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"[H]e made a conscious decision to save lives. Some of the Vietnamese he rescued, children then, are alive today. Ex-chief warrant officer Thompson is a member of a small, elite corps of Americans who have broken ranks and refused to run with the herd."
http://www.counterpunch.org/sigal01122006.html
"Many black commentators protest that Americans laud everything 'white' as normal, yet many blacks still use whites as the measuring stick for black progress. Who cares how well blacks are living compared to whites? Does it really matter? In fact, the greatest impediment to appropriating King's dream is our unwillingness to move beyond a white social barometer."
http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=305
"In a show of defiance against federal drug authorities, operators of a recently raided medical marijuana collective doled out marijuana and cannabis-laced sweets at midday Wednesday outside City Hall."
http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_3394880
"I've been watching a little television the last few weeks as I waited for my broken leg to mend. Boredom will drive even me to amazing things sometimes, but it has been educational as well as sickening. I hadn't watched TV for about 5 years before, and it may be a lot longer before I look at it again. The most striking thing I've seen is the constant bombardment of prescription drug (and other health related) advertising and the propaganda pieces for the various government programs like the new Medicare drug welfare plans. The first tries to convince people to take pills they most likely don't need - at real risk to their health - and the second shows them how they can get someone else to pay for it."
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/01/09/editor.htm
"For 'Stupid in America,' a special report ABC will air Friday, we gave identical tests to high school students in New Jersey and in Belgium. The Belgian kids cleaned the American kids' clocks. The Belgian kids called the American students 'stupid.' We didn't pick smart kids to test in Europe and dumb kids in the United States. The American students attend an above-average school in New Jersey, and New Jersey's kids have test scores that are above average for America."
http://www.reason.com/hod/js011306.shtml
"It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name."
http://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoyance%2C+go+to+jail/2010-1028_3-6022491.html
You may want to read parts 1 and 2 first, this article begins with links to them. "When you are sure you have regained your position as righteous ruler, do not forget the people in the rebellion questioned your power and acted on the belief that your power is unjust. Respond in Machiavellian terms--crush them with no mercy whatsoever. Kill them all or make sure they will never, ever question you again. If you have been successful in regaining popular support, you will get away with it without anyone asking questions; even if some people think your response was a little bit cruel, they will still conclude it was a 'necessary' move in the name of the cause."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/bylund/bylund3.html
"Maybe what anarchism is missing is sex appeal. I'm not suggesting that the anarchist theorists should themselves be sexier -- any more than I'd suggest that circuit board designers, game coders, or fry cooks be selected for bedroom appeal. I just think maybe it's time to take a lesson from Madison Avenue."
http://www.bkmarcus.com/blog/2006/01/politics-isnt-pretty.html
"If the state is proposed as the means by which the money is transferred from the wealthier to the poorer, then two additional moral categories are created -- those who have the right to use force to transfer income (keeping, usually, the majority of it for themselves!), and those who do not possess this right."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/molyneux/molyneux10.html
"Let's face it, 'cheap food' is a fraud. The true costs are kept down in a number of artificial ways. One way was to deliberately destroy the small farm and replace it with vast petroleum, machinery and pesticide-based agribusiness. This was done, in no small measure, by government policy. The environmental cost of all of this is high, and we, the tax payer pay for it. The petroleum and chemical industries, those major components of agribiz, are themselves state-aided in a variety of ways. Agribusiness costs are socialized while the profits are privatized."
http://porkupineblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/why-food-ought-to-be-more-expensive_10.html
"After weeks of stalemate, Cumberland town officials and residents of Chebeague Island have worked out a tentative agreement for dividing up town assets and debts should the island secede."
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/060110island.shtml
"SVR members don't subscribe to one particular ideology. 'There's some people from the far left, some people from the far right,' Madden said. 'But it's not a liberal thing, and it's not a conservative thing. It's a mixture of the far out, and they've got a lot of good ideas'."
http://www.thecountycourier.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2505
"On January 1, the president--enraged at The New York Times' unruly exercise of the First Amendment to disclose his no-longer-secret authorization of warrant-less surveillance and data mining by the National Security Agency--accused the Times of causing 'great harm' to national security."
http://villagevoice.com/news/0603,hentoff,71743,6.html
"The topic of unchecked executive power should be of import to all Americans and the entire world. But on Tuesday night, I had a lot of trouble even finding much discussion on Kennedy's comments about torture, surveillance, and the imperial presidency -- much less an entire transcript of the hearings. Kennedy's bit was the most engaging portion of the confirmation, but all the red- and blue-state commentators can discuss is Alito's typical Republican evasiveness on the abortion question...."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory105.html
"President Bush proudly announced last month that he is violating federal law. He declared that in 2002 he ordered the National Security Agency to begin conducting warrantless wiretaps and email intercepts on Americans. He asserted that the wiretaps would continue, regardless of the law."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0601c.asp
"All parties that stay in power too long become deeply corrupt. Just look at Canada's rotten Liberals or Mexico's even more rotten PRI. Wise voters need to kick out incumbents regularly. Longevity in office ensures bad government. The Republicans, buoyed by faked-up war fever, become deeply corrupted more quickly than usual. Arrogance and greed overcame even pretenses of honest government."
http://www.ericmargolis.com/archives/2006/01/an_odor_of_fin.php
"Worse than most Christians' gullibility regarding the abortion issue is the manner in which they give Republicans a pass on other issues of immense importance. It seems that all a Republican has to do to gain the confidence and support of the vast majority of conservative Christians is say he is 'pro-life' and opposed to homosexual marriage. His or her position on virtually everything else doesn't seem to matter."
