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February
19, 2007 Libertarian
Commentary on The News, 11-17,
FEB 2007 Well, Valentine's Day is past (sorry, readers, didn't send ANYONE a Valentine - so don't feel bad); and obviously, the world is in wonderful shape - once again, we are filled with love for our fellow man and all is at peace! Ha! All the usual places this week, in our continuing fight for truth, liberty, and non-aggression! Afghan
Front: Yeah, right - We've been hearing this since about 15 minutes after Mohammed (pbuh) breathed his last. For one thing, which version of Shari'a do you think they'll be able to agree on - you'd think in Anno Libertatus 230 they would have recognized that someone solved the problem of uniting church (or mosque) and state a long time ago - about 230 years or so! (Read the rest here. Two full pages.)
Unpardonable Many things in this country have changed since that awful day in September of 2001. The 9/11 attacks made us all just a little more aware of our own vulnerability. They made us think about how the rest of the world perceives us and why. And they scared us enough to let our political representatives have free reign to do whatever they liked as long as it was done in the name of keeping us safer from future attacks. (Read the rest here)
Senator
Joseph Biden: A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing Over the past two years, True Equality Network in concert with other notable organizations and writers, have exposed the failures and abuses of our domestic violence systems to the victims they profess to serve. We have also tried to reveal the abuses of the system and acts of violence and physical torture that they have inflicted on innocent victims of false allegations of abuse. What are the results of our efforts? Nearly a year after filing a complaint against Legal Services Corporation (LSC) for ignoring complaints by victims of abuses of the abuse systems, currently co-signed by over one hundred concerned organizations, attorney’s, members of the media, and thousands of its victims, not one co-signer or victim has been contacted. (Read the rest here)
Are
Female Politicians Other-Centered? A few years ago Marie Wilson, director of the White House Project, made the remarkable claim that female politicians lead "from an other-centered perspective," while those Neanderthal male pols tend to be "self-centered." I admit this came as news to me, but if it's true, perhaps we should dispense with the formalities and anoint Hillary as the next Commander-in-Chief. That way we can enjoy the morning newspaper for the next couple years without being subjected to all the electioneering falderal. (Read the rest here)
From
The Archives (
05/11/04) So Dubya and his crew of dimbulbs are scratching their heads over all the the problems in Iraq. Goodness. A four-year-old child could have told them their screwball ideas wouldn't work. So, as Groucho Marx said, someone get a four-year-old child! Have none of the people in the administration ever heard of Murphy's Law? "If something can go wrong, it will"? Or in their hubris do they believe they are immune from mistakes? Apparently, they do. (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute President Vladimir Putin of Russia recently bluntly lashed out at U.S. foreign policy. At an international security conference with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in attendance, referring to U.S. actions in the international arena, Putin said, “Today we are witnessing an almost uncontained hyper use of force in international relations—military force.” He asserted that U.S. military interventions, which he termed “unilateral” and “illegitimate,” also “have not been able to resolve any matters at all,” and have generated only more instability and peril, especially in the Middle East. He concluded that, “Primarily the United States has overstepped its national borders, and in every area.” In addition to profligate U.S. military threats and actions, he also criticized the United States for building an “offensive” missile defense, expanding the NATO alliance to the borders of Russia, and supporting groups trying to overthrow their governments in the Russian historic sphere of influence. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation There is something surreal in all this. The U.S. government is warning Iran against meddling in Iraq. But the U.S. government is meddling in Iraq! Is there a clearer case of a pot calling a kettle black? Neither country should be meddling, but there are important differences. Iraq is next door to Iran but far from the United States. Iraq, backed by the United States, attacked Iran in 1980, leading to a grueling eight-year war, but never attacked the America. Finally, Iran's next-door neighbor is "hosting" 150,000 U.S. troops. No Iranian troops have been sighted in Canada or Mexico. (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 In my opinion, given the current political and cultural climate, the two biggest threats to economic liberty are environmentalism and trade protectionism. On these pages I've written numerous articles[1] on the latter, where I restated the traditional case for free trade, and defended it in light of new concerns such as outsourcing and global capital mobility. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) Can
We Trust the State with Preservation? The fundamental impermanence of temporal being renders absurd all grandiose assertions that a new law means some site now will be "protected forever." But even more damaging to the case for state-mandated preservation is the fact that the most egregious destroyers of treasures from our past have not been market actors seeking profit, but states pursuing power, engaging in wars, urban renewal projects, and eminent domain seizures of long-established and beloved neighborhoods for highways, airports, sports stadiums, and commercial developments promising higher tax revenues. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
External
Articles Lusting
for a New Holocaust Folks, recall that the Nazi Holocaust did not take place in some savage land of head hunters and cannibals, but in a nation that was one of the jewels of Western Civilization, the birthplace of Leibniz, Bach, Kant, Beethoven, Goethe, Schiller, Riemann, Mann, and Schopenhauer. The Nazis drew support from figures as cultured and intelligent as Heidegger. The Holocaust could happen there because decent Germans were unable to believe it could happen there. And so it could happen again today. And the next Holocaust, if we don’t stop it, is likely to make the previous one seem like child’s play. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) Ionesco
as Political Consultant On examination, most of the measures purportedly taken to stifle Terror don’t. Opening mail without a warrant? It’s pointless once the terrorists know you are doing it, but effective in intimidating honest citizens. The same is true of warrantless wiretaps and searches. Does the gutting of habeas corpus make us safer against terrorists? Or merely suppress dissent by citizens? The whole business looks remarkably like malign vaudeville, like mummery intended to accomplish two things. The first is to persuade the foolish that the nation is At War. Actually only the president is at war. The second, and I would like to be wrong about this, is to train the public to obedience. The formula is simple: Keep’em scared and you can do anything. It works. Americans are rapidly becoming accustomed to Soviet-style surveillance, to the state’s power to search and spy without restraint, to being barked at and ordered about by low-level federal employees. People deserve what they tolerate. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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