Free Republic

Few things concern American citizens more than the steady encroachment of the federal government on our constitutionally protected liberty. WB Yeats’ words aptly describe the way millions of Americans feel about their own government: “The falcon cannot hear the falconer; things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” The federal government seems to have no mechanism of self-restraint. We feel suffocated by its excesses. It is appropriate in this context to celebrate the passage of SCR 21, Senator Stewart Cathey’s Joint Concurrent Resolution. SCR 21, passed in both chambers this yesterday, affirms Louisiana’s sovereign...

Happy birthday tae Robbie Burrrrrns yesterday! OK, who among ya is sober enough tae attend the Kirkin' a the Tartans today?

I have just returned from Ft. Drum, Florida, where the attack on the three year old occurred. He was attacked by an animal on December 6, 2007. The little boy was attacked when his mother went inside to use the restroom and asked Antony’s grandfather to go outside and watch the child for a few moments. This is not the first time a mountain lion has done this. In 2006, a boy was literally taken from his father's hands before the father could realize what was happening and get better hold on the child. Two weeks after the attack the...

In Florida, destroying, hiding, or otherwise making evidence unavailable is called “despoliation of evidence.” That’s legal-speak. Despoilation of evidence is illegal. The father of a student participant in an Everglades Institute project, Dr. Yalamanchi, filed he case which created that term, made it case law, and set legal precedence in this matter of destroying, or otherwise ‘disappearing’ evidence. As a successful physician, Dr. Yalamanchi could afford the private lawyers necessary to obtain justice. Three-and-a-half year old Anthony Martin and his family can’t afford lawyers. As soon as I heard about the attack on this three-and-a-half year old boy, I drove...

In the King James Bible, Jesus is quoted as saying, “Suffer the little children to come unto me.” Somehow, I don’t think Jesus meant for predators to be able to say “Suffer the little children to come into me.” Nor did He intend ‘wild beasts of the field’ to get away with adding “YUMMY” to His words. Yesterday, I went to an isolated home in Ft Drum, Florida, where a young boy, aged three and half years, was savagely attacked by some wild beast. To make it even more of a horror story, now the bureau-beasts are thinking of attacking...