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"We should seriously want social toleration, in the narrow sense, meaning the willingness of people to coexist with those of different opinions, lifestyles, religions, ethnicities, and so on, and to refrain from using force to make others conform to their own will. But not everyone is going to like everyone else, or want to associate with everyone else. To impose acceptance on people is to be intolerant and make a crime out of their thoughts."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory115.html
"America was built upon being skeptical of the government. If you're interested in preserving this country, you should be stubborn, spiteful, and skeptical, too. I would suggest that every American head over to Google Video and look up a 9/11 documentary called Loose Change. At times, the narrator treats the conspiracy theories as a given. You're permitted to ignore this. But just keep watching for factual purposes, and then decide if enough questions have been answered on this issue."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001989.html
"Assuming she enters the race, and barring the entry of a former US Representative, US Senator, governor or senior executive branch or military official in the race, the LP is unlikely to see a more qualified prospective nominee than Karen Kwiatkowski. This is not an endorsement (yet) -- just a statement of things as I see them."
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/04/07/033700.php
"What about the people not entering this stupid game of 'who rules whom'? They too have to take the consequences, but not because they accepted the terms. On the contrary, to non-voters the system is very clearly oppressive -- you never accepted the terms of the system and never even took part in it, and yet whatever the victors decide is forced down your throat. Voters have no real reason to complain, they accepted the game's rules and played it all the way -- but lost."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/bylund/bylund8.html
"In January a cop en route to a drug raid in Tampa, Florida, took a short cut across a neighboring lawn and shot the neighbor's two pooches on his way. And last May, an officer in Syracuse, New York, squeezed off several shots at a family dog during a drug raid, one of which ricocheted and struck a 13-year-old boy in the leg. The boy was handcuffed at gunpoint at the time."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6339
"Prosecutors tried to confiscate the gold tooth caps from the mouths of two men facing drug charges, saying the dental work qualified as seizable assets. They had the men in a vehicle headed to a dental clinic by the time defense attorneys persuaded a judge to halt the procedure."
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/14296512.htm
"As I count my sheep, I ponder upon the psychosis of many of my friends, family and neighbors who have all but turned in their sanity. Like kidnap victims with Stockholm syndrome, I watch them embrace and defend their captors, their exploiters. I listen as they faithfully recite every lie, as they repeat every piece of propaganda. There goes individuality; there goes reality right down the memory hole."
http://www.anti-state.com/blog/?p=48
"I have read that if you don't engage in class struggle-style political action then you are merely a bourgeois poseur and a wanker. To try and take care of yourself and your family first of all before you try and change the world makes one either a poseur, wanker, or incredibly selfish and not to mention infantile and politically retarded. Well, maybe it does. However that does appear to be the way of the world doesn’t it?"
http://alisvoice.blogspot.com/2006/04/i-was-watching-c-span-this-morning-and.html
"The state with the second most powerful military in the world fell apart not because it was overrun by invaders, but because it went bankrupt and lost credibility. That is, it went financially and morally bankrupt, forcing its people to reorganize their society. The similarities to the U.S. Government today are striking. "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/davis/davis5.html
"Microsoft and Apple are happy with each other for the moment, and rather than representing some Apple attack on Microsoft, Boot Camp just represents the state of their happy partnership. But this won't last for long. It never does."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060406.html
"Acting at the state rather than the national level, for instance, can harness the 'laboratory' of federalism. ... An even better solution to the regulatory problem is to avoid using government money entirely. There are two driving forces behind the public's desire to regulate government-funded schools: opposition to paying for instruction that violates our convictions, and a desire for accountability. State education tax credits address both concerns more effectively than either vouchers or the existing government monopoly."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6342
"I do not have an ownership interest in a 'culture'. 'Culture' is an abstract notion that purports to encapsulate the aggregate of norms, habits, values, interactions and other social facts as enacted by individuals. The individuals and their norms, values, ideas, and what not are real; 'culture' is not real in the same sense."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2006/04/which-is-worse-unassilimilated-alien.html
"The Bush administration's sense of entitlement is obvious from the ongoing controversy over warrantless National Security Agency wiretaps of Americans. Such wiretaps are clearly prohibited by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Yet Bush declared that he is entitled to order such wiretaps because of the inherent authority of the presidency."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0604b.asp
"So far, Israel's covert political action is succeeding hands down. Americans are gradually being indoctrinated to believe Islamists are today's Nazis and that there is no 'Israeli lobby' in America. Simply put, Israel is conducting a brilliant covert political action campaign in the United States, a campaign any intelligence service in the world would rightly be proud of."
http://www.antiwar.com/scheuer/?articleid=8827
"Eastern Kentucky University criminologist Peter Kraska, a widely cited expert on the 'militarization' of domestic police departments, estimates that the number of SWAT team deployments has jumped from 3,000 a year in the early 1980s to more than 40,000 a year by the early 2000s."
http://www.slate.com/id/2139458/
"Curiously, Americans are equally proud that they have one of the freest and most vibrant economies in the world and a two-party oligarchy that restricts competition among political parties. If greater competition is better in economics, why not in politics?"
