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"As long as people lead their lives peacefully, refusing to threaten or use violence against their neighbors except to defend themselves, I believe their self-ownership must not be limited or denied. I came by the belief that I belong to me -- and only to me -- by a long process of discovery. "
http://www.russellmadden.com/I_Belong_To_Me.html
"Rob Kampia, president of the Marijuana Policy Project, a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group, said at a forum Sunday that he was headed to Topeka today to test the climate for a possible medical marijuana legalization push."
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/feb/06/kansas_ready_medical_marijuana_speaker_says/?city_local
"If voters approve the resolution, DeWalt said he is going to ask U.S. Rep. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., to file the articles of impeachment to remove the president from office."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0205-04.htm
"On Jan. 24, a SWAT team in Fairfax shot and killed Salvatore J. Culosi Jr., an optometrist who was under investigation for gambling. According to a Jan. 26 front-page story in The Post, Culosi had emerged from his home to meet an undercover officer when a police tactical unit swarmed around him. An officer's gun discharged, killing the suspect. Culosi, police said, was unarmed and had displayed no threatening behavior."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5439
"Astonishing, isn't it, that a farmer living on Ohio's side of the Cincinnati River in 1851 could be jailed for providing a meal and a warm bed to a shivering, starving, fearful fugitive. Now, 155 years later, we find ourselves in the same predicament: the government threatens to imprison us for extending simple human kindness."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=261
"Kubby has become something of a cause célèbre because of his intimate connections with the libertarian and medical marijuana communities. But he's not the only one suffering in prison because of lack of marijuana. In a similar situation--ill, in prison, denied marijuana that helps them cope or survive their illness--are Joe Fortt (in jail in Fresno, his T-cell count plummeting, he'd been using pot to cope with AIDS while free), Robert Schmidt (currently in Leavenworth, a prison under full 'lockdown,' denied both medicine and visitors), and many others."
http://www.reason.com/links/links020606.shtml
"As government grows ever bigger in the guise of doing good, its capacity for doing evil expands at a far more rapid rate. Whatever true good that government might be capable of doing is swamped by growing levels of corruption, graft, payoffs, violence, arbitrary rule, and all the rest of the institutions that the movement was trying to make go away."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker64.html
"Weren't there anarchists before Molinari who were pro-market? Certainly there were; the clearest cases are William Godwin in England, Josiah Warren in America, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in France. Some would deny that these thinkers count as pro-market, since they were 'socialists'; but we shouldn't let ourselves be confused by terminology. While these thinkers' views on property may fall short of Rothbardian purity -- or, heck, even Tuckerite purity (Proudhon and Tucker definitely need some dehomogenising) -- they all clearly favoured some form of private ownership and free market exchange."
http://praxeology.net/unblog02-06.htm#07
"Here are some useful items that caught my Pirate eye this week. Enjoy! "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/blow/blow6.html
"Economics, then, is a science that is rooted in a larger understanding of what used to be called the liberal order. The central claim of this understanding is that society -- just like the smaller subset often called 'the economy' -- needs no central manager to thrive. And just as economic structures are best managed by property owners and traders, the entire society contains within itself the capacity for self-management."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/economics-not.html
"The Internet is today 1,000 times the size it was in 1996, yet these discussions tend to view network growth as static. Can the Internet support HDTV or not? Comparing the bandwidth required for an HD signal with an SD signal and mapping that against historical and expected network growth, I'd say it is likely not to be a problem at all. Why is nobody mentioning this? Congress is arguing about a problem that doesn't really exist."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060209.html
"The passengers on 9/11 did not expect a suicidal hijacking -- most hijackings end with a landing on the runway. Now passenger awareness acts as a deterrent because terrorists know that passengers themselves will fight back. The airline industry feels the pressure of terrorist threats. They do not want to risk an attack because of lax security."
