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November
17, 2008 Whew! The Election of 2008 is over. I note and respect that history has been made: for the first time a clearly-identified mixed-race person has been elected as President of the United States. For the first time in history, a person of Arab descent has been elected to the Presidency. For the first time, a person of known African descent has been elected. The first Democratic and openly-liberal president of the 21st Century has been elected. For the first time in the 21st Century, a strongly-controlled Democratic Congress has been elected. Monday
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Six Apostles You've got us surrounded, you poor bastards. Remember that we consider our rights merely codified by the Constitution. They are, we sincerely believe, God-given and inalienable. Remember too that we are willing to die for our liberties rather than surrender them up meekly. Remember as well that men and women who are willing to die for their principles are most often willing to kill for them too. What can this possibly have to do with you? Well, it's like this. We have been doing a lot of thinking about what we would do if we ever found ourselves in this situation, and after considerable thought we have decided we agree with Bill Clinton. Back in 1999, when he was trying to pressure the Serbians into giving up Kosovo, then President Clinton expanded American rules of war to include -- as legitimate targets of deadly force -- the politicians and the news media that shaped and supported his enemy's war policy. Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you force us into resistance by further circumscribing our rights -- by sending federal police to our doors to enforce your will -- can't those same Clintonian rules of engagement be applied to you? (Read the rest here) Sample of another chapter of "Absolved"
Another
child shooting Let's see, the guy's only 19 and already has a criminal record including aggravated robbery and menacing? And he still roams among us free to engage in such...uh... youthful indiscretions? Might we ask why our wonderful leaders continue to advance citizen disarmament, that is, putting the rest of us who don't menace, don't rob, don't pull guns on people for gain, at the mercy of the young Mr. Brown's of the world? (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Why
would a Black president want slavery? If the people of America choose to ignore the libertarian message on every other subject, they must heed this one message or forever be consigned to Third World peasantry: forcing free and peaceful people to do the bidding of politicians is slavery. Period. Taxation is slavery. Military conscription is slavery. Involuntary public servitude is slavery. Groveling before local government bureaucrats for permission to start a business, erect a storage shed, convert a garage into a room, paint a house any color other than white, and on and on and on - these are all the little forms of slavery that add up to one big grotesque national form of slavery. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Shield
Foundation Shelter Shakedown Bob Hartzog of Glendale, Ariz. was roused out of his slumber by a ringing phone. It was the cops. According to the policeman, Hartzog’s wife Valentina charged he had forced her to have sex and threatened to kill her. The officer, stationed outside of Hartzog’s home, ordered him outside.
Opening his front door, Hartzog found himself looking down the barrels of five loaded guns. Uncomprehending, he thought it must be a joke. (Read the rest here) External
Articles Consider the word stabilize. It has a comforting ring, does it not? It calls up as a mental background, however, images of something that is currently unstable. Airplanes may become unstable shortly before they crash; teenage boys are said to have become unstable shortly before they gunned down their teacher and fellow students; unstable economies give rise to depressions, with rampant business failures and mass unemployment of workers; unstable regions harbor countries that often go to war with one another. Instability would appear to be a bad thing, so government actions to “restore stability” to X, Y, or Z would appear to be prima facie good things. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Myth of Good Government The
nature of the state – and the core of its rationale for existence
– is the conviction that it stands apart from and above society,
to correct the failings of the market and individuals. A presumption of
superiority is at the [base of] every claim of the state, whether it is
minimal or totalitarian. Who is to say when and where it should intervene?
Well, think about it. If the state is inherently wiser than and superior
to society, standing in judgment over what is working and what is not
working, the state alone is also in a position to decide when it should
intervene. No government is liberal by nature, said Ludwig von Mises.
This is the great lesson that people who advocate "limited government"
have never learned. If you give the government any jobs to do, it will
presume the right to police its own conduct and then inevitably abuse
its power. (Read
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The
Future of Freedom Foundation Like the military, public schooling operates in a top-down, command-and-control manner. It’s a perfect model of socialistic central planning, a system in which government officials plan and direct the activities of the citizenry rather than simply leaving the citizenry free to plan and direct their own affairs. Whether the control comes from the state government, through the state department of education, or the local government, through a school board, the principle is the same — a group of appointed or elected government officials is directing the educational decisions of multitudes of students. That’s different from the private sector, where consumers, through their spending decisions, determine the direction of entrepreneurial and business activity. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Independent Institute Because of the debate over immigration reform, the word “Hispanic” became a stigma in the eyes of many Americans over the last two years. How ironic then that 10 million Hispanic voters played such a crucial role in last week’s presidential election. They voted for Barack Obama by a 2-1 margin, giving him a decisive push in four states—Florida, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico—that he wrested back from the GOP. Hispanics have tended to side with the Democrats, but never by this large of a margin. According to 2004 exit polls, President Bush obtained 44 percent of the Hispanic vote in his re-election bid. One would think that by almost any measure—upward social mobility, church attendance, marriage patterns—Hispanics would be a dream electoral target for a party that champions enterprise, self-reliance and family values. But the GOP this year did not seem interested. (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 TV pragmatists probably forget that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote in The Communist Manifesto that creating "a centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly" should be near the top of any communist's agenda. Is it any wonder that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's plan has morphed into the federal government taking equity stakes in banks, mortgage companies, and at least one insurance company? As Oscar B. Johannsen wrote, "A socialized banking system is the precursor of socialism in all business." (By the time you read this, airlines and car manufacturers may be partially owned by the government.) (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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