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"A free man is, in his own realm, an astonishingly civilized and moral being. To those who live by controlling others, however, he is a wild beast who can't be tamed and who is too tough to make good prey. A free man is also the cause of freedom. The sole cause of it. When we have sufficient free individuals, political, social, and institutional freedoms will follow. They will arise not through revolution or politically driven reform, but from who we are and the choices we make every day."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe060701.html
"The U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocking the use of military tribunals to try terror suspects sends a clear message around the world: The United States is still a republic, not an empire. The epochal ruling will be welcomed enthusiastically by libertarian conservatives and liberals across America. But it also looks likely to prove a rallying point for Republicans loyal to President George W. Bush as the midterm congressional election campaigns heat up this summer. The ruling is most of all a major blow to the determined drive of the Bush administration in both its terms of office to vastly increase the reach of executive power in the United States outside the scrutiny of the federal courts, the media and the U.S. Congress."
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060630-023359-9261r
"The American people aren't too cynical, they're too credulous, too easily taken in by transparent shams wrapped in marketing slogans. ... [W]e live in a culture where people think that Penny Marshall and Rosie O'Donnell actually shop at K-mart because they do those commercials. We live in a country where the approval ratings of a political figure can jump 10-15% leading up to an election based on nothing but a 4 day infomercial called a convention, an event full of nothing but empty rhetoric and tired cliches."
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/06/jon_stewart_bad_for_democracy_1.php
"SWAT teams have proliferated not because they are needed, but because police like to play soldier with relatively little of the battlefield risk; and they have been goosed along by a federal government that hands out surplus military implements like candy."
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/25/Columns/Court_signals_looseni.shtml
"Gunpoint medicine is alive and well in Seattle, Washington, where county law enforcement officers, prompted by Child Protective Services (CPS), arrested and jailed 34-year-old Tina Marie Carlsen for her 'crime' of rescuing her infant from overzealous hospital staff who demanded they perform kidney surgery on the infant."
http://www.newstarget.com/019512.html
"The U.S. Government should make serious efforts to avoid, not provoke, another Waco or Kent State incident in our National Forests. In recent years, the conservative movement has openly declared a culture war against all remnants of the powerful 1960's movement for peace and freedom."
http://democracyrising.us/content/view/519/164/
"Government bans have often been bitterly resisted by politicians worried about losing jobs and by groups skeptical about the dangers posed by secondhand government, such as defense contractors. But Dr. Carcinoma today said that 'overwhelming' evidence showed that secondhand government is responsible for 'hundreds of thousands' of premature deaths from senseless wars and paramilitary, no-knock raids among those suffering from exposure to others engaged in state activities each year."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/callahan/callahan156.html
"The state welfare office will never be the loving benefactor that the poor need, for much the same reason the prison warden will never be the caring reformer that the criminal desperately needs. They not only owe their livelihoods to the continued existence of their respective charges, they stand to benefit greatly from an increase in the problems they are expected to solve."
http://www.anti-state.com/blog/?p=60
"Voting is a bloody, disgusting, awful mess. It is hateful and hurtful and horrid. People who vote should be required to attend every tax foreclosure in their district. They should be required to spend time in their local jail and in their regional prisons reviewing the conditions of prisoners and talking to them about their incarceration--often for non-violent crimes relating to the possession of contraband goods or the provision of contraband services. Voters should be forced to spend time directly experiencing the conditions that their votes place others in."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle373-20060625-02.html
"Diamandis wanted to be a NASA astronaut; over time, he committed himself to the idea of commercial space exploration (as opposed to national efforts). Dr. Diamandis remarks 'I believe opening the space frontier is critical for the future of humanity, and making space a viable commercial endeavor is paramount to opening this frontier.' Diamandis himself is a reader and fan of Heinlein's work:"
http://space.com/businesstechnology/technovel_heinlein_060627.html
"So where do we stand? What about the glass? I think our glass is half full, and I think that by drips and drops it's getting fuller. Given the chance, people cooperate spontaneously to get what they want, as commerce has demonstrated forever; today people discuss ideas and issues across political boundaries without intermediaries or censors as never before."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/klassen/klassen91.html
"[N]ow a member of the president's own Republican Party is pushing back against the administration by introducing a bill to limit what he considers abuse of the state secrets tactic. Christopher Shays, a longtime Republican member of Congress from a heavily Democratic district in Connecticut, believes that the state secrets provision has been used too frequently and with too little public protection. In particular, he is concerned that it will continue to be used to block whistleblower cases."
http://www.antiwar.com/ips/fisher.php?articleid=9232
"Anyone within the power structure who attempts to report disturbing facts or 'inconvenient truths' about the Regime's unconstitutional secret government will be attacked relentlessly. It begins with slander to destroy their credibility and effectiveness, to marginalize them, to destroy their public position -- and to frighten off anyone else who might support them or give them hearing."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/floyd/floyd11.html
"What is happening, in short, is that we are fast reaching the limits of American power, and even the neocons must recognize this to some extent. The problem is they don't care, because preserving America is not what they're all about. As revolutionaries, they don't want to preserve anything. What the world needs, as neocon polemicist Michael Ledeen avers, is a little 'creative destruction.' And if what's being destroyed is our old Republic, well, then, so be it."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9203
"The exposure of this CIA kidnapping ring is part of the growing revulsion throughout Europe and other parts of the world against such American gangsterism. As Judge Sparato said in Florence: 'We know it's a great mistake to fight terrorism in this way'."
