Thursday, March 3, 2016 Can You Spare Some Tears for a Killer Cop? Does this guy (center) look like a peace officer? If he approached you holding a gun, wouldn’t you flee? “If I go down, I’m taking you with me.” That familiar action movie cliché isn’t found within the lawsuit filed by former West […]

Thursday, February 18, 2016 Take Pity on Officer “Safe Space” Blue Privilege isn’t enough: Now cops want to be a “specially protected class.” Makaela Zabael-Gravatt was shot and nearly killed in her own backyard in Meridian, Idaho last September. The man arrested in that attack, Christopher Wirfs, had a violent criminal history. Prior to the […]

Thursday, February 4, 2016 Stolen Lives, Protected Criminals: The Wrongful Imprisonment of Christopher Tapp This man belongs in prison: Former IFPD Detective, and I.F. Mayor, Fuhriman.   There are abundant reasons to be grateful that we do not live under the Old Testament “lex talonis” legal covenant, and one compelling reason to lament that this […]

Wednesday, March 9, 2016 Finicum’s Wake He tended herds, rather than serving the state: LaVoy Finicum, a man in full. Somewhere there are still peoples and herds, but not with us, my brethren; here there are states…. A state is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies also; and this lie creepeth […]

Wednesday, April 13, 2016 The Last Full Measure of Misery: When Will Prohibition Finally End? “Our safety and happiness lie in obedience to law by every man, woman and child,” pontificated Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty in his keynote address to the 1921 annual conference of the American Bar Association in Cincinnati. His homily on […]

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 Merrick Garland, Richard W. Roberts, and the Kenneth Trentadue Murder: The Deep State Takes Care of Its Own Not a suicide victim: Kenneth Trentadue’s brutalized body in his open-casket funeral. “You have to trust the government,” Justice Department attorney Richard Roberts unctuously told Jesse Trentadue. Seeking to understand why his younger […]

Monday, March 7, 2016 From Showdown to Show Trial: The Bunkerville Crackdown is Just Beginning (Apologies to Emerson) Beneath the rude bridge that arched the wash, their flag to April’s breeze unfurled: Victory at Bunkerville, 2014. What happened at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775 was an eruption of terrorist violence against the […]

Friday, September 23, 2016 “Do You Know Who Killed My Baby?” “Do you know who killed my baby?” That anguished question was wrested from the anguished soul of Carol Dodge as she spoke with a young girl named Destiny Osborne shortly after Carol’s 18-year-old daughter Angie was murdered in Idaho Falls in June, 1996. With […]

Sunday, November 20, 2016 War Crimes Advocate Seeks A Job in the Trump Administration The eyes of a fictional psychopath…. President-elect Donald Trump has thousands of executive branch positions to fill, including the spot in the Office of Legal Counsel once occupied by the detestable war criminal John C. Yoo. William C. Bradford, an obscure, […]

Monday, November 14, 2016 Why Would Anyone Want a President? No, he isn’t — unless you consent to be ruled. I don’t know why anyone would. “How small, of all that human hearts endure, that part which laws or kings can cause or cure.” When Samuel Johnson wrote those measured words of welcome consolation, kings […]

Saturday, November 5, 2016 (Not) Keeping Up with the Cardassians: The Regime’s Failed Show Trial in Portland “A salutary experience”: Residents of Cardassia give audience to a show trial. Cardassia is a fictional planet in the Star Trek universe ruled by a totalitarian state with a court system quite similar to our own. Trials on […]

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Free Kelsey Osborne! Victims of the Prohibitionist Cartel: Kelsey with her abducted children. If 23-year-old Gooding, Idaho resident Kelsey Osborne is sent to prison for using medicinal cannabis to treat her daughter’s seizures, Governor Butch Otter should immediately grant her a pardon. If he fails to do so, he should be […]

Thursday, October 20, 2016 Sheriff David Clarke: The Warlord of Milwaukee County Now that Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County faces a possible federal felony conviction that would dislodge him from office, the floor is open for nominations to replace him as the preening figurehead for the Punitive Populist constituency. Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Sheriff […]

Tuesday, October 11, 2016 Who Protects Kids from Predatory Police and Prosecutors? Raising teenage girls in the age of Snapchat exhibitionism is a challenging proposition – and it’s not made any easier by ambitious prosecutors seeking to criminalize unwise acts that fall within parental jurisdiction.  Last April 6, two parents from Knoxville, Iowa were summoned […]

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 “Let’s Convict Him and Get It Over With”: The Framing of Lanny Smith A picturesque landmark in a troubled county: The Idaho Falls LDS Temple James Swogger was a terrified 25-year-old awaiting trial on a charge of sexual misconduct with a child when he contacted Detective Victor Rodriguez of the Bonneville […]