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"Despite the recruiter's interruption, Parker says that he, Day and their volunteers made sure every junior who may not have wanted to take the test had a chance to hear them explain its purpose and to understand that it was not mandatory. They estimate that about half of the school's juniors refused to even leave their regular classes to report to the testing site in the school's cafeteria. "
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=10055
"Thousands of demonstrators paraded, chanted and raised white crosses Sunday outside the U.S. Army's Fort Benning as they continued a 17-year-long effort to close a military school they blame for human rights abuses in Latin America."
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/19/america/NA_GEN_US_Military_School_Protest.php
"But there's a rude awakening coming with the 110th Congress when Democrats control the gavel. They are not going to be so easily put off. I expect the phrase 'executive privilege' will soon be tattooed on every news junkie's mind the way it was during the Nixon years. And if Bush broadly asserts the privilege, the courts will soon be drawn into the fracas."
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/11/19/News/Mr_President__here_we.shtml
"Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), the nation's leading campus-based drug reform organization, held its annual conference last weekend in the shadow of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. More than 300 students from 70 campuses in the US and Canada heard from movement luminaries, studied the nuts and bolts of campus organizing, took care of organizational business, and put theory into practice with a day of lobbying for drug reform issues on Capitol Hill."
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/462/ssdp_conference_students_lobby_learn
"As anger and concern grew in the community, Atlanta police worked urgently to explain and justify the killing. During a Wednesday press conference, Assistant Police Chief Alan Dreher said police had purchased drugs from an unknown man earlier in the day at the Johnston residence and returned the same evening with a no-knock search warrant. That man was not found, but police said they found an unspecified amount of an unspecified controlled substance inside the home. Police originally said they knocked and announced their presence before entering the home, but that is now in doubt."
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/462/woman_92_shot_by_atlanta_police_in_drug_raid
"When people like Kathryn Johnston or Cory Maye understandably mistake raiding police officers for criminal intruders, police and prosecutors are rather unforgiving, particularly if the warrant was 'legal.' People like Maye and Johnston are supposed to show remarkable poise and judgment, despite the fact that armed men are breaking into their homes.. When police make mistakes, however, they're nearly always forgiven."
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/027259.php#027259
"We have a serious problem in this country. The TSA operates above, and outside, the law. There's no due process, no judicial review, no appeal."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/11/tsa_security_ro_1.html
"The Rev. Markel Hutchins, a civil rights activist is assisting the family, who has requested a federal investigation into the incident. 'Ms. Johnston represented every African-American or American grandmother,' Hutchins told AP. 'They (police officers) should have known who lived in the house. Why did they hold a warrant?' Neighbors have said that in that area criminals sometimes impersonate police officers to commit crimes...."
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005629690
"Overzealous government thugs intoxicated with power, with nothing better to do, were willing to leave the man stranded, empty handed, on the side of the road. This image is a universal one painted by government thugs everywhere, from third-world dictators to the U.S.A – the world’s largest bureaucratic, debt-ridden, corrupt empire. With confiscatory taxes, inflation, fiat currency, manipulation of economic data, and pork barrel spending, what taxpayer has not been left stranded and empty-handed on the side of life’s road?"
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/fontana/fontana12.html
"Libertarians are human, and political institutions direct thoughts and energies toward specific goals; not only because it is political power which is sought, but because it is the prospect of obtaining power which directs the energies of the LP. Indeed, even the whiff of a chance of a possibility of attaining power will completely cloud men's minds. Politics is the Great Moral Compromise, and political institutions, in order to attain power, must follow the dictates of moral compromise. Regardless of the personal morality of any individual in power, once having obtained the reins of power, power can and must be used. The effort to seek office leads one in giving up ones principles because we do not live in a libertarian world."
http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com/2006/11/begrudging-another-battle-of-ballot.html
"Rothbard was the architect of the body of thought known around the world as libertarianism. This radically anti-state political philosophy unites free-market economics, a no-exceptions attachment to private property rights, a profound concern for human liberty, and a love of peace with the conclusion that society should be completely free to develop absent any interference from the state, which can and should be eliminated."
