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"Disregarding the tacit conventions of jingoistic newspeak, Zappala adds: 'I don't want anyone else to go through this, not an American, not an Iraqi, no one. As a person of faith, I firmly believe we have the ability to provide better answers on how to resolve conflict than what Bush is offering us'."
http://www.progress.org/2005/sol151.htm
"At issue is U.S. Attorney Greg Miller's unhappiness with Sheriff McNesby informing the public regarding the capture and arrest of people charged with federal crimes, which under Florida statues, McNesby is obligated to do. However, Miller believes such information should be kept quiet. As with many people in the federal government, it appears that U.S. Attorney Greg Miller would prefer to prosecute people under the cloak of secrecy! Can anyone say, 'Hail Patriot Act!'?"
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/05/08/10/baldwin.htm
"[T]he purpose of the Constitution was not to give people rights but instead to bring a federal government into existence -- a government with very limited powers. Therefore, it makes no sense to look for a right in the Constitution, given that the purpose of the Constitution was not to give people rights in the first place."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0504a.asp
"The cops raided that home without a search warrant. This is becoming more and more common in jurisdictions with particularly militant approaches to underage drinking. A prosecutor in Wisconsin popularized the practice in the late 1990s when he authorized deputies to enter private residences without warrants, 'by force, if necessary,' when there was the slightest suspicion of underage drinking."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4067
"At an April 27 meeting at the school, Parker refused to leave without an assurance that he would receive parental notification. Arrested for criminal trespass, he spent the night in jail. When asked why he insisted on staying, Parker replied, 'I wanted to see how far they [school authorities] would go for [my] asking something simple'."
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/0810.html
"Unfortunately, 'doing what it takes' seems to go far beyond talking plainly and guarding what is ours; it seems to entail killing lots and lots of innocent people in the Middle East. Even more unfortunately, the latter appears to be the biggest part of what talk-show hosts and their followers mean by 'doing what it takes' when they invoke that ubiquitous phrase."
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/nowicki_hiroshima.htm
"There arise many troubles with accepting everything that the state does in the name of protecting 'its' citizenry. The state, like any protection racket, has always advertised itself as an organization concerned with defending people from injury. This has always been its main trick, and millions have died at its hands believing it."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory86.html
"The Center for Disease Control is just another agency in a long list which exemplifies that the state is nothing more than organized crime. Yet, only the state can engage in such overt criminal activity and make the audacious claim that it is there to protect the same ones that it victimizes!"
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/schultz/schultz1.html
"It currently is illegal for a private agent to sell 'protection' in the way Gambetta uses the term. One of the defining characteristics of the State is that it claims a monopoly on the rightful use (or delegation of the use) of physical violence within its geographical borders."
http://www.mises.org/story/1879
"So instead of using the cost-prohibitive and proprietary solutions provided by brick-and-mortar telecoms, users can now use their internet connection to audibly talk to anyone with an internet connection. In addition, only 256 kbps of bandwidth are typically required for most conversations; this is provided by virtually all broadband solutions, such as DSL or cable modems."
http://www.mises.org/story/1881
"I don't know to what extent nutrition is the basis of poor health and disease; but it makes sense to me that it's an ongoing contributing factor. And if I can fairly safely stave off some of the undesirable effects of aging, I'm willing to give that a try, too. I'm not looking to get my twenty-something body back ... just to forestall the frailty and disease that often accompanies aging. So I've decided to give my nontraditional MD friend's approach a go." The link to the anti-steroid hype article is especially good.
http://www.sunnimaravillosa.com/archives/00000435.html
"This is my nickel guide for people thinking about expatriation to Mexico. It may bore most people, but it's supposed to be useful instead of scintillating. (Utility is a new departure for this column.) Mexico is not for everybody. Lots love it. Lots don't. As a very rough rule, there are two types of gringos here: Those who don't like Mexico but want good weather and cheap maids, and those who are adventurous, self-starting, and independent."
