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February
12, 2007 Open
Carry - For Better or Worse
By
Susan Callaway, Editor
Many friends and acquaintances have given me the full range of encouragement, good tips and the benefit of their experience, and some their arguments or even outright disdain. Some are fearful for me because I do carry openly and insist I must get a CC permit instead - if I really want to defend myself this way. Some don't believe that a woman my age can become truly prepared (physically or emotionally) to USE the gun in an emergency, and some think I'm just playing some game with it. So, let me give you a brief run down on what has happened in the last three months and my efforts at preparation for the future. I assure everyone that this is NOT a game, and that I am as prepared to defend myself as is possible for my age and physical condition - and will continue to improve that situation over time because I will not cease to train and practice. This is for keeps. (Read the rest here)
Palestinian
Suicide Bomber - Fact or Myth? And speaking of the Saudis, perhaps they have never been more than shills for the British and the Zionist Jews since the time of Balfour: pretending to be enemies but in reality the tools of the Zionists to allow the West to control and ultimately degrade the holy places of Islam. Their so-called Wahhabism sect of Islam, which supposedly rose in 18th Century Arabia, may actually be an artificial construction of the Jews that was intended to be a way of discrediting the rest of Islam in the eyes of the West, thus establishing the conditions that have led to the secret Israeli empire and world Jewish empire of today. (Read the rest here)
Spare
the Rod I've said it before, and I'll doubtless say it again: There's not a problem we have in this country that couldn't be solved with the application of a healthy dose of personal responsibility. After all, when you get down to the root of everything good or bad, personal responsibility or the lack of it is almost universally either to credit or to blame. Unfortunately, there's a sad lack of any inclination these days to accept personal responsibility. Instead, blame for even the most obviously personal of problems is spread thickly across almost everything that we see and do. (Read the rest here)
JPFO ALERT: States Finally Waking Up to Real ID They're only about two years behind, but it seems that some states are finally taking the Real ID threat seriously. Back in May of 2005, JPFO issued an alert entitled "The End of America: May 10, 2005" in which we detailed the disastrous effect the federally-mandated Real ID law would have on your privacy. You can read that alert here. (Read the rest here)
CEDAW
and I-VAWA: Double-Trouble for Families A report from the International Women's Rights Action Watch revealed far more than it intended: "the CEDAW Convention [emphasizes that] the measure of a state's action to secure the human rights of women and men needs to ensure equality of results . . . Thus, the state is obligated to show results, not just stop at frameworks of equality that are strong on paper." In other words, complementary and mutually-respectful roles of men and women would be phased out in favor of the gender-less society. Scary, but that's what they really want. (Read the rest here)
From
The Archives (
06/21/05) Herewith is a grotesquely informal and incomplete history of biblical civil disobedience. The Bible is full of folks who said “I -- or we -- don’t think so” to earthly governments. Time and again, the Old Testament Jews were at loggerheads with their earthly governments. In Daniel 6, Daniel was forbidden from praying out loud to God for 30 days. Chuck Baldwin, a man with whom I wish I could trade brains (1), had this to say: “I can just hear today's Christian pragmatists screaming, ‘It's only for thirty days. You can still pray in your heart. We must obey the government.’" (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute Each year, one of the most important events in the nation’s capital is the release of the federal budget. Yet the media provides insufficient coverage because the budget is technical, unglamorous, and requires hard work sifting through mounds of data to uncover the key truths. It is much sexier to cover whether Condi Rice’s star has fallen as a result of the Iraq War. Very little happens in public affairs, however, without the money to effectuate it. And much has happened. The Bush administration has turned on the funding spigots—with the most rapid budget increases of any administration since that of LBJ. The administration has wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on everything from expanding benefits in an insolvent Medicare program to massive increases in the defense and homeland security budgets. Like LBJ, Bush has spent taxpayer dollars on both guns and butter simultaneously. (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 Since its inception, modern central banking has gone through various fashions and has adopted opposing paradigms along the course of its history. The US Federal Reserve System began operating in 1914 and stood ready to provide the monetary conditions for financing US entry into World War I. Likewise, the US central bank provided the monetary ammunition for its government to fight in World War II and in the many other military conflicts that were to follow. In Europe, the consequence of the beginning of World War I was abandoning the gold standard and turning the central banks into the willing tools of governments. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) Immigration
