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December
11, 2006 Although Mike Adams is not really a libertarian (but he gets closer with each month), his recent column is worth sharing with Libertarians and those you want to see move in the direction of liberty, as we near Bill of Rights Day and Christmas. He does indeed point out one of the best ways to convert someone from liberalism (that is, the modern poor excuse or liberalism that is really authoritarian but claims to be politically correct) to at least middle-of-the-road (Nolan Chart) if not much closer to the top: give them a gift of love and life – a gift that may indeed save their life or that of a friend or loved one, and that will show them that the hoploclasts and hoplophobes are wrong in every way. And your gift will be a gift that produces not just a better person, but a better society, one person at a time. (Read the rest here)
Bush
Is Irrelevant President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki met in Jordan to discuss the steadily deteriorating situation in Iraq; neither has faced the reality that as far as controlling future events in Iraq are concerned, both are irrelevant. Bush, like many other factional leaders in Iraq, has his own militia, arguably no longer the largest, but is in the unenviable position of being the one all the others see as occupiers and targets of opportunity. Prime Minister al-Maliki has nothing but his status as a puppet for the most hated entity currently involved in the debacle that is Iraq. In reality, Bush lost whatever control of events he had in Iraq somewhere between "Mission Accomplished" and "Bring Them On." (Read the rest here)
I
Swear! Over the course of the last weeks, the Internet has been filled with a discussion I confess I actually found a little surprising. I wasn't at all shocked to see a Muslim win Congressional office on November 7 - mafter all, not only do Americans often bend over backwards to show just how prejudiced they're not, but Keith Ellison (D-MN) ran as a Democrat, and we all know how party affiliation alone played out this year! What did take me aback a little, though, was some question about just how Mr. Ellison might take his oath of office. Although the Constitution of the United States specifically prohibits any religious test as a requirement for office (see Article VI), many politicians do swear an oath of office with one hand on a Bible, and many oaths do contain the words "so help me God." Among those happens to be the oath of office issued to newly minted Congressional Representatives. (It should be noted that the oath of office for President of the United States - which is the only one actually written in the Constitution itself - does not contain those words. President Theodore Roosevelt is the only president, however, who took the oath as originally written.) (Read the rest here)
Three
Things To Watch Very Closely As
Americans take out their credit cards and Christmas savings to head for
the box store discounters this season carrying high hopes that the democrats
who won the midterm elections are actually going to solve things, particularly
the mess republicans have made in 1. Is
the Grim Reaper, Donald Rumsfeld, really resigning or is he making his
strongest last minute political move to remain in power and control? In
order to truly walk away from his job, the democrats must confirm Bush's
appointment of Robert Gates, another
The
GOP's Betrayal of the Pro-Family Agenda I wish I had a dime in my pocket for every time I heard a Republican politician stand up and proclaim his support for "family values." When we survey the current state of the family, we see that Americans are half as likely to wed compared to a generation ago, mostly due to a growing shortage of marriage-minded men. How did all this happen? (Read the rest here)
The
Goal Is Freedom: Global Warming and the Layman Global warming is a divisive issue. People are either believers or skeptics, with each side viewing the other with apprehension. I've sided firmly with the skeptics, but lately I have had a nagging concern. Like most people, I am not an atmospheric scientist. I have no firsthand way to evaluate a scientific claim for or against the existence of global warming. So what grounds have I for believing what one scientist says against the thesis over what another one says in favor of it? No good grounds at all. (Read the rest here)
Recession
2007 Are we headed for an economic recession? Probably. What can we do about it? Not much. The 5-year economic expansion initiated by tax reductions and lower interest rates has just about run its course. My guess is that the recession should begin in the first or second quarter of 2007 and run, if history is any guide, for about 18 months. Unfortunately for the Republicans, that would put the bulk of the decline well within the 2008 presidential race. (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 The
End of Socialism and the Calculation Debate Revisited At the root of the dazzling revolutionary implosion and collapse of socialism and central planning in the "socialist bloc" is what everyone concedes to be a disastrous economic failure. The peoples and the intellectuals of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union are crying out not only for free speech, democratic assembly, and glasnost, but also for private property and free markets. And yet, if I may be pardoned a moment of nostalgia, four-and-a-half-decades ago, when I entered graduate school, the economics Establishment of that era was closing the book on what had been for two decades the famed "socialist calculation debate." And they had all decided, left, right, and center, that there was not a thing economically wrong with socialism: that socialism's only problems, such as they might be, were political. Economically, socialism could work just as well as capitalism. (Read the rest here)
The
Mailbag
Bill of Rights Day is coming up this week (15 DEC), and we should be ready to take advantage of it. How many people have you taken an opportunity to point out how important it is that our liberty is, at least in part, protected by the wisdom of a few men over 200 years ago? This week, looking at the news, imagine what things would be like WITHOUT a Bill of Rights. If we have the huge degree of local tyranny that we clearly do in the US today, then imagine what it would be like if people had listened to those that said nothing was needed back in 1787. Big Brother
in America: This isn't, of course, about the silly woman littering - it is about Big Brother's camera in every district in an entire state. Because it is for "environmental protection" there aren't going to be the complaints that there would be if these were traffic signal cameras or anti-street crime cameras, but they are worse for that fact. Without the Bill of Rights, how much more common would this sort of thing be? Mama's Note: One of the things that makes dumping and wholesale littering common is, of course, the insane "rules" and inflated costs of landfill or other disposal. The idiotic rules to "recycle" and sort trash, along with the list of things you can't dispose of legally much of anywhere, make this "problem" a guarantee. More government is not the answer... it's the problem, as always. (Read the rest here ) 2 full pages!
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