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"Yet whatever the specific reasons for their dissent, the populations of the member states are at last having the chance to make their views known. There apparently is a general revulsion against the pretensions of the European politicians to speak for the people."
http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=6944
"Yet, despite words of caution, the news from Massachusetts is heartening. Non-custodial parents will no longer be viewed as abusive until proven innocent. Fathers can play a greater role in their children's academic lives."
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/0601.html
"I do know, however that there are many people who will not accept being 'chipped.' I include myself in this. I will never willingly accept any form of implantable ID. Before I do that, I will resist this authoritarian, tyrannical scheme with any means within my power. To this end, I am suggesting a massive campaign of non-compliance with any form of nationalized personal ID."
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle321-20050529-05.html
"These governors aren't grousing about the Soviet-style national ID cards for their citizens. They're perturbed about paying for it. They're angry about dipping into 'their own' pockets. You know, those state pockets that were filled by emptying out our pockets. They already have a long list of self-serving vote-buying pork-rolling projects to spend state tax money on. If the federalcrats want a state's citizens to have federal IDs, they'd better pay for it from those citizen's federal taxes, not from those citizen's state taxes. That's moral outrage for you."
http://www.freecannon.com/RegurgitateRealID.htm
"The issue is not whether the federal government should fund one type of stem cell research or another. The issue is whether the federal government should fund stem cell research at all. … Neither party in Washington can fathom that millions and millions of Americans simply don't want their tax dollars spent on government research of any kind. This viewpoint is never considered."
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/05/06/03/ronpaul.htm
"Consider forfeiture laws, those laws enacted to punish users and dealers by allowing law-enforcement agencies to seize assets to further fight the war on drugs. ... Such power sometimes leads law enforcement to a great temptation to skirt the technicalities of the law in order to seize assets, not to be used as evidence in a court trial, but simply to make use of them."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0502f.asp
"I wish to propose a salubrious anarchy, a deliberate renunciation of fealty to country, society, and government, an assertion of independence from folly and moral decay. Permit me to offer a taxing political idea: When a society ceases to be worthy of support, it is reasonable to withdraw support. The time, I submit, has come. Here I do not mean to urge crime or counsel treason, but to suggest quiet renunciation of the national disaster."
http://www.fredoneverything.net/LiveWell.shtml
"It's amazing how well governments conceal what is really taking place, in any war. On most war memorials in Europe , and on some in America , is carved a clue to how they do it; a myth ('patriotism') is developed over the centuries, and then translated into Latin to add to its mystique. Result: Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori. If that were translated honestly, it would say 'It is a sweet and noble thing, to die for one's government' and the whole fraud would lie exposed."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/davies/davies12.html
"The most innovative aspect of Atlantis is that the provision of governmental services would be a business in and of itself, creating value in the competitive market and subsisting on the market revenues those values induced. There would be no need to appeal to philanthropy or to have recourse to taxation."
http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2005_05/maccallum-utopia.html
"The top-down, command-and-control machinery of state power has run head-on into the forces of spontaneity and autonomy that are life's processes. Vertical systems of centralized power are being replaced by horizontal patterns of interconnectedness. Coercion is giving way to cooperation...."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer106.html
"Don't forget there's always the option of creating freedom enclaves right inside America. Creating communities where people can work, bank, get medical care, and trade without having to show their government 'papers'."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe050601.html
"They are reacting against the arrogance and anti-democratic ethos of Europe's political elites. ... Former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the father of the 448-article constitution, early on in the campaign dismissed complaints about the document's opacity by assuring his countrymen, 'The text is easily read and quite well phrased, which I can say all the more easily since I wrote it myself'."
http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=270
"The US government gave the slave trade a boost by offering money for Al Qaida and Talaban fighters. Afghan and Pakistani war lords simply rounded up people who looked Arab or foreign and sold them to the Americans as captured fighters."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06022005.html
Cloaked in myopic self-righteousness, the Bush administration is trying to make its gulag problem disappear by attacking Amnesty International. This isn't just blind and arrogant, it's harming the national interest. [Salon subscription or one ad view for free day pass]
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/06/01/bush_and_torture/index_np.html
"American Presidents since William McKinley have played fast and loose with the lives of people living in foreign countries."
http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/WhyTheWorldHatesUs.htm
"Progressives in this country have always maintained a kind of fuzzy belief that fundamentalists will eventually just disappear, as if by magic, that the phenomenon of grown men and women believing in devils and witches and angels will inevitably be outgrown, the way children outgrow Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Marx."
