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May
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Open Letter to Our Fathers and Grandfathers To our fathers and grandfathers who fought in World War II: America owes everything to you. You sacrificed your youth, you saw your buddies die before your eyes, you gave up life and family and love as you fought in Europe or the Pacific -- all to save the world from fascism. We can't even measure how much we owe you -- you, and the staunch women who stood with you -- the WACs, the Waves, the nurses who treated the wounded under unthinkable conditions, and the Rosie-the-Riveters who kept the country going back home. Yet, in the decades since the end of the war, your victory has been stolen. From you, from your children, your grandchildren, and from all of us. You won a long, hard, painful battle. But when you came home, you lost the war. You lost the Bill of Rights and freedom. And so we all lost. (Read the rest here)
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Commentary on The News, 18 - 24 May, '08 Nathan took part of the week off, so Mama pitched in and found some news for you too. Nathan's items and comments are mingled with mine here. As always, your comments and suggestions are welcome! If you find an interesting local news story, we'd very much like to have it. Please send at least the title and the link, as well as your comments if you wish to have them published. MamaLiberty
Forget
free gasoline! Car buyers want free guns I wrote to the dealer to thank him for his efforts. I encourage everyone who reads this to do the same. Let's support someone who truly believes in armed self defense. (Read the rest here)
Politically
Incorrect Movie Reviews They tell me that a hard man is good to find – well, ladies, here he is. Faster than a speeding F-22, more powerful than an angry mother-in-law, able to bounce off buildings in a single thunk; look up in the sky it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s C3PO on steroids! Everybody duck! He’s the love-child of Astro Boy and a Transformer – he’s Iron Man! (insert Black Sabbath song here). You know that old saying, “he who dies with the most toys wins?” Well let me tell y’all, this boy has more destructive gizmo’s than BAE, General Dynamics, General Atomics, Northrup, Lockheed and United Technologies put together. Come to think of it, if all these guys ganged up on him, Iron Man would still open up a can of whoop on ‘em. And who is it in the frantic fun suit? None other than Robert Downey Jr., playing a wisecracking, hard-drinking, skirt-chasing money-tosser. In other words, Downey was typecast again. But this time they got it right. They only left one question unanswered: How does he pee in that suit? (Read the rest here)
The
Economy: Another Casualty of War The continued War in Iraq and the constant state of emergency has allowed Congress to use these so-called "emergency" bills as a vehicle to dramatically increase spending across the board--including spending that does not meet even the most generous definition of emergency. For example, the spending proposals currently being considered by Congress provide $210 million to the Census Bureau and $4 million for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. $4.6 billion is requested for the closing of military bases, but not any of the more than 700 bases overseas – but bases here at home! Another $387 million would go to various international organizations and $850 million more just in international food aid - all this when food prices are skyrocketing here and American families are having a hard time making ends meet. Because this spending will be part of "emergency" measures, it will not count against debt ceilings, or any spending limits set by Congressional budget resolutions, and does not have to be offset in any way. (Read the rest here)
Storms
and Quakes -- Weapons of War? On Mayday, the Bush administration began its National Level Exercise 2-08, in which it simulated a category four storm. On the same day Cyclone Nargis, supposed to be heading for India, abruptly became a category-four storm and turned east for Myanmar (Burma). It made landfall on May 2, and wreaked such damage that it has been rated the worst natural disaster in the nation's history. The Myanmar government, distrustful of the Bush administration, refused relief efforts -- until international reports began to suggest that another freak storm was going to hit the country. The ruling junta soon thereafter agreed to be "assisted" -- and the next storm never materialized. (Read the rest here)
"Bird
Flu and the Great Milk Bomb Conspiracy" "Just seconds ago, two dozen heavily armed Storm Troopers of the Health and Human Services Public Interdiction Tactical Squad bashed down the door of this house behind me here in suburban East Pittsadelphia and charged inside shouting 'HHS!' and 'Freeze' and really cool stuff like that. A Media Spokescrat for the HHS said they’d received an anonymous tip that the people living here have thousands of dollars of canned tuna and powdered milk hidden under their bed. That means their house will be seized and the proceeds will go towards funding more agents and weapons for more War on Hoarding raids. (Read the rest here) Bigotry
