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"McGovern's positions now seem positively temperate: he favored decriminalizing marijuana; he argued against 'the intrusion of the federal government' into abortion law, which should be left to the states; and, as he told me, 'I could not favor amnesty as long as the war was in progress, but once it was over, I'd grant amnesty both to those who planned the war and those who refused to participate. I think that's a somewhat conservative position'."
http://amconmag.com/2006/2006_01_30/article.html
"In Australia every major newspaper has squealed in outrage at Howard's sedition laws; the bipartisan Senate Constitutional Committee recommended in late November that they be excised from Howard's anti-terrorism package; and now the successful four-term prime minister faces a rare open revolt from within the ranks of his own party."
http://www.reason.com/0602/co.mw.the.shtml
"I love America and I will defend America. If someone is a threat to America, I have no problem removing that threat. But I don't want a U.S. world. I don't want a U.S. government that dominates people around the world. I don't want to force democracy down anyone's throat. I think the idea of not forcing ideas down people's throat is itself very American."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=8427
"As I've been working at various projects this afternoon, my mind keeps returning to two things: Steve Kubby's situation and the celebration of Bark's life scheduled for tomorrow. It just dawned on me that it was possible that Bark could have gotten the 'Peter McWilliams treatment' too -- by that I mean had his medical marijuana forcibly taken away and left to die without it."
http://www.sunnimaravillosa.com/archives/00000599.html
"People who fear the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) cannot press their claims if they are ripped off. They have no recourse against theft, fraud, or even physical abuse because they have no standing before the law. Their nonperson status shapes the market in which they attempt to earn a living. A labor environment in which workers are easily victimized, with little prospect for redress, is likely to attract victimizers as employers."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0601g.asp
"Somehow, in the era of Ann Coulter's Treason, sticking up for checks and balances has become traitorous and anti-American. To me, that makes George Bush a threat to the Constitution. But it's not because he's George Bush, or because I don't like him. It's because people are so busy protecting their emotional attachments to him that they won't even question whether his policies are constitutional. And if we don't care about the Constitution, why the hell should he?"
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001830.html
"As Henry David Thoreau once said, people will eventually have anarchy when they are ready for it. Whether they realize it or not, most of them already behave like peaceable anarchists each and every day, as I mentioned at the beginning of this piece. After all, government is not civilization itself, but a parasite upon it. "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/kaercher/kaercher2.html
"In the anarcho-capitalist view, the State is a fundamental moral evil not only because it uses violence to achieve its ends, but also because it is the only social agency capable of making war economically advantageous to those with the power to declare it and profit from it. It is only through the governmental power of taxation that war can be subsidized to the point where it becomes profitable to certain minorities. Destruction can only ever be 'profitable' when the costs and risks of violence are shifted to the taxpayers, while the benefits accrue to the few who directly control or influence the State."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/molyneux/molyneux11.html
"I am an anarchist. I don’t respect the results of any government elections, and I don’t give a right’s ass about Constitutional rights, either. That’s part of what being an anarchist means: government elections don’t permit anything, and government Constitutions don’t forbid anything, because they have no legitimate authority over anyone at all."
http://radgeek.com/gt/2006/01/25/we_put
"Do these online resources replace a traditional 4-year education? Arguably the social stigma from not attending a brand-name university for the most part still outweighs the costs of attending one. If nothing else, these online resources can at least complement the traditional venues; web-based education can be leveraged to the benefit of everyone involved (win-win)."
http://www.mises.org/story/2013
"Simply put, homeschooling means that a child's education take place at home, under the guidance of the child's parent(s). This is not to say, however, that all learning takes place at home, but rather in a variety of settings that expedite and enhance the child's learning experience, both socially and academically."
http://www.nwmeridian.com/content/060126_01_p1.php
"Private officers are defending power plants, oil refineries, financial centers, computer systems, dams, malls, railroad lines and other prospective terrorism targets. They are responsible for millions of lives and billions of dollars in assets. And they are most likely to be first on the scene in major disasters."
