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"Olmsted decided to revive the LP's Radical Caucus, last active in 1984, as the Rothbard Caucus because he was dismayed that Murray Rothbard’s strategic insights had 'disappeared down the [party's] memory hole in less than two decades'."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2006/02/rothbards-strategic-insights.html
"It's easy to dismiss the odd characters. It's harder to ignore the regular guys in the room, or the polls showing that 49 percent of New York City residents believe the government knew about 9-11 before it happened, or the rock-solid certainty of these supposed doubters. 'I'd love to be proven wrong. I would love for someone to come to me and say I'm full of shit. It hasn't happened,' says Avery. 'I have scientists on my side. There's so much evidence supporting my side, and the government's side has nothing.' Its name notwithstanding, the 9-11 Truth movement tells a story--and is a story--about what happens when the government lies. Again, it's simple physics: For every action, there's a reaction equal and opposite."
http://villagevoice.com/news/0608,murphy,72254,6.html
"Is there any hope left? Can anything be done? I think so, but watch out, because I've been wrong before. I think a national organization, with local affiliates, dedicated to dis-electing politicians, aiming at an eventual hundred year moratorium on further legislation of any kind (except for repeals), might just stand a chance. I call it the Impeachment Party."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle355-20060219-02.html
"Although the USA PATRIOT Act is the tool being used, I don't want to give the impression that this single piece of legislation is the only problem. The attacks in 2001 enabled the government to expedite plans for more power, something it continually seeks just by its very nature, but can never acquire fast enough to suit its desires."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=289
"In some cases, staff Ruttenberg hired specifically for the task of keeping drug use and drug dealing out of the bar appear to have been later (or all along) employed by police specifically to arrange for drug activity in the bar. Many of these incidents of harassment, stings, and entrapment were also captured by his bar's surveillance system or recorded by the wire David Ruttenberg began wearing for his own defense (I've seen several of the videos). Ruttenberg has been told several times by area police officers that he's the most wanted man in the county."
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026298.php#026298
"The only way I can explain it is that freedom -- the right to do, say, think, go, 'live' as you please -- is so ingrained in our psyche, has been such a part of us for so long, that some are literally unable to imagine life without it. They seem fundamentally unable to visualize how drastically things would change without these freedoms they treat so cavalierly, what it would be like to need government approval to use the Internet, buy a firearm, take a trip, watch a movie or read these very words."
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060221/OPINION03/602210325/1071/OPINION
"Set up a protector with unusual force and strength that can pass laws, and give this protector a perpetual monopoly. That's what we have in the state. This protector can simply wait, watch, and probe for our collective weaknesses. When they appear, he can exploit them for his own benefit. This is only to be expected, since protectors are human too and possess all the same weaknesses that we do."
http://lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff64.html
A new website focused on "Agorism: the ideology which asserts that the Libertarian philosophical position occurs in the real world in practice as Counter-Economics."
"Argues Milsted: 'suppose the majority assesses a tax on everyone to spread the burden of supporting the new defense system. This is theft of the minority. However, suppose that the economies of scale are such that this tax is less than half of what people would have had to pay for defense on their own.' That's the argument, plain and simple. If it is morally permissible to steal when the victim is compensated double, the equation seems to fit. Well, let's look into this in more detail and see if it really does."
http://www.mises.org/story/2031
"[W]e're not going to teach anyone to love liberty by grabbing them by the lapels and snarling, 'Listen, you clueless bonehead ...' And sadly, it's reached the point where we do need to teach folks what liberty is all about, all over again, from Square One."
http://bwrmontag.blogspot.com/2006/02/id-like-to-teach-world-to-sing-in.html
"The historican Carroll Quigley wrote that the centralization of government power tends to ebb and flow according to the availability of military technology. If his theory is correct, the impotence of the United States in the current situation will likely represent a watershed moment in history."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48904
"Many people need to carry a firearm because of a recent threat but fail to do so because they can't wait for, or afford, the permit. Currently, anyone with a legal firearm can carry it unloaded in an enclosed container, but what good is it then? "
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_3537089
"Americans are now being asked to give the federal government 'complete authority' for disaster situations. It's akin to a quarterback dropping the ball at every play, scapegoating the other members of the team and demanding more money for the next season, saying, 'See what happens when you don't give me total power'?"
