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"Society is awakening to the possibility that boys have been disadvantaged. In past decades, what it means to be a boy has been redefined, deconstructed, reconstructed, politically analyzed and mathematically modeled. In the process, the meaning of being a boy's father has become jumbled as well."
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,202064,00.html
"You do not have to believe that radical libertarianism will be implemented any time soon to insist on keeping the radical flame lit. Libertarianism can, if nothing else, serve as an ethical vantage point from which to analyze the world's problems and conceive of possible solutions. As we see it, all the big political problems would be best addressed by minimizing the amount of aggression being employed, especially by the state. To make concessions on this point is to say that some people's liberty is less important than others', or that sometimes it's perfectly okay to initiate force on the innocent."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory119.html
"Many will argue that only the state can ensure universal education, but is this really true? Public schools through their compulsory tax revenues have actually served to increase the cost of both public and private education. If parents could keep their money (not get a voucher) and choose how and where to spend it, this would bring about competition (Economics 101) that would naturally serve to bring down the price of schooling, and probably improve its quality. It would also go a long way in getting rid of the politicized infighting."
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/07/03/antunez.htm
"This [is] one of those items you want keep on hand when you need to convince someone of the absolute idiocy of the drug war. The reporter did a terrific job of exposing the way Florida's drug laws nab the most unlikely of suspects, and put harmless, hurting people in horrible predicaments." Extreme insanity results from the drug war on some people.
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026779.php#026779
"As is usually the case with many classified U.S. government programs created to monitor the activities of adversaries, the news that the U.S. government was snooping into international electronic banking transactions was less of a shock to the enemy being monitored than to the American people."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1760
"Bizarre stories of the trampling of liberty roll off as though from an assembly line. Each day the newsfeed spits forth accounts that would have been unthinkable a mere half-dozen years ago. The rank injustices roll by so fast, even the most prodigiously incensed don't, or can't, note them all. It numbs the outrage in even those most jaded. The banality of evil, indeed."
http://noauthority.org/2006/07/06/the-banality-of-evil/
"I reckon that the archaeological issue has been poorly framed. The question should not be how oppressive, monument building regimes fail to maintain themselves perpetually; rather, we should ask how such regimes were ever allowed to exist in the first place and why they were not discarded sooner."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2006/07/lost-civilizations-not-so-mysterious.html
"No matter how I feel about any particular issue, I resent being forced to pay for other people's anything. Being against abortion or war or what have you is one thing, being forced to pay for it is another. This takes the issue out of the political fog and brings it ringing home where it hurts -- the pocketbook. As the economy worsens, I find that this strikes a chord with more and more people. (Be sure to clean your blade when you finish this type of work, and try not to leave any visible marks.) Not only is this an invitation to others to align themselves with you (an anarchist?!) but it really leaves them no way around the fact that they are paying for something they find abhorrent, and they're paying in spades."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/fontana/fontana1.html
"There is no need to look further than your local recreation center, as funded and administrated by the local government. They sponsor baseball, softball, soccer, and a dozen other sports activities for kids. Their parks are owned and operated by the city and paid for by your tax dollars -- all the better for instilling an early sense in kids that the state is their benefactor. Why are these run at taxpayer expense?"
"Previous industrial ages were built on the backs of individuals, too, but in those days labor was just that: labor. Workers were paid for their time, whether on a factory floor or in a cubicle. Today's peer-production machine runs in a mostly nonmonetary economy. The currency is reputation, expression, karma, 'wuffie,' or simply whim. This can all sound a little like, well, '60s-style utopianism. ... But it's a mistake to equate peer production with anticapitalism."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/people.html
"[H]ow the vast majority of people approach the subject of immigration is the epitome of irrationality: elevation of emotion over logic; evasion of the facts; violation of rights and morality; initiation of violence on a massive scale. It doesn't have to be that way. To keep immigration from becoming a national problem, all we have to do is tell the State to... ...STAY OUT!."
