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"The state fears you. Why? Because you hold the opinions that you do, and refuse to surrender your mind, your talents, your soul. By joining the resistance, you help thwart their plans. You help establish the basis for peace in the future. You help preserve and develop civilization, for the human family can only thrive in a setting of peace."
http://www.mises.org/story/1923
"Our politicians may lack an appreciation for the values enshrined in the First Amendment, but they're hardly naive. Now that they've realized that a public backlash is brewing from bloggers and online activists from both major parties, members of Congress who once embraced strict Internet restrictions are backpedaling."
http://beta.news.com.com/2010-1071_3-5879260.html
"There are a myriad of activities that can be done in today's world in order for individual liberty to exist, especially the amount of individual liberty that existed for our ancestors 200 years ago. ... [H]ere is a list of the Top 10 ways to reclaim liberty:"
http://sun.yumasun.com/artman/publish/articles/story_19451.php
"There is no way to accurately judge who's right in the culture war without examining the facts. Both sides can make valid points, and who's right often shifts with the tactics they employ. Nevertheless, when I need to make a snap judgement -- one I discard upon deeper examination -- then I follow a few crude guidelines."
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/0928.html
"There's little in Padilla's background to suggest he's an innocent man wrongly accused--he's a violent ex-con with apparent ties to Al Qaeda. But 'the innocent have nothing to fear' is cold comfort and poor constitutional argument. The very principle that imprisons the guilty can be used to seize the innocent."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5043
"Let's pause to savor this Keystone Kops moment. The victim's wearing a brace, there are how many able-bodied screeners standing around paid to suspend their rationality and act as if she's a terrorist because said brace rang alarms, yet when she's had enough of their nonsense, off she stumps, bum leg and all. It gets better. The TSA announced a manhunt."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers20.html
"This was an example of a state doing what states do but without the cover of mystifying rationalizations. Here the state exercised the total control that it craved and sucked the very life out of its subjects in an act of complete parasitism. Inmates arrived, and those too weak to work were sent to the gas chamber and cremated. Their hair, gold in their teeth, and all their worldly goods were taken and sorted for use by the state."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2005/09/visit-to-auschwitz.html
"Anarchist political theorists have long dreamed of such a society; some of their ideas are today being put to the test. As Neuwirth reports, squatter anarchy can work surprisingly well. In the favela squatter settlements of Rio, law and order is privately maintained by local drug lords, and there is hardly any crime, comparing favorably in this regard with most Rio neighborhoods served by the city police."
http://www.reason.com/0508/cr.rn.illegal.shtml
"These are the extraordinary situations in which government reveals itself to be unhampered by the aging document it claims to value so much. Though these situations are distinct from most common cases in which the government respects its limitations, they are not rare. They occur on a daily basis, at any juncture where the state has a vested interest in preserving or expanding its power."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/olson/olson1.html
"U.S. administrations, the American foreign policy establishment, conservative hawks and arms control doves all wring their hands over new countries trying to develop nuclear weapons, but none of them ever seem to realize that U.S. military interventions overseas are creating powerful incentives for countries to acquire such weapons to gain some respect from the superpower."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1576
"An influential group of Montenegrins on Saturday launched a campaign for independence, demanding that a referendum on their tiny Balkan republic's secession from Serbia be held in March."
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2005/10/01/1244155-ap.html
"The professor said that the surrender of arms suggests submissiveness to the government, which by definition should be 'of the people, for the people and by the people.' 'Muslims? Mexicans? Egyptians? Who is the enemy on this land this day to protect yourself from?' Yeagley asked. 'Could it possibly be the U.S. government'?"
http://www.athensnews.com/issue/article.php3?story_id=21703
"Mired in interminable conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration is moving toward initiating two more wars, one with Iran and one with North Korea. With no US troops available, the Bush administration is revamping US war doctrine to allow for 'preventative nuclear attack.' In short, the Bush administration is planning to make the US the first country in history to initiate war with nuclear weapons."
http://counterpunch.org/roberts09302005.html
"Although our government leaders insist that the recent abuses were acts of a few 'bad apples' - young MPs out of control - we can only shake our heads. We have heard it all before. While our young soldiers face prison time for following orders, those who authorized and ordered the torture continue to violate our laws with full impunity."