http://www.nypress.com/18/22/news&columns/taibbi.cfm
"What has happened during the Bush presidency so far is that Republicans have resorted to a guns-and-butter philosophy of budgeting: instead of cutting low-priority programs to make room for high-priority spending they have urged increases in everything."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3789
"Colonel David Hackworth would not have sat silent, as our current senior military leadership sits, while 'wreck it and run' civilian management drove America's armed forces into the ground. Rumsfeld & Co. will bear primary responsibility for the disaster, which will no doubt disturb them greatly as they enjoy their luxurious retirements."
http://www.counterpunch.org/lind06012005.html
"If midwifery is so safe and so woman-centered then why aren't more people using this valuable resource? Obstetricians have their place certainly when necessary, but why not use a midwife for a normal pregnancy? Midwives are trained to recognize when to refer to an obstetrician if something does go wrong anyway so in this day and age we truly can have the best of both!"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/h-carson4.html
"In specific cases where companies have been accused of paying sweatshop wages we still find the jobs pay well compared to alternatives. In nine of the eleven countries, the reported sweatshop wages equal or exceed average incomes in the country where they are located, in some cases by a large margin."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1517
"The just-released findings show that while the dieting group that had initially lost weight, it had regained almost all of it two years later, while the nondieters' weights had remained stable. Both groups had initially lowered their systolic blood pressure but it had rebounded among the dieters, while the nondieters had sustained their improvements. The dieters showed no change in their total cholesterol or LDL cholesterol, while the nondieters had significantly decreased theirs by the end of the study."
http://www.techcentralstation.com/060205D.html
"City officials and politicians then have important choices to make. Do they give consumers what they want -- low prices, variety, and good service? Or do they punish consumers and stifle competition in an effort dictate some idealized notion of 'smart growth' or an anti-corporate aversion to big-box retail?"
http://www.techcentralstation.com/053105B.html
"The U.S. cannot issue 'bonds' to itself and have their terms bind future Congresses. Bottom line: These social security 'bonds' are neither assets of the U.S. nor property of workers and their families."
http://www.mises.org/story/1820
"We could make cancer cures… but the FDA won't allow it. We could make new-technology nuclear power plants… but the EPA and NRC won't allow it. We could have made banking software with real encryption… but the NSA wouldn't allow it. We could make nuclear spacecraft… but the DOT, the EPA, NASA, and Homeland Security make even thinking about it impossible."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/walker/walker12.html
"In short, the wars were the health of the state, not the faith. Somehow it is difficult for conservative Christian Bush supporters to come to terms with this, but war for Christ is not a great idea. It corrupts both the Church and the world. Christians are themselves not immune from temptation toward the evil that war unleashes."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker54.html
"As powerful as the lies are, the truths we are not being told about the enormous amounts of money being made by corporations with close ties to the Bush administration are shocking. Why are we taxpayers having to pay 18 dollars a plate for meals served to our soldiers? Why are we paying 100 dollars a bag for their laundry to be cleaned? These are the exorbitant fees that we the taxpayer are paying to Kellogg Brown and Root."
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/05/06/02/gaddy.htm
"As CNN put it, 'The reaction to the announcement by the communities affected - from New Jersey to California, Wisconsin to Texas - was first disappointment, then determination to fight for their livelihoods.' Their livelihoods? People in a free-enterprise society are not supposed to look to the government for their livelihoods. But the bloated military, which is part of the burdensome welfare-warfare state, makes that possible."
"I remember very well the images of the American West I absorbed as a child. Movies, TV shows and books convinced me that the West was excitingly wild and violent, with wars and gunfights the staples of everyday life. No doubt, millions of others have grown up with the same idea, and a corollary -- that the West was tamed by the extension of governmental authority into the region, bringing about order and peace. Guess what? It's mostly a fable."
http://www.metronc.com/issues/issue05_05/books/
"When Roosevelt stood for re-election to an unprecedented third term in 1940, he promised American mothers on a stack of Bibles that he was never going to send American boys to fight 'in any foreign wars'! Unless, of course, we were attacked. If not to provoke an attack on us and the Brits, then why did Roosevelt slap an oil embargo on Japan, a country that had no oil of its own and literally couldn't survive long -- maybe six months -- without it?"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/prather/prather22.html
"Parsons the science-fiction fan didn't live to see the children of his greatest fuel invention bring man to the moon and man's machinery to far planets. But some people remembered. A crater on the dark side of the Moon has been named after this man who believed he could summon spirits and who hoped to propel himself into space."
