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25, 2008 Euro-front: A good precedent for the rest of the world: a peaceful departure from an ill-fated relationship. Yugoslavia is finally dead. Mama's Note: I was actually surprised by this recognition, but glad. Too bad a similar claim by Wyoming and Montana, etc. would not be greeted with the same approval. (Read the rest here)
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Crime Cease in a Gun Free World? If you have any lingering idea that there is some legitimate need for "gun control," you might consider this: Let's pretend, just for a moment, that the Bradys and Feinsteins of the world got their fondest wish and passed all the "laws" they could think of that would keep guns out of the hands of everyone but the police and active military (and except their own public and private armed guards, of course). Imagine they were actually able to confiscate every gun in private hands and turn them all into scrap, or made private gun ownership so expensive and dangerous that it actually became impossible. Now let's imagine the average inner city or even urban area and see if all of the criminals have suddenly become productive citizens because there is no way they can get a gun. You don't think so? (Read the rest here) Constitution
to Hillary, Obama and McCain: Dear Senators Clinton, Obama, and McCain: It has come to my attention that you are running for the office of President of the United States and one of you will be elected to that office in the near future. During your campaigns, I have heard you list so-called problems the nation is facing and listened to your attacks on the individual holding the office you presently seek for not solving these problems. In speeches and debates you have asserted that if elected, you, as President of the United States, will enact legislation to solve every problem known to mankind. I may be over 220 years old and my text has been ignored and misconstrued over the years, but I do not recall giving the President of the United States any legislative power. (Read the rest here) The
Liars Are At It Again! If anyone still has faith in the Wall Street Journal after reading this, then they are in need of a great deal of help. With the primaries coming up, presidential candidates are scrambling for issues to add to their bag of promises. Since "saving" Social Security has usually been a viable subject, many are bringing it up again. Here's what the Wall Street Journal had to say on the subject in an article coauthored by Michael M. Phillips and John D. McKinnon published February 1, 2008: Mr. Bush failed to work out a deal with Congress to tackle the spiraling costs of government health and retirement programs... As a result, the ambitions of Mr. Bush's successor to cut taxes, institute universal health care or aid troubled homeowners might have to give way to the reality of soaring costs for Social Security, the Medicare program for the elderly and the Medicaid program for the poor. What a crock. (Read the rest here) The
Stupidification of America People have voluntarily stupidified themselves because they've bought into assorted cultural caca, ideological concepts frequently abetted or opportunistically manipulated after the fact by the nation's political donkey dung dishers and elephant effluvia flingers.
Libertarians are uniquely positioned to snicker, sneer and snort at this ongoing social stupidification because they don't subscribe to the lefty-righty fakery of political correctness. This perspective gives libertarians, more readily than most, the ability to pull back the curtain and peer into the minds of Stupidifaction Junkies. (Read the rest here) The
Evil That Parties Do I am not one of those disciples of the state, nor that student of politics, that offers that the United States Constitution is "the greatest document ever written." My choice would be instead, the Declaration of Independence. It was the Declaration that cleverly transferred the power of Divine Right from a nation's monarch to each and every single, solitary citizen of a nation. It was that document that established and reaffirmed John Locke's "life, liberty and property" as the human means by which we can all enjoy the Creator's gifts. It was the Declaration that established government as an artificial entity, one whose only purpose was to guarantee individual human freedom, and that when government fails in this regard, citizens had a right to abolish it and to create a better one to replace it. (Read the rest here) My
Wife Became Legal and I Became Illegal One woman whose father had been falsely accused of abuse and forced from his home wrote me, "I believe the Violence Against Women Act should be called the 'Women Get What They Want Act.'" Following those columns I received an unending stream of horror stories from persons falsely accused of domestic violence. One came from Sean Moffett of St. Paul, Minn. whose wife is from Guatemala. Soon after the wedding he discovered to his dismay that her real aim was different from what she had pledged in her wedding vows. This is his story: (Read the rest here)
False
