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December 21 , 2009  Libertarian Commentary on The News By Nathan A. Barton © 2009 Self-Defense
TX: Robber fatally shot at repair shop My Fox Houston “A would-be robber is shot to death by a tire store owner in north Houston, and officers are searching for three suspects who got away. The shooting took place after 8 p.m. Wednesday at the 11100 block of Bauman Road. Police say four men tried to stage a robbery at the El Mante Tire Shop at the 11000 block of Bauman Road at approximately 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. The store owner, who has a license to carry a concealed handgun, drew his weapon and started shooting. One robbery suspect died in the shop, but three others escaped in a black Mercury Mountaineer with chrome rims.” (12/10/09) Mama's comments: With chrome rims??? They saved the really vital information until the end... sigh. Nathan's
thoughts: Hey, it was a tire store - that would be the detail
he'd notice! I see again how the media (Fox, in this case) try
to cast doubt - if the owner had NOT had a CCW permit, perhaps he
wouldn't have been "permitted" to shoot at the four men?
On his own property. Perhaps the warning about the chrome rims
is a subtle hint that these aren't ordinary robbers - unless the
vehicle was stolen. A Mountaineer lists for $29 to $35K - I
assume the chrome rims are on the higher priced versions. So
maybe these guys needed new tires for the vehicle and decided to save
a few bucks??? Mama's Note: I dunno... seems if I'd just
been attacked, and had
to kill a man, I'd not be noticing much of anything else right then...
but maybe I'm weird. I do not remember the face of the man who attacked
me - the
one I had to shoot.
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Sun Spots on Nancy’s Brain? By Carey Roberts For sheer entertainment value, nothing beats a
United Nations global
warming conference, especially if you were one of millions of Americans
holed up in sub-freezing temperatures this past week.
We knew it would turn out this way two weeks ago when local prostitutes, disgruntled with a proposal to keep them under wraps during the high-profile eco-fest, threatened to offer their wares for free to convention-goers. (One only wonders if liberated female attendees would also avail themselves of the offer?) (Read the rest here)
The New World Order in Science by Henry Bauer It never was really true, of course, as the
conventional wisdom tends even now to imagine, that "the scientific
method" guarantees objectivity, that scientists work impersonally to
discover truth, that scientists are notably smarter, more trustworthy,
more honest, so tied up in their work that they neglect everything
else, don’t care about making money . . . But it is true that
for centuries scientists weren’t subject to multiple and powerful
conflicts of interest. There is no "scientific method." Science is done
by people; people aren’t objective. Scientists are just like other
professionals – to use a telling contemporary parallel, scientists are
professionals just like the wheelers and dealers on Wall Street: not
exactly dishonest, but looking out first and foremost for Number One.
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Fallacy of Public Goods: Libertarians and National Defense
by Per Bylund Public goods are defined as goods or services
that are both non-rivalrous and non-excludable, i.e. the “exact
opposite” of private goods, which are both rivalrous and excludable, in
the common two-by-two setup. Whatever is rivalrous is limited in terms
of consumption, which means your use of the good reduces availability
of it for others; whatever is excludable can be “protected” from others
through exclusion, i.e. if I have it and want to use it I can easily
make sure you can’t have it. In other words, the rivalrous and
excludable private goods are cakes that you cannot both eat and have.
It follows that public goods, as the very opposite of private goods,
are cakes we all can eat and have at the same time.
The setup has obvious political connotations in
that private goods are like private property in the free market whereas
public goods are of a rather communist character and require government
regulation. Consequently, public goods are used as an argument against
the free market and for a government. (Read
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National Gun Rights Examiner We all make mistakes, so perhaps this is just
one of those cases where the results lend themselves to ridicule. From
Fox News:
It may sound absurd. But President Obama signed a bill into law Wednesday that requires passengers who carry firearms aboard Amtrak be locked in boxes for their journey. It's a mistake in the law's wording. But for now, the clerical error is the law of the land. I'm sure there's no shortage of antis who would
have no problem getting on board with that idea. (Read
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Examiner Some people give liberty "lip service" without
really meaning it. They talk about freedom for themselves and
those they understand (or like), but want government to control, with
threats and guns, those they don't agree with.
Anchorage
Libertarian Examiner
By Kevin Wilmeth Let me get this straight: the fuzz get a
complaint from someone whose doctor told him it was "psychologically
inadvisable" to listen to contemporary music...and take it so seriously
as to "pass it on to a judge" for possible prosecution against a party
who had harmed no one? It sounds like this guy has a fair stack
of issues himself; if this claim is true, it's probably
"inadvisable" for him to venture out of his house in the first
place. Among other things, he has just demonstrated himself
willing to solicit armed thugs to act in his behalf over an absolutely
trivial, nonviolent matter. On the other side of the playing field, we
have (yet again another) example of government agents believing
themselves so completely above their lessers that they can swoop in and
pass judgment on any topic whatever, with both authority and
jurisdiction. (Read
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Confessions of a Bozo Libertarian By Garry Reed I wrote a couple of articles accusing
"libertarian socialists" of hijacking the "libertarian" name from the
modern American freedom movement of the same name.
A couple of writers took me to task for my ignorance, pointing out that, according to some sources, the word "libertarian" predates America itself and that my claim that "we" stole it from "them" makes me "A Real 'Libertarian' Bozo." (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return) The Libertarian
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Features From The Last Issue Libertarian Commentary on The News 12/14/09 By Nathan A. Barton © 2009 Climategate, Mediagate, and Abusegate By Carey Roberts The Fallacy of Public Goods: Libertarians and National Defense by Per Bylund A Freedom Lover's Faustian Bargain by Paul Bonneau National Gun Rights Examiner Albuquerque Libertarian
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