I was watching Geraldo’s “At Large” program this evening and to my horror both he and Col. David Hunt hypothesized that the only reason we aren’t intervening in this third world mess in Haiti is racial prejudice from the White House. Huh? The...
Alexander Marriott
Alexander Marriott is currently a graduate student of the early republic at Clark University in Worcester, MA. He earned his B.A. in history in 2004 from the University of Nevada - Las Vegas, where he was an Op-Ed columnist for the UNLV Rebel Yell. Marriott grew up in Chicago and lived in Saudi Arabia for four and a half years and has resided in Las Vegas since 1996.
Constitutional Amendment to Ban Gay Marriage
“The family enjoys the protection of the state. Marriage is based on the free consent of the woman and the man; the spouses are completely equal in their family relations.” This sounds much like an initial draft of a constitutional amendment for the United...
T.S. Ashton on The Industrial Revolution
Despite more than a hundred years of condemnations and the harshest ridicule men like Friedrich Engels could hurl at the time period known in Great Britain as the Industrial Revolution (1760-1830) Dr. T.S. Ashton took up the task of restoring, or at least attempting...
Paying Homage to the Architects of the American Welfare State
Would-be defenders of individual rights and liberty, the fundamental ideas of the founding fathers who created the United States of America, have recently decided to pay homage to the Presidents who created the modern American welfare state. I refer of course to...
The Eight Dingbats and Economic Stagnation
There has been much uninformed talk of economics lately as the eight Democrats vying for their party’s presidential nomination run around Iowa and New Hampshire crying about how jobs aren’t been created in the economic recovery and that the recovery in...
A Slave State: Society in Sir Thomas More’s Utopia
Sir Thomas More’s Utopia lays out several important ideas that help us understand the political thought of both now and the Renaissance as well as providing us with a look into the conditions of sixteenth century Europe. The book primarily acts as a vehicle for...
The Privilege of Driving
It is often said that driving is not a right, but a privilege. As such it can be extended and revoked at will, by those vested with the granting of the privilege, a government. The question that must immediately strike anyone is, “What gives the local governing...
The Liberty League: An Alternative to the United Nations
It is clear for a variety of reasons that the United Nations is not only ineffectual, i.e. it can’t enforce its own resolutions, but is operating against the interests of the United States and free people everywhere. One reason for this is simply that there are...
Libyan Dictator Moammar Gadhafi: Learning the Lessons of Stalin
The Bush Administration is declaring victory now that the dictator (or for the BBC, “Leader”) of Libya, Moammar Gadhafi, has agreed to let in United Nations Weapons Inspectors and to dismantle all Weapons of Mass Destruction programs. To...
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Seatbelt Laws?
Nationally, Police agencies are stepping up enforcement of seatbelt laws, and in the case of Nevada this means that if you’re pulled over for something (you can’t be pulled over for not having a seatbelt on) and aren’t wearing your seatbelt you will...
Killing Arafat
After years of duplicitous dealing and overt support of terrorism the Israelis finally started talking about removing Arafat from the Middle East peace process, killing him if necessary. They have removed the killing option some months ago, but the fact that the...
Paying for Someone Else’s Free Lunch in Nevada
With a near one billion dollar tax increase now coming into effect, the businessmen of the state of Neveda are now computing what they will have to pay to the state for nothing other than making money. One of these businessmen is my dad, and it is to him and all the...
Environmentalists Kill “Free Willy”
The star of the environmentalist trilogy “Free Willy” movies, Keiko (Japanese for “Lucky One”), the Orca “Killer” Whale, has died in the misguided and costly attempt to put him back into the open oceans. Quoting the Globe and Mail:...
Justice for Serial Killer Gary Ridgway Means Death
Gary Ridgway has pled guilty to the murder of forty-eight women, making him the worst serial killer in American history. His expected punishment? Life in prison without the possibility of parole. What kind of justice is this? What is the point of the State of...
PC Ethics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The following is a letter written in response to some accusations made by an unnamed professor against student Alexander Marriott as detailed in A Victory Against Political Correctness: Rebel Yell Apologizes to Alexander Marriott. Now that I am back on the job I have...
America’s European “Allies”: Liking Us When We’re Dead
In the days immediately following September 11, 2001 the outpouring of support from the governments and people of Europe was overwhelming. Americans living in or visiting Europe at the time remember the various Europeans hugging them on the streets and offering them...
Censorship and Slander: CBS’s “The Reagans” Gets Moved from TV to Cable
Now that the made for TV miniseries about Ronald Reagan’s presidency called The Reagans has been moved from CBS to Showtime the rewriting of history about the controversy has already begun. According to the left, the fact that CBS moved the miniseries to...
Mysticism Alive and Well
The United States of America was a country founded upon human reason by some of the most adept political and philosophical minds the world has ever seen and today it is a country mired in an almost barbaric mysticism from sea to shining sea. There have been three...
Christopher Columbus, We Salute You
Most Columbus Days are marked by rabid condemnations of the explorer as a genocidal maniac bent on destroying the peaceful and innocent native peoples who populated the Caribbean islands which Columbus discovered. These condemnations are not only unwarranted but...
Libya Gets Away With Terrorist Acts Against the United States
At a time when the United States of America are fighting a war against International Terrorism and Terrorist States, the last thing the country needs is the appearance of weakness or appeasement. But the settlement that is looking more and more likely between the...
Martha Stewart is Treated Badly Because She is Successful
To the cheers of many onlookers Martha Stewart was indicted last week for making false statements about her alleged involvement in the ImClone insider trading scandal, which has just recently landed the former CEO of that company in jail for seven years....
Repeal Sodomy Laws
A political firestorm is beginning to erupt around Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum over comments he made during an interview with the Associated Press. His comments were in response to a question about the pending decision from the Supreme Court on...
Fleeing Castro’s Communist Paradise to Get to Evil Capitalist America
Just last week three of the men involved in hijacking a Cuban ferry in order to flee to America were executed under the regime of Fidel Castro under the charge of terrorism. Where was the United States in all of this? Unfortunately while freeing a people and riding...
UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix: Fading Away into the Dustbin of History
As I watched the 24 hour war coverage on Monday I saw a most amusing spectacle, UN weapons inspector Hans Blix was professing to be excited about going to Iraq after Saddam is gone so that he can resume his weapons inspections. Apparently the Swede has yet to realize...
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