http://www.mises.org/story/2385
"Although Really Really Free Markets are often promoted by political activists, organizers want to make them communitywide events, attracting people who don't normally participate in politics. 'It was born out of the idea that protests had become very reactionary,' said Ryan Empire, a college student in St. Paul, Minn. 'We wanted to be more proactive, to do things that are relevant to people's lives.' Really Really Free Markets are held throughout the year in various cities and are heavily promoted at the neighborhood level. "
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061119/NEWS/611190337/1031/FEATURES02
"Friedman’s image may have been square—economics professor, PBS TV show host, advisor to Republican politicians from Goldwater to Nixon to Reagan. But what he stood for is as groovy as can be: Power to the people, man. At the heart of all of Friedman’s scholarship and activism was the idea in the title of his famous book and TV series: that all of us should be free to choose. From who should have to serve in the military to who should decide what a dollar is worth, Friedman has been 100 percent for taking power out of the hands of elites and government and handing it to the decentralized decisionmaking of everyone, everywhere."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/116839.html
"There is no shortage of empirical evidence suggesting that homeschool is a better means of allowing children to develop their intellectual capabilities than public school. This is not to say that it is the ideal means of doing so, much less that developing a child's intellect is one of the most important aspects of parenting or that such development can or should be forced."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53034
"The Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribes have submitted a new proposal to assume complete management authority of the National Bison Range at Moiese.... In a Monday press release, the tribes said a proposal has been submitted to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to phase in complete management authority over the bison range plus refuges in the Flathead, Swan and Lost Prairie areas by 2010."
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/articles/2006/11/22/news/news01.txt
"Fixing the value of the dollar at a certain fraction of a gold ounce would be ideal. The value of the dollar would remain the same, and the price of goods and services would go up or down based on supply and demand. Whereas today, the dollar increasingly loses value (inflation) relative to goods and services. And this 'cost of living' usually rises before wages rise, which means the people fall behind."
http://independentcountry.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-to-get-gold-standard.html
"All that they need is, 'You are not Osama.' That’s all they need. But they want, specifically, to positively identify you, even if you don’t remotely match anyone on a watch list. Why is that, do you think? Non-digital databases of mug shots will eventually be digitized and added to the global databases. Political rights activists may be able to slow down the adding of driver’s license and other state-created photo IDs, but eventually, I bet it happens."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/scarmig/scarmig1.html
"American liberties are the result of an 800 year struggle by the English people to make law a shield of the people instead of a weapon in the hands of government. For centuries English speaking peoples have understood that governments cannot be trusted with unaccountable power. If the Founding Fathers believed it was necessary to tie down a very weak and limited central government with the Constitution and Bill of Rights, these protections are certainly more necessary now that our government has grown in size, scope and power beyond the imagination of the Founding Fathers."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts11222006.html
"Putin bested a thousand superior men in one of the world's most lethal political arenas to get to where he is today; if he made that journey just to buddy up to a lumbering fool like George Bush, the world is an even darker place than I thought it was."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12623429
"To prevent fights breaking out, surveillance cameras in the city of Groningen have been adapted to listen out for voices raised in anger. Microphones attached to the cameras feed the sound signals to software that can detect voices that are aggressive in tone."
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/mg19225780.159-big-brother-is-listening-to-you.html
"Many people patted themselves on the back after the Republican ouster, as if that was all that was needed to heal our nation. It isn't. If we don't hold this new Congress accountable for the problems of its predecessor, it sends a message that we condone everything that has happened in the past six years."