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0122privatesecurity.html
"A provision in the 'Patriot Act' creates a new federal police force with power to violate the Bill of Rights. You might think that this cannot be true as you have not read about it in newspapers or heard it discussed by talking heads on TV."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01242006.html
"If law enforcers were simply enforcing natural laws against thieves, frauds, rapists, murderers and child molesters, thus protecting citizens, then their work would have meaning and be worthy of respect. Harassing non-violent pot smokers undermines that respect. Killing people who act irrationally because they could possibly, maybe, be a threat and then intimidating everyone who witnessed it undermines respect. Thus respect for the law is going down the toilet as order in society spirals downward. More laws equal less order."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/davis/davis2.html
"Bush appeared to be handing McCain a victory when he eventually acquiesced to language barring the 'cruel, inhuman or degrading' treatment of anyone in U.S. custody. But it was a Br'er Rabbit protest. Bush was getting more than he was giving up. The protections against abuse that Congress gave with one hand it took back with the other. And Bush declared in an accompanying signing statement that he plans to ignore it all anyway."
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/01/22/Columns/The_antitorture_law_t.shtml
"The invasion of Iraq may also be driving home to Americans the role that U.S. foreign policy has played in engendering deep anger and hatred for our country among foreigners, especially those in the Middle East. For decades, Americans have deferred to the wisdom of federal politicians and bureaucrats to handle foreign affairs and to do whatever is necessary to 'protect America's interests abroad.' ... The result has been the U.S. government's support of brutal dictators...."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0510a.asp
"On second thought, I do want to add to the basic news story about the Emory University study that studied brain activity and concluded that emotions, not reason, take over when people are presented with unpleasant facts about their chosen political party [from his prior blog post] - because it explains so many things that have, well, defied reason over the years." See also the press release
http://bwrmontag.blogspot.com/2006/01/disconnect-between-politics-and-logic.html
"Hillary's speech was not very impressive and neither is she, right wing blood lust not withstanding. She is just Mrs. Slick Willie. When she supports legislation to ban flag burning, legislation that she knows is unconstitutional, she insults the people who always rush to her defense. She and her husband play a tiresome game with Democrats. The right wing hate them so they get credit they don't deserve. They have concluded that they can get away with just about anything."
http://www.blackcommentator.com/168/168_freedom_rider_clinton_plantation.html
"Next comes the inevitable question regarding counterfeiting. I explain to them that counterfeiting is illegal so that the State can maintain a monopoly on the ability to push its blue button at will, without any competition. This does not go over well at all."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/blow/blow3.html
"Subject to certain statutory constraints, businesspeople have long been free to form whatever sort of partnership they felt appropriate to their needs. Why not make the same possible for marriage, which is a partnership based on one of the oldest types of contractual relationships? We are already there in some respects -- no-fault divorce states such as California already treat the dissolution of a marriage largely in the same way as the dissolution of a corporate partnership."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1657
"When I was a kid, I loved to play baseball, not so much in organized leagues, but in pick-up games in pastures. Looking back, one of the most interesting aspects of these games was the informal way we resolved disputes. We had no umpires, and we relied on the honor system to make calls in the games."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2006/01/anarchist-baseball.html
"The statist project is inconceivable without control over education, so it is no real surprise that Republicans have fallen in love with the Department of Education that they once promised to abolish. An administration that thinks wiretaps and torture are an essential part of a sound national defense would never let the people control their own educational institutions."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/camelshead.html
"If we didn't have the State to enforce guild rules and save us all from the dire threat of people calling themselves 'psychologists' instead of 'psychotherapists' without a permission slip, who would?"
http://radgeek.com/gt/2006/01/28/bureaucratic_rationality
"Singleton questions the conventional wisdom that pharmaceuticals are unique because of their high cost of R&D compared to production cost. He cites a study of the Italian drug industry before and after its 1978 adoption of drug patents which found that Italy developed some nine percent of the world's 'new molecular entities' (as opposed to tinkering around the edges with 'me, too' drugs) before drug patents were introduced. The rate of major innovation actually went down under the new regime."
