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"Our little Nero isn't listening, and the little Nero chorus over at FoxNews and talk radio is becoming shrill and boring and silly. Such is the way of the asylum. The rest of us -- the self-admitted -- should proceed quietly to the front desk and check ourselves out. Our little Nero imagines he is the state, that he speaks for America, and that he defends our freedoms. Frankly, it's become tiresome and ludicrous."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski147.html
"This is an amazing and truly magnificent example of Americans who serve in a state legislature standing up to the bullying and 'unfunded mandates' coming out of Washington in an effort to enslave we the people. The so-called 'National ID' has nothing to do with tracking terrorists and everything to do with turning we the people into numbered cattle to be tracked and harassed."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd177.htm
"[T]here are signs that some officials at the State Department understand the need to deemphasize the drug issue to Latin American countries. There are even signs that Washington may be amenable to some compromise with Andean countries like Bolivia that want to increase the number of hectares of coca allowed for legal uses."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1691
"The Supreme Court narrowed police search powers yesterday, ruling that officers must have a warrant to look for evidence in a couple's home unless both partners present agree to let them in."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/22/AR2006032200743_pf.html
"There was considerable interest in last week's coroner's inquest into the death of Amir Crump, 21, killed by Las Vegas police in the southwest valley Feb. 1 after he shot Sgt. Henry Prendes, 37, one of the officers responding to a phoned report that Crump was beating his girlfriend. Writing accounts based on published reports or TV coverage is easier. But you can get a different view of goings-on when you simply try to attend one of these proceedings in person." Attending such 'public' events in the city nearest where I live has seemed quite similar in the relatively recent past.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Mar-19-Sun-2006/opinion/6410069.html
"The recent killing of an unarmed Virginia doctor has raised concerns about what some say is an explosion in the use of military-style police Swat teams in the United States."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4803570.stm
"These new crime lords have access to power that their predecessors couldn't fathom, but you won't find today's elite criminal class at the corner table of a seedy, dimly lit bar (well maybe) or on a poster in the local post office: they're hanging out in plain sight at city hall."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/antunez/antunez3.html
"As I write, the US Senate is debating legislation that would make migrant peoples a felonized, legally scapegoated racial and cultural under-caste, a move with deeply dangerous implications for us all. Maybe it wasn't such a lie, what the German people said after Hitler -- 'we didn't know.' Certainly the mainstream media isn't telling you."
http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/48094.php
"Life without central government would obviously be no utopia. There would still be some who engaged in all kinds of aggression. Some people would not manage to provide for themselves, and there would be no guarantee that anyone would help them. (They would have good incentives to work hard and maintain friendly relationships with their families and neighbors instead.) But I think we can agree that central government has not provided us with utopia either, no matter what flavor you choose."
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/03/20/editor.htm
"Voters and political junkies probably don't know it themselves (that's what is so great with brainwashing), but they are double oppressors. They may feel like victims now and then, but it is their system and their policies and they support it by voting. Voters are the people who effectively maintain political power over society and thereby over you. Even though you, being a non-voter, have nothing to do with their system and don't support it in any way, they claim the right to force you to comply with whatever rules they see fit."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/bylund/bylund7.html
"Loyalty to the present government should exist only as obedience and compliance, and only to the extent we are convinced it is better than any available alternative, but should not exist as an end in itself. By divorcing the soul from the State, we would become more resistant to the State's ridiculous claims and recognize its blatant hypocrisies and injustices."
