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"On a crisp Sunday morning, Nicki Stallard closes one mascara-coated eye and focuses intently on her target. Her long fingers are wrapped around the handle of a Colt .45; black go-go boots hug her muscular legs, which are firmly set in shooting stance. As she rapidly fires off rounds of ammunition, shells fall to the ground, rolling under her stacked platform heels. Nicki Stallard isn't your average lady. She was born a man."
http://www.alternet.org/rights/50039/
"In a ceremony today, Gov. Bill Richardson signed into law a bill that makes New Mexico the 12th state to protect seriously ill patients from arrest for using medical marijuana with a doctor's recommendation - prompting Minnesota lawmakers to call for similar protections...."
http://www.mpp.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=glKZLeMQIsG&b=1157875&ct=3714885
"The short-term prospects for liberty making any progress in Washington circles are, admittedly, not good. But the prospects for the growth of libertarianism as a popular ideology and an organized movement have never been better. This is due entirely to the unpopularity of American foreign policy...."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10753
"The NRA does not represent us all and it’s time to let people know it. AGCR aims to defend human rights AND gun rights."
http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/571
"It seems to have escaped much notice, but a modernized version of the U.S. Constitution is about to be enacted. In keeping with the way Americans in the Internet era deal with the various large institutions in our lives, the idea is to simplify the relationship between citizens and our leaders, and to remove all those cumbersome checks and balances that just get in the way of effective government."
http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2007/04/the_optout_cons.html
"The problem with increasing amounts of money spent on lobbying and politics isn't that Americans are spending more and more money to buy some influence in Washington; the problem is that we're giving Washington more and more influence to sell."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,263320,00.html
"You or I could have gotten up to three years just for the one felony count, and I doubt our employers would have cut a deal to allow us to keep our jobs. So why the focus on Frank Melton? Two reasons, really. First, there’s the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law. We’re all supposed to get the same treatment. Frank, as a government official, has been given a pass time and again on situations that would and have resulted in We the People doing prison time."
http://gunsmagazine.com/Rights04.html
"Media commentators are quick to battle logic with emotion for the easy win. ... Recent targets include Charlie Sheen and Rosie O'Donnell, who have both expressed doubts over the official story behind the events of September 11. Rather than dismiss their misgivings with evidence to the contrary, pundits have taken the lazy route afforded to namecalling."
http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/canon_fodder/01356_rosie_odonnell_gets_sucker_punched.html
"I am not a fan, needless to say, of this putative distinction between 'true' and 'false' market anarchists. I plan to criticise the case for the distinction in fuller detail on a future occasion; for now I’ll limit myself to two major points. First: those who draw this distinction are hardly ever market anarchists themselves. … Second: it’s thoroughly unclear by what criteria Group 1 and Group 2 are supposed to be distinguished."
http://praxeology.net/blog/2007/04/01/against-anarchist-apartheid/
"To protect us from terrorism, the State has publicly and potently declared us all terrorists: We’re all terrorists and enjoy what’s left of our liberties only as far as we don’t speak up, speak out, or start asking questions. The state, we will learn, sooner or later, is protecting itself--as well as its privileged class and its vast powers--from its citizenry. "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/bylund/bylund3.html
"What is really unusual is the BBC reporter’s tone, as exemplified in the opening & closing paragraphs of the report. The War was between governments, not peoples. People can live together peacefully; their rulers can't…."
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/37351.html
"At some point, an arbitrary assumption must be made as to what causal acts or failures to act warrant moral culpability or legal liability. This judgment will be, on the one hand, a moral one. On the other hand, it is related to the complexity and cost of the administrative apparatus designed to make the determination and dispense justice."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-would-free-society-deal-with-less.html
"The winds of secession are blowing in the Green Mountain State. Vermont was once an independent republic, and it can be one again. We think the time to make that happen is now. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big, too corrupt and too aggressive toward the world, toward its own citizens and toward local democratic institutions."
http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/Democracy/2007/04/01/secession_anyone
"Most Americans have little or no confidence in the information they receive from the military or the media about the situation in Iraq, according to a poll released Thursday."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607F.shtml
"The feelings of revulsion I get from government are worse than ones I get from seeing a snake slither, an adult abusing a child, or gory road kill, perhaps because it is on such a massive scale as to be incomprehensible. ... [G]overnment buildings are constructed to appear official and upstanding with large, stately columns. There must be justice within them! Look at the fancy architecture!"
