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Political
Liberty
Articles showing a
positive influence of political action on the cause of Liberty.
Dear Mike Badnarik Supporters, Friends,
and Future Friends
by Alan R. Weiss from The Libertarian
Enterprise
"Tell your friends that the Libertarian
Party, the Party of Principle, has finally lived up to its slogan and
has elected a man of extraordinary principle - a man uncomprom[is]ing
in his dedication to Liberty."
Ronald Reagan has passed into
history
by Thomas L. Knapp from
RationalReview.com
"In the coming months, we'll be
subjected to a deluge of 'he made America great again' and 'he
won the Cold War,' not least from those who want very badly to
steal some of Reagan's glory on behalf of his pale, sickly
shadow now occupying the White House. Those things may or may
not be true, but it's enough that he was the kind of man about
whom they can be said with a straight face. People believed in
Ronald Reagan because he made them believe in themselves."
Superpower or Superdebtor?
by Rep. Ron Paul from Antiwar.com
"It is clear that interventionism
leads to the perceived need for more interventionism, which
leads to more conflict and to increased resentment and
anti-Americanism. It is an endless cycle and the American
taxpayer is always left holding the bill. ... War cannot raise
the standard of living for the average American."
Life in
Amerika
Articles depicting
the negative impact of politics on Liberty.
100 Years of Medical Robbery
by Dale
Steinreich from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"In the days of
its founding AMA was much more open--at its conferences and in
its publications--about its real goal: building a
government-enforced monopoly for the purpose of dramatically
increasing physician incomes. It eventually succeeded,
becoming the most formidable labor union on the face of the
earth."
The Anti-Wal-Mart Jihad
by Butler Shaffer from
LewRockwell.com
"There is a common ignorance
in the world with which those of us who favor free market
economic systems must continually contend. It is a point
of view that cannot distinguish between legally
unrestrained economic behavior in which people voluntarily
choose to trade (or not) with one another, and a system in
which economic life is regulated, licensed, taxed, or
prohibited by the state."
All the fear that's fit to
print
by Robyn E. Blumner from
St. Petersburg Times
"I bet the men and women of
the armed services have little idea that years after
they have completed their service, their fingerprints
are scanned for any potential criminals and terrorists
among them."
Ordered Liberty
without the State
Some people
say it's Anarchy, some say it's not possible. It is an
interesting topic.
by Matthew Bryan
from Endervidualism
"Our purpose is to
examine the ramifications of legalizing a substance that, in the
past century, has infected our federal masters with an arguably
unprecedented messianic zeal and unslakeable thirst for
moralistic discipline. ... Assume all is the same, except we are
now free to cultivate and smoke pot with impunity. Let's see how
this might play out."
The Importance of Free
Expression
by Butler Shaffer from
LewRockwell.com
"The state -- as enforcer of
institutional rigidity -- loves the cloned mentality. The
government school system and military training camps are the
state's mechanisms for fostering the uniformity and
obedience that benefit its interests while helping to
destroy the vibrancy of a free and productive society."
Introduction to
Dissenting Electorate
by Carl Watner from
voluntaryist.com
"As Albert Jay Nock put it,
'[A]ges of experience testify that the only way society
can be improved is by the individualist method ...; that
is the method of each "one" doing his very best' to
cultivate his own garden. This is the quiet or patient
way of changing society because it concentrates upon
bettering the character of men and women as
individuals."
Spreading Decentralism
Articles
demonstrating an increase in the dispersal of power.
Be
Ashamed ... Be Very Ashamed
by L. Neil Smith from The
Libertarian Enterprise
"I don't believe this government
would ever have released them, after holding and abusing
them in clear violation of the Constitution and
international rules of civilized behavior, if it hadn't
somehow been compelled to. Nor are we offered a clue about
who it was who put the pressure on."
The Four Generations of
Modern War
by William S. Lind from
LewRockwell.com
"Fourth Generation war
is the greatest change since the Peace of
Westphalia, because it marks the end of the state's
monopoly on war. Once again, as before 1648, many
different entities, not states, are fighting war.
They use many different means, including "terrorism"
and immigration, not just formal armies. ... All
over the world, state militaries are fighting
non-state opponents, and almost always, the state is
losing."
Being practical
isn't always good
by Tibor Machan
from The Daily News
"It is the task of
visionaries, including political thinkers and
editorialists who have come to find their ideas
sound, to bring the rest of the citizenry around
to seeing a strange but good idea as also a
feasible and practical one."
The New
World Hegemon
Depictions of the coming Imperial power
Hail the Great Leader!
