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March
24, 2008 Although fuel and other prices surged up and down this week, there was little in the news about it – while the incredible antics of Barak and Hillary and their friends dominated the talk shows, and “antiwar” protests got little coverage. For many lovers of liberty, attention was on DC and the arguments on the DC Vs Heller case on the Second Amendment. The end of the week was dominated by flooding stories from heavy rains in the Midwest: of which we shall no doubt hear more next week. Let us start with some news from the Mideast, not the Midwest. Afghan
front: The four were Danes, who among other things are paying back the Brits and Amis and Canadians for the liberation of Denmark from the Nazis a half-century ago. (Read the rest here)
Congressional
Guidelines for Abusing Women This report explores how the very same systems that are destroying families for profit are also victimizing the women who participate in it. It also exposes who profits from this system and why they oppose any effort to change what is happening. The guidelines and funding systems for all of this are created through Acts of Congress. The most appalling exposé of the series “How the Failures of Welfare Reform Created Our Lawless Courts,” has to be how claims of Domestic Violence (DV) and restraining orders are systemically exploited. This has resulted in nearly worldwide-institutionalized protectionism, economic interventionism, and regulatory policies unlike any previously seen in the history of civilization. Equally appalling is how the same systems victimize the women it claims to serve, under the guise of "protecting" them from abuse. (Read the rest here) Can
Government
Guarantee
the Safety of Donated Blood? Two-week
old blood no good [?] This sounds too much like a scrap of fact that has been pumped up and wrapped in hype to make another horrible sounding thing to fear - to agitate for government to "do something"... think of the "Alar" scare, or the bird flu that was going to kill us all years ago... And this: "New measures are urgently needed, say the researchers," raises the red flag of even more "regulation" that will only increase the shortages and muddy the waters further. If hospitals have identified this as a real problem, it seems a simple thing for them to take steps on their own to solve it; just stop using blood that old, work harder to get self and other donated blood, use other techniques. Prospective patients and concerned doctors need to ask the hard questions and satisfy themselves that the best methods and products are being used. That doesn't require government interventions or new "regulations," just personal responsibility and intelligent choices by those who will be affected. Which one would you trust? (Read the rest here) Do
the American People really want Liberty and Constitutional Government?
I recently finished reading a book by Franklin Pierce entitled "Federal Usurpations." The book, which was originally published in 1908, addressed the usurpations of power being perpetrated by the federal government during Pierce's day. In the final chapter, "How to Restore the Democratic Republic," Pierce provided his blueprint for achieving this goal. Even though I disagree with his proposals for amending the Constitution, I found his assessment of the problems profound because they mirror what we are experiencing today. (Read the rest here) Biblical
Guidance For Voting A recent e-mail exchange on the subject of this fall's election prompted these thoughts on Romans 12 and how Christians should vote. While the Bible says nothing about voting, it does guide us on how we should live. Its advice for living applies everywhere, including the voting booth. I wrote the following in an e-mail to SG. Hillary, Obama, and McCain are all cut from the same cloth. Oh sure, they talk a little bit differently. However, they are ALL for endless socialism, endless war, UN membership and the surrender of our independence, open borders, a full-blown police state and abortion on demand of 1 million babies per year. (1) THEY ARE ALL THE SAME!!! Don't vote for ANY of them!!! (Read the rest here)
Bureaucrats
never Burdened by Burden of Proof "My Pa's smarter'n your Pa." "Oh yeah, prove it."
"You say Bigfoot don't exist? Prove it!"
