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"I am 70 years old, a registered nurse and have never taken an illegal drug. I do, however, know what pain is. I have seen many people suffer terribly, including my own son who died at 31 of colon cancer. He never had the desire to use an illegal substance and resisted anything he considered mind-altering. But if he had desired it for relief of pain, I would have fought like a tiger for him to get it."
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060530/OPINION/605300305/1032
"Civil libertarians cheered yesterday upon news that Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle signed a law making it a crime to require an individual to be implanted with a microchip. Activists and authors Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre joined the celebration, predicting this move will spell trouble for the VeriChip Corporation, maker of the VeriChip human microchip implant."
http://www.newswithviews.com/McIntyre/Liz6.htm
"'We think primaries are a healthy part of the democratic process for a reason -- so voters can choose who represents them rather than the chattering class of Beltway insiders,' he said. 'And if supporters of the Iraq war -- Republicans and some Democrats -- are in electoral trouble, it's probably because a majority of the people in this country think it was a disastrous mistake'."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0527-01.htm
"It's difficult to estimate just how often it happens--many times, victims are too frightened or intimidated to alert the media when they've been wrongly targeted. But it's easily dozens of times per year, perhaps hundreds. Is it fair to blame Congress for these types of mistakes? I think so. Here's why: Since the late 1980s, Congress has made a bounty of surplus military gear available to local police departments, either at steeply discounted prices, or for free. Millions of pieces of equipment have been transferred this way. Once stocked with military-grade weaponry, local police departments look for ways to put their new equipment to use. So they form SWAT teams."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6412
"What liberals don't seem to get is that chasing money from politics can't be done without obliterating our freedom in the process. We are at the point now, under McCain-Feingold, that government has control over how and when political activism may occur."
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05/28/Columns/Limits_on_cash_stifle.shtml
"We weren't precisely in the Big City, but smack in the middle of that scariest of all city institutions, the airport. You cannot get farther from Hardyville than today's American airport. Bob-the-Nerd was there to pick up his mother, visiting from Darkest California. I came along in the time-honored writer's tradition of work avoidance. But once there, I didn't want to go inside."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe060601.html
"Over the past twenty years, over thousands of conversations, I have never once met anyone who regularly used violence. I've met a few people who'd been in bar fights, heard tales of a few bad marriages and seen some fairly nasty parents, but I have never once met a single person who regularly and systematically used violence to force obedience out of others. So naturally, I am quite confused when people demand that I produce historical proof of functioning non-violent societies. It's like a panting man asking me to produce proof of the existence of air."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/molyneux/molyneux21.html
"There's only one government. No matter how much it screws up, and that's always--except when it's stealing from the masses, killing innocent people, and causing destruction from one end of the earth to the other--Americans just seem to go about their daily routines, shrugging their shoulders and even laughing about the mass screw-up that government is."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/goslin/goslin2.html
"One of Rock the Vote's few high points came in the early 1990s when the organization aired over 175 public service announcements in which artists gave their frank views on democracy. Our favorite was Ice-T's. 'I'm as anti 'the system' as you could possibly be,' he said. 'We've got two options--the vote or hostile takeover. I'm down with either one'."
http://www.counterpunch.org/ballinger05302006.html
"The riots in Kabul are an ominous sign for the US empire. Watch the videos on television. These people are ever more bold. They aren't guerillas operating in private. They are not military people. They are regular citizens rising up against an empire and using every means at their disposal to drive the invader out. ... [A]ny state that calls forth mass resistance should be overthrown as a matter of justice, since the alternative is to turn all of society into a giant prison camp."
http://www.mises.org/story/2204
"What I've experienced everywhere is a kind of give and take, live and let live, mind your own business, help when needed sort of thing. The only people I've learned to distrust are 'public servants' and the only places that worry me are 'public' places; I recommend privatizing both so that there are owners and managers who have a genuine interest in the public."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/klassen/klassen90.html
"Governing their northern region themselves, Kurds came to exercise huge power in Baghdad as well. But rejoining Iraq, as many Kurds like to call it, has not stopped Kurdish efforts for independence. In January 2005, alongside national elections, more than 98 percent of Kurds voted for independence in an unofficial referendum."
http://www.antiwar.com/ips/salih.php?articleid=9076
"The ugly truth is that we have been corrupted by dreams of empire: our foreign and military policy of 'preemption' is the doctrine of a swaggering bully. To claim preeminence on every continent, to strut and preen on the world stage and demand applause at gunpoint, this is evidence of a collective mania, a severe psychological affliction, and, I might add, a mortal sin -- the sin of hubris."
