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"The decision marks a significant victory for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and puts a rare limitation on the reach of the president's 'state secrets privilege' to sweep alleged illegal government activities under the cloak of national security."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71432-0.html?tw=wn_index_2
"The San Diego District Attorney doesn't know -- or just can't stand It -- that California law authorizes doctors to approve the use of marijuana as a treatment for 'any condition for which marijuana provides relief.' … Actually, the law is being implemented on a limited scale, given how many Californians are using pharmaceutical antidepressants and how afraid/uneducated most doctors are when it comes to cannabis."
http://www.counterpunch.org/Gardner07222006.html
"A couple of extremely interesting events occurred just this week--by coincidence on the same day--and I have yet to see any media coverage of what seems to me, at least, the connection between the two."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle376-20060716-07.html
"[T]he effect of a university education can be gotten more easily by other means. If it is thought desirable to expose the young to low propaganda, any second-hand bookstore can provide copies of Trotsky, Marcuse, Gloria Steinem, and the Washington Post. These and a supply of Dramamine, in the space of a week, would provide eighty percent of the content of a college education. A beer truck would finish the job."
http://www.fredoneverything.net/PadreKinoUniversity.shtml
"Each day in America, police SWAT teams raid more than 100 private homes, many times very late at night, or very early in the morning. Many times, these teams don't even bother to knock. Because these raids are violent, confrontational, and often conducted on questionable intelligence ..., they've left a long trail of 'wrong address' raids on frightened innocents, needless injury, and even death."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,205040,00.html
"Medical marijuana has vexed elected officials since voters in California approved an initiative 10 years ago allowing patients with a physician's recommendation to grow and smoke the drug to relieve symptoms. The original law was deliberately vague. Follow-up legislation that went into effect in 2004 allows marijuana dispensaries. Some California communities have adopted regulations dictating where they can be, but officials in San Diego have developed no such ordinance. Under federal law, marijuana is illegal under any circumstance."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060722-9999-6m22pot.html
"People are put to sleep through learned irresponsibility. Government interferes with the natural learning process of making mistakes and correcting them, feeling pain about the choices you’ve made and making different ones. No artificial government induced environment can actually help anyone. Only real life with real experiences and cleaning up your own messes can mature you. But government doesn't want a mature you. It wants power over you and it gets it by offering to take responsibility for you."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/fontana/fontana2.html
"The link between State action and chaos is necessary and it is so tight that when we observe chaos in society, the first suspected cause is or should be an action that the State has engaged in. If people are lined up for gasoline, the first suspect is State price controls. If young men are being drafted and sent to fight in distant foreign lands, the first suspect is blunders of State diplomacy or alliances dreamed up by irresponsible leaders. If peasants are slaughtered or Jews hauled off to concentration camps, the first suspect is the State."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff81.html
"The state is not on your side. Its laws are for its benefit, not yours. The state is not here to 'protect' you. It's here to shake you -- and anyone you may choose to do business with -- down, and maybe knock you around a little for any perceived uppitiness or defects in the expected bow and scrape routine."
http://knappster.blogspot.com/2006/07/bonnie-and-clyde-were-pikers.html
"Hezbollah then pulled off two more firsts. It responded effectively to terror bombing from the air, which states think is their monopoly, with rocket barrages that reached deep into Israel. One can only imagine how this resonated worldwide with people who are often bombed but can never bomb back. And, it attacked another state monopoly, navies, by hitting and disabling a blockading Israeli warship with something (I question Israel's claim that the weapon was a C-801 anti-ship missile, which should have sunk a small missile corvette). Hezbollah's leadership has promised more such surprises."
http://www.antiwar.com/lind/?articleid=9330
"Maybe they'll go up to the Litani River. That would certainly push the Katyushas beyond the range of Haifa--they're a fairly short-range weapon anyway. But then what happens? Do you occupy it in perpetuity? It would be a hostile Lebanese population, just like it was before. Do you have an ethnic cleansing? Could Israel get away with that?"
http://www.reason.com/links/links072006.shtml
"By weaving together a complex network of ports, the opportunistic captains created a connection between Europe and East Asia whereby events in one region immediately affected the other. 'They were engaging in criminal activity but that was actually necessary to build up what was the first instance of the global market,' says Erikson."
