February 04, 2005

Freedoms Lost Under G.W. Bush
By Chuck Baldwin

Supporters and apologists for President G.W. Bush will often assail my assertion that the Bush administration has done more to dismantle constitutional protections of our liberties than any president in modern memory. It seems that these people believe that until federal Storm Troopers knock down the doors of their homes and drag them off to the gulags, they have lost no freedoms. Nothing could be further from the truth.

If history is any teacher, it instructs us in the incremental process that elitists use to implement their totalitarian agenda. The first step is to use an incessant, highly orchestrated propaganda. For all practical purposes, the major media in the United States is providing that propaganda. At the national level, there is hardly any investigative journalism going on. Instead, the national press corps has become little more than lazy lackeys for the White House. (Read the rest here)

Superbowl Myth Has More Lives Than A Cat
by Trudy W. Schuett

Just three days before the 1993 Super Bowl game, a news conference was called in Pasadena. There Sheila Kuehl, an attorney for the California Women's Law Center, stepped to the podium to report some shocking news: according to a study by Old Dominion University, emergency room admissions of women rose by 40% following football games won by the Washington Redskins. Media representatives got the warning that Super Bowl Sunday is "the biggest day of the year for violence against women." Soon a media advisory went out warning women, "Don't remain at home with him during the game." The next morning, Friday January 29, psychologist Lenore Walker appeared on Good Morning America and repeated the same frightening news. (Read the rest here)

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

We have one item today for which there is no URL listed - my apologies if you need to read the whole story, but I couldn’t locate an on-line article. Still, it is too good to not include! At least, that’s my opinion, and like the rest of this column, my opinion does not necessarily agree with anyone else’s (including TPoL, RRND, or FND).

General News
Transcript: State of the Union
Cullman Times
Complete transcript of President George W. Bush's 2005 State of the Union address. (02/02/05)

Transcript: Democratic response
MENAFN [Jordan]
Complete transcript of the Democratic response to the State of the Union address by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). (02/02/05)

Read them for yourself, if you really care. The only constitutionally mandated (or authorized) public relations dog and pony show, and the even more silly response to it, are not worth wasting much time on. All fluff, with a few hard facts to smooth the population’s swallowing of it. If you are interested in a brief (and not too shabby) critique of these from a near-libertarian view, visit and read Chuck’s discussion. What it amounts to is, “wow, if the words only meant anything.” (Read the rest of the Commentary here)

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