The radical writ; The Democratic Delusion; The life of Mary Frohman; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; these articles have their titles and text in this color and are featured this week in -
Political Liberty, Life in Amerika, Ordered Liberty without the State;
Spreading Decentralism, The New World Hegemon, Politics by Other Means;
Spontaneous Order, Nonspontaneous Disorder, War Is The Health Of The State;
Bits of History, War and Peace, Great Individuals In History;
If you encounter any difficulty using this document please let me know as soon as you notice. Contact information is at the bottom of this page.
I am happy to receive addresses of potential readers of Ender's Review who might like to receive a few trial issues and an invitation to subscribe. Or, if you prefer, please, forward this to those you think might be interested, with the contact and subscription information at the bottom intact.
"State and city officials said medicinal marijuana users would remain protected under California law, despite the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Monday that gave authority to the federal government to prosecute medical marijuana patients."
http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=18835
"Congress is now considering two bills that could legalize it at the federal level. One House bill, sponsored by New York Democrat Maurice Hinchey and California Republican Dana Rohrabacher, would keep the federal government from prosecuting people who are in compliance with their state marijuana laws. Another bill, sponsored by Hinchey and Rohrabacher along with Democrat Barney Frank, libertarian-minded Texas congressman Ron Paul, and Democrat Sam Farr, from California, has 31 co-sponsors. It would allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients."
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0523,webmondo1,64694,6.html
"American culture continues to assimilate everything so it belongs to everyone. Chinese take-out and Italian pizza are not evidence of our multiculturalism, but things we've all come to know and share in. We speak a common language, we increasingly vote and marry outside our ethnicities, and we have at least a passing familiarity with most elements in our common culture."
http://www.rationalreview.com/guest/sipos061005.shtml
"A kid brings his lunch wrapped in a newspaper so the school goes crazy and puts snipers on the roofs. I love this stuff. It's better than The Simpsons. Do you suppose they do that in Tokyo? The Mad Burrito Assassin isn't unusual. Little boys often get suspended or led out in handcuffs by cops for things like pointing and saying 'Bang,' because heavily womanized schools can't maintain order."
http://fredoneverything.net/Clowns.shtml
"The underreporting of dangerous schools is only a subset of a larger problem. The amount of information about schools presented to the general public is at an all-time high, but the information isn’t always useful or accurate."
http://www.reason.com/0506/fe.ls.how.shtml
"If there’s ever a national crisis that would justify, in the eyes of Washington DC, a total crackdown on emigration, the remaining question will be how capable is the infrastructure for doing this. To the extent that the borders can keep people out, they can keep people in."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory79.html
"It's not like anarchists are asking people to give up something that's been successful in favor of something that hasn't been tested. The whole point of anarchism is that the state hasn't succeeded in addressing human problems and that it has often been the cause, or at least a cause, of those problems."
http://knappster.blogspot.com/2005/06/radical-writ.html
"If the voters should approve a referendum that is contrary to the interests of their political overlords, the courts may simply declare the outcome violative of some arcane interpretation of an abstract constitutional principle. This was seen, the other day, in the United States Supreme Court ruling that the use of marijuana for treating medical maladies was still illegal under federal law – despite having received widespread voter approval in various state referenda."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer107.html
"I recently decided what I want to be when I grow up. ... I am going to be a retired, invisible pirate. This may appear as an odd assortment of things to be, but in fact, these three traits fit very well together, when properly defined, understood, and implemented."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/blow/blow1.html
"We know that US borders are porous, that major targets are largely undefended, and that the multicolor threat alert scheme known affectionately as 'the rainbow of doom' is a national joke. Anybody who has been paying attention probably suspects that if we rely on orders from above to protect us, we'll be in terrible shape."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/start.html?pg=3
"The Western political elites began to transfer their allegiance away from the state after World War I.... They expected that in time, the common people -- the plebs, the narod, the riah -- would follow the wise example of their betters and give their loyalty too to Brave New World."
http://www.antiwar.com/lind/?articleid=6266
"The United States was founded by people who wanted to own property and were willing to risk their lives in order to live in a country where that was possible."