http://independentcountry.blogspot.com/2006/03/separation-of-soul-and-state.html
"That is the thing about statism; as history has shown us repeatedly it isn't that that there aren't people of integrity out there willing and able to serve. No that isn't it. There are many. The problem comes from the sheer size of the modern Leviathanic State."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle359-20060319-07.html
"Democracy and education are always good. ... But just as American faith in democracy has been shaken by the election of Hamas in the Palestinian Authority and by what appears to be the looming failure of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the belief in higher education as a universal panacea will be severely tested in the coming decades."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49348
"[P]erhaps the solution to Iraq lies in such sectarian clustering. Instead of fighting the powerful centrifugal forces in Iraq, perhaps the United States and the Iraqis should embrace them. A grand conclave of all Iraqi groups should be held to negotiate the decentralization of Iraq."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1690
"Shared custody is only one of several fathers' rights issues that are appearing with increased frequency in the courts and in the media. It is perhaps inevitable that, as the image of men gradually moves out of the shadow cast by mainstream feminism, that the image of fathers improves as well. The emerging complaints of fathers are likely to force a redefinition within family law over the next few years."
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,188688,00.html
"Portland officials and Peaks Island residents are gearing up for Saturday's public hearing on a petition from islanders who are seeking independence from Maine's largest city."
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/060324peaks.shtml
"The paranoia of the Bush circle has infected the whole regime. The entire government--elected officials, appointed staff, permanent bureaucracy--has shifted in the last decade from pretending to be the people's servants to admitting that they regard the people as a threat. Thus do we see the stream of legislation permitting ever more powers to spy, confiscate, and jail without trial."
http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_03_27/review.html
"Readers tell me that Americans don't live here any more. They ask what responsible American citizenry would put up with the trashing of the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers, with wars based on deception, and with pathological liars in control of their government?"
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03222006.html
"The American political system failed when Congress and the media recently rolled over in favor of extending the most onerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. Despite stark evidence of both the law's abuses and widespread popular opposition, Bush got a rubber-stamp extension of a law that has come to symbolize boundless government intrusions since 9/11."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0603f.asp
"[T]he description by U.S. reporters of what are being called 'super-bases' that have already been built in Iraq only adds to the impression that the Pentagon has no intention of passing up an opportunity -- if it can be sustained -- of embedding itself deeply into heart of the oil- and gas-rich Middle East and Gulf regions for permanent strategic advantage over any possible rival."
http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=8754
"He was an amazingly ubiquitous figure, a sort of Zelig of the political right -- you could find him somewhere, in the foreground or the background, in almost every Republican political scandal of the past twenty-five years. … All along, Abramoff was buying journalists, creating tax-exempt organizations to fund campaign activities and using charities to fund foreign conflicts. ... He is a living museum of corruption, and in a way it is altogether too bad that he is about to disappear from public scrutiny."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9519825/meet_mr_republican_jack_abramoff
"For me, one of the more odious characteristics of Blair, and Bush, and Clinton, and their eager or gulled journalistic court, is the enthusiasm of sedentary, effete men (and women) for bloodshed they never see…."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/pilger/pilger38.html
"But war, as the 19th century Prussian theorist Karl von Clausewitz explained with a good deal of elaboration, is politics carried on by other means. We have a solid (and healthy) tradition of civilian control of the military in this country. Civilians determine the political goals, and much about the acceptable means to be employed, for which military people then risk their lives."
http://www.antiwar.com/bock/?articleid=8756
"On the other side of the aisle are the shining lights of the Democratic Party, James Carville, Stanley Greenberg and Bob Shrum (the consultant who ran Kerry's campaign and shied away from confronting the Swift Boat Veterans). These three men founded the Democracy Corps, a nonprofit 'dedicated to making the government of the United States more responsive to the American people.' ... [But] ... Carville and friends advised Democrats to cater to public opinion and let Bush have his war."
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2563/
"Birth is a completely natural process. It doesn't normally require outside interference. Outside interference causes stress and anxiety that further makes childbirth more difficult. So does the whole process of being in a sterile environment, hooked up to machines, being touched and examined by strangers, confined to a certain position, and so on."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/hobbs/hobbs1.html
"A necessary part of socialization is learning to cooperate with others in pursuit of a mutual goal. This being the case, it is still individuals who act to produce group results. I contend that groupthink training in schools and colleges, socialist environments in government grade schools, and the like, are not only unnecessary but counterproductive."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/edmonds/edmonds278.html
"There are two reasons prices go up. One is that the demand for something is greater than its supply. The other is that there are just too many dollars, with more and more pumped into the economy every day. ... The more there is of something, the less valuable it is. The same is true of the dollar. The more dollars there are, the less valuable they are."
