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"Like a lot of people, I couldn't put my finger on what it was that I was missing years ago. It's like when I try to recreate one of my Mom's recipes and I know I haven't nailed it, but I don't know what it is that's missing. You can't know what you don't know. What you do know is that when you get it right, then you'll know it. ... From my first taste, Strike The Root gave me that 'aaaaahhhh'."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/fontana/fontana4.html
"The danger of fear is not the fear itself (Sorry, FDR) - it's that paralysis of will. When I say "refuse to be afraid," I mean refuse to let fear control your actions to the point where you fail to do the right thing. In my personal case, don't be so afraid of rejection that you fail to put the work out there to be judged. In the case of terrorism, don't be so afraid that you allow yourself to be locked in a cage."
http://bwrmontag.blogspot.com/2006/08/make-that-refuse-to-be-controlled.html
"What would be wrong with terminating foreign aid not only to Israel but also to every other country in the world and abolishing the taxes that support such aid, leaving the American people free to keep their own money and decide what to do with it? What would be wrong with letting Americans support Israel or Lebanon or the Palestinians or any other cause in the world with their moral support and their own money and leaving the U.S. government and U.S. taxpayer money out of it? "
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0608c.asp
"From a July 8, 2004, cassette recording secretly made by Eugene and Jenny Siler of Campbell County, Tennessee, when police from the County Sheriff's Office arrived at their home with a warrant to arrest Eugene Siler for probation violations." America? No, Amerika !!!
http://www.harpers.org/AssaultAndBatteries.html
"When I talk about military-issue tanks, helicopters, and armored personnel carriers rolling down and hovering over Main Street en route to a drug raid, a few radio hosts have suggested that I might be exaggerating. Nope." Where does this lead? Here!
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026910.php#026910
"The nationwide sauna last week allowed the forces of government to take another stab at protecting us from the weather. You might think said forces would be a bit chastened after the federal government's staggering snafus in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Yet cities across the country leaped to the plate when Mother Nature pitched her latest curve ball. They declared a 'heat emergency' and foisted 'cooling centers' on their wilted residents."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=681
"Proclaiming that the emperor has no clothes by exposing the state for what it is, is significant and helps people to understand why statist political institutions simply can't work, won't work and never really have worked; but providing an outlet for people to discuss, debate and consider where we must go after the existing political institutions crumble is more important to the future of our societies, our cultures and our countries. Strike The Root is this outlet. When, not if, the state withers before our eyes, whether it is a natural or violent end, if the root is left then we will have to start all over again in the same statist loop."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/davis/davis2.html
"The agency most people identify as 'government' today is in reality a gang of lawyers, armed thugs, and con artists backed by an army of bureaucrats, which operates an immense array of protection and other rackets financed through tax extortion and fraud."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle379-20060806-03.html
"The perspectives are totally different, and this is where anarchists and minarchists are on opposite sides vertically speaking. Anarchists generally see society from the bottom up, thereby demanding valid arguments for any structure above the level of the individual. It doesn't really matter what good a structure may bring about or how promising it looks; if it isn't voluntary and sprung out of the spontaneous order it should not be."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bylund/bylund10.html
Retta Fontana reviews an account of experiences from an early modern homeschooler. "This book, published in 1975, is the true, heartwarming story of the freedom that one couple allowed their children, purely for the sake of freedom itself. The book is a slice of their life, during the period that they were able to home school their children."
http://endervidualism.com/retta/children_played.htm
"[I]f we trust government to protect our freedom, we might as well trust it to cure poverty, ignorance, and disease. Government is the problem, not the solution. A higher level of government can not be expected to fix the problem of a lower level of government. When it appears that government is advancing rather than restricting freedom, we can be sure that either a bad precedent has been set, there are ulterior motives, or both."
http://independentcountry.blogspot.com/2006/08/left-libertarian-old-right-radical.html
"The US Army prided itself back in the day at the way lower level officers and NCOs could operate largely autonomously within the parameters of whatever orders or mission objectives they had compared with the Soviet-based militaries who are virtually decapitated and rendered defunct if their command structure is disrupted or destroyed. But that was then and this is now."
http://alisvoice.blogspot.com/2006/08/hezbollahs-lack-of-hierarchical.html
"Washington, which in its hubris ignores both its friends and its enemies, refusing to talk to the latter or listen to the former, does not grasp that if the flanks collapse, it is the end of our adventures in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It is also, in a slightly longer time frame, the end of Israel. No Crusader state survives forever, and in the long term Israel's existence depends on arriving at some sort of modus vivendi with the region."
