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Political
Liberty
Articles showing a
positive influence of political action on the cause of Liberty.
Declarations of Independence
by Nat Hentoff from The Village Voice
"In Massachusetts, Marilyn Levin, who is
working on a state Bill of Rights Defense Resolution, told a reporter
for the Littleton Independent that these resolutions across the country
are 'a great vehicle for raising consciousness and awareness. . . . Even
though a resolution in itself can't overturn federal laws, what it can
do is express public opinion and put pressure on our congressional
representatives who do have the power to change the laws'."
Let enterprise boldly go into space
by Jeff Jacoby from Townhall.com
"Private enterprise belongs in
space: Clearly, this is an idea whose time as come. And now a
high-level panel -- the President's Commission on Moon, Mars,
and Beyond -- is saying so explicitly."
Kick Your Victim Addiction - 12 Steps to Restoring Courage and
Freedom
by Aaron Zelman and Claire Wolfe
from JPFO
"No matter what happens in the
outside world, we must never allow victim disarmers to win in
our hearts. Despite any law, rule, regulation, executive
order, presidential directive, or any amount of propaganda or
media opposition, you have a right to stop anyone who comes to
try to kill you. You have the right to stop anyone who comes
to take your freedom."
Life in
Amerika
Articles depicting
the negative impact of politics on Liberty.
Welcome To Amerika! Tell The
Truth, Go To Prison
by Joe Blow from Ether Zone
"Let me be perfectly clear: I
received an FBI letter. Am I worried? Of course not, because
it’s not true, so I have nothing to fear. When your day comes
and you actually do receive an FBI letter, you will fully
understand."
Fair-Weather Friends
by Matt Welch from Reason
"When one of the West Coast's
most respected media organizations cites fear of a
shutdown as the reason to fire a 42-year-old mother of two
who was in the midst of a five-part series on knitting,
the justification is either an example of the chilling
effect that government regulation has on speech or an
inflammatory excuse to get rid of an unwanted employee."
Ambushed Athletes Make
Great News
by Radley Balko from FOX
News
"The irony in all of this is
that sports is the last pure meritocracy left in
America. Every athlete on the basketball court, the
baseball diamond or the football field has his job
solely because of his ability. Not one player makes it
to the pro leagues because of who his father was, what
neighborhood he was born into or the color of his skin."
Ordered Liberty
without the State
Some people
say it's Anarchy, some say it's not possible. It is an
interesting topic.
Mandatory
Tooth Brushing
by Sofreh-ye Pretta Aghd from
LewRockwell.com
"Whether concerning cigarettes,
guns, or seatbelts, the best way to an American's heart is now
through a billy club or the threat of it. Fear is the engine of
America's entrenched and growing tradition for servile
conformity, while all 'round come shouts, 'Let Freedom Ring!'"
No Special Features; No
Alternate Ending
by Ronald Neff from Strike The
Root and The Last Ditch
"Anyone who imagines that this
monster is to be fought with the political weapons it itself
grants us, who dreams that political action will unseat it,
who indulges the fancy that participating in its rites will
overthrow it has simply failed even to discern the outline
of this great enemy."
Let's Hear It For
Democracy!
by Paul Hein from
LewRockwell.com
"And is voting something to
be desired, when the choice is between Tweedledum and
Tweedledee? ... The trend toward ever larger, more
tyrannical government proceeds smoothly, regardless of
elections. And why should that be surprising? Government
is a big business, probably the biggest. Is it going to
throw up for grabs its important executive positions
every few years? Does any business operate that way?"
Spreading Decentralism
Articles
demonstrating an increase in the dispersal of power.
The Way
It Should Have Been
by Bob Wallace from The Price
of Liberty
"Hijacker: This is a hijacking!
I have a boxcutter!
Grandma: I have a .45! Now reach for the sky, or I'll put a hole in that diaper-hat on top of your pointy little head!"
Dispatches from a
Libertarian Localist
by James Ostrowski from
LewRockwell.com
"Bill Kauffman is a
leading voice for libertarian decentralism,
localism, or as he calls it, 'placeism.' There is
another important difference between Kauffman and
the pro-Union, inside the beltway, elitist
libertarian centralists: a fabulous sense of humor.
How does Kauffman compare with the neocons? They
think locally and act globally; he thinks locally
and acts locally...."
Of Bullwinkle and
Beheadings
by Rodger Jacobs
from Strike The Root
"'When I was a
child,' she thundered, 'we understood that
different people have different cultures. My
father used to read 1001 Arabian Nights
to me. Do you remember that? "Ali Baba and
the Forty Thieves"? Beheading is part of
the Muslim culture'."
