August 07, 2006

Another Battle of Baghdad Cover Up -- It's Time for Truth
By Captain May

He who controls the present controls the past, and he who controls the past controls the future. George Orwell, 1984

Orwellian Overture

By any rational reckoning, we have lost the war in Iraq, unless there is some plan to escalate it to World War Three, mobilizing the US economy and returning to the draft. How could we be at such a low point without there having been a vigorous national debate about our deeply flawed war goals, war plans and war results?

In April of 2003, we saw Saddam Hussein's statue fall in Baghdad. On Mayday, 2003 we read "Mission Accomplished" as Bush praised his Shock-and-Awe war from the USS Abraham Lincoln. By the summer of 2003, though, we heard the word insurgency for the first time, and within a year we were hearing words like Sunni Triangle, militias and civil war -- and we've been hearing them ever since. (Read the rest here)

9/11/2006 Proclaimed: National Patriot Holiday
By Ed Ward, MD

Call for 9/11 National Strike & Protest Day: 9/11/2006

The five year anniversary of the planned, 9/11/2001, attack on freedom will occur in 5 weeks. Five years of increasing secrecy, lies, spying, torture, imprisonment, fiscal impropriety, media propaganda, media omissions of fact, election fraud, tyranny, war and destruction of our Constitution with the assistance of almost all of our representatives with completely inadequate responses by our representatives.

In August 2004, a Zogby poll revealed that 66% of New York City residents desired a new and broader investigation that explores all the evidence for government complicity. (Read the rest here)

We're Not Beaten Yet!
By Lady Liberty

Some time ago when we were all much younger, my boyfriend and I often got together with a small group of friends to listen to music, play cards, and have a few drinks. Among that group of friends was a pair of newlyweds who I'll call Bob and Kate (all of the names I'm going to use are fictitious; you'll see why in just a minute). Bob was in college like most of the rest of us were while Kate had only just graduated high school. A sweet, quiet, petite little blonde, she obviously adored her husband.

One night, our usual group was hanging out at Bob and Kate's apartment. Kate was quiet that night, even for her. At one point, while the men were checking out a new stereo system, I took her aside and asked her if she was okay. She promptly burst into tears and went on to tell me that her wonderful husband had been angry with her the other day and had hit her several times with his closed fists. I was horrified. I told Kate that she needed to get out of that apartment and then out of that marriage. She looked at me with her big blue eyes in shock. "But I love him!" she said. (Read the rest here)

The Kiss-And-Accuse Capers
By Carey Roberts

Former New England Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson was one of the lucky ones.

On July 16 the three-time Super Bowl player was arrested in Weston, Mass. for assaulting his wife. But last Monday Jackie Johnson came clean: "My husband, I adore him, and, it was my fault. . . . It breaks my heart to think I would be responsible with one emotional, irresponsible call in destroying this beautiful man's reputation."

Judge Rucker Smith of Sumter County, Georgia can also thank his lucky stars. (Read the rest here)

Weekend at Castro’s
By Emiliano Antunez

The news spread like wildfire through the streets of Miami. Fidel Castro’s health had failed him and he had allegedly handed over power to his younger brother Raul.

The speculation and rumors spread faster than you can swallow “un cafecito” (espresso) on Calle Ocho; was he dead already? Was he in a vegetative state? Was this just one of his many tricks or a dressed rehearsal of the inevitable? Had he hijacked a raft to Miami? It’s hard to tell what’s really going on in Havana since the communist power elites are obviously going to play this one close to the vest. Cubans both in Cuba and in Miami are forced to sit and wait enduring endless reports from questionable sources. [photos] (Read the rest here)

Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization
JPFO Alert: When Will They Learn?

It's been nearly a week since the tragic July 28 shooting spree at a Seattle Jewish center which left one dead and several injured. Undoubtedly, "gun control" advocates will start crawling out of the woodwork in short order to use this atrocity to lobby for yet more restrictions on firearms ownership. Sadly, many of these advocates will be members of the Jewish community.

Only one person was armed during this shooting: the shooter himself, who chose to ignore all of the laws he was breaking. The law-abiding innocents in the center had no ability to defend themselves. (Read the rest here)

From The Archives:
Permission Slips
by Sunni Maravillosa

Long gone are my days of cruising high school halls, skipping class and trying not to get caught -- but I'm still expected to have permission slips. No, I'm not a teacher in a youth indoctrination center, so I don't distribute the silly things. I mean that according to my ever-so-helpful local and national governments, I need permission slips -- their approval to do all sorts of things that I think most reasonable individuals would agree are none of the state's business.

The most obvious example is the permission slip to travel. Commonly referred to as a driver's license, the use of this permission slip has expanded to the point where it's necessary for just about any sort of travel. Want to get on a commercial jet? You'll need picture ID -- for most folks that means a driver's license. Want to get a bus or train ticket? Chances are you'll need a picture ID for that transaction as well. Just about any time a person "needs" photo ID, the driver's license is what folks want to see. It "proves" you're you, you're the age you claim to be, and it imparts the powerful granting of permission to drive on the roads in this country. (Read the rest here)

What Congress Can Do About Higher Gas Prices
by Congressman Ron Paul - R - TX

Gasoline prices are soaring and the American people are angry. They want something done about it—now!

$100 rebate checks to American motorists won’t cut it, nor will mandatory mileage requirements for new vehicles. Taxing oil profits will only force prices higher. But there are some very important things we can do immediately to help.

First: We must reassess our foreign policy and announce some changes. One of the reasons we went into Iraq was to secure oil. Before the Iraq war oil was less than $30 per barrel; today it is over $70. The sooner we get out of Iraq and allow the Iraqis to solve their own problems the better. Since 2002 oil production in Iraq has dropped 50%. Pipeline sabotage and fires are routine; we have been unable to prevent them. Soaring gasoline prices are a giant unintended consequence of our invasion, pure and simple. (Read the rest here)

Mr. Bush, Are You There?
by Sheldon Richman

If President Bush is trying to convince us that he hasn't the slightest understanding of the Middle East, then he's doing an outstanding job. Every statement he makes - and this goes for his secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, too - is soaked in ignorance. Any American who is paying attention should be shuddering to think that this man is running U.S. foreign policy.

Let's ignore Rice's statement that the destruction of Lebanon represents the "birth pangs of a new Middle East." To equate Israel's reckless disregard for Arab life, as in Qana, with a mother's giving birth is obscene. (Read the rest here)

Individual Liberty - 101
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute

The Source of Prices
by Ludwig von Mises

The ultimate source of the determination of prices is the value judgments of the consumers. Each individual, in buying or not buying and in selling or not selling, contributes his share to the formation of market prices. But the larger the market is, the smaller is the weight of each individual's contribution. Thus the structure of market prices appears to the individual as a datum to which he must adjust his own conduct. What is called a price is always a relationship within an integrated system which is the composite effect of human relations. (Read the rest here)

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