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell,
Jr. from LewRockwell.com
"The idea of a president
worried those who believed in the ideals of the
revolution. They were assured that he could not be a
despot. He would be under the impeachment threat. He
couldn't do a thing without the Senate's advice and
consent. The Senate in turn was to be appointed by the
state legislatures, which were the fundamental
governing units in America."
"Puto
deus fio"
by Nicholas Strakon
from The Last Ditch
"Any propaganda about a
leviathan-politician's having been 'great' at
anything, apart from wickedness, puts me in mind of
what Samuel Johnson said about women's preaching: it
was like 'a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is
not done well; but you are surprised to find it done
at all.' Substitute 'politician' for the lady
preacher, and Bob's your uncle."
How Big Brother Is
Watching, Listening and Misusing Information About
You
by Teresa Hampton &
Doug Thompson from Capitol Hill Blue
"Going on a trip?
TIA knows where you are going because your
train, plane or hotel reservations are forwarded
automatically to the DARPA computers. Driving?
Every time you use a credit card to purchase
gas, a record of that transaction is sent to TIA
which can track your movements across town or
across the country....If they order an adult
film from any of DirecTV’s three SpiceTV
channels, that information goes to TIA and is,
as a matter of policy, forwarded to the
Department of Justice’s special task force on
pornography."
Politics by Other Means
War, rumors of war, and politicians fomenting war.
The Dog Days of
the War Party
by Patrick J.
Buchanan from Antiwar.com
"The Night of the
Long Knives has begun. The military and CIA
are stabbing the neocons front, back and
center, laying responsibility on them for the
mess in Iraq. Meanwhile, the Balkan wars of
the American Right have reignited, with even
the normally quiescent Beltway conservatives
scrambling to get clear of the neocon
encampment before the tomahawking begins."
Tenet Now,
Rummy and Wolfie Soon
by Ivan Eland
from The Independent Institute
"Because Tenet
is a holdover from a Democratic
administration, his sacking will relieve
pressure on the administration to hold
someone accountable for the debacle without
angering an already disgruntled conservative
base. He'll need to keep that group
mollified in what promises to be a close
election in the fall."
Kerry: An Echo,
Not a Choice
by Sheldon
Richman from The Future of Freedom
Foundation
"What Kerry
really cares about is military might,
diplomacy, and the intelligence system -- in
other words, the hardware of government
intervention and imperialism. He is fully a
believer i[n] projecting American power
abroad. He seeks only to make it more
palatable to the American people by making
sure that some of the casualties have
foreign-sounding names."
Spontaneous Order
Articles
showing decentralized successes.
The Human Impact of Factor Mobility
by Clifford F. Thies
from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"Our increasing wages
and standard of living result not from working longer hours or
working harder. Rather, they result from a combination of
increasing labor productivity and increasing total factor
productivity which, in turn, depend on increasing saving and
investment, from innovations and inventions, and from increasing
specialization."
Government
Has No Business Interfering With What You Eat
by Radley Balko from Cato Institute
"Give Americans moral, financial and
personal responsibility for their own health, and obesity is no
longer a public matter but a private one--with all the costs,
concerns and worries of being overweight borne only by those
people who are actually overweight."
Mises on
Copyrights
by Bettina Bien Greaves from The
Freeman
"A patent or copyright is defined as
an agreement on the part of the government to protect the
property rights of an inventor or author to his creation for a
certain period of time. The inventor or author pays a price for
this protection: he agrees to turn his creation over to the
public, at no cost, when the protection expires. Now if the
government is to protect property, it must define that
property."
Nonspontaneous Disorder
Articles
showing centrally planned disasters.
The Silent Partner in Family
Decline
by Per Henrik
Hansen from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"The traditional
family has for many centuries and in most countries been the
core unit of society. It has been the foundation and even
the ultimate purpose in many people's lives. It has provided
a stable framework to bring children into the world, to
raise them, to teach them manners and how to become
productive and happy human beings. ... All this is changing
now."
The Socialism of Social
Security
by Jacob G. Hornberger from
The Future of Freedom Foundation
"Social Security and every
other socialist program takes the exact opposite tact: You
cannot be left free to care for yourselves, your parents,
or others because you are too incompetent, selfish, and
self-centered to make these choices. You are not free to
say 'No.' If you were free, you would make the wrong
choice. Therefore, we must force you to make the right
choice."
Ladies Night of the Living
Dead
by Jonathan David Morris
from Strike The Root
"Ladies Night. It's the queen
of bar and nightclub promotions, and it's popular
nationwide. ... Now, it's hard to deny that Ladies Night
is a discriminatory practice. That is, after all, the
idea. But is it really a bane upon the progress of...
well, mankind? Probably not."