http://www.newswithviews.com/brownfield/brownfield53.htm
"Americans need to face the reality that most of the world sees our nation as the new evil empire, and many people in the Gulf region are dedicated to making sure that the Iraq War is the last hurrah for American militarism. How tragic to admit that the analogy is not entirely implausible."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/iraq-moral-corruption.html
"All that happened was that two productive American citizens were deceived by government agents for no other purpose than those agents having to show 'results' in the 'war on terror.' How does it make us safer to put a medical doctor and a jazz musician in prison? Why did the FBI spend two years entrapping these two American citizens?"
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06062005.html
"The cornerstone of Colombia's U.S.-funded anti-drug effort is aerial fumigation. … The U.S. and Colombian governments insist the fumigations, which use the herbicide glyphosate, are safe. Farmers living in fumigated areas complain of myriad sicknesses, including skin problems and birth defects."
http://www.reason.com/0506/fe.tm.legalize.shtml
"It is obvious that something is very wrong with the old labels, with the categories of 'left' and 'right,' and with the ways in which we customarily apply these categories to American political life. My personal odyssey is unimportant; the important point is that if I can move from 'extreme right' to 'extreme left' merely by standing in one place, drastic though unrecognized changes must have taken place throughout the American political spectrum over the last generation."
http://www.mises.org/story/1842
"I would say that many, I could say thousands, but it's really hundreds of thousands, and when we include the Vietnamese, millions, have died in the last century because American politicians were unwilling to be called names. They were unwilling to face, however invalid, however ridiculous, the charge that they were weak, unmanly, cowardly, defeatist, losers, and whatnot."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/ellsberg.php?articleid=6264
"When we grant quasi-governmental international bodies the power to make decisions about American trade rules, we lose sovereignty plain and simple. I can assure you first hand that Congress has changed American tax laws for the sole reason that the World Trade Organization decided our rules unfairly impacted the European Union."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001118.html
"Darwin was nothing like Marx or Freud. Indeed, biological Darwinism spawned 'Social Darwinism,' an extreme form of libertarianism. As TCS's own Nick Schulz, a certified non-leftist free marketer, observes, 'There's plenty of room for God in a Darwinian universe. Darwin operates on different plane altogether from theology.' Provocatively, Schulz compares Darwin to Friedrich Hayek, the legendary opponent of central planning and proponent of free markets."
http://www.techcentralstation.com/060905B.html
"A highly advanced economy always is -- and always should be -- losing some jobs. They are replaced by technology in some cases, by cheaper lower-skilled foreign labor in others. This is progress, because new and higher-paying jobs take their place."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0506b.asp
"Often, nations successfully transitioning from autocracies to liberal democracies -- for example, Chile, Taiwan, and South Korea -- have instituted economic reforms before gradually and peacefully undertaking political reforms."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1520
"On any given day 6 million packages are shipped around the globe by the FedEx Corporation. My guess is the folks sending all those packages don't have a clue that the shipping giant's selling more than delivery of boxes and cardboard envelopes. FedEx is also selling out its customers’ privacy."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Mary/starrett62.htm
"Washington's modern-day mercantilists believe trade deficits can be managed by altering exchange rates. Therefore it's not surprising that China's currency, the yuan, is in the crosshairs. ... To level the playing field, the managed traders recommend an upward revaluation of the yuan. ... The Bush Administration wants it, the China Currency Coalition wants it, and Senators Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) want it."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3794
"The latest plan to 'save' Social Security -- the world's largest and most successful pyramid scheme -- is extremely welcome because it finally rips away the pompous 'insurance program' mask and acknowledges Social Security for the welfare boondoggle it has always been."
