The time is approaching when we will be compelled by an act of Congress to register our firearms. We are continually reminded that “the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” That part is clear to everyone except those promulgating law in Washington, D.C. Few people, though, understand what is meant byContinue reading “A Well-regulated Militia”
Category Archives: rights
How to Eviscerate the Second Amendment
Ersatz-President Biden’s handlers will provide him with the text for many executive orders, on the premise that these orders will serve to implement existing law, or to restore practices, desirable to totalitarians, that were suspended by President Trump…
Four Little Words
It’s time Americans remembered the miracles possible within that blessing called society and the limitations of an institution based on nothing more than consolidated brute force…
Your Day in Court
“If it weren’t for lawyers, dear boy, we wouldn’t need lawyers.” possibly from the movie “A Murder of Crows” (1998) Many Americans with ordinary legal disputes never get the trial they thought they were guaranteed by the Constitution. I’m just going to put this link here and let you read the excellent article that itContinue reading “Your Day in Court”
Democracy or Republic
The Constitution, Article IV, Section 4, declares “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” Nothing in the Constitution suggests that this country was ever intended to be a democracy. The critical difference is in the matter of rights. John Adams captured the essence of the differenceContinue reading “Democracy or Republic”
The Individual Who Can Think and Create
In the words of AJN: Our society has made no place for the individual who is able to think, who is, in the strict sense of the word, intelligent; it merely tosses him into the rubbish heap… Intelligence is the power and willingness always and disinterestedly to see things as they are, an easy accessibilityContinue reading “The Individual Who Can Think and Create”
Demagogue and Demaslave
Henry Louis Mencken was a contemporary and acquaintance of Albert Jay Nock. In The Superfluous Men, a volume of comparative essays compiled by Robert M. Crunden (ISI Books, 1999), Mencken is described as “an enormously prolific writer and editor of newspapers and magazines” who “had great impact on college students and the educated young adultsContinue reading “Demagogue and Demaslave”
Village Idiot Refuses to Look for a Job
“I refuse to look for a job in this economy until the government makes the minimum wage a living wage.” Thus spake an unidentified twenty-ish male follower of the “occupy movement” who was shown just long enough to spout this idiotic conviction on one of the network news broadcasts in the fall of 2011. IfContinue reading “Village Idiot Refuses to Look for a Job”
…For I Am Their Leader
Not long ago I saw a sticker on a car bumper which read: “There they go. I must hurry and catch them, for I am their leader!” Amusing. I’ve seen a variation of this notion in action; it happens with great regularity in politics. I was a college student in Ohio in 1969-1970, and forContinue reading “…For I Am Their Leader”
Albert Jay Nock 