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"The importance of the centuries-old, hard-won principle of habeas corpus as a bulwark against tyranny cannot be exaggerated — for what good is a bill of rights if those whom the government imprisons may not publicly contest their detention? "
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0706e.asp
"Stephen shows us how the Colbert Bump has improved Ron Paul's appeal. "
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/?lnk=v&ml_video=88993
"It’s a vision that will inevitably be ridiculed as naïve by the imperial intelligentsia who helped American into this mess. But it’s also so noble in its simplicity that it is already causing Americans who are tired of the warfare state to look at this mild-mannered physician and see the politician they’ve always wanted: a man of unbending conviction, of proven fidelity to a strict interpretation of the Constitution."
http://amconmag.com/2007/2007_06_18/cover.html
"[Q:]What's your response to those who say you're not electable? [A:] The idea of who is not electable is subjective. It's early, no one knows, and only one candidate will win so everyone else will turn out to be not electable."
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2007/06/interview-with-ron-paul.html
"Getting a quota of arrests was necessary in order to qualify for continuing Byrne Grants – which are a form of welfare for local police. This meant treating the local federally subsidized housing project as a hunting ground for the usual suspects, and anybody else who looked like a suitable candidate for arrest. And Paschall and his cronies didn't scruple to steal the money honestly earned by one of their victims, even if it meant depriving one of her kids of medicine he needed in order to breathe." [I recommend paying particular attention to Radley Balko's interview of Regina Kelly towards the end of the article.]
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/06/not-scene-from-movie-or-from-streets-of.html
"Whenever a country salivates over the chance to hand in a freedom, that country is always, inevitably wrong. Restricting the rights of others to come here renders us a prison from sea to shining sea."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002817.html
"Last month, Brian Kelly of Carlisle, Pa., was riding with a friend when the car he was in was pulled over by a local police officer. Kelly, an amateur videographer, had his video camera with him and decided to record the traffic stop. The officer who pulled over the vehicle saw the camera and demanded Kelly hand it over. ... They arrested Kelly on charges of violating an outdated Pennsylvania wiretapping law that forbids audio recordings of any second party without their permission. ... Kelly was charged with a felony, spent 26 hours in jail, and faces up to 10 years in prison. All for merely recording a police officer, a public servant, while he was on the job."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,284075,00.html
"Cases of medical quarantine are classic examples of situations where the rights of the individual are supposedly trumped by the safety of the community. After all, when people’s decisions have consequences beyond their private lives, the government should and must intervene. In contrast to this conventional wisdom, permit me to make a case for the exact opposite conclusion."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/murphy/murphy116.html
"I would have liked for us to have had more of a chance to discuss why a broad, diverse Libertarian Left exists and how it can radicalize an increasingly conservative libertarian movement, but alas... Brad managed to touch on that briefly, but just as we were winding up, the show was winding down. Anyway, it was a good program. Well done, comrades!"
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2007/06/left-libertarian-gabfest-is-wrap.html
"It’s a certainty that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention did not, in 1787, consider the possibility that society could exist, absent some form of government. Nor, I am sure, did the people themselves, upon whose shoulders the burden of government would fall, entertain such a notion. Nor do people even today."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hein/hein171.html
"Humor such as this bears witness to the uselessness of government action, which, in this case, is decidedly better than the death toll it achieves in other cases! However, on some level the reader must become aware of the utter waste of not just such pandering, but taxpayer money which pays for the entire, whoring, distracting, useless, devastating mess. To question is the beginning of wisdom."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/fontana/fontana19.html
"It seems that two never before widely available Samuel Edward Konkin III works on agorism are in coming months to be published by KoPubCo. Both were previously rumored to have never been completed…."
http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/684
"A walk down Main Street in this New England town calls to mind the pictures of Norman Rockwell, who lived nearby and chronicled small-town American life in the mid-20th Century. So it is fitting that the artist's face adorns the 50 BerkShares note, one of five denominations in a currency adopted by towns in western Massachusetts to support locally owned businesses over national chains."