http://www.russellmadden.com/Stay_Out.html
"Recent discoveries concerning the geological and climate history of Canada have indicated that Southern Canada may have been a subtropical rainforest during an earlier time period while the average annual temperature of the Arctic may have been above the freezing point of water. If the global warming theory is valid, it will merely reintroduce to Canada the kind of climate that actually existed in its distant past. "
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/06/060702-2.htm
"Bush's reaction to the ruling is more evidence of the decay. After a vague, haughty promise to 'look at the findings' -- rather than simply obey them, as the law requires -- Bush declared: 'One thing I'm not going to do, though, is I'm not going to jeopardize the safety of the American people. People have got to understand that.' Thus in his mind the circular core of his authoritarian philosophy -- the voracious worm that is devouring the Republic, the very thing that the Court ruled against -- remains intact: any action that he arbitrarily declares necessary to ensure 'the safety of the American people' cannot be restrained by laws or courts."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/floyd/floyd13.html
"The FBI claims that expanding the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act is necessary to thwart criminals and terrorists who have turned to technologies like voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP. ... The organizations behind the lawsuit say Congress never intended CALEA to force broadband providers--and networks at corporations and universities--to build in central surveillance hubs for the police."
http://news.com.com/FBI+plans+new+Net-tapping+push/2100-1028_3-6091942.html
"Listening to the pair of hegemonic maniacs, I realized that the U.S. is the new Rome -- there is no legitimate power but us. Any other power is a potential threat to our interests and must be eliminated before it gets any independent ideas. The U.S., however, is far more dangerous than Rome. Rome saw its world as the Mediterranean and, for a while, Northern Europe, but the U.S. thinks the whole world is its oyster."
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=9257
"Many Americans are so unsophisticated that they refuse to believe anything bad about their country. They regard acceptance of unpalatable truths as disloyalty. This failure of American character is why Bush has been able to get away with transgressions that scream out for his impeachment and trial as a war criminal. The premeditated rape and murders are just the latest in the long line of horrific war crimes from Abu Ghraib to Haditha. Bush supporters are still in denial about each incident."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts07042006.html
"Practically the entire history of psychology has included an element of trying to understand what's normal and what isn't in human functioning. Even before its formal establishment as a science [we can debate the merits of giving the field that label some other time], people were trying to change their own, as well as others', behaviors. Nowadays, with politicians wanting greater control over their worker bees [that's supposed to be us], and welfare-Ponzi schemes like Medicaid, Medicare, and state-mandated insurance coverage directing FRNs hither and yon, the field has become much more politicized--and politically sophisticated--than ever before."
http://www.sunnimaravillosa.com/archives/00000751.html
"The trouble with conservatives is that they fail to live the principles of freedom that they expound. The problem, however, is not simply that conservatives set high standards and then fail to meet them after striving to do so. The problem is that conservatives expound standards that they knowingly and deliberately violate."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0603a.asp
"While online vendors open their servers in pursuit of profit, programmers have embraced open source licensing for idealistic reasons. Rescinding ownership results in cheaper, better software for everyone -- and that’s good for business. Amid the 2000 tech crash, when companies were slashing IT budgets, IBM rode out the bust by offering its customers the open source Linux OS."
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/economy.html
"My understanding of competition, after all, was that of the economist who studies markets. Lots of choices, lots of choosers, prices driven down toward the cost of production. New goods and services come constantly to the market, because producers' self-interest forces them to think of new and better ways to serve customer needs. Can public policy work the same way? To put it in other terms, is competition always good? Is an increase in competition always the first solution we should think of, to any problem?"
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2006/Mungerrentseeking.html
"Stonyfield and Organic Valley are working to increase the number of organic farms, paying farmers to help them switch or boost production. Stonyfield, together with farmer-owned cooperative Organic Valley, expects to spend around $2 million on incentives and technical help in 2006, Hirshberg said. Other companies offer similar help. And the industry's Organic Trade Association is trying to become more of a resource for individual farmers." Take the USDA out and things might improve even more.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0707-04.htm
"Portland Oregon likes to call itself 'the city that works,' a slogan it ironically appropriated from the first Mayor Daley's Chicago. Under Daley's twenty-one-year reign, Chicago was known for cronyism and authoritarian rule, a tradition that continues today under his son....
