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"There is in my mind a very deep reason why Libertarians and the Left have more in common than we suspect when compared with the neocons. The reason is that we have our roots in the Enlightenment and modernity. But Leo Strauss, philospher of the neocons rejects the Enlightenment and calls for a return to the tyranies found in antiquity. ... Politics is not theology and we must be able to unite in the face of a grave danger as happened with the anti-colonial struggles like the one in South Africa or the anti-fascist struggles before and during WWII. The neoconservatives and their wars pose a danger to democracy every bit as threatening as fascism which neoconservatism closely resembles in many ways."
http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh11172005.html
"If enacted, the bill will (1) amend the drug and health claim provisions of the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) to permit truthful disease treatment claims for foods and dietary supplements (presently FDA prohibits all such claims) ,,, " more….
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=33525
"In interviews, military officials downplayed the significance of the trend, and said they do not track the number of students on the lists from year to year. They stress that the contact information from high schools is only one way to reach potential recruits, and there are alternatives, such as motor vehicle registration databases, college day fairs at the schools, or visits to shopping malls."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1113-02.htm
"Thanks to some energetic reporting by Barton Gellman of the Washington Post, we now know that our privacy is toast. Gellman has figured out that the government is issuing 30,000 national security letters a year, 100 times what had been typical before the USA Patriot Act."
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/11/13/Columns/National_security_let.shtml
"Is the FBI now considering a similar order to field offices as the one it sent in 1968, telling them to gather information illustrating the 'scurrilous and depraved nature of many of the characters, activities, habits, and living conditions representative of New Left adherents' -- but this time focused on those who oppose Bush's Brave New World?"
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0508c.asp
"When I met with Dawn last weekend she told me she was wearing exactly what she'd been wearing as she entered the security checkpoint at Oakland International Airport Aug. 27 -- a navy blue jacket with two small American flag pins and two political buttons with writing on them. The larger one reads 'Dissent is Patriotic.' The smaller, red one bears a smiling portrait of President Bush, labeled 'Daddy's Little War Criminal'."
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Nov-13-Sun-2005/opinion/4134998.html
"Let's see if we understand the implication of all this correctly through stating the same thing, but from another angle: It is not possible to make the world libertarian. One cannot force freedom on others; it would not be freedom but force. One cannot strengthen or empower others through forcing them to make choices; it would be to subject them to your will (that they must choose) rather than someone else's. One cannot abolish or lessen power through claiming it for oneself; politics is not a means to achieve freedom from politics."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/bylund/bylund6.html
"My vote isn't going to make the country or the world better, but my own thoughts and actions can make my world better. We can each be our own drug-free zone. We can each ban abortion, pornography, or whatever from our lives. We can each pay wages we think are fair, and give to those in need. We can each be our own theocracy or our own secular state."
http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1677
"My recent articles on the stateless society have generated some fascinating feedback. Questions, issues and criticisms rained heavy on my inbox -- here are some of the more challenging queries I received, and my responses."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/molyneux5.html
"Organizations dedicated to female gun ownership are spreading from well-established organizations like Second Amendment Sisters and Women and Guns to relatively new ones like Mother's Arms, which urges mothers to protect their children with armed force if necessary."
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/1116.html
"Contrary to what most parents believe, it is actually reading, writing and arithmetic that are entirely incidental to the true purpose of public school -- subservience is the 'socialization' of which educationists correctly complain that homeschooled children lack."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47382
"While it's unlikely that the Founding Fathers anticipated the abortion debate, they did give us a framework around which to govern on issues just like it -- highly emotional, high-stakes issues that go to the core of one's personal values and beliefs. They rightly recognized that the federal government is far too unwieldy and clumsy to deal with such delicate matters. These issues are best legislated by the states -- or, better, by cities or counties. We can then choose to live under laws that most reflect our values. We vote with our feet."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175812,00.html
"The defenders of wide--and unreviewed--latitude for military interrogators appear to be united in an effort to do Nietzsche one better: Those who grapple with monsters, they argue, had best hurry up and become a bit monstrous themselves."
http://www.reason.com/links/links111805.shtml
"President Bush and his administration clearly used the public’s post-September 11 fear and manipulated intelligence to sell an unrelated vendetta against Saddam Hussein at the expense of delivering a knockout punch to al Qaeda while it was on the ropes. Even worse, that sideshow has allowed al Qaeda to rise again--this time with an even more ruthless protagonist in the vanguard."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1617
"Hillary and her Israeli allies just don't get it. When you put powerless Palestinians behind a wall where life in any real economic sense is unattainable, you wreak pain and anguish, which in turn leads to more anger and resentment toward Israel's brutal policies. Indeed, the wall will not prove to be a deterrent to resistance, but an incitement to defiance."