http://www.mises.org/story/2011
"As with all conspiracy theories, rigged athletic contests are hard to believe at first glance. Depending on the scope and scale of the suspected fraud, the first question is always the absence of people coming forward and confessing involvement in the fraud. Which makes me suspect that, if presumably good and decent people participate in a conspiracy, it is not because they are getting paid, but because they are being blackmailed."
http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1752
"Shocking as it may seem, the Bush administration claims that Congress did essentially the same thing when it passed its Sept. 14, 2001, resolution authorizing the use of military force 'against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.' As far as the Bush administration is concerned, that resolution is the equivalent of the Reichstag's Enabling Act: It was a plenary grant of power to the president to do pretty much whatever he wants to whomever he wants for any reason he considers appropriate."
http://www.nwmeridian.com/content/060210_05_p1.php
"Gonzales was the sole witness called to explain Bush's warrantless domestic spying, in obvious violation of the foreign intelligence surveillance act (Fisa) and circumvention of the special court created to administer it. The scene at the Senate was acted as though scripted partly by Kafka, partly by Mel Brooks, and partly by John le Carré."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1705511,00.html
"What they really believe, in the end, and especially when they have power, should be clear by now: the unbridled supremacy of the state and especially its executive, its police and its military. They also enjoy shoveling money to their favored corporate interests, but that's only icing on the cake. Their true love in life comprises beating people up, sticking their noses into other people's business, and detonating large explosives in other countries."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory108.html
"You have to admit, the strategy is absolutely brilliant. Forget about electronic voting machine conspiracies, hanging chads or other election irregularities -- which are only diversions to keep us from figuring out that the whole thing is an illusion! Those seeking to enslave us have built an elaborate one-party, criminal syndicate, where it does not make the slightest bit of difference whether we elect Republicans or Democrats."
http://www.newswithviews.com/Brownlow/david51.htm
"The megalomaniacs who rule us have no compunctions about the brazenness of their lies: they don't care how it looks, how it sounds, or even, in the end, how it sells. They know what they want, and they are single-minded in going after it. The message came through loud and clear in the president's State of the Union speech: prepare for perpetual war."
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8503
"We think: heck I know nothing of these subjects, so I can believe that there is a shortage! And surely math and science are the keys to just about everything. And look at those Japanese kids in school that we see on television. They can run circles around the tattooed bums that populate American public schools. We are surely 'falling behind'!"
"Recent studies suggest that curcumin, the agent that gives the spice its color, is an anti-inflammatory comparable to hydrocortisone. 'There are all kinds of things we could use in our everyday life to improve our health,' Jain said. 'And our grandparents did it all the time.' Today, practitioners of Western medicine are taking a hard look at their Eastern counterparts and at age-old medicinal cures not too far removed from Granny's poultices and tonics."
http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=3379
"LifeSharers members all register on the United Network for Organ Sharing, the federally contracted service that maintains the national database of patients waiting for organs from deceased donors. But they also sign donor cards that give other LifeSharers members preferred access to their anatomical gifts if UNOS' computerized match service shows they're compatible."
http://cbs4denver.com/local/local_story_040105800.html
"Debate is dead in America for two reasons: One is that the media concentration permitted in the 1990s has put news and opinion in the hands of a few corporate executives who do not dare risk their broadcasting licenses by getting on the wrong side of government, or their advertising revenues by becoming 'controversial.' The media follows a safe line and purveys only politically correct information. The other reason is that Americans today are no longer enthralled by debate. They just want to hear what they want to hear. The right-wing, left-wing, and libertarians alike preach to the faithful."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02062006.html
"For half a century the U.S. government has meddled in the Middle East largely to keep the oil companies' investments secure. This has worked to the detriment of would-be competitors that might have come up with alternatives in a laissez-faire environment. The fact is, we have no idea what the energy industry would have looked like had the government kept hands off and let free competition determine the outcome."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0602c.asp
"If governments did not arrogate to themselves the right to outlaw or regulate gambling, there would be no need for government lobbyists. There are no Jack Abramoff's needed to persuade government to allow you to open a grocery store, or me to start a law office. Why? Because, for the most part, government has no ability to stop us from doing so. If government did not have the ability to siphon off tribal revenues by taxation, lobbyists would have no work in that area, either."