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0005146D-E40F-14B7-A37D83414B7F4945
"Specter ... jumped to do the Regime's bidding. But you would expect that from a man who's been toting Establishment lumber since his days as assistant counsel to the Warren Commission. It was Specter who devised the ludicrous 'magic bullet' theory, claiming that a single shot from the enchanted rifle of Lee Harvey Oswald cut a merry, zig-zagging caper in several conflicting directions as it plowed through the body of John F. Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally. The Commission's closing of every avenue of investigation that led away from its pre-ordained conclusion -- the usual lone nut, bad apple, etc. -- has poisoned American political life for generations, sealing one of the nation's greatest traumas in impenetrable murk, breeding suspicion, mistrust, fear and anger. (Not unlike the Bush-appointed 9/11 Commission, in fact.)"
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=759&Itemid=135
"Now Israel says it wants to wipe out Hezbollah. It wishes no harm to the people of Lebanon, just so long as they're not supporters of Hezbollah, or standing anywhere in the neighborhood of a person or a house or a car or a truck or a road or a bus or a field, or a power station or a port that might, in the mind of an Israeli commander or pilot, have something to do with Hezbollah. In any of those eventualities all bets are off. You or your wife or your mother or your baby get fried."
http://www.counterpunch.org/Cockburn07212006.html
"Imagine, if you will, a modern apartheid state with first, second and eleventh class citizens, all required to carry identification specifying their ethnic origin. ... It is nearly taboo in mainstream US print and broadcast media to apply the words racist or apartheid to the state of Israel or its policies, or to call its control at the point of a gun of millions of non-citizens what it is, namely the longest standing military occupation in the world today."
http://www.blackcommentator.com/192/192_cover_Israeli_apartheid_dixon.html
"When the US Senate and House of Representatives pass resolutions in support of Israeli war crimes and condemn those who resist Israeli aggression, the Senate and House confirm Osama bin Laden's propaganda that America stands with Israel against the Arab and Muslim world. Indeed, Israel, which has one of the world's largest per capita incomes, is the largest recipient of US foreign aid. Many believe that much of this 'aid' comes back to AIPAC, which uses it to elect 'our' representatives in Congress."
http://www.counterpunch.org/Roberts07222006.html
"The administration of George W. Bush has done some contemptible things in its five and a half years, but what it’s doing now in the Middle East could be a new low. Innocent civilians are dying in Lebanon and Israel, but the administration’s position is that the time is not right for a ceasefire. By no coincidence, this is also Israel’s position."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0607c.asp
"[W]ith the exception of a few moments of rhetorical excess, many of the speeches were literate, passionate, and informative. Even more important, they typically stayed on target. Everyone who spoke ... focused on the Vietnam War, the invasion of the Dominican Republic, John F. Kennedy's huge gamble over nuclear weapons in Cuba, the Cold War, or other aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Almost no one used the forum as an excuse to talk about domestic policy issues."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=9315
"It is essential that principled opponents of the minimum wage not appear insensitive to the plight of low-income workers. Some people of course are responsible for their economic plight, but many others are put at a disadvantage by the mercantilist, mixed economy we live in. (Let's not forget, it's not laissez faire out there.) In opposing the minimum wage we should champion the disadvantaged.... Simply put, every interference with free people in the free market is first and foremost an attack on the poorest, most vulnerable in society."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=642.
"It's been a very long time since the 'best and brightest' were seen anywhere near the halls of government. Especially in the area of technology, the brains are in the private sector, and the government gets the people interested in power and manipulation of the public mind, which is to say, it gets the dregs. Most people regret this trend. But in fact, it has its advantages. Why would we want a person with genuine talent to squander his or her abilities in the service of an unworkable system like government management? In the private sector, their brains serve the public; in the so-called public sector, their brains serve the state."
http://www.mises.org/story/2256
"Free markets, where people voluntarily part with their money, is far more democratic and efficient at providing the research the people actually want. The people who donate the money - not politicians, lobbyists, or bureaucrats - will determine how it will be spent."
http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1895
"Fingering business as the chief enemy might go against the libertarian grain. Isn't business what we're all about? Well, no, not by a long shot. To be blunt, from time immemorial business has probably been the biggest opponent of the free market. … Libertarianism is radical not conservative, and laissez faire protects no vested interests. Libertarians once were highly sensitive to this point."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0604b.asp
"[W]hat happens if you view ideas as property? A non-scarce thing is artificially made scarce. Something that anyone could previously have had for nothing now has a price. To give someone property rights over an idea is to artificially limit the supply. In essence, a monopoly has been created. ... Those who get hurt are always the consumers and the producers who are restricted from entering the market. The intentional limiting of supply causes the price of the good to rise artificially. It may be understandable that people fight for the privilege of being the only seller but to do so only causes adverse effects for consumers. ... Competition needs to be allowed to work in order for its benefits to bring about abundance and the improvement of all of society."
