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Being a Good Carrier;
In the Year 2084;
Orcs, elves, and government;
JFK (1991); these articles
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Political Liberty, Life in Amerika, Ordered Liberty without the State;
Articles showing a
positive influence of political action on the cause of Liberty.
National Security Experts Demand to Be
Heard
by Sibel Edmonds from Antiwar.com
"[W]e the undersigned wish to bring to the
attention of the Congress and the people of the United States what we
believe are serious shortcomings in the [National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks] report and its recommendations. We thus call upon
Congress to refrain from narrow political considerations and to apply
brakes to the race to implement ... recommendations."
Bob Barr vs. the FBI
by Nat Hentoff from The Village
Voice
"Last year, I became the only writer
in Voice history to appear at the American Conservative Union's
annual Political Action Conference. The ACU is the largest
configuration of conservatives in the country. I was assigned to
a panel on the Patriot Act, and joining me in attacking John
Ashcroft's bypassing of the Bill of Rights was conservative
libertarian Bob Barr."
Picking Neither of Two Evils, Part II
by Bob Murphy from
LewRockwell.com
"Yes, the two major parties are
awful, and yes, no third-party candidate is ever going to win
in the near future. (And when it gets to the point where such
a candidate could win, he or she will have sold out to the
Establishment.) ... [A]t a cocktail party, when someone asks
me, 'Who are you voting for?' it will be better to say 'the
Libertarian candidate' ..."
Articles depicting
the negative impact of politics on Liberty.
Mandatory Mental Health Screening
Threatens Privacy, Parental Rights
by Wendy McElroy from
ifeminists.net
"Will children who resist
medication be expelled from a school that is supported by
their parents' taxes? If so, the government seems to be
telling parents that education is a privilege for which
parents must not only pay but for which they must also
surrender medical control over their children."
Radicalism in an Era of War and Terrorism
by Anthony Gregory from
Strike The Root
"During Lincoln's war,
dissidents were locked up and even deported. During
Wilson's war, they were held in prisons. What can we
expect will soon befall the radical dissident, as the
stakes grow higher, and the US war machine and anti-US
terrorism ascend together, causing many Americans to
relinquish the remaining sanity that has survived these
last three years?"
Dental fillings and mercury
exposure
by Vin Suprynowicz from Las
Vegas Review-Journal
"The epidemic of Mad Child
Disease started at the same time as the mandated vaccine
program in 1982-1985, Dr. Haley says. The first case of
autism, for a time a uniquely American disease, was
described in 1941. Thimerosal had been patented in 1928
and was added to various American drugs in the 1930s."
Some people
say it's Anarchy, some say it's not possible. It is an
interesting topic.
Primary Day
in the Trash
by Jim Davies from Strike The Root
"Here in New Hampshire, anyway,
September 14th was the day good political zombies were supposed
to turn out and cast a vote. And the previous day at my Town
Dump (what better locale?) a lady approached to remind me of
that fact. I thanked her for her reminder, but said that I
didn't believe in government."
Democracy, Antidote to
Terrorism?
by Jeff Snyder from
LewRockwell.com
"Herbert's key insight is that,
because government rests on power, all claims to govern are
simply contests of strength. Since government rests not on
right but on power, government by its very nature invites
contests of strength. Even the phrases, 'will of the
majority,' or 'majority rule' indicate that the essence of
the thing is simply a contest of wills, a battle over who
will have their way in the empire of desire."
A Revolution by Other Means
by Max Orhai from Liberty
Magazine
"The fraction of people who
value freedom over obedience to arbitrary authority, or
the illusion of safety, or the opinions of their
neighbors, may -- or may not -- be small, but we are
powerful regardless. We don't recognize each other in
the street. We mostly don't think of ourselves as
belonging to a 'movement,' or if we do we don't think we
belong to the same movement. In fact, we don't: we are
individuals. And we have communities, too." Dated June,
but new to the web.
Articles
demonstrating an increase in the dispersal of power.
