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"Anarchists are truly patriotic. Freedom from tyranny is the very cornerstone of America , and the deepest desire of an anarchist is simply to be free. They also believe that you should be as free as you want to be. "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/fontana/fontana6.html
"According to the Pentagon, there are at least 8,000 soldiers who have quietly gone AWOL. Hundreds more have gone to Canada. The Appeal for Redress has received over 1,600 active-duty signatures."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/solson.php?articleid=10596
"Something remarkable is going on in a Miami courtroom. The cruel methods US interrogators have used since September 11 to "break" prisoners are finally being put on trial."
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070312/klein
"About 300 people turned out Saturday for a conference of the libertarian Free State Project, drawn to hear speakers like ABC 20/20 anchor John Stossel and New Hampshire Union Leader publisher Joseph McQuaid."
"No infringement on economic liberty — hyperinflation, confiscatory taxation, oppressive regulation, or the like — can compare in significance with the omnipotent power of a government official to arbitrarily pick up anyone he wants for any reason he wants and incarcerate him, torture him, and execute him."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0702k.asp
"I gather that Americans tend to regard their national character as comprising such things as freedom, independence, individualism, and self-reliance. One thinks of Daniel Boone or Marlboro Man. In fact we no longer have these qualities and probably never will again. Generally we now embody their opposites. Modern society has become a hive of largely conformist, closely regulated and generally helpless employees who depend on others for nearly everything."
http://www.fredoneverything.net/National%20Character.shtml
"The problem, of course, is not that there's a small number of perverts scattered through the DHS's personnel pool like a handful of raisins in several gallons of rice pudding. The deeper cause for concern is the culture of impunity that characterizes that elephantine bureaucracy – a sense that those who work therein are made of holier, more refined stuff than the hoi polloi."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/02/perverts-with-power-revisited.html
"[H]e had controlled and managed several marijuana-growing sites in Emeryville and Oakland where plants were grown and turned into edible products such as 'Munchy Way' candy bars, designed to look like Mars Inc.'s Milky Way bars; 'Pot Tarts,' designed to look like Kellogg's Pop Tarts; and 'Trippy' peanut butter, designed to look like Unilever's Skippy product." [Feel safer now?]
http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_5349182
"I never wanted to become an anarchist, even a free market anarchist. I wanted to remain a constitutional republican in the tradition of the French Physiocrats, the British Classical Liberals, and the American Founding Fathers. I became an advocate of market anarchism reluctantly, after concluding that the limited government 'minarchist' paradigm simply does not work as advertised. ... The harsh reality is that the Doctrine of the Separation of Powers, within the context of a monopolistic state, is a contradiction in terms."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/chu/chu16.html
"We know that the Islamic nations are also not free, and this is because they are organized as nation-states instead of voluntary societies. Just as Samuel recorded of Israel in the Tanakh, Islamic nations have the curse of a centralized state that deprives the people of justice and property. The Islamic Courts of Somalia present an alternative possibility of freedom that we hope you notice, and can be emulated by all after the collapse of the Empire. "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/hobbs/hobbs2.html
"The part where the devil claims that all earthly government is in his gift really stood out for me. Note that Jesus does not dispute this claim, but declines to worship the devil. How are we to interpret this?"
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2007/02/where-political-power-comes-from.html
"To wage war, the division of labor must be further extended. Another profession comes into being: the very numerous profession of the armed forces — the 'guardians.' Yet the presence of these people immediately raises a logical puzzle. Who guards the guardians?"
http://www.mises.org/story/2490
"In late March, the company will launch The Onion News Network, a service that will stream original clips every week produced by a team of 15 new hires, including an entire production team. (That pushes the Onion empire to roughly 145 staffers.)"
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,72829-0.html?tw=wn_index_20
"Controlled demolition is, according to the popular definition of Occam's Razor, the best explanation of how the Twin Towers and especially Building 7 fell. It is the simplest scientific explanation, at least from a layman's perspective. However, it relies on numerous sociological assumptions, namely, how can so many people be involved in a conspiracy?"
http://independentcountry.blogspot.com/2007/03/occams-sociological-razor.html
"This thin strip of graphene constrains the quantum energy levels available to flowing electrons, preventing them from hopping around so easily. An electric field is used to control this flow, tweaking the energy levels to switch the current on and off."