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9081
"They were government officials, telephone company honchos, military officers, three-letter-agency spooks and cops, all brought together by salesmen dealing in the modern equipment of surveillance. It was my job to learn what they were up to."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71022-0.html?tw=wn_story_mailer
"The CIA has been directly involved in interrogation of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, and its own secret prisons around the world. The agency's kidnappers, through 'extraordinary renditions,' send suspects to be questioned in countries known, including in State Department annual reports, for torturing prisoners."
http://villagevoice.com/news/0622,hentoff,73350,6.html
"Anyone who has bothered to follow the reports of the war, especially in the foreign press, knows that wanton murders have occurred repeatedly, often from the air, owing in part to the use of high-explosive bombs and rockets in densely populated areas, but often at checkpoints and in connection with patrols, especially after roadside bombs have exploded near U.S. forces or other hostile action has triggered their indiscriminate attacks on the people at hand."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1741
"This administration's talking about teaching ethics to soldiers is something akin to having the Israeli military or Hamas teach non-violent conflict resolution tactics, or having Attorney General Alberto Gonzales teach a course on civil liberties and the Bill of Rights."
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff06022006.html
"Conservatives like to talk a good game about the need to rein in government spending, abolish particular programs, and downsize the number of bureaucrats, but at the end of the day they truly believe that a big government would probably work just fine if only they were in charge."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0606c.asp
"Have you ever been to a retail store and seen this sign on the register: 'Your purchase free if you don't get a receipt'? You almost certainly didn't see it in an expensive or high-end store. You saw it in a convenience store, or a fast-food restaurant. Or maybe a liquor store. That sign is a security device, and a clever one at that. And it illustrates a very important rule about security: it works best when you align interests with capability."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/aligning_intere.html
"Say you owned a small 10-pound inventory of coffee that you purchased for $3 a pound. Each week you'd sell me a pound for $3.25. Suppose a freeze in Brazil destroyed half of its coffee crop, causing the world price of coffee to immediately rise to $5 a pound. You still have coffee that you purchased before the jump in prices. When I stop by to buy another pound of coffee from you, how much will you charge me? I'm betting that you're going to charge me at least $5 a pound. Why? Because that's today's cost to replace your inventory. Historical costs do not determine prices; what economists call opportunity costs do."
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/06/prices.html
"There's another proposal to legalize marijuana being marshaled for the Nevada ballot, this time under the guise of 'regulating it and making it harder for kids to get.' It's tempting to say they never asked me for my opinion. In fact, though, people keep doing so. And I keep saying the same thing."
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/May-28-Sun-2006/opinion/7346507.html
"If some of us decide against trading in our cars for more fuel-efficient ones, it means we have higher priorities than saving money on gasoline. Maybe we'll cut expenses elsewhere so we can continue driving less-efficient bigger, heavier cars. People without the governmental habit would understand that freedom means the right to set one's own priorities, regardless of what the neighbors or the politicians think."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=519
"The National Animal Identification System, known as NAIS, is an expensive and unnecessary federal program that requires owners of livestock-- cattle, dairy, poultry, and even horses-- to tag animals with electronic tracking devices. The intrusive monitoring system amounts to nothing more than a tax on livestock owners, allowing the federal government access to detailed information about their private property. ... More than anything, NAIS places our family farmers and ranchers at an economic disadvantage against agribusiness...."
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/06/05/29/ronpaul.htm
"Those who espouse clever government-led solutions to high oil prices should bear in mind that new discoveries have outpaced consumption for a number of years, but too much bureaucratic interference has hampered supply. Restrictions on building new refineries and pipelines in the U.S. have kept prices up and increased America's dependence on foreign energy."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1740
"If there's another major terrorist attack on American soil, here's my prediction: Congress will again wake up from its slumber and respond positively to the president's call for PATRIOT Acts 2, 3, and 4, followed by new rounds of indefinite military detentions, illegal wiretapping, kidnappings and renditions, censorship, and more."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0606a.asp
"[A]s President Bush explained, 'Al Qaeda is our enemy, and we want to know their plans.' But we 'ordinary Americans' shouldn't worry: the same government that rifles our luggage at the airports has been 'fiercely protect[ing]' our 'privacy' from the NSA. 'We're not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans,' the President claimed with breathtaking disregard for the facts."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=516&year=2006&month=6
"Only the state can make mass murder possible and so efficient. Most students seem reluctant to respond. Is it because the answer is too obvious? Or, like so many Americans, do they go into denial and refuse to make the Nazi connection to now, rationalizing such behavior as necessary to protect America from bad people who want to hurt us? "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/goslin/goslin1.html
"Like many people, I once thought that the vividly colored properties on the classic board were fictional places that existed only as I envisioned them in my imagination. It was one of the great discoveries of my life to learn that these properties really do exist. On my first visit to Atlantic City in 1973, I was thrilled to actually take a walk on the Boardwalk and to advance to St. Charles Place."
"The monetary system of the United States was based on bimetallism during most of its history. A full gold standard was in effect from 1900 to 1933. The Legal Tender Act of 1933 made all American coins and paper money 'legal tender' which must be accepted at face value by creditors in payment of any debt, public or private. The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 stipulated that gold could no longer be used as a medium of domestic exchange, making paper money the only lawful medium of exchange. During the early 1970s the US dollar became fiat money also in international money markets."
http://www.mises.org/story/2184
"They're on our money, and on Mount Rushmore. They were first in war, first in peace, and first in politics. What would the Founders do about the hot-button issues that vex us today?"
