August 21, 2006

No Senator Clinton - Government is the one Squeezing Consumers
By Robert Greenslade © Nitwit Press

Once again, a self-serving politician, in a shameless attempt to curry favor with potential voters, launched a deceitful attack on "greedy oil companies" for increased gasoline prices. In her press release issued last month, Senator Hillary Clinton said: "Consumers are getting squeezed at the same time that the oil companies are recording the largest profits in corporate history." No Senator Clinton, you have it wrong - government is the one squeezing consumers. (Read the rest here)

The Hidden Draft in Our Schools - A Case Study: Klein High
By Captain May

Last year the big scandal in the Houston-area recruiting racket was Sergeant Thomas Kelt, who threatened those he was recruiting with arrest if they didn't enlist into the Army, thereby giving a new meaning to "impressing potential recruits."

This year the scandal has come back with a vengeance, with reports that the same recruiter who coerced the clueless last year, far from being removed from recruiting, has been promoted -- to be in charge of other recruiters. (Read the rest here)

Jon Benet Arrestee's Credibility Highly Suspect
By Carl F. Worden

John Mark Karr has made several self-incriminating statements regarding his alleged involvement in the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado back in 1996. He claims Jon Benet's death at his hands was accidental, and when asked if he is an innocent man, he replied, "No".

But when asked for specific details as to how he gained access to the Ramsey home and similar detail-oriented questions, he replied, "No comment".

Most laymen have no idea how many people come forward to make false confessions in unsolved, high-profile murders and other crimes, but let me assure you, they seem to come out of the woodwork like cockroaches. (Read the rest here)

Bombs in the WTC Buildings Proves Nothing to Racist-Fascist Bigots
By Ed Ward, MD

Fireman Lou Cacchioli was the first to grab me by the heart, mind and soul with his isolated courage by simply telling the truth about what he experienced to the only media that cared to ask about his eyewitness account of 9/11 on July 19, 2005. In the Arctic Beacon article, by Greg Szymanski, he related his observations during the efforts to save as many as he could with little regard for personal safety: "...there were bombs...elevator doors completely blown out... we heard this huge explosion that sounded like a bomb... another huge explosion like the first one hits.... Oh. My God, these bastards put bombs in here like they did in 1993! Then as soon as we get in the stairwell, I hear another huge explosion like the other two. Then I heard bang, bang, bang - huge bangs..." (Read the rest here)

Why the Dating Violence Double Standard?
By Richard L. Davis

Dating violence studies consistently document that girls and boys equally abuse and/or physically assault each other. Despite those studies advocates routinely dismiss “equal physical assault data.” Advocates claim that the studies and the data do not consider the, “meaning, context, or consequences” of that assaultive behavior (O'Keefe, 2005).

However, the lack of “meaning, context, or consequences” does not prevent the vast majority of dating and domestic violence websites to claim and publish as a “fact” that: (Read the rest here)

Ready, Set...
By Lady Liberty

Those who lean toward participation in the Free State Project, Free State Wyoming, the Free West Alliance, or similar movements fall into pretty much the same archetypes that most people do: Some jump right in; some test the waters first; some claim support but offer excuses; and others' sole contribution is to criticize.

Those who jump right in are few and far between. They're risk-takers (though typically not foolishly so), and they blaze a trail for all of those who follow. Those who need just a little "infrastructure" in place before leaping rely on the risk-takers, but they've got at the very least the courage of their convictions as well. And critics are actually helpful in their own way as they point out possible pitfalls and, by demanding answers, ensure that such roadblocks have solutions whether it involves breaking through or navigating around them. (Read the rest here)

A Woman Can Do Anything A Man Can Do (Well, Almost)
By Carey Roberts

Last year I was talking with a woman who insisted female athletes are just as skilled as the men. A few months later, the US female Olympic hockey team played a boys' high school team from Warroad, Minnesota. The small town boys prevailed 2-1 over the elite Olympians - and that was a non-checking game.

Then there are the women-in-combat zealots. They parade girls like PFC Jessica Lynch as living proof that women can handle the fierce demands of front line combat. You may recall that war heroine Lynch later admitted about her Iraqi mishap, "I did not shoot, not a round, nothing. I went down praying to my knees. And that's the last I remember." (Read the rest here)

Rites of Passage
by Bob Wallace

The fact we don't have any initiation affects us politically, I'm convinced. Politically, the leftist nanny-state is Mommy. Why do men fall for it? Because, even though raised with two parents, they're still stuck in mommy-mode, due to the lack of initiation rites that pull them away from mommy and toward daddy.

This away-from-dominating-mommy/searching-for-daddy can be seen in gangs, most of whom were raised without fathers. They found all-male gangs, ones that denigrate women. Their initiation rites and lives are all in the bad-male mode. (Read the rest here)

Could Puno and Guantanamo Be The Next Hong Kongs?
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa

Most readers of this column have never heard of Puno; quite a few have heard of Guantanamo Bay. Puno, a poor region in southeastern Peru, could become an economic powerhouse and stem the politics of resentment that is invading the Andes—if the government would allow a real free-enterprise zone to be established. Likewise, Guantanamo could erode Cuba's communism in the way West Berlin eroded East Berlin's communism if the U.S. authorities gave Cubans an opportunity to turn the controversial naval base into a new economic Hong Kong. (Read the rest here)

Polarization Needed
By Sheldon Richman

When Sen. Joseph Lieberman lost his Connecticut Democratic primary to an anti-war candidate, he used his concession speech to decry the politics of polarization. This was hypocritical because the war hawks, Lieberman included, have gone far in suggesting that criticism of the war policy is tantamount to assisting terrorists.

But even if no hypocrisy were involved, the abhorrence of polarization would be absurd. The Bush administration, with Lieberman's vigorous support, occupies Iraq and has facilitated Israel's assault on Lebanon. If that doesn't call for a politics of polarization, what would? (Read the rest here)

Individual Liberty - 101
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute

Enterprising Education: Doing Away with the Public School System
by Andew Young and Walter Block

The very suggestion that government should be removed entirely from the realm of education is either taken as irrational and malicious or viewed as foolhardy and quixotic. This seems very peculiar when considering that the critics of the present state of public education appear on both sides of the political spectrum. Still, the overwhelming sentiment, ubiquitous in both the general citizenry and academia, is that while public education may need to be reformed, it still should be guaranteed "free" to all by government. (Read the rest here)

From The Archives:
Free Immigration - Part 1
By Nathan A. Barton © 2004

Few issues seem to divide lovers of liberty in the American Union more than the issue of open borders, and related immigration issues. Although open borders has long been a staple of Libertarian Party platforms, it has been an issue which has kept some people OUT of the Libertarian Party, and has caused them to vote against Libertarian candidates. Even many staunch supporters of freedom have said, at least privately, “I admit I have some reservations about just opening up the borders.” (Read the rest here) Free Immigration Part 2

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