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"On the other side are the usual suspects: the American Civil Liberties Union, the Drug Policy Alliance, Pat Robertson's American Center for Law and Justice. Wait a minute. ... The Christian Legal Society, the Alliance Defense Fund, the Rutherford Institute, and the Liberty Legal Institute also are alarmed by the sweeping claim that public school officials may censor any speech they consider contrary to their 'educational mission,' even if it happens off campus."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/119228.html
"The right to resist is what separates a citizen from a slave. God bless John Coffin for exercising that right, and Judge De Furia for recognizing and protecting it."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/03/right-to-resist.html
"Paul's interpretation of the Constitution, which is also mine, sees the federal government as limited by what the Constitution authorizes, and the states virtually unlimited except where the Constitution explicitly puts restrictions and prohibitions on them."
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2140
"When the bill ran into trouble and we feared the battle was lost, Governor Richardson stepped up to the plate and personally worked to pull together the necessary votes to ensure the bill’s passage. When he signs this bill, he will have the majority of New Mexicans—and supporters across the country—cheering him on."
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/032107nm.cfm
"Whether the mistakes were malicious or simply mindless, the profusion of administrative error suggests that PATRIOT was irresponsible. As the report limns the banality of error, it's impossible not to think of poor Mr. Buttle, the unfortunate family man of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, killed off, thanks to a typo, in place of accused terrorist Tuttle. That a keystroke can lead to abuse doesn't say much for the newly decentralized power to fish for information. Whether individuals were targeted maliciously or not, the FBI has clearly primed the ground for abuse."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/119180.html
"One of Yancey's most interesting observations is that IRS collection agents generally avoid going after organized crime figures – the case of Al Capone being relatively exceptional. This aversion is born out of understandable fear of violent retaliation, but also reflects the fact that the typical gangster, unlike the law-abiding taxpayer, enjoys political protection of some kind."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/03/terrorists-among-us.html
"Marijuana isn't a harmless substance, and those who argue for a change in the drug's legal status do not claim it to be. However, as noted by the commission, pot's relative risks to the user and society are arguably fewer than those of alcohol and tobacco, and they do not warrant the expenses associated with targeting, arresting and prosecuting hundreds of thousands of Americans every year."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/armentano-p/armentano-p14.htm
"How far can public school officials go in muzzling their charges when the little darlings go 'off-message'? Does the authority of school officials reach beyond the classroom -- even off school grounds? Those questions and more are raised by the case of Joe Frederick, a former high school student in Juneau, Alaska, who was punished for exercising his right to free speech in a forum that many people would consider beyond the reach of teachers and administrators."
http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2007/03/joe-fredericks-free-speech-battle.html
"Old-age security is not merely possible without the state. It would be far better that way. It would be more secure than public social security, which is based on empty promises by politicians."
http://www.mises.org/story/2515
"Public policy is important, but why would a libertarian look first to solutions based on violence and coercion? Wouldn’t a libertarian want to exhaust the possibilities of peaceful, voluntary methods before calling in government goons? It had better be damned important to do so and all but impossible to deal with any other way."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2007/03/decoster-versus-postrel.html
"Edmund Burke, an Englishman of Irish birth, anarchist by inclination, is considered the father of Anglo-American conservatism (a defunct, nearly extinct sect) and also one of the earliest anarchist thinkers and supporter of the American revolution. Few such men exist today in Anglo-American government. "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/herman/herman5.html
"I believe that public-school teachers have not even begun to live up to their highest potential. All you need is to understand that the free market, rather than being your imagined worst enemy, can be your best friend. ... Teachers, you especially will benefit from a totally free-market education system. There will be so many new schools opened, so much fierce competition for competent, innovative teachers, that teacher salaries will skyrocket. "
http://www.newswithviews.com/Turtel/joel38.htm
"The lesson of our time, a decade and a half after the fall of communism in Europe, is that the slow, almost geological, accumulation of little bits of heroism throughout society can bring down a totalitarian giant over time. These acts of heroism, both inside and outside the structure of power, constitute the best hope for countries in which governments continue to enslave millions of people today."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1947
"Dell has launched a new low-cost desktop PC aimed at grabbing market share in China. Instead of Microsoft's new Windows Vista OS, it runs Windows XP. Another PC the company is offering at a special price runs Linux."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/21/HNdelllowcostpcchina_1.html
"Netflix's time off rules - or lack thereof - are part of a broad culture of employee autonomy instilled in the company when Hastings founded it a decade ago. The executives trust staffers to make their own decisions on everything - from whether to bring their dog to the office to how much of their salary they want in cash and how much in stock options. Workers are treated, as Chief Talent Officer Patty McCord likes to say, as adults."
