MarkTaff.com

1. Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man... take my pound of flesh and sleep well.
(News/Liberty)

... (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”. It’s clear they see no ...

2. Welcome Emma!
(News/Latest)

My great-niece Emma Marie Taff was born to Jennifer & Cory Taff of Portland, Oregon, on January 12, 2010 at 08:42 AM, PST. Emma shares her birthday with John Hancock (American Statesman, 1737-1793), ...

3. The Price of Liberty is...Hot Dog Gruel?
(News/Liberty)

... on the right to avoid self-incrimination, with my thanks to David Codrea. According to Professor James Duane of Regent Law, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, in Ohio v. Reiner, 523 U.S. 17, ...

4. Will The DC City Council Ever Learn Their Lesson?
(News/Gun Rights)

The District of Columbia argued a losing case all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, and rather than accepting that the Second Amendment plainly means what 75% of Americans think it means, ...

5. Begala Not the Brightest Bulb
(News/Liberty)

... of Taxes Paid by State, 2005".  Notice that it doesn't compare how much cash a State "gets" back from the federal government for every taxpayer dollar it sends to the federal government, but rather how ...

6. Jury Duty
(News/Liberty)

... whose bail was so excessive that there was no reasonable chance for them to post bail. I will not convict anyone of breaking any law that appears to be in violation of the US or Washington State Constitutions.  ...

7. No Nads Nickels a No-show
(News/Gun Rights)

... people were carrying concealed pistols! There was also at least one gentleman openly carrying a pistol.  For those of you not familiar with Washington State firearms laws, open carry is perfectly legal, ...

8. Don't Ban Guns, Ban Nickels
(News/Gun Rights)

... the same oath to defend the Washington State Constitution and to uphold state law as I did when I was elected to the Colville City Council. Yet he and his out-of-touch totalitarian troupe seem intent ...

9. Credits & Licenses
(Meta/Meta)

... GPL or Creative Commons license.  Any photograph lacking such copyright or license is hereby licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License, unless accompanied by ...

10. GeSHi Extreme
(Software/Joomla!)

In porting my website to Joomla!, I was rather disappointed in the state of Joomla!'s syntax highlighting.  I discovered the Geshi Plus plug-in, which allowed for use of an alternate tag style that makes ...

11. Morris Embarrasses U.S.
(News/Gun Rights)

... richest countries in the world.  One immediately wonders why she excluded data from the other 158 countries on the planet.  Could it be because that data devastates her argument? While people like ...

12. The Kangaroo Court of Greg Nickels’ Gun Control ‘Summit’
(News/Gun Rights)

... program: No participants from the firearms community were invited to attend, much less participate in the panel discussions. When one of us was cordially invited by State Sen. Adam Kline, that invitation ...

13. About Me
('Uncategorised Content')

... about eight years older than I had he lived more than a week. After about a year in Germany, we returned to the States, again taking up residence in Oshkosh, Wisconsin (well, obviously it was my first ...

14. Name
(Contact / Contacts)

Name, Position, Miscellanous info