February 08, 2005

Don't Blame Me!
By Lady Liberty

It seems that everybody's looking for somebody to blame these days. In things large and small; all encompassing and personal; important and, well, laughable; the greatest effort is spent laying the problem at someone else's doorstep rather than actually figuring out how it is there's a problem in the first place. And then once fault has been set to somebody's satisfaction, somebody else will get sued instead of anybody bothering to see what it might take to actually fix the problem. It's important, of course, in this process that a few facts don't get in the way of any predetermination of blame, and that the whole story not be publicized when half of the story is more incendiary.
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We The People OR We The States?
By Robert Greenslade © Nitwit Press

A few weeks ago, I came across an interesting discussion on a radio talk show. The topic of debate was the federal government's rapidly expanding intrusion into every aspect of American life. A caller, who supported the continuation and growth of federal social programs, claimed this expansion is constitutional because the federal government is the people's government and that government was granted vast powers under the Constitution. He concluded his remarks by stating that the purpose of the Constitution was to establish a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. As proof, he offered the preamble to the Constitution for the United States to support his assertions. The preamble states:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (Read the rest here)

Iraq: Purple or Still Black and Blue?
By Ivan Eland

In the rich of tradition of “inside the beltway” political gimmicks, the all-too-giddy congressional Republicans at President Bush’s recent State of the Union address dipped their fingers in purple ink to show solidarity with Iraqis who voted in the U.S.-initiated Iraqi election. That smugness will likely come back to bite them. The predictable voter turnout in various areas of the country portends a precarious future for a unified U.S.-like federation. In fact, in the future, such Republican crowing might well be ridiculed as much as the President’s “Mission Accomplished” speech was after guerrilla warfare broke out in Iraq. (Read the rest here)

 

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

A short bit of news and commentary today, as we near the end of the modern Holiday Season, after nearly three months of frivolity and fun and entertainment, trying to distract us from the dismal circumstances of the election. At least, that’s my opinion, on this last day before Carnival and two days before the beginning of Lent, not necessarily those of RRND, FND, or TPoL!

Iraq: US soldier, Iraqis killed; Egyptians kidnapped
Boston Globe
"Gunmen waylaid a minibus yesterday carrying foreign technicians to their jobs at a mobile telephone company in western Baghdad, seizing four Egyptians in the second kidnapping of foreigners in the Iraqi capital within a week. ... Earlier yesterday in [Al-Bu Mustafa], two Iraqi national guardsmen were killed and three were wounded in an ambush, according to the Polish military. North of the capital, a US soldier from Task Force Baghdad was killed, and two others were wounded in a roadside bombing, the US command said. Two rockets also exploded near Baghdad International Airport, and a third slammed into an Iraqi national guard building in a western suburb. No casualties were reported." (02/07/05)

Of course the elections didn’t end the killing, but I expect to see it taper off gradually, unless the Iraqi government and the Coalition do something stupid (more stupid than usual). (Read the rest of the Commentary here)

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