War Is The Health Of The State
War is the ultimate State intervention in
society.
by Nicholas
Strakon from The Last Ditch
"War fans
insisting that antiwar people answer their simple-minded
question about What 'We' Should Have Done in World War
II deserve a simple answer -- Stay out! -- but they
really ought to look at more of history than just the
chapters covering June 6, 1944, and December 7, 1941. In
history one thing leads to another. And it's impossible
to understand anything about the second great war
without confronting the first great war. World War I
brimmed with catastrophes ... but despite the
unprecedented scale of those state-massacres the worst
catastrophe, in terms of long-term effect, was the entry
of the United State into the evil madness. That
intervention led straight to Lenin, Hitler, and Stalin,
and also greased the skids leading to the Great
Depression of the 1930s. At home Wilson's foreign
intervention created an upsurge of totalitarianism,
great and petty, that, to put it mildly, we've never
gotten over."
The Great Compromiser
by Christopher Westley
from LewRockwell.com
"Hopkins urged a fight
with Nazi Germany at a time when many on both sides of
the Atlantic believed that that country's national
socialist experiment had, like the New Deal, run its
course. But Hopkins provided a curious strategy for
victory over fascism abroad: America must adopt
fascism at home. So he argued that democracy 'must
wage total war against totalitarian war. It must
exceed the Nazi in fury, ruthlessness and
efficiency'."
War, War, War!
by Charley Reese from
Antiwar.com
"While few wars are just
wars, all are profitable -- though, of course, not to
the lads and lassies who fight and die in them. They
are profitable to the military-industrial complex. The
Iraq War is a multibillion-dollar bonanza for
Halliburton Inc., and a lesser bonanza for all the
other corporations scooping up the dollars, whether to
supply mercenaries or to do jobs unemployed Iraqis
ought to be doing."
Bits of History
The Past seen with a
fresh look.
The Search for the
Historical Reagan
by Jesse
Walker from Reason
"The best
you can say about his economic policies is that, while
he didn't roll back many rules ... Reagan generally
refrained from imposing new regulations.... And if
Reagan didn't live up to the expectations of his
libertarian supporters, the flipside is that he did
the same thing to his backers on the Christian
right...."
Nazism and the Burden
of Collective Guilt
by Richard M. Ebeling
from Foundation for Economic Education
"Just as there cannot be
collective, or group, 'rights' different and
distinct from the rights belonging to individuals,
so there cannot be collective, or group, guilt or
responsibility different and distinct from the
responsibilities of separate individuals."
I'll Buy That Dream
by Gail Jarvis from
LewRockwell.com
"The end of World War
Two in 1945 ushered in a mood of exuberance
throughout America. Our soldiers returned home with
visions of peace and prosperity. The bright hopes of
these young men were expressed in a catchy hit song
that came out that same year: I'll Buy that
Dream."
War and Peace
Articles showing the
nature of War.
Nothing Learned in 60
Years
by Jim
Davies from Strike The Root
"Governments are 100% useless appendages to any
society, and have to work to justify their existence
in the eyes of those they rule; one way to do so,
proven effective by 5,000 bloody years of history,
is to excite small boys--and adults with a juvenile
perspective--with the idea of the glory of
patriotism, warfare and conquest."
It Takes Planning?
by Paul Hein from
LewRockwell.com
"Our military surely
have access to press, radio, and TV in that
country. How about an announcement that, having
removed Saddam (whom we leave to your legal
system, dear Iraqis) and proven the non-existence
of WMDs, we've done what we set out to do, and
will be departing? Good by, and good luck."
Pride, Patriotism,
and Propaganda
by Thomas Gale Moore
from Antiwar.com
"The belief that
military power can bring the world peace,
prosperity, and democracy should have been dealt a
fatal blow. Are we better off for having taken on
two wars? We are now bogged down in those two
conflicts. Rather than concentrate on bringing to
justice the people who attacked us in September of
2001, the Bush Administration is still lumping
together real with phony wars."
Great Individuals In History
Some people stand out
from the crowd.
Painter - John
Trumbull : June 6, 1756
by Virtualology
from rebelswithavision.com
"When the
[American] Revolutionary war opened, he
joined the army as adjutant. His skill as a
draughtsman enabled him to make drawings of
the enemy's works at Boston, and Washington
appointed him one of his aides-de-camp."
Diarist -
Anne Frank : June 12, 1929
from
annefrank.org
"On June 12,
1942, Anne Frank celebrates her 13th
birthday. She receives a diary as a
present. It is her favorite gift. She
begins writing in it immediately: 'I hope
I will be able to confide everything to
you…and I hope you will be a great source
of comfort and support'."
