I continually hear the words freedom and liberty chanted around me and prominently displayed on American homes and vehicles and in social media, so I know this must be something important. I’ve also noticed that individuals, groups, and political candidates that oppose government intrusion into our lives are treated as social pariahs, so we...
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CIA cold war and hot war activity was coming to light for the first time and was falling into the crosshairs of Congress and the media. Anti-communist arguments had been a sufficient rationale, up to this point, to conduct black ops in the foreign and domestic arena. Not anymore. This gold mine was being...
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When the DEA is seen in a negative light by Americans, it is due almost entirely to the agency’s relatively small relationship to the domestic war on drugs. But, the reason for this agency coming into being was much broader than to knight a batch of domestic “narcs.” The domestic aspect represented only one...
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$121,097. Every journeyman, non-supervisory, regular ordinary plain-Jane FBI agent with five years on the job and with no particular job specialty or unique pay enhancement (like flight pay, Sunday pay, scheduled overtime pay, hazardous duty pay, foreign COLA pay, post differential, night differential, housing allowance, danger pay, travel per diem, temporary quarters allowances, or...
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Of all the emails I get, the main recurring themes often involve questions about Latin America; and usually where to go for expatriation to flee oppression. Latin America has totally fallen off the radar for American mass media news outlets. But, the interest for ordinary Americans is growing. You can get news if you...
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Bosch LLC, a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of the German Bosch automotive products company, has recently petitioned the FCC to take specific amateur radio frequencies to be given to Bosch to develop radar systems for self-driving cars. The proposal, which initially calls for a “sharing” of the frequencies, also encourages the movement of the...
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Ben Franklin noted that he showed skill for statism in his early years saying that he was often allowed to “govern” and to be a “leader” when doing things with other boys. To demonstrate this innate ability, he described an occasion which he related because it showed what he described as “an early projecting...
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His life was changed in a day. He grew up working and playing with his family in the mountains and valleys of what is now Arizona. His mother Juana placed him in a swing that rocked gently in the breeze as she worked. He played games of hide-and-seek with the other children. He worked...
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No asset seizures without charges against a person? Wait a minute, you not only need charges, but you can’t forfeit assets without a conviction for an underlying non-asset crime? No “Country of Chile versus one million dollars?” No “Argentina versus a Mitsubishi Montero?” So, you can’t have stand-alone money laundering charges against someone without...
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When money doesn’t develop as a commodity, it gives one pause to wonder why. Is it real money? Is it viable in a free market? How did it come into existence if it didn’t develop as a good with uses other than money? Today we observe persistent thievery of goods (e.g. land, cars, gold,...
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