http://www.counterpunch.org/lind08112006.html
"With war in the Mideast and civil war in Iraq, the June Supreme Court decision Hamdan v. Rumsfeld telling the president he does not have the 'inherent' constitutional power to make up the law as he goes along with regard to our prisoners has lost traction in the news. But in the weeks and months ahead, you'll be seeing and hearing a lot about a part of the ruling that especially alarmed the president, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and the Republican leadership in Congress."
http://villagevoice.com/news/0632,hentoff,74085,6.html
"It is the government's role to conduct criminal investigations through the established legal process; but it is not the role of the government to mandate how private businesses arrange storage procedures independent of the legal process. Imagine if the federal government mandated that grocery stores track every item their customers purchase -- just in case law enforcement demanded the information in a future investigation. Or, if the police required all individuals to take out their credit cards and another form of identification to confirm their identity with police in an area known for pick-pocketing."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=685
"As both the Bush administration and its client government in Israel, with their invasions of Arab states in Iraq and Lebanon, respectively, make the United States ever more hated in the Islamic world, a new book by the chairmen of the 9/11 commission admits that the commission whitewashed the root cause of the 9/11 attacks--that same interventionist U.S. foreign policy. ... The book usefully details the administration's willful misrepresentation of its incompetent actions that day, but makes the shocking admission that some commission members deliberately wanted to distort an even more important issue. Apparently, unidentified commissioners wanted to cover up the fact that U.S. support for Israel was one of the motivating factors behind al Qaeda's 9/11 attack."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1785
"We live in a two-party system where both parties are pro-war; when the wars go badly, the system scrambles to find a way to prevent antiwar sentiment from taking the drastic step of mounting a meaningful opposition. Therefore from time to time we have to suffer through the spectacle of some status quo dingbat letting his hair down and performing a tortured impersonation of a peace activist during an election season."
"There are now three main political positions. Most of the Cabinet, including Mr Straw, and most of the Conservative Opposition, including David Cameron, support the action in Iraq, but have serious reservations about its conduct. I suspect that may also be Condoleezza Rice's viewpoint. The Liberal Democrats and the probable majority of public opinion in Britain see the whole action as a blunder."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2301799,00.html
"The bits of information possessed by independently thinking individuals are aggregated into market price, just as they are averaged into consensus judgments about jelly beans or correct multiple choice answers. The resulting outcomes tend to be more accurate than those of the individuals in the group and often more accurate than experts. ... Hayek's 1945 paper on knowledge and prices begins to explain why prediction markets predict accurately. Hayek pointed out that knowledge is diffused among many individuals. It is hidden throughout society and changes according to particular circumstances of time and place."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff88.html
"Though it may only last six months, I want the new hairdryer complete with the latest features, bathed in the hottest colors. That's my choice. My preference rank for features and colors is above that for durability. Who is to say that I am wrong? In a free market, anyone. But, they cannot force me to act otherwise."
http://www.mises.org/story/2258
"It seems the 'illicit' street drug sellers in NYC and other major cities use plastic bags with their individual and distinct logo or brand on them in order to build a reputation for quality and purity, just like Starbucks, Marlboro, Merck, and Stolichnaya all do and for the same reasons too."
http://alisvoice.blogspot.com/2006/08/example-of-self-regulation-in-black.html
"With welfare, money is taken from person A through taxes, to give to person B. So, the economic choices of A are diminished by that amount, and those of person B increased. There are strong economic and moral arguments against this; I am not defending it, though I don't fault the recipients. But I'd rather a person be on public support than work at a manufacturing plant that produces tanks or aircraft that the military doesn't need, but that brings profits to the corporate contractor and "jobs" to a Congressional District."