Your
Vote Counts!
by Robert Klassen from
LewRockwell.com
"Political government consists
of force and fraud, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to
figure that out. Two-thirds of our population do not approve
and do not vote. That's secession. When the same two-thirds
discover a way to hide their money from political
government, we may learn just how much our vote -- in the
marketplace -- really does count."
A news revolution
by Bruce Bartlett from
Townhall.com
"[T]oday there is cable
news, C-SPAN, talk radio and the Internet to raise
questions and disseminate raw material to millions
of people who are no longer bound by the
quasi-monopoly of three television networks and
one-newspaper towns. They can now get news that
otherwise would be suppressed or ignored, check
original sources for themselves and draw their own
conclusions."
Terrorism and the
Decline of the Democratic Nation State
by David MacGregor
from Strike The Root
"Let me emphasise
here, I'm not discussing the morality of
terrorist acts per se (usually defined as
violence against unarmed civilians), but rather
their utility as a strategy for achieving
certain political objectives. For you have to
remember, terrorism--as a tactic--is resorted to
when there is no political means of resolution,
as in when some group wants to secede, or to
drive some 'foreign' power out of their country.
Unfortunately, the use of violence often works."
Depictions of the coming Imperial power
Global Eye -- Blurred Vision
by Chris Floyd from
TheMoscowTimes.com
"The Bushist toadies
couldn't simply mark the solemn occasion with a few
appropriate words of common grief and resolve.
Instead, they turned the resolution into a tribute to
the Dear Leader, larding it with praise for Bush's
'reorganizing' of the United States (that old
Constitutional malarkey had to go) 'in order to more
effectively wage the Global War on Terrorism' --
including, of course, the 'destruction' of the
'terrorist regime' in Iraq."
The Myth of the 'Old Republic'
by James Leroy Wilson
from LewRockwell.com
"Not only is the Old
Republic gone, it, realistically, never really
existed in the first place. It is, more or less, an
idea of Constitutional restraint. Maybe, at one
time, it worked better than it does now. But since
its inception, the Constitution and its Bill of
Rights have been slipping more and more from our
grasp. There isn't any point in our history, not
pre-2000, pre-1932, not pre-1913, not pre-1898, not
pre-1860, or even before that, in which the USA ever
had an ideal, federated Union."
Top 10 Signs You
Might Not Get a Fair Trial at Gitmo
by Connie Rice from
NPR
"#10 - Your lawyer's
boss is the prosecutor."
War, rumors of war, and politicians fomenting war.
Have 1,000
American Souls Died for Oil?
by Ivan Eland
from The Independent Institute
"Attempting to
justify the march to war, Deputy Secretary of
Defense Paul Wolfowitz implicitly argued that
a U.S. invasion of Iraq could lower America's
target profile from attacks by Islamist
terrorists by allowing the removal of the U.S.
military presence from the holy land of Saudi
Arabia. Persian Gulf oil could be guarded from
new military bases in Iraq, which are now
being built."
Lie and You
Thrive
by James Bovard
from AlterNet
"There are no
harmless political lies about a war. The
more such lies citizens tolerate, the more
wars they are likely to get. Every lie that
is tolerated about one war becomes an
engraved invitation to launch another war.
Because Americans acquiesced to Bush's
blarney about his invasion of Afghanistan,
Bush faced less resistance to invading Iraq.
And every Bush lie about Iraq that is now
tolerated by the American people increases
the odds of Bush going to war against Iran
if he were re-elected."
The Unknown
Kerry
by Nat Hentoff
from The Village Voice
"How many
Americans know that John O'Neill [principal
author of 'Unfit for Command'], the
purported Republican operative, voted for
Hubert Humphrey and Al Gore for president,
and that his favorite candidate for the
presidency this year was John Edwards?"
Articles
showing decentralized successes.
The Economics of Happy Feet
by Jeffrey Tucker
from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"How interesting, how
marvelous, that the coordinating powers of the free market grant
us comfortable, healthy, pain-reducing shoes in the very time when
we are living long and longer and thereby require even more
sophisticated ways of forestalling or otherwise dealing with
bodily decay. It is conventional to credit medicines and hospitals
for long lives but we should also give due regard to such
conventional consumer products as shoes that make life past the
age of 40 worth living at all."