The New
World Hegemon
Depictions of the coming Imperial power
Why They Lie -- and Get Away With It
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell,
Jr. from LewRockwell.com
"The crucial difference is
that they are lying on behalf of power. And not just
any power. We are talking about the greatest
centralized power on the globe, the world's largest,
most well-armed, and most dangerous government, the
only government to have ever used nuclear weapons
against civilians and the government that has invaded
more countries than any other in modern times."
U.S. honour ambushed
by Eric Margolis from
The Toronto Sun
"History shows once a
regime authorizes torture, it comes to be widely
used against all sorts of suspects -- criminal as
well as political. Recall up to 90% of all those
arrested by the U.S. as 'terrorism suspects' turned
out to be completely innocent."
The Nightmare Comes
True
by Uri Avnery from
Strike The Root
"Every Palestinian
town - Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarm, Kalkilia,
Bethlehem, Hebron and others - will become the
'capital' of a tiny enclave, cut off from all
the others, from their 'hinterland' and
villages, except by tortuous roundabout routes.
Fifty-five percent of the West Bank will be
Israeli, the Palestinian enclaves will amount to
45% (about 10% of historical Palestine)."
Politics by Other Means
War, rumors of war, and politicians fomenting war.
Our Elective
Monarchy
by Sheldon
Richman from The Future of Freedom Foundation
"One of the myths
Americans live by is that they rejected
monarchy when the British left involuntarily
in the late 18th century. Had a Martian been
visiting the United States last week, he never
would have believed it. Witnessing the state
funeral and worshipful wall-to-wall
cable-television coverage, our Martian would
have sworn that Ronald Reagan had been the
king of America."
Bringing the
War Back Home
by Brian
Doherty from Reason
"And so long as
there are 50 people with a grudge against
the U.S. and some spending cash, we can
never realistically say the war on terror is
won, can we? No amount of Americans with
Disabilities Acts in Syria and court
decisions in favor of gay marriage in Saudi
Arabia will really end the threat of terror
anyway. The scenario ... is one that truly
guarantees eternal war-crisis footing."
The Bush-Kerry
Conundrum -- The Only Choice is the War Party
by Kurt Nimmo
from CounterPunch
"So, in
November, you can vote for a Republican
warmonger or a Democrat warmonger. Oh, you
can vote for Ralph Nader on principle, or
not vote at all, but the forgone conclusion
is that the War Party will be in the White
House -- either Republican or Democrat
flavor, no difference -- for another four
years."
Spontaneous Order
Articles
showing decentralized successes.
What Is the Free Market, and Who
Cares?
by Butler Shaffer
from LewRockwell.com
""The growing
popularity of 'farmers markets,' along with independently owned
meat markets, demonstrates how small businesses - though they may
be at a disadvantage in matters of price - can effectively compete
with large supermarkets regarding personalized service and the
quality of their produce."
Choice Is Bad
for Us? It Just Ain't So!
by James R. Otteson from The
Freeman
"By contrast, if an individual makes
a bad decision, its consequences redound essentially to that
individual himself. Even if they also affect his close family or
friends, that is a significantly smaller problem than the
catastrophe of one distant expert’s making a bad decision for
everyone."
Objections to
These Unions
by Jonathan Rauch from Reason
"To rule out a moral and emotional
claim as powerful as the right to marry for love, saying that
bad things might happen is not enough. ... People predicted that
bad things would happen if contraception became legal and
widespread, and indeed bad things did happen, but that did not
make legalizing contraception the wrong thing to do; and, in any
case, good things happened too."
Nonspontaneous Disorder
Articles
showing centrally planned disasters.
Milwaukee's Mess
by Christopher
Westley from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"The likelihood
of anyone being held criminally responsible currently seems
quite low. No one has been fired. More tellingly, lawyers
have not exactly been lining up at the trial bar to file
cases against the perpetrators of this crime like they did
shortly after the oil spill of the Exxon Valdez in the
1980s."
Offshoring Which Jobs?
by Alan Reynolds from Cato
Institute
"Since the alleged offshoring
of high-paying computer-related jobs is an obvious hoax,
the outsourcing agitators have lately switched to fretting
about low-paying, non-technical jobs at call centers."
Free market is the answer
by Michael F. Cannon from
USA TODAY
"Most of America's health care
is private, so many assume it operates as a free market.
In truth, it is dominated by the government, resulting in
high costs and stifling bureaucracy."
