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"I'm getting the usual ridicule for taking him seriously from the usual GOP apparatchiks. They're scared, aren't they? The Internet polls show real support for him. Fox News' own internet poll placed him a close second, with 25 percent of the votes from Fox News viewers. We have a real phenomenon here - because someone has to stand up for what conservatism once stood for."
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/05/misreading_ron_.html
"[T]here is another Gene McCarthy out there, a Republican Congressman from Texas who has, in essence, been doing Gene's work for decades ... The man's record as a Congressman is so astonishingly consistent and admirable that his colleagues call him 'Dr. No'. Not only would we see a rapid end to the present wars—and to the fascist policies and legislation they have generated at home—Paul would withdraw the thousands of troops we have in something like 169 other countries all over the world, and institute a strictly non-interventionist foreign policy."
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle417-20070513-02.html
"Arkansas, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Washington, North Dakota, Colorado, and Hawaii have already passed bills to protest or refuse the REAL ID Act, and there is unrest in other states. ... Now Illinois is joining the fray. Without opposition, the Illinois House passed a joint resolution on April 19 urging the state Congressional delegation to repeal REAL ID. The state legislature and Governor Blagojevich should now take the next step and simply refuse to implement the law. The resolution provides ample reasons."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8242
"Although the Web may not have reduced the pundits' power to zero, they are less powerful than they were. More and more Americans are seeing that they can get valuable information from people who actually engage their brain before speaking. Which is why it's so important for Ron Paul to keep running and speaking and for the rest of us to keep watching, voting, talking, writing, and blogging."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=10962
"If they put a sign saying 'Rule of Law' on the front of the howitzer, people might not notice any difference between this and other post 9/11 ornaments in DC."
http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/13/what-would-martial-law-look-like/
"I asked repeatedly what we had done and why we were being ordered to leave the city. 'You're part of a dangerous anarchist group that will only drain our security resources,' he responded. 'We've been monitoring your website and e-mails, we know what kind of agenda you have.' 'So this is about our political beliefs?' I asked. 'No,' he responded. 'This is about you being federal security threats. Kansas Mutual Aid is not welcome in this city, end of story. I know you are going through legitimate means to work in the city, and [your] story seems picture perfect, but we know who you are, and you're not allowed here'."
http://community.livejournal.com/kansascity/899449.html
"Since I don't live there [Joliet, Ill], I'm entirely unqualified to say whether that assessment of local sentiment is correct. I can point out, however, that this is not the first time a US citizen of the Sikh faith has been mistaken for an “Arab” or a Muslim and been the victim of misplaced racial violence."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/05/when-trouble-comes-knocking.html
"The Bush administration is throwing its support behind a proposal called the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007, which is likely to receive the enthusiastic support of the movie and music industries, and would represent the most dramatic rewrite of copyright law since a 2005 measure dealing with prerelease piracy."
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9719339-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
"Liberty requires passion, but it is by invitation only. You cannot point to the Promised Land and expect other people to cross over into it. You have to forge a path through the psychological fire.... When we open our hearts and tell the truth, others are safe to open their hearts and examine what they find and to tell the truth about it. It’s the antithesis of initiating force and its resultant counterforce. Exposing our own passion is the solution--not the intellectual exploration of ideas...."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/fontana/fontana14.html
"If there’s one thing I really hate, it’s being misunderstood. And an excellent post by Brad Spangler about revolutionary strategy and tactics has raised an alarm in my head. Is my habitual use of the word antipolitics, a term that dates as far back in this movement of ours as Karl Hess’s seminal 1968 essay 'The Death of Politics,' being misinterpreted?"
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2007/05/clarifying-term-antipolitics.html
"Have you ever waited until a dandelion has gone to seed and blown on the puffball, watching the seeds float off into the wind to be carried wherever? Of course you have. Kids love it and lawn keepers hate it because it is impossible to recover those seeds once they are on the wind. Ideas are like that. Good ideas like individual liberty or bad ideas like 'the State is master.' Young people are the fertile fields of the future. What kind of crop they produce is determined by what seeds have been planted and nurtured."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/wingate/wingate4.html
"For the apologist of corporate power, blinded by a narrow and irrational ideology, everything happens in isolation. It does not matter if the corporate state drives masses of people into poverty, the tragic results are excused by claiming personal failure on the part of the victims. "
http://porkupineblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/myth-of-idealism.html
"Despite the best efforts of the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) Licensing Administration (AACS LA), content pirates remain one step ahead. A new volume key used by high-def films scheduled for release next week has already been cracked."
