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April
16, 2007 Libertarian
Commentary on The News, 8
- 14 April, 2007 Well, with the middle of April here, news events should not distract us from the wonders of a western Spring: snow, winds, storms, and the little lilies of the field! False
religions: global warming Hopefully this is one piece of garbage that the Bush administration will veto, but don’t hold your breath counting on it. Sadly, global warming is the perfect excuse for more power and control by government, and these thugs realize it. Clearly the MSM (example here, the Globe) supports this: their wording makes it clear: yeah, we are losing a little bit of water constantly to space, but “diminishing water” – please, why do people believe this sort of lie? Essentially, the amount of water on the planet is fixed, only the location and condition (frozen, gas, polluted, saline, etc.) changes. Not only that, but the thugs understand that such a “directive” is unnecessary; even our chronically incompetent intelligence services understand that “global warming” – even if just a perception and an excuse – is going to be a factor in international relations even more in the future than in the present. Already, I am seeing stories written in which authors point out that human-caused global warming (whether they believe in it or not) will be a justification for giving more power to the UN or some other supranational body, and an excuse for “punishing” the US and other Western powers for causing it. Mama’s Note : More and better excuses to ramp up gov. interventions everywhere, and turn the screws on the world economy. The fact that they will CAUSE untold suffering around the globe this way never enters their minds. The only real hope for peace and prosperity in this world - for everyone - is a truly free market and individual liberty. It is beyond my understanding why so many people seem determined to doom us all to live in "1984" or worse. Anyone who is sincerely worried about "global warming" needs to understand the conditions people lived under before technology. Unbelievable poverty and early death, along with incredible pollution, was the norm in every population center. Disease, starvation and death from exposure was the norm in every rural setting. The human race has never had it so good as they do in the 21st century. (Read the rest here) Two full pages again!!
Hillary
has a Bogeyman in her Closet In
a Town Hall Meeting in Hampton, New Hampshire last week, a woman in the
audience engaged in a heated exchange with presidential hopeful Hillary
Clinton concerning the Senator’s vote to authorize the war in Iraq. When
asked several times if she had read the intelligence report given to her
in 2002, Clinton would not answer the question directly but stated she
had been briefed on its contents. In a classic example of Monday morning
quarterbacking, Clinton stated: “If I had known then what I know now,
I never would have voted to give this President the authority.” Then
the smartest woman in the world inferred that she had been tricked because
she believed she was only giving President Bush the authority to send
United Nations [U.N.] inspectors to Iraq.
No,
The Terrorists Won't "Follow Us Over Here" One of the justifications I keep hearing for continuing the war in Iraq is: "If we don't fight them over there, we will have to fight them over here." However, there is no historical basis for this. Consider the following examples:
Update:
Proves Micro Nukes in the WTC Physicist Dr. William (Bill) Richard Deagle, MD, in our March 22, 2007 interview states that " Update: The US Government's Usage of Atomic Bombs - Domestic - WTC" presents factual information that he "...considers the best analysis for the proof - beyond just the thermate - there is more than one type of explosive that had to be in the building for the laws of physics and chemistry to be operational...". Bill's site has correspondence between Dr. Jones/Alex Jones and myself regarding the proven elevated far above background tritium levels (35 - 55 X background) found in the WTC debris ponds - and the extrapolated massive amounts of tritium (billions of TUs) present in the diluted samples - in which Bill inserts the statement: "TRITIUM = NUKES AT THE 911 WTC PROOF!!". Dr. Jones bypasses/ignores these proven tritium levels by calling the diluted amounts "safe/background" (which they are NOT), but the question is not are the levels "safe." The question is: WHERE DID THE FAR ABOVE BACKGROUND LEVELS ORIGINATE - if not from a Micro Nuke? (Read the rest here)
Foundations
of Government
The use of a building foundation as a metaphor has been used just about to death, but that's probably because it's both relatively simple and completely appropriate. Let's face the facts: The foundation is integral to the entire structure built above it, and it had better be strong and well made so that subsequent levels don't falter and topple. Many of us who are politically active would encourage others to do the same. The single most important thing that we can do to make that happen is to do our best to see that they're informed about our particular cause or focus. To that end, we publish information on the Internet and write letters to the editor. We encourage members of the media to pick up their pens or their microphones and report on the matter at hand. We urge our fellow citizens to exercise their freedom and fulfill their obligations to play a real role in government. (Read the rest here)
