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"Ultimately, the success or failure of Congressman Ron Paul's Health Freedom Protection Act will be a critical marker to the future of complementary alternative medicine in the United States. As tens of millions of independent voters who care about complementary alternative medicine examine the candidates' records, there is a glimmer of hope if consumers decide to seize the day and force these sleepy-headed legislators into action."
http://kevinpmiller.blogspot.com/
"We all should applaud the directors and officers of Branch Banking and Trust Company for their courage. While boards of directors have a duty to maximize shareholder value, BB&T has shown that maximizing shareholder value is not solely a monetary phenomenon but has a moral component as well. As such they have chosen not to be accessories to last year's despicable [Kelo] U.S. Supreme Court decision."
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2006/02/01/184430.html
"Why do they hate Google? ... The media frenzy around this smear campaign is rooted in the Old Media's hatred, contempt, and fear of the Internet: they know they're being displaced, and Google -- as the embodiment of everything that makes the net superior to the Gutenbergian universe the oldsters are stuck in -- is the perfect target of their ire."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8467
"Barring a sudden and unforeseen flowering of affirmative values in the depraved whorehouse that is our nation's capital, money is still going to remain a hell of an effective substitute for political principle in this town, meaning all manner of frauds -- from Gingrich on down -- will be moving in not to do anything different but to take over the old dealer's territory."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9183313/the_harder_they_fall
"Frey lied about his personal life in a book, and that infuriated Oprah Winfrey. 'It is difficult for me to talk to you, because I really feel duped,' she said, confronting him in the midst of the Jan. 26 telecast. 'I feel duped. But more importantly, I feel that you betrayed millions of readers.' Yet the journalists who interview Bush aren't willing to question him in similar terms. The president didn't merely betray millions of readers. He betrayed hundreds of millions of citizens."
http://www.counterpunch.org/solomon01302006.html
"I am sometimes told that libertarians are too obsessed with the war on drugs. I disagree. I think that people in general, including many libertarians, should be more concerned with it. We are talking about the longest war in American history, one that has hundreds of thousands of innocent people locked in cages, many of whom are raped and beaten by convicted brutes as the prison guards laugh, all at an exorbitant cost in tax dollars and liberty."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory106.html
"The State, rather than 'protecting the institution of marriage,' assures itself a monopoly of power over religious institutions by offering protected status solely to marriages made in accordance with the State's rules. Ultimately the State reminds us it has the authority to bless a union by making a marriage 'legal,' or withhold that blessing -- for a couple to seek the blessings of God and family, friends, and their community may be all well and good -- but it's purely secondary and quite possibly optional in the eyes of the State."
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/01/30/catfarmer.htm
"The burglar or hold-up man who is obviously using force to steal from you is different from the taxman with a crew of ski mask-wearing and machine gun-toting police exactly how? Answer: No different. The only difference is in perception. The state-sanctioned robbery has the law (meaning the state), behind it for its ultimate justification and nothing more. Theft is theft after all."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/massoud/massoud2.html
"It is where the institution of property has been perverted by the State that the word 'property' comes into disrepute -- for who could be more bitter than a victim of theft who hears that the possession by thieves of that which has been stolen from him must be farcically protected by the State for sake of 'property rights'? I've taken to summarizing this line of thinking lately as 'the defense of stolen property is no defense of property rights'."
http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/313
"Deep within the labyrinthine interconnectedness of complex systems lie forces that make our world unpredictable and uncertain. Once Google's tool for the proliferation of information reaches the Chinese people -- even with its political blindfolds attached -- computer hackers will discover ways to circumvent governmental policy -- as, indeed, they have already been doing. Information has ways of reaching those who want it, and there is no reason to believe that its free flow will be any less disruptive to the Chinese political structure than it is to Western systems."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer129.html
"Jobs is not opposed to spending money, but he is determined to get more for his money than anyone else. Look at the books of Apple and Pixar to understand this concept. Against a century-old tradition of corporate bloat, Jobs successfully preaches (and proves) that smaller is really better. How else can Apple compete with Microsoft AND Dell and HP, and still have $8 billion in the bank? Because smaller is better and cheaper, too, when it comes to creative development."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060202.html
"Property rights are said to be communal when government owns and determines the use of a resource. Property rights are private when it's an individual who owns and has the exclusive right to determine the non-prohibited uses of a resource and receive the benefit therefrom. Additionally, private-property rights confer upon the owner the right to keep, acquire, and sell the property to others on mutually agreeable terms."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0510f.asp
"The U.S. terrorism definition is the key to the Bush administration claim that the war on terrorism is automatically a war for freedom. Without the 'state-exempt' concept of terrorism, fighting terrorism would, in most parts of the world, have little or nothing to do with defending freedom. With an honest definition of terrorism, many governments in the Bush 'freedom-loving coalition' are guilty of inflicting more terrorism than they prevent."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0601j.asp
"In the introduction to the recently released 532-page Human Rights Watch World Report 2006 (available in book form from Seven Stories Press), executive director Kenneth Roth writes: 'The U.S. government's use and defense of torture and inhumane treatment [of prisoners] played the largest role in undermining Washington's ability to promote human rights. . . ."