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11276?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn11276
"A spokesman for the Swiss army confirmed the story but said that there were unlikely to be any serious repercussions for the mistaken invasion." [What if all states operated similarly?]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/02/AR2007030200334.html
"When we provide the papers that identify our slaves' origins and permit them to travel unaccompanied from city to city, we do so knowing that the slaves themselves find security and solace in such cautious procedures. To seek anonymity from us is to admit criminal intent, a charge they tremble at contemplating. Obedience garners rewards. Defiance of our edicts invites punishment so dire and severe that both the guilty and the guileless must shrink from the very possibility of incurring our wrath. "
http://www.russellmadden.com/Defense_of_Slavery.html
"President Bush has decided that the U.S. government is now going to talk to Syria. The reason the president has steadfastly refused to talk to Syria before now is that Syria, he has repeatedly emphasized, is a state sponsor of terrorism. There is one part of all this, however, that is quite befuddling: The U.S. government has already been talking to Syria, at least if the CIA is still considered part of the U.S. government. If you don’t believe me, just ask Maher Arar."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0703a.asp
"To Bush, the fact that Saudi Arabia is a kleptocratic authoritarian oligarchy dominated by a single family whose power rests on a 'base' of religious fanatics and oil money is not a bad thing; it's just a 'different' kind of democracy. "
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1050&Itemid=135
"George W. Bush's accomplishments in this realm may elevate him.... [I]t's because his boundless sense of personal privilege is a perfect fit for the ideologues who surround him – war-obsessed social engineers who understand the evil symbiosis between perpetual war abroad and a dictatorial presidency on the domestic front."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/02/will-saudi-arabia-bail-out-bush-again.html
"Years of living beyond our means, combined with our imperial delusions and the prospect of a war that would send oil prices skyrocketing, triggering a global economic meltdown – that is what has sent the markets spinning, and threatens to destroy our economic system."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10610
"The British, the administration’s most loyal ally, want out of Iraq — and this is spun as a good sign. (Is this administration delusional or does it just think we’re morons?) In Afghanistan the war goes badly for the United States and NATO while the Taliban reconstitutes itself. Nevertheless, the administration appears to be moving closer to war with Iran."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0702j.asp
"It is becoming increasingly difficult to find terms that would sufficiently plumb the depth and extent of the moral putrefaction that oozes out of the White House on a daily basis. Metaphors drawn from waste management, the barnyard or the most unsavoury of bodily processes fail to do justice to the moral nullity and active malice that animates every policy of this rancid, wretched crew. "
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1052&Itemid=135
"I’ve decided to do some early presidential prognosticatin’ in the wake of Tom Vilsack’s withdrawal from the race. I reckon it was a good idea to call it quits since his election would have been unprecedented. The American people have never elected anyone president with 'sack' in his name."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2007/02/presidential-prognosticating.html
"Some daytime employers would allow flexible hours, some would mandate schedule changes, and others would forbid it. And as for emergency services personnel, and those who work evening and night shifts . . . they rarely, if ever, would seasonally tamper with their work hours. In fact, most of them probably already dislike DST , anyway, along with farmers. "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/goodson/goodson1.html
"That universality—the ability for disparate hardware, software, and languages to coexist in the same medium—has been one of the drivers of the web's massive growth in the last decade, along with the availability of open and royalty-free standards that make such universality possible."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070301-8955.html
"The youngest was named Friedrich, the middle pig was Ludwig, and Carl was the oldest. One day, they decided to come to the New World to make their fortunes. They were sad to leave their mother, but she was proud of them for striking out on their own and for promising to take care of each other. "
http://bkmarcus.com/blog/2007/03/3-pigs
"[T]ax credits can also apply to individual income taxes, so that parents can get help paying for education expenses such as tuition or textbooks for their own children. You can even apply an education tax credit to property and sales taxes. All of these education tax credit programs allow businesses and individuals to spend more of their own money on good schools that cost less."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8019
"In other words, the state is the preferred educator because only the state embodies the democratic spirit. By definition, no private school, no matter how academically superior, could ever be satisfactory. In this view, while private schools and homeschooling may have to be tolerated (barely), they surely must not be encouraged or allowed [to] compete with the state schools for tax money."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1144&year=2007&month=3
"I am tired of all the self-styled 'visionaries' who dream of neighborhoods, communities, or worlds, the costs of which they want to impose upon those with a different set of preferences for their lives. Such people ... are engaged in the practice of 'socializing costs.' The principles upon which they act are no different from those who pollute the air, waterways, or lands of others with their industrial wastes; nor is their conduct distinguishable from the teenagers who might drive by this same parcel of land and toss their empty soda cans onto it."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer151.html
"The president told the nation in his State of the Union address that America's reliance on foreign oil is a bad thing. But why? The case for importing oil is the same as the case for importing, say, computer chips. If it's cheaper to buy something from abroad than to produce it here at home, then the economy in general — and consumers in particular — are made wealthier by imports. Governmental interventions to discourage energy imports are, by definition, government interventions to discourage the use of cheap energy."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8016
