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April 09, 2012 Libertarian
Commentary on The News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2012 Congress in action - getting it right for once... Not One Vote For Obama’s Budget Plan (PersonalLiberty.com) Congress finally agrees on something. Since no Democrat was willing to submit President Barack Obama's latest budget to the House, Representative Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) decided to do it for them. He sponsored an alternative budget proposal based on Obama's budget plan. What happened? Not a single legislator voted for it! That's right, no one on either side of the aisle would say "aye." The measure got a bipartisan rejection: 0-414. Oh, for more votes like this to DO NOTHING - a few months without Congress MIGHT be a big first step towards restoring liberty. (Read
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Manufacturing
Racism?External Articles The philosophy of freedom by Mike Adams Are you carrying a freedom contradiction? And if you agree with all that, then let me hit
you with this brain-bender: By principle you must also agree that
whatever two people want to do in their own homes or bedrooms is also
their own business, as long as it's consensual. It doesn't matter what
their sexual orientation is or even whether money changed hands. While
it's not something I personally condone or participate in, all that is
still their own business!
See, the thing about freedom is that if you demand freedom for yourself, you must also tolerate it for others. If you say "get the government out of our lives!" then to be consistent, you have to mean it for everybody else, too -- not just for you or those you happen to agree with. Freedom means freedom for all, including those with which you disagree, as long as they aren't harming others in the process. Freedom can't be selective. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return.) by Wendy McElroy The American public has been in a state of
shock and outrage over details of Trayvon's death, with overwhelming
sympathy pouring out toward his parents. The incident may well explode
into a full-blown police scandal. If it does, then it will be because
the average American is not willing to tolerate a biased system of
justice in which blacks are discounted. Overwhelmingly, the modern
American will not tolerate racism against blacks.
The opposite message is being broadcast by the mainstream media and an array of ambitious policymakers who seem to be using Trayvon's death for their own ends. From the outset, both have branded the incident as “racial.” (Read
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On
guns, Obama's newfound deference to Congress is conspicuously absent
(Read
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the back button to return.)By Kurt Hofmann When President Obama fired a shot across the
Supreme Court's bow Monday, warning that if "an unelected group of
people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law," it
would be an "extraordinary, unprecedented [oh?] step of overturning a
law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected
Congress," he did more than apparently seek to undermine the concept of
judicial review. He also affected far more respect for the power
of Congress than he has shown himself, at least with respect to guns.
Do you suppose that the institution of police in America has simply been ramping up in violence against the citizenry over time? What is causing the increased brutality that is becoming so commonplace? A large part of it is the drug war. The modern police were born largely in the progressive era and got much worse when they got vehicles, huge departments, fingerprinting databases, jails of significant size, and powerful weapons. But in the last few decades, the drug war has completely obliterated whatever protections of common denizens previously existed. The standards for search and seizure have been greatly compromised, which makes everything else worse, and the huge rise in federal subsidies for municipal police in the forms of military hardware has been particularly pernicious, especially in terms of the police’s attitude. They have been taught to look at our cities and towns as war zones, and all of us as potential enemy combatants. Plenty of other laws, like those against “resisting arrest,” certainly tip the balance further toward the police state. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return.) Deceptive
mainstream reporting shows pervasive anti-gun agenda “Who will watch the watchdogs,” this columnist
asked yesterday at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance blog,
sharing the experiences of correspondent Chris Meissen, who, “as a
[former] field engineer maintaining the satellite dish distribution
equipment for a major network,” saw firsthand how the “professionals”
could get things absurdly wrong, both unintentionally and,
disturbingly, at the direction of management. To refute this premise Tudoreanu invites the reader to "ask yourself if such buying or selling really is a good thing every time." He then produces an enemies list of bad buying or selling examples. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return) Brush Fires Of The Mind By SonsOfLibertyRiders Also, check out the NEW Freedom Feens
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