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0530157720070619?feedType=RSS&rpc=22
"In an age in which technology has given young people the tools to exercise personal choice in ways previous generations could not dream of—for instance, by substituting customized information and group communication through the Internet for traditional media—one senses a growing revulsion against the intrusion of the authorities into people’s lives. The exasperation with established institutions affects both parties, but the most blatant target is the Republican Party."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1988
"The libertarian road to innovation, achievement and excellence is a politically incorrect one. It will begin by recognizing that children's minds are not state property and the state has no right imposing itself or its will onto those minds. Greater freedom and more competition would need to prevail in how children are educated. More children will be homeschooled or privately tutored in learner paced environments."
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/07/070617-4.htm
"'Before, the boss wouldn't let us into the main administrative office. Now it's ours,' Rojas says. 'We go in there anytime to check on orders and be involved with that side of the business'."
http://www.counterpunch.org/dangl06232007.html
"The American Empire will end just as certainly and ignominiously as the Soviet Empire did – and, perhaps, even more rapidly, on account of the economic factors involved. It's true that our enormous wealth – i.e., the boundless productive capacity of capitalism – masks the true economic cost of war, to some degree. Yet, in the end, we may wind up being destroyed by the very market forces we are so intent on globalizing."
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11152
"If the Democrats don’t even make an effort to impeach George Bush or Dick Cheney before these criminals’ terms are up, then no president of the United States will ever face punishment for crimes against his own people or humanity at-large. So said David Swanson, of the Internet treasure trove of impeachment information, AfterDowningStreet.org. ... Impeachment, like all criminal processes, is designed not just to punish current lawbreakers, but to prevent future criminality."
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/06/if-bush-cheney-can%e2%80%99t-be-impeached-nobody-can/
"What President Bush has been pushing for is a rubric that does not follow the law of war or the civilian system. He has been blazing a new path for America. One of presidential tyranny, where the commander in chief has dominion over the battlefield, defined as the entire planet, and may designate anyone an enemy to be thrown into detention, tortured into talking and never heard from again. The prisoners wouldn't be soldiers in war or civilians. They would be America's disappeared."
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/06/17/Opinion/When__enemy_combatant.shtml
"The groundwork is being laid for a new kind of government where it will no longer matter if you’re innocent or guilty, whether you’re a threat to the nation or even if you’re a citizen. What will matter is what the president – or whoever happens to be occupying the Oval Office at the time – thinks. And if he or she thinks you’re a threat to the nation and should be locked up, then you’ll be locked up with no access to the protections our Constitution provides. In effect, you will disappear."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/whitehead3.html
"Shortly after the midterm elections, as his fellow Republicans lay moaning on a row of hospital stretchers, South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint made a decision: He wasn’t going to stick earmarks for his state into any more spending bills. If some greedy constituent expected him to bring some pork back home, that was just tough. He was through with earmarking—with one caveat. 'There should be some very limited earmarks in defense spending bills,' the senator says."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/120267.html
"What an extraordinary situation. On the one hand, we have a tin-pot tyrant, discredited, deeply unpopular, increasingly delusional, his illegitimacy exposed, his political base shrinking -- yet he remains firmly in power, waging a criminal war of aggression and actively moving toward another one, openly flouting the law of the land, and maniacally filling his cronies' pockets with loot. On the other hand, we have an opposition party that could draw upon the support of the vast majority of the public who oppose the tyrant's policies -- yet it refuses to take up the one legal weapon it has to accomplish the people's will and turn the criminal out of office."
"[T]here is something utterly horrifying about the fact that Romney tapped not one, but two key people in the Teen Torture Industry to raise money for his presidential campaign. This obviously raises questions about where and how those funds have been raised. But the more serious issue is this: Romney himself has embraced the use of torture, however euphemistically described, as a central function of the presidency."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/06/mitt-romney-and-teen-torture-industry.html
"The fascist charges don’t stem from Giuliani’s ethnicity, they stem from his actions and statements. Giuliani, in his own worlds, explains that, 'freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom,' he explains, 'is about authority'."
http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n25/giuliani_altar_boys_and_weasels
"Wang says he was 'radically transformed' by his research into and personal journey with raw milk, 'as a man, as a physician, as a healer.' Pasteurization laws, he says, are nothing more than a 'government systematic program campaign to support industrial dairy.' 'Pasteurization,' Wang says, 'doesn't improve the safety or health of dairy.' This deep suspicion of industry motives and their perceived patrons in government at all levels is a common thread."