"We are in for a good deal of political turmoil in this country, and Ron Paul’s heroic efforts to bring sanity back to Republican thinking about foreign policy isn’t the only manifestation of the winds of change. The U.S. Senate just voted against withdrawing the troops from Iraq, in defiance of the overwhelming majority of Americans at this point, and the strain on our increasingly brittle political system is such that something’s got to snap, and soon. My guess is that the first casualty of the oncoming turmoil will be the two-party system."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10980
"The question whether to seek Supreme Court review is one subject where the city's interests and the Parker plaintiffs' interests converge. For the mayor, it's a no-lose proposition. Either he wins at the Supreme Court or he faces the same music that he'd face without court review. For the plaintiffs, it's always been their ultimate goal to have the high court weigh in, for the first time since 1939, on this threshold Second Amendment dispute: Does the right to keep and bear arms belong to us as individuals, or does the Constitution merely recognize the collective right of states to arm the members of their militias?"
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8245
"The field of GOP candidates with the exception of Ron Paul all manifested their unfitness for the office in their 'debates' each trying to 'outfascist' the others. The Democrats are not as obviously repulsive but, except for Mike Gravel, are an unsatisfying lot. Sadly, the system is rigged so that the relatively happy choice of Paul versus Gravel could never be presented to us."
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2007/05/better-way-to-pick-president.html
"Most of them can be traced to the militarism and imperialism that have led to the near-collapse of our constitutional system of checks and balances. Unfortunately, none of the remedies proposed so far by American politicians or analysts addresses the root causes of the problem."
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=10972
"Now, I know this is a lot for the tender ears of Americans to take, who like to think that their government reflects their own values of faith, freedom, and friendliness. But here is the point that libertarians have been trying to hammer home for many years: the US government is the enemy of the American people and their values. It is not peaceful, it is not friendly, it is not motivated by the Christian faith but rather power and imperial lust."
http://www.mises.org/story/2588
"Recent free-trade agreements with Peru and Colombia insisted on much the same terms. And CAFTA—a free-trade agreement with countries in Central America and the Caribbean—included not just longer copyright and trademark protection but also a dramatic revision in those countries’ patent policies. Why does the U.S. insist on these rules? Quite simply, American drug, software, and media companies are furious about the pirating of their products, and are eager to extend the monopolies that their patents and copyrights confer." [I disagree that "Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary" or the State must perform some sort of balancing, but I still found this an interesting item.]
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2007/05/14/070514ta_talk_surowiecki
"Although the backdrop of the speech was questionable from a domestic public relations point of view, Cheney’s coercion of Iran is worse from a policy perspective. Although Cheney’s address is part of a 'good cop-bad cop' routine that also leaves the door open for U.S. negotiations with Iran over developments in Iraq, U.S. coercion against Iran has a track record of failure. The invasion of Iraq and other U.S. threats have caused the jittery Iranians to redouble their efforts to obtain nuclear weapons, as well as support Iran-friendly groups in Iraq."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1967
"First of all, Dr. Paul did not 'blame America.' What he said was that the United States government – which is not 'America' and is certainly not the innocent American citizens who were murdered that day – had enacted a foreign policy that was a 'contributing factor' in the attacks as it created what the CIA calls 'blowback' against those innocent American citizens. Even then, there is a big difference between provocation and 'inviting' the attacks as Fox News questioner Wendell Goler put it and Giuliani disingenuously repeated in his demand that Paul retract the plain truth that he had spoken."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=10988
"What does Rudy Giuliani think the political motive was for 9/11? Was it because we are good and they are evil? Is it because they hate our freedom? Is it that simple? Ron Paul says Osama bin Laden is delighted we invaded Iraq. Does the man not have a point? The United States is now tied down in a bloody guerrilla war in the Middle East and increasingly hated in Arab and Islamic countries where we were once hugely admired as the first and greatest of the anti-colonial nations. Does anyone think that Osama is unhappy with what is happening to us in Iraq?"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan58.html
"Giuliani’s snort is the best answer the Republican establishment can offer for the hard facts that Paul presents. But such snorts will not be enough to perpetuate Republican control over the American people. "
http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/05/16/ron-pauls-radical-mix-truth-politics/
"Several media figures mischaracterized a response that Rep. Ron Paul gave at the Republican debate, with some asserting that Paul had 'blamed' the United States for the 9-11 terrorist attacks and others simply accepting Rudy Giuliani's misrepresentation of Paul's statement -- that the United States had 'invited the attack.' In fact, Paul did not blame the United States for the 9-11 attacks or say that the United States had 'invited' them. "
http://mediamatters.org/items/200705160009?f=h_latest
"One study found that users of pirated software sufficiently influenced — by word-of-mouth communication — eighty percent of the software's prospects to buy the legal product and another described several scenarios in which piracy can help increase the sales of legal products. The pirated product functions as a free sample that the innovator does not have to fund."
