August 28, 2006

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Just What Is So Christian About Bush?
By Doug Newman

Shaun White gained considerable fame from his gold medal performance as a snowboarder in this year's Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. His abundant mop of red hair earned him the nickname of "The Flying Tomato."

Shaun White is not really a tomato. People just call him that.

When he was running for president in 2000, George W. Bush said that Jesus had touched his heart. Hence, millions of Christians think that he is this wonderful noble Christian man. Just because people say he is a Christian, does that make him one? (Read the rest here)

Freedom a la Carte
By Lady Liberty

When I first decided to create a web site, it took me about 30 seconds to decide that I wanted to focus on freedom. Just about 30 seconds after that, I realized I had a problem: the topic was just too big. After further consideration, I decided that I would confine my efforts to the Constitution and the first ten of its Amendments, the Bill of Rights.

It wasn't long, of course, before I realized that even such a "narrow" concentration involved a vast number of possibilities. But the decision having been made, I decided to compensate by working only with news and current events, political commentary, and educational issues. Obviously, I'm in no danger of running short of material any time soon! (Read the rest here)

Why Evil Lurks, Leaps & Bounds
by NonEntity

I watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center live on TV.

That is such a huge thing, contained within that simple little statement.

There were those who were there, and I suppose that they may have stronger emotional reactions to that idea than I do, but it is hard to imagine - the level of death, the level of pain, of families who will never see life again the same way... never.

How? How could anyone possibly do such a thing? (Read the rest here)

Democrat Gatekeeper's Camptown Races Do-Da
By Ed Ward, MD

"What do you get when you fall in [Party] love? 'Cause [Camp] - I've been there and I'm glad I'm out. Out of those chains, those chains that bind you. That's why I'm here to remind you. You only get lies and pain and sorrow.", sang the Carpenters. Prophecy from the past? No, but the old lyrics and title seem to blend with the current political fiasco in which freedom loving Americans currently find ourselves.

What do you do when America's discontent with the democrat's (rats, dims, or for a real laugh democratic) and the republican's (repugs) party is at an all time high? Enough correct and righteous outrage that many simply call both parties - the party of elitists. (Read the rest here)

The Four Pillars of Wisdom for 911 Truth
By Captain May

Prologue to the Pillars

Thanks to much recent publicity, the 911 Truth Movement knows about Ghost Troop, the cyber-intelligence unit that has hounded King George and his Bush League for the last three years. Long experience in the movement, sometimes in the trenches, sometimes in the underground -- and always at personal peril -- has taught us to use four criteria in determining the quality of anyone or any group. These criteria are our four pillars of wisdom. (Read the rest here)

With Feminized Men, Who Will Fight The War On Terror?
By Carey Roberts

As a jubilant Ned Lamont announced his improbable win over incumbent Joe Lieberman, N.O.W. president Kim Gandy stood cheering at his side. The National Organization for Women press release proclaimed, "Peace is a feminist issue and the Iraq war has been a key issue in this campaign. . . . NOW PAC will continue to support Ned Lamont through the general election in November."

Little did Gandy realize that world events would soon overtake Lamont's "just-give-peace-a-chance" mantra. (Read the rest here)

A Lousy Time to be a Baby
by Bob Wallace

Sometimes I run across things that make my toes curl right up in my tennis shoes, like meeting a 50-year-old divorced grandmother who's living in a basement. And not a nice cozy Hobbit-like basement, but more like a Silence of the Lambs basement, the kind with those rough stone walls and a concrete floor. There isn't even any of that embarrassingly out-of-style dark '70's paneling, shag carpeting and an unfinished bar in the corner.