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_5493698
"Individuals who want to get out of these programs would be able to sign up for a 'buy-out' would receive some pre-determined, tax-free lump-sum payment, or payment over installments of a certain number of years. They would be paid this money now instead of when they retire, and the amount would essentially be all the FICA taxes that had been paid on their behalf (what they and their employer paid to FICA). They would then forfeit any claim to Social Security or Medicare payments when they retire."
http://independentcountry.blogspot.com/2007/03/make-them-voluntary.html
"Unfortunately, all too many Americans still don’t want to know what U.S. officials don’t want to tell them. It’s much easier to continue walking in blind numbness and reassuring themselves with, 'It can’t happen here. This is America'."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0703h.asp
"This is not the statement of a military officer serving in the armed forces of a democratic republic devoted to the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of its citizens. This is the action list of a Roman general seeking more funds so that he might fulfill Caesar's commands for further conquests and punitive raids beyond the frontiers of the Empire."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1078&Itemid=135
"It is especially helpful to recall the servility of most of the media on Iraq now, at a time when the Bush team and their lackeys are beating the war drums to commence killing Iranians."
http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/19/great-recap-of-media-debacles-etc-on-iraq-war/
"So what is the European Union about if it isn’t about peace, freedom, or greatness? The answer should be fairly obvious: it is about power and control. Politicians in the most politicized part of the world (yes, Europe) simply must have felt they needed yet another level of political decision-making through which politicians’ power can be increased further."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bylund/bylund17.html
"With one hand it proffers a veritable cornucopia of goodies – benchmarks on 'troop readiness,' an end to extended deployment, 'rest periods' between deployments, and, most delectable of all, a deadline of October 1, 2007, for the Iraqis to get their act together, or else we're out of there. With the other hand, however, the Pelosi-crats hand the ball back to the Bush administration, ensuring that nothing will come of it but a campaign issue for the Democrats."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10711
"The Republicans ran Congress like a basement cock-fighting ring for more than a decade, and two months or so after they're out of power, they're already transformed into a bunch of squawking dissidents more pretentious than Rage Against the Machine."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13891421/
"The evidence that Bush and Gonzales have obstructed justice comes from internal Justice Department memos and exchanges of letters between the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), an investigative office, and members of Congress. "
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03192007.html
"Bush may have knowingly derailed an investigation that could have exposed his own criminal conduct. This may be even too brazen an abuse of power for many Republicans to stomach. It is ironic that Gonzo will probably get sunk for his role in firing and lying about U.S. attorneys, considering that he had so many worse offenses. "
http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/20/gonzaless-fall-bushs-impeachment/
"The value of the goods such as food, water, shelter, and rest springs from their ability to immediately alleviate some dissatisfaction. Rich values food because he values life, and food helps to directly satisfy his desire to stay alive. Although less than he values life itself, he may also value comfort in that life. Therefore, food is also valued because it directly satisfies the pangs of hunger."
http://www.mises.org/story/2483
"Easterbrook believes that global warming is a real and serious threat, but he also says that the keys to fighting it are a healthy optimism and a willingness to let markets do their work without heavy-handed government interference."
