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front: Of course, opponents of technological civilization are quick to condemn wind farms for killing birds, creating noise, creating “visual pollution” and of course, for allowing people to continue to watch the idiot box and read at night. The rest of this story is about government control and intervention, and the people of King City will soon come to rue their further exposure to government regulations and regulators. Mama's Note: And, of course, not one in a thousand has any idea how much oil, or carbon based energy of all kinds, was used to produce the wind machines, transport them, etc. They sound good, but don't really solve anything - even if CO2 were a real problem. We can have cheap, clean electricity any time the luddites give up blocking nuclear power plants and eliminate the tree huggers from the process of producing alternatives. But don't hold your breath now... (Read the rest here) (Two pages!)
To
Thine Own Self Be True A fly buzzed frantically against the barred, wire reinforced window, giving a hint of life to the otherwise oppressive atmosphere of the large classroom. It reminded Jason of the flies that always hung around the barn when he was a kid and, of course, he couldn't help but go on to remember his last few moments at home only a few days before he had come to this place. He felt anew the fear and pain of that awful night when the "teachers" had taken him from his weeping parents, forcing him into a windowless black van in his pajamas and bare feet. He vividly recalled the black garbed policemen all around them, each with a gun pointed at his helpless family. (Read the rest here)
"Amerika
Uber Alles" -- Our Nazi Nation The most persuasive anti-Nazi I ever knew was my mentor, Dr. Peter W. Guenther, who believed that Nazism was monstrous at every level. As a professor of humanities, he thought it was both inhumane and inhuman. As a professor of art history he thought its aesthetics were artless histrionics. He readily granted that his intellectual opinions were molded by his personal experiences. As a German veteran of World War II, he regretted the loss of his youth, the waste of his friends' lives and the devastation that they had inflicted on others. He held Hitler accountable for all of this -- after all, it was Hitler who had drafted them into the war. He had served from 1939 to 1945, from Poland to Norway to France to Russia. He once quipped that before every one of their invasions their leaders said they were fighting for national defense, but after the shooting started every soldier on every side believed that he was fighting for his own self-defense. (Read the rest here)
IMBRA:
Anatomy of a Feminist Hoax Want a textbook example how the Left manufactures a crisis, passes a law that rolls back Constitutional protections, snookers card-carrying conservatives, and bilks American taxpayers? Look no farther than IMBRA, the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act. A little background: It's no secret that conditions in post-socialist Russia are grim. Author Sonya Luehrmann recounts how women desperately search to find a husband "to put one's personal life in order, to settle down with a stable family." (Read the rest here)
From
Sea to Shining Sea Stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Florida to Alaska and from Maine to Hawaii, this country called America is unique among all countries that have ever survived on this Earth. Its mountains and valleys, its plains and swamps, its rivers and lakes, its deserts and canyons, provide unrivaled grandeur. But more than that, its freedom and liberty have produced a culture of people steeped in prosperity, goodness and generosity, the likes of which have never before been seen in civilization's rise out of the jungles and swamps of 40,000 years ago. Long-dead cultures of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean toyed with freedom but could not hold on to it. The Greeks, Egyptians, Romans and Ottomans rose and then fell into chaos as human avarice, greed and arrogance replaced, or never acknowledged, human rights, dignity and individual liberty. (Read the rest here)
From
the Archives
First, the critics. Cody Hatch at Prudent Politics says, "It's funny how libertarians and privacy advocates wet their pants over Gmail, but never encrypt their e-mail to begin with." Paul Jacob, in his Common Sense commentary, chides privacy activists over rushing to legislate against Gmail and similar services, sure to be hot on Google's heels. A Cato commentary by Timothy Lee nails the issue down fairly well, while still insinuating that some privacy advocates went overboard in their reactions to the Gmail announcement. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation Rights
& Duties, Left & Right It is interesting that both the Right and the Left complain about the American (Lockean) political tradition because it emphasizes individual rights and not responsibilities or duties. The complaint is ill founded, however. First, a regime of individual rights does directly imply legal responsibilities or duties, albeit of a limited sort. If all human beings have a right to their lives, liberties, etc., this implies that everyone has the legally enforceable duty to abstain from violating these rights. (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute YAGUARON, Paraguay—A feisty populist former priest could win next April’s Paraguayan elections and become Hugo Chavez’s new ally in this country bordering Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia. The rise of Fernando Lugo, who was active in liberation theology movement within the Catholic Church, illustrates the inadequacies of Latin America’s democratic systems, which periodically give rise to left-wing movements fueled by social resentment. I came to Yaguaron, a sleepy town to the south of Asuncion that seems frozen in the 18th century, to shoot a documentary on authoritarianism in Latin America. My focus has been on Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia, a fascinating man who ruled Paraguay with an iron fist in the first half of the 19th century and is partly responsible for this country’s despotic tradition. I was surprised to find people, from peasants to schoolteachers, who still express admiration for a leader who built his regime on the notion that Paraguay should be cut off from the rest of the world and ordered all Paraguayans to touch their hat brims when they met him. (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 The alleged "liquidity crisis" The repercussions of the turmoil in the US subprime mortgage market are increasingly being felt around the world. What was initially thought to be a problem confined to a US credit market segment has increasingly transformed itself into an erosion of investor confidence in credit quality in general and, in some countries, concerns about the reliability of the banking sector. The most obvious symptom of eroding confidence is the alleged "liquidity crisis." The term "liquidity" usually denotes the possibility to buy or sell a financial asset at any one time without causing noticeable changes in the price of the product being bought or sold. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
External Articles The public’s confusion over energy, entropy, and economics has led to a lot of counterproductive, even outright destructive effects. Huber summarizes the effect of the anti-nuclear movement thusly: "400 million more tons of coal have been burned." (Never forget, coal produces over 100 times more radiation per kilowatt-hour than nuclear plants!) Was this what those who funded the "environmental" organizations wanted? Maybe, but I doubt it was the objective of most environmentalists. The moral is that putting your efforts into depriving other people of the freedom to innovate probably isn’t going to achieve your goal, no matter what your goal is. There is no reason to fear "Peak Oil," "Peak Coal," "Peak Uranium," "Peak Deuterium," "Peak Antimatter," etc. Free human beings will not run out of energy for billions of years, even if we never learn any more physics in all that time. Our only shortage is of freedom itself. And that is something to fear. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
America’s
Police Brutality Pandemic The only terrorist most Americans will ever encounter is a policeman with a badge, nightstick, mace and Taser. A Google search for "police brutality videos" turns up 2,210,000 entries. Some entries are foreign and some are probably duplications, but the number is so large that a person could do nothing but watch police brutality videos for the rest of his life. A search on "You Tube" alone turned up 2,280 police brutality videos. PrisonPlanet has a selection of the most outrageous recent cases. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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