http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/canon_fodder/01277_meet_new_boss_same_old_boss.html
"The primary one — which should be as obvious to you as the latest opinion poll showing that only 31 percent of this country agrees with your tragic Iraq policy — is that if you try to pursue a war for which the nation has lost its stomach, you and it are finished. Ask Lyndon Johnson."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15821138/
"The National Mall, originally envisioned by Washington, D.C.'s planner and architect Pierre L'Enfant (that's right, the man who built our nation's capital was French!) as a serene place for public celebration and quiet contemplation, is quickly turning into a kind of kitchy amusement park for aggrieved parties and special interests."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,230842,00.html
"No one knows how Robert Kennedy would have governed as president, if he had indeed gone on to win the election. No doubt he would have sown bitter disappointment among many people, as he had already done by his splitting of the anti-war movement, jumping on the bandwagon only after Sen. Eugene McCarthy had proven its political worth with his courageous stand against LBJ."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=930&Itemid=135
"Friedman, who died on November 16 at the age of 94, is no longer around to insist on his right to describe his own political convictions. And judging from much of the commentary prompted by his death, many people agree ... that the great free market economist, a staunch foe of conscription, should be drafted into the conservative movement against his will. But the truth is that Friedman did not fit comfortably on the right or the left, which says more about the inadequacy of contemporary political categories than it does about his own confusion or perversity."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/116855.html
"When commerce reaches across political borders, the peace-promoting effects of economic freedom intensify. Why? It's bad for the bottom line to shoot your customers or your suppliers, so the more you trade with foreigners the less likely you are to seek, or even to tolerate, harm to these foreigners."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1120/p09s02-coop.html
"As for Friedman’s supposed espousal of big business to the detriment of the little guy, the truth was exactly the opposite. For him, the separation between government and business was as important as the separation between church and state. He understood that businesses prefer for governments to bend the rules in their favor rather than compete, and he wanted the little guy—that is, the consumer, and not the legislator and his cronies in big business—to determine success and failure in the marketplace."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1855
"Think of rising interdependency as trading nations rely more and more on each other for selling or buying or both. Or think of the spontaneity or social cooperation involved – friendly relations amid rising international commerce. Or think how international division of labor leads to greater economic growth – to more profits and higher wages. Or think how lessening or eliminating trade protectionism cuts back corruption and special interests in the halls of government – corruption that often conflicts with peaceful relations among nations."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/peterson/peterson10.html
"Really, it boils down to this: most of Concord’s city councilors prefer painted signs; or even internally illuminated signs. They just don’t like electronic signs. And in a day and age when freedom finds few friends, and a ready excuse for statism perches just behind virtually every citizen’s lips, we shouldn’t be surprised to find mere preferences codified in law. "
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0611h.asp
"This is the first time that the education establishment has dared to turn its fire on school choice programs that help disabled and foster-care children. That they have chosen to unleash the hounds on the most sympathetic beneficiaries of school choice is a sign of panic. "
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6781
"Investment, which is the basis for future growth, has moved to Asia. U.S. corporations seeking to increase profits by cutting costs actively supported these moves. That means less wealth for the U.S. because we are not producing as much. The economy will weaken because we are not paying our workers to make the things we import, so they will have less to spend. Foreigners have put off the problem in the short term by lending us the money to buy their exports and maintain our lifestyle. But this can only continue until foreigners fear that they may lose by holding too many dollar investments that start to decrease in purchasing value."
http://www.safehaven.com/article-6358.htm
"Some Americans look to European countries such as France, Germany and its Scandinavian neighbors and suggest that we adopt some of their economic policies. I agree, we should look at Europe for the lessons they can teach us."
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/06/europe.html
"My point is that we can pick an administration—any administration, Democratic or Republican, since the end of World War II, and despite its rhetoric, it will upon investigation, reveal itself as subservient to the war machine, doing whatever it takes to feed that mechanism, either during the infinite wars it has fueled or in between them."
"{A]s tax-funded monopolists of ultimate decision-making, states are inherently aggressive institutions. Whereas 'natural' persons and institutions must bear the cost of aggressive behavior themselves (which may well induce them to abstain from such conduct), states can externalize this cost onto their taxpayers. Hence, state agents are prone to become provocateurs and aggressors and the process of centralization can be expected to proceed by means of violent clashes, i.e., interstate wars."
http://www.mises.org/story/2383
"Short of an all-out nuclear attack, no enemy of the United States today could have ever damaged the nation as badly as Bush has done with his Terror War. No enemy could have deranged America's core constitutional system as badly as Bush has done, turning the government into a lurid perversion of its founding principles."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=936&Itemid=135
"Perhaps conscription could be structured in a way that would have a deterrent effect on warmongering. Here’s an idea. All children and grandchildren of Congresscritters who authorize a war and offspring of the POTUS and VPOTUS and of high officials will be called up first, without exemption, and placed in front line combat positions."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2006/11/rangel-is-way-off-base.html
"It hasn’t exactly hurt TR’s reputation that arguments on his behalf fit neatly into the space of a bumper sticker ('He made our food safe!' 'He tamed big business!' 'He protected the environment!'), while the inevitably more nuanced and accurate rendition of these historical episodes requires many pages of explanation. That, at last, is what Jim Powell has done in Bully Boy."