http://villagevoice.com/news/0606,hentoff,72049,6.html
"What is scary about McNulty's promotion is that both he and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales seem disinterested in keeping the CIA operating within the law. Gonzales famously shepherded a legal memorandum that shielded CIA agents from criminal prosecution if they severely abused prisoners."
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/01/29/Columns/The_man_who_holds_the.shtml
"It's usually wise to be skeptical when our elected leaders in the U.S. Congress start to proclaim their devotion to democratic ideals like free speech. This time is no exception."
http://news.com.com/Anti-China+hypocrisy+in+Congress/2010-1023_3-6033681.html
"'C'mon guys. I want to write a lite, funny Hardyville column about getting politicians to obey the law. 'Ha ha,' you know? 'What could be sillier than thinking gov-o-crats will ever obey their own laws?' Laughs all around. But this stuff is depressing."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe060201.html
"W. consciously framed his foreign-policy pitch as a challenge to 'isolationists,' harkening back to World War II and the early days of the Cold War. If the result was Reaganesque, it was even more Trumanesque; he came off as an internationalist scolding the anti-warriors of the right. As W. himself put it: 'American leaders--from Roosevelt to Truman to Kennedy to Reagan--rejected isolation and retreat, because they knew that America is always more secure when freedom is on the march.' Three fourths of that quartet is Democratic, and the Republican remainder was a Democrat himself until 1962."
http://www.reason.com/links/links020106.shtml
"When it was time for lunch, the visiting team was provided with food and drink, as is proper, but the host team stayed in the locker room and shunned them. After lunch, the taunting players were quiet for a while, but one of them had batted a century and could not contain himself in his gloating and taunting. The hosts had many runs to make up but managed to do so and won the match. Afterwards, the hosts opened the bar to the visitors but declined to drink with them. Instead, they showered and went home. Nothing was wanting in the hospitality offered by the hosts except for their presence."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2006/01/incident-of-shunning.html
"Hong Kong, a colony, lit the way for Britain, the homeland. Moreover, Hong Kong's success was vital in convincing the Chinese Communist Party that socialism was a historical dead end. Capitalist countries lead best when they lead by example, and what better example for a slave society of over a billion people than an island of freedom and prosperity right on its doorstep? Turning Hong Kong into an example worthy for China to emulate -- that, I believe, is Sir John's greatest legacy."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5432
"The fuss over India has surprised many people who think China is the undisputed emerging nation. This seems the right occasion to address eight myths about India today…."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1664
"The owners of the firm because they own the capital and benefit from it in the present as well as the future can plan for the future enjoyment of that capital. In contrast, the caretaker who only controls but does not own, has no incentive, no financial interest, in maintaining the capital value of the assets he controls beyond the term of his control. As Hans-Hermann Hoppe put it in reference to this phenomenon in electoral politics, what the politician doesn't loot now, he might never get to loot later."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/younga/younga1.html
"The 'market experiment,' Davies notes, was New Zealand's policy, beginning in 1989, of allowing a proliferation of postsecondary educational institutions, only some of which grant degrees, to tap into . . . state funding. … Undoubtedly, a lot of higher-education money is being wasted in New Zealand, but it's an abuse of English to call this policy a 'market experiment.' Yes, free markets maximize choice for consumers, but another condition is necessary: that consumers spend their own money. You don't really have a free market where the government puts money in people's pockets and then says, 'You're free to spend it here, here, and here'."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=246
"The best known attempt by the European governments to shore up their crumbling tax systems was the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's campaign against low-tax jurisdictions. The OECD accepted (in theory) the benefits of tax competition in keeping taxes low and governments efficient, but sought to emasculate it by preventing 'harmful' tax competition (which seemed to be defined as any tax competition that might actually be effective), forcing non-members to change their tax systems by imposing sanctions on non-compliant countries."