We've all heard arguments like these. The first one places the burden of proof on the one who makes the assertion. It's called Logic 101. Western jurisprudence is based on the premise that a person is innocent unless someone can prove him guilty. The second is an argument from irrationality, which demands that a person perform the logical impossibility of proving a negative. The second argument is winning. Shifting the burden of proof onto the accused makes life easier for governmentcrats everywhere. (Read the rest here) The
Intellectual Perversion of the VAWA Mafia When professor Suzanne Steinmetz published the results of her survey on domestic violence, no one had prepared her for the firestorm that would ensue. You see, feminists take it as an article of faith that only husbands abuse their wives. So when Steinmetz revealed that women are often as violent as their husbands, the fem-fascists started a whispering campaign designed to block her promotion at the University of Delaware. When that didn't work, they phoned in a bomb threat at her daughter's wedding. Cowed by the threats, Steinmetz soon suspended her pioneering research. (Read the rest here) From
The Archives Gun control in any form is not biblical. The Bible tells us that Cain killed Abel - Genesis 4:8 - but it does not tell us how he did it or with what tool. Evil lies with people and their deeds, not the tools they use. The idea that depriving people of inanimate objects will stop them from doing evil has no basis in Scripture. But doesn't Romans 13 tell us always to obey our government? Romans 13 is the favorite Scripture of control freaks everywhere. Millions of American Christians are so totally dumbed down that they actually believe Romans 13 tells us to submit unconditionally to earthly authorities at all times. (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute As the fifth anniversary of the United States’ second-longest (next to Vietnam) and second-costliest (next to World War II) war passes, the good news is that the counterinsurgency strategy of Gen. David Petraeus and Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno seems to be working. The bad news is that it will probably not save Iraq. Although the U.S. troop “surge” has had some effect, it is probably not the most important factor dampening violence back down to the levels of mid-2004. The United States had comparable force levels in Iraq (about 155,000 troops) in 2005, but the mayhem was worse than now and was increasing. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation A fascinating aspect of government intervention is how it induces people (1) to get embroiled in the crisis environment that the intervention produces, and (2) to feel a vested interest in coming up with a solution to the crisis. Consider price controls, an intervention that governments traditionally turn to in response to their own debasement of the currency. As prices rise in response to monetary debasement, people begin screaming at businesses for raising their prices, not realizing that rising prices are in reality just a reflection of the falling value of the dollar due to government’s inflation of the money supply. Responding to the screams, government officials make it illegal for businesses to raise their prices. Yet, inevitably, there are those businesses that violate the law, if for no other reason than to simply survive. (Read the rest here)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute It's civic baseball season again, that time of the year when we are reminded that everything we believe about how society works is wrong, at least in this area if not in all areas. Let's start with the most obvious point — obvious once you think about it. The idea that cities must provide this service is a deeply entrenched part of civic life. Hardly anyone questions the need to loot taxpayers to build large sports complexes, maintain them all year, pay referees, and generally administer this vast apparatus requiring millions in funding. Why? The reason usually given is that sport programs are a good thing, they bring the community together, they provide an outlet for kids, and socialize them into important life activities such as … playing sports. How can anyone oppose such a wonderful and essential thing? (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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Articles We all want to live well and no one wants their living standard to decline. That makes sense, right? It's just the way we are made. What does not make any sense is the strange article of faith that has descended over Washington, DC, that says that no prices must ever be permitted to decline due to recessionary pressures. All resources in the national treasury, every conceivable monetary manipulation, all efforts of every regulatory body must be marshaled toward the great national goal of re-pumping the economy, which must never ever be permitted to fall even a tiny bit Welcome to the War on Recession, which is being pursued with the same vehemence and folly as the War on Terror, and will likely prove just as spectacularly destructive of its own aims as well as liberty itself. Maybe we need songs, banners, and little ribbon pins and car magnets too. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) The
Great Privatizing Ploy The public-planning oppressors are at it again. In a Fort Worth Star Telegram article ("Is the time ripe to privatize our urban mass transit systems? No"), a government-coercion apologist cited a counterfeit case of "privatization" as a justification for damning all privatization. He then offers Transantiago, the government-run bus system of Santiago, Chile, as his position-clinching Exhibit A.After privatization, the new dastardly bloodsucking owners cut service to poorer neighborhoods, reduced the number of buses, cut the number of stops, and threatened to raise fares. Ride times tripled, some commuters were forced to walk, and many lost their jobs due to chronic lateness.
The writer makes it clear that he's against the very concept of privatization by describing the act of transforming any taxpayer-plundered boondoggle into a money-making enterprise "as close to vulture capitalism as one can get."
The state-run Metro subway system was swamped by former bus patrons. So what's missing from this horror story? (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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