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December 12, 2005

Project For The New American Century:
The Death Certificate For Our Republic
By Michael Gaddy

I, like many other supporters of the Constitution, have been asking since the 2000 election; exactly what drives the foreign policy of the Bush Administration. The answer is revealed in the doctrines of the Policy for the New American Century, (PNAC)

Neil Mackay, in the Scotland Sunday Herald, reveals the master plan now driving this administration.

"A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001. (Read the rest here)

Big Mother
By Lady Liberty

I had a nice Thanksigiving this year. I spent the afternoon with friends. We had much too much good food to eat, and we ate too much of it; after dinner, we watched a couple of good movies during which some proved to be too tired to stay awake. Later, I drove home through a light snowfall with a bag of turkey, fruit salad, pie, and other tasty leftovers on the seat beside me. I'm lucky to have such good friends with whom I can spend such a relaxing day, and I'm truly thankful for it.

One friend of mine, however, didn't have such a good day. She had to split the day between two families: hers and her husband's. Now, you'd think that that would mean two delicious dinners and twice as much good company. But what it really meant was about ten times the stress, and at least twice the resentment. (Read the rest here)

Just Ignore The ACLU
By Doug Newman

The next time the ACLU prevails on a federal court to declare some public expression of Christianity unconstitutional, the defendants in the case should just ignore them.

Yes, just ignore them.

I was at a bible study the other evening when someone suggested that we could really hack off a lot of folks at the ACLU if we each sent them a Christmas card. Oh, how they hate the very mention of His Name! Perhaps I take things too seriously, but I did not think this was that funny. (Read the rest here)

Hey IRS - What About AIPAC?
By Ted Lang © 2005

Coming on the heels of the defeat of the ADL's much-desired hate crime legislation designed to silence dissent and debate relating to the holocaust and to stifle as well any inquiry or debate on unconscionable anti-American/anti-Christian Zionist activities, Abraham Foxman and his Israel first/America last Anti-Defamation League continue to attack American values and individual freedoms. Angered by the defeat of his intended draconian, fascist weapon of unjust laws to enable the control and supervision of all American speech and thought through the Israeli ADL , Foxman lashed out in an unbridled explosion of hatred directed at all Christians.

As pointed out by Reverend Ted Pike, "ADL is also the American adjunct of Mossad, Israel's secret intelligence organization. During the California ADL/police spy scandal of the late 1980s, David Gurvitz, librarian and researcher for ADL's Los Angeles office, testified that Mossad couriers routinely passed through ADL's Los Angeles office. They carried to Israel secret documents, which probably included detailed information from U.S. police departments concerning more than 10,000 Christians, conservatives, pro-lifers, and Muslim activists. My father and I were on the police/ADL list." (Read the rest here)

The Truth About The World Health Organization And AIDS
By Carey Roberts

If you're like most people I know, World AIDS Day passed you by last Thursday with scarcely a nod. And for good reason, because the World Health Organization, which sponsors the observance, is keeping a low profile these days. And well it should. Any way you look at it, the WHO effort to stop AIDS has been a dismal failure. In fact many believe the World Health Organization is actually making things worse.

It was June 1981 when U.S. public health officials first reported a strange illness that afflicted six homosexual men. Who would have believed that nearly 25 years later, the deadly virus would be infecting 5 million new people each year, and that a staggering 40 million people - 70% of whom live in Africa -- are now HIV-positive?

In the minds of the UN experts, the solution to the AIDS threat is simple: drugs and condoms. (Read the rest here)

The Social Benefits of Making Money
By Sheldon Richman

The critics of the free market ought to listen to themselves once in a while. They might learn something.

A standard charge against market-oriented societies is that they are corrupted by profit. Businessmen only want to make money. Profits come before people. At the same time, the market’s critics blame business for wasting resources and neglecting people’s needs.

These claims are inconsistent. If businessmen really want to make money, they will neither waste resources nor neglect people’s needs, because economizing and catering to customers is how you make money in the marketplace. (Read the rest here)

TSA Treats for Holiday Travelers
By Ivan Eland

Last week, I was so irate after flying the 2,000-mile roundtrip from my home in Washington, D.C., to Chicago that I vowed to hitchhike next time. Did I have to endure the loss of my luggage for an extended period of time or sleep overnight in the airport because of the notoriously bad winter weather in Chicago? No, it was something much worse. Ominously, I received a boarding pass inscribed with “SSSS”—bureaucratese for winning (really losing) the lottery for a spot in the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) special security inspection line.

At first, a flash of paranoia gripped me and I wondered if I was being singled out for government harassment because of a column I wrote awhile back criticizing the TSA’s airport security procedures. Or could it have been that the government didn’t like my many anti-Iraq War columns? Finally, I realized my ego was inflating my importance to the government and that the special inspection was probably related to the airline check-in attendant’s offer to put me on an earlier flight. (If I get those same nefarious S’s during the two other air trips I’ve scheduled during the Yuletide season, I may reconsider my original, more sinister hypothesis.) (Read the rest here)

Democrats have ‘Innovative Agenda?’
It’s more of the same bad ideas
By Jeff Adams

Recently, the Democrat Party came out with a ‘new agenda,’ which they claim helps to address the U.S.’s declining lead in the high-tech industry. Much of their agenda is the typical political stuff, basically attempts to lure high-tech companies into funneling money into their party. Parts of their agenda are no different than the agenda of Republicans in that it attempts to coerce businesses to function in specific ways, rather than allowing the free market to influence business behavior.

However, there was one part of their ‘initiative’ that really caught my eye. Democrats claim that since there aren’t enough students excelling in science and math, an incentive needs to be put in place. Some ‘genius’ came up with the brilliant idea, as part of the overall effort to influence people’s actions and get more folks into high-tech industry, to offer tuition assistance and raise the salaries of math and science teachers. (Read the rest here)

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, Week ending 10 DEC 2005
Let's jump right in, remembering that these views (and the news selected from various sources) are those of the writer, and don't necessarily reflect the views or opinions or taste of anyone else associated with TPoL, FND, RRND, CNS, or (especially) the FBI, CIA, BATFE, USDA, or NASLTPO, to name a few.

Culture Wars in the USA
Once more, in December, we find the culture wars are whipped up to a fever pitch, and it is stomach-churning to see both the battle and how people respond to it. We start with the evils of Christmas and go from there.

Some megachurches close for Christmas
Associated Press
This Christmas, no prayers will be said in several megachurches around the country. Even though the holiday falls this year on a Sunday, when churches normally host thousands for worship, pastors are canceling services, anticipating low attendance on what they call a family day. Critics within the evangelical community, more accustomed to doing battle with department stores and public schools over keeping religion in Christmas, are stunned by the shutdown. It is almost unheard of for a Christian church to cancel services on a Sunday, and opponents of the closures are accusing these congregations of bowing to secular culture.

If you ever thought the world was getting really, REALLY strange, this news surely proves it. Let me point out, I am a christian, and I do NOT celebrate Christmas: it is NOT authorized nor required in the Bible - but worship on Sunday IS both authorized and required. Thus, this is doubly bizarre to me, and shows how twisted and warped religious "institutions" have gotten today. These megachurches are the religious equivalent of the Fedgov - they are huge, employing dozens or hundreds, put on what is essentially entertainment which they call worship, and compete as much with secular organizations (cinema, sporting events, etc.) as with "other churches."

Mama's Note: This is really strange, considering the offering basket "take" they'll be giving up. Who knows? Just maybe, however, at least some of the people who would have gone to these phony "churches" will find somewhere else to go. Maybe they will hear the real message of the gospel for the first time. God works in mysterious ways.
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