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If I Were Osama, And The United States Government Were Actually Looking For Me, I'd Be Clean-shaven By Now, Crewcutted, Wearing Jeans And A Zz Top T-shirt, And Living In A Nice Little House In Lincoln, Nebraska.

I Have A Recurring Daymare That When The Glorious People's Swat Teams Smash Their Way In, Most Of Us - By Which I Mean Members Of The General Freedom Movement - Will Be Caught Flatfooted, Sitting In Our Underwear Behind Our Computer Monitors, Guzzling Jolt And Gorging On Cheetos, While Arguing With Our Friends And Enemies Online About Immigration Or Abortion, Two Of The Issues That The Lefties Know They Can Always Rely On To Keep That General Freedom Movement Divided And Powerless.

My Current Novel, Pallas, Is All About That Culture War - In Fact It's Been Called The Uncle Tom's Cabin Of The Sagebrush Rebellion - And Yet What I Hear All Too Often From Libertarians Is That They Don't Read Fiction.

The Trouble Is With Socialism, Which Resembles A Form Of Mental Illness More Than It Does A Philosophy. Socialists Get Bees In Their Bonnets. And Because They Chronically Lack Any Critical Faculty To Examine And Evaluate Their Ideas, And Because They Are Pathologically Unwilling To Consider The Opinions Of Others, And Most Of All, Because Socialism Is A Mindset That Regards The Individual And His Rights As Insignificant, Compared To Whatever The Socialist Believes The Group Needs, Terrible, Terrible Things Happen When Socialists Acquire Power.

For The Second Amendment To Do Its Job, The Other Side Must Become Much Better Informed. I Watched An Action-adventure Program Last Night That Asserted That The Famous Ak-47 - The Original Peoples' Rifle (and Authority's Greatest Mistake) - Is Rare In This Country, And That The Only Ones Here Were Originally Smuggled In From The Middle East, Or Possibly From South America. The Idiots Who Wrote This Mess Seemed Unaware That After Legal Imports - Mostly From China - Were Illegally Cut Off By Executive Order, They Began To Be Manufactured Here.