Category Archives: America

Updated: ‘Patriotism, Nationhood, & The American Indian’

America, Ann Coulter

Dr. David Yeagley is a Comanche Indian from Oklahoma, educated at Oberlin, Yale, Emory, Hartt, and the University of Arizona. (He was a special student at Harvard in 1982). He has invited several nationally known conservative and independent writers to offer their perspective on American Indians. His interview with me, here at the Free-Market News Network, is titled “Patriotism, Nationhood, & The American Indian,” and is the first in the planned series.

Update: The interview has now been posted on Dr. Yeagley’s website, BadEagle.com, which means that responses from the American Indian community have been forthcoming. You can follow these here and here—indeed the good folks at BadEagle.com are hip to my deficiencies vis-Ã -vis the law and Indian reservations. In my defense I’ll say that I was asked by Dr. Yeagley to respond spontaneously, not research. That’s what I did.
I am told that Ann Coulter has expressed interest in the topic. That’s a good thing, as Martha Stewart would say.

Updated: 'Patriotism, Nationhood, & The American Indian'

America, Ann Coulter

Dr. David Yeagley is a Comanche Indian from Oklahoma, educated at Oberlin, Yale, Emory, Hartt, and the University of Arizona. (He was a special student at Harvard in 1982). He has invited several nationally known conservative and independent writers to offer their perspective on American Indians. His interview with me, here at the Free-Market News Network, is titled “Patriotism, Nationhood, & The American Indian,” and is the first in the planned series.

Update: The interview has now been posted on Dr. Yeagley’s website, BadEagle.com, which means that responses from the American Indian community have been forthcoming. You can follow these here and here—indeed the good folks at BadEagle.com are hip to my deficiencies vis-Ã -vis the law and Indian reservations. In my defense I’ll say that I was asked by Dr. Yeagley to respond spontaneously, not research. That’s what I did.
I am told that Ann Coulter has expressed interest in the topic. That’s a good thing, as Martha Stewart would say.

Fun in Kazakhstan

America, Britain, Bush, Film, Pop-Culture

Sasha Baron Cohen, alias Ali G, is a British comedian and the creator of Borat, “a bumbling Kazakh TV presenter.” Borat’s exploits in the US are something to behold. Simply brilliant comedy, as in the time he asked a dating agency for a woman with plowing experience. Or when he sang his country’s anthem at an American sports match. The mournful wail went on for at least 20 minutes. His American spectators, bless them, were very patient. And what about “throw the Jew down the well“? That’s the infectious sing-along Borat began in a Texas bar. A classic.

By having fun at Kazakhstan’ expense, Borat (who has quite the bottom, if I say so myself) has created an international incident. Read how George Bush might get involved.

Updated: Remember Reno!

America, Criminal Injustice, Government, Justice, Law

“Back in the day, the law was intended as a bulwark against government abuses. It has now become an implement of government, to be utilized by all-knowing rulers for the “greater good”—the founders’ Blackstonian view of the law has been supplanted by a Benthamism that encourages ambitious prosecutors to discard a defendant’s rights. Add the aggravating circumstances of a highly militarized federal law enforcement that shares the judiciary’s contempt for the Rights of Englishmen, and is abetted by a public dimmed by statist schools and media—and one has a recipe for disaster. A mouthful maybe, but something to ponder as another prosecutorial team gathers steam, this time in Utah, where the state, feds in tow, has been pursuing Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…”

The excerpt is from this week’s WND column, “Remember Reno!.” Comments are Welcome.

Update: Quite a few conservative, as opposed libertarian, readers wrote in to lambaste me for what they perceived as my taking up the cause of Warren Jeffs, the polygamist. Some embellished by asserting—no evidence was provided—that Jeffs, in addition to servicing all those wives of his, also sodomized many boys. But most egregious, as one reader contended, was Jeffs’ reputation for not liking blacks and their music. “This makes him extra evil,” my reader complained.

Let me be clear: I don’t take up causes; I try my best to work from principle and fact to arrive at the truth. I know; anathema in our partisan, fiction-based society.
None of the aforementioned accusations are in the indictment. Hating blacks or Jews is no crime, either—at least not in a free society, something conservatives are doing their utmost to sunder.
My points in the column, I believe, were exactly right in that they addressed evidence; not fiction or hearsay—the same stuff upon which the sexual abuse contagion was based in the 1980s (also elaborated on in “Remember Reno!”).
Since we have moved to being a fiction rather than a fact-based society, my readers’ positions don’t surprise.