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/olson_ss.htm
"The great paradox of American power is that the more we exercise it, the greater our chances of losing that which makes it possible: our system of constitutionally limited government and a legal system based on the primacy of individual rights, including the right to property. The reasons for this boomerang effect are built into the costs of such an ambitious enterprise."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6289
"The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief. "
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/hedges2.html
"First comes the nervous exaggeration, then the covering-up of various misdemeanors... and by the time those lies start sounding true, the main barrier to destructive behavior is access to the poison itself. Well, the Supreme Court just gave the Drug War addicts in Congress and the White House the constitutional equivalent of a lifetime supply." In this case, the Drug War is the health of the State.
http://www.reason.com/links/links060805.shtml
"She wasn't exactly a libertarian -- not the capitalist kind, anyway -- but she had the same unwillingness to fit into any ordinary political pigeonhole. Discuss the family or the workplace, and she'd stake out a position well to the left of even Ann Arbor's mainstream. But if the talk turned to taxes or guns, she wouldn't be out of place at a militia meeting."
http://www.reason.com/links/links060905.shtml
"With the Democrats demonstrating their willingness to team up with Republicans to try to discredit Amnesty International when it criticizes human rights abuses by the armed forces of key U.S. allies, it is not surprising that the Bush administration and its supporters now feel that they can get away with such brazen attacks against the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization when it criticizes U.S. forces."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/zunes.php?articleid=6268
"The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Richard Myers, joined the parade.... He was wearing a shirt emblazoned with the American flag. Oh, if only Abbie Hoffman could have witnessed that."
http://www.nypress.com/18/23/news&columns/paulkrassner2.cfm
"President Bush, like King John, has waged a war of choice against a country that posed little or no threat. However, President Bush and John differ in one important respect. America, unlike John's England, finances its wars by borrowing. King John, in contrast, simply levied taxes."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/young.php?articleid=6232
"Obviously, the biggest reason for parents' opposition to the military's recruitment efforts would be to protect their children from losing their lives and limbs for no valid purpose. After all, ask yourself: What parents would place a higher value on the installation of an Islamic Shi'ite regime in Iraq, even a democratically elected one, than they would on the life or limbs of their own child?"
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0506a.asp
"World War I was one of the worst catastrophes in human history, and everything about it underscores the folly of the neocon view that smart guys can make wars turn out as intended, and that war can be a controlled, rational basis for American foreign policy." Very long but also quite comprehensive.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/powell-jim6.html
"[He] was the editor from 1938 until his death in 1971 of the science fiction magazine Astounding Science Fiction, renamed Analog Science Fiction in 1960. During his editorship, he published the first stories of Robert A. Heinlein, A. E. van Vogt, L. Sprague de Camp and others, and strongly encouraged Isaac Asimov. He also edited the fantasy magazine Unknown (later Unknown Worlds) from 1939 to 1943."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Campbell
"Despite his wild antics onstage, Wolf was a responsible, middle-class family man offstage -- honest, hardworking, and upstanding to a fault. He hunted and fished, owned farmland in Arkansas…."
http://www.howlinwolf.com/articles/bio_1.htm
"In 1960, she renewed her film career, appearing in another series of films including Judgement at Nuremberg for which she received another Academy Award nomination."
"Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick, in one of his best roles) is a high school senior. However, he isn't like most high school seniors in at least one respect: not only doesn't he willingly submit to the mind-numbing high school tedium, he doesn't submit at all."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/fb_day_off_1986.htm
"One of the much-anticipated Disney releases for later this year is the first installment of C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Lewis was one of the most popular Christian theologians and apologists of the 20th century, and his fiction books are imbued with a deep sense of Christian morality. This kind of religiously informed storytelling, along with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, has the potential not only to be enormously profitable but also to be morally salutary."
http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=271
"When someone asks me about my favorite movie I usually reply Enemy of the State, where Will Smith is the target of a full-scale NSA hunting operation. Or I could say I really like The Forgotten, where Julianne Moore is the victim of an alien experiment sanctioned by the State. Why do I like these movies? Because they are realistic in the sense that they picture the State as it really is -- no illusions."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/bylund/bylund3.html
"Anyhow, Dubya, bright boy that he is, Yale gradge-ee-it and all, hastened to offer the breathless reporters a definition of 'disassemble.' It 'means not tell the truth,' quoth Dubya, beaming as broadly as the lad who spelled 'katt' in Miss Plunkett's first-grade class."