http://www.antiwar.com/frank/?articleid=8032
"As the House and Senate clamor to be seen as staying the [idiotic] course in Iraq, worrying like Mad Hatters that an American soldier or Marine might -- just might -- come home before he or she is 'finished,' we note that some things really do matter to our illustrious elected leadership. They just voted themselves another nice, predictable pay raise."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-kwiatkowski/cowards-in-congress_b_10928.html
"Herein lies the real political crisis in this country: the Democrats are not an opposition party, nor are they an antiwar party -- never were. At best, they are a loyal opposition. The Democrats ran a pro-war campaign in 2004 with Kerry struggling to convince people that Dems do occupation and war better. .. All of this begs for a multiparty system in this country and the emergence of a true opposition. The epic scale of the disaster in Iraq calls for epic lessons to be learned at home. Like the Bush White House, the Democrats have lost their credibility."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jscahill.php?articleid=8084
"In the months leading up to the invasion, our leaders went on a campaign of fearmongering using evidence (much of it received from Iranian CIA double agents) that we now know to be false. High-level Bush administration officials, as well as the President himself, repeated over and over again the outrageous notion that Iraq posed an imminent threat to America."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Brownlow/david48.htm
"How do you measure the ambit of ten thousand blogs, of thousands of personal websites like Fred On Everything, of outfits with no physical existence like LewRockwell.com and Antiwar.com? The answer I think is that you don't, really. The ghostly statistics of forwards, caches, and reposts make it difficult to determine one's own circulation, much less that of countless other sites. This makes it hard for CBS to estimate, and easy for it to underestimate, the tidal wave it faces. I'm glad that it is their problem and not mine."
http://fredoneverything.net/Rupert.shtml
"Do technologies like collaborative Web sites, methods of 'tagging' photos and documents, and mapping-related projects really represent the next Internet revolution?"
http://news.com.com/The+law+of+spontaneous+order/2009-1025_3-5944689.html
"First, let's not let politicians deceive us, and escape culpability, by defining inflation as rising prices, which would allow them to make the pretense that inflation is caused by greedy businessmen, rapacious unions or Arab sheiks. Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and the general rise in the price level is the result. Who's in charge of the money supply? It's the government operating through the Federal Reserve."
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2005/11/16/175724.html
"Poverty is therefore caused by the failure of human institutions. And the most powerful human institution is government. Here on one side are idle workers, and over there are underused capital goods and land. Why don't they combine to create wealth? There must be some barrier that has come between idle labor and idle resources. The intervention, which means 'coming between,' consists of restrictions and imposed costs on labor and enterprise, which make it impossible to hire labor or make labor too costly to employ."
http://www.progress.org/2005/fold429.htm
"'France has too much state and too little government,' said Jean-Francois Revel, the French writer, a few years ago, echoing Jefferson's views of societies that are disorderly because they have too much state."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1618
"The government-run casinos have fake entrepreneurs that cannot adjust their production through dealers and effective management to match the demand of customers. They only make guesses at the number of customers that may possibly come into the casino. This is exactly what Mises is speaking about when he says of such quasi-markets, 'They want people to play market as children play war, railroad, or school. They do not comprehend how such childish play differs from the real thing it tries to imitate'."
http://www.mises.org/story/1961
"[M]y main purpose here is not to question the morality of war. Rather, it is to point out how one intervention leads to another. The U.S. government supported a man who eventually took over Iraq's government and who later became, in the eyes of the U.S. government, the enemy. The U.S. government's interventions of the 1960s led, indirectly but inexorably, to its current intervention."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=8015
"So, how did we wind up in such a mess with the occupation of Iraq, where the President decided when to invade, how to fight, and when we get to come home? It is because the rules ... were turned completely upside down. We let a President, a completely mad one at that, go off and start a war. Is there any wonder why the Iraqi occupation has turned into such a nightmare?"
http://www.newswithviews.com/Brownlow/david49.htm
"The heart of darkness in the fog of war. Every soldier, even McNamara and Rumsfeld, begins his life as a civilian, in a society where arson, illegal entry, wanton destruction and murder are not only felonies but heinous crimes. Suddenly in uniform, wandering around in his own personal fog of war, a soldier realizes that all those felonies--arson, arbitrary killing, demolition and torture--are company policy. And he works for that company!"
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/herman/herman21.html
"In early 1636 he fled with his wife and children, wandering the frozen New England landscape for weeks before buying property from Indians and settling Providence, a city dedicated to 'Liberty of Conscience,' or true religious freedom."
http://www.reason.com/0511/cr.ng.remembering.shtml
"Most of our Founding Fathers, including Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, like most average colonial Americans, spent few years, if any, in formal grammar schools of the day, yet they knew how to read and write well. Most voluntary local grammar schools expected parents to teach their children to read and write before they started school. Most colonial parents apparently had no trouble teaching their children these skills."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel1.htm
"As some of you may recall, the ruling junta in Greece staged a coup in 1974 to overthrow the government of Cyprus. Five days later, Turkey responded by sending in troops in what it called a peace operation and what the Greek Cypriots described as an invasion. After some brief fighting, Turkey took control of the northern part of the island, and in 1983 it declared the territory the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hadar.php?articleid=8042
"He shut down newspapers, imprisoned editors, and forced reporters to toe the official US government line long before the PATRIOT Act. Then he attacked US cities and burned them to the ground. Who was he? He lied to US voters, sided with one European imperial state against another, and plunged neutralist America into a disastrous war that cost 320,000 American casualties. Who was he?"
