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December
15, 2008 Countdown
to Tyranny, D-44: Actually, according to a lot of the prognosticators, you have four years until it really gets bad: it will take that long for the Massa to make everything go the way he is planning. How do I know? Well, the Mayans, Nostradamus, 'bout a dozen web commentators, and all those newspapers beside the checkout lane at the Sooper Dooper all agree: 2012 is when we are ALL TOAST! Meanwhile, I plan to live free, together with my family; we'll make ends meet as always. Monday,
D-44: Mama's Note: We never could actually afford it. The unintended consequences of thinking we could may be the difference between life and death soon. Sad. (Read the rest here)
"The
First Hundred Days" - New Tyranny in a Once-Free Union On Tuesday, 20 January 2008, the first black man elected to the Presidency of these United States will take the oath of office. It should be a day of rejoicing, that a large number of his fellow citizens, of all colors and ethnicities and backgrounds, have chosen him to lead this Union further into the 21st Century. It should be a day of enthusiasm for a standard ritual of a great republic, the longest existing since the time of Rome (509 BC to 31 BC). It is not; indeed, it is a day of mourning. Even the most resistant must now come to the conclusion that the Republic, this American Republican Union, has come to an end, as surely as the Battle of Actium marked the end of the Republic and the foundation of the Principate, led by Augustus Caesar. An impostor, a man of mystery, has been elected by a majority of a minority of 300 million Americans in a parody of both republican and democratic process, and will begin to enact a series of "changes" that will further destroy our liberties, our societies, and our peace and prosperity, in the name of "peace and justice" and hope - and change for the sake of change. (Read the rest here)
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Articles Yesterday, while reading the story about Illinois governor Blagojevich, a central question went through my head. I am sure it was not the question most of Boobus Americanus was asking: Who were the people he was offering to sell the vacant U.S. Senate seat to? Instead, I was wondering whom in the criminal enterprise we call government had he crossed? After all, political offices within our government have been bought, sold, stolen, influenced and tampered with since before the word democracy was first uttered. Need I mention the 2000 and 2004 elections, electronic voting machines, hanging chads and the dictates of the Supreme Court? (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) Take
Obama at His Word Now I'm not one who believes that Obama is a Hitler, although I will say that the way he demonstrates his narcissism when the adulating crowd is screaming at him -- that chin-raised, head-nodding, soaking-it-all-in gesture that he shares with both Mussolini and Hitler -- is more than a little creepy. But I do think this: If Obama tells us something like what is posted on his Transition website, we should believe him. The "pragmatists" may think they have the luxury of underestimating and disbelieving the President Elect. We
do not. All
The Way Down The Slippery Slope: Is it possible for a nation to go from wide-open freedom for a civil liberty, to near-total destruction of that liberty, in just a few decades? "Yes," warn many American civil libertarians, arguing that allegedly "reasonable" restrictions on civil liberty today will start the nation down "the slippery slope" to severe repression in the future.[3] In response, proponents of today's reasonable restrictions argue that the jeremiads about slippery slopes are unrealistic or even paranoid.[4] This Essay aims to refine the understanding of slippery slopes by examining a particular nation that did slide all the way down the slippery slope.(p.400) When the twentieth century began, the right to arms in Great Britain was robust, and subject to virtually no restrictions. As the century closes, the right has been almost obliterated. In studying the destruction of the British right to arms, this Essay draws conclusions about how slippery slopes operate in real life, and about what kinds of conditions increase or decrease the risk that the first steps down a hill will turn into a slide down a slippery slope. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Chicago
Cops Dodge Blagojevich/Sears Tower Investigation A Chicago Police Department official, who refused to be identified by name, stated that city law enforcement would avoid investigating allegations against embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and Mayor Richard M. Daley. Former Army intelligence officer, newspaper editor Capt. Eric H. May, charged that the governor and mayor were co-conspirators in a May 2-4, 2006 attempt to sabotage Chicago’s Sears Tower. The 110-story building had recently been bought by Larry Silverstein, who owned the twin towers that collapsed on 9/11. Even with last week’s revelations of widespread corruption and conspiracy by Illinois and Chicago officials, the former NBC editorial writer’s allegations would seem outlandish – were they not backed up by a document trail connecting everyone from top government officials to media mainstays and even active-duty military intelligence. (Read the rest here)
Dial
911 and die We've been focusing on gun "buybacks" lately because of the ones they held in Cleveland and Akron. While part of me says anyone oblivious enough to turn in a defense tool for a gift card has made their choice, another part wishes I could give them a copy of a book that's been part of my collection for over nine years, and is just as relevant today as when I first got it: "Dial 911 and Die." Written by attorney Richard W. Stevens based on an idea by JPFO's Aaron Zelman, the book illustrates a simple truth, codified in state laws across the land. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Plaxico
Burress and the handgun hypocrites His legal situation is serious. As an Associated Press article points out, “prosecuting gun offenders is a high priority for Manhattan prosecutors." But let’s not be too quick to assume that Burress will actually face any time in the crowbar hotel, even though packing a pistol without permission is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. He is a celebrity, after all, and celebrities aren’t treated like the rest of us. Even the District Attorney’s chief deputy, according to the article, confirms that there have been some instances where a person guilty of illegal gun possession didn’t “need” to go to jail. That instance would be a celebrity instance. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Independent Institute As rage coursed through India after the Mumbai terrorist bombings, Condoleezza Rice, the Bush administration’s Secretary of State, flew to India and cautioned the Indian government on avoiding a knee jerk and counterproductive response. She warned the Indians that “any response needs to be judged by its effectiveness in prevention and also by not creating other unintended consequences or difficulties.” This lecture is laughable after the Bush administration’s over-the-top reaction to 9/11 was to declare a massive global war on terror; create a fictional and cartoonish “axis of evil”; and invade and occupy two Muslim countries—all of which actually fueled Islamist terrorism worldwide. (Given these same facts, the U.S. criticism of Russia’s temporary invasion of one-third of Georgia in response to that nation’s initiation of hostilities in South Ossetia, which killed Russian soldiers, was equally drenched in hypocrisy.) (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute Wisdom comes and goes; lessons are learned hard then hardly remembered. Mankind's endless stupidity on the subject of paper money surely ranks up there in the realm of the sublime. We are forever like Charlie Brown, trying and trying to kick Lucy's football. Generation follows generation, each refusing to learn one of life's more important lessons — nobody must be allowed license to counterfeit. Fiat Money Inflation in France uses as its lesson plan the tragedy of France in the 1790s and Dr. White moves the tale along at a steady clip. His prose is pointed but polite, and makes no bones about giving credit where credit is due. On the plus side of the ledger, he notes that France was not plunged into a decade-long economic pit by wild-eyed fools, but rather by calm, well-educated ones. The smartest guys in the room whose ideas brought about the tragedy "were universally recognized as among the most skillful and honest financiers in Europe" (p. 47). (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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