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/fontana/fontana10.html
"President Bush has scolded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for visiting Syria. In the president’s opinion, shared by others, the U.S. government should speak with just one voice overseas. Yet that view flies in the face of both the text and the spirit of the Constitution."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1952
"The American media have been the enablers for presidential deceits for decades. The vast majority of the media have docilely repeated Bush’s claims throughout his presidency. Television networks very likely devote a hundred times as much air time to peddling government falsehoods as to exposing them. The constant barrage of falsehood drowns out the occasional blips of truth."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0701c.asp
quoting Seymour Hersh: "Bush is a true radical. He believes very avidly in executive power. And he also believes that he's doing the right thing. I think he's a revolutionary, a Trotsky. He's a believer in permanent revolution. So therefore he's very dangerous, because he's an unguided missile, he's a rocket with no ability to be educated. "
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/14010621
"That Giuliani expressly believes that, as President, he can exercise (and apparently intends to exercise, though just "infrequently") one of the most tyrannical and un-American powers there is received notice only in the blogosphere, but not in any national media outlets."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/03/giuliani/index.html
"[T]his is what the United States of America stands for in the world today: torture, extortion, cruelty and injustice. And if you support the Bush Administration in any way, by active bootlicking or passive acceptance, then this is what you stand for too."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1094&Itemid=135
"Why did Crawford intervene in the Hicks’ proceeding? Why didn’t she let the proceedings follow their natural course? Why did she secretly circumvent the prosecutors, the judge, and the tribunal? Why was it important to her to gag Hicks? There can be only one answer those questions, and it is an answer that places the stamp of crookedness, corruption, and rot to the entire Guantanamo Bay military-tribunal process. That answer is: Politics. "
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0704a.asp
"For decades Left-Liberal position was generalized as 'fewer guns, more butter,' meaning that less money should be spent on the military and more for domestic social programs. The Right-Conservative position was 'more guns, less butter,' meaning the government should focus on defense and let private charity instead of government address poverty. What then, was a Center-Moderate? "
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2154
"Mr. Pence climbed back into the armored Humvee that had safely carried him and the two Senators to the marketplace, none of these jolly politicians mentioned the rise in killings across Iraq during the past month. None of them even seemed aware that the temporary reduction of violence in Baghdad appears to have driven even greater carnage outside the capital -- such as the bombing in Kirkuk that slaughtered a group of schoolgirls the same day that Messrs. Graham and Pence got their bargain carpets."
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=22199
"Most libertine conservatives do not believe in personal freedom, except perhaps their own, and so their countercultural actions do not even make them more libertarian by circumstance. Indeed, their hypocrisy and rightwing guilt often render them some of the most outwardly puritanical and fascistic people out there. Afraid to be too far to the 'left' in principles as well as actions, these people will call for longer prison sentences for drug users even as they feed their own gambling addiction or even, to be more directly hypocritical, drug addiction. Rush Limbaugh comes to mind."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory133.html
"As the number of potential customers you can reach expands, and the costs of shipping and handling fall, factories become fewer and larger. There is far more capital investment in these factories, but fewer workers. And output increases ten-fold, a hundred-fold, a billion-fold."