http://www.abetterearth.org/blog/id.3763/news_detail.asp
Through controlled experiments, Sonja Lyubomirsky explores ways to beat the genetic set point for happiness. Staying in high spirits, she finds, is hard work.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=5B76E630-E7F2-99DF-3958811DF98CBC37
"Over the past two centuries, people have had to disabuse themselves about various ideologies asserting that humans are fundamentally different from other animals. Biologists have shown that our arms and legs and organs have long evolutionary histories. Beliefs about the uniqueness of human behavior might well be the last bastion of our superiority complex, but research by de Waal and many others suggests that even this redoubt may be crumbling."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/18/AR2007031801130.html
"Had the state not subsidized the corporate revolution and economic centralization, the economy might have remained dominated by small factories or artisan shops, with manufacturing consisting of small-scale machine production for local markets. In such an economy, the 'entrepreneurial' function would have involved mainly the decision by workers themselves as to the reinvestment of their savings from labor income, supplemented by small loans financed by the cooperative pooling of such savings."
http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2007/03/economic-calculation-in-corporate_22.html
"A dangerous specter once again haunts our economy, our pocketbooks, and the value of almost every asset. It is called inflation. And it is hurting us every day. It could also crush the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans engaged in any kind of spending, saving, or investment plans. That’s because our government, charged with curing or at least controlling it, is the source of the problem. "
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0612e.asp
"Elected officials routinely use the rhetoric of rights to justify legislation which would determine what customers and corporations can or cannot do in markets. Over the past ten years, there have been at least 25 pieces of legislation introduced in Congress that include the phrase 'bill of rights' in their titles."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8144
"Despite the sketchy details, federal lawmakers have begun taking note of the industry's plight. The House Agriculture Committee has scheduled a hearing on CCD for 29 March at which Weaver, Berenbaum and members of the beekeeping community are due to testify."
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19325964.500?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19325964.500
"In foreign matters the state has the greatest leeway and privacy to do what it wants. There is no equivalent of classified material for Social Security or environmental regulation. On the other hand, it is easy for government officials to keep information about foreign relations from the people, although such information may be used to justify sending some of them to their deaths."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0612b.asp
"If you vote against this bill, you're not merely failing to support our soldiers. You're refusing to support the noble family farmer, the great American fisherman, the essential work of peanut storage. (Did I forget to mention the peanut storage? It's slated for $74 million in emergency war funds. Maybe that'll bring Carter around.) By limiting itself to invoking the troops, the war party is showing incredible restraint."
http://reason.com/news/show/119268.html
"There is nothing benign about the arms industry. Companies that make armaments need war to be profitable. Constant war is even better, producing an unending flow of money. "
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=10699
"The U.S. security agencies, to get more funds and authority for their bureaucracies, have constantly used color-coded warnings and other techniques of fear mongering to keep the anxiety generated by 9/11 alive in the public consciousness. The U.S. media, getting high ratings from sensational reporting on terrorism, has been a willing accomplice to the administration effort."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1944
"The so-called Federalists, epitomized by Alexander Hamilton, were the first to rule under the Constitution and thus were able to establish important precedents under which we still labor. For example, Ekirch notes, when Hamilton asked Congress to charter a national bank and Jefferson protested on constitutional grounds, 'Hamilton answered with his famous doctrine of implied or resulting powers.' That doctrine has stood the advocates of robust central government in good stead ever since."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1189
"This doctrine is alien to our Constitution, and to the Anglo-Saxon tradition of liberty under law. It does have a precedent, however, in the royal privilege claims asserted by King James I ... in his essay Basilikon Doron, a document intended to tutor his son in the ways of royal absolutism. The doctrine contained in that tract was nothing less than a prototype for the modern totalitarian concept of Fuhrerprinzip."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/03/treason-called-executive-privilege.html
"It's clear that no nation on earth will be allowed to organize its own society as it wishes, or work out its own internal conflicts, if the American elite decides they have some financial or strategic interest in the matter. The only nations immune to this power-mad interventionist philosophy are those who can strike back hard enough to upset the elite's apple cart. And thus we have Bush's 'war on terror' -- which is, as we've often noted, simply an escalation of the long-running, bipartisan foreign policy of the "National Security State" that has ruled America for 60 years. "
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1080&Itemid=135