"Before we get carried away scolding Democrats for all their scolding, let's recall that Republicans are leading the crusade to stop you from using the Internet to play poker or bet on football games. It's a Republican administration that has revived the effort to prevent adults from looking at dirty pictures in the privacy of their homes. And while the war on drugs is a bipartisan project, Republicans are noticeably more enthusiastic about imposing draconian prison sentences on drug offenders."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/118892.html
"This extraordinary aggressiveness toward the US Constitution, international law, and the Islamic world is the work, not of a vast movement, but of a handful of ideologues--principally Vice President Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Lewis Libby, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Zalmay Khalilzad, John Bolton, Philip Zelikow, and Attorney General Gonzales. These are the main operatives who have controlled policy."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03012007.html
"[T]he Bush-backing oil barons will now have an official stranglehold on the oil of the Iraqi people. No wonder the Administration has been so adamant that 'a new oil law is crucial to the country’s political and economic development,' as the warm and fuzzy Times tells us."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1049&Itemid=135
"In summary, it says that the policy for the new millennium was to dominate that oil-rich region for the benefit of the United States and her friends, and that having neutralized Afghanistan, the next--but by no means the last--target was to be Iraq; partly because public opinion could most easily be swung around against the odious dictator then in charge, and partly because its central location gave many options for the intended subsequent strikes. "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/davies/davies5.html
"Whether or not the Regime gets its war with Iran, its ongoing war in Iraq and covert actions throughout the region have materially aided both the radical Shi'ites aligned with Tehran – who are running the government in Baghdad – and the radical Sunnis who are aligned with al-Qaeda."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/02/enemy-at-their-backs.html
"The American version of kingly justice does not involve beheadings with dinners delayed until severed heads are paraded around the room. But the reality is not much better to brag about. People have been condemned to indefinite confinement — brutally interrogated — sometimes killed — all on the scantiest of evidence."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0612c.asp
"Although we might begin the U.S. empire with the seizure from Spain of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam during the Spanish-American War of 1898, we need to go back a few years earlier to U.S. intervention in Hawaii. Many Americans know that Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959; few Americans know what led up to the annexing of the island chain in 1898."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance104.html
"The world in which they are blundering around killing people is far more unstable and dangerous than before, because it is filled with the compounded evil and folly of previous times. For instance, there are more nuclear powers now, as nations seek to emulate the strength, prestige and dominance of the only nation that has ever committed mass murder with nuclear weapons (or to defend themselves against that nation)."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1048&Itemid=135
"The findings [support] the idea that milk drinkers became widespread in Europe only after dairy farming had become established there—not the other way around."
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070226-europe-milk.html
"After four years of Iraq, we still can't talk about peace in public! This evil bullshit has been buried in the commercial media's descriptive campaign language seemingly forever by now, but it may be time -- in the wake of this Iraq disaster -- to start thinking about where it comes from and what effect it may have on the national psyche. ... A country that feeds itself through the manufacture of war technology is bound to view peace, nonviolence and mercy as seditious concepts."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13643098/
"Some may object that a military so carefully structured not to think is hard to imagine in the real world. That is true, since its fate would be so sure. What kind of government would be so corrupt, so unconcerned about the security of the state it leads and the vast sums it would be wasting as to tolerate such a military?"
http://www.counterpunch.org/lind02282007.html
"While media attention has been focused on the U.S. quagmire in Iraq, an equally failed war in Afghanistan has received little coverage. As in countless militaristic U.S. nation–building fiascos, 'mission creep' in Afghanistan is leading to another foreign policy disaster."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1931
"Forget al-Qaeda: nobody is even trying to capture bin Laden, and no wonder. He's our ally now. That's what Michael Scheuer has always said, but now I see it's official. Bin Laden was yesterday's villain: today's hate figure is President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10580
"The masterworks Primavera (c. 1478) and The Birth of Venus (c. 1485) were both painted for the villa of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici at Castello. In these works the influence of Gothic realism is tempered by Botticelli's study of the antique. ... The complex meanings of these paintings continue to receive scholarly attention, mainly focusing on the poetry and philosophy of humanists who were the artist's contemporaries."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli
"In 1873 Cantor proved the rational numbers countable, i.e. they may be placed in one-one correspondence with the natural numbers. He also showed that the algebraic numbers, i.e. the numbers which are roots of polynomial equations with integer coefficients, were countable. However his attempts to decide whether the real numbers were countable proved harder. He had proved that the real numbers were not countable by December 1873 and published this in a paper in 1874. It is in this paper that the idea of a one-one correspondence appears for the first time, but it is only implicit in this work."
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Cantor.html
"Anthony Burgess is the pen name of the polymath who was born John Burgess Wilson in Manchester, England on 25 February, 1917 to a Catholic family of Irish and Scottish ancestry. … by the end of 1962 he had published seven novels, including The Doctor is Sick, The Worm and the Ring, and A Clockwork Orange...."
http://www.anthonyburgess.org/html/brief.htm
"Karen Carpenter touched many lives with her haunting vocals as part of the duo the Carpenters. This site will give you a brief, yet insightful look into the life and death of a superstar."
