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Bundy engaged in armed resistance to avoid paying fees. Compare that to peaceful protests responding to a lost life. Last Wednesday night, I had snarked on Twitter about the lack of so-called “Tea Party” “patriots” — like those brave boys and girls who, earlier this year, pointed their big assault-rifles at federal officials to protect the “right” of a scofflaw rancher in Nevada to illegally graze his cattle for free on land that he did not own — failing to show up to protect the actual rights and freedoms of so many being denied them by actual Big Government Tyranny...

'Dark and dangerous' Democrats under fire By Jacqui Goddard in Miami, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:29am GMT 07/01/2007 America is under threat from malevolent forces intent on stripping citizens of their liberties. Dark enemies are stalking the innocent and the public must gird itself for confrontation. A caricature of Hillary Clinton in the pamphlet So claims the National Rifle Association, America's largest, wealthiest and most politically powerful gun rights group, which has printed pamphlets entitled Freedom in Peril to alert its four million members. The danger, it says, can be summed up in one word: Democrats. So alarmed is the...

The Sunday Times October 22, 2006 Kim tested by rise of armed resistance Michael Sheridan, Far East Correspondent AN underground resistance movement in North Korea, capable of smuggling out videos of executions and staging violent acts of defiance, has emerged as the Kim Jong-il dictatorship faces international sanctions for testing a nuclear bomb. The latest evidence of North Koreans willing to risk their lives to tell their story is a video showing the execution by firing squad of a woman convicted of murder committed in the course of stealing food last July. Captured by a bystander with a tiny camera,...

I was condemned by the governor of New Hampshire last week. It started when the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire invited me to give the dinner speech at their annual convention in Nashua Sept. 28. I spoke about my latest book, "The Ballad of Carl Drega." Roger Talbot, a reporter for the Manchester Union-Leader, took me aside and suggested the controversy now raging over the book in New England may result as much as anything from the cover. It features a painting by Scott Bieser which depicts Boston rebels in a darkened church in the early 1770s, passing out muskets...