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A155882
"The Mbirikani Predator Compensation Fund pays herders market value of any livestock that are killed by predators like lions. However, if anyone kills a lion, no one gets paid. "
http://www.abetterearth.org/blog/id.4078/news_detail.asp
"Most of the time we share our bodies harmoniously with the 90 trillion or so microbes. But sometimes the arrangement turns contentious…."
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/your-body-is-a-planet
"The group charges no fee and is open to anyone, including people who are also on other waiting lists. The only requirement is members promise to donate their organs when they die. They use a legal tool called directed donation allowing them to bequeath organs to other members."
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/jun/17/lifesharers-keeps-organ-donations-within-the/
"The elephant in the drawing room whose presence hardly anybody acknowledges, however, is that no matter what one concludes with regard to these strictly economic aspects of the farm programs, they are utterly immoral from the get-go. If you can find a purer, more unequivocal example of legal plunder, I'd like to hear about it."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs59.html
"Supporters of these sorts of programs often claim that certain crucial investments and industries just wouldn't be financed by the private sector so Uncle Sam should step in to remedy this market failure. Yet many of these supporters see market failure when it suits their purposes, not when it really exists."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8375
"Maybe the Gates Foundation's private charity will work wonders, but more government-to-government subsidies won't do the trick. The trillions spent in foreign aid have little to show for it."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/06/bill_gates_needs_an_econ_cours.html
"Offshoring will enrich some and hurt others in the short term, but the two groups will not be distinguished by the citizenships they claim. To whip up hysteria about outsourcing is to pit American against American; the Americans who benefit from lower prices, increased productivity, and job creation, against those whose jobs are lost to more efficient producers."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/120893.html
"The current crisis is also a reflection of Turkey's internal politics. Beating the anti-Kurdish drum is part of the Turkish army's strategy to whip up nationalism in order to weaken the religious government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan before the July elections."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/napolitano.php?articleid=11160
"[T]he struggle in the Ogaden was simply ignored by the Bush {Administration] -- until a rebel Ogaden faction staged a bloody attack on an oilfield in Ethiopia last April. Raping women and beating villagers to death, that's just background noise; but messing with the sacred crude -- now, that's serious."
"Proposed U.S. military spending for FY 2008 is larger than military spending by all of the other nations in the world combined. At $141.7 billion, this year’s proposed spending on the Iraq war is larger than the military budgets of China and Russia combined. "
http://lilarajiva.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/the-miliitary-a-means-or-an-end/
"Israel can expect the allegiance of its citizens, and for understandable reasons Jews in every nation take an interest in its survival. But I cannot think of a compelling reason why the typical American should take a greater interest in Israel than he does in Angola, Austria, Guatemala, or Sierra Leone."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/06/flesh-for-war-fantasies.html
"Williams, in his sweeping book The Contours of American History, pinpoints Hoover as 'the key figure' in the 'small core of leadership' of the Progressive 'corporation community' that became influential in 1913-14. Laissez faire -- the 'unruly' free market where no one's profits were secure -- was the last thing these prominent businessmen wanted."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1389
"Americans, says Kaye, have long turned to Paine for solace and inspiration in times of crisis. The first part of the book sketches Paine’s life and career, while the second maps his influence on Americans from the nation’s beginnings to the present; in both sections, Kaye demonstrates aggressive, painstaking archival work and a real affection for his subject."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/120352.html
"Gerald Ford is a hero in Washington in part because he covered up the crimes of the state. His most famous action was his pardoning of Richard M. Nixon, the man who chose him to be vice president after Spiro Agnew was forced to resign in disgrace. … Ford’s pardon proclaimed a new doctrine in American law and politics — that one president can absolve another president of all his crimes and all his killings. His pardon signaled the formal end of the rule of law in America."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0703c.asp
"Cobden in particular hated the aristocracy. He viewed them as a parasitic class living off an otherwise productive society. According to his biographer Nicholas Edsall, 'It was Cobden's hope that ultimately Britain would be led to realize the futility of all imperial bounties and monopolies, the effects of which were merely to subsidize uneconomic enterprise.' It was with this message that the Anti–Corn Law League, which soon became the best-financed and most highly organized pressure group in Britain, appealed to middle-class manufacturers, industrial workers, agricultural laborers, and tenant farmers."
