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May
21, 2007 Libertarian
Commentary on The News, 6
- 12 May, 2007 The commentary may be a bit short this week because of some personal events, but as we near summer, life in the US looks better and better compared to the rest of the world, doesn't it? Culture
wars: Gee, he isn't pulling any punches. At the same time, Latin America's problem isn't "unbridled capitalism" but capitalism that has been coerced by government AND has mutated into a very cancerous form that mimics the state. Mama's Note: I'm terribly disappointed with this new Pope so far. For all of his supposed education and experience, he just doesn't seem to understand what the words mean! The idea that anyone of such intelligence could confuse "capitalism" with the phony crap that goes on by that name in most of the world is sad. Pope John Paul had a much clearer idea of what real free trade was, and the value of a free economy to the poorest of the poor, which were his legitimate concern. (Read the rest here) Two pages, as usual.
Gun
Owners Prevent Crimes; Anti-Gun Statists Prevent Freedom There are certain places where gun ownership is reviled, actively opposed by the state, and where stories about gun owners preventing crime are thin on the pages. There are other places where gun ownership is actively supported, not only by limited governmental interference, but also by newsmedia cognizant of the fact that gun owners make a difference every day. There are several inferences which I've drawn from this review. (Read the rest here)
From
The Archives US scientists have uncovered substantial evidence that politics damages the human brain in a privately funded, quietly conducted independent study. Government researchers vehemently disagree, and have now begun extensive studies of lab rats to demonstrate the benign effects of political activity on the brain - but their findings so far have proved largely inconclusive. "Some rats exhibit early signs of confusion, such as appearing to be blind and falling into ditches, and tend to become aggressive, such as stealing but rationalizing it's okay because they call it taxes, but they all quickly learned to pull the lever when they found they could vote themselves cheese from the public pantry," remarked Dr. Sherman Peabody, the scientist in charge of the tax-funded project. "Any assertion that politics impedes one's ability to think intelligently sounds like a vast left-brained conspiracy theory. Or maybe right-brained. I'm not sure. Sometimes I can't tell my right hand from my left hand. Often, one doesn't know what the other is doing, either. Dr. Ninevah has the same problem." (Read the rest here)
Tornado
Ravaged Greensburg, Kansas: On
Saturday May 19, five members and volunteers affiliated with Kansas Mutual
Aid, a Lawrence based anarchist collective, made the trek back to Greensburg
to again help in relief efforts in the tornado ravaged city. A week earlier,
four KMA members had traveled to Greensburg on a fact finding mission
to assess the situation there. What KMA members found was a militarized,
entirely destroyed city where relief efforts were moving tragically slow.
Security,
Washington-Style Congress voted this past week to authorize nearly $40 billion for the Homeland Security Department, but the result will likely continue to be more bureaucracy and less security for Americans. Five years into this new Department, Congress still cannot agree on how to handle the mega-bureaucracy it created, which means there has been no effective oversight of the department. While Congress remains in disarray over how to fund and oversee the department, we can only wonder whether we are more vulnerable than we were before Homeland Security was created. (Read the rest here)
Pelosi
Proclaims Women as "Peacekeepers of our Societies" I once assumed that Mother's Day would be immune from the intrusions and calculations of partisan politics. But no longer. This past week House speaker Nancy Pelosi used Mother's Day to launch her latest salvo against the Iraq war. And while she was at it, she indulged in some back-handed gender stereotyping, making the remarkable claim that "Women have always been the peacekeepers of our societies." So is it true that women are the gentle harbingers of peaceful co-existence? And men are testosterone-addled warmongers, as Pelosi seems to imply? (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute The
Challenge of the “Sects”
WASHINGTON—Two years ago, Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, who was a strong candidate for the papacy after the death of John Paul II, stunned everyone at a bishops’ synod when he said, “How much longer will Brazil continue to be a Catholic nation?” Pope Benedict XVI’s visit last week to Brazil, the world’s largest Catholic nation, echoed in many ways the anguish of Cardinal Hummes and, by extension, of bishops across Latin America, where the Catholic Church has lost about 20 percent of its followers to various evangelical groups in recent decades. The pope’s open condemnation of the “sects,” as he calls the Pentecostal groups and other evangelical denominations, is a clear acknowledgement from the Vatican that the world’s largest Catholic “reserve” is under threat from spiritual competitors. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation Ron Paul, a Republican congressman running for president, is saying what needs to be said about the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq war. Clearly, his rivals and the news media can't handle the truth. At the most recent Republican debate Paul not only repeated his opposition to the illegal and unconstitutional war, but he also identified 50 years of U.S. intervention in the Middle East as "a major contributing factor" in al-Qaeda's attacks in 2001. "Have you ever read the reasons they attacked us? They attack[ed] us because we've been over there; we've been bombing Iraq for 10 years. We've been in the Middle East," Paul said. (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 Liberals generally wish to preserve the concept of "rights" for such "human" rights as freedom of speech, while denying the concept to private property.[1] And yet, on the contrary the concept of "rights" only makes sense as property rights. For not only are there no human rights which are not also property rights, but the former rights lose their absoluteness and clarity and become fuzzy and vulnerable when property rights are not used as the standard. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
External Articles The
major narrative to which I have devoted a number of essays – a narrative
which is profoundly false both in its general outlines and in every detail,
and one which has been and continues to be literally lethal in its effects
– is the tale of "American exceptionalism." Assuming that
one knows even a minimal amount of history (which, I grant, is far too
often a completely unjustified assumption today, even and especially with
regard to the "best educated" Americans and the members of our
ruling class), and if one considers this mythology with any degree of
honesty, its inconsistencies, outright contradictions, and numerous points
of incoherence quickly become apparent. Yet the overwhelming majority
of Americans continue to believe this fable, and the regular invocation
of America's "unique" characteristics, which make us "better"
than any other people who have ever lived and which, for reasons that
are never explained, entitle us to direct events across the globe, is
nothing less than a religious ritual. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) That’ll
Learn the Little Twerp! If there’s one thing I hate it’s a scofflaw! Lock ‘em up! Get them behind bars without access to a lawyer, all the better to beat them with rubber hoses! I get down on my knees everyday and thank John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales and God that America is on the road to righteousness. It’s about time that America had an energetic executive and omnipotent judiciary to haul off, incarcerate and pummel any citizen. Equal Opportunity Oppression. Take the case of an eleven-year-old Minnesota boy. Let’s call him "Billy." The son of Kristie Lee Davis-Deyhle and a member of the Mille Lacs Band of the Ojibwe, young Billy was the alleged victim of an assault by a thirteen-year-old classmate. And now, the thirteen-year-old classmate sits in the dock waiting for Billy to fink on him. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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