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September
24, 2007 Cop-cruelties: The ME has ruled Mrs. Delafield’s death a homicide. Based on the female cop’s actions, there is a strong case for premeditated charges. Mama's Note: Gives terrible new meaning to the phrase, "Dial 911 and die." (Read the rest here) (Two pages!)
Are the Barry
Bonds' Record-Setting Baseballs In anticipation of the balls being put-up for auction, memorabilia experts attempted to place a dollar value on the balls. The speculation ended last week when the ball that tied the record was auctioned for $186,750 while the ball that broke the record went for $752,467. According to so-called tax experts, the money from the sale of the baseballs constitutes income to Mr. Hughes and Mr. Murphy. An article on The Wall Street Journal blog states: "It's taxable income to the fan the instant that person catches the ball because it's "accession to wealth." Leave to government and attorneys to come up with terms and schemes to "legalize" the theft of our money. (Read the rest here)
BULL
- - - In a China Shop So, to no one's surprise, General David Petraeus want's to keep our troops in Iraq at current strength -- or given the Administration's facility at "figuring," greater strength -- for at least six more months. Let's see, we sent our soldiers into Iraq -- and for some reason, Iraq, even Anbar, is a mess - - - Maybe Iraq's a mess because, as First Lt. Paul Rieckhoff explained, a soldier's job is to "kill people and break their stuff." Which tends to be really messy and has very limited utility. (Read the rest here)
"The
Bitch in the Ditch" vs. "General Betray Us" "See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." -- George W. Bush When I joined the trenches -- or rather the ditches -- of Camp Casey in mid-August of 2005, there was no political reaction to the abuse already being heaped upon Cindy Sheehan. The Senate that just Thursday condemned the free expression that Bush's general would betray us was silent when the rhetoric ran the other way. The TV talking heads who now universally decry the choice of words by the left had no problem when the right used much more choice words to attack the peace mom. (Read the rest here)
VAWA
Gives More Rights to Illegals than Citizens Attention, ladies of the world: The U.S. Congress has now granted you the Keys to Kingdom that will unlock the door to U.S. citizenship, a good-paying job, and tons of free services. Here's how it works. First, get into the United States, anyway you can. If you're going to do it legally, a Temporary Worker visa is the easiest way. But why bother with the paperwork, just walk across the border when they're looking the other way! Next, you need to find a man. Do it quickly before they can deport you. And preferably a guy who can't afford his own lawyer -- I'll explain why in a minute. (Read the rest here)
Are
You Looking For A Way To Make A Difference? For many years now, the great freedom writers of our time have delineated, in hard, cold facts and flowery prose, the loss of our individual liberties, as promised by our constitution. We have repeated and repeated the great words of our Founding Fathers. We have warned of the dangers of our out-of-control government and the powerful special interests that lobby them incessantly. We have written about the exponential rise in laws and acts that come out of the bowels of the U. S. Congress, state legislatures and local politicians. Laws, acts, ordinances, restrictions and regulations that have reached the point of absurdity, if not insanity. All these laws, acts and ordinances strip away the last remaining vestiges of our God-given rights that so many brave men and women have given up their lives, their limbs and their minds to defend. (Read the rest here)
From
the Archives Jason was excited. He had a secret, and his mind was lit up like a bonfire in the night. He was very aware of the danger in that excitement, so he counted very carefully to be sure he took the same 570 steps as always from his "pod" to the school gate. He had become an expert at pretending the disinterested, docile movements and facial expression of all the other boys. Breakfast had been the usual slab of gray tofu, sprinkled faintly with imitation cinnamon and what passed for sugar. The nondescript"fruit juice" had been even less sweet than usual, and from long practice he was able to ignore the knot of hunger that remained. At the door, he had successfully isolated the little pink pill from the vitamin capsule, and spit it into the first bush he passed, confident that the bubbling irrigation would destroy it and fully aware that he must never for a second let anyone suspect that he was not actually under the influence of it. The zombie-like boys shuffling all around him were stark proof of it's horrible effectiveness. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation Why does the idea of “national service” never cease to attract American intellectuals? Every few years some prominent “thinker” proposes that young Americans “serve their country” in either a civilian or military capacity. Such service is always promised to have a profound effect on both the nation and the people doing the serving. The latest example comes from Time magazine managing editor Richard Stengel. In his September 10 cover article, “A Time to Serve,” Stengel laments a lack of involvement in civic life by Americans. Too many people do nothing more than vote and pay taxes, he says. Well of course they pay taxes. They are threatened with prison if they don’t. (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute Getting
Them Before They Get Us The Los Angeles Police Department (L.A.P.D.) has recently procured—using some of the $3 million in funding from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—devices capable of detecting so-called dirty bombs or radiological dispersion devices (RDDs). One of the detectors will be deployed onboard a helicopter and supposedly is capable of detecting a radiation signature from an altitude of 800 feet. Six other devices are hand-held units for use by police officers on the ground (and presumably have a much shorter detection range, probably only a few feet). According to Chief of Police William Bratton, “Terrorism is all about getting them before they get us.” But how likely are such radiation detection devices to “get them”? (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101
The Right to Ignore the State As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal freedom, we cannot choose but admit the right of the citizen to adopt a condition of voluntary outlawry. If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state — to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying towards its support. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
External Articles Is
Yet Another War Justified? This past week the subject of Iran seemed to be on everyone’s lips. The top U.S. diplomat in Iraq met with the Washington Post to make the Bush administration’s case that harsher action needs to be taken against Iran because of allegations that Iran’s leaders are funding and training terrorists in Iraq. Israel’s Olmert agitated that Iran should “pay dearly” for continuing its nuclear program. In Iran itself, the Ayatollah Khamenei laid into President Bush for his war policy and aggressive stance towards Iran, providing a sharp retort to Bush’s Iraq War speech on Thursday. Khamenei predicted that Bush and other American officials will one day face trial just like deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein for “the catastrophes they caused in Iraq.” And in the U.S. Congress and among the 2008 presidential hopefuls, the anti-Iran drumbeat got steadily louder. Middle East expert Trita Parsi, the author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States, noted in a recent American Conservative essay that the looming confrontation with Iran deserves the front-burner attention it is getting but that it is more about regional hegemony than nuclear weapons. She argues that the only possible solution to the crisis is a diplomatic one and concludes by saying this: (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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