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"Common Sense is powerful stuff. Written in a plainspoken, remarkably modern style, it's probably the most passionate, exhilarating, and dazzling piece of agitprop in American history: 'We have it in our power to begin the world over again'."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2005/07/got-common-sense.html
"Like the founding generation of this country, most Americans now see themselves as independent from the State. Perhaps this Fourth of July is no reason to celebrate too excitedly. But we need not despair altogether. Today's disaffection with the State may indeed become tomorrow's contagion of liberty."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory82.html
"Laugh at them! Protests must emphasize ridicule, not anger. They can accept fear or hatred, but their egos cannot abide derision and contempt. The Supremes are not so much evil (although the results of their rulings are evil) as they are senile old coots, pandering desperately for approval of the rest of the Anointed."
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle326-20050703-05.html
"We are all less secure in our homes than we were on June 22. But some are more secure than others: the homes of low-income people are far more likely to be taken than those of the affluent. The winners are big, well-connected businesses -- and revenue-hungry local politicians, such as those in New London, Connecticut."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0507d.asp
"While the Supreme Court has ignored the Ninth Amendment for decades, Raich may serve as its obituary. If the Ninth Amendment doesn't protect a man's right to consume whatever medicine might give him relief from pain -- or that in some cases could save his life -- what's left that it could possibly protect?"
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3974
"Scalia has looked out upon the nations of the world where the government endorses certain religious ideas and not others - Saudi Arabia, China, Sudan -- and decided that the United States should join in."
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/07/03/Columns/Scalia_s_scary_America.shtml
"What I am urging is an end to the divisive thinking that underlies the mutually destructive nature of all political systems. The state -- whatever its form -- is terror, for it depends upon threats and violence to obtain obedience to its will. Americans need to understand that their government, as long as it persists in using offensive military power against others, is making America a most insecure place."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer111.html
"Yes, it is perfectly true that people have vastly different opinions concerning particular legal issues. ... Nonetheless, if the contract theory of government is correct, the vast majority of individuals can agree that they should settle these issues not through force, but rather through an orderly procedure...."
http://www.mises.org/story/1855
"You think they've stopped lying and hiding and pretending just because you're on the planet now? Chump. The state, with its amassed power and the often-eager accomplice of the mainstream media, is selling you a bill of goods."
http://www.sunnimaravillosa.com/archives/00000397.html
"How can the State logically have rights to wield weapons that the rest of us cannot own? The State is supposed to get its power delegated to it from human individuals, the only entities capable of possessing human rights."
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle326-20050703-07.html
"There may be one bit of silver lining within all these ominous clouds of creeping tyranny. And it is that around the rest of the globe more and more people are clamoring for their liberty, their individual sovereignty, even without fully grasping its implications."
http://www.desertdispatch.com/2005/112056955298607.html
"As African Americans become the fastest growing segment of homeschoolers in the country, African-American Unschooling, a national network of black homeschooling families, conducts an extensive survey to assess the interests and needs of African-American homeschoolers."
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/7/emw258208.htm
"Americans must make a choice -- a choice between freedom and peace, on the one hand, and the continuation of the U.S. military empire, on the other hand. They cannot have freedom and peace and the empire. They must choose which is more important to them."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0507c.asp
"The US and Britain started this fight, not Iraq. We should be ashamed that Bush and Blair deceived us, tricked us into a pointless and unjust war, and that innocent people on both sides are paying with their lives and limbs for Bush's and Blair's lies. Our real anger should be directed at Bush and Blair who are responsible for the deaths and destruction."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts07082005.html
"Franklin D. Roosevelt was far too slow to recognize and condemn Hitler's Holocaust -- thereby having been complicit in the slaughter of many Jews and other 'impure' victims -- but at least FDR didn't warmly act 'to restore relations' with Hitler. Even now, with the comradely warm relationship between the CIA, Bush, and Khartoum, will Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton, for so long indifferent to the genocide in Darfur, object? "
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0527,hentoff,65564,6.html
"[E]very national leader at Gleneagles has blood on his hands. More than likely none of them, with the possible exception of Putin, has actually personally killed somebody with his bare hands, or even shot somebody dead. But they have all instituted policies that have led to many more deaths of 'innocent folks' than all the non-state terrorists currently operating."
http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=6592
"The other and perhaps deeper reason for 'rejecting Europe' was the ever wider gulf between the common people and those in politics and the media who make a living and a name from purporting to lead and inform them. "
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2005/Jasaywhatnow.html
"It would just be nice if conservative leaders had the character and integrity to tell the truth about George W. Bush. If Bush were really the genuine conservative that he is made out to be, there would truly be no reason to try and bombard the White House with letters and phone calls."