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2006/Mcchesneygambling.html
"My wife and I watched the film Why We Fight, a wonderful exposé of the military-industrial-congressional complex. With Chalmers Johnson and Karen Kwiatkowski providing clear focus, the present war system is revealed for what it is: a racket for siphoning money from the pockets of gullible people willing to be convinced of the presence of ever-evolving bogeymen who pose a never-ending threat to their lives."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer130.html
"With the U.S. government fighting in the Middle East and possibly more battles on the horizon, it is fitting to contemplate what Schumpeter had to say about capitalism and war."
http://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2006/02/tariff-is-mother-of-trustsand-of-war.html
"War is like any other government program. People love to talk about it in theory. Just do not bother them with the details. It is not their head being shot off; it is the head of some kid from South Central Los Angeles whose name they will never know. It is not their intestines being ripped out and strewn all over the ground; it is the intestines of some kid from Colorado's eastern prairie whose name they will never know. "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/newman/newman1.html
"Until the Civil War, Spooner had labored to integrate the principles of the Constitution with those of natural law. No Treason abandoned that attempt. He now rejected the idea that anyone was obliged to respect the Constitution. Such an obligation arose only from consent that only free persons could render, and no one living person had consented to the Constitution."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0510d.asp
"In short order, Germany's pastors and churches were convinced that the Nazi Party was God's party and Hitler was God's man. By the time Hitler consolidated power and became Germany's Fuhrer, the Nazi Swastika was displayed proudly on the walls and halls of Germany's churches, both Catholic and Protestant."
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin281.htm
"Why didn't Powell do the right thing? His own reputation would have been forever secure as a man of integrity. Why did he sacrifice his integrity to the crooked scheme of his commander in chief? Alas, that is the way our generals are bred. In the politicized US military, no officer can advance beyond the rank of Lt. Col. unless he toes the political line. "
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02072006.html
"Who favors isolationism? That of course depends on what it means. The president gave one indication of what he means when he said, 'In a complex and challenging time, the road of isolationism and protectionism may seem broad and inviting -- yet it ends in danger and decline.' Here he equates isolationism and protectionism, but there's no necessary connection."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0602b.asp
"We have to ask whether the U.S. government is competent to do so. Why do some of us think that the U.S. government would be particularly competent at figuring out, in a foreign government, which faction, often which tribe, to support? We don't hesitate to point out that government does a lousy job of running schools, providing health care, and providing housing to poor people. Why does it suddenly become competent when it tries to run things in a foreign country?"
http://antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=8504
"The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent amorphous and unending 'war on terror' have allowed the Pentagon to justify higher defense budgets--including the aforementioned weapons not suited to fighting terrorists or guerrillas--to a security-conscious public for the indefinite future."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1667
"Otis's oration took some four or five hours and was not taken down stenographically, but it left an indelible impression on the young [John] Adams. With a 'profusion of legal authorities,' Adams tells us, 'a prophetic glance of his eye into futurity, and a torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away everything before him'."
http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com/2006/02/americas-first-revolutionary.html
"The Appeal had two main effects. One, it was instrumental in convincing many Americans of the need for abolition of slavery. Those who credited Child's Appeal with their own change of mind and increased commitment included Wendell Phillips and William Ellery Channing. Two, Child's popularity plummeted...."