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin275.htm
"Because there are costs even of conducting a foreign policy in which the government makes 'correct' decisions, for a government's foreign policy to be, on net, stabilizing, the government must be correct much more often than it's incorrect."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=8347
"A classic in modern libertarian literature, for example, is the poem 'The Incredible Bread Machine' by R.W. Grant. It tells the story of Tom Smith, who invents a great machine to bake bread and package bread so cheaply that it could sell for less than a penny. 'The first time yet the world well fed, And all because of Tom Smith's bread'."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/incredible-stuff.html
"No matter how helpful these steps will be, however, in any social system there will be some who fall behind. That would include bright people who are mentally ill, lazy, addicts, or criminals. But there is indeed an association between income and intelligence. What, really, is intelligence, but the capacity to create value with one's thought?"
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1725
"[A] bioethics white paper published by the UNOS Ethics Committee concedes that preferences based on recipients' participation in the organ-donating community could generate a rising tide that lifts all boats."
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060111/NEWS05/601110320
"What exactly is a 'beneficial' debate? Any incumbent can give a simple answer: one the incumbent can win, or at least can dominate with superior spending power. Consider Ford, or IBM, or U.S. Steel. They would all love to have government make it harder for competitors to enter markets and challenge them to raise the quality of their products. In fact, firms make these kinds of requests all the time. Why should we be surprised that political incumbents have the same desires to be sheltered from competition?"
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2006/Mungergoodintentions.html
"Despite what the state's teachers and experts might imply, learning to read is not that difficult. Children used to teach themselves with only light guidance from a parent. It takes a government to create a national reading crisis. These results will undoubtedly be used to justify more government spending on education. President Bush is proposing more than a $100 million to promote education in foreign languages -- in the name of fighting terrorism."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0601e.asp
"You might have some vague memory from childhood, and perhaps it returns when visiting someone who lives in an old home. You turn on the shower and the water washes over your whole self as if you are standing under a warm-spring waterfall. It is generous and therapeutic. The spray is heavy and hard, enough even to work muscle cramps out of your back, enough to wash the conditioner out of your hair, enough to leave you feeling wholly renewed -- enough to get you completely clean. Somehow, these days, it seems nearly impossible to recreate this in your new home."
http://www.mises.org/story/2007
"The Orwellian historians have falsified the true purposes or motives behind most of America's wars, and have instead given us glorified accounts designed to mislead the public in order to justify the sacrifices the people have made. All wars, whether won or lost, tend to centralize and increase the power into the national government, increase the debts and taxes and diminish the civil liberties of the citizens. It is time we begin to see through the myths and false propaganda about American wars so that we can prevent future wars."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/denson6.html
"The last official war the United States fought was World War II. After that, the Congress abdicated its responsibility to declare war. Since then, presidents have declared a unilateral right to send U.S. forces into harms way--the founders' worst fear. For example, even though President Bill Clinton couldn't get congressional approval to attack Serbia and Kosovo, he ordered the bombing anyway. Before Gulf War I, President George H. W. Bush claimed that he was asking for a congressional resolution of support, as opposed to a declaration of war, only as a courtesy--not because he was required to by the Constitution."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1651
"The gangster state of Kurdistan is Abramoff-ism in power. Criminal cartels run the state apparatus, doling out rewards and punishments in a system of bribery and kickbacks -- and the occasional gangland-style murder. We are, in short, exporting our own system, albeit with none of the legal and constitutional constraints against the more brazen forms of gangsterism."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8361
"Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'.....must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing.....Each act is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next."
http://independentcountry.blogspot.com/2006/01/they-thought-they-were-free.html
"'A War Like No Other' makes for a welcome addition to any thinking man's library. For all that it addresses ancient events, the book is a timely one and its analogical relevance is particularly illuminating given the situation in which the intellectual heirs of Athens currently find themselves."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48256
"Whether memorializing the Mississippi River, traveling to the Holy Land, or introducing 'Yankee ingenuity' to King Arthur's court, Twain was constantly measuring, defining, and questioning what it meant to be American as the U.S. grew in power, prestige, and influence throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries."
http://www.reason.com/0602/cr.ng.mark.shtml
"Americans need to ask themselves if the White House is in competent hands when a $70 billion war becomes a $2 trillion war. Bush sold his war by understating its cost by a factor of 28.57. Any financial officer any where in the world whose project was 2,857 percent over budget would instantly be fired for utter incompetence."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01102006.html
"Historically, such views make it easy to understand how the European religious wars during the 17th century were among the bloodiest in history, and were a major reason for the secular structure established by America's founding fathers. ... Armageddonites of all religions want to escape from this world and, indeed, expedite the end for everyone else."