http://www.mises.org/story/2604
"Now that we're in so deep, with little hope of digging ourselves out, the real neocon agenda is becoming all too apparent. Iraq was only the dress rehearsal for a general conflagration that will replicate the Iraqi civil war on a regional level. ... I've consistently warned in this space over the years that in getting involved in Iraq we were getting on the Middle East escalator and not stopping until we reached a whole new level of warfare – a conflict that could comfortably fit within the parameters of a new world war."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11163
"[I]f a top official in any other Islamic country announced that suicide attacks against the West are justified, that nation would stand condemned as a terrorist-supporting 'rogue state' and become a prime candidate for 'regime change.' But because Bush likes the cut of Musharraf's authoritarian jib, this open support for murder by the Pakistani regime will be ignored."
"Even if the United States launched air strikes against Iran, they would probably only delay the inevitable. Such strikes would be unlikely to eliminate all of Iran’s nuclear facilities, because the United States doesn’t know where all of them are located; in addition, some have been deeply buried, and still others are in densely populated areas. Air strikes would likely rally the young Iranian population, thirsting for change, around the autocratic and theocratic fossils now running Iran’s government—eliminating all hope that regime change would terminate the Iranian nuclear program."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1986
"The civilian death toll in Iraq is, by all accounts, frightful. Car bombs enact a terrible toll, and this is widely covered by the press almost every day. But civilians who die at the hands of American troops get much less attention. There are many reasons for this. The incidents are widely scattered and usually do not involve large numbers at one time. The U.S. military rarely admits wrongdoing -- in some cases, it may not even know that anyone has died. The media, amid horrible violence, has trouble investigating. "
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/
pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003600630
"His thinking about the self-development of man and the role of the state inspired many philosophers and politicians, among them John Stuart Mill. Humboldt argues in his famous essay that a state seeking to provide for more then the physical safety of the citizens will inevitably destroy the freedom and the creativity of the individuals. The only source of progress in a liberal society is the free interaction of free people."
http://www.liberal-international.org/editorial.asp?ia_id=1116
"Of nearly a hundred lighter pieces for the stage, Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) is best known, in particular for its famous can-can."
http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/761.htm
"She was nominated again for Airport (1970) and Woody Allen's Interiors (1978); she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Reds (1981), directed by Warren Beatty, in which she portrayed the Lithuanian-born anarchist, Emma Goldman."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Stapleton
"In 1973 he published How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, a self-help book that shows individuals how to take responsibility for their own lives. Many people consider the book to be a modern classic and it remains in demand three decades after its first publication."
http://www.harrybrowne.org/about.htm
"As with much of his previous work, Moore's latest film is, by turns, touching, naïve and maddeningly mendacious, a clumsy piece of agitprop that will likely have little lasting effect on the health care debate. Moore is right that the American system is sick—on this, there is bipartisan and public consensus. The United States has the highest per capita health care spending in the world, with comparatively disappointing results. But his radical prescriptions, which include a call for a British-style, single-payer system, will likely have little resonance with viewers."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/120998.html
"But now we come to the real crux of the matter. Hardyvillians and communards had a common enemy -- and now a common friend. Or did we? Was Jorge Delaval a friend? Now there's a question for you. "
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe070618.html
"Half of the genius of the Marvel superhero movies at their best is that they re-create the tone and spirit of the original books."
http://bwrmontag.blogspot.com/2007/06/rise-of-fantastic-four.html
"The time: right about now. The location: these days, just about any place in the United States. The characters: an accountant, a Chevy Cavalier, a poodle, and several police dressed completely in black, just like ninjas in a cheap kung fu film."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle422-20070617-07.html
Dr. Colbert suggests not brushing your teeth because counterfeit Colgate may contain antifreeze.