http://www.mises.org/story/2246
"So this is not a debate about whether embryonic stem-cell research should continue -- it will. Rather, like so many other issues in Washington, it is a fight about who gets how much of the taxpayers' money. Stem-cell researchers have become just one more special interest at the federal trough. And, as such, the coming debate is a perfect example of how science becomes politicized when government money is involved."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6542
"Wars are intentionally put together by two or more states to enhance their power interests. To be effective, they must be conducted at least every twenty to twenty-five years in order to (a) not totally exhaust a society’s productive base in endless fighting and destruction, and (b) reinvest the minds of the next generation in the 'glories' and 'necessity' for war. Any warring culture must always have an abundance of military veterans around to instruct the youth in such matters."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer140.html
"Can it be a total coincidence that the new horror devouring the conquered land has led some hardline Sunni leaders once bitterly opposed to the U.S. occupation now want American forces to stay, in order to quell the chaos, offset Shiite dominance and ward off Iranian influence? Can it be a total coincidence that this desire bolsters the Bush Regime's long-held intention to establish a permanent military presence in Iraq?"
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=749&Itemid=135
"So here we have (what are by libertarian standards) two criminal gangs, both blasting away at innocent civilians, and the result is to increase these gangs' popularity among the civilians being victimised! A very successful outcome for both sides. The trick, of course, is that each gang is blasting away at civilians in the other gang’s territory. If each gang were to attack its own civilians directly, those civilians would quickly turn against the gangs in their midst. But ... each side's continuation of bombings is what allows the other side to excuse, and get away with, its bombings...."
http://praxeology.net/unblog07-06.htm#11
"In each case the enemy of populism was the Democratic establishment in all its mottled inglory: New Deal bureaucrats, racist Dixiecrats, Vietnam War technocrats, and urban feminist harpycrats. Among Taylor's virtues is his spirited refusal to inter persons and ideas in the coffins labeled 'liberal' and 'conservative.' He knows too much political history for that."
http://amconmag.com/2006/2006_07_31/review.html
"[W]ith no scientific basis for the comprehensive planning they had promised, many planners decided their role was simply to get people to drive less. They traded away safe and efficient transportation in order to increase congestion and transfer highway money to expensive transit projects, ideas that gained them the support of transit agencies and rail construction companies."
http://www.newswithviews.com/O'Toole/randal1.htm
"For fans of intellectual history, this interview with Samuel Edward Konkin III will satisfy your deepest curiosities about the nature of the freedom movement in the 1960's. Konkin ... helped craft the distinction between anarcho-capitalism and market anarchism. Agorism explicitly opposes intellectual property, voting and parliamentary strategies, while siding with individualist anarchists in favor of an economy where workers are also owners."
http://alina_stefanescu.typepad.com/totalitarianism_today/2006/07/if_you_have_twe.html
"Is this not a tacit admission that Israel is carrying out [indiscriminate] attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure -- i.e., committing state terrorism? If they are 'carefully targeting military objectives only,' then why are American citizens in danger? The subtext of this story -- which will never, ever be stated anywhere in the mainstream American media -- is clear: American citizens in Lebanon are at dire risk of being killed by Israeli bombs, despite the fact that few if any of these citizens have even the slightest connection to Hezbollah, because the IDF is methodically laying waste to the whole country regardless of how many civilians they kill, or where they might come from."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=752&Itemid=135
"Not only is the media guilty of sins of omission, but they are once again assisting the administration and Israel in spreading outright lies. It was inexcusable when the press spread the falsehood that Iran was involved in capturing soldiers at the Lebanese border. More inexcusable was the lie that the soldiers would be sent to Iran. No stone is ever left unturned in the effort to drum up support for war against Iran."
http://www.blackcommentator.com/192/192_freedom_rider_israels_terror.html
"[S]ometimes these groups [Hamas and Hezbollah] undertake legitimate acts of war. Yet the worlds most powerful governments--led by the United States--seem to deem any actions by these groups as terrorism. At the same time, they avoid that label for any actions taken by other governments, such as the disproportionate measures now being undertaken by Israel."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1767
"The theories of heredity attributed to Gregor Mendel, based on his work with pea plants, are well known to students of biology. But his work was so brilliant and unprecedented at the time it appeared that it took thirty-four years for the rest of the scientific community to catch up to it."