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1790
"The ingredients for granite were there before the Acasta rocks, yet in all that time it didn't form. Now a team of geologists led by Minik Rosing of the Geological Museum and the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, says the appearance of photosynthetic life might have given this process the kick-start it needed."
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?hbxmail=nl&id=mg18925444.200
"Many of these unlicensed stations offer formats that simply cannot be heard elsewhere on the Florida airwaves. Other formats can be heard elsewhere, but the pirates believe, in the long American tradition of entrepreneurial upstarts, that they can do a better job. The drive to shut them down is motivated not merely by anger at interference and respect for existing laws, but by the fear of competition."
http://www.cei.org/gencon/004,05214.cfm
"Had the anti-smoking zealots revealed their entire agenda back in the '60s and '70s, they wouldn't have gotten much. By using the piecemeal approach, they've been successful beyond their dreams, and the food zealots are following their example. I'd be interested to know just how many Americans would like to see done to our food industry what was done to the tobacco industry...."
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/06/busybody.html
"Congress isn't immune from the double standard. The new anti-gambling bill sponsored by Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte contains a gaping loophole that lets state lotteries continue to sell their tickets online. And just as Goodlatte, Arizona Sen. John Kyl and others in Congress have been earnestly lecturing us on why we need our politicians to protect us from our own peccadilloes, 28 states, including Arizona, were cashing in on the hyped $365 million Powerball jackpot. Which makes all these efforts to ban private gambling sound more like a protection racket than good government."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6002
"For years, conservatives have complained about what they saw as the liberal tilt of federal grant money. Taxpayer funds went to abortion rights groups such as Planned Parenthood to promote birth control, and groups closely aligned with the AFL-CIO got Labor Department grants to run worker-training programs. In the Bush administration, conservatives are discovering that turnabout is fair play...."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/21/AR2006032101723_pf.html
"Welcome to the realities of the 'war on terrorism' and the world of military 'freedom'! Welcome to the deadly and destructive sham that federal officials have slowly but surely been employing ever since 9/11 to expand their power over the people of the world, including Americans. So far, Americans have been relatively lucky ... well, except for Jose Padilla, an American who was held in military custody for three years as an enemy soldier in the 'war on terrorism'."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0603g.asp
"The federal government is vacuuming up far more personal information on Americans than ever before. If Cheney is entitled to leak the identify of an undercover CIA agent, there is no reason he could not leak information about other critics of his policy--regardless of whether such leaks violate privacy laws or other prohibitions."
http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_03_27/article1.html
"On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that a treasure trove of translations of audio tapes of top-level Iraqi meetings involving Hussein, released at the request of U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, show that Iraq destroyed its WMD program by 1992. Those tapes were obtained soon after the 2003 invasion, yet the Bush administration kept them secret while continuing to assert that Iraq had an active WMD program."
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0322-30.htm
"Contortions of populism that embrace war, like the kind of sentiments on display during President Bush's travel blitz in recent days, chronically invert the realities of power. While the president and his corporate backers wield enormous media power, they pose as intrepid and besieged underdogs."
