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11 - 16 June 2007 A busy week, celebrating Flag Day/Army's Birthday, getting back on the road again at length for the first time in a month, celebrating my dear wife's birthday, and wow, has it ever rained a lot in the Black Hills this spring! The grass is 4 feet high in places! Meanwhile, Blackhawks are flying over my house several times a day, but no, it is not the local yard Nazis enlisting the black helicopter brigade; it is the National Guard doing the annual Golden Coyote series of exercises in the Black Hills, although much of their training this year seems to be pre-game practice for a new deployment to Iraq and not the more typical "defend the Black Hills, repair roads and erosion" scenario. Still, news is getting short shrift this week, I fear, but let us dive in together. Our
right to defend ourselves: This is amazing, and great news! All too often, the cop is presumed always in the right. I've been hassled by cops exhibiting the classic signs of road rage right in the parking lot of the county courthouse, who threatened to bust me because I failed to show proper respect for a man wearing bloused black fatigue pants and a black tee-shirt - in a military town! Usually it is only in family disputes that the cops are even considered to be in the wrong, and for Minnesota, this is amazing. (Read the rest here) Two pages.
Honoring
National Flag Day Today is "National Flag Day," commemorating the adoption of the United States flag in 1777, and also the 232nd birthday of the United States Army. Three hundred and thirty years ago, someone (various persons are honored in myth and history) combined the symbolism of the "Grand Union Flag" of the united British colonies with its red and white stripes and a canton of the earlier Union Jack, with the symbolism of stars - the symbol of sovereignty and liberty and freedom. While we could dwell on the perceived evils of the pledge to the flag and its origins, or the "evil" symbolism that so many people attribute to the Stars and Stripes and how it is honored, distained, or hated, I choose today rather to recognize it as a symbol of dreams and hopes and progress. (Read the rest here)
Amnesty Opponents
Are Not Un-American Although action in the United States Senate this week has slowed passage of the amnesty bill, it is not yet dead as President Bush remains committed to this approach. That is why the President recently suggested that those of us who oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants are unpatriotic. Those of us who strongly oppose the new immigration reform bill before the Senate “don't want to do what's right for America ,” the president said. I reject that assessment as unfair and inaccurate. (Read the rest here)
A Brave
Dad Battles Parental Alienation The elemental bond that links fathers with their children is the subject of ancient poetry, biblical legend, and even diplomatic stand-offs. Remember Homer's epic saga of Odysseus and Telemachus? The New Testament tale of the prodigal son? And of course the Elian Gonzalez case. Xavier Quinta was born on June 24, 1998 to Bennett Vonderheide and Wendy Flanders of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. But the relationship went sour and the couple separated. (Read the rest here)
From
The Archives It’s April 15th and time for opponents of the federal income tax to renew their claim that the tax is unconstitutional because the Sixteenth Amendment was not properly ratified. These individuals are operating on the erroneous belief that the Sixteenth Amendment is the source of the federal government’s power to impose income taxes. The purpose of this article is show that the Sixteenth Amendment did not grant the federal government any new taxing power. In order to understand this issue, it is important to review the taxing clauses of the Constitution and the events that led to the adoption of the Sixteenth Amendment. The Constitution divides all taxes into two classes: direct and indirect. Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 grants the federal government its power to impose taxes: (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute The Iraq War has made refugees of millions of Iraqis. They have been ethnically cleansed or displaced to other locations both inside the country, to neighboring countries, and overseas. Yet the Bush administration, the creator of the chaos and mayhem in Iraq, has done little to help them. According to NBC News, since April 2003, when the initial U.S. military action was over, the United States has taken in a scant 535 Iraqi refugees. In contrast, European countries, many of which opposed the Bush administration’s invasion, have taken in 18,000. One commentator noted that taking any more Iraqis would be an implicit admission by the administration that the war was not going well. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation “Hello. I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.” Conservatives love to use this line to mock the idea that government can do constructive things for you. Nothing gets a bigger laugh at conservative gatherings. The sentence has two meanings. First, it makes fun of the notion that politicians have your interests at heart and truly wish to serve them. Not so, according to the subtext; politicians are self-serving meddlers. (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 Living without trade may be possible, but it would hardly be living; at best it would be mere existence. Until the marketplace appears, men are reduced to getting by with what they can find in nature in the way of food and raiment; nothing more. But the will to live is not merely a craving for existence; it is rather an urge to reach out in all directions for a fuller enjoyment of life, and it is by trade that this inner drive achieves some measure of fulfillment. The greater the volume and fluidity of marketplace transactions the higher the wage level of Society; and, insofar as things and services make for happiness, the higher the wage level the greater the fund of happiness. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
External Articles Asset forfeiture is a routine form of highway robbery in which law enforcement agencies seize forms of personal property – generally cars, but also cash and homes – on the theory that they are “guilty” of involvement in narcotics trafficking. The charade conducted at La Pine – let's call it the La Pine Maneuver – adds a small but significant additional dimension to this corrupt practice: Outright theft through deception. Thanks to the Ninth Circuit Court, (.pdf) we can expect this variety of officially sanctioned crime to proliferate: On Friday a three-judge panel, in a decision written by the generally sensible Judge Alex Kozinski, overturned a lower court decision and ruled that the DEA-conceived carjacking was not a violation of the Fourth Amendment. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Isn’t
the Law Already In Our Hands? Indeed. The State decides, a priori, whom they want to make an example of, and then proceeds in whatever way they can to get the result they wish. Not to put too fine a point on it, but that’s not close to justice. If we know this, then the law could already be in our hands, we just aren’t acting like it. In order to rule, those in power, even in a pseudo-socialist democracy like Amerika must establish legitimacy for what they propose to do. For all their power and all the overwhelming monopoly of force the state has, public opinion is a requirement for their continued success in ruling us. As Hoppe states in, "The Origin and Nature of International Conflict," what constrains the conduct of state rulers is public opinion. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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