http://www.mises.org/story/2590
"The shift from fossil fuels to solar energy will take place, he argues, not because solar energy is better for the environment or energy security, or because of future government subsidies or as yet undeveloped technology. Instead, he says, the 'solar revolution' is already occurring through individual decisions made by self-interested energy users."
http://www.american.com/archive/2007/may-0507/solar-power2019s-time-to-shine
"If the credit card companies could pass fraud losses on to the consumers, they would be spending far less money to stop those losses. But once Congress forced them to suffer the costs of fraud, they invented all sorts of security measures--real-time transaction verification, expert systems patrolling the transaction database and so on--to prevent fraud. The lesson is clear: Make the party in the best position to mitigate the risk responsible for the risk. What this will do is enable the capitalist innovation engine. Once it's in the financial interest of financial institutions to protect us from identity theft, they will."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/05/does_secrecy_he.html
"Perhaps elected officials may wish to consider the merit of the property rights approach to the so-called problem of carbon emissions causing global warming. Mars is showing signs of global warming despite an absence of human industrial activity. The most effective way to encourage the growth of carbon free technologies is to totally deregulate the use of such technology. There is the chance that the growth of such technology could flourish under a regime that is free from all economic regulation and that upholds property rights."
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/07/070513-3.htm
"U.S. government requirements for increased ethanol use have already caused an increased demand, and thus higher prices, for corn, and the trend will only worsen as more government strictures interfere with the market. These higher prices have devastating effects on people living on the margins. In Mexico the cost of corn tortillas has more than doubled in the past year. Between August and December 2006, anticipation of increased demand for corn drove prices from $2.09 to $3.01 per bushel, making it more difficult for the impoverished to afford the basic foodstuff on which they rely."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1308&year=2007&month=5
"If only the public knew about the anti-inflammatory properties of cherries, thousands of Americans would have not met their early and avoidable demise. The FDA has blood on its hands regarding this issue. It should have elected for cherry stains instead. The FDA doesn’t disagree with the scientific information about cherries, but it does say that cherries have not been recognized as safe and effective when used as labeled. Do we need a double-blind placebo-controlled study to prove cherries promote health?"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi72.html
"All three papers are authored by free-market think tank scholars; this says nothing about their rightness or wrongness, but the papers do give us a glimpse of what the Copyright Alliance is likely to think. The group appears ready to address copyright concerns from a rights-holder, free-market perspective that (rather ironically) will appeal to the government for stronger regulations and an increase in protections for a government-granted monopoly."