http://www.counterpunch.org/solomon03232006.html
"U.S. essentially had a command economy during World War II. Had he wanted to be less polite but equally accurate, he could have said that the U.S. had a fascist economy. The essence of fascism, as an economic system, is government dictation of what is produced, along with nominal private ownership."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=8727
"It is perhaps just a coincidence, but it is certainly fitting that inflationary paper money, which is often called 'funny money,' appeared on this continent as playing cards with a bureaucrat's signature on them. "
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/06/060319-2.htm
"A citizen of the Icelandic Commonwealth unhappy with the service provided by one chieftain did not need to emigrate to a different jurisdiction in order to live under a different political authority. Like any customer of any service industry, he merely needed to take his business elsewhere, to another chieftain. If that chieftain disappointed him, he could reassign his contract for law enforcement services to yet another chieftain, ad infinitum."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/chu/chu13.html
"We must face our record of imperial conquest, in the Caribbean and in the Pacific, our shameful wars against small countries a tenth our size: Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq. And the lingering memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is not a history of which we can be proud. Our leaders have taken it for granted, and planted that belief in the minds of many people, that we are entitled, because of our moral superiority, to dominate the world. "
http://progressive.org/mag_zinn0406
"U.S. military intervention in Iraq was supposed to result in the Great Transformation: the neoconservatives who howled for war reassured us with their own version of a reverse domino theory, in which, when Iraq fell to the American 'liberators,' the rest of the region would soon follow. Not only would repressive Arab regimes be changed, but they would be changed into their exact opposites -- functional democracies that would prove more conducive to peaceful relations with the West. It hasn't turned out that way."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8755
"[E]very single atrocity of the war--on both sides--and every single death caused by the war, and every act of religious repression perpetrated by the extremist sects empowered by the war, is the direct result of the decision made by George W. Bush three years ago. Nothing he says can change this fact; nothing he does, or causes to be done, for good or ill, can wash the blood of these children--and the tens of thousands of other innocent civilians killed in the war--from his hands."
http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd03252006.html
"Politicians who say that the military option can't be taken off the table or Iran must not be allowed to get the bomb, either believe what they say and are insane, or know there is no threat but cynically go along to get elected. Death and destruction are always political winners in America."
http://www.blackcommentator.com/176/176_freedom_rider_iran_bomb.html
"America needs to take the military down from its pedestal and realize that while it's important to give credit to soldiers where credit is due, there's more to life than war and more to freedom than armed conflict. Neither of these things should be the defining, organizing aspects of our country."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001956.html
"Bach's forceful suavity and vast output have earned him wide acknowledgment as one of the greatest composers in the Western tonal tradition. Revered for their intellectual depth, technical command and artistic beauty, his works include the Brandenburg concertos, the keyboard suites and partitas, the Mass in B Minor, the St. Matthew Passion, The Musical Offering, The Art of Fugue and a large number of cantatas, of which about 220 survive."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach
"He established a utopian community in New York City called Unity Home, and it was during this time that he began to formulate his philosophy of universology. His essay, written in 1857, originally appeared in The Periodical Letter, edited by Josiah Warren (1798-1874)."
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/andrews/SPAbio.html
"Houdini was small, standing a mere 5'5", with dark, wavy hair, dark gray eyes and a high-pitched voice. Like many people in his day (especially those from immigrant families), Houdini was poorly educated. He was, however, extremely athletic and highly motivated to succeed."
http://www.magictricks.com/houdini/bio.htm
"In her comedy routines, Mabley adopted a stage persona based loosely on her own grandmother but with a distinctly cantankerous and sassy edge."
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/539/Moms_Mabley_comic_pioneer
"While F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack certainly has enough jobs to occupy his time, there is another kind of 'job' that is beginning to seem more apropos for this character. For anyone who has been following the recent RJ segments of the Adversary Cycle, 'Job' with a capital 'J,' long-O, better describes this poor man's existence. Over the course of this series, Jack has had one-damn-thing-after-another befall him and those closest to him."
http://www.russellmadden.com/Repairman_Job.html
"In his poem 'Buffalo Him Die Send Money,' he tells of the bar girl who writes her farang boyfriend, now in the States, that her water buffalo has been struck by lightning and she needs money. The boyfriend reflects how curious it is that that this is the third time this year that her buffalo has been struck by lightning."