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/childlydiamaria/a/lydiamariachild.htm
"When he was seven, Eubie received music lessons from their next-door neighbor, Margaret Marshall, an organist from the Methodist church. At the age of fifteen, without his parent's knowledge, he played piano at Aggie Shelton's Baltimore bordello."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eubie_Blake
Antiwar romantic comedy stars James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn; screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky, directed by Arthur Hiller. "In 1964, the presence of any of the major actors in this film: Garner, Andrews, Douglas and Coburn signaled a movie that deserved attention. However, the presence of all of them demands notice. Still, the screenplay contributes most to making this movie a classic."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/amrcnztn_emily_1964.htm
"[C]onsider a scene later in the movie, when our antihero, applying for another job, is unable to speak to the bureaucrat behind the desk because the latter keeps disappearing and being replaced by someone new. 'Directors are changed,' the narration informs us. 'The job remains.' The film ends with the slogan, 'Death to red tape, to sloppiness, to bureaucrats!' It's no surprise that the authorities immediately banned the film, which wasn't widely seen until the '70s and has only now been released on DVD in America. What's amazing is that it was made at all."
http://www.reason.com/0602/cr.jw.the.shtml
"A telling documentary, this film goes in-depth into a fan base that first formed when the short-lived Fox series, Firefly, was abruptly cancelled. Meeting other disgruntled viewers, these Browncoats formed a family-like atmosphere through their discussion boards and live meetings, creating a new style of fan never seen before. All were hell-bent on getting Firefly back on television -- or in theatres."
http://www.iesb.net/events/021106b.php
Jason Jones asks how one can make a moral judgment over someone making a moral judgment for women.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=58791
"In an attempt to gain support among idle and sleepless Americans, the Bush Administration made its case for the continuing war in Iraq in a one-hour paid program that premiered early Tuesday morning. The infomercial, cohosted by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former Dynasty star Linda Evans, was shot in a Burbank, CA studio before an audience of approximately 60 tourists and college-age Republicans."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/45116
"Barry is a humorist whose columns for the Miami Herald were syndicated worldwide. In other words, he's a funny man. So let me warn you that there is very little practical financial advice in this book. His shtick is to make fun of the proliferation of personal finance books and the people who write them or recommend them. (Hmm, that's me on both counts.)"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/04/AR2006020400155_pf.html
"It is only by pre-supposing that concepts like intention, purpose, means, ends, satisfaction, and dissatisfaction are characteristic of a certain kind of happening in the world that we can conceive of a subject matter for economics to investigate. Those concepts are the logical prerequisites for distinguishing a domain of economic events from all of the non-economic aspects of our experience ... Unless we first postulate that people deliberately undertake previously planned activities with the goal of making their situations, as they subjectively see them, better than they otherwise would be, there would be no grounds for differentiating the exchange that takes place in human society from the exchange of molecules that occurs between two liquids separated by a permeable membrane."
http://www.mises.org/story/2025
"I remain convinced that an individual who raises his/her hand against another commits an act that is different in kind than an individual who raises their voice. An idea doesn't 'cause' anything. Words are not actions."
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/21576.html
"We exist utterly in a manmade cocoon, as much as desert termites in their mud towers. This, I think, profoundly alters our inner landscapes. Live in the rolling hills around Austin, say, as they were before they were turned into suburbs, with the wind soughing through the empty expanse and low vegetation stretching into the distance, the stars hanging low and close in the night, and you get a sense of man’s smallness in the scheme of nature, of the transitoriness of life, a suspicion that there may perhaps be more things in heaven and earth. It makes for reflection of a sort that throughout history has turned toward the religious."
http://fredoneverything.net/Heresy.shtml
"I believe 'women's liberation' was an idea whose time had come. I think it sprang from a combination: the economic freedom women acquired during World War II; a post-war prosperity that encouraged personal growth; and, the unwillingness of a new generation to accept old values. A surge of feminism would have occurred with or without any particular individual."
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2006/0208.html
"Another part of the First Amendment is freedom of religion. Legally, this is about freedom from the government. Again, there is a cultural side dish: In America we make religious freedom work by not attacking the other fellow's beliefs."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002790869_rams08.html
"I'm postmodern. I used to be pre-modern, then I flirted with modernity, and now I am past it. Does that mean that I deny the existence of external reality independent of my perceptions? Or that I hold that all moral propositions are equally valid? Of course not. That is the straw man postmodernism that folks like to rail against."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2006/02/wherein-i-claim-to-be-postmodern.html
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