and Contempt at Taxpayer Expense Once upon a time, feminism stood for fairness, equality, and possibility. But feminism traces its roots back to Karl Marx, George Engels, and Vladimir Lenin. That fact alone should make us think twice before acquiescing to the insistent demands of the women's libbers. Rep. Howard Berman, California Democrat, recently introduced the International Violence Against Women Act (H.R. 5927). Known to its supporters as I-VAWA, the bill is based on the Violence Against Women Act, first signed into law in 1994 at the behest of First Lady Hillary Clinton. (Read the rest here) External
Articles Today, many libertarians, so-called, argue that we must cloud our vision, or at the very least, hide it. They argue it is far better to nominate candidates who are less statist than the incumbents but not so “radical” as to scare people. They offer the American public a “me-too” political philosophy. They want to turn the Libertarian Party into a jobs machine for fourth rate politicians. They want to substitute electoral victory for freedom. They seem to have forgotten that the Libertarian Party was founded with the prime purpose of promoting liberty. Electoral victories, while welcomed, were not the main goal. Such victories, we always knew, would be few and far between. But they were not our purpose. At best, they would be a means to the goal, but never the goal itself. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) The
Virtue of Starvation When the failures of our expectations begin to accumulate – resulting in the political, economic, and social turbulence we are now experiencing – what has been the response of most Americans? The study of chaos and complexity advise us that, at such points, we are faced with two basic choices: either to rethink our underlying assumptions and discover fundamentally new systems of organization (i.e., to learn), or to make no effective response and allow the accelerating entropic collapse to play itself out. Sadly, most of our neighbors opt for the latter default position. It seems to be a characteristic of human nature that, when a fundamental belief system fails – without people having made a major transformation in their thinking – far too many of us respond to the resulting crises by increasing our energies as a renewal of faith in the dying system. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From The Archives I've been called a pessimist - and much worse, of course. As much as I would love to see the hopeful future come, the reality of ever increasing evil and injustice stands squarely in the way. Each day the news - what we are allowed to see - tells of more and more encroachment by government on our privacy and liberty, property and productivity. Each new outrage brings cries from the hopeful that "this time" the people will awaken and begin to fight the tyranny, but those who actually even protest are few and far between. Those who continue to trust in the law and constitution are many, and it is hard to imagine the depths of slavery they will endure before they finally admit that they waited too long. We are already tied hand and foot and resistance by isolated individuals is inspiring, but futile in affecting any change in the tyrants. (Read the rest here) The
Independent Institute In a recent speech, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pleaded with the armed services to emphasize preparing for war against guerrillas instead of spending so much money and effort getting ready for conventional wars. He said that he wanted to avoid the erosion of counterinsurgency capabilities that occurred after the Vietnam War, when the U.S. military forgot all it knew about fighting guerrillas and went back to concentrating solely on a possible battle with the conventional forces of the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the uniformed services—where the power at the Pentagon still ultimately lies—will probably not pay much attention to him, and the next administration’s Secretary of Defense will face the same recalcitrant services bent on procuring expensive high-tech weapons designed to fight non existent major conventional threats. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation Many Americans are spellbound by the historic contest for the Democratic presidential nomination between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Forgetting the political context, it is indeed something spectacular, even inspiring. A woman and a black man have reached a pinnacle that just a few years ago seemed impossibly far off. If it were happening outside politics, it would be something to appreciate. But we can't forget the political context, and it's the nature of that context that should keep us from truly rejoicing in Clinton's and Obama's achievements. (Read the rest here)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute Thaler and Sunstein have set themselves a seemingly impossible task. Paternalists maintain that it is sometimes justifiable to interfere with someone's freedom, if doing so will promote his own good. Smokers, putting aside the issue of secondary smoke, do not violate others' rights: they harm only themselves. Nevertheless, a paternalist about smoking would think it justifiable forcibly to prevent people from smoking. Libertarians deny that such interference is acceptable. Force may be used only in response to aggression. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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