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1698
"Predictably, the authors ... have been accused openly or subtly of anti-Semitism. ... It is truly shameful. But it demonstrates what the authors have tried to show: that the relationship between the U.S. government and the Israeli government is unique in a very bad sense."
http://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/04/israel-lobby-and-us-policy-in-middle.html
"It says something that the most vocal supporters of a bill purporting to strike at power politics are people in power. Outside the Capitol, it's hard to find anybody who thinks the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act is anything but a cheap cosmetic, a pasty layer of cut-rate foundation that appears to have persuaded precisely 90 people of its authenticity."
http://www.reason.com/links/links040406.shtml
"The point is that money itself is not the whole cost of any activity. The true cost is what you give up: spending the money on X means you don't have that money to spend on Y. So the real cost of X is… Y. Some economists have claimed that money is simply a 'veil,' masking the fact that money prices are measures of relative scarcities of commodities."
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2006/Mungeropportunitycost.html
"Any immigrant, legal or not, will tend to be a producer of some good an American wants to pay him or her for, and simultaneously a consumer of some good an American wants to sell. (The power and reach of Spanish-language media in L.A. shows supply clearly creating its own demand. Businesses can and do arise out of supplying the wants and needs of legal or illegal immigrants; what they directly pay in taxes or take in social services is no meaningful measure of what they are adding to or subtracting from the common weal; human beings are indeed the ultimate resource, green card or no.)"
http://www.reason.com/hod/bd040706.shtml
"Imagine that two people need a kidney. One of them has agreed to donate his organs when he dies and the other hasn't. Suppose that they're both a good match for the next kidney that becomes available. It is grossly unjust to give the kidney to the non-donor. Yet, that is exactly what happens most of the time our national organ allocation system."
http://www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060407/OPINION02/604070340/1014/OPINION
"Willie foresaw that some combination of post-disaster zoning, forced property condemnations, infrastructural inattention and carpetbagging real-estate vultures would turn Katrina into one giant gentrification project. 'They're hoping that you take the money and move,' he had told people on the street. ... The Katrina story is just the same old story of all Earth's history, only in concentrated form. Big fish eating little fish. Little fish eating smaller fish. And the smallest fish being told they have to build plank houses on fucking stilts. And wait to be eaten."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9598135/how_to_steal_a_coastline
"It is ironic that when men don't want to be fathers they can nonetheless be on the hook for 18 years of child support. But when a man wants to care for and raise his child, he is considered a nuisance to be outmaneuvered through legal trickery."
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/04/02/Columns/How_a_willing_father_.shtml
"On Nov. 28, 2002, 2-year-old Abigail Rae died by drowning in a village pond in England. Her death is currently stirring debate because the ongoing inquest revealed an explosive fact. A man passing by was afraid to guide the lost child to safety because he feared being labeled 'a pervert'."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190586,00.html
"The first casualty in war is the truth, and to defend the perennially belligerent foreign policies of Washington, American politicians lie. In the name of democracy, wars are waged, and in the name of those wars, deception becomes just another policy tool. Unfortunately, the American people seem to swallow the lies happily as if it's their duty as citizens."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0604f.asp
"The War Party's base is seriously eroding, and they can't maintain their present level of aggression -- never mind launch new wars -- with this level of public support. A new propaganda campaign -- and, perhaps, a fresh provocation, some sort of Gulf of Tonkin-like incident -- is going to be necessary in order to dispel the present mood and ratchet up the war hysteria once again."
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8820
"To say 'we are at war' implies that we the American people are at risk. That's ridiculous. The integrity of our society is unthreatened. The government's grip on power is (alas) safe. The economy is unshaken. In past wars there has been rationing of consumer goods and a full government takeover of production. No one suggests such things today -- thank goodness. Thus to say that 'we are at war' is to traffic in a cynical political trope calculated to promote childish support for the government."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0604a.asp
"So the Lockean rule about mixing one's labor should conjure up no great controversy. It is a principle that is practiced on a regular basis. When public property is truly in demand, it is effectively privatized by the actions of individuals who understand that ownership precedes order. And their claims, however temporary or intertemporally elaborate, are reasonable and enforced by widely accepted norms...."
http://www.mises.org/story/2106
"Chris was founder and long-time president of the Libertarian Alliance, which produced a torrent of articles and pamphlets on issues of the day. Such was Chris's belief in liberty that he was prepared to follow its logic wherever it led."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=376
"It is ironic that the college professors who made up Roosevelt's Brain Trust were so ignorant or contemptuous of the failures of federal farm policy before Roosevelt took office in 1933. Instead, these geniuses were convinced that there was no problem that the Iron Fist could not solve."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0512c.asp
"I had stirred them up, some of them, at least, because I was insisting that people are responsible for their actions, even in war. In other words, I was stripping off the cloak of 'we,' and, for some of them, this thought that they were doing certain actions in the name of 'we' made certain actions easier for them to carry out."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=8795
"The antiwar movement should be principled and concise in its demands, and precise. It should oppose the Iraq war and occupation and call for immediate U.S. withdrawal at a minimum. If it's not calling for withdrawal, it isn't calling for anything."