"Ms. Foreman can posture as if she's smarter than the rest of us who take vitamins — all 170 million of us — but it's more likely that she's become part of the dreaded group of 'elite journalists' who foster this inside-the-beltway mentality. ... Some day, she might actually do her job and really research — on her own — the thousands of studies online which lay the scientific foundation for the safe use of vitamins. Now THERE'S a concept — a journalist who actually does her own research — and does not rely on the handouts of the public relations wings of entrenched medical interests."
http://kevinpmiller.blogspot.com/2007/05/more-news-from-dark-side-of-journalism_16.html
"Our forefathers warned against the dangers of big standing military establishments, pointing out that historically rulers could never resist the temptation to employ them against others, which inevitably fomented new enemies and crises, which then would be used to suspend rights and freedoms at home, the suspensions being enforced by the military."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0701a.asp
"[L]iberal states such as Britain and the United States are likely to succeed in imperialist competition, while clunky feudal-mercantilist or dirigiste states are not. This is the key to the much-mooted 'democratic peace' imposture. Liberal democratic states get more revenue and win most of their wars. This tells us nothing about the merits of those wars, and little enough about reasons for those states’ foreign policies. (Hint: doing good may not top the list.)"
http://lilarajiva.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/ideas-against-empire/
"The Bushists employed the American-trained and -funded military of the repressive Ethiopian dictatorship plus an alliance of Somali warlords and gangsters as a proxy force to overthrow the first stable government in Somalia in the past 15 years -- the Islamic Courts Council. Bush also contributed U.S. airstrikes -- on civilians -- and U.S. Special Forces troops to the aggression."
"More than three thousand American families have been forced to carry out that ritual in which the shattered body of what was once a young and capable human being is exchanged for an artfully folded piece of colored cloth, presented with the 'Thanks of a grateful nation.' This is done as if that benediction from a cold abstraction called the State can somehow palliate the loss of a son or daughter, a mother or a father."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/05/stolen-sons.html
"[W]hen a new governor, Thomas Dale, arrived a year after the starving time, he was shocked to find the settlers bowling in the streets instead of working. Dale's most important reform was to institute private property. He allotted every man three acres of land and freed them to work for themselves. And then, the Virginia historian Matthew Page Andrews wrote, 'As soon as the settlers were thrown upon their own resources, and each freeman had acquired the right of owning property, the colonists quickly developed what became the distinguishing characteristic of Americans – an aptitude for all kinds of craftsmanship coupled with an innate genius for experimentation and invention'."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8236
"Exactly 60 years ago, freedom of speech and thought were [imperiled] in an America so caught up in fear and insecurity that it serves as a warning to George Bush and Gordon Brown. It happened in Hollywood. Only this was no screenwriter's fantasy. There were all the ingredients of a horror movie. People innocent of any crime were arraigned before a group of men who had set themselves up as judges and jury in hearings that put the very constitution of the US on trial. And found that guilty, too."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2082441,00.html
"[S]uppose Venezuela imposed sanctions and no-fly zones on the Southeastern part of the United States and then sent in Venezuelan troops to wage the war on terrorism in Florida. After all, don’t forget that the U.S. government’s refusal to turn over accused terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to the Venezuelan government for trial is no different in principle from the Taliban’s refusal to turn Osama bin Laden over to the United States after the 9/11 attacks."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0705f.asp
"It is nearly impossible for informed young people today to grasp how the sexually repressed "Greatest Generation" saw the world we were rebelling against. There was no Jerry Springer Show, no internet porn to inform and titillate their little worlds of lights-out missionary sex and long post-war retreat into the ignorant traditional values of the prewar era."
http://www.counterpunch.org/bageant05162007.html
"Giuliani led the crowd of contenders on attacking Texas Congressman Ron Paul after the anti-war Republican restated facts that are outlined in the report of the The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Asked about his opposition to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, Paul repeated his oft-expressed concern that instead of making the U.S. safer, U.S. interventions in the Middle East over the years have stirred up anti-American sentiment. "
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=195576
"The mighty wind you hear coming from Washington today is the huge sigh of relief from Democratic leaders, glad that they can now drop all the political posturing about ending the war in Iraq and get back on board with the imperial program. … In any case, it was well-known that the bill was dead on arrival and had no chance of passing; that's precisely why the Democratic leaders put it up for consideration. It was a PR exercise to give political cover to those Democrats whose ambitions have forced them to at least nod toward the 'consent of the governed,' as clearly expressed in the anti-war vote last year. "
"On the surface, Kurdistan might appear to be a safe haven for beleaguered U.S. troops in Iraq. Compared to the rest of the country, the region is relatively peaceful and well governed at the moment. But appearances can be deceiving."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8239
"More than three months into the implementation of U.S. President George W. Bush's 'surge' strategy, skepticism over the likelihood of its success is still running high here. Except among neoconservatives, who have been the strategy's most enthusiastic champions, most analysts believe it is doomed to failure in the absence of major moves – of which there have so far been virtually none – by the Shi'ite-led government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to promote national reconciliation with the Sunni minority."