http://www.nwmeridian.com/content/060223_05_p1.php
"There is no congressional oversight. Congress has been blocked--by its Republican leadership, the president, Donald Rumsfeld, and CIA chief Porter Goss--from having any oversight at all. The constitutional separation of powers has also fallen into a black hole."
http://villagevoice.com/news/0609,hentoff,72320,6.html
"There are two reasons government passes laws. There's the stated reason of protecting the people, and then there's the real reason of protecting the powerful. For instance, behind the War on Drugs is the war on industrial hemp. Behind federal laws and regulations 'protecting' workers and consumers are compliance costs that large corporations can absorb but which run smaller competitors out of business. The biggest winner of our wars and huge military that 'protect our freedom' are defense contractors."
http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1761
"The Bush regime has shown the Muslim world that the US takes for granted that it possesses the right of hegemony over the Middle East. The Bush regime has reaffirmed Washington's right to remove governments, select new ones, interfere in elections, and bomb and invade every country whose rulers Washington can demonize."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02212006.html
"A presidential line-item veto would give presidents the less-benevolent power (which Clinton was thought to have tried to use at least once when he had it) to lean on individual legislators to get what they want. That is, the threat to kill a precious earmark in exchange for going along on some other matter. And in a political world where there are no meta-political ideological barriers to keep the executive or legislative branches of the federal government from spending on any old thing they please, a line-item veto could well merely shift the points of special-interest lobbying pressure from 535 saps to just one."
http://www.reason.com/links/links022206.shtml
"Is it any wonder that conservatives get so upset when someone has the audacity to criticize the federal government or its paternalistic programs, either at home or abroad? Why, in the mind of the conservative, such criticism constitutes disrespect, even blasphemy! Their federal daddy-god just needs a bit of 'reform.' -- that's all."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0602g.asp
"The extended family is the core of Somali society. Families descended from common great grandparent form a jilib, the basic independent jural unit, and a number of jilibs in turn form a clan. Each family, jilib, and clan has its own judge, whose role is to facilitate the handling of disputes by deciding where the liability lies and what compensation should be paid."
http://www.mises.org/story/2066
"Let's say a contractor had the tools and materials to build the sturdiest modern structure, but the local building code required less-than-perfect construction. Would putting up a structure as required by local code be 'evil'? Nothing of the sort. By their logic, though, critics of Google's engagement with China would rather see people freeze in the cold than take shelter in substandard housing."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5702
"Grassroots opposition to the Dubai Ports deal is coming from left, right and all quarters. Bush really stepped in it this time and assorted politicos, smelling blood in the water, seem to be rising to the occasion. Maybe they'll succeed in this instance, and maybe not. The Bush admin may be forced to retreat on this if the corruption angle to the story grows media legs. Let's look at the big picture, though…"
http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/343
"In January 2001, the M3 stood at $7,249,900,000,000; at the end of June 2004 the M3 stood at $9,283,700,000,000. By printing currency, loosening credit, and 'buying' government securities, the Fed has 'created' $2,033,800,000,000 additional dollars for Uncle $ugar--in three and a half years!"
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/cederholm/cederholm1.html
"[T]he concentration of wealth is overwhelmingly owing to existing state intervention. The working of a free market would break it up. ... What wouldn't be a 'waste of time,' though, would be for the community-supported agriculture movement to lobby for an end to the subsidies and other competitive advantages the federal government provides to corporate agribusiness."
http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2006/02/vulgar-libertarianism-watch-part-xvi.html
"The market had already severely punished Enron before Congress held a single hearing. The market also pushed Arthur Andersen to the brink of bankruptcy for its role in the scandal. But the Securities & Exchange Commission -- which ignored possible warning signs at Enron for nine years -- was rewarded with more funding and sophisticated new job functions. If the reward for failure is a bigger budget and more power, what is the incentive to operate efficiently?"
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5591
"I arrive at my final point. Assuming government at any level has any business even existing -- an assumption that, as you know, I absolutely do not make -- what proper business does it have owning, operating, or having anything to do with ports? As for the Central Government in particular, its control apparently emerges from its incessant warmaking, but that's not what I mean by proper."