http://www.nwmeridian.com/content/060406_02_p1.php
"The public is getting distorted news from Afghanistan because the North American media has substituted jingoism and flag-waving for reporting of hard news."
http://www.ericmargolis.com/archives/2006/04/three_big_lies.php
"With a career total of more than 100 films, Bette changed the way Hollywood looked at actresses. In 1977, she was the first woman to be honored with the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. She was also the first woman to be president of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences."
http://www.bettedavis.com/about/bio.htm
"Waters suddenly scored with the single 'I Can't Be Satisfied/I Feel Like Going Home.' And it is with this record that the history of the modern Chicago blues properly begins. Over the next few years, Waters gathered around him a group of like-minded, country-reared musicians with whom he proceeded to make blues history."
http://www.muddywaters.com/bio.html
"Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime fiction, science fiction, and, perhaps most influentially, horror fiction. He was a contributor to pulp magazines like Weird Tales in his early career, and was also a prolific screenwriter. He was the recipient of the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bloch
"Science Fiction dystopian adventure stars Roddy Piper, Meg Foster, Keith David; directed by John Carpenter, who contributed to the screenplay adapted from a short story by Ray Nelson. “It has taken a while and Hollywood has traveled a long path to recover [from a repressive era].... Along that path, before V for Vendetta, before The Truman Show, before The Matrix, John Carpenter made They Live. ... appearances in They Live differ from the underlying reality.”"
http://endervidualism.com/agora/they_live_1988.htm
"This may be the only war movie in which the most exciting moments involve not combat but a cease-fire. It begins by chance. After Christmas Eve dinner in the trenches Palmer picks up his bagpipes. Then Sprink sings 'Silent Night,' and Palmer and other pipers accompany him. Tentatively at first and then with abandon, troops leave their posts and begin trading with the enemy."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/rosinger1.html
"Go see V for Vendetta, and remember this: by supporting a work of art that embodies your political and philosophical values, you are helping to fight the cultural rot that the War Party feeds on."
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8809
When will whites become a minority in America? June 19th, 2061.(video with audio)
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=61308
Animated Flash cartoon with audio
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/phobia.html
"Despite assurances from the president that he 'prays every day' for the nation's interests both at home and abroad, the mounting crises of recent months--escalating gas prices, the botched Dubai port security deal, ethics scandals, and the rising death toll in Iraq--have left many unimpressed with the effectiveness of his devotion."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46938
"The great liberal economist Frédéric Bastiat sat on the left side of the French national assembly, with the anarcho-socialist Proudhon. Many of the causes we now think of as paradigmatically left-wing -- feminism, antiracism, antimilitarism, the defense of laborers and consumers against big business -- were traditionally embraced and promoted specifically by free-market radicals. So what happened to the political spectrum?"
http://www.mises.org/story/2099
"Perhaps, in this Panglossian 'best of all possible worlds,' the statists will find themselves in need of an Orwellian Department of Truth, one of whose functions will be to put together a compilation of state-certified truths. In this way, people will be able to know what opinions it will be permissible for them to hold and express."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer133.html
"Those who have fewer outside interests are more prone to be consumed by their political passions since they occupy a much larger percentage of their time. My first piece of advice to avoid the corruption of politics is: cultivate interests outside your immediate political arena. Doing so will help to balance the political ambitions you might have."
http://endervidualism.com/tomender/politics_tends.htm
"I recall those early days when I loved the craft so much that I would stake my family's welfare on my God-given abilities to produce documentaries. And then, I am reminded of the brilliant observation made by American journalist Edward R. Murrow over 45 years ago about the medium of television. He said, 'this instrument can teach, it can illuminate, and yes, it can even inspire. But it can only do so to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it is merely lights and wires in a box'."
http://kevinpmiller.blogspot.com/
"Last summer I learned a little ditty that I can hum to myself when the world starts closing in, and a little reflection about the song tend to restore my calm. Most of you will recognize the song immediately, as those who find what I have to say interesting are often fans of Firefly. 'Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand - I don't care, I'm still free, You can't take the sky from me'."
http://bwrmontag.blogspot.com/2006/04/we-soar-despite-chains.html
"I’ve been thinking about hornets. 'Why?' you may ask. Because I'm bored with the little voices and can't find my Haldol. Anyway, I claim that hornets show that the human race collectively isn't nearly as smart as it thinks it is. Especially about hornets. The worrisome thing is that hornets know too much. A hornet has practically no brain, probably a few milligrams or some equally depressing amount. But consider what the dangerous little spike can do."
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