http://amconmag.com/2006/2006_11_20/review1.html
"Cleveland won the economic argument for sound money, though his own party deserted him on the issue. Not until 1897 did depression give way to prosperity, after silverite Democrat William Jennings Bryan was defeated by gold standard Republican William McKinley the previous year. The Gold Standard Act of 1900 essentially solidified a stable gold standard and before he died in 1908, Cleveland achieved a remarkable degree of popular appreciation for his staunch defense of sound money."
http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=8083
"He wrote a column for Newsweek, lectured around the world, and appeared on television, always arguing for the benefits of free markets and free societies. He was enlisted as an adviser to Republican presidents and candidates, yet rejected the label 'conservative,' insisting that he was a liberal like Thomas Jefferson and John Stuart Mill, or a libertarian in modern terms."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6778
"O'Day led one of the roughest lives in jazz, possibly surpassed only by her idol, Billie Holiday. Impoverished and largely abandoned in childhood, she became a marathon dancer and changed her surname from Colton to O'Day, pig latin for 'dough,' slang for money."
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1124oday-obit1124.html
"I could, of course, be proven wrong but my hunch is that the United States will be trapped in Iraq for the indefinite future. Despite the recent election results and increasing demand among the American people for a withdrawal, I believe that there is no possibility that President Bush is going to order a withdrawal any time soon."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0611f.asp
"[W]ith his steady and passionate work to end the military draft, Milton Friedman was the Dutch uncle of every young man in the United States. Or even better, he was like a favorite uncle that they'd never even met. He cared more for them than any president, any general, or any defense secretary has ever cared. How so? Because he wanted every young man to be free to choose whether to join the military or not."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=10042
"[T]he greatest tragedy of Western civilization erupted with World War I in 1914. It may be the most senseless, unnecessary and avoidable disaster in human history. Classical liberalism was thereby murdered, and virtually disappeared, and was replaced by collectivism, which reigned both intellectually and in practice throughout the remainder of the twentieth century."
http://www.mises.org/story/2355
"The growing violence in Iraq is likely to get much worse, regardless of whether or not U.S. troops are there. The real question is whether we want U.S. troops to be in the middle of a full-scale civil war. Cutting our losses and withdrawing before many more young Americans are killed or wounded is the smartest course. ... To give Iraqis the best chance of ending the violence and recovering from the war, a U.S. timetable for withdrawal should be combined with a formal partition of the country."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1854
"Steve Allen has told me (and has also recounted the tale in various books, etc) all about the evening Harpo left show business during Allen Sherman's show in Pasadena, during which he spoke for several minutes to a stunned audience."
http://www.marx-brothers.org/living/harpo.htm
"Young Edwin Hubble had been fascinated by science and mysterious new worlds from an early age, having spent his childhood reading the works of Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, From the Earth to the Moon), and Henry Rider Haggard (King Solomon's Mines), "
http://www.edwinhubble.com/hubble_bio_001.htm
"A consummate technician, his work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects, or an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The representational use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting,"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte
from her Bio page at IMDb "She started her career on Broadway in 1929, where her machine-gun foot work gained her the title of world champion in tapping. In 1935 she came to Hollywood where she starred in the great MGM musicals in the late 1930s, establishing herself as a Queen of Ra-Ta-Taps. In spite of the fact that she was primarily a solo performer she also danced with Fred Astaire and George Murphy."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007224/
Historical naval action / adventure stars Steve McQueen, Candice Bergen, Richard Crenna, Emmanuelle Arsan, Richard Attenborough, Mako; based on a book written by Richard McKenna, screenplay by Robert Anderson, directed by Robert Wise. “This film ... was produced and released during the early period of the Vietnam war. It gives an example of an even earlier American interventionist foreign policy and its consequences. Considering recent events, the film remains extremely relevant today.”
