“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.” -David Friedman Anarchists, libertarians, socialists, environmentalists, monarchists, Democrats, democrats, Republicans, republicans, Flemish nationalists and Maori separatists can all see problems in the world. Any group of a hundred human beings selected

“I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.” – Alfred Hitchcock   No one who reads this blog expects police fetishism to evidence itself and yet another reason for the growing alienation between the police and the citizen emerges from an Indiana Supreme Court ruling allowing not only further trashing of expectations of

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. – Romans 13:1 (KJV) Jesus Christ serves as an exemplar of peace. Holding ultimate authority and command of a large number of men, he allowed himself to be arrested, tortured

Rolling Stone published some of the the ‘kill team’ photos from Afghanistan. They are extremely graphic. Stop reading this site, head over there, and look at what you and I are allowing to be done in our names.

Governor Schweitzer, I would urge you to reconsider your recent veto of HB271, “AN ACT REVISING THE LAW RELATED TO THE OFFENSE OF CARRYING A CONCEALED WEAPON;  PROVIDING THAT THE LAW DOES NOT APPLY TO A PERSON WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO POSSESS A HANDGUN UNDER STATE OR FEDERAL LAW;  AND AMENDING SECTION 45-8-317, MCA.” As

I will be a guest on Ernie Hancock’s show today live from 1200 to 1400 AZ Time.  You can tune in here: https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/089550-2011-05-10-bill-buppert-in-studio-for-2-hours-blog-www-zerogov.htm Ernie is the creator of the Ron Paul Love-alution logo and has been a prominent liberty Freddom Fighter for over two decades.  I have the pleasure of his friendship and we have

  “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for

He’s noble enough to know what’s right But weak enough not to choose it He’s wise enough to win the world But fool enough to lose it – Rush This morning I woke up to hear that the man that kept my family and I in a constant state of fear is dead. Osama Bin

Publisher’s Note: Kaiser has penned an elegant and abbreviated jeremiad on why the production of Obama’s BC is not only irrelevant but in the end more distraction from the real problem.  Whether Obama or whatever his name is hails from Hawaii, Palookastan or is a Manchurian candidate from the Soviet Union’s last political gasp; it

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” – Robert Heinlein Whenever the word Anarchy is whispered it is accompanied by thoughts of Molotov Cocktails, hooded punk youth, and general chaos. I can understand these

  “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” – Groucho Marx “…and he loved big brother.”  Orwell’s chilling first line to 1984. I have written before about the impossibility of limited government.  Let us make sure our terms are correct.  Government is any

Today marks two signal events:  the shots heard ‘round the world at Lexington and Concord in 1775 when the formal divorce proceeding by America from the United Kingdom began and the day after the annual deadline every year for paying taxes and tribute to the new King we inaugurated after winning the first Revolutionary war.