Education for
All
by Harry Browne from
HarryBrowne.org
"[C]hildren don't have to go to
school to learn how to read, write, and add. Realize that there
were no government schools until the mid-1800s, and yet people
learned to read and write -- from their parents, in one-room
school houses, or even on their own. John Taylor Gatto has
pointed out that, prior to government schools in America, the
literacy rate among non-slaves was close to 100%."
Che Go Home
-- We don’t need a revolution. We need a clue.
by Matt Taibbi from New York Press
"Once you have the mechanism down,
then, far in the future, you can start making policy demands.
You can demand that companies open their books up to the public,
that they stop investing their profits in mansions for
executives and start investing in schools and hospitals, that
they stop contributing money to political causes, that they give
up their 14th Amendment rights as individuals."
Articles
showing centrally planned disasters.
The Necessity Of Road
Privatization
by Gennady
Stolyarov II from Le Québécois Libre
"Yet, while
engineering has progressed, government has not. This is
crucial to note, since it is the government of the City of
Chicago that wields absolute control over its roads. The
government creates them and has the responsibility for
maintaining them, but it also has a few construction
companies in its constituency. In a welfare state, where the
parties supporting a politician's campaign can expect a
slice of the economic 'pie' in return, maintaining the
ability to distribute the taxpayers’ wealth to any favored
special interest lobby, and retaining a veneer of legitimacy
while doing so, is critical for any politician who seeks to
remain in office."
Go Ahead, Leave the Door Open
by Brian Doherty from Reason
"As with the Drug War, most of
the truly heinous results of our immigration laws, and the
flouting of them, are because of the attempt to ban
something that by its inherent nature isn't a bad thing at
all: migrating to find work."
Illiterate in L.A.
by Vox Day from
WorldNetDaily.com
"The truth is that it is
extremely simple to teach any normal child to read. All it
requires is a consistent 15 minutes a day between the ages
of three and five. If a child is capable of rote
memorization, he is capable of learning the alphabet and
the basic phonics, and reading will follow within months."
War is the ultimate State intervention in
society.
Loving Our Children
by Butler
Shaffer from LewRockwell.com
"In a word,
far too many of us seem to love the nation-state more
than we do our children, and are prepared to offer their
lives in sacrifice to political interests. How else can
one explain the sense of shame expressed by so many
World War II and Korean War veterans when their sons
refused to serve in Vietnam? What other meaning is to be
attributed to the proud words of so many parents of
modern soldiers stationed -- or killed -- in Iraq?"
What Does 'Support the
Troops' Mean?
by weebies from Strike
The Root
"What people need to
understand is that the state does not have the right
to murder and steal. The state encourages a false
'patriotism' where murdering and stealing for the
state is considered legal. Soldiers are just hit men
for the state. Some can handle this. Most realize that
what they are doing is wrong, and this leads to mental
problems."
The Most Important
Terrorism Is 'Ours'
by John Pilger from ZNet
"Last May, the US Marines
used battle tanks and helicopter gunships to attack
the slums of Fallujah. They admitted killing 600
people, a figure far greater than the total number of
civilians killed by the 'insurgents' during the past
year. The generals were candid; this futile slaughter
was an act of revenge for the killing of three
American mercenaries. Sixty years earlier, the SS Das
Reich division killed 600 French civilians at
Oradour-sur-Glane as revenge for the kidnapping of a
German officer by the resistance. Is there a
difference?"
The Past seen with a
fresh look.
Wilson, Churchill,
Roosevelt and Bush: The Banality of Betrayal
by Morgan
Reynolds from LewRockwell.com
"Poke
holes in the government's ludicrous account of what
happened on 9/11 and mention the possibility
(likelihood) of it being an inside job, and the first
reply is likely to be, 'No, that's impossible because
there would be too many people involved.' ... But an
excursion back in time reveals evidence for small,
mid-size and large conspiracies at the top. U.S. entry
into the misnamed Great War, for example, was aided by
'black ops'."