http://www.mises.org/story/2022
"Just as the invasion of Iraq never had anything to do with 'democracy,' so, too, 'free trade' -- and free markets -- are just the ideological window-dressing for a policy of imperialistic mercantilism, in which the military forces of the most powerful nation on earth have essentially become tools of certain corporate and political interests."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8484
"Under crisis conditions, all the forces normally obstructing the development of U.S. corporatism diminish. Since the early twentieth century, in the national emergencies associated with war, economic depression, rapid and accelerating inflation, or large-scale labor disturbances, the national government has responded by adopting policies that consolidate power at the top and extend the scope of its authority. With power more concentrated and more actively employed, the incentive is greater for latent private-interest groups to organize, increase their membership, suppress their internal disputes, and demand a voice in policy-making."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1663
"So 9-11 must and did come as a great relief to the permanent government, not because of the loss of life but for the opportunity it provided. Certainly the Bush administration wasted little time in declaring the advent of a new Cold War, even before they started a real one by invading Mesopotamia. And there was the Patriot Act, ready to be pulled from the shelf at the right moment."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/trask/trask10.html
"Stew Albert, one of the creators of People's Park, a former editor of the Berkeley Barb and a founder of the Youth International Party--the Yippies--died Monday at his home in Portland, Ore. He was 66, and an unreconstructed radical to the end."
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=02-03-06&storyID=23349
"To prevent decentralization in the future, Southern whites had to be cleansed of their 'ignorance,' that is of their un-New England thoughts. Federal public schooling was also needed to confront the 'hordes coming from beyond the great oceans.' It had nothing to do with learning and everything to do with control of the population by their betters."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wilson/wilson21.html
"The colonists were desperate for engineers, even those who had only just arrived from abroad with no knowledge of America, and on October 18th 1776 Kosciuszko became Colonel of Engineers, Washington's chief engineer and strategist."
http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com/2006/02/engineer-of-american-revolution.html
"A majority of Americans have now been deceived twice on the same issue. Just as there was no evidence that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons, there is no evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. There is nothing but unproven assertions, assertions, moreover, that are contradicted by the evidence that does exist. Americans, it would appear, are so anxious for wars that they welcome being fooled into them."
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=8466
"It was wrong to kill in New York and Washington on 9/11, but it was also wrong to kill in Fallujah. Dead is dead. Death is no better or worse in one part of the world than it is in another. My life is not more valuable than an Iraqi's. That is why I ask my leaders to stop killing Osama's people. That is the message Americans need to hear."
http://www.blackcommentator.com/169/169_freedom_rider_bin_laden_warning.html
"Imagine how much worse it would be if the world's most powerful man lacked Napoleon's intellect and talent. If, instead of surrounding himself with talented aides who would give him frank advice and bad news, leans only on yes-men. And whose intelligence services can either produce false information to suit the leader's agenda, or just as easily produce false information to further its own agenda."
http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1741
"Fearing that he would become a field hand, Parker worked for two years at a foundry and at the New Orleans shipping docks as a stevedore. He purchased his freedom from his earnings; the price of freedom for John P. Parker in 1845 was $1800. That year Parker obtained a pass to travel north to Indiana, where he was offered work the in foundries near New Albany or Jefferson, Indiana. Near Cincinnati, Parker began his career as a 'conductor' on the Underground Railroad."
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1227/John_P_Parker_abolitinist_and_inventor
"Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him. But Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop. Lindbergh's feat gained him immediate, international fame. The press named him 'Lucky Lindy' and the 'Lone Eagle.' Americans and Europeans idolized the shy, slim young man and showered him with honors. Before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Lindbergh campaigned against voluntary American involvement in World War II."