http://villagevoice.com/news/0626,hentoff,73639,6.html
"The Bush administration alleges that Iran is secretly working on a nuclear weapons program in violation of its commitment not to do so under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran denies this accusation and claims its right under that same treaty to pursue peaceful nuclear energy. After the U.S. intelligence failure on Iraq's alleged, but non-existent, nuclear program, the United States and the world should not be so cocksure that Iran's nuclear program has a military purpose."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1758
"International law was broken but there will be no punishment. The few who are responsible remain in the White House while the many who are embroiled in the conflict are brutalised or murdered, or both."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1805802,00.html?gusrc=rss
"Now the House has once again, in effect, abandoned its role in any future decision about the need for and the wisdom of initiating war in the name of the people they represent -- creating a vacuum the administration will eagerly fill. It seems high time that the people call to account those whose votes against the amendment...."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/dsmith.php?articleid=9201
"Commerce is an essential human activity, and by that, I mean that making things, buying things, and selling things are essential to our very humanity. Trade is one of the things that makes us human. Governments have tried through history to eliminate, regulate and prevent trade, but that doesn't stop it. Where there is a need -- base or noble, depraved or innocent -- it will be filled. Because that is one of the things human beings do. There is simply no way around it."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/featherstone/featherstone60.html
"Have you ever noticed how often both sides to an economic transaction say, 'Thank you' to each other? For example, when the cashier at the grocery store says to the customer, 'Thank you,' more often than not the customer responds, 'Thank you,' rather than 'You're welcome'."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0606k.asp
"Foresters denied issuing the Rainbow Family of Living Light a special-use permit last week because of extreme fire danger at the proposed site near Big Red Park in the Routt National Forest, about 35 miles north of Steamboat Springs. But for 26-year Rainbow gathering veteran Rob Savoye, the family's fundamental 'non-organizational' nature is precisely what allows its volunteer base to thrive in chaotic conditions."
http://www.steamboatpilot.com/section/news/story/37879
"We can be certain of this because if the politicians really wanted to help poor people, they long ago would have done what it is in their direct power to do -- namely, eliminate all the ways that government blocks people from climbing out of poverty. (We should remember that 'poverty' is a relative term. Most poor people in America are well off when judged by historical and even contemporary world standards.)"
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0606j.asp
"People are stunned that malaria is back with a vengeance. Every 30 seconds, someone dies of malaria, and three-quarters of the victims are under the age of 5. Survivors can be left with horrific mental and physical ailments."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/silent-spring.html
"Campaign-finance laws often raise questions about restricting freedom of speech. Public financing seems to foster more speech by giving candidates money. But such laws restrict liberty in other ways. Government does not fund public financing; taxpayers do. These programs force taxpayers to support candidates they oppose."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6457
"Emotional appeals to fear and to patriotism have led close to half of the population to accept unaccountable government in the name of 'the war on terrorism.' What a contradiction it is that so many Americans have been convinced that safety lies in their sacrifice of their civil liberties and accountable government."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06292006.html
"Before 9/11, Osama bin Laden's group was small and fractious. How Washington helped to build it into a global threat."
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13600653/site/newsweek
"The real story, as I learned in the course of a two-year investigation that took me from sterile Washington offices to smoky exile pubs in Paris, is more interesting. It's also not over. As the crisis with Iran deepens and moves to the fore, the Bush administration is putting in place key elements of the vision spun in part by the men at the Rome meeting."
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/07/three_days_in_rome.html
"Islam has a glorious past. Between the 8th and 11th centuries, the Muslim world enjoyed a greater degree of freedom than others. The result was cultural greatness. From Asia to Spain (where Abd ar-Rahman, who fled Damascus when the Abbasids overpowered the Umayyads, established himself), there was significant religious tolerance, freedom of commerce and scientific questioning. Capitalism and the Renaissance--the modern West--would not have been possible without the progress brought about by Muslims."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1759
"What happens when the government runs a business? By the end of my trip I am, once again, convinced that the results must always be egregious. Government enterprise is a hopelessly flawed model. I am riding in what was once largely a privately managed and financed system. It is a system that was once acclaimed around the world. One New York liberal journalist, Robert Caro, wrote in his book The Power Broker of the original subway system, 'So superbly had it been designed that it took decades to break down.' But the decades have flown by and the subway system has fallen on hard times."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0602e.asp
"I was 'badged' in Las Vegas by the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office. Then I joined two friends and several dozen other tourists on a long, hot bus ride up dusty Highway 95 to what’s left of Mercury, the gateway to The Most Bombed Place on Earth."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/conger/conger11.html
"The Pentagon said yesterday it was pursuing a new war crimes investigation into five American soldiers, alleged to have raped and murdered a young Iraqi woman and killed three members of her family in their home. ... In the latest suspected war crime, it is believed the woman's body was burnt, and that a child was killed along with two other Iraqi adults in the family's home."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1810326,00.html
"An incredible film about the power of the GI Resistance movement in Vietnam has been released and is being shown around the country called Sir No Sir. We believe that GI resistance can actually stop the war, not only by denying 'warm bodies' [to] the war effort, but by turning the tide of public opinion."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/zeese/zeese35.html
"The looming conflict between Iran and the United States has a nightmarish quality about it: it is like one of those dreams in which a horrific series of events is endlessly reenacted, while the dreamer is powerless to stop it. You scream and nothing comes out."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9214
"William Thomson - better known as Lord Kelvin was one of the pioneers of modern physics, developing what we now know as thermodynamics. He also estimated the age of the Earth, designed nautical compasses and helped to lay the first transatlantic cable."