Dystopian dramatic action / adventure stars Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, John Hurt, Stephen Fry; based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore, illustrated by David Lloyd, screenplay by The Wachowski Brothers and directed by James McTeigue. “This film ... goes as far as any movie I recall in its anti-establishment themes. ... I believe this film may be the best movie released in 2006. I cannot think of a movie in recent memory more thorough-going in its presentation of anti-state ideas.”
http://endervidualism.com/agora/v4vendetta_2006.htm
"Get over it, Mom. The school nurse has no problem with it. The clinic has no problem with it. The government has no problem with it. I have no problem with it. What's your problem?"
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe070226.html
"This week ... odds and ends ..." [Great stuff. I remember 'The Touchables' - it was a favorite of mine very long, long ago. This site says 1961. That sounds right.]
http://unclewarrensattic.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=187736
"War is peace, freedom is slavery — do only radical libertarians understand that we’re already living in the Orwellian dystopia? "
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2007/02/big-brother-is-uh-listening.html
From Garry's e-mail notice: "According to an article I recently read, since the 1960s just as many people have died from allergic reactions to peanuts, accidents involving deer, and being struck by lightening as have died from terrorist attacks. So why isn't there a War on Goobers or a War on Lightening Bolts or a War on Bambi? Could it be a matter of perception? Or could it be that our Eminent Public Officeholders are utterly failing to protect us from these evils? To find out, I've called upon my crack team of Channel 7 BlabberCast News At Nine Special Correspondants to report on the progress of this nation's War on Peanuts."
http://www.freecannon.com/WarOnPeanuts.htm
"At the close of trading Monday, the U.S. dollar dipped to a record low of $.60 against the counterfeit U.S. dollar, which also outpaced the dollar against the euro and the yen."
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/u_s_dollar_drops_against
"The bad news is that the universe is going to expand to a point where matter and energy are so thinly spread that everything fizzles out in the 'heat death', or the expansion will reverse with the universe falling back into an information destroying singularity. The good news is that this is more than 10 billion years away, so we still have time to plan."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2007/02/bad-news-and-good-news.html
"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters at the Pentagon today that the conflict in Iraq had improved to the point that it could no longer be considered a quagmire and should now be thought of as a morass."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6706
"Truth is the great reconciler of facts that at first glance can seem contradictory: the astute seeker sees that while it's wise to build his house upon solid rock, it's probably unwise to chain himself or tether his dreams to a rock because he's built a house there."
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/07/02/26/catfarmer.htm
"It is what you bring to education which makes the learning process so dynamic and constructive. The most useful knowledge can’t be tested, but applied. A good musician doesn’t just play a piano according to notes, dynamic marks, and key signatures written on a page. A good musician is tough. He is rigorous in learning how to interpret music, something no one can teach or test. He cannot be produced by entering a classroom, but by learning how to learn music through trial and error."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/mike/mike4.html
"Whether it is a good thing or not that most Americans don't care about politics, I will not say. On the one hand, I would like to see people protesting in the streets against war and taxes and regulations and inflation. On the other hand, it says something good about the American people that they insist on acting as if we lived in a free country in which we really shouldn't have to bother with politics."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/misesian-movement.html
"When Lord Acton said that 'power tends to corrupt, and absolutely power corrupts absolutely,' I doubt that he meant that only our ethics are corrupted by power. The statement is truer still if we recognize that power corrupts not just our ethics, but our reason, our sense of empathy, our sense of reality."
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2111
"It’s the DJIA that has been hitting new highs since 2006 -- to cheerleading and pom-poms from the press. But a lesser-known index, the Standard & Poor 500 (S&P500) shows what’s going on much better."
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar07/Rajiva01.htm
"What’s so ironic is that citizens’ ignorance of the law is NOT an excuse for breaking it, yet enforcers’ ignorance of the law is the very thing that keeps many of us from routinely being caught breaking it! Right now, only two things give us a safety net against an unwitting career in crime -- or a bankruptcy at the hands of petty fines: 1. The fact that the mere mortals that enforce laws can’t keep track of the hundreds of thousands of them that govern us. 2. The eyes of authority aren’t on us frequently enough to catch us breaking the million or so laws we don’t know about."
http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/Archives/2007/20070227.html
"An Australian artist created an 'advertising campaign' for a fictional drug called Havidol to fight the non-existent social disorder, and the response has been more than surprising."
http://www.newstarget.com/021660.html
"When fast forwarding through the commercials tonight while watching The Daily Show (one of the very few items I TiVo), I noticed one of those Apple commercials with John Hodgman as the PC and Justin Long as the Mac."
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