http://independentcountry.blogspot.com/2006/08/welfare-not-as-bad-as-other-government.html
"In recent talks, bilateral and multilateral, it's become more and more evident that the American negotiators' real purpose is to impose U.S. patent and copyright laws on the developing world as the price of access to U.S. markets. No inexpensive foreign goods for American consumers until Disney and other advocates of stringent intellectual-property rules are satisfied."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=691
"It's all so delightfully 19th century, those days of yore when governments had to collect real money from our pockets in order to meet their obligations. These governments are acting as all governments have acted since the beginning of recorded history. They overpromise and mismanage other people's money. They lose credibility. It leads to a political smashup."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/fiscal-corruption.html
"In the case of either Iraq or Iran, why would 'weapons of mass destruction' arouse the fears of Americans? Is it just the destructive capacity of such tools? If this is the explanation, why aren't such fears directed against Great Britain, Israel, France, India, or the United States loosing such destructive power upon the world? The United States has not only used such weapons in the past, but has expressed its willingness to use them in the present."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer141.html
"It may very well be that Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers is just the long-awaited pretext for a war of conquest. Israel is a small and parched country. The Litani River would be a valuable source for a country that's running out of water. The river was also the dream of Israel founder David Ben-Gurion. Territorial expansion has been Israel's quest since its inception. Israel has taken land before, on the pretext of creating buffers from hostile neighbors. But Israelis then settled these territories, expanding Israel's de facto if not official borders." We'll see.
http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1914
"It all seemed just a little too convenient, didn't it?"
http://noauthority.org/2006/08/12/the-great-shampoo-hoax/
"Julius Caesar gloated how his armies slaughtered some two million Celts. Even taking exaggeration into account, this act foreshadows the genocide to come in the so-called New World. Roman conquest of Western Europe imposed a powerful centralized state and a class system. The former inhabitants became slaves and their lands were stolen by the [conquerors]. Some Celts and Teutons became Romanized, and when Rome collapsed in the Fifth Century they imitated their former master, with a class system of serfs, lords and kings."
http://porkupineblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/victory-for-native-people-is-victory.html
"The US Constitution, supposedly born in a democratic struggle against empire, can be manipulated to serve plutocracy and imperialism. Its many silences and ambiguities enable today's shocking domestic and international politics. This is not to deny that it was a great achievement, provided one accepts the premises that 1) a strong national state was desirable, rather than a continuation of the confederacy or an even looser format; 2) the basis for a national (export) economy would be slavery; and 3) territorial expansion was a legitimate and important goal of the new union (whether or not the indigenous or settler inhabitants consented to be incorporated)."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roelofs08082006.html
"During the bloodsport of the Clinton impeachment and the sinister buffoonery of the 2000 election campaign, politics came to dominate the column more and more. And when the American Republic was usurped by a gaggle of corporate bagmen and sex-crazed God-botherers in the judicial coup of December 2000, the Global Eye found a permanent theme: high crimes and low comedy in the Bush Imperium."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=788&Itemid=135
"Americans had inherited a suspicion of militarism from their British friends who had supported them in the American Revolution. Those maverick Englishmen celebrated the Whig tradition, which had defeated the Stuart kings in two civil wars. The Stuarts lost, in part, because of their fondness for standing armies in peacetime. So Washington's policy of keeping the nation out of foreign wars set a strong precedent. The policy was honored by some American leaders for the next century. Yet during the 20th century this historic noninterventionist tradition was discarded by another generation of Americans."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0605e.asp
"Proponents have long held it was a last resort, the only way finally to stop the Japanese war machine. Well, was it? I don't know about you, but when men in positions of military leadership (particularly men unafraid of inflicting significant losses themselves) dissent, I listen. This means that, 61 years later, their voices suggest, at minimum, that there is reason to doubt the simple claim that the bombs were necessary to compel Japanese surrender."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jarecki.php?articleid=9510
"A large majority of Americans still think that President Truman was correct to order the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, and few even know about the intense bombing and shelling of German population centers -- Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, and on and on -- that took place over the course of that same bloody conflict. How many know of Gen. Curtis LeMay's terroristic firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945, producing a death toll rivaling that of Hiroshima and surpassing that of Nagasaki?"
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/nowicki_hate_radio.htm
"'America the Beautiful' first appeared in print in the weekly journal The Congregationalist, on July 4, 1895. The lyrics were written while on an 1893 summer lecture series at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Looking at the view of the Rockies from Pikes Peak, its author, Katharine Lee Bates recalls, 'It was then and there, as I was looking out over the sea-like expanse of fertile country spreading away so far under those ample skies, that the opening lines of the hymn floated into my mind'."
