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June
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17 - 23 June 2007 Stupid
government tricks: Inconsistent, but then, what else should I expect? I’d love to see a list of all these “signing statements” cross indexed against the US Code. I might even start one of my own: and issuing my own “unsigning” statements. Mama's Note: Great idea!! Some folks on a forum I frequent had this idea some time ago, but nothing ever came of it. (Read the rest here)
Immigration
and The REAL
ID A fairly common theme in my commentaries and articles here at The Price of Liberty has been the need to work together – not to "compromise" but to form tactical alliances even with people who are our enemies in order to defeat another enemy or an evil scheme. All too often, it is the way we state our positions, and not our positions themselves, that alienate people who are potential allies on a specific issue, AND the great number of undecided people whom we must reach with our message. The poster child for this sort of thing is Cindy Sheehan for the "anti-war" movement; her tactics and her personality did more harm than good. But she is far from the only example.. Recently, several friends have forwarded me an interesting piece by Perry Willis, formerly the Communications Director for the National Libertarian Committee and now with an organization called "DownsizeDC.org" which I reprint here: (Read the rest here)
Communism in a Pink Pantsuit Inspired by the paper maché figure that protesters paraded about Tiananmen Square in 1989, the 10-foot bronze statue is modest by any standard. These words are inscribed at the base: "To the more than one hundred million victims of communism and to those who love liberty." Last week 400 people gathered in Washington DC to witness the unveiling of the Victims of Communism Memorial. The speakers mourned those who had died at the hands of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. And they warned of the threat of Islamo-fascism. But little was said of the clear and present danger of communism itself. (Read the rest here)
Who’s
An “Illegal”?? The words are on the tongues of every politician, pundit and radio talk show host from coast to coast - illegal immigrants. Everyone's got an opinion about why they are here and what to do with the estimated 12 million "illegals" within the US borders. Leading the highly bigoted charge is America's embodiment of National Socialism, CNN's Lou Dobbs, and goose stepping right behind him is Fox's Sean Hannity who is everything but a "Great American." From the way they are described by the illuminati, "illegal's" should be fairly easy to round up. They're the little brown folks hanging out at hospital emergency rooms, plotting terrorist acts, driving drunk, loitering at the local welfare office, stealing jobs from willing American laborers or dropping off their kids for some "free" government education (you get what you pay for - sometimes). If you listen to the talking heads you'd think these illegal's are nothing more than a bunch of lazy, parasitic scum that have come to suck the life blood out of the United States of Ameriika (which coincidentally is an accurate description of politicians). But reality is not quite so simple or xenophobic. (Read the rest here)
Earmark
Victory May Be A Hollow One Last week's big battle on the House floor over earmarks in the annual appropriations bills was won by Republicans, who succeeded in getting the Democratic leadership to agree to clearly identify each earmark in the future. While this is certainly a victory for more transparency and openness in the spending process, and as such should be applauded, I am concerned that this may not necessarily be a victory for those of us who want a smaller federal government. Though much attention is focused on the notorious abuses of earmarking, and there are plenty of examples, in fact even if all earmarks were eliminated we would not necessary save a single penny in the federal budget. Because earmarks are funded from spending levels that have been determined before a single earmark is agreed to, with or without earmarks the spending levels remain the same. (Read the rest here)
From
The Archives The idea is probably as old as the Pharaohs, maybe even as old as Homo Erectus. Whenever and wherever old men have sent young men off to die, sooner or later someone has suggested that the old men should go first. There are two reasons for this, I think. The first is that, unless you're running an empire of some kind—which we Americans are not supposed to be doing—and you're fulfilling a Manifest Destiny you imagine that you have, to reach out and steal everybody else's life, liberty, and property, finding yourself involved in a war represents a serious failure on the part of a nation's political leaders. In fact they've screwed up bigtime, and there ought to be a price to pay for that. (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute The Bush administration may live in a bubble of “unreality,” regarding its foreign policy in Iraq, but neo-conservatives inhabit a parallel universe on Iran. Unbelievably, despite the fact that the U.S. quagmire in Iraq has greatly weakened the U.S. position vis-à-vis Iran, the neocons are pushing for military action against that theocratic regime. According to the New York Times, David Wurmser, one of Vice President Dick Cheney’s principal advisors, told conservative groups of Cheney’s assertion that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s diplomatic effort to shut down Iran’s nuclear program was faltering. Cheney further asserted that by the spring of 2008 President Bush might have to decide whether to use military force against that nation, according to the report. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation To hold onto the support of the American people for this dictatorial power, the Bush administration has engaged in its own form of terrorism by exposing domestic “plots” involving small rag-tag groups allegedly bent on, among other things, attacking Fort Dix and blowing up fuel tanks and pipelines near JFK International Airport. The pipeline plot, U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf said, “could have resulted in unfathomable damage, deaths and destruction.” Yet people who actually understand these things say this is far-fetched. It looks as though we are being terrorized by the government. To be sure, there must be a few people in the country who, for whatever reason, talk about blowing something up. But skepticism about these supposed threats is in order: the alleged plotters were exposed by FBI informants trying to get their own criminal sentences reduced. There is a fine line between an informant desperate to cooperate with law enforcement and an agent provocateur — the facts are easily concealed. (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 Opposition to authentic privatization, which means elimination of the program, derives from a combination of faulty reasoning and collectivist ideology. Among the many misconceptions surrounding opposition to Social Security privatization, there are a few that appear most common. Defenders of Social Security deny that it is a Ponzi scheme, and instead claim: It is a grand success; Private citizens would not set aside adequate savings to fund their retirement; People would lose their life savings on risky stock market investments and other get-rich schemes; The overall rate of private savings is too low. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
External Articles Conservative columnist (and Fox News Watch panelist) Cal Thomas, in a column he penned for Jewish World Review on April 17, 2000, said it best about the federal income tax: "People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government." If only today's so-called liberals and conservatives fathomed the meaning of those words. Furthermore, it would be nice if they could admit that income taxation is immoral and unethical, on the grounds that such a government-induced machination violates an individual's right to keep the fruits of his or her labor, all because he or she has simply earned that money. Don't count on it though; after all, such an admission would mar the so-called sacrosanct image of the Left and the Right and their apologists in the federal government. Simply put, if they admit such a thing, it will constitute a bad public relations nightmare for them. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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