Publisher's Note: The New Year brings a new monster to the Offal Office in Mordor. While I am relieved that Hil Jong-Un failed in its bid to seize the fulcrum of power in DC, we will see what happens.

I have to say I am a little encouraged so far and I will stand by my notion that there is nothing Trump will reduce or eliminate in the Federal government apparatus that disturbs me. Nothing. Burn it all.

Unfortunately, the most important tells for a President's view of liberty is his notion of interventionism overseas and his joy d-vive at the mere mention of "law enforcement. If you enthuse about military intervention overseas or the concomitant support of occupation behavior at home, your notions of liberty are quite distorted if non-existent.

We wait and see, I make no predictions but I do think the prospect for unencumbered individual liberty in America remains absent and elusive.