From the "Another Usurpation of Power
in the Name of Patriotism" Department
By Robert Greenslade © Nitwit Press

Congress recently passed, and President Bush signed, The Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005. The stated purpose of the act is: "To ensure that the right of an individual to display the flag of the United States on residential property not be abridged." While this language sounds real patriotic and all that stuff, the Act is nothing but another attempt to pander to voters in the name of patriotism because the Constitution does not grant Congress any general jurisdiction over flags or residential property within one of the United States. (Read the rest here)

RED ALERT: 9/11/06 (Chicago, Detroit & Houston)
By Captain May

The media has spent five years saying that a second 9/11 is inevitable, and all this summer they've been saying that homegrown terrorists in Canada, Florida and the UK are planning to blow us up in our buildings, airplanes and tunnels. Last week they said Homeland Security was setting up terror exercises in major Midwestern cities around 9/11/06, to protect us.

Conspiracy theorists don't feel protected, though, because they know that on 9/11/01 the US government was holding exercises to protect us from the very attacks that happened to us, and on 7/7/05 the UK government was holding exercises to protect their citizens from the very attacks that happened to them. To them it's clear that the terror exercises were set ups for the terror events. (Read the rest here)

Get Off the Road!
By Lady Liberty

I've been having a hard time this week deciding what I should write about. I usually write about whatever I've personally found most enraging, disturbing, or hurtful over the course of the last week. But this week, I haven't been able to settle on anything.

Make no mistake: last week wasn't a lot different than other weeks. In other words, I found plenty of things enraging, disturbing, or hurtful. Among other things, I could choose to write about such gems as: (Read the rest here)
(This week, Lady Liberty includes a book review after her article. Don't miss it. ML)

Only Two Gang Members Caught in The Great American "Hold Up"
By Ed Ward, MD

On August 16, 2006, the report of the disappearance of SB 2590 was published in relative obscurity. As usual, the article dealing with the unconstitutional schemes of our government representatives received little notice from our mainstream corporate media. It did, however, catch the eye of at least one blogger. At that point, the ever expanding investigation of the "secret senator" with the "secret hold" rapidly progressed to multiple blogs and many more self appointed private investigators. The reports of the investigation of the culling of the "usual suspects" were an intriguing read for the next two weeks as each individual senator was removed from the senate secrecy suspects list. (Read the rest here)

No Need To Keep Rape Accuser's Name A Secret
By Carey Roberts

Over the weekend of March 10-12, 2006 Crystal Gail Mangum indulged in sexual hijinks with four different men. On Monday March 13, she went to a hotel room and participated in an X-rated escapade with a couple. Any of these events could have produced the minor bruises, cuts, and vaginal injuries that Ms. Mangum later claimed were caused by the Duke lacrosse players. (Read the rest here)

A North American United Nations?
by Congressman Ron Paul - R - TX

Globalists and one-world promoters never seem to tire of coming up with ways to undermine the sovereignty of the United States. The most recent attempt comes in the form of the misnamed "Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America (SPP)." In reality, this new "partnership" will likely make us far less secure and certainly less prosperous.

According to the US government website dedicated to the project, the SPP is neither a treaty nor a formal agreement. Rather, it is a "dialogue" launched by the heads of state of Canada, Mexico, and the United States at a summit in Waco, Texas in March, 2005. (Read the rest here)

Selective Prosecution of War Crimes
By Ivan Eland

Of course, rabid supporters of Israel would be horrified at a comparison between a democratically elected leader and an autocratic tyrant. But we are not talking about the selection method for leaders here; we are comparing their specific actions during wartime. Supporters of Israel would also note that the Israelis did not use poison gas in Lebanon. But although chemical weapons provide a grisly death, they kill far fewer people than explosive bombs. Because they have been wrongly included in the ominous sounding category of “weapons of mass destruction” (nuclear weapons are probably the only true, practical weapons of mass destruction), their use implies a war crime from the get-go. That is not to defend Saddam’s use of these area weapons against villages, it is merely to say that the Israelis are no less guilty of committing war crimes by leveling entire villages in southern Lebanon simply because they used conventional bombs to do it. (Read the rest here)

Hidden Government
By Sheldon Richman

Americans pride themselves on "self-government." But when significant policies are undertaken without their notice, much less consent, self-government is a cruel hoax.

Reporting by Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker and other sources indicate that the Bush administration actively helped the Israeli government plan an attack on Lebanon. When it was launched, with U.S. approval, after Hezbollah guerillas seized two Israeli soldiers in July, the attack killed about 800 people, mostly civilians, and left much of Lebanon in rubble. Israel's goal was to destroy Hezbollah, an organization formed to resist Israel's illegal and brutal 18-year occupation of Lebanon that began in 1982 and formally ended in 2000. Israel pursued its goal on two tracks. It attacked Hezbollah directly and it fiercely bombarded Lebanese society in an effort to persuade the people there to reject Hezbollah's presence. Neither strategy worked. But Lebanon's effort to rebuild itself was set back many years, as Israel intended. (Read the rest here)

Individual Liberty - 101
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute

The Snare of Government Subsidies
By Gary North

The idea that businessmen are strong defenders of the free enterprise system is one which is believed only by those who have never studied the history of private enterprise in the Western, industrial nations. What businessmen are paid to worry about is profit. The problem for the survival of a market economy arises when the voters permit or encourage the expansion of government power to such an extent that private businesses can gain short-term profits through the intervention into the competitive market by state officials. Offer the typical businessman the opportunity to escape the constant pressures of market competition, and few of them are able to withstand the temptation. In fact, they are rewarded for taking the step of calling in the civil government. (Read the rest here)

From The Archives:
Military Conscription Is Morally Reprehensible
By Stephen P. Gordon

While Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was attacking President Bush for being supportive of the draft, he was secretly stripping his own call for mandatory national service from his Internet site. While Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was denying any plan to reinstitute conscription, the Selective Service Board was actively recruiting members to fill the nation's draft boards. While Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., was introducing the topic at the Brookings Institute, Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. actively called for the reinstatement of the draft.

We can be sure of one thing. When support for any political issue is both bicameral and bipartisan, it is the citizens who will inevitably pay the price. (Read the rest here) (Originally published June 11, '04... and it's still valid. ML)

External Articles You Should See
What Defending Freedom Really Means
by Michael S. Rozeff

Our rulers are even worse than hypocrites. They falsify the meaning of freedom in three distinct ways. Without shame, they claim that the democratic process sanctions the laws they pass. They claim, in other words, that since the democratic processes (including majority rule) are lawful, freedom is not infringed by the laws that are passed via these processes. Then they claim that democracy guarantees freedom, meaning that democracy is what gives human beings their rights through its processes. Finally, they claim more generally that democracy is freedom and freedom is democracy. (Read the rest here) (Hit the 'back' button to return to The Price of Liberty)

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