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2007/Mungerpins.html
"I made my first trip to a farm today to purchase cow shares from a local dairy farmer. There are many reasons why I’ve [been] wanting to do this for some time now, but in seeking to stay on topic I’ll just give one primary reason: to get my hands on some REAL milk! "
"Short sellers simply recognize negative information sooner. Their activity can begin the process of reducing market prices, but it is the negative information that causes stock prices to fall. And even when short sellers are wrong, they provide extra profit opportunities to those who expand their holdings at the temporarily low prices that result, a benefit ignored by those blinded by their exclusive devotion to 'what's in it for me?'"
http://www.mises.org/story/2527
"We've got a deal for you. You agree to donate your organs to other organ donors when you die. In return, you'll increase your chances of getting an organ transplant if you ever need one to live. We have one question for you: deal or no deal?"
http://www.nysun.com/article/51696?page_no=2
"Another hypothesis is that nicotine-based pesticides, which have emerged in the last six years, might be messing with the memory of the honey bees, rendering them incapable of finding their way back to the hive."
http://www.caseyresearch.com/displayArchiveArticleWwnk.php?id=238
"For a long time, environmentalists and political fear-mongers who have been attempting to foist the strictures of the global warming theory on the world through the Kyoto Treaty were stymied by the legislative process. The Senate totally rejected it. Now, they have found five members of the Supreme Court who decided to ignore its own 1993 standard for scientific evidence. "
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200704/COM20070405c.html
"The US government's plan to boost energy savings by moving Daylight Saving Time forward by three weeks was apparently a waste of time and effort, as the technological foibles Americans experienced failed to give way to any measurable energy savings."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070403-the-daylight-savings-change-no-savings-no-point.html
"After years of subsidies and a massive increase in palm oil production, policy makers have realized that demand for the biofuel has unleashed drastic unintended consequences. For starters, the Indonesian peat bogs that have been drained and the rain forests that have been cleared to make way for palm trees have resulted in the release of much more carbon dioxide than is saved by switching away from fossil fuels, defeating the entire purpose of the endeavor...."
http://www.abetterearth.org/blog/id.3841/news_detail.asp
"What is this logical contortionism really about? Money. Let me explain. I do so as one who spent many years reporting on the defense industry. Commerce watches government as a tick watches a cow. Getting money from the government is immensely profitable and in general easy, since the people who dispense it do not own it and so do not care what is done with it. Industry, understanding this perfectly, is always looking for something to sell to the government."
http://fredoneverything.net/BAE.shtml
"The Iraq War has not brought about war prosperity as advertised, nor has it resulted in cheaper gas the way cynical leftist critics thought it was intended to. People might have learned a bit of a lesson about this, but in the future we can expect economic misunderstanding to once again flavor discussion about a forthcoming war. To avoid repeating this sordid dialogue ad nauseam, we need to attack the fundamental reasons that people keep buying into the same old myths." [Link to Part 2 at top of Part 1 linked below.]
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0612g.asp
"What are the plans of the increasingly desperate clique that narrowly holds political power in the U.S.? We cannot know. Such state planning is, of course, kept secret in the interests of 'security.' Review of the declassified record reveals that there is considerable merit in that claim -- though only if we understand 'security' to mean the security of the Bush administration against their domestic enemy, the population in whose name they act."
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=182214
"Malkin’s movement will take the side of the powerless. They will stand together in solidarity against the lords of the earth and thus throw [off] the yoke of their oppression. Together, this uprising of sensible moderates and small-government conservatives will smash the mighty power of the Council on American-Islamic Relations by fearlessly rising up and daring to take action. And by 'taking action', I mean becoming Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter for the surveillance and enforcement arms of United States federal government. No, seriously."
http://radgeek.com/gt/2007/04/01/american_stasi/
"[T]he perverseness caused by the subsidies was in full view. At that moment we were standing on the grade built by the Central Pacific and there less than fifty yards below was the grade built by the Union Pacific. The grades did not meet but ran parallel to each other and had continued that way for 250 miles — almost a year's work. ... The purpose of grading and laying tracks was not to meet the demand for transcontinental passenger service, but simply to collect, risk-free of any market forces, the federal subsidies."
http://www.mises.org/story/2522
"I remember buying beer and cigarettes for my parents when I was growing up in Peru. ... Odd isn't it? To think that one would find a nugget of liberty in a poor ('developing' for the PC crowd) country might sound strange to some ears. Yet things today in these US of A are, well, a tad different to say the least."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lora/m.lora33.html
"Mr. Letcher emphasizes that the significance of mushrooming, like that of other drug experiences, is 'culturally contingent.' In the 1960s, Americans and Europeans began to seek an experience they had until then equated with poisoning, reinterpreting effects that were once treated as signs of insanity or imminent death as an opportunity to explore inner worlds and see the outer one in a new light."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/119509.html
"Ancient remains of an early modern human found in Beijing suggests the Out of Africa theory of the dispersal of humans may be more complex than first thought, a study suggests."