http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/BC/Gregor_Mendel.html
"When Ida was only fourteen, a tragic epidemic of Yellow Fever swept through Holly Springs and killed her parents and youngest sibling. Emblematic of the righteousness, responsibility, and fortitude that characterized her life, she kept the family together by securing a job teaching. She managed to continue her education by attending near-by Rust College."
http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/classes/AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html
"The Fleischer studio was an innovator right from the start. Even during the Bray period, they were fluidly combining live action and animation. ... And believe it or not, it was Fleischer, not Disney, that produced the first sound cartoon. This came in conjunction with another Fleischer innovation -- the bouncing ball that helped lead audiences in sing-alongs. ... In fact, it was in one of their first few 'Talkartoons' (as they called their early post-Mickey sound cartoons) that they introduced their biggest star -- Betty Boop. They followed it a few years later by licensing Popeye the Sailor...." I rate Betty Boop and Popeye as two of my favorites.
http://www.toonopedia.com/fleischr.htm
Science Fiction action adventure stars Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau, Alan Tudyk, Ron Glass, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Chiwetel Ejiofor; written and directed by Joss Whedon. "Most, if not all, regular readers of my movie reviews should enjoy this film. It has treasures for the following sets of people: fans of science fiction, aficionados of Joss Whedon's work and believers in anti-statism. If you happen to lie in the intersection of those sets, this movie has no equal." Check out this and other showings.
http://endervidualism.com/agora/serenity_2005.htm
"The overall arguments and conclusions of the film are more than convincing! It will be very difficult for anyone objectively viewing this film to attack the facts and evidence presented. And for that reason, I'm confident that both the political and financial interests of this country will hope that no one watches it!"
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin311.htm
"The Cato Institute today released Radley Balko's Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America, a white paper on SWAT teams and their increasing use in what was once routine local police work."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2006/07/afternoon-reading-balkos-overkill.html
"In an effort to increase voter participation while generating additional revenue, several state election boards announced plans Monday to introduce new Scratch 'N Win ballots in November, giving citizens the chance to win the right to vote in the 2006 elections."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50640
"Resident Expert John Hodgman gets a pneu-mail."
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=71914
"Still searching for a new black friend, Stephen explains the friend exchange rate industry standard."
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=72022
"Today, outside the old-line professions, professionalism has ceased to be a moral basis for resistance to authority, and instead become another force for promoting [obedience]. This aspect of professionalism gets back to the divide and conquer function I mentioned above: 'professionalism' means seeing oneself in the same social category as management (albeit at a lower rung), and part of the same 'team'."
http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2006/07/professionalism-as-legitimizing.html
"Liberals don't realize that the tax-and-welfare role they favor for government hurts the very people they presumably want to help -- those at the bottom of the economic ladder. That's why they limit their blame for the horrible economic plight of the Cuban people to the U.S. embargo against Cuba, totally ignoring the adverse effects of Castro's socialist economic policies."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0604a.asp
"There were those who recognized correctly that the problem was with monopoly, not with elites or nobility. However, they were far outnumbered by those who erroneously blamed the elitist character of the ruler for the problem, and who advocated maintaining the monopoly of law and law enforcement and merely replacing the king and the highly visible royal pomp with the 'people' and the presumed decency of the 'common man.' Hence the historic success of democracy."
http://www.mises.org/story/2214
"Eberhard has never designed a car and has no experience building one. He created the Rocket eBook, a handheld digital book reader that came to market in the late '90s. But he insists his eBook background is relevant to starting a car company. ... [A]fter reading biographies of John DeLorean and Preston Tucker, and reminding himself that launching a car company was a crazy idea, he did just that."
http://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/0,71414-0.html?tw=wn_index_20
"This kid, his parents, and several doctors think another round of chemo could well kill him. But because the state's doctors think otherwise, they've made him a ward of the state. "
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026837.php#026837
"In the end this will all have been a manufactured conflict to draw Iran, Syria and ultimately the United States into a war with each other. Even though the vast majority of Americans oppose another battlefield in the Middle East, the Bush administration's unwavering support of Israel means it will fight its ally's fight should Iran or Syria naturally choose to defend themselves."
http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/canon_fodder/01196_it_time_stand_against_israel.html
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