http://www.newswithviews.com/O'Toole/randal.htm
"If all are equal in authority, then no one may live at the expense of others without their consent. The word privilege is often used equivocally, but it has its roots in the idea of legal favoritism. It is composed of privus, meaning single, and lex or lege, meaning law. Thus a privilege is a government act that (forcibly) bestows favors on one person, or the few."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=608
"Sometimes people agree to pay, receive goods and services, and then refuse to pay. This is called stealing. The market economy discourages this through the critical institution called the credit rating. The credit rating is a measure of trust and character. It tells future lenders what kind of person you are, and whether you can be relied upon to live up to your obligations. These things do tend to follow patterns, after all."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/debt-collectors.html
"'Greatest generation', my ass. Being mobilized and ordered around by a totalitarian military for years on end had to have an impact on them. These guys learned collectivism in the war and spent the next half-century making sure that America was good and collectivized. They're the ones who brought us the military industrial complex and the welfare state. Worst of all, their perpetual claims on martial glory and honor in a so called 'good' war enable warmongers even today to lie about war and tempt naïve young men and women into military service."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2006/07/greatest-generation-is-yet-to-come.html
"This is the same type of scam that occurred routinely during the FBI COINTELPRO operations of the 1960s and early 1970s. Yet, despite the FBI's long history of such shenanigans, the vast majority of television coverage of the arrest of the 'terrorists' was craven - or perhaps beyond craven - treating the words of federal officials as the equivalent of the Word of God."
http://jimbovard.com/blog/2006/07/07/fbi-agents-suggest-blowing-up-government-buildings/
"According to the administration's logic, every dollar spent by terrorists justifies subjecting $28 billion to U.S. government oversight. Needless to say, it will not be long before that oversight will be expanded to search for everything from deadbeat dads to tax evaders and to perform industrial espionage in the age-old tradition of expanding government power."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50883
"Roosevelt did nothing to end the source of the trusts' power: a variety of government interventions, the foremost of which were patents, subsidies such as railroad land grants, and the tariff. As was said back then, the tariff is the mother of trusts. Exactly so. If government taxes the entry of low-priced, competitive imports into the American market, domestic companies can charge higher prices to consumers. Roosevelt's proposed 'reforms' did not touch this system of cartel and privilege."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0607a.asp
"Each colony was considered to be a free and independent state, or nation, in and of itself. There was no such thing as 'the United States of America' in the minds of the founders. The independent colonies were simply united for a particular cause: seceding from the British empire. Each individual state was assumed to possess all the rights that any state possesses, even to wage war and conclude peace. Indeed, when King George III finally signed a peace treaty he signed it with all the individual American states, named one by one...."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo103.html
"[W]hen the government that the Rebels had fought to establish got control of the western lands and the monopoly on dealing with the Indians, it adopted a policy of treating with the Indians and discouraging encroachments. Moreover, the federal western lands were closed to homesteading and were made available for sale in such large lots that only wealthy speculators had much chance to acquire land."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2006/07/i-would-have-been-revolting.html
"The most recent U.S. intervention into a clan dispute -- occasioned by the misperception that their guys had been attacked by al-Qaeda-affiliated 'terrorists' -- is surely the definitive demonstration of U.S. policymakers' incompetence and arrogance. This has led to U.S. support for the 'warlords' -- who were previously hunted by U.S. troops -- since they present the only alternative to the rising power of the Islamic courts."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9233
"Historians will someday judge our nation harshly. Evaluated by budget priorities, the main business of the U.S. now is exporting death and destruction while a mythology of good intentions and American Exceptionalism lets citizens, corporate officers, and political leaders rationalize their participation in gross evil as benevolence and righteous self-defense."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/calderwood/calderwood10.html
"To publicly question the 'war-time' actions of the commander in chief brings quick censure, as in 'not supporting our troops' or as in 'helping the terrorists.' As Paul Craig Roberts puts it, like the Brownshirts of Nazi Germany, these conservatives take personally any criticism of their leader and his policies. To be a critic is to be an enemy. You're either with us or against us. "
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0603f.asp
"[Kafka] has come to be one of the most influential writers of this century. Virtually unknown during his lifetime, the works of Kafka have since been recognized as symbolizing modern man's anxiety-ridden and grotesque alienation in an unintelligible, hostile, or indifferent world."