http://www.fredoneverything.net/DeanBarrett.shtml
"A fully-realized fictional world with its own unique characters, settings, and history is a potent weapon in the struggle. The idea is to condition readers' expectations so that they'll demand a decent future. It's the only strategy I trust. Certainly we can get nothing that we want--absolutely nothing--by ever voting for any Republican or Democrat ever again."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle359-20060319-02.html
"The film asks the question, why we fight. I cannot say that it provides an answer, because it wasn't really my goal to provide a single answer. It was my goal to bring together voices from a wide range of experts and the insiders, people touched by American war who could become a kind of chorus of concern looking more deeply at the issues involved and the stakes implied than customarily happens in our shallow news media outlets."
http://www.antiwar.com/ips/rizvi.php?articleid=8750
"[I]n the original book, the new tyranny grew from the ashes of Britains two larger parties -- Conservative and Liberal Labour.... In the movie, it’s just 'the Conservative Party.' This would seem like a rather small change on the surface but in fact it's huge. This change basicly lets leftists, or 'liberals' as we call them this side of the pond, off the hook. It lets them point their fingers at 'conservatives' as being fascists-in-sheeps clothing while retaining their own cover of respectability. It also lets conservatives dismiss the story as a shrilly defamatory partisan screed."
http://www.bigheadpress.com/TheTimeSink/?p=65
"V's violence, however, pales in comparison, and is secondary, to that of the state, and perhaps it is not so much the alleged glorification of his, but rather the portrayal of the state's, that irks so many people so much about this movie."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory112.html
"Politically, V for Vendetta is not subtle. One angle is to say that we are beyond subtlety. Another, perhaps less condescending one, is that the movie is simply bold, making up for its political directness with intricate craftsmanship and real emotional force."
http://www.filmblather.com/review.php?n=vforvendetta
"There is so much right about this movie that what it gets wrong is all the more infuriating. Gone are the touches that make the villains, the government men, human. ... You can still see the blueprints of Moore's original story in the film. The original structure has been masked with porticos and Doric columns. I guess the filmmakers wanted to express their individuality too -- on Moore's story."
http://www.scifidimensions.com/Mar06/betrayal.htm
"Mega-producer Joel Silver is one of the biggest names in Hollywood thanks to his overwhelming success in the action genre from the 'Die Hard' and 'Lethal Weapon' series to the highly influential 'Matrix' movies. The latter was the culmination of Silver's collaboration with the brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski, dating back to their script for Assassins ten years ago. Now, they're back working with Silver as the writers and co-producers of the new adaptation of Alan Moore and David Lloyd's graphic novel V For Vendetta, starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving."
http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13588
"Most people view the concept of anarchy as being either a noun (i.e., a state of anarchy) or an adjective (i.e., an anarchistic society). Indeed, many anarchists themselves view it that way. Viewing it as a verb, however, is an interesting way of presenting such a complex subject that may cause some people to think about it in a different light."
http://freemanlc.blogspot.com/2006/03/v-is-for-verb.html
"Although it falls short of the original in some respects (for one thing, it's much less explicitly anarchistic), it's still a great libertarian ride and captures much of the eerie quality of the book -- especially that haunting mask with Hugo Weaving's marvelous voice coming out of it. (This film also settles, at least for me, the question whether Natalie Portman's relatively poor acting in the Star Wars prequels was her fault or Lucas's."
http://praxeology.net/unblog03-06.htm#08
"V is no longer goring ideology. He simply blows up buildings and kills nasty people. There is an implication that he is doing this to restore government to the people, but the bizarre 'happy' ending the Wachowskis chose to replace Moore's chaos tells us nothing about the nature of government. The people V kills are all evil, certainly, but, with one exception (an essential Moore creation), they are so cartoonish you can't feel sorry for them. Early in the Moore version, the honest policeman points out that V slaughtered two bodyguards who were 'human beings, for all their faults'."