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/lights140.htm
"Monsters, Inc. is a useful analogue for understanding the main purpose that President George W. Bush’s 'war on terror' serves. Since September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and Saddam Hussein's Iraq have served as useful monsters in generating screams from the American public. The resulting enhancements in federal government power have enabled the Bush administration to use the military forces of the United States to invade and occupy both Afghanistan and Iraq and to install puppet governments in both countries."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0602h.asp
"During the Cold War, secrecy was the modus operandi of our intelligence services. Unchallenged by outside scholarship, criticism, or debate, they got their judgments about the Soviet Union's economic strength and military preparedness smashingly wrong. Dozens of dangers to Americans' life and health come before terrorism. For the average American, the chance of dying in a terrorist attack is essentially nil. Yet many Americans speak of 'the terrorists' as if they are among us in every mall and on every plane."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5638
"In an era of brilliant men, Washington was not the deepest thinker. He never wrote a book or even a long essay, unlike George Mason, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams. But Washington made the ideas of the American founding real. He incarnated liberal and republican ideas in his own person, and he gave them effect through the Revolution, the Constitution, his successful presidency, and his departure from office."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5593
"Opitz was FEE's resident theologian. He was an ordained Congregational minister. Earlier, he had been a Unitarian minister, but as he grew older, he grew more conservative. He no longer fit in Unitarian circles. … Opitz's presence at FEE was one way that Leonard Read affirmed his own highly mystical faith in God. ... Edmund Opitz was not on the fringes of modern American libertarianism. He was present at the creation."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north439.html
"Paul Poirot's real work at FEE was largely unseen. Readers saw only the final product of his labors: the books he meticulously edited and, of course, each finished issue of The Freeman. ... In this sense, Paul Poirot was a teacher as well. A good editor teaches: by his choice of articles; by polishing the work of an inexperienced writer, and by pointing out weaknesses in style or argument to an experienced one."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=286&year=2006&month=2
"Neither Roosevelt nor the leaders of Congress who pushed for war on Japan actually put themselves at risk by going to war themselves. And they made a quick decision, on Dec. 8, based on something that happened on Dec. 7. That's one of the problems with government solutions: the decision-makers often make quick, bad decisions because they rarely bear the costs of their decisions."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=8575
"Two years ago I argued in these pages that the US aim of installing a client pro-US regime in Baghdad risked plunging the country into civil war - but not a war of Arabs against Kurds or Sunnis against Shias, rather a war between a US-backed minority (of all sects and nationalities) against the majority of the Iraqi people. That is where Iraq is heading."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1716598,00.html
"When will we ever put ourselves in a position to honestly evaluate the facts, to confirm what we are told about the events that unfold before our very eyes? War only exists because we are so gullible. We are blindly patriotic to a fault. The predicted explosion of a 'dirty nuke' on U.S. soil will provoke patriots to write me letters saying, you see, there really are terrorists. I don't doubt there are, but like the Japanese, are they being provoked into these acts? "
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi49.html
"It is in the 1870-ies that Renoir's technique reaches its peak. He actively participates in impressionnist exhibitions in 1874, 1876, 1877 and 1882 and becomes a founding member of the review 'L'Impressionniste' in 1877."
http://www.expo-renoir.com/2.cfm
"From the beginning, professionalism marked Erma's work. She instinctively knew what good column writing entailed. Hook 'em with the lead. Hold 'em with laughter. Exit with a quip they won't forget. She turned out her columns in a cramped bedroom, the typewriter balanced on a plank suspended between a couple of cinder blocks."
http://www.ermamuseum.org/life/body.asp?articleID=1
"Harrison usually wrote and sang lead on one or two songs per album, including the popular 'If I Needed Someone', 'Taxman', 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', 'Here Comes the Sun', and 'Something'."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison
Romantic comedy stars Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Justine Clarke, Rhys Muldoon; written and directed by Jeff Balsmeyer. "[T]his movie relates the story of someone who breaks out of a 'rut' and, through his own efforts, frees himself from an unfulfilling and sometimes stifling existence. In many ways, this film tells a modern fairy tale."
http://www.endervidualism.com/agora/ddeckchair_2004.htm
"'Sophie Scholl: The Final Days,' Germany's nominee for this year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, doesn't ask any questions -- the movie is spare and straightforward. But it provokes a question unavoidably. While most of us are quick to assert our beliefs and opinions, how quick would we be if doing so were dangerous -- if standing up were certain to mean we would be brutally cut down?"
