W.C. Augustine

Plea: Incompetence Although it has been shown no confusion existed among on-site State Department or Intelligence personnel about the source of the Benghazi attack last year, it took the Obama Administration weeks to sort out the truth while in the meantime they laid blame on a video for which there was no evidence. Well...
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The Scary part of the Boston bomber ordeal. Not intending to be cavalier to the tragedy of the four people who lost their lives, scores who lost limbs and many others injured, the human carnage of the Boston marathon bombing is not what scares me. Perhaps the injuries are in excess of a normal...
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According to media outlets such as the Denver Post and Forbes, the Department of Homeland Security has intentions to purchase 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over some period of time. Some believe they have already purchased that amount. Given the shortage of ammunition available in the country, Conservative blogs have picked up on alleged...
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Tom Johnson couldn’t help but feel somewhat apprehensive. It had been nearly a year since the neighborhood gang leader had called all his lieutenants in. Such meetings were not called for perfunctory reasons. John Emerson, the leader, did not like to expose himself. He only held meetings at surprise locations with little notice and...
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It is time to go beyond making seat belt use in cars voluntary as libertarians advocate based upon the archaic belief that an individual owns his own body, not the state, and thus may chose risky behavior as long as it doesn’t risk others. Today based upon the rationale of the culturally elite used to herd...
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We all mourn the tragedy of students and teachers killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in a gun-free zone.  However, another developing tragedy is the flock of politicians clamoring to look worthwhile. The latest murder in Chicago, according to the not-up-to-date city public-safety website, was murder number 485, case number HV596086 which occurred on December 9 at 11:45 pm (validating...
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Elections have Consequences Although the degree is debatable, voters on November 6 chose control over freedom, central planning over free markets, security over liberty, equalitarianism over growth and the collective over the individual. Exit polls showed a double digit margin of voters preferring less rather than more government. Nevertheless decades of culture and communication...
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In an effort to change the tide, which has necessitated sending surrogates to Minnesota to hold the only state Reagan lost in 1984, President Obama schedules a press conference to deploy his messianic charm. The media cognizant of, though not communicating, the state of the race feels the need to shift from an apparatchik...
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The Des Moines Register, the most read newspaper in Iowa, not known for embracing liberty over statism, has endorsed Mitt Romney. Since picking Nixon over Kennedy the paper has only abrogated once, in 1972, from recommending the more leftist candidate. In their endorsement of Romney the Register opined: The president’s best efforts to resuscitate...
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This AT&T truck was spotted Tuesday morning in suburban Chicago with Obama and union bumper stickers: After over an hour on the phone with various AT&T people I was assured that it was contrary to AT&T employee policy and they would investigate. Whether an overzealous employee or lax company enforcement of policy, make no...
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