http://www.antiwar.com/utley/?articleid=8376
"The Baltimore-based chapter of the national Iraq Pledge of Resistance is an anti-war organization working for peace by challenging people in power, educating the public and getting citizens to take action. In the interview below, Maria Allwine of the Pledge, describes how the National Security Agency (NSA) is spying on them."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/zeese/zeese21.html
"Oyster pirate, deep-sea sailor, hobo, Alaskan prospector, all these incidents in his life make fascinating reading. But most important of all Jack London's adventures was his struggle to become a writer. Without guidance, writing under almost impossible circumstances, for the most part educating himself, and faced with continual economic hardship, he stumbled and groped for three long years in the literary wilderness. In the beginning the rejection slips followed one another with monotonous regularity. ... He became the highest paid, most popular novelist and short story writer of his day."
http://www.jacklondons.net/shortbio.html
"In 1942 Farmer founded the Congress of Racial Equality or CORE, a pacifist organization dedicated to achieving racial harmony and equality through non-violence. In 1961 Farmer, who had taken a hiatus from leading the group, returned as its national director and sought to repeat the 1947 journey - coining a new name for it: the Freedom Ride. On May 4, participants journeyed to the deep South, this time including women as well as men, and tested segregated bus terminals as well as seating on the vehicles. The riders were met with severe violence and garnered national attention, sparking a summer of similar rides by other Civil Rights leaders and thousands of ordinary citizens."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Farmer%2C_Jr.
"By 1956, he was an international sensation. With a sound and style that uniquely combined his diverse musical influences and blurred and challenged the social and racial barriers of the time, he ushered in a whole new era of American music and popular culture."
http://www.elvis.com/elvisology/bio/elvis_overview.asp
Sports drama stars Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, directed by Clint Eastwood. "This film's emphasis on several issues make it especially relevant to individualists: the will to be a champion, the ultimate meaning of self-ownership, the challenge which occasionally comes with friendship and the real meaning of family."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/million$baby_2004.htm
"When Serenity was released in theatres last year, it hit a modest $26 million U.S. in North America, plus another $14 million internationally. 'Obviously,' Whedon says drily, 'It didn't make its money back. It got close, but you want it to blow up huge and be the next big thing. And it didn't do that. ... [but] the DVD sales for Serenity are expected to push it into profit."
http://www.edmontonsun.com/Entertainment/Showbiz/2006/01/08/1384370-sun.html
"Renowned actor Tim Robbins is considering another adaptation of George Orwell's classic novel 1984, reports Empire Online. No studio is officially attached to the project yet, but it's something Robbins [thinks] he'd like to do."
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/681/681171p1.html
By examining our reasons for being in the Middle East we are cupping Osama's balls.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=47634
So many players only one Jack. (Flash animated cartoon - video w/audio)
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/jack.html
"The story of Jesus is like the greatest PR makeover ever told. God isn't the God of fire and brimstone anymore. Or at least He isn't supposed to be. He's the God of compassion now, the God who turns the other cheek. Didn't these knuckleheads see The Passion? What does God have to do--walk on water just to get through to these people?"
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001789.html
"The two conflicting schemes attract adherents because mankind always seeks overarching explanations, particularly regarding origin, destiny, and purpose. Some of us are willing to say 'I don't know.' Others, well denominated True Believers, have to think that they do know. The country is replete with them: Feminists, Marxists, Born-Agains, rabid anti-semites, snake handlers, Neo-Darwinists. They care deeply, brook no dissent (a sure sign of True Belief), and have infinite confidence in their rightness (or perhaps don't and pretend certainty to ward off a disturbing uncertainty)."
http://www.fredoneverything.net/ID.shtml
"What keeps a dream in the air? First, know what you want. ... Joss Whedon gets to the heart of it, and so do McWilliams and Wolfe who emphasize, as Wolfe says: 'Love what you do. Do it with passion'."
http://bwrmontag.blogspot.com/2006/01/keep-your-dreams-flying.html
"Booting the CD, you are presented with a text based wizard-style list of questions to answer, one at a time, with defaults that will work for most users. Within a few moments, a fairly naive user can be up and running and connected to an open Wi-Fi point, if one is available."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,70017-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
"[T]he psychiatric worldview rests, not on science or medicine, as its practitioners would have us believe, but on ethics, politics, and religion. That would be objectionable only intellectually if that were as far as it went. Unfortunately, it goes further, since the practitioners and the legal system they helped shape are empowered...."
http://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/01/szasz-in-one-lesson.html
"Contacting a woman for romantic purposes -- internationally or domestically -- is not a crime. Those who do so are not a priori criminals who must prove themselves innocent before being allowed an email exchange. How many American men will be impacted by the IMBA?"
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2006/0111.html
"As part of our upcoming story Roswell, Texas, Neil thought of a cute little concept for a business logo a while back. I designed and rendered the graphic, which appears below."
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