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/14702591.htm
"On Memorial Day, we should honor those who are buried after dying in the country's wars, but be a little more skeptical of the U.S. government actions that put them there. It is often said that they died for 'freedom' or their 'country,' but more often they were needlessly put at risk by their government."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1738
"As things stand now, the long list of American military interventions will grow and the subsequent aberrations (sic) will never cease. We can-and must-fight to expose the criminals and we should take pride in every life saved, every transgression averted. But until the system is challenged (overhauled? rejected?), all we can realistically hope for is the occasional reform or indictment."
http://www.counterpunch.org/mickey06022006.html
"The strife and violence between these ethnically diverse regions all during the twentieth century was caused primarily by the fact that they were all ruled by a centralized, Lincolnite state. The violence was always primarily over control of that state, or in protest of its policies."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo102.html
"Born in London, Chesterton was educated at St. Paul's, but never went to college. He went to art school. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time."
http://www.chesterton.org/discover/who.html
"Jim Thorpe is considered one of the most versatile athletes in modern sports. He won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon, starred in college and professional football, played Major League Baseball and also had a career in basketball."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe
"A stunning natural beauty, Paulette could mesmerize any man she met, a fact she was well aware of. … Paulette was one of the many actresses tested for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), but lost the part to Vivien Leigh…."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002104/bio
Science fiction action/adventure stars Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ian McDiarmid; written and directed by George Lucas. "With 'Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith,' Lucas completes the back story of Anakin Skywalker, his children, Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda. Although this film has plenty of insight of its own, its largest attraction may be to those who wish to see the history behind the world and characters of the central Star Wars movies.”
http://endervidualism.com/agora/sw3_revenge_sith_2005.htm
"Kauffman describes himself as an American patriot, Jeffersonian decentralist, fanatical localist, and anarchist. What I love about Kauffman is that he's so adaptable in finding allies -- he frolics with both Right and Left, in both Chronicles magazine and CounterPunch -- as long as they love America and despise Empire."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2006/06/manifesto-for-smalltown-america.html
"The backlash should be against country radio, the corporate sponsors who dumped the Chicks, and the entire mythical red state/blue state nonsense. America wants peace. Country fans want peace. The South wants peace."
http://www.counterpunch.org/ballinger06012006.html
"In a sign that the Bush administration intends to ratchet up its program of domestic surveillance, the Central Intelligence Agency today announced that it was offering what it called a 'Friends & Family' eavesdropping plan. Under the new plan, American citizens would reap significant discounts for long-distance calls in exchange for permitting the CIA to listen in on all of their conversations."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1402
Animated flash cartoon
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/sale.html
"In a speech from the Egg-Shaped Office during primetime TV (in which he finished fifth in the overnight ratings behind Fear Fracture, Let's Make a Deal or No Deal, Backpacking with the Stars and The Munsters' Bit Players and Extras Annual Reunion Special and Hip Replacement Telethon) President Bush told the nation that millions of illegal immigrants who had gotten away with breaking the law the longest could become American citizens if they paid a meaningful penalty for breaking the law, paid their taxes, learned to speak, write and sing the National Anthem in broken English, and worked in a legitimate job for a number of years."
http://www.freecannon.com/BetterImmigrants.htm
"The social engineers of the welfare state obviously never considered a possible change in morality and perception -- they simply wanted a system guaranteeing security for everybody; a system where the able could and should work to support themselves, but where the unable too could live dignified lives. Who would have thought the progressive reforms to secure workers' rights and prosperity for all in the early 20th century would backfire philosophically and morally?"
http://www.mises.org/story/2190
"Dr. Tashkin led a team of UCLA investigators who conducted a large, population-based, case-controlled study looking for links between marijuana use and the risk of lung cancer in middle-aged adults living in Los Angeles County. They concluded, 'We did not observe a positive association of marijuana use, even heavy long-term use, with lung cancer, controlling for tobacco smoking and other potential confounders' (age, sex, race, educational level)."
http://www.counterpunch.org/gardner06032006.html
"Forced property transfers to recipients who were unwilling to pay enough to obtain the property voluntarily always constitute an economic takings. The very act of not selling at market price demonstrates that the current owner values the property more than the 'fair market value.' Since eminent domain moves property from higher valued uses to lower valued uses, it undermines economic development."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1735
"As of this writing, Congress is on the edge -- between Flag Day, June 14, and the end of the month -- of passing the first ever constitutional amendment to our glorious Bill of Rights (ratified in 1791), which is unmatched anywhere in the world in its guarantees of fundamental personal liberties against the government. The Flag Desecration Amendment (SJR 12) authorizes Congress to prohibit any 'physical desecration' of the American flag -- thereby carving out an exception to the First Amendment, from which all our liberties flow."
http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/editorial/ci_3883944
"One way for a candidate to earn my vote is if he or she followed Baldwin's suggestion and pledged to work on cutting the budget by at least 10%. If there is no other way, then each single item in the budget can be cut by exactly 10%. But some can be cut more than others, and many programs can and should be eliminated altogether."
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1851
"Why do we need compulsory-attendance laws? Why compel parents to send their children to public schools? Wouldn't parents naturally educate their children without compulsion? Human nature and history prove this to be the case. All over the world, parents push to educate their children, with or without public schools."
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