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-ophar234442343sep25,0,2934111.story
"Capping recent agreements signed with the United States on military and civilian nuclear cooperation within an increasingly closer 'strategic partnership' with it, this constitutes the greatest shift in New Delhi's foreign policy since independence from colonial rule in 1947."
http://www.antiwar.com/bidwai/?articleid=7423
"The dynamic tension that holds the Washington foreign policy elite in thrall and maintains doctrinal rigidity is nowhere near breaking: in spite of growing popular outrage at the heinous costs of this war, both moral and material, the war lords of Washington are defying public opinion and 'staying the course'."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7384
"Garrett and Sobel found that from 1991 to 1999 states that were more politically important to the president had a higher rate of natural-disaster declarations. Further, the average number of disasters declared in election years was 66 percent higher than the number in non-election years, yet there is little reason to believe that bad weather mimics political cycles."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1579
"Who made the Brady Bill and the late, unlamented Ugly Gun ban possible? None other than the Republican Party, under the viagratic leadership of Senator Brady Bill-Bob Dole, who gave the Clintonistas a pass on rules of procedure that would have otherwise stopped them cold. For ten years, as a consequence, liberty hung in limbo--and hangs in limbo even yet--thanks specifically to the connies who now have the baldfaced temerity to claim it was all part of some grand strategy."
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle338-20050925-02.html
"George Galloway, like Cindy Sheehan, represents what, in the study of chaos, is known as the 'butterfly effect,' (i.e., the capacity for individuals to affect change through the reiteration of their influences upon a system). Such people serve as 'attractors' to others who share their sentiments. Through such spontaneous and open-ended means as the Internet, men and women are able to create networks of shared opinions. They become catalysts for change, a process upon which all creative and productive systems depend."
http://lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer120.html
"'But in every disaster, a few of the dumbest eliminate themselves from the great natural competition to contribute to the future of the human race. You, too, can commit "suicide by Mother Nature."' 'Wait a minute,' Dora objected. 'You can't blame everyone who died in those storms. That's heartless!' 'I'm not blaming anyone,' Bob shrugged. 'I'm just saying that some people die, or risk death, more by their own fault than by Mother Nature's."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe051001.html
"In a world of scarcity each good must have some price. Of course, everybody would like all prices to be lower, except for the price he charges for his goods or labor. The price system works to balance supply and demand, ensuring that no buyers or sellers are frustrated in their attempts to obtain or sell the product."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0509f.asp
"Wal-Mart did so well precisely because it is not a government agency or contractor. There is no reason to believe that Scott could run FEMA better than a political appointee or career bureaucrat. This is not meant as an insult. Rather, it's a comment about bureaucracy. There's an old conservative idea that government can be run like a business, but years ago Ludwig von Mises, in his classic Bureaucracy, showed that this is a misconception."
http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=7229
"When schools are run by the government, the details of ninth-grade biology classes, the propriety of patriotic rituals, and every other educational issue--ranging from how to teach math and reading to the contents of vending machines--becomes a political issue. Even when the arguments don't end up in court, they generate acrimony and resentment that could be avoided if education were entirely a private matter."
http://www.reason.com/sullum/093005.shtml
"While there have been plenty of dirty names thrown around to describe natural healing arts, and fear-mongering headlines scream that using dietary supplements, herbs, homeopathic products and the like is dangerous, the bottom line is that the modern medical system is failing. Killing 784,000 people doesn't even cover those who suffer chronic, sometimes lifelong illnesses that destroy all chances to lead a full, productive life from the litany of failed toxic drugs, surgeries gone wrong, mistakes in hospitals, misdiagnoses and all manner of problems that have arisen from a system awash in cash and political connections to keep it afloat."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Dean/carolyn12.htm
"President Bush, showing in full bloom the instincts that make it clear that whatever he is politically he is not a conservative of the traditional limited-government or Constitutionalist variety, has lofted a trial balloon to promote the idea of having the military play a more extensive, earlier and perhaps even primary role in handling future disasters."
http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=7468
"What to do about the clash over the word 'libertarian'? Many who support the war continue to claim the label as their own, denying that their pro-war agenda conflicts with basic libertarian theory, or even suggesting that we antiwar libertarians are the real disgrace to the title."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory93.html
"The Washington Post reported that when the Corps found a $194 million canal-deepening project near New Orleans a waste of money, Landrieu had an Iraq-spending bill amended to require the Corps to 'redo the calculations.' There is nothing exceptional here. It's what members of Congress do. The recently passed transportation bill was little more than a bundle of expensive favors to help particular members of Congress get reelected."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0509e.asp
"Marriage was a way of establishing economic division of labor, and a new widow or widower was seen as a job opening. While it was certainly a bonus if love later developed between a wedded couple, men and women who seemed too infatuated with their partners were widely considered, well, a little odd. The love marriage, in which people more or less freely chose partners on the basis of mutual affection, was really an 18th century invention, Coontz argues. As late as the mid-19th century, French wags were still bemused at the new fashion of 'marriage by fascination'."