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/?lnk=v&ml_video=88883
"[A]l-Sharif ... noted that his nearly $6,000 in credit-card debt from recent purchases of a 52-inch HDTV and a backyard gas grill prevents him from buying needed materials for the attack. Though the members of the cell said that they 'live only to spill the blood of crusaders who oppress Muslims,' they cited additional reasons for the delay, including an unexpired free Netflix trial and nagging lower-back pain. "
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/after_5_years_in_u_s_terrorist
"Hillary Clinton picks her campaign theme song and Jon loses to Celine Dion again!"
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/?lnk=v&ml_video=88874
"I could pick any number of Heart videos, since Ann will grace them all, but I like their earliest work best. I used 'Dreamboat Annie' for Sister Nancy. I could use 'Magic Man,' 'Barracuda,' 'Little Queen' or others for Ann, and Nancy will decorate those videos too. However, for the best balance of video quality, performance and song, I like this cut of 'Crazy On You'."
http://tonova.typepad.com/thesuddencurve/2007/06/music_video_bab.html
"Learning becomes not something you do, but something done to you. Your purpose in being in school is not to enhance your creativity and understanding of the world, but to adopt 'success' as your motivating standard. 'Success,' of course, is measured in terms of how well you have internalized the institutional mindset...."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer158.html
"In the U.S.A., the eugenicists rolled on to their great triumph, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which doomed millions in Europe to their final rendezvous with Zyklon B twenty years later. By the 1930s, the eugenicists were mostly discredited, though many ... remain true to those racists obsessions to this day. "
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn06232007.html
"A man appeared in the doorway of the Oval Office. He wasn't noticed at first, in the bustle around the desk of the president, where George W. Bush was preparing to announce to the world that the 'decapitation raid' he had launched on Baghdad a few hours before was in fact the beginning of his long-planned, much-anticipated invasion of Iraq." [As a Le Guin fan, I find this also recalls “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”.]
http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/
The_Karamazov_Question%3A_Paying_the_Price_of_Paradise/
"We asked for emails, and you responded: Rolling Stone political writer Matt Taibbi responds to two dozen reader questions below. Note: Questions have been edited for length and/or clarity."
http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/
2007/06/22/matt-taibbi-answers-your-questions/
"Hilton debuted in the gossip columns. She has appeared in movies and has made an album, but those came later: She isn't a celebrity because she recorded a CD, she recorded a CD because she's a celebrity. And she's a celebrity because people like to loathe her. Being a scapegoat is part of her job."
http://reason.com/news/show/120857.html
"Twenty-five years ago, during a dinner conversation with Nobel Laureate economist/philosopher Friedrich A. Hayek, I asked him if he could propose one law that would restore, promote and preserve liberty in our country, what would that law be? Hayek answered that the law he'd propose would read: Congress shall enact no law that does not apply equally to all Americans. "
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/07/law.html
"'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' is not about prohibiting disruptive behavior; it actually bans or expels those who simply announce that they are homosexual, no matter what their behavior. I'm positive that Rep. Paul would not advocate a 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy for heterosexuals, even though, as he himself noted, some heterosexual behavior can be disruptive."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=11149
"Safari for Windows is part of a PLATFORM in the same sense that iTunes is part of the iPod platform or vice versa. In this case the platform in question is the iPhone and an as-yet unmentioned partner in that platform is Google. The iPhone absolutely needs AJAX applications for the phone to be a success on AT&T's EDGE network. By pushing more functional logic into the browser, the bandwidth consumed per http round-trip is significantly reduced, making the phone apps faster and helping to justify that big price tag."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070622_002278.html
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