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin246.htm
"In other words, heads of state generally like conscription, as it allows them to pursue their personal goals with cheap labor. But for conscription, Napoleon could never have found the over half a million men he sent into Russia in 1812."
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2005/Mcchesneycontract.html
"We are supposed to be a nation of laws, not men, and the fixation on individuals as saviors of our freedoms is misplaced. America will regain lost freedoms only when her citizens wake up and reclaim a national sense of self-reliance, individualism, and limited government. A handful of judges cannot save a nation from itself."
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/05/07/06/ronpaul.htm
"What Ludwig von Mises did to Austrian value theory was to remove it entirely from the realm of psychology. The fact that I value a thing less as its supply increases does not depend on any empirical facts of human psychology, but is the a priori logical consequence of 1. a good having multiple uses, and 2. some uses being more important to me than others."
http://www.bkmarcus.com/blog/2005/07/economic-psychologism.html
"Africa needs new financial institutions that are independent of the political elite and can address the financial needs not only of peasants, but of other small- to medium-scale producers as well. ... Such changes could for the first time bring into being a genuine market economy that answers to the needs of African producers and consumers."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3976
"The natural tendency for many homeless families would be to opt for the shelter where they have no obligation to give back. The Gresham's Law feature of this is the displacement of charity from the local and private level to the state, where all too often the state is unwilling or unable to distinguish between deserving and undeserving need."
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20050706.shtml
"Some of the ways of destabilizing the Rule of Law are infringements on liberty in personal affairs, in trade, etc; redistribution of wealth to buy votes of a particular constituency or constituencies; expansion of government power beyond that explicitly authorized; and the costs of compliance with norms and rules EXCEED the costs of noncompliance. But, what is the number one means of destabilization? Lack of observation of property rights."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/spartacus/spartacus1.html
"Who benefits from the London attacks, aside from the obvious candidate, which is bin Laden? With the 'coalition of the willing' showing signs of going wobbly, and the recent announcement that Britain was withdrawing a good portion of its forces from Iraq, the political momentum in Britain (and the United States), which was going against the Iraq war, is suddenly reversed."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6585
"States need war. They need it to instil a sense of fear and insecurity. Like any effective protection racketeer, you can hardly expect your clients to hand over their money and freedom, unless there is a demonstrated need for the services you are offering. War is the ultimate 'create fear - provide protection' racket."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/macgregor/macgregor1.html
"I refuse to accept that the attack on London was anything less than a false-flag operation designed to enrage Western 'civilization' against the Middle East. Why? Because there is no reason for 'terrorist' groups to attack England. As recently as this week, the Ministry of Defense announced that plans were being drafted that would pull British armed forces from the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan."
http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/canon_fodder/0889_what_behind_london_attacks.html
"The lower courts met only a few days a year, and the county officials were, again, private citizens who devoted very little time to upholding the law. No, the reality must be faced that the new, but rather large, colony of Pennsylvania lived for the greater part of four years in a de facto condition of individual anarchism, and seemed none the worse for the experience."
http://www.mises.org/story/1865
"Today, fifty years after the issuance of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, it should not take the world's greatest scientist or philosopher to see that, in a world crammed with nuclear and other devastating weapons, resorting to war is an immensely dangerous and destructive act."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wittner/wittner12.html
"Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of Germany from 1871 to 1890, an aristocrat, a monarchist, and a Prussian nationalist, put in place the first social security system in 1889 in Germany. The U.S. Social Security Administration, on its website, traces its intellectual roots to Bismarck and to the 19th century European idea of the welfare state."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3975
"It seems fairly obvious that, in the course of the last few years, roughly 25-30 percent of the country has been influenced by the steady issue of news about increased violence and instability in Iraq. Apparently, a large percentage of Americans who supported the war two years ago have since become freaked out by the fact that, surprise, surprise, people are dying."
http://www.nypress.com/18/27/news&columns/taibbi.cfm
"As the United States celebrated its independence this weekend, Iraq celebrated another week under foreign occupation. So I thought it useful to look at Thomas Jefferson's case against England's King George III and compare it with the Iraqi case against our own President George II."
http://www.antiwar.com/glantz/?articleid=6547
"Ultimately, the London attacks undermine George Bush and Tony Blair's argument that terrorists are attacking freedom and that the back of al Qaeda has been broken. Obviously, countries are being attacked for their policies, the invasion of Iraq being a prominent one.”