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1524800/story.jhtml
"Could a grocery list ever become a cult hit? Perhaps. A satirical article from Datelinehollywood.com envisioned what might be if fans of cult writer/director Joss Whedon ever took fandom to a scary place. The article jokingly reports that a grocery list written by Joss Whedon leaked onto the Internet and has been generating thousands of hits, inspiring a Joss's Grocery Shoppers fan club. This caused sales of items on the list to increase by 173 per cent and even rallying fans to raise $2.5 million to turn it into a television series."
http://www.excal.on.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1467&Itemid=2
Among the added costs of the Iraq war? Reconstruction and Re-reconstruction.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=59509
"Government documents declassified today reveal that President Bush was briefed last summer of 'a substantial risk' that Vice President Dick Cheney would shoot an elderly male in the face sometime in the next several months."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/45572
"When George Bush Jr. was a Yale undergrad back in the 1960’s he had a secret love affair with a beautiful and brilliant young woman. But this young woman, who we will call Tanya, was no spoiled sorority queen, but a leader of Yale SDS." So begins an explanation of today's headlines.
http://porkupineblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/secret-revolutionary-true-story-of.html
"Perhaps we don’t appreciate this now, and perhaps we won’t for many years, but what we’re witnessing in Torino at the moment is Jesse Owens—a black Alabaman, of all of God’s creatures—capturing four gold medals in godless, sociopathic Nazi Berlin in the ‘36 Olympics. It’s Team USA pulling off a “miracle on ice” against the Soviets at the Lake Placid games of 1980. The only difference is, instead of the Nazis and instead of the Soviets, it’s us now. Which isn’t to say that America is anything like the Nazis or Soviets, but rather that this is what happens when David becomes Goliath."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001896.html
"When Duesberg's work on HIV/AIDS and cancer is finally recognized and accepted, it will cause a revolution in science. Over the last 50 years government-sponsored and industry-sponsored research programs have come to dominate scientific research. A totalitarian system now exists where only scientists that adhere to the prevailing orthodoxy can receive funds to conduct research. Not only will the government not fund studies on alternative hypotheses for AIDS and cancer, but this stricture applies to other areas of inquiry. All research on climate change must conform to the dogma of human-caused global warming, and studies on vaccines dare not criticize their safety or efficacy."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller18.html
"The 'Lessons In Economics' based on cows is an old Internet joke, but it has a definite right-wing bias. I have written my own version to rectify this."
http://porkupineblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/lessons-in-economics.html
"I have decided to become a drunk and live under a bench, maybe in a radiation suit. It only makes sense. The times are dire. Dark shapes twist in the international fog. The US, in the hands of puzzled children of low moral character, flaps about like a damp rag in a high wind. Anything could happen. I figure to enjoy it since I can't stop it. It would all seem more amusing and less dark, I thought, if I weren't immoderately sober. To this end I walked to the Oxxo, which is a Mexican Seven-Eleven, and bought a bottle of Padre Kino red. Maybe I should have bought two bottles."
http://fredoneverything.net/BushBabies.shtml
"Darlene Hilker is an unusual woman. It is not because she was caught up in domestic violence; that's a common crime. Nor is it because she was the abuser; research increasingly reveals that men are often victims of domestic violence. She is unusual because, on a judge's order, the Florida woman became one of the first to be enrolled in the Women Who Batter intervention program run by Domestic Abuse Shelter Homes. The 26-week program is being watched as a potential model for use nationwide. Hilker's case and how it is being handled reveals a shift in the social dialogue surrounding domestic violence. Men are finally being recognized and taken seriously as domestic violence victims. It is about time."
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,185627,00.html
"That Cory Maye is even in prison is an appalling failure of Mississippi's criminal justice system. Police had no reason to be in his home that night, much less to break down his door. His case is just the latest in a series of tragic consequences resulting from the overuse of paramilitary tactics when police serve drug warrants."
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