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/fields_disassembled.htm
"Pain Man" flash animated cartoon
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0523,fiore,64868,9.html
"Last week, former FBI agent Mark Felt revealed that he was Deep Throat, the anonymous source that helped break the Watergate scandal. What do you think?"
http://www.theonion.com/wdyt/index.php?issue=4123
"The mechanical philosophy lost its hold on the scientific imagination during the 18thcentury, due both to the unsatisfactory nature of many of the explanations it offered, and to the stellar success of Newton's distinctly non-mechanical theory of gravity. It is worth noting that in many cases, science advanced by going 'backwards' to concepts that had been rejected by the mechanical philosophers as 'unscientific'."
http://www.mises.org/story/1835
"One area where the tension between these differing views on whether everyday people can manage their lives comes to the fore is population growth and the state's role in contraception and reproductive policy. Smith and Thomas Robert Malthus believed that individuals had foresight and were aware of the consequences of their actions for the future."
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2005/PeartLevymalthus.html
"Mercury lodges in the cells of the brain and other organs and can lead to central nervous system damage and crippling neurological disorders. Workers who used to rub mercury into the felt to create the rounded rims and crowns of men's hats often retired at a fairly early age with debilitating tremors and psychiatric symptoms, leading to the familiar phrase "mad as a hatter."
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Jun-05-Sun-2005/opinion/1971363.html
"Perhaps the point of all this is that we face too many trials in the coming years. We simply cannot afford to factionalize ourselves into political impotency. ... While they will not agree with each other on specifics, they even basically have the same guiding precept, the Golden Rule. Wiccans call this the Rede, and both basically say the same thing, don't do anything to others that you don't want them to do to you. This same concept has been taught by almost every major religion or religious leader: Moses, Zoroaster, Mithras, Buddha, Yeshua, Mohammed, even Confucius!"
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle322-20050605-04.html
"No peaceful and honest act is held to be inherently evil; people are free to have their own subjective views as to what is agreeable or disagreeable to them, without imposing such views on other peaceful persons. If a society bases its laws on the universal ethic, there can be no dictatorship of relativism, because no person is forced to live under the subjective values of others. But no country today has perfect liberty."
http://www.progress.org/2005/fold403.htm
"A theme runs through the following two news items: privacy rights are under attack. A 'good' reason is offered for the chipping away of privacies such as the confidentiality of medical records. Moreover, the cases are so legally tangled that analysis becomes blurred and 'bad law' based on judicial activism becomes more possible."
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/0608.html
Please feel free to forward this to anyone (or any list) who you believe might be interested, leaving the contact and subscription information below intact. Or if you know of prospective readers, but don't wish to send this to them yourself, please e-mail their addresses to me at Tom@Endervidualism.com and I will send them a message with a link to the latest issue and invite them to subscribe. Comments suggestions and discussion on the content and structure of this review are welcome at the ERevD: EnderReviewDiscussion Yahoo group. Feel free to jump in there at any time.
Each week immediately after Ender's Review is posted at Endervidualism a small plain text note (~5K) containing a few links to the web site edition will be sent to ERevNote subscribers while I'm preparing the HTML version for distribution to the EnderReview group. I hope all these vehicles will cover the differing needs of Ender's Review readers.
The newest option is ERevNote: a new e-mail list used for distributing a small plain text note sent out weekly. That reminder note contains a few (5) links to the Endervidualism web site copy of Ender's Review and will be much smaller in size for those of you with limited in-basket space and/or those desiring plain text e-mail.
Archives for ERevNote
are available to the public at -
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ERevNote/.
Join that group at -
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ERevNote/join
or subscribe to the mailing list by sending a message to
ERevNote-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
Alternately, you may elect to receive a copy of the full
HTML object (50 - 90K) in your in-basket. Archives are available to
EnderReview members
at -
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EnderReview/.
Join that group at -
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EnderReview/join or subscribe to the mailing
list by sending a message to
EnderReview-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.