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"In fact, Bob Fertik, president of Democrats.com, in announcing the latest Zogby results, also announced formation of an impeachment campaign fund, Impeach PAC, which he said hopes will quickly raise $100,000 via the Internet to be parceled out to those congressional candidates who promise to support an immediate simultaneous impeachment of President Bush and vice President Dick Cheney for lying in the runup to the Iraq War."
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff11042005.html
"She then offered up a challenge, urging activists to withhold their support for the popular senator unless she comes around. 'It's time to tell your elected officials, "If you're not with us, you're against us," ' Sheehan said, 'and if you're against us, we'll vote you out of office.' Five days later, New Yorkers who oppose the Iraq war began heeding Sheehan's advice. Some 70 activists gathered outside Clinton's midtown office on the day after American casualties in Iraq hit the grim 2,000 mark. The activists read names of the U.S. fallen and lit candles in their honor."
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0544,lombardi,69553,6.html
"According to Stephen Young, a senior analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists, 'this is a true victory for a more rational nuclear policy.' Although the reason for the administration's abandonment of its new nuclear weapon program remains unclear, it does appear that it resulted from public pressure, Democratic opposition, and a division on the issue among Republicans."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wittner/wittner15.html
"The technology that yesterday enabled manufacturers to keep track of pallets of shipped goods is already being proposed for decidedly more invasive applications. One patent application describes a 'sniffer' or RFID reader which would be used on the doorway of homes and cars to inventory the consumer's spychipped items and send the results to marketers."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Mary/starrett63.htm
"[A} misguided amendment has been attached to the Senate reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act that would allow DNA collected from arrestees - people presumed innocent - to be uploaded into the national DNA database. When the government can justify storing the DNA of people who get arrested, just in case it might come in handy later on, it's not a big jump to the rest of us."
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/10/30/Columns/When_silence_is_met_w.shtml
"At some point, everyone ought to throw his or her political theory--whatever it is--up against the wall of reality to see if it sticks. I ran smack into that wall when the state shackled Mark, one of my best friends, and hauled him off to a dank, violent, maximum-security prison for a 17-year stay."
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2374/
"Just as an ant colony will, when endangered, rescue and protect its reproductive center, the queen, so too does the political establishment insist upon protecting the image and machinery of the state as its primary concern. Anything that diminishes respect for the state apparatus or its purposes weakens the popular sanction upon which all political power ultimately rests."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer123.html
"These are heuristic tools; they are useful guiding principles for self-liberation -- they are not a blueprint. Play around with them enough so that you gain an unconscious familiarity and facility for using them. You won't accomplish much by just reading through a list. Merely reading a list of the rules of logic, for example, is not enough to cause you to think logically as a matter of course."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2005/11/mindset-for-freedom.html
"[T]he dictators were replaced by an even more insidious myth: that of the 'Social Contract,' the idea that all members of a society have in some way agreed to bind themselves to certain standards and laws for the common good. No such signed agreement has ever been found, but the myth is powerful anyway; the Church still supports it (as in Romans 13) and the religion of universal government schooling has in any case taken the burden of indoctrination upon itself as security. The State is safe."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/davies/davies7.html
"George Orwell wrote a famous essay, 'Politics and the English Language,' and a famous novel, 1984, making the point that language really does affect thinking. In 1984, he focused on the fact that, without certain words, certain thoughts could not be expressed -- thus the importance of the government's 'memory hole,' down which certain words went. In his 'Politics' essay, Orwell also pointed out the other side: using words can affect how we think. And that is my point here. Specifically, if we use the word 'we' to refer to what specific governments have done and will do in the future, we are adopting the organic view of society, which most definitely will affect how we think."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=7889
"Although many critics have said the mighty U.S. would not stand for Vermont's secession, Naylor as [well] as others disagree, including Jim Hogue, a talk show host on Vermont Public radio. 'There's nothing they would want here. There's no oil, just mountains. We're just not important enough. We're funny, we're small and we're peaceful,' said Hogue several months ago in an article in the Montreal Gazette."
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/36584.htm
"[T]he commanding officer who gave an ill-considered order to break up Tillman's platoon -- which the original report determined to be a key mistake leading to his death -- was not only given an opportunity to revise his testimony to the first investigator, he was given immunity, and was allowed to disburse punishment to those below him. One of those punished, Tillman's platoon leader, had correctly protested the commanding officer's order. Tillman's platoon leader, who took shrapnel to the face during the incident, was subsequently dismissed from the Rangers."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174359,00.html
"Ironically, Bush and Co. has resurrected a number of the Soviet-era prisons in the Eastern block for their vile activities. How strange that the spawn of Ronald Reagan, archrival of the 'evil empire,' would breathe new life into these relics of communist rule, throwing open the iron gates and putting them back to work."