What Napoleon and
Bismarck Teach Us About Preventive War
by Stanley Kober from
Cato Institute
"Initially, the war
justified Napoleon's confidence. He crushed the
Russian army in the battle of Borodino, and his army
proceeded to occupy Moscow. The tsar, however, did
not surrender. Worse, the Russian people did not
respond to Napoleon's promise of liberation but
instead resisted the foreign occupation; the people
of Moscow even burned their own city."
Freedom, Hope, and
Fear: The Paradox of Vietnam
by Rosalind Lacy
MacLennan from The Future of Freedom Foundation
"Starting with the time
period after World War II and continuing through the
American War, Americans and their leaders failed to
see beyond Communist labels to the Vietnamese
nationalism, the passion for identity that expels
foreign invaders, especially political rule from
China."
Articles showing the
nature of War.
Jefferson on the Evils
of War
by
Laurence M. Vance from LewRockwell.com
"The
Jeffersonian principles of peace, commerce, honest
friendship with all nations, and entangling
alliances with none, as annunciated in Jefferson’s
first inaugural address, are no where more evident
than in his opinion of war."
When the Rabbits Get
a Gun
by William Rivers
Pitt from t r u t h o u t
"Osama bin Laden
learned something else besides the art of killing
while he was working as an ally of the United
States. He learned that given enough time, enough
money, enough violence, enough perseverance, and
enough fellow warriors, a superpower can be
brought to its knees and erased from the book of
history."
The Punishment of
Fallujah -- US Precision Strikes...on Ambulances
by Patrick Cockburn
from CounterPunch
"On Sunday US
helicopters fired rockets into a crowd in Haifa
Street in central Baghdad killing 13 people
including an Al-Arabiya television correspondent
killed as he was reporting."
Some people stand out
from the crowd.
Historian -
James J. Martin : Sept. 18, 1916
by Jeff
Riggenbach from Antiwar.com
"The noted
revisionist historian James J. Martin ...
was the author of 'Men Against the State:
The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in
America, 1827-1908' (1953),' American
Liberalism and World Politics, 1931-1941'
(1963), the collections 'Revisionist
Viewpoints: Essays in a Dissident Historical
Tradition' (1971) and 'The Saga of Hog
Island and Other Essays in Inconvenient
History' (1977), as well as dozens upon
dozens of as yet uncollected essays,
articles, book reviews, introductions, and
prefaces."
Writer -
Agatha Christie : Sept. 15, 1890
from
AgathaChristie.com
"Christie's
first novel, 'The Mysterious Affair at
Styles' (1920), was also the first to
feature her eccentric Belgian detective
Hercule Poirot. Surely one of the most
famous fictional creations of all time,
Poirot's 'little grey cells' triumphed
over devious criminals in 33 novels and
many dozens of short stories."
Athlete -
Jesse Owens : Sept. 12, 1913
from
JesseOwens.com
"At the Big
Ten meet in Ann Arbor on May 25, 1935,
Jesse set three world records and tied a
fourth, all in a span of about 45
minutes."
Books, Movies, TV,
Media, Music, poetry, etc.
by
Malcolm Reynolds from The Last Ditch
"Misunderstanding of Tolkien's work in a postmodern
context is not new. Many have mistaken 'The Lord of
the Rings' for an allegory of World War Two, since
it was published in the 1950s. However, Tolkien
himself categorically rejected any such allegorical
interpretations. By the time it was published, 'The
Lord of the Rings' was already an anachronism, a
remnant of old days in a decidedly postmodern time."
JFK (1991)
Reviewed by Tom Ender from Endervidualism
"This
movie is filled with great insights, but one of my
favorites occurs during Garrison's conversation in
Washington DC with the black ops specialist X ('I
could give you a false name, but I won't. Just
call me "X".'). When explaining how events unfold
X tells Garrison: 'The organizing principle of any
society, Mr. Garrison, is the war. The authority
of the State over its people resides in its war
powers'."