http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2006/01/alex-singleton-effect-of-patents-on.html
"What then can save the Leader? What can preserve, enhance and extend the power of his faction to carry on God's work (which naturally overrides any puny restrictions of human law)? What can keep the machine grinding forward, and keep the money rolling in? Only fear. Only cowardice. Only terror -- terror from without to justify the terror from within."
http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd01232006.html
"The problem is that if there is another terrorist act, Bush and his cohorts will immediately forget about the failure of the 'magnet rationale' and immediately use the new attack as another excuse to exercise the Padilla doctrine, enact a new USA PATRIOT Act, spy on Americans, round up foreigners, build a Berlin Wall around America, et cetera."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0601h.asp
"What emerges with clarity from the weeks since the National Security Agency domestic surveillance program was made public is that this administration is single-mindedly devoted to increasing the power of the government, and more specifically of the executive branch, and has used the 9/11 attack and the subsequent 'war on terror' to justify this goal."
http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=8452
"Whereas Jefferson worshipped free speech as the lynchpin of a free society, Lincoln set out to destroy it almost from his first day in office. His administration shut down hundreds of opposition newspapers while subsidizing friendly ones, and imprisoned tens of thousands of political dissenters without due process. Manber and Dahlstrom prove that Lincoln was indeed the string puller behind all of this tyranny even though his subordinates, such as William Seward, actually enforced and implemented all the dirty deeds."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo99.html
"The reality of Roe is that it was nothing but an imperial power-grab. In one stroke, the Court announced that the states do not have the right to make their own laws. And by this act, the Court has crippled and corrupted American politics for a generation. Roe is a cancer, a seemingly incurable one. The only 'winner' in the decision has been the Two-Party System. "
http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1735
"[I]t is well established that Jackson regularly conducted a Sunday School class for black children. This was a ministry he took very seriously. As a result, he was dearly loved and appreciated by the children and their parents. Furthermore, both Jackson and Lee emphatically supported the abolition of slavery. In fact, Lee called slavery 'a moral and political evil.' He also said 'the best men in the South' opposed it and welcomed its demise. Jackson said he wished to see 'the shackles struck from every slave'."
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/01/23/baldwin.htm
"Americans need desperately to understand that 95 percent of all Muslim terrorists in the world were created in the past three years by Bush's invasion of Iraq. Americans need desperately to comprehend that if Bush attacks Iran and Syria, as he intends, terrorism will explode, and American civil liberties will disappear into a thirty year war that will bankrupt the United States."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01292006.html
"The United States Christianized and civilized the Filipinos by authorizing American troops to kill any Filipino male 10 years old and older and by burning down and massacring entire villages."
http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/01/27/killing-in-the-name-of-democracy/
"[I]f the aggressive Bush administration is prone to military action, why is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the new Iranian president, making inflammatory comments that could allow the United States to portray him as madman who requires a military drubbing? Perhaps Ahmadinejad realizes that a U.S. invasion is unlikely and that air strikes by the 'Great Satan' would be ineffectual but would help him win over a young population that is tired of Islamic radicalism and wants to reestablish ties with the world. Thus, U.S. air strikes could benefit both the U.S. and Iranian governments at the expense of their peoples."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1658
"In 1920 he proposed explicitly a research project (in metamathematics, as it was then termed) that became known as Hilbert's program. He wanted mathematics to be formulated on a solid and complete logical foundation. He believed that in principle this could be done.... However, in 1931 Gödel's incompleteness theorem showed that Hilbert's grand plan was impossible as stated."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert
"In seven months, she completed the ten-month course at the Ecole d'Aviation des Freres Caudon at Le Crotoy in the Somme. She learned to fly in a French Nieuport Type 82, including 'tail spins, banking and looping the loop.' On June 15, 1921, Bessie received her pilot's license from the renowned Federation Aeronautique Internationale."
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/cole-bes.htm
"Kocacs' off-the-wall style was extremely unorthodox in early television. He approached the medium as something totally new. While his contemporaries were treating TV as an extension of vaudeville stages, Kovacs was expanding the visible confines of the studio. His skits incorporated areas previously considered taboo, including dialogue with the camera crew, the audience, and forays into the studio corridor."