War Is The Health Of The State
War is the ultimate State intervention in
society.
by Chris
Floyd from TheMoscowTimes.com
"Not only
has their already incalculable wealth been vastly
augmented (with any potential losses indemnified by U.S.
taxpayers), but their deeply entrenched sway over
American society has also increased by several
magnitudes. No matter who controls the government, the
militarization of America is so far gone now it's
impossible to imagine any major rollback in the
gargantuan U.S. war machine...."
The Story of the Fed Is a
Story of a Crime
by George F. Smith from
Strike The Root
"With Morgan-controlled
newspapers beating the drums for American
participation, Wilson finally got his war on April 16,
1917. Eight days later, Congress extended $1 billion
in credit to the Allies. The British took their
initial advance of $200 million and paid it to Morgan.
When they ran up an overdraft of $400 million three
months later, Morgan turned to the U.S. Treasury for
help. Treasury Secretary William McAdoo stalled until
Benjamin Strong, the Fed's main man, came to his
rescue and paid Morgan piecemeal during 1917 - 1918.
Where did Strong get the money? He simply created it."
Honor Reagan's Promise
and Abolish the Selective Service
by Anthony Gregory from
The Independent Institute
"In December of 2001, with
little attention from the media, Bush signed a 'smart
borders' agreement with Canada to allow the U.S.
government to extradite American draftees in Canada
back to the United States. If Bush says there is 'not
a chance' a draft will come to America, why did he
think it necessary to make such an unprecedented
agreement with Canada?"
Bits of History
The Past seen with a
fresh look.
A big fat compliment
by Ronald
N. Neff from The Last Ditch
"Government took in more money; and if government is
richer, it, like any honest citizen, can do more
things. But the ability to do more things is precisely
the definition of being more powerful. Our argument,
then, should run: Reagan decreased tax rates. Tax
revenues increased. Government got richer. Therefore,
government got more powerful."
IN MEMORIAM -You need
to be really special to get the big funeral
by Matt Taibbi from New
York Press
"We celebrated Ronald
Reagan's death for a week because we believe in
covering our asses to protect our careers, naming
names if we have to. We gorged ourselves on this
elaborate military funeral because we just love
being a country that laughs at the Savios and
Berrigans of the world for their embarrassing
quality of standing up for peace."
Indians Should Know
Better
by Michael Gaddy from
The Price of Liberty
"The State at one time
even declared the Indian incapable of rearing their
own children and placed many in boarding schools
where their hair was cut short and they could not
speak their own language or discuss their own
culture. This, my friends, is State sponsored
'sovereignty'!"
War and Peace
Articles showing the
nature of War.
The Canon
by
William S. Lind from LewRockwell.com
"The
last column laid out the basic framework of the Four
Generations of modern war. Here, we pick up with a
discussion of 'the canon,' the seven books which,
read in the order given, will take the reader from
the First Generation through the Second, the Third
and on into the Fourth."
The Economics of
Sitting Ducks
by Alan R. Weiss from
The Libertarian Enterprise
"All these people
demanding war, let them shoulder an M16 and stand
a post. If that were the case, Americans would
quickly find a different way to prosecute the war
on terror. All these people who insist 'we' must
'fight this war', do so by proxy with soldiers
underpaid and clearly undertrained. Those soldiers
are not only victims of bad policy, they're
economic victims, too."
Deep Denial Remains
by Alan Bock from
Antiwar.com
"There is some
evidence of disaffection among conservatives ...
over how badly the Iraq aftermath is going, but
for some people the impulse to stay loyal to the
Bush administration is apparently invincible.
Apparently this impulse includes misremembering
what the administration actually said during the
run-up to the war."
Great Individuals In History
Some people stand out
from the crowd.
Historian -
Harry Elmer Barnes : June 15, 1889
by Joseph R.
Stromberg from Antiwar.com
"Like John T.
Flynn, H.L. Mencken, Albert Jay Nock, and
Charles Beard, Barnes was regarded as a
leading spokesman for good causes until he
failed to sign up with the foreign policy of
Franklin D. Roosevelt. For this sin, these
'liberal' thinkers vanished into outer
darkness, redefined as 'right-wing'
troglodytes."
Mathematician/Philosopher - Blaise Pascal :
June 19, 1623
from
Wikipedia
"In 1654,
prompted by a friend interested in
gambling problems, he corresponded with
Fermat on the subject, and of that
collaboration was born the mathematical
theory of probabilities."
Singer -
Elaine 'Spanky' McFarlane : June 19, 1942
from TuneFan
"Blue sky, sunshine, what a
day to take a walk in the park. Ice cream,
day dream till the sky becomes a blanket
of stars. What a day for pick-in' daisies,
and lots of red balloons.