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=032406F
"Hugo Weaving does the role justice and cements his place on the list of today's most talented actors. John Hurt, as we would expect, is excellent as the fanatical Adam Sutler, and Natalie Portman also accounts well for herself. Stephen Rea handles his low key role with his usual aplomb, as indeed do most of the actors in the movie, whether their role is large or small. Most of the technical aspects of the movie, the sound and cinematography for instance, were on par with the acting."
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/20/123950.php
"If you had to choose, would you choose life or liberty? For most, life comes before liberty, because without life what is liberty? But what kind of life can be had if there isn't individual freedom? Is life without liberty no life at all? These are just some of the questions explored in V for Vendetta, a new film set in the not-so-distant future about a masked freedom fighter who takes on an oppressive totalitarian regime."
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060315/v_for_vendetta_060315/20060317/
"Don't become depressed, become Republican." Hilarious animated Flash cartoon with audio.
http://www.thefrown.com/frowners/becomerepublican.swf
"We're making incremental, abstract progress in the wars on terror and drugs."
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=60714
"In what Washington insiders believe is an attempt to mend fences with an increasingly contentious White House press corps, Vice President Dick Cheney today invited veteran journalist Helen Thomas on a quail-hunting trip to Texas."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1351
"Although the State Department has not yet officially responded to the overwhelming outpouring of support for Secretary Rice's career change, Rice issued a short, tersely worded statement formally thanking the over 85 diplomats, heads of state, and religious leaders who spoke in her favor on the issue."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46644
"If a single woman decides to have a baby against the wishes of the father, neither he nor anyone else should be held responsible for supporting the offspring. That this bit of common sense is not the law of the land rankles me. Imagine for a second that the roles were reversed. What if women were not allowed an abortion or an adoption unless the man consented?"
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle359-20060319-05.html
"Hobbes's contract creates not only fear, it creates distrust in a government making crucial decisions in spheres outside of the control of the ordinary citizen. Hobbes made his argument to answer a specific problem of exceptional insecurity. But the trade-off he suggested is flawed."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1736294,00.html
"Most Americans have absorbed the propaganda of the political machines, of the government schools, and of the interest groups that feed incessantly at the public trough. They believe that they are 'free' because they occasionally get to vote and because 'The Star-Spangled Banner' says that we live in 'the land of the free'."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0603g.asp
"Zoning restricts current landowners based on the local power brokers. In the zoning process, someone gets hurt. Had the farmers of a township wanted to keep the area as farmland, they could have signed restrictive covenants guaranteeing crops instead of homes. Property rights, and the laws that purport to protect those rights, allow individuals to act in their own best interest. Zoning, collective decision-making, use[s] the coercive power of government to restrict usage based on the whims of those in power."
http://www.mises.org/story/2077
"My transition from tyranny to liberty wasn't simple or quick, especially without the safety net of supportive parents beneath me. It's not like I went from hell to heaven in three easy steps or anything. ... [T]he universe sent a lot of teachers to me when I was ready for them and I learned to walk the same way everyone else does, with baby steps."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/fontana/fontana1.html
"This silent war with nature has been going on in hospitals for many years. It never attracted much attention outside of hospitals until this bug got away. ... Incidentally, the argument that doctors prescribing antibiotics for viral infections, like a cold, caused this problem, is not only false, it's a deliberate lie. Journalists who spread this nonsense should be held accountable for covering up the truth. This stuff comes from hospitals, nowhere else."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/klassen/klassen86.html
"My fact sheet was headlined crude oil in grand canyon national park. It had a nice picture of the Grand Canyon on it. I was going to be Matthew Taibbi, Government Relations adviser for Dosko, a fictional Russian firm representing various energy interests, including a fictional oil company called PerDuNefteGaz that wanted to drill for oil in the Grand Canyon."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9519839/how_to_be_a_lobbyist_without_trying
"'Republican'? What's that? In this already sad and sorry century--and in every century to come until the end of time--it will carry precisely the same connotation as the epithet 'Nazi' does now…."
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