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/herman/herman22.html
"Bush may have been hoping his assertions would turn out to be true -- or at least enough of them to justify his brutality. But, instead, none of them have turned out to be true -- not even his argument that the world is a better place because of his invasion. 2,000 Americans are dead. Tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis are dead."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/browne/browne60.html
"Cambodia, which the Nixon administration accused of harboring North Vietnamese troops during the war in Southeast Asia. On April 30, 1970, American and South Vietnamese Army units stormed across the border, igniting one of the great disasters of all time. The invasion was not only a military debacle; it led to the rise of Pol Pot, who systematically butchered some two million Cambodians."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hallinan.php?articleid=8018
"Robert Louis Stevenson was at the height of his powers when he died suddenly in Samoa in 1894. For a long period he was thought of mainly as the writer of adventure stories for children, but now there is growing recognition of his subtle and surprisingly modern explorations of dilemmas of character and action."
http://www.slainte.org.uk/scotauth/stevedsw.htm
"Emma Goldman called her 'the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.' Yet today Voltairine de Cleyre is virtually unknown even among libertarians."
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bright/cleyre/presley.html
"His most successful collaborations were with Moss Hart, with whom he wrote several plays, including Once in a Lifetime, You Can't Take It With You, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1936, and The Man Who Came to Dinner, whose lead character was based on critic and wit Alexander Woollcott. These three plays so solidified Kaufman's reputation as the writer of wise-cracking, carefully structured, commercial comedy, that the diversity and scope of his long career is often overlooked."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Kaufman
Rodgers & Hammerstein musical stars Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews and Dick Haymes, directed by Walter Lang. "State Fair has its own charm. Much of that charm is directly attributable to Midwestern life as it was in the early 20th century and Jeanne Crain in her breakthrough performance. Of course, the music is R&H [by Rodgers & Hammerstein], with 'It Might as Well be Spring' being particularly memorable."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/state_fair_1945.htm
"From page one, Alex recognizes a central fact about the state that provides his food, shelter, schooling, and jail time: The people in charge don't give a crap whether he lives or dies. They don't even care, really, whether he commits crimes. They just want to make sure he doesn't cause them trouble."
http://www.reason.com/links/links111405.shtml
"Sky One is said to be planning a new series inspired by the original which had Patrick McGoohan as a former secret agent trapped in an isolated town."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4447216.stm
This week: 'Hide & Go Secret', a flash animated cartoon (with audio)
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0547,fiore,70175,9.html
"Our President was the inspiration for this presentation. ... Inconsistencies and anomalies make it just as hard to hold onto a wiggly ism like Conservatism as it does to make sense of today's Modern Liberalism. ... At any rate, if you want to be a contemporary conservative you need to study The Conservative's Socially Suitable Syllabus."
http://www.freecannon.com/SociallySuitableSyllabus.htm
"Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, the first PG-13-rated film in the series, is set for a Nov. 18 release. What are the themes and content that might be too mature for young viewers?"
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42613
"A nation which has embraced the welfare-warfare paradigm, no matter how reformed and improved, will be an unfree nation of weak, dependent, terrified people. As our forefathers understood so well, the only way to achieve a free society and a strong nation is to rein in the federal government and weaken it."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0508a.asp
"Play to your strengths. That's the key to success in any industry. This is the week I promised to explain where I think Google is headed, and playing to the company's strengths is key if they are going to do what I think, which is effectively take over the Internet. Oh they won't steal it or strong-arm us. They'll seduce us into giving it to them. And I am not at all sure that's a bad thing."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html
"Relying on governments to solve all of our problems, though, is ill-advised for the three reasons outlined above: it is unjust to other taxpayers who are forced to foot the bill; it is depressing and disempowering for the recipients of unearned benefits; and it leaves us in thrall to the redistributive powers that be and their repeatedly documented incompetence."
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/05/051115-8.htm
"It [a cartoon] showed a professor-scientist type up at a blackboard, working at the successive stages of a proof. But he gets stuck. After much thinking, he writes the next step as 'Then a miracle occurs…' after which his proof can continue."
http://www.mises.org/story/1966
"Once upon a time, a strange thing happened. One day, a well-known fundamentalist/conservative preacher heard a knock on his door. Opening it, he was astonished to see a man standing there in a long robe, long hair, a beard, and carrying a staff."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2005/tle345-20051113-04.html
"I love flashlights. When it comes to preparedness preps, you might not be able to afford a diesel generator or an underground gasoline storage tank. Thousand-dollar battle rifles may be out of the question. Six-gallon pails of honey or cases of that ever-mysterious but apparently universally useful substance 'fruit galaxy' might require some budgeting. But flashlights? With a few notable exceptions, they can be picked up for a song -- literally less than the price of a music CD."
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