This grandmother didn't end up there involuntarily, as if she was some dotty relative hidden by her family; she chose to live there. Now why would she do something like that? Because her 25-year-old daughter just gave birth to her first child, a baby boy, and the economy has been not-so-good for so long (since, say, 1974) that it is going to take the mother, the husband and the grandmother to raise one itty-bitty newborn baby. And, boy, is he going to be surprised when he grows up! (Read the rest here)

Looking For Health - Naturally
By Susan Callaway, RN

Can a One-Minute Anger Management Technique Reduce Injury Risk and Chronic Illness?
Press release from the World Center for EFT

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB)--Anger contributes to accidents that cause injury. That sounds obvious, but no one tested the connection until researchers at the University of Missouri - Columbia found that anger doubles the risk of injury. Their study of emergency room patients was published in last week's Annals of Family Medicine. (Read the rest here)

Lowering the Cost of Health Care
by Congressman Ron Paul - R - TX

As a medical doctor, I’ve seen first-hand how bureaucratic red tape interferes with the doctor-patient relationship and drives costs higher. The current system of third-party payers takes decision-making away from doctors, leaving patients feeling rushed and worsening the quality of care. Yet health insurance premiums and drug costs keep rising. Clearly a new approach is needed. Congress needs to craft innovative legislation that makes health care more affordable without raising taxes or increasing the deficit. It also needs to repeal bad laws that keep health care costs higher than necessary. (Read the rest here)

The Cult of the Offensive
By Ivan Eland

Although this weekend’s Israeli commando raid into Lebanon was billed by the Israeli government as an effort to prevent the rearming of Hezbollah, many suspect it was designed to grab a high-level Hezbollah leader to exchange for the Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah. Why then, wasn’t this type of raid Israel’s initial response to the soldiers’ capture, rather than the leveling of southern Lebanon and the killing of thousands of innocent civilians? Clearly, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert is using the recent commando raid as a desperate attempt to salvage something from his disastrous offensive into Lebanon. Unfortunately, the unsuccessful raid, coupled with the reluctance of European nations to send their forces into southern Lebanon as peacekeepers, threatens to collapse the fragile ceasefire there. (Read the rest here)

Conservatives and the Courts
By Sheldon Richman

It is always amusing to watch conservatives react to court decisions they don't like. They were firmly in character last week when Federal District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that the Bush administration broke the law and violated the Constitution when it began wiretapping, without warrants, international phone calls between Americans and "suspected terrorists."

She's a Carter appointee, they said. She's a liberal. What did you expect? (Read the rest here)

Individual Liberty - 101
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute

Why is Medical Care so Expensive?
By Hans F. Sennholz

Medical expenses are rising faster than the costs of any other service. They are climbing at rates that exceed not only those of inflation and dollar depreciation but even the Federal government itself. In fact, they are consuming an ever larger share of personal and national incomes. (Read the rest here)

From The Archives:
Imagine There's No Healing
By Catfarmer

Suppose free home repair was proclaimed a legal right, like "free" [or "universal"] health care and "free" education. Politicians would dive at the chance to promise gullible voters another perennial boondoggle like "free house care." Under such an outrageous scheme the tyrant's dream of total control over individuals might achieve its desired nightmarish reality. Somewhere, an ambitious bureaucrat is crouching under his toadstool, drafting precisely such a despicable bill… I feel the beastly law slouching toward Washington D.C. to be born, its dreaded hour come 'round at last. (Read the rest here)

External Articles You Should See
Mark Steyn: It's breeding obvious, mate
Australia and the US can avoid the bleak future awaiting dying old Europe

I’M honored to be asked to give the C D Kemp lecture before members of the Institute he founded and which lives on after him. I’ve been in Australia for a couple of weeks on what I like to think of as my “Head for the hills! It’s the end of the world!” tour. But don’t worry, it’s like Barbra Streisand’s farewell tour, I’ll be back to do another end-of-the-world tour in a year or two.

Whether or not the western world is ending, it’s certainly changed. It’s a very strange feeling from the perspective of four decades on to return to a famous book C D Kemp wrote in 1964, Big Businessmen, a portrait of a now all but extinct generation of Australian industrialists. They were men whose sense of themselves in relation to the society they lived in was immensely secure. They had an instinctive belief in the culture that raised them and enriched them. To have pointed out such a fact at the time would have seemed superfluous: it was still shared by many forces in society – bank managers, kindergarten teachers, even Anglican clerics. (Read the rest here)

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