September
18, 2006
Sunday
Was "Constitution Day"
By Robert Greenslade © Nitwit Press
Since
the Constitution remains the most misunderstood document in American
history, the author decided to commemorate this day with a mini catechism
on the Constitution and government of the United States. However,
the focus of this catechism is not specific clauses in the body of
the document. Its primary purpose is to explain the nature of the
Constitution and system of government created by that document.
The
author believes it is impossible to understand the Constitution without
a basic understanding of what transpired before the document was adopted.
Therefore, the first 11 questions lay a foundation for the remaining
25 questions.
(Read
the rest here) (printable
sets of questions and answers, suitable for homeschoolers.)
Domestic
Violence Awareness Month
By Richard L. Davis
Many
researchers have pointed out that one reason (among many) for the
absence of consensus on the relative use of violence by men versus
women is that measurement of violent [italics added] acts alone cannot adequately characterize
violence [italics added] in intimate partner relationships.
(Read
the rest here)
Mourning
More Than Lives
By
Lady Liberty
It's
September of 2006, and it seems that the entire month has been dedicated
to memorializing the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. Television
networks are airing a variety of news specials. There are made-for-TV
movies and special reports. There are countless ceremonies scheduled
before, during, and after the actual anniversary date of the attacks.
And politicians, most particularly the president, are taking advantage
of the timing (fifth anniversary right before another election) to tell
us that we're safer today than we were then. (Read
the rest here)
Poor,
Stupid and Oppressed
by Bob Wallace
Ben
Franklin probably should have been called "the father of the country"
because of all the kids he had, but he was also the father of some pretty
nifty sayings. One of the best ones is so short even I have memorized
it: "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty or safety." It rolls right off of
the tongue, doesn't it?
The
novelist Somerset
Maugham (among many other people) noticed the same thing Franklin
did: "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose
that freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money
that it values more, it will lose those too." (I can't memorize
that one, as it's too long.)
(Read
the rest
here)
The
Femocrats
By Carey Roberts
Like
a tarantula that lurks in the shadows, radical feminism has insinuated
itself into every American institution, waiting to pounce and extract
its life blood, rendering the carcass lifeless and abandoned.
In 1964 the Democratic National Committee was riding high. Lyndon Johnson
had just crushed Barry Goldwater by winning 61% of the popular vote,
and the Dems held a 2 to 1 edge in the Congress. Back then, the Democrats
didn't need a feminist plank in their platform to woo the female vote.
(Read
the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute
Is
All-Day Kindergarten An Economic Fix?
By Jim Fedako
Is
your state's economy in the doldrums? Does it need a kick start to get
it humming again? The immediate and boring solution is reduced government
regulations and tax cuts. But according to a new civic ethos, the long-term
and innovative solution is mandatory, all-day kindergarten.
(Read
the rest here)
From
The Archives: (09-02-04)
Ask Them Yourselves!
Questions "the 'crats" Will Not Answer.
By Ed Ward, MD
"The
'crats" (demo, repub, & 'burro') will not answer these questions.
Don't believe me? ASK "the 'crats" yourselves!
Simply
take this
link to "the 'crat" government of your state. You need
only contact the representatives of your state, as the majority of representatives
will not even officially accept email sent from someone other than a
state inhabitant. The site will send 1 email to ALL representatives
of your state (as well as the super supreme ones, bush/cheney) with
one click.
Dear
[Appropriate Salutation Will Be Inserted Here by the site]:
I
am contacting my members of Congress regarding an issue of concern to
myself and a true Democratic Republic, "this Constitution
" (Article VI., Clause 3.: States that ALL state/federal senators,
representatives and judges "shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation,
to support this Constitution;" of the US, which contains "The
Bill of Rights ". Surely, "The
People " and their representatives should know how many of
"The People" are in jail, felonized or dead because of any/each
US law. (Read
the rest here)
Your
Feedback and Comments
The Mailbag
for This Week (9/18/06)
Libertarian
Commentary on The News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2006
Libertarian
Commentary on the News, 10 - 16 September 2006
I
had intended, this week, to start out the column with an experiment, but
the furor over the Pope's remarks are too interesting NOT to lead.
WORLD WARS:
Muslim Anger Grows
Against Pope
BBC News
A statement from the Vatican has failed to quell criticism of Pope
Benedict XVI from Muslim leaders, after a speech touching on the concept
of holy war. Speaking in Germany, the Pope quoted a 14th Century Christian
emperor who said the Prophet Muhammad had brought the world only "evil
and inhuman" things.
You can
read the Pope's speech (be warned, some of the Greek words in the
text (which are critical to understanding the speech, were converted by
Adobe or whatever program was used, into seeming jibberis). Clearly this
is NOT even so big a matter as the cartoons, some time ago, which were
viewed as "disrespectful" to the Prophet (p.b.u.h.).
In fact,
the quote from the Byzantine emperor Manuel II is in the context of the
Pope's speech CRITICIZING modern "Christianity" for departing
from its ancient roots and faith - a criticism which has much to justify
it, even though I would disagree with much of what Benedict says. In any
other people, any other culture, this quote would have passed unremarked
- in a rational and gentle people, the fact that the leader of an opposing
religion deemed it suitable to quote from their holy book and to cite
it would have been considered a mark of honor and respect.
Unfortunately,
we are not dealing with a rational or gentle religion, people, or culture
when we are dealing with Islam - we are dealing with a "religion
of peace" only when that peace is the "peace of the grave"
- a religion that does believe, despite a few isolated and often oblique
if often quoted passages in the Qu'ran, that it IS right to spread their
faith by the sword, and that is, in virtually every sense of the word,
an EVIL religion which creates an EVIL culture of tyranny and brutality
and violence. Sadly, what is needed, even while criticizing (correctly)
modern Western society and modern "Christianity" for its many
faults, what is needed is for the Pope and other Western religious and
political leaders to boldly and strongly, in the clearest terms, condemn
a religion as evil as any worship of Ba'al or Moloch or anything practiced
by Aztec emperors, and make it clear that a modern and free world of liberty
cannot coexist for long with such evil.
(Read
the rest here - 2 full pages)
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