http://endervidualism.com/agora/sand_pebbles_1966.htm
"Fake suggested that there is a 'general exhaustion with mass consumer culture,' and that less passive forms of entertainment are arguably the natural state of affairs -- it wasn't long ago, historically speaking, that quilting bees and front-parlor music occupied the space now filled by movies and television. Tercek argued that economic logic favors user-generated content: It's cheaper to push the cost of creation onto the consumer than to produce a bunch of expensive TV shows, only a handful of which will be hits."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/116826.html
includes "'Perry Shriner: Court-Appointed Lawyer' from the National Lampoon Radio Hour, Nov. 2, 1974"
http://unclewarrensattic.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=153726
"Thank goodness for the inspired writers, directors, actors and producers for coming together and making it work. Thank goodness for DVDs, and for Netflix who can get them to me. Thank goodness for my husband who diligently populates our Netflix wishlist, and had all three on order before I even mentioned them. I take this as not only validating his formidable husbandry, but my theory that radical libertarians are hidden under every rock, in every county, across the country."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski166.html
Flash animated cartoon video w/audio
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/decidertwo.html
"According to psychologist Elizabeth Schulz, who specializes in mortality-identity issues, an end-life crisis is an emotional state of fear and anxiety that often affects men and women between the ages of 65 and 100, and is usually sparked by the uncomfortable realization that one's time on earth is limited."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/55431
"Dear Conventional Wisdom, So the GOP lost both houses of Congress. What do you make of this? Was the midterm election a rebuke of George Bush's disastrous Iraq War policies?"
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle394-20061119-06.html
"In this Thanksgiving cartoon, I propose that animals might lobby consumers to eat meat from all the other animals. And Thanksgiving, of course, would be the most important holiday for turkeys, who would stage protests and public education campaigns at grocery stores all around the country. "
http://www.newstarget.com/021156.html
"If you’re a libertarian who thinks leftists don’t care about liberty, why not become a leftist who cares about liberty? That way there’ll be one more. Or if you’re a leftist who thinks libertarians don’t care about the poor and oppressed, why don’t you become a libertarian who cares about the poor and oppressed? Once again, that way there’ll be one more. And in both cases there’ll also be one fewer libertarian of the kind that alienates leftists by dismissing their concerns, and likewise one fewer leftist of the kind that alienates libertarians by dismissing their concerns."
http://praxeology.net/blog/2006/11/25/proletarian-blues/
"For me, individualism is the basis of community, because the word 'community' suggests something organic and voluntary and therefore something chosen freely by the individuals who make up that community."
http://www.bkmarcus.com/blog/2006/11/amerindian-amerindividuals.html
"When I was just a little boy of four or five, my mother patiently explained to me that some people need to feel better about themselves so desperately that, lacking any talent or accomplishment they can be proud of, they search until they discover somebody they can look down on."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle394-20061119-02.html
"Dark matter makes up about 82% of all the matter in the universe, although nobody knows what it actually is. Small clouds of the stuff are thought to have coalesced after the big bang, and then gradually merged together. When enough dark matter is gathered into a huge 'halo', it attracts ordinary gas to form stars, and so becomes a galaxy."
"Friedman insisted, 'Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.' Without new money being created, consumers couldn’t possibly bid up all prices. And since government controls the monetary system, inflation was therefore a political phenomenon. In his work with Anna Schwartz, he went further and showed empirically that Federal Reserve polices caused the Great Depression. He said this at a time when mainstream economists blamed the free market for that catastrophe."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0611g.asp
"Geers agrees deaf culture may be under threat, but says 'there is no hostility here. People are doing this so that deaf people can live in the hearing world, marry who they like, and work where they like, and so that hearing parents can have their children as part of their culture. But it must seem like genocide to the deaf.' Until these latest findings, implants had only been shown successful in adults who had gone deaf later in life, rather than in the estimated 1 in 2000 people born profoundly deaf each year. The majority of those born deaf had had their implants fitted when they were older than 3, and while many could understand speech, very few developed normal language abilities, suggesting that experience with language from a young age was needed to fill in the gaps in the information provided by the implant."
"What makes Craigslist special is that it is, for the most part, free. And the only way to compete with Craigslist is by making any competitive service free, too, which eBay is rightly unwilling to do. The sad truth for eBay is that no matter how much it studies Craigslist, short of going free, itself, eBay will never compete with Craigslist for local users. There is no way to compete with free in a comparison of automated services. No way." [I found one of the comments to be especially insightful also.]
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061123_001248.html
"We live in a censorious age in America, an age of 'Gotcha!' in which drinking looms loathsome, smoking is a crime to be punished, second-hand smoke a fearful threat to children and plants and wallpaper. Oh dear. We all must be vigilant for racism, sexism, and the rest. Psychologists call it 'passive aggressiveness,' though I think that 'the Higher Priss' does nicely. Well, I say, each to his or her or its own. Still, I have always found people who smoke and drink and do the occasional doob to be more interesting than those who don’t—certainly than the drab Comstocks of the current Carryan Nation."
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