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New Cartoons for Old Stories
by Bob Wallace

It wouldn't be as fun of a world for me if I didn't have cartoons. I don't mean only when I was a kid, watching Rocky exclaim "Holy Smoke!" or laughing over Bullwinkle trying to pull a rabbit out of his hat and instead extracting a snarling lion, all the while as I was trying to find the right balance of milk and Cap'n Crunch so the cereal would maintain that nice most crispness instead of dissolving into mush. Even now, I watch cartoons, although I dispense with the Cap'n Crunch.

Indeed, I get a lot of my information from cartoons! I sure got a lot as a kid, such as always remembering to wear a football helmet (since I didn't have a leather Rocky helmet-with-goggles) while trying to use a blanket to parachute from the top of the barn to the ground (never did that again), or to never stick my hand into anything unless I know what's in it. The last time I ignored the latter advice I stuck my hand into my briefcase not realizing there was an Exacto-knife in it. It wasn't as bad as a snarling lion, but not by much. I never did that again, either. Obviously, I'm more along the lines of Bullwinkle than Rocky. (Read the rest here)

Johnny Be Bad - Chuck Kerry
By Ted Lang © 2004

It’s beginning to look a lot like déjà vu all over again! Immediately preceding crash and burn Bush, we had a chief executive that would be King Curtis on the saxophone. As Chuck Berry offered, when in pursuit of hearin’ some of that “Rock & Roll Music,” we might want to take a ride over cross the tracks, and hear his man on the wailin’ sax. Slick Willy was good at blowin’ his horn while M… nah; let’s not go there!

But now we have John Kerry, walkin’ on stage with a cherry-red double-cutaway Gibson 335. Undoubtedly, this guy knows his guitars – it’s the brand and model made famous by the great Chuck Berry. And one of the tunes I just had to learn was Johnny B. Goode. The base strings just bounce out a neat rhythm-keepin’ beat that can keep any drummer under control, and using a permanent index finger barre across the sixth fret [A#], you play rhythm, beat-keepin’ bass, and do the lead when it’s time. (Read the rest here)

I, American - and the land that was free
By Dorothy Anne Seese

The mega mergers and the technology that replaced humans, including "Operator" at the phone company, have taken my America from me and from all of us who were born American citizens.  But that is not all that has been taken away.  Everyone born prior to September 11, 2001, was born in a freer America than the one in which we live now, and we who claim to be free are comfortable with armed snipers on buildings, and armed police or security, even military, anywhere there is a threat against something we Americans never called this nation, our "Homeland."

We, Americans, have been re-educated to accept things that were never before part of American culture, such as the right to choose our employees, associates, friends, and even neighbors.  Now our institutions that claim to educate first indoctrinate that our American heritage is essentially evil.  The white man is essentially evil because he has dominated the world's exploration, colonization, industrialization, technological innovation, medical advances and largely carried forth the Christian faith to the nations where there was colonization, even in the continental United States and former territories such as Hawaii and Alaska. (Read the rest here)

Libertarian Commentary on The Day's News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2004

Commentary is on Rational Review News Digest while FMN is on vacation.

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Certainly one of the ten basic rules of fighting for liberty, and why FND and RRND put out their daily compendiums. The author of this commentary doesn’t pretend to have the smarts of Tom, Mary Lou, Sunni or their aides, but believes it is almost as important to interpret the news as to read it – hence this column, with the views herein being my own, and not necessarily those of anyone else. But I ask that you share my opinion of the good work these folks and Mama Liberty (here at TPoL) do, and support them with kind words and cold cash.

1) Iraq: Car bomb kills five; clashes in Najaf and Mosul
Reuters
I don’t doubt that at least some of these civilians were killed by Americans, and that is very regrettable. But many are being killed by their own countrymen, not because they are collaborators, but just because they were in the way, or because they are in the wrong sect. Unless we can get at the root causes (and third-world conditions or poverty is not a cause, but an effect), this killing will continue, whether the Allies are there or not.

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What Color Is the Wolf Today?
By Ivan Eland

Orange is the color currently in fashion in the nation’s capital and its main financial center. The U.S. government has once again raised the terror alert level from yellow to orange—this time in Washington, D.C. and New York City—based on information obtained from the arrest of a computer engineer in Pakistan several weeks ago. Yet by frequently changing its colors, the government has cried wolf too many times.

New Yorkers and Washingtonians are justifiably skeptical and nonchalant about the heightened warning level. Although urging Americans to “keep shopping” during all prior orange alerts, the government has never told us how to behave differently at various “threat” levels. The rhetoric by Tom Ridge, the nation’s Secretary of Homeland Security, and other anonymous U.S. officials would have us believe that the current threat level is very severe. Yet, they didn’t change the alert system to red, its highest color, probably because people would be too frightened to leave their homes for the shopping mall.

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Free "The Hunter"

Free Hunter: Collateral Damage
by Carl Bussjaeger

American Independence Day has come and gone, along with the traditional boom and glare of fireworks that bring joy to many kids, young and old.

Picture two such of the younger children: Adorable little girls just six and four years old respectively, Mikayla and Brittany. Imagine their anticipation as the big day approaches and they look forward not only to the beloved fireworks, but also to the arrival of their favorite uncle Jeff, whom they haven't seen in months.

Now picture the adorable little girls' disappointment because a suited goon in Ohio wouldn't let Uncle Jeff come see his family. Yes, Mikayla and Brittany are just two more victims of the Ashland County, Ohio prosecutor's office.

Call them "collateral damage," more innocents caught in the cross-fire as the run-amuck prosecutors pursue their vendetta against Jeffrey "Hunter" Jordan. (Read the rest here)

 

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