http://www.fredoneverything.net/ExpatGuide.shtml
"It's easy to forget sometimes - amidst all the lofty talk of geopolitics, of apocalyptic clashes between good and evil, of terror, liberty, security and God - that the war on Iraq is 'largely a matter of loot,' as Kasper Gutman so aptly described the Crusades in that seminal treatise on human nature, The Maltese Falcon. And nowhere is this more evident than in the festering, oozing imposthume of corruption centered around the Gutman-like figure of Dick Cheney."
http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd08122005.html
"In short, U.S. policy makers intend to allay the terrorist threat posed to Americans and their allies by pursuing a public-relations program designed to persuade Islamic fundamentalists to surrender their present ideology in favor of a spiffy American-made alternative that offers a brighter vision and a positive alternative, much as a detergent manufacturer might offer consumers a product that will get rid of unsightly ring around the collar."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1547
"The conservative movement has disappeared. The Republican Party has disappeared. The two have morphed into a brownshirt movement that worships coercion and a strutting little marionette who believes he can threaten peoples into submission."
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=6921
"As has been noted often in this column space, the whole charade leading up to the war -- the phony inspections regime, the fake drama in which congressional approval was 'sought,' the utterly idiotic 'evidence' of the imminent Iraqi threat offered on the floor of the House in the State of the Union address -- all of this was a childish ruse, obvious to the dullest observer. And the thrust of all of it was that the U.S. Congress was used like a piece of meat, humped like a blow-up doll, crudely manipulated to give the Iraqi action the appearance of democratic legality."
http://www.nypress.com/18/32/news&columns/taibbi.cfm
"What's going on? ...['I]f tax dollars are going to be spent then I would rather them be spent on something like this than income redistribution programs to support corporate and social welfare.['] But the assumption that 'tax dollars are going to be spent' is wrong. The federal budget is in deficit. The choice is not between using tax-dollars to fund research and using the same tax dollars to fund something else. Rather, the choice is between using debt to fund research and not accruing that debt at all. What's wrong with the latter choice?"
http://www.techcentralstation.com/080905F.html
"Republicans have come down with a serious case of Potomac Fever. They believe that their every passing thought is a proper subject for federal legislation. They hold three-ring-circus hearings on steroids in baseball. They sharply increase the fines for alleged indecency on television. They hold hearings on whether college textbooks are too expensive. They threaten to punish Major League Baseball if the owners allow left-wing billionaire George Soros to be a part owner of the new team in Washington. They vote for a federal investigation of the video game 'Grand Theft Auto'."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4068
"[T]aking government completely out of the pension business will give people real control over their own retirement plans and will free all of us from any future coerced responsibility of supporting other people's old age expenses. Abolishing Social Security is the only reform consistent with a society of liberty and would end America's Social Security crisis because it would no longer be an 'affair of state'."
http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=7098
"The bottom line is that economic theory is objective or non-normative and doesn't make value judgments. Economic-policy questions are normative or subjective and do make value judgments -- questions such as: Should we fight unemployment or inflation, should we spend more money on education, and should the capital gains tax be 15 percent or 20 percent? It's in the area of value judgments where there's so much disagreement among economists."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0504f.asp
"Housing markets are driven by many factors. If interest rates go up or we have a recession, it may hurt prices in many markets. Those most at risk will be the markets where speculation has been greatest."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1548
"PayPal is huge and growing. With eBay branding, it now boasts 73 million users, making it by far the largest online payment service. But it’s nothing like what it was intended to be: a way for people to protect the money they earn from greedy governments and protect private purchases from the prying eyes of regulators. Greedy governments and prying regulators saw to that."
http://www.reason.com/0508/cr.rb.who.shtml
"That officials in the capital city should determine expenditures on major roads across the country might have been acceptable in the Soviet Union but makes no sense in the United States, where investment in other infrastructure services is determined by consumer demand and profitability."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1546
"Public bribes are more or less what the state defines as such! Contrary to a tax, though, a bribe can serve not only to increase state power, but also to bypass it. The liberty of the subjects to bribe public officials can make their plight more bearable. Thus, in an interventionist state, public bribes can be less harmful than taxes."