Flag Prospects, 2008 -- Top Three US Target Cities The easiest way to carry out a false flag attack is by setting up a military exercise that simulates the very attack you want to carry out. As I'll detail below, this is exactly how government perpetrators in the US and UK handled the 9/11 and 7/7 "terror" attacks, which were in reality government attacks blamed on "terrorists." Although ill health keeps me from working as hard in the area of false flag analysis as I used to, the urging of independent editors and brother intelligence officers has prompted me to write this essay. I'll keep it short for readers with limited time, but I will include invaluable links for those who want to delve deeper and understand better. My key aim, as someone who spent five years with the U.S. Army 75th Division conducting military war games, is to convince the American people that the "next 9/11" -- constantly promised by officials and the media -- is likely to be carried out under the guise of future military exercises. If the American people are aware of pending exercises and the danger they represent, then the exercises cannot "go live" and effect the very terror events that they are supposed to be rehearsing against. (Read the rest here)
The Future of Freedom Foundation Individualism,
the Collectivists’ Nemesis Today some of America’s most powerful mainstream politicians have gone on record denouncing individualism and they are joined by a great many academicians, even some scientists in trying to besmirch the idea. Instead of each person having the free will to guide him or herself in life, each of us is said to be but a cell in the larger organism that is humanity. There have been many who laid out this idea in forceful ways — just read what the French “father of sociology” said about this: “All human rights then are as absurd as they are immoral. This [“to live for others”], the definitive formula of human morality, gives a direct sanction exclusively to our instincts of benevolence, the common source of happiness and duty. [Man must serve] Humanity, whose we are entirely.” Marx put it even more succinctly: “The Human essence is the true collectivity of Man,” and referred to human beings as “specie beings,” meaning they are part of the larger organism or body of humanity. The book, by Lewis Thomas, Lives of a Cell, defended the idea in the mid-20th century! (Read the rest here)
The
Difference Between an Illegal Immigrant and Me Some Americans clothe their hatred with the charge that the foreigners who come here commit crimes, such as selling drugs and conducting businesses without a license. Of course, drug peddling and working without a government license ought never to have been criminalized in the first place, for anybody, because these acts violate no one’s just rights. If people are worried about real crimes, such as robbery and murder, they need to recall that laws against these crimes already exist, and no special “preemptive war” against potential immigrant offenders can be justified, any more than I can justify nuking Philadelphia today on the strength of my absolute conviction that some residents of that city will commit serious crimes tomorrow. (Read the rest here)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute Money
for Nothing Government accounting is a true oxymoron. We can determine the cost of government, but what about the value produced? What is the product? What is its value? What is the bottom line? Of course, these unanswered questions do not stop government from playing business, pretending to create value and profit for society. Governmental entities operate under the cash basis of accounting, tracking cash in and cash out. To direct their activities, these entities create budgets that list revenue and expenditures. Accounting then is simply the recording of cash flows against the budget. In this world, the cheered concept of fiscal accountability is the process of reporting how close the entity's final revenue and expenditures matched its approved budget. And nothing more. This is an important point to note: whenever government officials speak of fiscal accountability, they are only considering approved budget versus actual spending. They are not referring to worthiness of expenditures, only whether or not they spent revenue according to the budget, with no outright theft of money. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
External Articles Complaints about “big government” are commonplace. And it is a genuine evil, if we take the term to mean government that has grown beyond its legitimate function of stopping force and fraud. But the sheer size of a government is a poor measure of how good or bad it is. The British colonial government in 1776, for example, wasn’t unusually big for governments of the time—but it certainly was oppressive. In watching for governmental activities that take away our freedoms, we should avoid being misled by a phrase; we should watch out for the abuses not only of the “big” federal government, but of “little” governments as well—that is local governments. Many actions which would be unthinkable to the federal government are routinely performed by local governments. If Congress passed a law limiting the number of new businesses that could be started each year, or requiring every house to occupy a two-acre lot, or banning coin-operated games, the result would be an avalanche of protest. Yet local governments commonly engage in actions like these. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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