And what a day for hold-in' hands
and be-in' with you."
Culcha'
Books, Movies, TV,
Media, Music, poetry, etc.
by Tom
Ender from Endervidualism
"All the
parts in this film are brilliantly played, with the
major characters Rob Roy: the 'noble' commoner ...
and Archie Cunningham: the fallen and debauched
'aristocrat'.... One is as bright as the other is
dark. ... Neeson's hero is well executed, as should
be expected from such a fine actor. However, Roth's
Archie is one of the truly great villains of film."
Rob Roy is being shown on Showtime channels.
Deadwood
by Brad Edmonds from
LewRockwell.com
"Deadwood is
compelling for many reasons, not the least of
which is that for a time, the historical Deadwood,
South Dakota was without forcible government.
There was forcible governance, but there was no
agency that claimed a moral right to a monopoly of
the use of force, as every government does."
A Hoax to Raise Our
Consciousness
by Art Carden from
Ludwig von Mises Institute
"And yet Emmerich's
'The Day After Tomorrow' has generated a
lot of publicity and a lot of 'dialogue' by
positing a doomsday scenario that is only slightly
more realistic than the alien invasion scenario
that was the centerpiece of 'Independence Day'
(or the giant nuclear lizard that wreaked havoc in
Emmerich's update of 'Godzilla')."
The lighter side
Humor, satire, cartoons,
parodies, food, popular music
and other things to amuse.
by Terry
Jones from The Guardian
"For some
time now, I've been trying to find out where my son goes
after choir practice. He simply refuses to tell me. He
says it's no business of mine where he goes after choir
practice and it's a free country."
9/11 Commission Could
Have Been Prevented
from The Onion
"According to key members
of the Bush Administration, the tragic proceedings of
the 9/11 commission, which devastated the political
lives of numerous government officials, could have
been averted with preventive action in 2002 and 2003."
The Torture Team
by Mark Fiore from The
Village Voice
Action that's above the
law!
Deep Thought
Scientific
and scholarly studies, philosophical essays,
in-depth and longer articles.
by Roger Young from
Strike The Root
"Reagan built his political
legacy using the hammer of The
State. This creates an
inhospitable climate to initiate
positive change, particularly in
the area of human freedom. Ray
Charles' talents could only have
prospered in an environment
favoring artistic creativity and
peaceful persuasion."
I
Am Not Responsible
by Russell Madden from Atlas
Magazine
"On television. In newspapers
and magazines. Across the
Internet. Wherever I go, I
hear the same message. I am
not responsible. Truly, such a
proclamation rattles the
foundations of my
weltanschauung. The most
important things in which I
believed have been turned
topsy-turvy. I need only
examine a few areas of life to
realize the sweeping nature of
this transformation that the
politicians and their
supporters are creating."
Ludwig Von Mises: From Historicist
To Praxeologist
by Edward W.Younkins from Le
Québécois Libre
"Mises
makes a distinction between
understanding and conception.
His description of
understanding was based upon
Henri Bergson’s idea of
intuition. ... The substance
of an action is disclosed by
the a posteriori insights of
understanding and the form of
action is revealed via the a
priori logic of what Mises
called praxeology."
Miscellany
Articles not
easily classified.
America's Last Chance:
Congressional Oversight and "Torture-gate"
by Brigid O’Neil from The
Independent Institute
"Now that the executive
has abdicated any responsibility for the scandal,
Congress needs to pick up the reins and fulfill its
constitutional mandate as a check against unbridled
executive power. Congress has repeatedly invoked the
U.S. Constitution in its criticism of the
administration. Now it has a chance to set the example
by holding the administration accountable under
constitutional and international law."
Mad Scientists, Traps
& Tortures, and Skull Island
by Bob Wallace from
Strike The Root
"The State is a horror
story! Bureaucracy run amok like the Blob,
engulfing everything in is path! Mad Scientists
trying to rule everyone through the perversion of
science and technology! Nearly every time you
deal with the State, you run into Traps &
Tortures! Every time the State grows, it's just
Skull Island getting bigger and bigger!"
Mourn the Man's Death
but also His Legacy
by Ivan Eland from
Antiwar.com
"In the wake of
Vietnam, Watergate, double-digit inflation and
unemployment, and the Iranian hostage crisis,
Ronald Reagan rode to the nation's top office on
the American public's disillusion with government.
Yet upon taking office, in an Orwellian
bait-and-switch, he gave us more of the same under
the veil of folksy rhetoric about getting the
government off the backs of the people."
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