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov05/Whitney1105.htm
"Giving medals to Franks, Tenet, and Bremer was the ultimate chutzpah in the face of an impending disaster in Iraq. The administration faces a comparable calamity in the Plame affair. So why not be brash, play offense instead of defense, and give Libby, Rove and Cheney medals?"
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1600
"By any credible estimate, Iran could not build an atomic bomb before the end of this decade. The Iranian government is allowing U.N. inspections but asserting its right to process uranium. Given the U.S. government's relentless hypocrisies and geopolitical agendas -- including a covetous eye on Iran's enormous quantities of oil and natural gas -- there's big trouble ahead."
http://www.antiwar.com/solomon/?articleid=7915
"The charges against him are certainly not trivial--if convicted on all counts, he can be sentenced to 30 years in prison and fined $1.25 million--yet in view of the much greater crimes in which he has long played such an integral part, the present charges are the moral equivalent of a parking ticket. One almost suspects that such legal proceedings are little more than the regime's proven method of diverting attention away from its greatest criminals and their greatest crimes."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1597
"President George W. Bush seems determined to take himself down with his sinking administration, declaring in the face of strong public opposition to the ill-conceived Iraqi war that he will accept nothing but 'complete victory' in what he characterized as the first great war of the 21st century. Despite his failure as president, Bush might survive the housecleaning with a deal that leaves his father and Brent Scowcroft in de facto control of the White House."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts10312005.html
"An unbelievable number of Republicans still believe that they are the party of limited government, all evidence notwithstanding. ... Similarly, Democrats still imagine themselves somehow as the inheritors of Lenny Bruce, rather than the torch-carriers for Ed Meese."
http://www.reason.com/links/links110405.shtml
"Culture is the accumulated knowledge, experience, beliefs, and customs within a group, which emerges over time and can be passed to others through literature, music and other expression. It cannot be created by government. You can't vote culture into being; you can't pass a law to turn a movie into a beloved classic. Culture emerges spontaneously and defies political control."
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/1102.html
"The high growth countries of Europe understand that high taxes, particularly on capital and labor, kill incentives and lead to economic stagnation. France, Germany and some others, fearing productive tax competition, have pushed for "tax harmonization," which is nothing more than a code word for a high tax cartel. The outcome of these tax and regulation struggles within Europe will determine whether Europe as a whole remains one of the two great economic powers on the globe, or slowly slips behind China and the other Asian countries."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5157
"Skousen obviously meant to write a popular book, one that could be read by people not attuned to nuance. It is a conglomeration of anecdotes, and thus more interesting to many readers than it would otherwise be. There is nothing wrong with this approach, provided the author has a higher goal in mind and aims for enlightenment. This is where this book is a disappointment for any serious reader."
http://www.mises.org/story/1940
"Tamiflu was developed and patented in 1996 by a California biotech firm, Gilead Sciences Inc. Gilead is a NASDAQ-listed stock company which prefers to maintain a low profile in the current rush to Tamiflu. That might be because of who is tied to Gilead. In 1997, before he became Pentagon chief, Donald Rumsfeld was named chairman of the board of Gilead Sciences, where he remained until early 2001 when he became defense secretary. Rumsfeld had been on the board of Gilead since 1988, according to a 1997 company press release."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GK04Aa01.html
"Critics of roadblocks and .08 predicted that (1) the lower standard would actually cause an increase in drunk driving deaths, as scarce law enforcement resources are diverted toward motorists who don't pose a real threat to highway safety and away from the 'hardcore' drunks that do; and (2) these roadblocks will be set up under the guise of drunk driving, but will in effect become little more than revenue generators, as police use them to issue citations for any number of less serious infractions. Both predictions have proven true."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5167
"Federal agencies must reject the logic of values regulations. The FDA should stick to regulating medications solely on the basis of their quality, safety and efficacy--if even that. Bureaucrats should not be deciding whether or not people should be having sex, with whom they should be having sex, or what type of sex they should be having."