http://www.mises.org/story/1884
"It is questionable whether these measures will actually either stop or increase the government's ability to respond to a terrorist attack. What is less questionable is whether these constrictions of liberty -- the foundation of our nation -- would have been needed or enacted if the United States wasn't rampaging around the world tilting at imagined security threats and stirring the hornets' nest in the process."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1549
"To argue that national allegiance reduces human suffering, you must assert that acts of domestic terrorism cause more grievous harm than all the territorial and colonial wars, ethnic cleansing and holocausts pursued in the name of the national interest. To believe this, you need to be not just a patriot but a chauvinist."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1545289,00.html
"As we approach the fourth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the official story of what happened that day, and how it happened, is beginning to unravel in a spectacular manner. The official version is that the nineteen conspirators, acting alone and without the foreknowledge or even the suspicion of any outside agency, pulled off a complex series of operations involving at least four separate airplanes, all carried out within minutes of each other, pirouetting in the sky in perfect synchronicity before barreling down on their targets nearly simultaneously."
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6923
"Time magazine may have invented the shorthand term 'hippies,' but in reality those who participated in the counterculture that exploded out of the blandness and repression of the Eisenhower-Nixon years were surfing on an epidemic of idealism, displaying courage and imagination. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll were merely the underbelly of what was essentially a mass spiritual awakening -- a movement away from western religions of repression toward eastern philosophies of liberation -- a generation of young pioneers, traveling westward without killing a single Indian along the way.”
http://www.nypress.com/18/32/books/paulkrassner.cfm
"The day began with a reminder of Nagasaki's historical associations with Christianity. As the sun rose over the city, hundreds of people attended a special mass at Urakami Cathedral, which at the time of the bombing was the largest in Asia. More than 8,000 of its 12,000 parishioners are estimated to have died in the bombing."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,7369,1545862,00.html
"As popular myth would have it, there were no government inspectors before Congress acted in response to 'The Jungle' and the greedy meat packers fought federal inspection all the way. The truth is that not only did government inspection exist, but meat packers themselves supported it and were in the forefront of the effort to extend it!"
http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=7229
"Death and dismemberment of defenseless children is categorically evil at all times and everywhere on earth. That's why strategic nuclear weapons are rightly condemned as mala in se -- utterly and inherently always wrong because their use against civilian population centers like Hiroshima (or New York or London) is plain genocide, wiping out the innocent and their moms, indiscriminately obliterating all hope of survival and care, the whole fabric of human life and its future."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001256.html
"Human males can also sense danger, and know very well the hazards of facing protective mothers -- particularly when other mothers are watching, too. This explains why the mainstream media has worked so hard to make antiwar parents of fallen soldiers look pitiful, and why George Bush is hiding inside his compound, hoping that Ms. Sheehan will lose interest and go away."
http://www.antiwar.com/whitehurst/?articleid=6912
"Cindy Sheehan -- and many other people who have joined her outside the presidential gates in Crawford, and millions of other Americans ... have rejected not only the rabid militarism of the Bush administration but also the hollowed-out pseudo-strategic abdication of moral responsibility so well articulated by Howard Dean."
http://www.counterpunch.org/solomon08122005.html
"The English language was changing rapidly in Caxton's time, and the works he was given to print were in a variety of styles and dialects. Caxton was a technician rather than a writer, and often faced dilemmas of how much to standardise the language in the books he printed."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caxton
"Boop cartoons of this era could be whimsical, like Crazy Town (1932); melodramatic, like She Wronged Him Right (1934), or surreal, like Snow White (1933), whose wicked queen uttered a 'Mirror, mirror' rhyme four years before Disney's, in his version of the story. Many, such as I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You (1932) and The Old Man of the Mountain (1933) functioned mainly as what would now be called 'music videos'. One thing they always were was sexy."
http://www.toonopedia.com/boop.htm
"The book [Roots: The Saga of an American Family], a mixture of fact and fiction, chronicles Haley's ancestral history and the methods he used to trace his lineage to a West African village. To write the work, Haley invented certain unknown details of his family history. The series of character portraits that he created caused many Americans to become interested in genealogy."