http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/15/12/6
"The Good Earth stood on the American list of «best sellers» for a long time and earned her several awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells Medal."
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1938/buck-bio.html
"Lorre played the role of Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and played the role of 'Ugarte' in the film classic Casablanca (1942). It was Lorre's character who introduced the 'letters of transit' ... which became, in some ways, the dramatic center of the film."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lorre
Social comment animated adventure allegory stars voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Dan Aykroyd; directed by Eric Darnell & Tim Johnson. "As an animated feature it should appeal to younger viewers. However, its subtle themes target an adult and politically aware audience. Although most movies I review include some advocacy of individualism, few extol such a strongly individualistic point of view as openly and positively as Antz."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/antz_1998.htm
"While the Clinton Justice Department and establishment media proceed to assail today’s citizen militias, Mario Van Peebles’ Panther has arrived in the nation’s movie theaters. I love the irony. Panther, you see, chronicles the early history of the most infamous citizen militia of the last 30 years -- the Black Panther Party, founded in Oakland, California in 1966."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2006/06/movie-review-panther.html
"Superman is boring. I don't mean the Superman stories are boring. Some of them are, some of them aren't. I mean that Superman himself is boring, with his invulnerable command of everything from ventriloquism to time travel. Having granted the character godlike powers, his writers have had to go through incredible contortions to give him fresh challenges. It's like trying to write a spy thriller about a unipolar world with near-perfect homeland security."
http://www.reason.com/links/links062906.shtml
"Police and teachers haven't noticed large numbers of kids getting hooked on the allegedly dangerous hallucinogenic material known in street parlance as 'book,' and federal drug agents say that few people are currently using it. But that hasn't dissuaded Tennesseesawen lawmakers and political opportunists in five other states from seeking to outlaw the substance. The great fear, of course, is that excessive use of 'book' can turn otherwise successfully soccerized youngsters away from group mentality lives and into maladjusted geeks, nerds or, even worse, individualists."
http://www.freecannon.com/StatesBanBook.htm
The flag debate took up two days in the Senate, generally the less asinine of Congress' two houses.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=71225
"Citing a longstanding need to 'restore honor and dignity to the American food-service industry,' Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Russ Feingold (D-WI) announced the public debut of their joint business venture Monday, a chain of integrity-themed restaurants which opened in 12 locations nationwide."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49841
"If it is dictatorial to throw people in jail for disagreeing with the government, then forcing people to pay taxes for programs they disagree with is also dictatorial, a violation of both the sovereignty of the individual conscience and freedom of association. If the military supposedly exists to protect our freedoms, but we are forced to pay for it even if we believe our freedoms are threatened by its actions, then obviously our freedoms are not being defended, but rather violated."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/molyneux/molyneux25.html
"No recipient of the fruits of eminent domain can honestly call himself a champion of individual liberty. Free-marketeers routinely support the big retail chain stores against their anti-corporate critics, but companies that lobby for privileges don't deserve support. How can they demand freedom to operate in the marketplace when they refuse to forswear the receipt of stolen property?"
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=593
"What the media didn't notice, however, is that the 1,000 year figure that was central to the whole hockey stick debate had now been replaced in the report by a figure of 400 years. Since most of the last 400 years was dominated by the 'Little Ice Age,' the warming during the 20th century should be welcomed by humanity.."
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=062806F
"'All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,' wrote Ernest Hemingway. In that book, nearly every theme that identifies our art as American is established and explored: migration, race, individualism, anti-intellectualism, optimism, religion, the social climbing, money-grubbing and the comfortable informality that marks us as a people."
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0630american0630.html
"Whoever it was probably lived a few thousand years ago, somewhere in East Asia -- Taiwan, Malaysia and Siberia all are likely locations. He or she did nothing more remarkable than be born, live, have children and die. Yet this was the ancestor of every person now living on Earth -- the last person in history whose family tree branches out to touch all 6.5 billion people on the planet today."
http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71298-0.html?tw=wn_index_9
"I was very young, and knew nothing of life other than the small towns of Virginia and Alabama and what I had read in books. Lanc had grown up black in a countryside then more remote than it is now, a world with different rules and different people and utterly another place. And then found himself in Paris. He would shake his head and smile bemusedly, as though still after so many years trying to understand France."
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