Plus Welfare State Equal Police State Illegal immigrants are overwhelming the resources of the Welfare State: government–funded hospital emergency rooms are filled with them; public schools are filled with their children. On the basis of such complaints, many people are angry and want to close the border to new illegal immigrants and deport those who are already here. They want to keep new illegal immigrants out with fences along the border. It is not clear whether the fences would contain intermittent watchtowers with searchlights and machine guns. The illegal immigrants who are already here would be ferreted out by threatening anyone who employed them with severe penalties and making it a criminal offense not to report them. This is a classic illustration of Mises’s principle that prior government intervention into the economic system breeds later intervention. Here the application of his principle is, start with the Welfare State, end with the Police State. A police state is what is required effectively to stop substantial illegal immigration that has become a major burden because of the Welfare State. (Read the rest here) Entire article on this page.
External
Articles Unspeak represents an attempt by politicians, interest groups, and business corporations to say something without saying it, without getting into an argument and so having to provide justification. At the same time, it tries to unspeak – in the sense of erasing or silencing – any possible opposing point of view by laying a claim right at the start to only one way of looking at a problem. As an Unspeak phrase becomes a widely used term of public debate, it saturates the mind with one viewpoint while simultaneously making an opposing view ever more difficult to enunciate. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) Emergencies:
The Breeding Ground of Tyranny When the New York Times recently reported that the Bush administration was routinely tracking international and domestic financial transactions, the president said he was doing these things under emergency powers granted to him by Congress. While many commentators have openly questioned the legality of Bush’s actions, there are deeper questions to be asked than simply “Is this legal?” Indeed,
as federal and state laws become more expansive and historical liberties
are routinely crushed, perhaps it is time to look at the laws themselves,
as opposed to seeing only whether President Bush’s actions are legal.
Even if one is keeping to the letter (and even the spirit) of a law that
violates individual rights, the larger and more pertinent question is
not “Is it legal?” but rather “Why does this law exist
anyway?”
The
Mailbag
A number of readers have noticed that I am boycotting Election 2008 news – the major reason for this is because I cannot stomach trying to comment on the Presidential race for a full 22 months without using bad language. But I DO recognize that phenomenal numbers of people are signing up to run – so many, that it is clear that it will be easier to report on who is NOT running for president in 2008. Therefore, I announce that, as far as I know, no one in my immediate family is running for president – although I think that Miss Pest might make a better president than most of those who ARE running. And just to be contrary, I’m starting out the news with a story that does relate to the 2008 campaign, because it is just too funny to ignore. (This is actually the second story I’ve included: I did include Dr. Paul’s entry. So there!) Funny People: The Wash. Times might consider him a Conservative, but after years of reading his writings and listening to him a number of times, I’d consider him at least a 90-90 libertarian. And I have to admit that Mallard Fillmore is a great comic – and a good antidote to Doonesbury. And the idea of a Paul-Williams ticket sounds fun and a winner – at least for Constitutional libertarians. Sadly, I suspect that the GOP is far too left-wing/authoritarian to ever except such a commonsense slate. Mama's Note: One definition of a "conservative" that might fit in cases like this goes something like this: A conservative is one who is perfectly happy to keep all the slaves just the way his daddy and grand daddy did. (Read the rest here. Two full pages.)
From The Libertarian Enterprise
Luke7777777.blogspot.com CATHOLICISM - LIBERTARIANISM - INFOANARCHY (Editor's Note: Very good blog with lots of thoughtful comments. Does not seem to originate in the US and has non-English material on the top of the page, so scroll down for English articles. ML)
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