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08, 2008 Welcome to our newest contributor, Kyle Bennett! See article below.
Well, FINALLY the last of the conventions are over; elections can’t come too soon for me, and we don’t even watch television to get screamingly bored and angered by the commercials. (Bad enough to hear the local SD, CO, and NM race ads and T. Boone on the radio stations…) Nonpolitical news, though, is very important this week, as you will see. Culture
wars and Government run, tax funded schools: Does this mess with your mind? Well, this is what government-run schools and schemes like this do to the minds of youngsters – mess with them, and mess them up. Not saying that parents don’t do that to their kids sometimes, but it is one set of parents and a few (usually two or three kids) NOT one set of stinking government educrats and school-ruined teachers doing it to kids by the gross. Which way is more stupid? As for these generalizations, remember that the UK calls everyone from Pakistanis to Arabs “Asian” and the “Chinese” are mostly immigrants or descendants of immigrants from Hong Kong and the “overseas” Chinese of Singapore, Malaysia, and even India… As usual, government keeps trimming square pegs until they fit in a round hole, and vice versa. Mama's Note: I would hazard a guess that, regardless of origin, those students most recently come to the UK are probably the ones most likely to believe in hard work. Those who have enjoyed welfare and the nanny state the longest are least apt to have that idea. (Read the rest here)
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War, Wrong Battlefield I'm not interested in changing the system. It is futile. The country has the system wanted by the majority of voters, and I don't have the skills to change that many people's minds. Few people do, and an individualist, market and freedom-oriented mindset is incompatible with that ability. The system operates collectively, only collective action within it can be effective, but a message of individual freedom cannot be effectively forwarded by collective means. The country has the system the majority of voters want, and I don't want to try to force them to change what they want. Even so, this system can't work for much longer anyway, the best way to convince people to stop wanting it would be to stop trying to make it work. (Read the rest here)
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Rights Day September 5, 2008 This Friday, September 5, 2008, marks the 338th anniversary of the day when jurors refused to convict William Penn of violating England's Conventicle Acts, despite clear evidence that he acted illegally by preaching a Quaker sermon. In refusing to convict Penn, the jurors refused to enforce what they knew to be an unjust law. This is known as jury nullification. (Read the rest here)
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IKE -- Geo-War 9/11 There has always been a bizarre synchronicity in the 9/11 affair. You may think that I mean to comment on the coincidence that our national emergency condition was begun with an attack some seven years ago on 9/11 -- the very national date code that already said "Emergency!" to the American people. But I was thinking more about the coincidence that 9/11/01 followed the strange announcement of 9/11/90 by the first President Bush that the first Middle Eastern War would create a "New World Order." The attack of 9/11/01 came eleven years later to the day. (Read the rest here) The
Four Fingers of Death The Colonel was sympathetic but his hands were tied. He replied in a voice of flint, "Captain, this order originated in the E-Ring. The Corps Commander protested it and was overruled. I assure you that you have less stroke in this outfit than General Mackey. You understand why these people want our rations, don't you?" Of course O'Toole knew. Anybody who read the front page of any newspaper in the United States knew. The Feds and the Brightfire mercenaries carrying out Operation Clean Sweep had started turning up poisoned by their own rations. Thousands had sickened, hundreds had died. Some mess hall or supply chain perpetrators had been caught, but many had not. They no longer can trust their own food so they need ours, and they need it fast. (Read the rest here) Sarah
Palin Needs To Step Aside Is it "unfair" that Palin's personal life is being so heavily scrutinized? Was it "unfair" when so many people made so much of Bill Clinton's personal life? (And why do we hear next to nothing about John McCain's sordid, philandering past?) Every politician ought to have their life pried apart in such a fashion. Especially in today's world when you consider how intrusively they micromanage our lives. Have you filled out one of their 1040s recently? No human being ought to be entrusted with as much power as we allow our presidents and VPs. When you pull back the curtain and you meet these Great and Powerful Ozzes, you find bumbling incompetent dolts. They are no better or smarter than you or I. Why are we so desperate to elevate these people to such levels of power and glory? (Read the rest here) A
Real Candidate Comparison I keep getting "presidential candidate comparisons" in my email. They're always skewed with "issues" that guarantee one candidate or the other will win the comparison – and and therefore my vote. In response to these Presidential Candidate Comparison emails that people keep sending me here are ten other comparisons that came immediately to mind. It explains why I will not be voting for either of the status quo mainstream run-of-the-mill business-as-usual candidates. I don’t even like the conservative neocons running on the Libertarian ticket this year. (Read the rest here) Nancy
Pelosi: Misandry A-Go-Go As House Republicans stayed behind in Washington DC to debate solutions to the nation's energy crisis, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was out on the TV circuit last month, talking up her recent book, Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters. As a mother of five and current Speaker of House, Nancy Pelosi has good reason to be a proud. But this preachy tome is unlikely to bring many voters into the Democratic fold this coming November. (Read the rest here) External
Articles Think about it. What word is nasty or unwholesome anymore? There are no "bad words." Words once considered evil are now terms of endearment. There's the B-word, the D-word, the A-word, the F-word, etc. Even bleeps are mere blips on America's moral radar screens. When ministers use G— d—- in their sermons and moral activists threaten to cut off a presidential candidate's genitals and call him the N-word, can't we see the signs that we're heading in the wrong direction? We have become desensitized to everything, from profanity to pornography. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) Behold
a Palin Horse Which is the more significant defining fact about Sarah Palin's priorities: The fact that she carried to term and gave birth to a lovely child with Down's Syndrome; or the fact that she apparently encouraged her oldest son to enlist in the military to fight, and perhaps die, in an immoral war? Why was a mother so devoted to protecting the life of a child with a challenging disability so eager to see her firstborn become an instrument of needless death -- including, perhaps, his own? (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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Future of Freedom Foundation The gist of this theory is that those who work in government, often referred to in the honorific terms as doing “public service,” are, contrary to widespread impression, just as much motivated by personal or self-interest as are people in the market place. In other words, politicians and bureaucrats pursue their own agendas, not those of “the public,” just as people in business do. And from this a number of interesting insights follow about the nature of government policy. What makes this idea quite credible even at first inspection is that politicians and bureaucrats would have a very hard time, even if they wanted to, to serve the public interest. The reason is that the public is a huge group of individuals with a great variety of different interests and just a few common ones. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Independent Institute But one thing is sure: it’s a myth that being dependent on imported oil is bad. As a way to stump politicians who perpetuate this nonsense, perhaps we should ask them this question: If oil is so critical and will become even more valuable when world supplies allegedly dwindle in the future, shouldn’t we use other countries’ oil now and have the U.S. government require that our limited production be saved to use or sell as the shortages worsen and future prices go even higher? Diametrically opposed to the present time, with the prevalent fears of dependency on foreign oil, this “conservation theory” was all the rage in the late 1930s and 1940s when a slowdown in finding new oil deposits seemed to threaten chronic future shortages (similar to the dire predictions after World War I and in the early 1920s before big oil discoveries were made late in the 1920s). Of course, this is not the right policy prescription either. We should instead treat oil as any other product and let the market provide ample supplies at the lowest cost to the consumer. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute The frenzied reaction of the middle class all over the country toward Sarah Palin has no real precedent that I can remember. Indeed, the reaction especially among women is completely understandable. She provides a much welcome cultural break from the chip-on-the-shoulder, grudge-against-the-world model of public women that have been held up to us for years, embodied in the belligerent and insufferable person of Hillary Clinton. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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