http://antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=10985
"By 'liberty', Bakunin did not mean an abstract ideal but a concrete reality based on the equal liberty of others. In a positive sense, liberty consists of 'the fullest development of all the faculties and powers of every human being, by education, by scientific training, and by material prosperity.' Such a conception of liberty is 'eminently social, because it can only be realized in society,' not in isolation. In a negative sense, liberty is 'the revolt of the individual against all divine, collective, and individual authority'."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin
"Walk into any record store looking for a Big Joe Turner album and you just might find it anywhere. Joe has been called the 'Boss of the Blues' and the 'World's Greatest Blues Shouter,' but he is also considered a major part of early Rock 'n' Roll. He is a respected name in the world of Jazz, too."
http://www.cascadeblues.org/History/BigJoeTurner.htm
From the bio page: "He scripted and directed The Brothers Karamazov (1958) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and two years later won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay for Elmer Gantry (1960). He had six Oscar nominations and 25 other nominations during his film career."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112218/bio
"Don Martin joined Harvey Kurtzman's Mad magazine in 1955 and stayed with the magazine for nearly the rest of his life. He became one of the most important satirical comic makers of the United States...."
http://lambiek.net/artists/m/martin_don.htm
Antiwar / antistate dramatic action / adventure stars Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto, Eamonn Walker, Ian Holm, Ethan Hawke; screenplay written and directed by Andrew Niccol. “Often [Andrew] Niccol's films explore the unconquerable best in humanity. Don’t watch this movie expecting to see those themes presented as they were explored in his previous films. Although not every character in this film exclusively devotes themselves to pursuits usually associated with ‘the dark side,’ the majority of this movie’s focus shows some of the least appealing aspects of today’s world.” [However, to gain deep insight, one occasionally must experience unpleasant facts. I give this movie my highest recommendation.]
http://endervidualism.com/agora/lord_of_war_2005.htm
"Memorial Day is one holiday on which I often hold an 'Anti-War Film Festival,' inviting a few friends – who, being friends of mine, have no need to be reminded of the evils of warfare – to watch what I consider the best of the films that bring war into disrepute. Instead of going out to a cemetery to join an 'honor guard' gang to play taps and fire their rifles to celebrate the deaths of victims of warfare, I suggest such an anti-war film festival for your own consideration."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer155.html
"I stared out at the milling raiders and their media followers. I regarded the gathering crowd at the barricade. My gaze trailed up the long, empty driveway winding behind the hill -- where surely our communal neighbors, and our old friend Dora, knew by now what deep trouble they were in. I wondered what they were doing up there, what they were saying to each other, whether they were considering surrender in the face of grim odds."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe070514.html
"I reckon it was nine in the morning and my girlfriend Jiffy Lube ran out to hide from the sheriff again. The day was slow and lazy as a coon dog on a porch. I figured I’d go down the holler and see Uncle Hant and get drunk. I mean, it was Saturday. I walked down the old rail cut, mostly weeds since the mines closed in West Virginia. There was bugs flying around and making a racket and clouds way up in the sky, just hanging there. It was the kind of day when you don’t want to do nothing. ‘Course, that’s how I look at most days."
http://fredoneverything.net/HantRadium.shtml
Nine questions posed by the author, which though extremely amusing still seem warranted given their targets.
http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2007/05/some-questions-for-gop-candidates-in.html
"Under the headline 'Scientists Offer Frightening Forecast' AOL News celebrated Politically Correct Earth Day this year by posting a cataclysmic horror story on how and when the Human Homeland will go to people-perpetuated Perdition in an artificially manufactured petroleum-based plastic hand basket."