David Simon Says (The
creator of HBO’s 'The Wire' talks with Reason)
Interviewed by Jesse
Walker from Reason
"On September 19 an
often-overlooked gem will return to HBO. 'The
Wire,' entering its third season, is sometimes
described as a Baltimore-based crime show, but
that’s a little misleading. … It sometimes feels
like one of Shakespeare's history plays, if there
is a history play that looks without flinching at
the bankruptcy of the drug war, the intersection
between crime and politics, and the day-to-day
deprivations of inner-city poverty."
Humor, satire, cartoons,
parodies, food, popular music
and other things to amuse.
by Bob
Wallace from Endervidualism
"The
year: 2084. The place: any city in the USA. Characters:
Father, Daughter, Baby, Fido and a Few Shadowy
Characters."
Letter from Bill Stone /
Bush is a Nazi
by Bill Stone from The
Libertarian Enterprise
"Enclosed, please find a
document that I recently found in a box that was left
to my ex-wife's late mother by President Bush's
college roommate's sister's boyfriend's mother's
bridge partner's lesbian lover."
Cheney Returns To Camp
Crystal Lake
from The Onion
"Reports of a shadowy
figure in the woods and heavy breathing heard in the
night, coupled with a recent series of grisly murders,
have generated rumors that U.S. Vice-President Dick
Cheney has returned to terrorize the counselors at
Camp Crystal Lake, sources reported Friday."
Scientific
and scholarly studies, philosophical essays,
in-depth and longer articles.
by Claire Wolfe from
Backwoods Home Magazine
"One aspect of being a good
carrier, I'm discovering, is
thinking only in terms of what
I'm going to achieve this day.
In the next two hours, even. 'I
will cover 16 feet of trail with
gravel. I'll trim that berry
bramble back three feet. I'll
haul just two more loads and
then I'll have earned a break.'
... What I discover as I go is
predictable to anybody who's
done his share of Carrying. It
turns out not to be hard. Not
daunting."
Sir Isaac Newton and the Coming
Invasion of Iran
by Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers from
LewRockwell.com
"All actions are 'forces,' so
this undisputable law says
every force has an equal and
opposite force. For every
action, there is a reaction.
For every behavior, there is a
consequence. Like the rock
thrown into the pond, the
ripples radiate out,
eventually hitting the shore,
and then again returning to
its center. For every act, a
consequence. One might take
issue with my interpretation
of how Ying and Yang and
Newton's Third Law of Motion
are, ultimately, the exact
same thing. But I think anyone
could see where there is a
correlation."
Aaron Director on the Market for
Goods and Ideas
by Richard M. Ebeling from The
Foundation for Economic
Education
"Aaron Director was one of a
handful of careful and serious
thinkers at the time who
clearly understood that
securing personal freedom was
inseparable from the
preservation of economic
liberty in a free, competitive
market. He made this case in a
paper delivered at a
conference on Freedom and the
Law at the University of
Chicago Law School in 1953."
Articles not
easily classified.
Not the End of the Game
by Bob Wallace from The
Price of Liberty
"One of the reasons these
wars are continuing is because of the influence of
Christian Zionists, not only in the administration,
but also in the public who are pressuring them to
support Israel at all costs because they believe the
Bible has foretold the End Times, which are supposed
to be right around the corner. Israel is supposed to
regain the territory it supposedly held thousands of
years ago, Jesus will return, and the game is over."
Research Shows False
Accusations Of Rape Common
by Marc E. Angelucci
and Glenn Sacks from NewsWithViews.com
"Some of these changes
[law reform initiatives] have been fair, and have
led to greater protections for rape victims.
However, others have made it more difficult for
men to defend themselves, with at times horrifying
consequences for the accused."
House Husbandry
by B.K. Marcus from
LewRockwell.com
"When my beloved first
met me I was a successful dot-com professional --
of the dress-down-eat-out-and-tip-well variety.
... Then I took the soul-deadening corporate
cube-jockey position so we could budget and pay
bills while she finished her dissertation. And now
that we're in the dawn of her professorial career,
I'm a househusband. A househusband who hadn't made
a bed in 20 years."
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