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/K/htmlK/KovacsErnie/kovacsErnie.htm
Western stars John Cusack, Miranda Otto, John Goodman, L.Q. Jones; directed by John Badham. "[T]he movie definitely warrants watching as it outlines problems inherent in the usual 'systems of justice' and the States which uphold them. With one exception, the political characters in the film are every bit as despicable as [the movie's standard villian] at his worst."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/jack_bull_1999.htm
"On and on Chip and I walked in the silence. Bugs hollered in the trees, but bugs don't count as noise. Our talk was mostly of girls and cars, yet once he said, 'Ain't it great, Ricky? Bein' so free and all?' It was. The night brooded around us, full of hunting things and lives that had nothing to do with us. We started into the hills that rise and fall before the river. Soon we could hear the eighteen-wheelers as they reached bottom, double-clutching into low gears for the up-haul, then the roaring and thudding of diesel stacks."
http://fredoneverything.net/PickleTops.shtml
"So the big buzz lately has been around the launching of the Firefly Season 2 website. I can see [your] baffled but hopeful expression from here - and hear your barely restrained squeaks and shouts of joy. However, you know it's too good to be true, right? Well here's the scoop...."
http://www.cinematical.com/2006/01/28/firefly-season-2-website-launched/
"Democracy is on the move in the Middle East as thousands of Palestinians voted for... Hamas."
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=55011
"First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top secret.' Many authorities in the current regime of my home country would seek to persecute me if they were to discover this. I am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude involving a pending transaction requiring maximum confidence."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/zmirak.php?articleid=8454
"A veteran humor writer whose style runs from sophomoric to satirical, Barry doesn't offer any serious advice here, but his observations often have the sharp point of any good joke." When one recovers from laughing and considers the gist of what Barry writes, one may also discover a fair amount of truth, especially on the dollar, money, corporatism and other such topics.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=adJc1.sge7KE&refer=culture
"The basis of Windows is to not require the end user to understand the operating system. Think of a Windows computer like you would a TV. You turn it on, set the channel and then watch it. You don't have to know a thing about how a cathode ray tube works to use your TV. Of course, it is crucial to understand that Microsoft doesn't do this out of the goodness of their hearts. They do this to make money. And there's nothing wrong with that. But, the goal of Microsoft may not be your goal."
http://www.ericsgrumbles.net/archives/153799.php
"Americans are assured that they are free because rulers take power only with the people's informed consent. What does 'informed consent' mean these days? It means knowing the names of the president's pets but not knowing his record on key issues. It means knowing the sexual orientation of family members of candidates for high office, but falling prey to their rewriting of history. It means recalling the phrases the government endlessly repeats, and screening out evidence of government atrocities."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0601i.asp
"When it comes to a nuclear launch, the president is nothing less than a dictator. If a president decides to initiate a nuclear holocaust, for any arbitrary reason, it happens within minutes of his fiat. There is no consultation with Congress, with the courts, none needed with the Cabinet or other 'twigs' of the executive branch. "
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/ulm.php?articleid=8447
"'Porn is created by and for men and depicts only male fantasies of dominating women.' First, this argument assumes that all men have the same fantasies. Second, it presumes that all female performers are acting out stuff that has nothing to do with their own sexuality; it leaves no room whatsoever for the representation of women's desires."
http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0604,taormino,71866,24.html
"As a dedicated Pirate and privacy advocate, I am always interested in ways to create an invisible business, along the lines of those recommended by J. J. Luna in his latest book, 'Work From Home at Any Age.' Recently, a young high school student sent me his simple, but brilliant idea for a low profile, no overhead, small business. This savvy student is well acquainted with the concepts that Luna recommends. He also has a nose for smelling an opportunity when it presents itself, as any successful Pirate should."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/blow/blow4.html
"Here is a tip to keep stress at bay: have sex beforehand. But make sure it's penetrative sex - the magic vanishes if you pursue other forms of sexual gratification."
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