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May
07 , 2007 Libertarian
Commentary on The News, 29
April - 5 May, 2007 This week, let us start out by looking at the expanding follow-up to the Virginia Tech killings. I am still disheartened by the fact that the entire country seems to be so shocked and saddened by the deaths of 32 students, while seeming not to care less about the hundreds of people in Baghdad and elsewhere who died at the bloody hands of other murderers, or the deaths of three times as many soldiers on middle-eastern battlefields in April. And while the calls for still more disarmament are not unexpected, they still frustrate me. Our
right to defend ourselves: It has taken them a remarkable amount of time to get their act together, hasn’t it? Unfortunately, elected and appointed officials are doing much of their work for them, as the next stories relate. (Read the rest here) Two full pages again!!
Gun Control: A Killer Cause I was at work when I received an e-mail advising that someone had been shot and killed on a college campus in Virginia. Not long after that, a second bulletin arrived giving the unreal death toll of "32 or more." With different news services scrambling to provide different details - some suggesting two gunmen were involved, one of whom was still on the loose - you can forgive me for thinking that the number had to have been either a mistake or a typographical error. In the end, despite the many other evolving stories, that horrific number remained unchanged. I remember my first thought on getting confirmation of the number of dead and wounded at Virginia Tech: "Oh, those poor kids!" But regardless of my very real sympathy for those who died and for those they left behind, a second thought followed hard on its heels: "Oh, our poor Second Amendment!" (Read the rest here)
Electric Fusion - Proven,
Safe, Cheap Energy Device Vital Electric Fusion: Proven, Safe, Cheap Energy Device in Funding Limbo for 2 Decades - Dying on the Vine for Lack of Nuclear Weapon Potential. US
Physicist Dr. Robert W. Bussard has produced proven consistent multiple
working prototypes of a fusion device that does not need to release neutrons
as part of the fusion process. Neutrons induce radioactivity to their
immediate surroundings - only one of the Achilles heels of the Tokamak
project. The massive (30
meters X 110 feet - see the scientist in lower left quadrant) Tokamak/ITER
project (D-T/Deuterium - Tritium) fusion reaction produces about 20 million
units of energy mostly in the deadly neutron (neutral charge) production
and requires gravitational strength containment/compression, while Inertial
Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) Fusion reaction produces about 10 million
units of energy per reaction, requires much weaker electric forces/fields
for confinement of the reaction and is only about 2% of the size (about
15 X 12 feet) of the Tokamak reactor.
(Read the
rest here)
Getting Iraq War Funding Wrong Again This week, Congress finalized the controversial $124 billion Iraq emergency supplemental spending bill, with the House and Senate both voting in favor of final passage. The majority of my Republican colleagues and I voted against this measure, and the president has vowed to veto the legislation. In this final version, the House leadership retained billions of dollars in pork meant to attract skeptical votes, retained a watered-down version of the problematic “benchmarks” that seek to micromanage the war effort, and continued to play politics with the funding of critical veterans medical and other assistance. In other words, this final version was even worse than the original in almost all respects. (Read the rest here)
AAUW's Fuzzy Math an Insult to Working Women Equal Pay Day has become one of our annual rites of Spring. And once again Hillary and her gal-pals were out in force, trying to convince us that women are undervalued and underpaid in the American workplace. This year the gender victimologists came armed with a new report from the American Association of University Women, Behind the Pay Gap, which purports to show that one year after graduation, women are paid 80% of what men earn. (Read the rest here)
From
The Archives What
PFAW means by 'far right" This little article very carefully summarizes the situation this nation has gotten itself into regarding who is "entitled" to be treated as a person - and how courts have decided that all humans are NOT persons, in the name of "privacy rights." It is a doctrine that should be branded as evil by ANY lover of liberty, no matter what their religious convictions may be: the situation should be condemned by conservatives, liberals, right, left, as well as libertarians: only the tyrant and totalitarian could stomach such a thing. (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute President Bush’s plan to deploy missile defenses in Central Europe will reduce U.S. security, not enhance it. Installing radar for tracking incoming missiles in the Czech Republic and anti-missile interceptors in Poland could do more harm than good. Ostensibly, the European radar and interceptors are aimed at the future threat of nuclear-armed Iranian missiles. But Russia suspects—perhaps with good reason—that the real purpose of the deployments is to cement the security guarantees the United States has given to the two former Russian allies. In addition, Russia fears, also with justification, that the missile defenses could be augmented someday and used against Russian missiles. Moscow’s vitriolic threat to pull out of an arms control agreement in protest is a warning the United States should heed. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation It's been a rough several weeks for President Bush and the war party. Observe some recent headlines: "Training Iraqi troops no longer driving force in U.S. policy" -- The McClatchy Newspaper story pointed out, "Military planners have abandoned the idea that training Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces." (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 Liberty and freedom are the conditions of man within a contractual society. Social cooperation under a system of private ownership of the means of production means that within the range of the market the individual is not bound to obey and to serve an overlord. As far as he gives and serves other people, he does so of his own accord in order to be rewarded and served by the receivers. He exchanges goods and services, he does not do compulsory labor and does not pay tribute. He is certainly not independent. He depends on the other members of society. But this dependence is mutual. The buyer depends on the seller and the seller on the buyer. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Look at what happened in MacArthur Park this past Monday. Police in riot gear (read: military garb) decided to disperse an overwhelmingly peaceful demonstration and assaulted with batons and rubber bullets everyone who did not cower and flee at their coming, including the female reporters attempting to film the despicable scene. Watch this video until the end and you will be reminded of China’s Tiananmen Square as paramilitary-police batter a man attempting to support an American flag while another policeman uses his baton on a woman splayed in the dirt. I fear things will become even worse in the future. The paramilitary-police are now being glamorized on TV once again. But this time the shows are not fiction as they were in the 70’s but real life episodes. Dallas SWAT on A&E TV follows the (surprise) Dallas SWAT team as they carry out no-knock warrants on unsuspecting bad guys. The videos provided in the preceding link allow the viewer to watch the SWAT team pump themselves up, destroy private property and drag dangerous perps from their homes. I’m still trying to understand why the police have a tank… probably to protect us from drug-dealing Soviets. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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