http://www.reason.com/links/links092705.shtml
"A new book by Douglas J. Slawson, The Department of Education Battle, 1918–1932, is a case study in federal government involvement. Slawson focuses on an especially active period of lobbying for and against a federal department of education, a period that ended with the forces of government expansion defeated (an unfortunately too-rare outcome). "
http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=289
"Mises wrote his first New York Times editorial in March 1941, having been in the United States for less than a year. He addressed a dispute between Josef Göbbels and Wendell Willkie, and provided a capsule version of mid-19th century Prussian history. The editorial, reprinted below, was published without Mises's name, and he was paid $10."
http://www.mises.org/story/1924
"The Iraqi war has three beneficiaries: (1) al Qaeda, (2) Iran and (3) US war industries and Bush-Cheney cronies who receive no-bid contracts. Everyone else is a loser."
http://counterpunch.org/roberts09262005.html
"But the real reason democracy cannot end terrorism is that terrorism is ideally suited for influencing democratic results. Terrorism is violence by and for the people, which is to say, it is expressly designed to speak through the mass media in order to influence the masses. As every successful politician knows, fear is an excellent means of manipulating the minds of the voting populace, and so terrorism has a utility in democratic societies that it does not have in autocracies."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46510
"When my daughter asked why our daily newspaper only updates the number of Americans killed in Iraq, at first I fumbled for an answer. Somehow managing an air of assuredness, I told her that no one really knows how many Iraqis have died, which, I suppose, is a half-truth. I could not admit the whole truth, that the countless Iraqi dead are only countless because America does not bother to count them."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0925-20.htm
"Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, was a Spanish author. His magnum opus, Don Quixote de la Mancha, is considered by many to be not only the first modern novel, but also one of the greatest works in Western literature. He is the Spanish Language equivalent of William Shakespeare."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes
"The birth of Peter Salem in 1750 is celebrated on this date. He was a Black soldier and patriot. Though Salem's birth year is not certain he was born a slave in Framingham, Massachusetts."
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1937/Peter_Salem_an_original_patriot
"Kahn's giddy charm was best exploited by director Mel Brooks in three 1970s comedies:Blazing Saddles (1974, as Dietrich-styled temptress Lily von Shtupp, which earned her an Oscar nomination), Young Frankenstein (1974, hilarious as the Monster's bride), and High Anxiety (1977, as a Hitchcockian heroine)." From Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia section, scroll down to it.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001404/bio
“Preston Tucker has become something of an American legend. This movie may help you understand that phenomenon. It also will give you a ‘peek behind the curtain’ at what forces actually make things happen in the USA, as opposed to the mythic propaganda that was once the meat and potatoes of civics classes in government-run schools.”
http://endervidualism.com/agora/tucker_1988.htm
"'I haven't been the same since I came out of that cinema,' f/x pioneer Ray Harryhausen has said of Kong, which he also first saw when he was 9. 'It changed my life.' To Harryhausen's disciples, Jackson among them, King Kong was the film of its era, as seminal an influence as Citizen Kane was to the auteurs of the French New Wave."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.10/kingkong.html
"There's nothing like the sight of a boomer icon barely escaping the reaper to fill his former fans with fear, guilt, and nostalgia. If dying, as the old joke goes, can be a good career move, then almost dying is even better, especially if you plan to collect some of the royalties."
http://www.reason.com/links/links092605.shtml
Warning: Serenity spoilers ahead. You may want to bookmark this for later if you haven't seen the film yet. ... "The interesting thing about Firefly's cult following, though, is that it seems to include a disproportionate number of libertarians." Many, many spoilers, but a very interesting review.
http://www.reason.com/hod/js093005.shtml
"Serenity, as a movie, succeeds on virtually every level. Due to the scale, it's far grander than anything the TV screen could offer. You can feel the ship shake and groan through atmosphere. The light is sharper, and the depths of colors more vibrant, the sounds and silences more menacing. The actors seem unaffected by the change to the bigger medium, and put in strong performances. Newcomer Chiwetel Ejiofor, as the Alliance operative with no name, lends a new depth to the story and characters." No spoilers I noticed.