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kafka.htm
"He helped to organize the RCNL's boycott of service stations that denied blacks use of their restrooms. The boycotters distributed bumper stickers with the slogan 'Don't Buy Gas Where You Can't Use the Restroom'."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers
"Dave Thomas dreamed he'd run the best restaurant in the world. He didn't just achieve his dream, he shared it with everyone."
http://www.wendys.com/dave/flash.html
Seriocomic gothic melodrama stars Jim Carrey, Emily Browning, Liam Aiken, Meryl Streep, Jude Law; directed by Brad Silberling. "This film presents several themes. Perhaps the most dominant shows resourceful, courageous and inventive young people meeting life's challenges head on. In surmounting their problems they show qualities of self-reliance, bravery and ingenuity."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/series_events_2004.htm
"Nock (1870–1945) was a prolific author of books and articles, a magazine editor, a colleague of H.L. Mencken, and a sharp observer of the political and culture scene. He is best known for his little book Our Enemy, the State, published in 1935. The book is considered a libertarian classic, and despite its brevity it overflows with insights -- political, sociological, and historical."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0603b.asp
"Wrapping your mind around the full scope of A Scanner Darkly can take a bit of time and thought. This is a film that constantly twists and turns, tip-tapping between the paranoia of character's minds and what is actually happening...."
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/716/716695p1.html
"The following inspirational poem is well-known, although its author is anonymous. It has often been quoted - and misquoted - over the decades. Some may even call it a bit sentimental or old-fashioned in an age of iPods and blogospheres."
http://www.thespeciousreport.com/2006/06060704fourthofjuly.html
"The question 'What does Kim Jong-Il really want?' was definitively answered today when the mercurial North Korean dictator offered to abandon his nuclear weapons program in exchange for the role of the villain in the new James Bond film."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=5216
Cartoon about the United States of Incarceration -- flash animation video with audio
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/shiv.html
"It doesn't take Tom Hanks to discover that the deep coding of the New Testament isn't authoritarian but radically individualist. As a literary historian, I find some of the most convincing evidence of this code of individualism in the means that the New Testament uses to convey its message. Contrary to popular belief, the New Testament is not a collection of social rules. It consists largely of stories about people's relationships with God, stories that go out of their way to emphasize the importance of individuals and individual differences."
http://www.mises.org/story/2232
"Through this awesome economic power, a Communist government can sentence a man and his family to death by slow starvation without bothering with legal proceedings. Without property rights and economic liberty, political rights are meaningless. ... In welfare/entitlement states around the world, including ours, the same connection exists between political rights and economic liberty. But in a welfare/entitlement state, people still have some political rights and a semi-free economy. As a result, in America we find it harder to believe that government threatens our political rights when it violates our property rights. In a welfare/entitlement state, it's harder to see the link between political rights and economic liberty."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel20.htm
"From front to back, not one economist I have personally spoken to or read denies that inflation is, and always has been, a monetary phenomenon. Yet a person reading the voluminous research put out by Wall Street banks could be forgiven for taking away the belief that anything but the Federal Reserve Bank causes inflation. No matter how many PhDs wax eloquent over oil's inflationary effect, they are just plain wrong. Oil has no power to cause inflation. Wages have no power to cause inflation. That power resides with, and only with, the people who control the money supply: the Federal Reserve Bank employees."
"July 4th has been traditionally thought of as a celebration of our independence from an oppressive government. It's true that the original U.S. military helped gain that independence and that, without them, the United States might still be a British colony. So let's give the military its due. But the goal the U.S. military fought for a quarter of a millennium ago bears little resemblance to the goals it fights for today."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=9219
"The age of Mass Man is at last upon us. Globalization, with its attendant homogenizing, runs apace. Beijing begins to have traffic problems, like those of everywhere else. It also looks like anywhere else. An urban shopping mall in Guilin differs little from one in Tokyo or Georgetown or Nong Khai. Like supermarkets, they provide things people want at prices they will pay, and cannot be called evil. Yet they are uniform, drab, and somehow disheartening."
http://fredoneverything.net/Italy.shtml
"We don't want to be like them. We don't want their mansions and private jets. We just want them off our backs. We don't want our lives directed and controlled by these pathetic creatures. Does a man with a tape worm envy his parasite or does he merely hate it for robbing him of sustenance and simply wish to get rid of it?"
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