"As the Iraq war enters a fifth year, the conflict that President Bush's aides once said would all but pay for itself with oil revenues is fueling the highest level of defense spending since World War II. Even with past spending adjusted upward for inflation, the $630 billion provided for the military this year exceeds the highest annual amounts during the Reagan-era defense buildup, the Vietnam War and the Korean War. "
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0320-05.htm
"I wish I saw a way out of this, but I don't. Short of firing Congress, as well as impeaching the president and vice president, we will be at war with Iran just as surely as we are now stuck in the Iraqi quicksand – and that war will be brought to you by the same crew that started the previous one. It's like we're caught in a recurring nightmare, in which the same ghouls rise up and taunt us with their banshee screams, singing a chorus of war-cries, drowning out all sense until our eardrums nearly burst."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10697
"An immediate withdrawal is the right plan because the war was a grave injustice and a monstrous wrong from the very beginning. We withdrew all of our forces from Lebanon in 1984. We withdrew all of our forces from the Philippines in 1992. We withdrew all of our forces from Somalia in 1994. We can withdraw all our forces from Iraq in 2007."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance108.html
"President Bush recently announced that he would be sending an additional 4,400 U.S. soldiers to Iraq. This is on top of a 21,500 troop surge announced in January, which now appears to be just a down payment on a likely continuing escalation of the war in Iraq for the remainder of this administration. It thus seems that the Bush administration has adopted the Einstein doctrine for Iraq: continuing to do the same thing but expecting different results."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1943
"Slaughtering soldiers and militia defending their own country, and [killing] civilians who happen to get in the way, is a pretty bizarre way of promoting moral universalisms like human rights and human dignity. Self-doubt will inevitably creep into the occupying army, and the more they question their mission, the less effective they become."
http://independentcountry.blogspot.com/2007/03/four-years-after.html
"Not only had he made major contributions to difference equations and differential equations but he had examined applications to mathematical astronomy and to the theory of probability, two major topics which he would work on throughout his life. His work on mathematical astronomy before his election to the Academy included work on the inclination of planetary orbits, a study of how planets were perturbed by their moons, and in a paper read to the Académie on 27 November 1771 he made a study of the motions of the planets which would be the first step towards his later masterpiece on the stability of the solar system."
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laplace.html
"His engines were used to power pipelines, electric and water plants, automobiles and trucks, and marine craft, and soon after were used in mines, oil fields, factories, and transoceanic shipping. The diesel engines of today are refined and improved versions of Rudolf Diesel's original concept. They are often used in submarines, ships, locomotives, and large trucks and in electric generating plants."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel
"Ub Iwerks is one of the 'big names' in animation, famous for his work with Walt Disney. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Iwerks origins are German (his father came from East Frisia and emigrated to the USA in 1869). He first worked with Walt Disney at an advertising studio. From 1920, the two men founded Iwerks-Disney Commerical Artists...."
http://lambiek.net/artists/i/iwerks_ub.htm
"Born into a show-business family--her father was a director and her mother was a film cutter--Virginia Grey made her film debut at age 10 as Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340706/bio
"The Tribune wasn't exactly known for its investigative journalism. But Charlotte had already developed an unwelcome "mother on a crusade" reputation with the more important media. Despite its shortcomings, The Tribune had one big advantage. It was the first semi-serious media outlet with a reporter willing to hear her out."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe070319.html
"In a certain sense the 300 Spartans did fight for liberty, but it was the liberty of antiquity as Benjamin Constant described it. The movie’s equivocation of ancient liberty with the modern concept reveals either ignorance or dishonesty."
http://blackroseupontheroodoftime.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-left-is-dead-right-about-300.html
"Back in January, I wrote that Alfonso Cuaron’s film Children of Men was 'unlike almost any other movie I’ve ever seen, on a political level, on an action level, and on an emotional level'."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2007/03/amplifying-children-of-men.html
"A bevy of blues and other goodies off the old 78s and such. "
http://unclewarrensattic.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=195884
Some short videos from Novell come out in the search link below. The first (by posted date and apparent sequence) introduces the new Linux character. The second develops the idea further. The third shows PC and Mac running Linux. Seems like good marketing.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Novell++Linux+&search=Search
"Miracles do happen. I was astonished when President Bush granted my request for an interview. The truth is that I had almost forgotten making the request. As a matter of course in journalism you cover your bases, asking for all sorts of things that you don’t expect to get. The theory is that lightning can always strike. So when the current administration came into office I made the usual petitions at State to talk to Condoleezza Rice, at Defense for the SecDef, and so on. It was pro forma."
