government abuse

Sucking the Party Dry

Sucking the Party Dry

…The emaciated donkey is the Democratic Party when it has lived out its usefulness to the Clinton political machine. Bill and Hillary are the flatworms emerging from the spent carcass, eagerly looking for the next victim….

Runaway Slave Documentary

Movie Review: Runaway Slave

This powerful documentary by Rev. C.L. Bryant is crucial viewing for those who truly want to change the plight of black Americans and bring an end to the racial divide in our country. Runaway Slave throws into stark contrast the opposing views of entitlement foisted on the black community by LBJ’s Great Society against the [...]

Let Them Eat Cake! Part One

This is one of the most recent paintings I have completed in the OWS series I am working on. I will write a full article as soon as I complete my research on the historic background of the phrase “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche!” November 12, 2012 Let Them Eat Cake: Part One This painting [...]

Is The American Dream a Farce? by Mark Taylor

For Immediate Release: New Book Questions “Is the American Dream a Farce?” Savannah, GA – September 26, 2012 Cover illustration provided by Frances Byrd. Concerned about the negative impact of our nation’s $16 trillion national debt, runaway government spending and governmental overreach into our private lives, eighteen-year-old Mark Taylor has written a book called Is [...]

Debt Bondage, the US Congress, and a Show-Cause Order

This illustration was commissioned by David Leeper of Western Free Press. You can see the article for which it was illustrated at this link. It has also bee published at the Tea Party Tribune. Tweet Frances Byrd is the National Director of Liberatchik.com, a conservative political artist and blogger. Her art can be viewed at [...]

Atlas Shrugged in 2011?

I received the following article in an email from a close friend today. It is telling and frightening at the same time. I recently reread the book in preparation for a series of paintings paralleling current events and those in the novel. Ayn Rand Was Right: Wealthy Are on Strike Against Obama by Wayne Allyn [...]

Artists Don’t Seem to Care About Freedom of Speech

Several weeks ago, I was sent an email by a friend Jimmy in California concerning the disappearance of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. There is very little information from China on the artist’s dissappearance or the reason why he is apparently being held by the Chinese government. In the weeks since Ai was spirited away, several [...]

“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.”

… You really cannot blame the citizens in our entitlement culture who think that they can have their lunch and eat it too. After all, look at the example that their legislators are setting as they coast along on their own free-lunch wagon, creating whatever programs they desire, and then printing paper dollars out of [...]

Follow up on Ai WeiWei Post

courrielche investigating how the world works Mr. Trump – Your Argument Against China Just Got Stronger By: Patrick Courrielche NOTE: Also published at Big Government. On April 3rd, Chinese artist and citizen investigator Ai Weiwei was taken into custody by his government while attempting to fly from Beijing to Hong Kong. Initially, Chinese law enforcement [...]

It’s All a Matter of Perspective

…Perhaps we are not so far from learning what true oppression is like after all. I didn’t realize the Constitution was just a bunch of ideas to be dispensed with at some politician’s convenience.