http://firebringer.blogspot.com/2005/09/serenity-reviewed.html
"Yet as challenging as it must have been to pilot Joss Whedon's space opera from the TV junk pile to the big screen, the finished product is a triumph. 'Serenity' was clearly written by someone who grew up worshiping at the altar of Han Solo and the space marines in 'Aliens,' but this genre picture is still a thrillingly original science fiction creation."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/30/DDGP7EVFH91.DTL
"Serenity focuses on the struggles of a ragtag band of outsiders trying desperately to get a high-tech videotape played on intergalactic television. ... The film, right down to the tagline ('You can't stop the signal'), is one big middle finger to Fox TV executives." Has some spoilers.
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0539,singer,68229,20.html
"And being surprised? Yeah, you're going to be surprised, even if you did watch the unjustly cancelled series Firefly on which the film is based. In Serenity, we learn a great deal more about the Firefly universe. Some big secrets are finally revealed--and we discover that some other secrets just aren't ever going to come out." No real spoilers.
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/16317.html
"Whedon does manage to entertain us, start to finish, and it's obvious that's what he likes doing best. The director doesn't take himself or genre filmmaking especially seriously, and Serenity is a playful mix of space operas, Westerns and thrillers, with some Buffy-esque spin-kick-chop fight scenes tossed in. At the same time, Whedon clearly cares about his characters, and Serenity never devolves into parody." Has spoilers.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,69036,00.html
"As a public service for parents still waffling on whether to wrest their kiddies from the clutches of public schools in favor of private or homegrown instruction, here are samplings from The Collectivist's Culturally Correct Curriculum."
http://www.freecannon.com/CulturallyCorrectCurriculum.htm
"Recent events have underscored the importance of being properly prepared to deal with the effects of natural disasters. With that in mind, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has prepared the following guidelines."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40987
"In what some skeptics saw as a calculated move to protect themselves from impending prosecution and ethics probes, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and former Speaker of the House Tom DeLay announced today that they were engaged to be married."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1227
"Businesses exist within real communities and have real effects, both good and bad, on those communities. Like individuals living in communities, businesses make valuable social contributions by providing goods and services and employment. But just as individuals can feel a responsibility to provide some philanthropic support for the communities in which they live, so too can a business. The responsibility of business toward the community is not infinite, but neither is it zero. Each enlightened business must find the proper balance between all of its constituencies: customers, employees, investors, suppliers, and communities."
http://www.reason.com/0510/fe.mf.rethinking.shtml
"One reason why we fear so much is because life is dominated by competing groups of fear entrepreneurs who promote their cause, stake their claims, or sell their products through fear. Politicians, the media, businesses, environmental organisations, public health officials and advocacy groups are continually warning us about something new to fear."
http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CAD7B.htm
"A real free market does not allow one person to damage another person with impunity. For this reason, there can be no limited liability in a free market, a conclusion ... anticipated by Murray Rothbard's conclusion that 'A libertarian society would be a full-liability society where everyone is fully responsible for his actions and any harmful consequences they might cause'."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff28.html
"HOT is an acronym for 'High-Occupancy or Toll', and 'HOT lanes' are traffic lanes open only to High-Occupancy vehicles (variously defined) and to vehicles for which tolls are paid. The tolls are collected electronically, with road users’ accounts being debited without vehicles having to stop. Accounts are identified by credit card sized windshield units carrying unique identification codes. Tolls vary by time of day to ensure congestion-free travel at all times."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1580
"[W]e are now seeing news accounts of severe gasoline shortages not only in the hard-hit places, but all of the states where AGs are aggressively pursuing their powers to stop 'price gougers.' After all, no one wants to be a Ramilaben Patel, who will have to cough up some of his hard-earned dollars after being fined for setting gasoline prices so high that no one would buy his gas."
http://www.mises.org/story/1921
"When the hurricane evacuation order came, there was an immediate change in the demand conditions for gasoline; namely, demand became much greater than the available supply. Retailers, in fear of prosecution by the attorney general, didn't do what would have brought demand more in line with the available supplies of gasoline -- raise prices. "
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/column/walterwilliams/2005/09/28/158547.html
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