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/news_detail.asp?newsID=54
"Goldberg took a job with the New York Sun in 1938 as a political cartoonist, and was successful in this endeavor as well; he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning in 1948. ... A Rube Goldberg machine or device is any exceedingly complex apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted way."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg
"Bill Veeck finally brought him to the major leagues in 1948 as the oldest rookie ever to play major league baseball. He registered a 6-1 record with a 2.48 ERA to help pitch the Indians to the pennant and World Series victory that year. Veeck and Paige teamed up again, with the St. Louis Browns in 1951, where Satchel relaxed in his own personal rocking chair in the bullpen when not in action. Twelve years after making appearances in the All-Star games of 1952-53, Satch at the dubious age of 59, pitched three innings for the A's to become the oldest man to pitch in a major league game."
http://www.blackbaseball.com/players/satchelpaige.htm
"Just before the Thanksgiving holidays in 1952, Haley's band changed their name and their image for the last time. Off came the cowboy boots and the white Stetsons. With some regrets and more than a little apprehension, the four young musicians, turned their backs on their beloved country/ western music and bravely faced an unknown future as 'Bill Haley and his Comets'. One example of that change was 'Rock the Joint' which sold 75,000 copies. In 1953 he wrote 'Crazy Man Crazy' which became the first rock and roll record to make the Billboard pop chart reaching the Top 20."
http://www.history-of-rock.com/haley.htm
"'The Day the Earth Stood Still' is a classic science fiction movie with a fine message of peace. It has great direction, good acting and an archetypal 1950's SF musical score. ... the movie has aged quite well and I recommend it highly.”
http://endervidualism.com/agora/day_earth_still_1951.htm
"Wag the Dog isn't just a film about using wars to distract from the personal problems and power abuses of presidents. It's a mocking and venomous commentary on the entire enterprise of war in America, the deceptions concocted by governments, and the American willingness to believe virtually anything, as long as the evening news tells them its true."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken108.html
"The camera follows a crew of rookie CSR enthusiasts from the first boardroom-based inklings of ethics fever to the factory floor in Shenzhen, China. Filmmaker Thomas Balmes' previous documentary, Christ comes to the Papuans followed the trauma of Christian conversion in Papua New Guinea, and the mayhem provoked by warring churches. A Decent Factory is a film about a massive corporation trying to get religion, and while no one ends up dead, the results are not pretty."
http://www.reason.com/links/links070505.shtml
"Though the Midwest territory is still largely unexplored, early reports describe a region as backwards as it is vast. ... [Midwesterners] mode of dress is largely restricted to sweatpants and sweatshirts, the women's being adorned with hearts and teddy bears and the men's with college-football insignias'."
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4127&n=3
Sing, Stoolie, Sing
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/07/06/fioreprosecution.DTL
"Davis Crenelle, a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Law, believes that Ms. Abdul may be the perfect replacement for Justice O’Connor: 'First and foremost, she is a woman, and second, she occupies the middle -- in her case, between Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson'."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1167
"U.S. military personnel, from the Pentagon on down, will continue to disregard the Geneva Convention and the Constitution with respect to their treatment of prisoners at Gitmo, even if such prisoners are Americans, if they believe that by doing so they are either following orders or pleasing their commander-in-chief or their superior officers."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0507b.asp
"The money goes (1) to the governments that rule over the people of a nation -- often brutally -- in return for redirecting the money (2) to Western political capitalists in the form of large capital purchases."
http://www.bkmarcus.com/blog/2005/07/aid-kills.html
"Henry George used analogies to war and the human body to show that protectionism is 'prevention by a people not of what others want to do to them, but of what they themselves want to do.' By using such analogies, he was able to communicate the case for free trade in a way anyone who cared to could understand."
http://www.mises.org/story/1847
"[T]he constitutional conflation of 'public interest' with increased tax monies is deeply distressing to those of us who happen to think letting governments access too much dough too easily leads them to create even more useless government programs that enfeeble the citizenry in deeply destructive ways. Nonetheless, across the fruited domain, governments reacted to the court decision by sending the bulldozers round to idle expectantly on John Doe's front lawn...."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20050703-101101-4646r.htm
"There is always an inherent conflict between government and freedom. Nearly every act of government, almost every law and regulation that is imposed from above, is intended to limit freedom. What conservatives must understand is that it is not always possible to be a fine, upstanding, law-abiding citizen and be a free man at the same time."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45111
"[W]hen people suggest to me my (to them) soft, foolish life is solely dependent on the protection of hard men making hard choices, they are supporting, whether they know it or not, the view that tyranny is acceptable if it 'benefits' the public. Is this not fascism, the utilitarian view that the individual can be involuntarily sacrificed to the group?"
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