 2005 | Essays & Articles, Freedom, Identification, Law, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, Rights, Terrorism
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause to be killed as many as would not worship the image of the beast. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a...
by Runaway Slave | Jul 15, 2004 | Essays & Articles, Guns & Gun Control, History, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Rights
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. ― Edward Bulwer-Lytton Most people have never seen Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s famous quote in its entirety. Until I looked it up, I never knew he had qualified the famous second line with a...
