Columns
Here are my opinion column archives. I started out by writing a biweekly column for the Daily Eastern News, but in the past few years I have been publishing columns on various websites. Please enjoy them by clicking on the links below, corresponding to the date of publication.
Crime Smothers Economic Recovery
May 16, 2012
Rock River Times
An American Spring
May 7, 2012
Disclosure
Rockford’s Fatal Conceit
May 2, 2012
Rock River Times
Leadership we Can Believe In
April 18, 2012
Rock River Times
Can Our Republic Survive?
April 4, 2012
Disclosure
Seeing the Elephant
March 12, 2012
Disclosure
Machesney Voters Should Reject Sales Tax Extension
March 7, 2012
Rock River Times
Further Erosion of the 2nd Amendment in Illinois
February 7, 2012
Disclosure
Governor Quinn Has a Lot to Answer For
January 16, 2012
Disclosure
Let Criminals Help Pay for their Incarceration
January 4, 2012
Rock River Times
2011
Illinois: Las Vegas of the Midwest?
December 19, 2011
Disclosure
Leadership that Southern Illinois Can Believe In
November 21, 2011
Disclosure
Sweatshops and Social Justice
November 17, 2011
C4SS.org
Why Occupy Wall Street?
October 26, 2011
Disclosure
Prohibition and the Birth of the National Security State
October 11, 2011
Strike-the-Root
Remembering 9-11
September 14, 2011
Strike-the-Root
America at the Boiling Point
September 6, 2011
Disclosure
5 Simple Ways to Jumpstart the Economy
August 15, 2011
Disclosure
Jumping the Gun on Egypt
August 8, 2011
Strike-the-Root
Illinois’ Ship of Fools
July 18, 2011
Disclosure
The Quartzsite Affair
July 12, 2011
Strike-the-Root
In Defense of Incrementalism
June 29, 2011
Strike-the-Root
Illinois Ranks 41st in Freedom
June 20, 2011
Disclosure
Courts Overturn 4th Amendment
May 23, 2011
Strike-the-Root
Disclosure
Nietzsche on the Origin of the State
May 12, 2011
Strike-the-Root
The Wheeler Street Riot
May 4, 2011
Strike-the-Root
Disclosure
Happy Meals in the Crosshairs
April 26, 2011
Strike-the-Root
Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are
April 19, 2011
Disclosure
The Demoralizing Nature of the State
April 11, 2011
Strike-the-Root
More on Sweatshops and Free Markets
April 2, 2011
C4ss.org
The Problem with Multicultural Education
March 23, 2011
Vdare.com
Do Sweatshops Belong in a Free Market?
March 18, 2011
C4ss.org
A Pragmatic Approach to Anti-Statism
March 10, 2011
Strike-the-Root
Education and “Demoralization”
February 5/9, 2011
Alternative Right
Strike-the-Root
Where’s the Beef?
January 28, 2011
Strike-the-Root
Fortuna and the Free Market
January 21, 2011
Strike-the-Root
The Politicization of a Crime
January 12, 2011
Strike-the-Root
Against Ideology, in Favor of Pragmatism
January 7, 2011
Untimely Meditations
2010
Power & Force in ‘Crash’
December 3, 2010
Strike-the-Root
When “Fairness” is No Longer Fair
November 23, 2010
MilitantLibertarian.org
Reflections on the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
November 19, 2010
Strike-the-Root
Market Alternatives for Food Safety
November 10, 2010
Strike-the-Root
Rethinking ‘School’
October 20, 2010
Strike-the-Root
Education for the Individual
October 11, 2010
Strike-the-Root
Sexual Socialism? A Reply to William Saletan
September 22, 2010
MilitantLibertarian.org
(Un)Free Markets and the Diminishing of Choice
September 14, 2010
MilitantLibertarian.org
Education and the Individual
September 10, 2010
Strike-the-Root
Nietzsche and Ortega Juxtaposed
August 18, 2010
Strike-the-Root
Ortega and the State
August 2, 2010
Strike-the-Root
Nietzsche and the State
July 15, 2010
Strike-the-Root
Internet Censorship: A Litmus Test for Freedom
July 7, 2010
MilitantLibertarian.org
The Crisis of Confidence and the News Media
June 24, 2010
MilitantLibertarian.org
The Problem of Minority Party Rule
June 13, 2010
MilitantLibertarian.org
Blankstare.org
A historian’s ‘toxic take on history’
May 3, 2010
World Net Daily
The Spirit of ’32
April 12, 2010
Political Christian
Marxism and Social Justice
March 31, 2010
Political Christian
2009
What Is Totalitarianism? Part II
November 19, 2009
Strike-the-Root
What Is Totalitarianism? Part I
November 12, 2009
Strike-the-Root
The Fruits of the Left
October 21, 2009
Political Christian
On Culture and Law
September 24, 2009
Strike-the-Root
The Crisis of Confidence
September 16, 2009
Strike-the-Root
Keep Your Laws Off My Dice
August 17, 2009
Strike-the-Root
Why So Serious?
August 7, 2009
Strike-the-Root
The Culture War Turns Hot
June 10, 2009
Strike-the-Root
The Creeping Hand of the State
May 11, 2009
Strike-the-Root
Who set the prairie fire?
May 2, 2009
World Net Daily
One Nation, Under Siege
April 22, 2009
Rock River Times
Political Christian
Potholes and the Crisis of Confidence
April 16, 2009
Strike-the-Root
It’s the Food, Stupid
April 3, 2009
Lost Liberty Cafe
Rock River Times
Spending Our Way to Ruin
February 26, 2009
Strike-the-Root
The Cult of the Presidency
January 30, 2009
World Net Daily
2007 and Prior
Bush In Kosovo: Precedent For U.S. Southwest?
June 14, 2007
Vdare.com
A Nation of Wimps
April 17, 2007
Daily Eastern News
Honor Your Obligations
April 3, 2007
Daily Eastern News
Cast Down Your Bucket Here
March 20, 2007
Daily Eastern News
Rock River Times
Open Borders Bring Problems
March 6, 2007
Daily Eastern News
Presidents Gaining Power
February 20, 2007
Daily Eastern News
The Britney Spears Culture
February 6, 2007
The Daily Egyptian
Daily Eastern News
The Rift in Politics
January 23, 2007
Daily Eastern News
Fight Hunger at Home
January 8, 2007
Daily Eastern News
Don’t be a Victim
December 12, 2006
Daily Eastern News
Build a Community
November 28, 2006
Daily Eastern News
Family Matters
November 14, 2006
Daily Eastern News
Say ‘No!’ to Moral Legislation
October 31, 2006
Daily Eastern News
TV Commentators Provoke Extremism
October 17, 2006
Daily Eastern News
The War that Time Forgot
October 3, 2006
Daily Eastern News
