Police can’t be everywhere. Consequently, their focus is prevention and punishment. In other words, police usually get involved before and after a crime is committed. They are generally unavailable to stop crimes in progress. Murder, robbery, rape, assault… most severe crimes occur within minutes or even seconds. Police (government) can only rarely save citizens from […]

I’m betting Obama will try something old-school. Let me be clear. Four score and seven trillion ago, our slavetrading forefathers drank moonshine and swapped foolish dreams of individual liberty. Thankfully, we’re past that now. Preview Open

This is how conservatives need to make their arguments to the public. http://www.youtube.com/user/10000Pennies#p/u/9/cWt8hTayupE Preview Open

I’m not sure how seriously I can take talk of a debt ceiling at this point. Are we really going to pretend that our politicians have acknowledged a cap to our potential debt? These same people who ignore our Constitution would rather shut down government than deny some arbitrary limit they left in the dust […]

Weeks ago, I gave Steyn some grief for the “New York Times Bestseller” label on America Alone. Why, I asked, is it not labeled as simply a “bestseller”? Unless the Times secretly owns Barnes & Noble, then the paper has no unique claim to sales lists. That data is available for all — doubtlessly provided […]

When I read Peter’s post today, I thought, “Good for you, Peter! It’s the week of Christmas and, dag nabbit, we should be cheerful!” It feels wrong talking dreary politics during such a celebratory time. There’s a great song by Roger Miller that, despite being written for a cartoon, makes a keen point that we’d all do […]

That’s the hook for an upcoming video game called Homefront. The game’s narrative is penned by John Milius, a conservative Hollywood writer who helped write Apocalypse Now and adapted Tom Clancy’s novel to make (a far more enjoyable film) Clear and Present Danger. The setting for Homefront is a modern historical fiction in which a series of […]

Wesley Snipes stopped paying taxes in 1999 because he was an “idealistic, naive, passionate, truth-seeking, spiritually motivated artist, unschooled in the science of law and finance”, as seemingly every article about the man will tell you. How much did he owe the government? A measly $2.7 million. He was sentenced to three years in prison. […]

I’ve already mentioned this in Trace’s thread, but it deserves its own discussion. Before thinking about specific policies, we should begin with first principles. Immigration is fundamentally an issue of hospitality. Illegal immigrants violate our hospitality by forcing, rather than requesting, their position in our home and all the obligations that involves. Preview Open