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Book Review Since 2007, when I read Pete Hendrickson’s Cracking the Code, I, Brian Wright, have acknowledged and asserted my non-federally privileged status with respect to the federal ‘income’ tax. And believe all Americans to whom the ‘national excise tax’ does not apply should stop paying it (as a patriotic duty)… libertarians especially! Further, libertarians must learn and spread the immediately liberating and healing truths that Pete Hendrickson has unearthed… to hardstop the DC gangster state NOW. As a personal friend of the Hendrickson family, I was caught up in the struggle to help Pete’s wife Doreen resist the vicious, arbitrary aggression by the court upon her for refusing a federal judge’s order to commit the felony crime of perjury. I attended her sham contempt trial in Detroit, for five days at the end of July 2014, and was moved to write this book—a journal of her ordeal and primer of the ideas for which she was persecuted—for her liberty… and ours. [Full Column] Movie Review Sure, I know what you’re thinking, I’m just like a sports’ homey praising his pedestrian quarterback for a performance that gets the job done, but lacks the glittering brilliance of the Hall of Fame QB of a bygone era. Exactly! Atlas Shrugged, Part 3, the movie’s final installment, subtitled ‘Who is John Galt?,’ is not truly a masterpiece, but it is as inspired and imaginative a treatment of the literary-philosophical giant Ayn Rand’s magnum opus as can likely be created under practical contemporary constraints of budget… or realistic access to a full spectrum of creative talent who can convincingly present the essence of what Rand stands for, on film. [Full Column] Guest Column However if I were going door to door to re-elect Gov. Snyder, I couldn’t talk about Constitutional issues without being disingenuous because he is among the worst offenders in the state. If I were going door to door for David Trott, I couldn’t talk about the benefits of property rights because he’s the monster who has made millions exploiting unfair government rules to expel thousands from their homes. Of course, the deluded saps selling their souls in the name of ‘Republican unity’ do go door-to-door and promote bums like Snyder and Trott proclaiming them to be Constitutional conservatives. These acts of cowardice poison the well and ruin our reputation amongst the public, to the detriment of freedom... [Full Column] Quote of the Week
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