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb110405.shtml
"Soldiers are just as much a part of the state machinery as the politician or the tax collector. Should we curse the state for legislating poorly and excuse the political class that legislates? Should we curse the state for taxation and bless the man who performs the tax audit? Likewise, should we curse the state for waging war while declaring our good-willed support for those who wage it? Soldiers make war possible; they add bite to the otherwise powerless bark of the political class."
http://www.anti-state.com/blog/?p=18
"Opponents of the Iraq war argued, in the run-up to the invasion, that U.S. policies would lead to chaos in the Middle East -- without realizing that this is precisely what the War Party is hoping and working for. It's not for nothing that Ledeen hails the transformative power of 'creative destruction,' a phrase originally utilized to describe the economic benefits of competition, and borrowed by the War Party to convey a very different -- the exact opposite -- meaning."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7876
"The anti-terrorist policies are the greatest threat to our lives and liberty in our time, yet no one seems to find time and energy to protest. This is an issue of great interest to everybody; it should be easy to create an intelligent resistance to the fascistic regimes of the western states. The states' simple tactic of creating a distraction through the 'democratization' of Iraq has worked beyond all expectation, taking people's attention from what is really important."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/bylund/bylund4.html
"In short, the 19th-century libertarians observed the rise of the various tendencies that would come together to make fascism -- militarism, corporatism, regimentation, nationalist chauvinism, plutocracy in populist guise, the call for 'strong leaders' and 'national greatness,' the glorification of conflict over commerce and of brute force over intellect -- and they bitterly opposed the whole package. And although they ultimately lost that battle, their fallen banner is ours to pick up." I was fortunate to listen to this talk online, live. It is a great read also.
http://lewrockwell.com/long/long15.html
"Faragher details how the British expulsion of the Acadians was an operation planned years in advance and authorized by the highest leadership, conducted with ruthless military efficiency as spouses and families were separated and scattered across the continent from present-day Nova Scotia to present-day Louisiana in order to eradicate the Acadian way of life."
http://www.reason.com/0511/cr.as.exile.shtml
"The fact is that the fascism in our midst began many years before Bush and company arrived on the scene, and if the patterns of history are any indication, it will continue to grow, morphing into an ever more pernicious form of tyranny in the years to come. Who knows what mutation it will take on next? Perhaps President Hillary Rodham Clinton will not only send in the additional 80,000 U.S. troops she believes is needed by the U.S. Army into Iraq, she will also send troops into an endless cycle of 'humanitarian' wars in Africa as well."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/kaercher/kaercher2.html
"The following year, she introduced various radical changes to the newsletter and transformed it into the independent libertarian political magazine Persuasion, which she published on a monthly basis, with the assistance of David Dawson and Avis Brick, for the next three years. Later that year, Persuasion became the first and only political magazine ever personally endorsed and recommended by Ayn Rand. … For more than twenty years, ever since the death of Ayn Rand in 1982, Joan Kennedy Taylor was the leading woman intellectual in the libertarian movement."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/riggenbach2.html
"Joan did not go quietly into that good night. She did not rage against it either. As life's end approached, she worked on a new project and then went out and had a good time."
http://www.reason.com/hod/cm110105.shtml
"Along with similarly minded feminists like Wendy McElroy and Sharon Presley, Taylor long argued that American feminism began in the 19th century as a 'classical liberal' movement that sought to strike down the chains of government that held women back."
http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/joan-kennedy-taylor.html
"Please note that I am not talking about how to win the Iraq war. The war was lost from before the first bomb fell, because the strategic objectives were never attainable no matter what we did. Further blunders, from de-Baathification and sending the Iraqi Army home through mistreating the civilian population, have moved us from mere failure to incipient disaster. The question, rather, is how we might get out without our defeat being so obvious as to be undeniable."
http://www.counterpunch.org/lind11042005.html
"The U.S. is prepared to break a 60-year-old taboo on the use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear countries -- not because the survival of the country is at stake, not because the lives of many Americans or allies are at stake -- just to demonstrate that it can do it."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=7861
"America has no business meddling unilaterally with nations and societies outside North America with which it has no natural border. Europe, Japan, Korea, Israel, and all the rest of the hotspots where troops and bases are still maintained have long since become mature, industrialized, liberal democracies that are able to decide themselves what their best interests are and who are fully capable of defending their territory. Charity cases like Taiwan and Israel are simply none of America ’s business, period.."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/massoud/massoud5.html
"Moore is best known today for his defense of ethical non-naturalism, his emphasis on common sense in philosophical method, and the paradox which bears his name. He is very much [a] 'philosopher's philosopher'--greatly admired and influential among other philosophers, but (unlike his friend and colleague Russell) mostly unknown today outside of academic philosophy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E._Moore
"Ethel Waters was one of the most popular African-American singers and actresses of the 1920s. ... In 1949, she was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress in the film 'Pinky', and the next year she won the New York Drama Critics Award for best actress."