http://www.fredoneverything.net/BushInterview.shtml
"Even as tournament purists complained that the NCAA had caved in to the medical community, sports marketing expert Colby Teague said that the name-change could open the door to new sponsorship opportunities from the manufacturers of bipolar disorder medications, such as Eli Lilly. 'I could see a scenario where next year it’s called the Zyprexa™ March Bipolar Disorder,' he said. "
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6714
"According to Byrne, I don't have to worry about how I will actually acquire these things. All I have to do is really, really want them. Which I assure you, I do. She calls this placing your order with the universe, and apparently no order is too tall. Not only will this incredible new wardrobe descend from the heavens and find its way into my closet, but everything will fit me like a dream."
http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0712,yaeger,76128,15.html
"[H]aving an adequate libertarian account of exploitation may help one correctly to apply the non-aggression principle (application thickness). Forms of unfairness such as oppression, coercion, and exploitation often go together and intermix in complex ways. Without an adequate account of exploitation, one might be blind to certain instances of aggression."
http://upaya.blogspot.com/2007/03/exploitation.html
"An individual can hold naïve, simplistic, ignorant, mistaken, and contradictory views about a vast array of subjects and still be a person of impressive virtue. On the other hand, an individual can be meticulously correct and have a rigorous, flawless justification for every view he holds – and yet be intolerably foul and vicious in his conduct. I am not suggesting that all people are one or the other; many combine both virtue and correctness in their views. But the kinds I mentioned certainly exist, and everyone likely knows representatives of both."
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/07/070318-4.htm
"These four kinds of behavior — empathy, the ability to learn and follow social rules, reciprocity and peacemaking — are the basis of sociality. De Waal sees human morality as having grown out of primate sociality, but with two extra levels of sophistication. People enforce their society's moral codes much more rigorously with rewards, punishments and reputation building. They also apply a degree of judgment and reason, for which there are no parallels in animals."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/21/healthscience/snmorals.php
"Like modern feel-good notions of what constitutes 'self-esteem,' the concept of 'respect' has been eroded by political correctness into a mere shell of what it once was."
http://www.russellmadden.com/Respecting_Ideas.html
"[T]he current warming is likely part of a natural cycle of climate warming and cooling that’s been traced back almost a million years. It accounts for the Medieval Warm Period around 1100 A.D., when the Vikings were able to settle Greenland and grow crops, and the Little Ice Age, from about 1400 to 1850 A.D., which brought severe winters and cold summers to Europe, with failed harvests, starvation, disease, and general misery." [If you have the time (1 hr 14 min) the linked Google video -- from a British TV show -- reveals information media in the USA has not covered. UPDATE: On Monday evening Google's video seems to be unavailable. However, YouTube also has this program.]
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1945
"People are not computers. We don't evaluate security trade-offs mathematically, by examining the relative probabilities of different events. Instead, we have shortcuts, rules of thumb, stereotypes and biases -- generally known as 'heuristics.' These heuristics affect how we think about risks, how we evaluate the probability of future events, how we consider costs, and how we make trade-offs. We have ways of generating close-to-optimal answers quickly with limited cognitive capabilities."
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,73047-1.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1
"If you buy into the notion that the state can legitimately do as it pleases without any inherent limits, I don’t think you really qualify as a libertarian. There is a big difference between arguing that the state ought not to engage in an activity because it is not good policy to do so and arguing that the state cannot engage in it as a matter of principle."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2007/03/who-is-libertarian.html
"Steve Ballmer has criticized Google because it hasn’t 'reinvented itself' enough. So, to recap: Making a product people use because it actually works is bad business, but arm-twisting, trash talking, and bribery are the keys to long-term success. Glad we cleared that up."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/22/13OPcringely_1.html
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