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/index.asp
"While working for Warner Brothers, she would also refuse parts that [Bette] Davis had rejected, and earned herself suspensions. During this period she became known for her hard boiled roles and appeared in such films as They Drive by Night (1940) and High Sierra (1941). She acted regularly and was in demand throughout the 40s without becoming a major star. In 1947, Lupino left Warner Brothers to become a freelance actress. Notable films around that time include Road House and On Dangerous Ground."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Lupino
Courtroom Comedy/Drama stars Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Fred Gwynne; directed by Jonathan Lynn. "This movie examines the clash of cultures and people's differing expectations. ... The cast all excel in their performances, but Marisa Tomei as Lisa tops them all."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/cousin_vinny_1992.htm
"Paul Pope is about to go mainstream. In February, DC Comics will release the first installment of his four-issue graphic novel, Batman: Year 100, which reinvents the caped crusader yet again. The 200-page miniseries imagines the superhero in the year 2039, and it's backed by the power of the Batman franchise and DC's multimillion-dollar marketing muscle. In other words, Pope is set to soar to glory on the spandex cape-tails of one of the most profitable superheroes ever."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.02/pope.html#
"A spokesman for Joss Whedon has indicated that Joss hasn't heard of Mr. Underhill, and doesn't currently have a comment on the issue. Which technically, fits into what Ace has been telling us all along."
http://www.cinematical.com/2006/01/30/whedon-answers-firefly-season-2-rumors/
"Bush has no doubt in his mind the wiretaps are legal. In fact, there's no doubt in his mind, period." The last segment comparing and contrasting "Oprah's world" with "our World" excels.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=58323
"Caveat: This is an in-joke. If you're not a libertarian, you won't get it. If you're a libertarian but don't have a sense of humor, you shouldn't read it. If you disagree with me, don't bother sending me nasty emails because libertarians never agree with each other anyway."
http://www.freecannon.com/LitmusLessons.htm
"The centerpiece of Bush's plan is the Department Of Corruption, Bribery, And Incompetence, which will centralize duties now dispersed throughout the entire D.C.-area political establishment."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/44892
"Stem cell research may be the most sensational and explosive scientific development of recent years. But the most heralded breakthrough was a massive fraud; another has prompted a pioneering scientist to cry 'foul.' It becomes important to remember the admonition, 'Question Authority'."
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2006/0201.html
"The misinterpretation of animal data leads to a misalignment of focus and resources. Because too many substances are labeled cancer risks on the basis of rat studies, America's War on 'Carcinogens' urges the U.S. Congress, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Toxicology Program, and the EPA to reevaluate scientific testing."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0510g.asp
"Interscholastic team sports at the high school level, for either sex, are mostly an expression of state policy. They are an important part of the state-schooling culture, and one may fairly suppose that government authorities molded them, at least in part, for purposes of social control. That is, the authorities implemented team sports to foment school loyalty -- rah! rah! rah! -- fostering habits of mind that could be exploited to reinforce loyalty to the nation-state. Insofar as that is true, I find it an unrelievedly bad thing. That does not mean that every facet of team sports must be a bad thing, for boys or for girls. People find ways to live within the statist culture they are born into."
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/lights139.htm
"What is a Pirate? A Pirate is a freeman who lives by a set of standards that may or may not be compatible with what passes for the base of common knowledge or custom of the day. A Pirate has an ability to see into the future using the tools of history as a map, his study and the experience of others in the past as a compass, and his own intuition as a plotted course. A Pirate will set out on his own defined course, if necessary, when he sees the rest of the ships sailing off into the mist."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/blow/blow5.html
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the The Miami Herald says he's semiretired, but plans to return to comment on the next presidential election because 'there's nothing funnier than the way we pick presidents in this country.' NEWSWEEK's Susanna Schrobsdorff spoke with Dave Barry about sensible money management and other weighty matters." Barry's new book makes you laugh but has actual insight into many financially-related topics, such as our "Tinker Bell System" (excerpt) of money.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11168021/site/newsweek/
"[R]ather than going on and on about this study, which would probably only get me in trouble, I've decided to take a break from spouting off this week to let representatives from both sides of the political aisle make the case for or against the study themselves. Here now are the opinions on this groundbreaking research, as written by two entirely fictional voters, whose names I made up because I wrote this on deadline and couldn't find anyone real to interview. I think you’ll agree their essays are telling. In fact, both sides might be closer than you think." More insight than humor, but this article has plenty of both.
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