http://www.redhotjazz.com/waters.html
"Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were simply the most popular cowboy and cowgirl the world has ever known. Their West was a magical American landscape full of promise and hope in which goodness was always rewarded and bad guys always got what they deserved. They reigned at a time when the cowboy ideal seemed to signify everything decent about a nation in which all things were possible if you were a good guy with a solid handshake and a sense of honor."
http://www.royrogers.com/bio1.html
"[The] story tells of the frequent treachery of many who serve the State in the military fighting its wars. ... The movie also demonstrates how frontiers breed independence and self reliance in those who live on them. In addition, The Last of the Mohicans is also a passionate love story and a tale of brotherhood with the triumph of the personal over the machinations of empire.”
http://endervidualism.com/agora/last_mohicans_1992.htm
"The moment of truth was upon us. It was time for the judges to face off and choose the winners of the coveted 2005 Hardy Freedom Film Awards."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe051101.html
"I wonder what the average Japanese thinks when they watch this madness on TV? I’m sure they must think that COPS is completely fiction. No place on earth, no people on earth, could be as off their rocker as the stuff they show on that TV program. But I know better. I've lived in the USA. I know that COPS, while being sensational TV, is merely a good reflection of the madness that is held within the world's foremost nutty society."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers181.html
"Bush added: 'I want these birds rounded up, tied down, and their throats slit.' Executive Order 1342A, which calls for the annihilation of the bald eagle, specifies that each carcass shall be wrapped in a single American flag, doused with gasoline, and burned."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42166
"It's advised that if you get Avian Flu, you should give it back to a bird. Give it back sooo good." Commercial precedes the main piece, both are video with audio.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=24724
"'Commander in Chief' is one of the biggest hits of the fall TV season, but not with President George W. Bush, who today challenged its star, Geena Davis, to a nationally televised debate. Ms. Davis, who plays the first female President of the United States in the series, has seen her ratings rise while Mr. Bush's approval ratings have plummeted, apparently drawing the ire of the actual president."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1252&srch=
"It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste. If that does not sound radical enough, how about this: the principle behind the source turns modern physics on its head."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1627424,00.html
"Some will say that our lives constitute a sordid cohabitation with the ungodly. I hope so. Detritus we are, and detritus we will be. It suits us. The world, the part worth knowing, lives in the alleys. We have known the smoke and dimness of a thousand Asian bars, known them till they run together in the mind, and found the hookers morally preferable to the expensively suited criminals of good society, more engaging than the liars of the press conferences. There is more of life and humanity in the driver of a battered Ford who picks up a hitchhiker in the darkling valleys of Tennessee than in the moral fetor and vanity of Washington."
http://www.fredoneverything.net/Alleys.shtml
"Therefore, it does no good to think, 'If we got rid of the State, then I'll be happy.' Or even, 'If they just cut government to 10% and limited the federal government to its Constitutional functions, then I'll be happy.' The external reality - the decisions of other people - can't ever make a person genuinely happy. One who ties their enjoyment of life to the political situation will never really be free, because true freedom is in the mind."
http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1664
"Both sides ignore that it is the owner of the pharmacy, not a politician or pharmacist-employee, who has the right to make the rules. That is what property ownership means. A woman seeking the 'morning-after' pill can go elsewhere if one drugstore won't sell her what she wants. Similarly, an anti-contraception pharmacist can find employment elsewhere if he doesn't like his boss's rules."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0507b.asp
"Competition emerged when a pair of driven entrepreneurs with a zeal for motorcycles broke through the political barriers of the state, the aftermath of Spain's civil war, and the isolation imposed by neutrality during World War II. Pedro Permanyer and Francisco Bultó opened Montesa in 1944 to create sporting motorcycles able to traverse Spain's uneven war torn lanes and rugged mountains."
http://www.mises.org/story/1929
"While it is downright American to have lively debates over the strengths and weaknesses of all manner of medical ideas, protocols and products, what has happened over the last century is the blatant suppression by just about any means possible of ideas that interfere with the economic success of Big Pharma and its fellow travelers. What we have is a monopoly on medicine without regard to whether or not it is the best medicine possible for the patient."
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