Don
Imus is a Thought Criminal! Don Imus is a bigot because Al Sharpton and a lot of other folks say so. He has certain prejudices, and he views the world through the lens of his impure mind. Guess what? Every single one of us suffers from those same “maladies.” The real issue is not whether Mr. Imus should be fired, but should any speech be regulated by government entities or the will of the “moral” majority, and should “inappropriate” thoughts be castigated by government functionaries (directly or indirectly). Leading the Easter week media crucifixion of Imus was the Reverend Al Sharpton. The Reverend is himself no stranger to controversy. In 1987 he emerged on the national scene by becoming an adviser to Tawana Brawley, a black (is this term currently PC?) teenager who falsely accused a white prosecutor and several white police officers of abducting and sodomizing her. (Read the rest here)
Nancy
Pelosi's Power Trip One of feminists' favorite slogans goes like this: "Well-behaved women seldom make history." If you consider a House speaker who meets with a terrorist thug to be historical, then Nancy Pelosi recently proved that slogan to be true. Defying Bush administration requests, Pelosi traveled last week to Israel and Syria hoping to thaw the ice between the long-standing Middle East adversaries. But Pelosi ignored the fact that Syrian president Assad represents an implacable threat to the region. (Read the rest here)
From
The Archives I've been reading the works of Robert A. Heinlein (as the Brits say, "man and boy") for forty-six years, having found his books when I was sent to the school library to spend several afternoons there as a punishment. After all these years, I don't recall what for, more's the pity. In all that time (and earlier, in fact) I always expected that, sooner or later, I'd end up space myself, maybe even die there (after living a couple hundred years, like Lazarus Long). And although I didn't necessarily want to move there, the one sight I always wanted most to see in person was Saturn and its rings, from one of its inner moons. As I grew up, I became disappointed and disillusioned. The Mercury program came and went, the Gemini program came and went, the Apollo program came and went, followed by SkyLab, the Shuttle program, and the International so-called Space Station. What they all taught us (unless you actually care about fruitfly reproduction in microgravity) was that the only individuals who would ever be allowed to get into space were precisely the kind of government-approved jockstraps who were on the varsity football team when you were in high school -- oh yes, and an occasional cheerleader -- oops, make that public school teacher. (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute The media often report overseas developments, but don’t always explore their underlying causes, which, in many cases, conveniently lets the U.S. government off the hook. The recent internecine violence in Somalia provides a classic example. The U.S. media have focused to date almost exclusively on the rising Islamist movement in Somalia and U.S. “covert” assistance to the Ethiopian invasion that supported Somalia’s transitional government against the stronger Islamists. The media should be focusing on one of the major causes of the Somali mess: U.S. government meddling. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation The idea, discussed by me and others, that it is good that most Americans are not directly touched by the President Bush's wars is of course not the whole story. Our rulers could have forced us to be more involved. They could have passed a special war tax, launched a high-profile "Buy War Bonds" campaign, and found other ways to demand "sacrifice" in the name of patriotism and victory. They could have staged more events featuring "our brave heroes who risk everything to preserve your way of life." They even could have started conscription if only for symbolic reasons. But our misleaders have not done any of this. Why not? (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 Practically nobody now searches explicitly for the "just price," and it is generally recognized that any ethical criticisms must be leveled qualitatively against the values of consumers, not against the quantitative price-structure that the market establishes on the basis of these values. The market price is the just price, given the pattern of consumer preferences. Furthermore, this just price is the concrete, actual market price, not equilibrium price, which can never be established in the real world, nor the "competitive price," which is an imaginary figment. If the search for the just price has virtually ended in the pages of economic works, why does the quest for a "just tax" continue with unabated vigor? Why do economists, severely scientific in their volumes, suddenly become ad hoc ethicists when the question of taxation is raised? In no other area of his subject does the economist become more grandiosely ethical. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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