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October
16, 2006
In celebration of Constitution Day during the week of September 17, newspapers across the country ran a series of lessons on the Constitution sponsored by an organization called "Newspapers in Education." These lessons were directed at students and teachers and provided an in-class lesson plan on a topic that had constitutional implications. When it was announced several weeks before Constitution Day that our local paper would carry this series of lessons, I had a feeling one of them would be a hit piece on the Second Amendment and the right of the people to own a firearm. My suspicions were proved correct on day two with a "lesson" entitled "When guns make news, spotlight falls on the Second Amendment." The first sentence of the introduction to the "lesson" stated: (Read the rest here)
Is
War with Iran the October Surprise? According
to current polls, if the mid-term elections were held today, President
George W. Bush and his Republican Party would lose badly. He would then
face an opposition Congress in 2007, one bound and determined to reassert
its oversight duties. Investigations, an inevitability, could easily
lead to his impeachment, and in that event the two-thirds of the United
States who don't trust him could ask troubling questions about his presidency,
all the way back to the still-murky events of 9/11.
It's
Not My Fault! If you have access to television, newspapers, the Internet, or office chit-chat, chances are good you've heard of the scandal surrounding former Congressional Representative Mark Foley (R-FL). In fact, the story has been so pervasive that you've likely not been able to avoid it whether you had ready access to any of these things or not. Developments in the Foley scandal have been fast-moving and involved one political and social bombshell after another. Foley-related shrapnel has other Republicans ducking and covering in what may prove to be futile attempts to protect their own jobs. Only days ago, Republicans were in a tough battle to hold onto control of the House and Senate, but most believed they'd do so if barely. Now many wonder if Democrats won't take over as the fall-out from Foley's troubles spreads along with questions as to who else knew what and when. (Read the rest here)
Lies,
Damn Lies, and Statistics At UNICEF At first I assumed UNICEF director Ann Veneman had been terribly misquoted. This was the statement the media attributed to her: "We know that women do about 66% of the work in the world, they produce 50% of the food, but earn 5% of the income and own 1% of the property." But then I checked, and that's what she had said. It was right on the UNICEF website. Veneman's message was clear: Around the world, men are lazy dolts who lord over their down-trodden wives. (Read the rest here)
Looking
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Partitioning:
The Way Out of Iraq President Bush has so badly lied himself into a corner that he now needs the bipartisan “Iraq Study Group”—headed by the Bush family’s fix-it man, former Secretary of State James Baker—to tell the American public that things are rapidly going south in Iraq. According to the New York Times, one commission member anonymously acknowledged, “There’s a real sense that the clock is ticking, that Bush is desperate for a change, but no one in the White House can bring themselves to say so with this election coming.” But media reports of the situation on the ground in Iraq should tell the American people that the Bush administration is lying to them about the prospects for success there. Yet, unlike the Hungarians, who have repeatedly put tens of thousands of protesters in the streets to try to oust their prime minister for lying about the Hungarian economy, Americans seem apathetically resigned to their politicians’ conviction that lying is just good, clean fun. (Read the rest here)
Bush's
Signing Statement Dictatorship President Bush has once again decreed that his personal pen is the highest law of the land. In a statement issued on October 4, 2006, he announced that he would ignore many provisions of the Homeland Security appropriations act he signed earlier in the day. His action vivifies that the rule of law now means little more than the enforcement of the secret thoughts of the commander in chief. Bush's postsigning statement declared that he would interpret many sections of the new law "in a manner consistent with the president's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch." In plain English, this means that many of the limits that Congress imposed on Bush's power -- and that he accepted when he took the money Congress appropriated -- are null and void. Why? Because the president says so. (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 The
Revolutionary War and the Destruction of the Continental Certain historical cases of inflation have become sufficiently notorious to become textbook examples of government printing presses run riot. In the twentieth century the classic episode was the German hyperinflation of 1923. The eighteenth century affords us the cases of the American and French Revolutions, and the monetary debasement for which those countries' governments were responsible. In the American case, the continental currency lost so much of its value that it became common to describe something as worthless by saying it was "not worth a Continental." (Read the rest here)
From
The Archives: (02/16/04 ) 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.” There are some common concerns that come up, and they deserve to be addressed properly and respectfully, and not simply shrugged off as “statism” or some kind of suppressed authoritarian tendency. People who have “some reservations” are not alone, even in the most “radical” parts of the freedom movement. (Read the rest here)
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Commentary on the News, 7 - 14 October, 2006 Korean
Front: This triggered a week of panic and reaction, as everyone around the world suddenly seemed to forget about Iran (and some even about Iraq) to concentrate on Korea. The UN reacted with its usual speed (see later story), and by the end of the week, technical analysis was indicating that this may very well have been a type of Potemkin village: that it was really just a large conventional explosive trying to simulate a nuclear explosion, or a failed attempt to set off a device. (Read the rest here - Two full pages!)
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