http://www.freecannon.com/EarthDayAndTiffy.htm
"In the latest in a long series of ominous public pronouncements, the Department of Evil released a statement Monday demanding that all residents of the United States must die. 'Yes, all must die,' Dread Secretary of Evil Hammond S. Reynolds said during a press conference in Room 1228 of Washington's Robert C. Weaver Federal Building."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/61596
"[I]t’s been a long time since I’ve drawn a political ‘toon and I don’t think I’ve ever drawn one involving Ron, so here goes, in honor of Ron’s Great Shout Into The Void, my contribution to the circus."
http://www.bigheadpress.com/TheTimeSink/?p=109
"In 21st century America, consensus and computer models masquerade as science. They supplant experimental data. As Corcoran (2006) puts it, 'Science has been stripped of its basis in experiment, knowledge, reason and the scientific method and made subject to the consensus created by politics and bureaucrats.' Reduced to a belief system, a majority of scientists and groups like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can declare, without having to provide scientific evidence, that they believe humans cause global warming. "
http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller23.html
"Thus everyone, by virtue of his or her reason, is entitled to 'dialogical rights,' that is, the right be left free to one's peaceful pursuits. 'There is, then,' Van Dun writes, 'a glaring inconsistency in the views of those who defend "free speech" and "the free market of ideas" but attack freedom of action and the free market in goods and services'."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1311
"Calling the habits that supposedly lead to these consequences 'public health' problems, 'epidemics' that need to be controlled, equates choices with diseases, disguises moralizing as science, and casts meddling as medicine. It elevates a collectivist calculus of social welfare above the interests of individuals, who become subject to increasingly intrusive interventions aimed at making them as healthy as they can be, without regard to their own preferences."
http://reason.com/news/show/119236.html
"People tend to base risk analysis more on personal story than on data, despite the old joke that 'the plural of anecdote is not data.' If a friend gets mugged in a foreign country, that story is more likely to affect how safe you feel traveling to that country than abstract crime statistics. We give storytellers we have a relationship with more credibility than strangers, and stories that are close to us more weight than stories from foreign lands. In other words, proximity of relationship affects our risk assessment. And who is everyone's major storyteller these days? Television."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/05/rare_risk_and_o.html
"Looks like Ron Paul has raised his profile considerably. As before, here – pending the official transcript – are my summaries of Paul’s answers in tonight’s GOP debate. Once again, these are paraphrases, not direct quotes:"
http://praxeology.net/blog/2007/05/15/ron-paul-in-the-debate-part-2/
"Let's take water as an example. We now know that too much water can kill athletes or those in military training when consumed at an amount greater than 1.25 gallons over a two hour period. Under the new wording in S1082, if the FDA, IN ITS OPINION, decided that the benefits of water were not adequate to warrant this risk, it could remove water from the market (even a sip of water). This is based on drug-related risk/benefit analysis. While it is unlikely FDA would ever try to remove water from the market, this same ludicrous logic can be applied to any dietary supplement ingredient -- thus gutting the law known as DSHEA that gives Americans access to natural health options."
[A long article, but if dietary supplements interest you then this item should also.]
Part One:
http://www.newstarget.com/021851.html
Part Two:
http://www.newstarget.com/021852.html
"What is rarely asked is why home ownership ever became the American Dream. The dream was never so much to own a home for the sake of it. Rather, the real dream has always been to protect wealth from the evils of inflation, and the middle-class housing market generally served that purpose."
http://www.mises.org/story/2555
"Rather than scare companies away from using or distributing open source, the general consensus is that the company's threats of litigation -- outlined in statements Microsoft executives including CEO Steve Ballmer made to Fortune magazine this week -- prove it's the software giant who is afraid of the competitive threat Linux and open-source software pose to its business long term. ... Lindsay, Zemlin and others also said they believe Microsoft is exploiting the patent system in the U.S. to buy time as it tries to compete in an industry where it is no longer a thought leader."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/14/open-source-microsoft_1.html?source=NLC-OS&cgd=2007-05-16
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