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December
03, 2007 Our
right to defend ourselves: This man saved his wife and child because he was armed and willing to defend them with more than his bare hands. Mama's Note: Good - for this time. Now, why in hell wasn't that woman armed and ALSO ready/willing to defend herself and her children with more than a shout? What if her husband had not been there? (Read the rest here)
Sins
Of The Fathers In the mid to late 1960’s and early 1970”s, hundreds of thousands of young Americans left their youth and innocence to become Airmen, Marines, Sailors and Soldiers and journey to a country the vast majority could not find on a map. They met the devil face to face in places with names like the A Shau and Il Drang Valleys, Hobo Woods, The Rockpile, mountains with numbers like 875 and 881, the brown waters and thick jungles of IV Corps, and the SAM decorated skies of North Vietnam. Very early on most realized we were not fighting and dying for our country, the flag, mom or apple pie, but were witnessing first hand the insanity of fighting in an undeclared, illegal and immoral war, supposedly to bring freedom and democracy to a people the vast majority of whom were tired of having their homes burned and bombed and their relatives killed and maimed. They hated our guts and wanted us to hell out of their country. (Read the rest here)
A
Question For The Supreme Court The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned the ban ruling that the Second Amendment "protects" the individual right of the people to keep and bear arms. Attorneys for the District of Columbia claim the ruling was in error because the right enumerated in the Amendment is a "collective right" that pertains the militias of the several States. Thus, they are asking the Supreme Court to overturn the appellate court decision. Attorneys for Mr. Heller, in the author's opinion, should put the Court on the spot and ask the justices a pointed question. The question would be germane because the example cited in the question mirrors the sentence structure of the Second Amendment. Here is the question: (Read the rest here)
It
Takes A Taser To Raise A Child Is it the Florida water, or the legacy of Janet Reno, the former state attorney general? (More on her in just a minute.) Tasering is harsh and extremely painful. In each of the above cases, tasering constituted "cruel and unusual punishment." Tasering is a form of "pain compliance", which is just a euphemism for torture. Tasering has killed people. In each case, police claimed they tasered these kids for their own good. This is all too reminiscent of the army officer during Vietnam who claimed that it was necessary to destroy a village in order to save it. (Read the rest here)
Kookoo
for Ron Paul The supporters of ten term Republican Congressman Paul aren’t the only ones being referred to in a less than flattering manner in the press. The press has used words like kooky, crazy, quirky, eccentric, insane, crank, loony and weird to describe the candidate himself. This is mostly due to Ron Paul’s insistence that the United States Government abide by the Constitution and that the US return to a sound money policy. His campaign has also been referred to as “quixotic” a term rarely if ever used to describe the Brownback, Tancredo, Huckabee or Hunter campaigns (or lack thereof). So then, who has really drunk the Kool Aid - the Paul supporters or the rest of the electorate? Perhaps we should take a closer look at Ron Paul and the rest of the candidates in order to determine who’s really “lost their marbles.” (Read the rest here)
The
Disgrace of CNN's Nancy Grace At the recent Democratic debate in Las Vegas, CNN's Wolf Blitzer lobbed softball questions at Hillary Clinton. Then he allowed the audience to boo Hillary's opponents - a callous breach of debate etiquette. And when it came time for the audience to grill the candidates, Blitzer deceptively introduced the questioners as "ordinary people, undecided voters." Those voters included a former staffer for Democrat senator Harry Reid, a former director of the Arkansas Democratic Party, an official in a local union, and the president of the Islamic Society of Nevada. (Read the rest here)
One
Man Can Make a Difference One man (or woman), who has the courage, the will and the vision, can make a difference. That difference was never more clear than in the battle between one Tim Eyman and the Washington State Supreme Court, the Washington State Governor and the Washington State Legislature. By catalyzing thousands of Washington State voters with his constant message of lower taxes and government oversight, he beat all of these government types into submission and rubbed their noses in it. When the State Supreme Court ruled Initiative 747 unconstitutional, an initiative that put a 1% annual cap on property tax increases, Tim went to work like no other and whipped the voter/taxpayers into a frenzy that poured all over the Governor and the Legislature. Under extreme political pressure, they had no other choice but to call a special session and reinstate the provisions of Initiative 747, without changes or modifications. (Read the rest here)
From
The Archives I am one of those people who has reread "The Lord of the Rings" dozens of times. The release of the movie version was something I had dreamed about since I was around 10. I memorized Aragorn's "signature" poem quoted above nearly 30 years ago. Just a few years ago, it occurred to me that poem could easily have been written to describe what is happening to freedom in America today, and offers a prophetic view of how we might reclaim our birthright of liberty. It is entirely possible from what I know of him that Tolkien indeed had some inner meaning relating to the struggle for freedom in mind. He was far more consciously anarchist than I realized until I started reading his letters some years after this first occurred to me. Whether he intended that meaning or not, the image is very strong. (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute Blame
the People Who Elected Them? If the people at large are to be blamed, they must be blamed not for the way they cast their ballots, but for their toleration of the whole predatory political set-up that shamelessly passes itself off as a regime “of the people, by the people, for the people”—surely one of the most successful Big Lies of all time. Yet the people have been so massively miseducated, propagandized, cowed, and treated with cynical disregard of their rights for so long that, for the most part, not only have they lost all capacity to stand on their own feet, but, worse, they have in most cases come to love the Big Brother whose boot is grinding their faces. Willingly, sometimes eagerly, they present themselves and their children to be sacrificed on the altar of their own exploiters, leaving the survivors to carry home the folded flag, persuaded that Johnny not only did his “duty,” but acted “heroically” in devotion to the Greater Good. For making the state their god, they may indeed be rightly condemned, even as we also denounce the false prophets who led them down the statist path to their own destruction. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation One gets the feeling that even the White House realizes the mess it's made of Iraq. The other day the newspapers reported that the Bush administration has scaled back its objectives rather substantially. We might call it Iraq 3.0. First the plan was to create a democratic paradise which, domino-like, would spread freedom throughout the Middle East. When that didn't work, the administration shifted to simply bringing some kind of order to Iraq, reconciling the three largest groups -- Shi'a, Sunni, and Kurd. That hasn't gone too well either. (Read the rest here)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute If the Federal Reserve were responsible and wise, it would say no to the demand for more money creation. And yet that would run contrary to its institutional reason for existence. It was founded by the federal government to create new money to fund World War I and immunize the banks from the risks associated with excess lending. The government loves this approach because it means not having to tax people. Taxing makes people angry. Money expansion destroys wealth in more sinister and coy ways. It reduces people's purchasing power and sneakily robs them of their savings, even as it creates a false sense of rising prosperity. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
External Articles Like a dog that can't pass a tree without giving it a hind-legged salute, government can't do anything without creating a bureaucracy. This will be the mother of all bureaucracies, spending not billions but trillions of taxbucks, administered by bureaucrats just like those FEMA functionaries, swindled for millions by people like the counterfeit Katrina victims, and plundered for billions by the multitudes of powercrats nationwide. Libertarians like to quote the Iron Law of Bureaucracy: All bureaucracies exist primarily to benefit the people who run them. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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