"Cry Freedom is a depiction of the horribly unjust system of apartheid which once held in the Republic of South Africa. It shows with brutal honesty just how evil and corrupt that system was. It also shows the individual heroism of the people which eventually defeated it. That would be enough for me to recommend the movie. However, Cry Freedom is more than that. Cry Freedom is also a movie about the modern police state."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/cry_freedom_1987.htm
"Open Range presents the gunfight in novel way. It is dry, soulless, quick, brutal and unglorified. One could almost call it 'factual.' Costner is no fool here. I believe that he wants to convey the point that guns are just tools. It's as if he wants to shatter the myth of the cowboy as a bloodthirsty gunslinger and instead replace it with the cowboy as man of courage and a proper understanding of justice and rights who is willing to take a stand."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/mora1.html
"Once upon a time there was an Emperor who thought that the war he had started was exciting, albeit troublesome. He thought that running a war was 'hard work,' and thinking always made him tired. So, he decided to take another vacation and visit his castle in the provinces, where he could relax with his vassals and nobles seeking his favor and not have to think."
http://www.counterpunch.org/krieger08132005.html
"President Bush unveiled an aggressive initiative Monday that would make the U.S. free of petroleum dependence by the year 4920, less than three millennia from now."
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4132
"But even as interrogators praised 'Dukes' as a welcome addition to their tactical arsenal, human rights groups such as Amnesty International blasted the U.S. for using the film, arguing that the practice could be in violation of the Geneva Conventions against torture."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1192
"All that reminiscing prompted me to actually watch the DVD movie version of At the Earth's Core.... I think I saw that movie around the time it was first released, but watching it now was different."
http://tonova.typepad.com/thesuddencurve/2005/08/at_the_earths_c.html
"I get the strong impression that even the idealists in Congress have learned to accept the body on its own terms. Congress isn't the steady assembly line of consensus policy ideas it's sold as, but a kind of permanent emergency in which a majority of members work day and night to burgle the national treasure and burn the Constitution. A largely castrated minority tries, Alamo-style, to slow them down -- but in the end spends most of its time beating calculated retreats and making loose plans to fight another day." Long, but an excellent read.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7539869?rnd=1124087026500
"How can we best meet our needs and express our individuality while according to our fellows the respect each desires? This requires from each of us the highest form of morality, recognizing that for all to function in harmony, voluntary choice resulting in cooperative effort is essential. To coerce, or to attempt to coerce, such effort is to undermine the moral integrity on which mankind depends for full survival."
http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=7094
"My life. Two simple words. Two profound thoughts. Two incredibly misunderstood concepts. My. Life. Say them separately. Say them together. Say them in any language you please. Doesn't matter. Most people get them wrong, anyway. My Life. The most important phrase in human history. As a pair, the words form the basis for all of civilization, all of learning, all of morality. Politics. Literature. You name it."
http://home.earthlink.net/~rdmadden/webdocs/My_Life_A_Comic_Adventure.html
"[W]omen's-rights advocates are now finding themselves in an ironic intellectual bind, as the onset of sex selection technology has them arguing that while a woman has a right to choose abortion, she can only do so for approved reasons. ... [S]cientists are estimating that there are 100 million women missing from India and China and as the technology becomes cheaper and more widespread.... A U.N. official named Khalid Malik has warned that at present birth rates, with only 826 girls born per 1,000 boys, China will be missing 60 million more women within a decade." There are implications of this imbalance not covered by Mr. Day related to conflict.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45654
"The Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative recognizes that 'Birth is a normal, natural, and healthy process.' And that 'Birth can safely take place in hospitals, birth centers, and homes.' The sixth of the Initiative's Ten Steps recommends against the routine use of a number of procedures, including episiotomy, for which the recommended goal is 5%. Clearly, that 5% goal is supported by the home birth study in which midwives who are trained in measures to support the perineum and avoid unnecessary surgery kept the Episiotomy rate even lower."
http://press.arrivenet.com/hea/article.php/680024.html
"Casey Sheehan was every mother's son. Cindy Sheehan is every son's mother. She loved him with every cell in her body and every breath in her soul, and mourns his absence in every second of every day, and will have some answers for her pain and loss, or will know the reason why."
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