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_bio.asp?exhibitId=194
"At the following Convention in Aguascalientes, called to decide the future of Mexico, the Zapatistas demanded 'tierra y libertad' - land and freedom - for their people. This was the core of Zapata's 'Plan de Ayala', produced in November 1911. "
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/ip/azap.html
"His apparently lazy style and seen-it-all demeanor proved highly attractive to men and women, and by the 1950s he was a true superstar despite a brief prison term for marijuana usage in 1949, which seemed to enhance rather than diminish his 'bad boy' appeal. "
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000053/bio
Science fiction drama stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, James Duval, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Holmes Osborne, Mary McDonnell; written and directed by Richard Kelly. "This film combines a coming of age story with elements usually found in psychological thrillers. It satirizes the 'education system' and other aspects of the establishment, while exploring both science fiction and religious themes."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/donnie_darko_2001.htm
"Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream. … This is the difference between push and pull, between broadcast and personalized taste. Long Tail business can treat consumers as individuals, offering mass customization as an alternative to mass-market fare." It has only just begun.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html
"Saying this movie is about the French Resistance is to shortchange it. Army of Shadows is a cinematic textbook about resistance...period. Its lessons: Resistance against tyranny isn't romantic. It isn't swashbuckling. It isn't glorious. Rather, it's lonely. It's tragic. It's pushing the envelope further and further, taking it as far as you can."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2006/08/movie-review-army-of-shadows.html
"In the wake of London's foiled airline bomb plot, Jon Oliver wonders what liquids will pass the viscosity test." Or from YouTube..
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=72789
"Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone said Monday that his new film World Trade Center unveils 'compelling and controversial' new evidence that a single plane was responsible for all four collisions in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51367
"In order to excite an appropriate degree of revulsion for the idea of eating other people, it is a good idea to start indoctrinating children in antianthropophagism from the earliest age. Start immediately and keep reinforcing the message until you are certain that your child is not cannibalistic. Another reason to start early is to forestall the possibility that your child will eat someone and acquire a taste for human flesh. Once they have partaken of the long pig, it is hard to wean them from it. And there may be nothing more [embarrassing] than confronting the parents of another child whom your child has eaten."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2006/08/free-advice-for-parents-its-never-too.html
"No alarm bells went off in Washington, even though this theory of inevitable liberal democracy was deduced from the writings of a philosopher whose ideas were previously invoked to sanctify both communism and fascism. One eminent historian speculated during World War II on 'whether the struggle of the Russians and the invading Germans in 1943 was ... a conflict between the Left and Right wings of Hegel's school.' Hegel's canonization as the hero of democracy is another example of how the historical record is not permitted to cast doubt on theories of history. ... Nothing has happened in the last century -- or millennium -- to make politicians less dangerous. Those who pursue power remain the predator class."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0605c.asp
"The English expression 'rule of law' corresponds to the German expression Rechtsstaat. In German, the word Recht does not simply correspond to the word 'law' (which is legis in Latin) but also to the word 'right' (which is jus in Latin). If we put the pieces together, we can now understand what Rechtstaat means for Dietze: the rule of the right/just law."
http://www.mises.org/story/2262
"How many people take allergy pills just to make it through work during allergy season? How many drink coffee just to make it through work every day of every season, all throughout the year? When faced with certain obstacles, human beings innovate. When they want it bad enough, they'll find a way to match their will to win."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002231.html
"People tend to become 'independent of reality' in these circumstances, says opinion analyst Steven Kull. The reality in this case is that after a 16-month, $900-million-plus investigation, the U.S. weapons hunters known as the Iraq Survey Group declared that Iraq had dismantled its chemical, biological and nuclear arms programs in 1991 under U.N. oversight. That finding in 2004 reaffirmed the work of U.N. inspectors who in 2002-03 found no trace of banned arsenals in Iraq."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2279553&page=1
Just what it sounds like. What does it sound like? Well, you be the judge.
http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/articles/060807sh_shouts
"If you think in terms of abstractions too simple for Reader's Digest, you might reflect as follows: 'Democracy good. Iraqi people, love'm democracy, so love'm us. Urrrg.” Then you might be real surprised when their gratitude was exiguous after you remorselessly wrecked their cities, killed their army (which consisted of other people's husbands, brothers, and sons: ever think of that?), groped their women when you didn't have time to rape them, and left them without water and electricity. I'm not saying the Iraqis ought to dislike these things, only that pretty reliably they will dislike them. The Afghans too, or either. It's how people are. Ungrateful."
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