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1888391.htm
"We can stop the next war before it starts – but only if we catch the War Party at their game while they're playing it, and not after the fact, as in the case of Iraq. The Democrats are keen to cut off funding for a war that should never have started and could not have started without their cooperation: will they have the foresight and courage to defund the covert war against Iran before it becomes overt? I am not at all optimistic about this, but I'd be glad to be proven wrong."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10774
"Rather than treating the conflict as primarily between the British and French empires, THE WAR THAT MADE AMERICA places the Indians center stage right from the outset. And it does so without viewing them all collectively as victims. Indeed, they become sophisticated and diverse players in Anderson's account."
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/37357.html
"The morally bankrupt administration has nothing left to do but beg for more time and engage in rank demagoguery. After the House passed the withdrawal deadline, Vice President Dick Cheney, who talks to Americans as though we are morons, said those who voted yes are 'not supporting the troops. They’re undermining them.' Such posturing is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0704b.asp
"As noted often here, America's imperial right to secure the lion's share of the world's resources – by any means necessary – has long been a basic, bipartisan assumption of U.S. foreign policy for decades. After all, was it not the saintly Jimmy Carter who first openly declared that America would go to war in the Middle East if 'our' oil supplies there were threatened? But it's true that the Bushists have taken this policy to new heights of naked gangsterism. "
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1091&Itemid=135
The links associated with this entry points to a comprehensive resource link collection page.
http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/rachmaninoff.html
"The upbringing of the twelve Gilbreth children was chronicled in the comic memoir Cheaper by the Dozen (1948, adapted in [a] 1950 film and very loosely adapted in a 2003 film). The book, as well as a sequel titled Belles on Their Toes (1952), was written by Ernestine with her brother Frank."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernestine_Gilbreth_Carey
"On TV, Frank appeared on 'The Steve Allen Show' (1956) and had a dozen guest shots on 'Toast of the Town' (1948) (aka 'The Ed Sullivan Show'). In 1966, Frank gave his breakout performance, performing what has become his best-known role: The Riddler on 'Batman' (1966) for which he received an Emmy nomination."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331319/bio
"With a career that spanned the entire history of rhythm and blues, from '50s doo wop to '80s soul, Marvin Gaye exemplified the maturation of romantic black pop into a sophisticated form spanning social and sexual politics...."
http://www.history-of-rock.com/marvin_gaye.htm
"There is plenty of 'blood and guts' here, as the body count ratchets higher on both sides of this titanic yet sub rosa struggle. Dispensing death is nothing new for either Jack or the Otherness. Both are adept at concocting particularly gruesome demises for their opponents. The crucial difference, of course, is the reason for the killing. While some people condemn 'violence' per se, retaliatory force is as moral as murder is immoral. Jack sometimes teeters on the edge of that distinction, but at least he wrestles with the demons he calls his own. For those in league with the Otherness, using violence is only a negative if they face capture or the loss of some short-term goal."
http://www.russellmadden.com/Blood_in_Water.html
"While browsing the growing grocery selection, which soon included bins of bulk grains and spices, we found ourselves shopping beside a whole new class of people. Some of them wore Birkenstocks. And peasant skirts. And natural-fiber hand-woven ponchos. They weren't Hardyville's late, unlamented political Birkenstockers. But their kissin' cousins. "
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe070402.html
"Linda Perhacs made one of the great 'lost' albums that has recently been found and re-released to great acclaim. This week's UWA gives you a mini-tour of Parallelograms."