http://www.reason.com/0505/cr.bd.the.shtml
"We at GSFP [Gold Star Families for Peace] are insulted when people like Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney say that America has to 'stay the course' in Iraq to 'honor our children's sacrifices.' Our position is that no one, Iraqi or American, should have died for the lies and to make evil people fabulously wealthy. Just because our children were unjustly murdered, why would we want any more bloodshed? Not one more drop of blood should be shed for the lies and deceptions."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/zeese.php?articleid=6133
"Thus, government interference in the international marketplace can ultimately lead to a trade war among nations. In the 1930s, the Smoot-Hawley legislation that increased tariffs in the United States was followed by retaliation from other nations. Such protectionism deepened the worldwide depression, and that global economic crisis was a contributing factor to the causes of World War II."
http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1515
"Attempting to reach people on the merits of peace and the perils of war is not always easy, particularly when they hold tightly to what they believe are teachings of their religious faith that validate or even endorse war."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0504g.asp
"Randolph Bourne, who was to die in the flu epidemic shortly after the Armistice, cried out alone against the betrayal of the values of civilization by his fellow writers. He and his magazine paid a heavy price and, of course, he did not live to see the backlash following the war. The damage had been done; the stage was set for the idiocy of the conditions at Versailles, the ascendency of Adolph Hitler, the unimaginable horrors of National Socialism, and the destruction of the cities of Europe within the next thirty years."
http://www.bigeye.com/rbourne.htm
"Critic Leonard Maltin has labelled Hawks 'the greatest American director who is not a household name,' noting that, while his work may not be as well known as Ford, Welles, or Hitchcock, he is no less a talented filmmaker."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hawks
"Minnie was among the first twenty performers to be elected to the Hall of Fame in the inaugural W.C. Handy awards in 1980 and she won the top female vocalist award in the first Blues Unlimited Reader's Poll in 1973, finishing ahead of Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey...."
http://bluesland.net/thang/minnie.html
"In my judgment this third Harry Potter movie is substantially better than the prior two. This could be for several reasons, among which are these: the primary actors are maturing, as well as J.K. Rowling's characters which they portray."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/hp_azkaban_2004.htm
"Claire Wolfe and Aaron Zelman are doing something quite wonderful. They're talking to kids. And what they're talking about is freedom, determination, and self-reliance. ... Once Jeremy launches an escape from the Gray Zone and begins hiking to Tacoma in search of RebelFire, things really take off. His adventures are exciting, sometimes shocking, often violent."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2005/06/rebelfire-10.html
"Dick began to produce twists on conventional dystopias. He lacked Bester's sophistication, Pohl's Marxism, Sheckley's irony or Ellison's eloquence, but he captured the readers' imagination as previously only HP Lovecraft (Carrère's other literary hero) had done."
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/sciencefiction/0,6121,1498544,00.html
"Now that Iraq is all okay, the world is being transformed, just like the neocons promised !"
http://villagevoice.com/news/0522,fiore,64643,9.html
"The House recently passed a bill lifting restrictions on stem-cell research, but Bush has threatened to veto the bill if it passes the Senate. What do you think?"
http://www.theonion.com/wdyt/index.php?issue=4122
Current Proceedings 'Not Long Enough,' News Outlets Argue
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1145
"The recurring experience of every man, woman and child on earth is screwing up and struggling to recover from a blunder. We manage to do this with infinite diversity, no two disasters exactly alike."
http://endervidualism.com/wdevoon/meaning_of_liberty.htm
"Now, obviously, no government's perfect. And some, no doubt, are better than others. But libertarians would complain that that's not good enough. Governments roam the planet like dogs marking territory. And the problem is, there's no territory left. Folks who want better have nowhere left to go."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001101.html
"Structural incentives are such that 'they' will always be the State, regardless of who is in control of the apparatus of State. Politics corrupts everything it touches. As Rothbard pointed out, any genuinely libertarian position on anything ought to revolve around one question: 'Does it decrease the power of the State?' "
http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/93
"The typical man has been exposed to fist fights; he's bloodied and been bloodied. Most male policemen have played contact sports, been exposed to firearms, and are more likely to be experienced and competent at aggressive high-speed driving. Few women policemen have these attributes. Plus, most women couldn't carry a wounded officer to safety."
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20050601.shtml
"If the government, police force and thugs have machine guns and so forth, would it not make sense that any citizen using the Constitution as it's guide should be able to defend themselves against the government, police state or thugs in the same manner?"
http://www.newswithviews.com/Newby/john22.htm
"Maybe I'm starved for heroes in these pusillanimous times, but I have found a new one in Anette Pharris, the Tennessee woman charged with 'contributing to the delinquency of a minor' because she hired a stripper for her son's birthday party."
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