Playwright -
Terence Rattigan : June 10, 1911
from The
Filmmakers at sonypictures.com
"Rattigan
enjoyed uninterrupted success from 1936
until 1956. With a string of hits
including 'French Without Tears,' 'While
the Sun Shines,' 'Love in Idleness,' 'The
Browning Version,' 'Separate Tables,'
'The Winslow Boy' and others, it
seemed as though Rattigan could not miss."
Culcha'
Books, Movies, TV,
Media, Music, poetry, etc.
'Day After Tomorrow'
Assaults Science and Reason
by Jeff Wright from The
Colorado Freedom Report
"By the end of the movie
it is very self-evident that the folks who made this
movie actually believe the crap they portray. The
public pronouncements by the lead actors about the
flick also have been instructive as to the level of
ignorance that dominates Hollywood."
Nock Revisited
by Sheldon Richman
from The Freeman
"Some books and essays
require regular re-reading. ... For me, Albert Jay
Nock’s masterly essay 'On Doing the Right Thing'
is one of those works. (Written in 1924, it is
reprinted in the Nock collection The State of the
Union: Essays in Social Criticism, edited by
Charles H. Hamilton and published by Liberty
Fund.)"
Beyond Tomorrow: Some
Not So Special Effects
by Lady Liberty from
The Price of Liberty
"Hollywood has long
tried to influence politics, sometimes
successfully.... But in the case of The Day After
Tomorrow, Hollywood goes beyond politics and into
the realm of science. I don't imagine it was
trying all that hard to do so, but the credibility
given the movie by its famous endorsers (and
detractors) lends impact to its onscreen claims.
And given our woefully undereducated public school
students where the sciences are concerned, the
accompanying spread of misinformation offers a
much more likely - and at least as scary in its
own way - scenario than the one actually depicted
in the movie."
The lighter side
Humor, satire, cartoons,
parodies, food, popular music
and other things to amuse.
What Do You Think? --
Tenet's Resignation
from The Onion
"CIA Director George Tenet
resigned last week, claiming that the decision was
'personal' and unconnected to recent controversies. What
do you think?"
Canada Refuses To Change
Its Name To Ronald Reagan - Republicans Blast Canadians
as 'Ingrates'
by Andy Borowitz from
BorowitzReport
"'After all Ronald Reagan
did for them, these Canadians are acting like a bunch
of ingrates,' said Senator James M. Inhofe (R-OK).
'It's no wonder some of them speak French, if you
catch my meaning'."
President Reaganesque
by Mark Fiore from The
Village Voice
We still have….
Deep Thought
Scientific
and scholarly studies, philosophical essays,
in-depth and longer articles.
by Richard Rieben from
Endervidualism
"From the vantage of someone
wanting liberty - plain and
simple - this exploration
appears overdone and muddled.
People who want liberty do not
care to consider 'what they are'
qua human being. They do not
want to ponder what is
'appropriate to their
condition.' They do not want to
waste time examining their
cultural proclivities and
contradictions. They just want a
practical plan. Now."
The new Puritans
by Doug Casey from
WorldNetDaily.com
"The seeds sown by those
Puritans have persisted
through American history,
albeit with the normal ebb and
flow of society. The roaring
'20s and psychedelic '60s are,
to my way of thinking, more
representative of why America
is great than the societies of
the Pilgrims and the
Puritans."
Austrian Economics and the
Political Economy of Freedom
by Richard M. Ebeling from The
Freeman
"The Austrian view of man
refutes the positivist,
historicist, and neoclassical
conceptions of man as a mere
physical, quantitative object,
or as a passive subject
controlled by the dark forces
of history, or as a 'dependent
variable' in a system of
mathematical equations."
Miscellany
Articles not
easily classified.
A War in America
by Anthony Gregory from
Strike The Root
"If Americans think it's
right to lock harmless hippies in cages with rapists,
only to let the rapists out first, how are they going
to understand the complexities of antitrust? If they
don't find it unnerving that innocent people are
strip-searched in airports because they might be
carrying 6,000 year-old Chinese medicine, how can we
expect them to grasp the subtleties of central
banking?"
Three cheers for the
Cos, Part II
by Walter E. Williams
from Townhall.com
"Black people will
accomplish much more by focusing on the issues of
crime, illegitimacy, poor parenting and slovenly
behavior than worrying about whom the Republican
Party is appealing to and racial discrimination."
Ray Charles 1930-2004
from The Olympian
"Charles stature grew
as he came to represent the best of American
creativity and individualism. His 'America the
Beautiful' has become a standard and his version
of 'Georgia on My Mind' is now Georgia's official
state song."
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