http://unclewarrensattic.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=200580
"So expect thrills and suspense from Indiana Jones IV, but don't expect Harrison Ford to be jumping off too many buildings or escaping on foot from villains with machine guns."
http://movies.ign.com/articles/778/778598p1.html
"Guttering Waxman, lobbyist for the Council of California Candlemakers, accused the legiscrats of being 'soft on global warming.' Ranting at reporters at a recent photo op, Waxman challenged Trendy State lawmakers, 'Why stop at banning incandescent bulbs? Ban the fluorescent ones too. Ban neon. Ban all electrically driven lighting devices. Force everyone to live by candlelight. It's the wave of the past!'"
http://www.freecannon.com/DimBulbs.htm
"Entering its fifth day, the president's incursion into the banister is now widely considered a quagmire. Bush initially told the nation that he was going to stick his head through the banister in order to secure stockpiles of cashews on the other side. Though intelligence reports cited by the president seemed to indicate the presence of these cashews, a comprehensive probe by White House personnel revealed that no such nuts existed."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/60173
"As everyone focuses on global-warming no one is paying attention to the alarming trend that the world itself is drifting ever further apart. The Coalition for the Realignment of Pangea understand that though the fight against global climate change is far sexier than the debate on continental drift, the latter is clearly more demanding of the world‘s attention."
http://www.bureaucrash.com/node/5430
"Over the course of the conference, brain scientists have presented research papers on a variety of subjects related to memory loss, such as former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s inability to remember a briefing he received about former police commissioner Bernard Kerik’s possible ties to organized crime."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6721
"The debate about global warming has reached a crescendo, and has acquired a deeply unsettling tone. We are witnessing a veritable rush to judgment — a rush that has now been accelerated by a United Nations report that accepts and supports the global warming theory. If there was ever a time for skepticism, it is now. The time has come for people who have reasonable doubts to speak up and offer the reasons for their doubts."
http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2007_05/jason-warming.html
"When selecting or designing a paradigm for a specific task, clearly understanding the goal is important. My goal was, and is, a healthy world – a world characterized by love and freedom. The details of such a world do not concern me; healthy people might arrange their world in a variety of ways. "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/allport/allport12.html
"Life, like the economy, is about the allocation of limited resources that have alternative uses (to paraphrase economist Thomas Sowell). It all boils down to energy efficiency. To a predator, Montague says, prey are batteries of energy…."
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=13&articleID=5B90A7E1-E7F2-99DF-3083871CC967A052
"Clinton was able to pose as a champion of the downtrodden – 'the first black president' – at the same time that he actually championed unbridled corporate power, ended welfare, slashed domestic programs while gorging the military-industrial complex – including Halliburton – with ever-greater helpings of government gravy."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1093&Itemid=135
This excellent 1980 Oscar winner almost disappeared from circulation, but now Parts 1, 2 and 3 have a home at YouTube. The numbered links above go directly to the pieces, the page linked below consolidates information about the film.
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=016987
"Take the quiz to find your preferred Presidential candidate (from the two major parties). Remember that 'The results are scored on a curve. 100% means that we are 100% certain that the top candidate on your list shares more of the views you indicated than any other candidate.' So the top choice will get a 100% score, but that doesn't mean you are in 100% agreement with him/her, only that you agree with that candidate more than with anyone else."
http://independentcountry.blogspot.com/2007/04/presidential-candidate-selector.html
"Most people want to be normal. So, when we are given information that underscores our deviancy, the natural impulse is to get ourselves as quickly as we can back toward the center."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070405133939.htm
"Your goal: invent a terrorist plot to hijack or blow up an airplane with a commonly carried item as a key component. The component should be so critical to the plot that the TSA will have no choice but to ban the item once the plot is uncovered. ... Your entry will be judged on the common item that the TSA has no choice but to ban, as well as the cleverness of the plot. It has to be realistic; no science fiction, please. And the write-up is critical; last year the best entries were the most entertaining to read."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/04/announcing_seco.html
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