09/24 -- Spinning Benghazi; Economy tanks, Mideast aflame, Romney doomed
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Thomas L. Knapp
Sep 24, 2012, 1:07:02 AM9/24/12
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Rebel leadership announces move from Turkey to Syria
2) Voting laws may disenfranchise 10 million Hispanic US citizens
3) Iraq: Ten killed, 11 wounded
4) Afghanistan: Occupation airstrikes kill seven
5) Pakistan: Bounty placed on anti-Islam filmmaker
6) WI: Woman scares off burglar
7) UT: Gunman dies from gunshot wounds
8) US soldier who refused to go back to Iraq arrested on return from
Canada
9) Ivory Coast reopens air space with Ghana
10) Iran threatens to hit US bases if attacked
11) Vietnam tries three bloggers for "anti-government propaganda"
12) NY zoo attack: Man lives, big cat forgiven
13) Libya: Regime orders disbanding of "illegitimate" militias
14) Portugal backs down on social security tax rise
15) Iran denies hacking US banks
16) Honduras: Private city will have minimal taxes, government
17) Nigeria: Suicide car bomber kills two, injures 45 at Sunday Mass
18) Cuba launches first nanopharmaceutical
19) TX: Houston cop murders man in wheelchair
20) AZ: State wants undocumented immigrants to be undocumented,
uninsured drivers, too
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Spinning Benghazi
22) Economy tanks, Mideast aflame, Romney doomed
23) Interventionism serves no national interest
24) Frankness about wealth redistribution
25) Why support the troops?
26) Why does the government so desperately want indefinite detention
for terror suspects?
27) The Constitution or liberty
28) Junk science is worse for your health than egg yolks
29) QE3: Sowing the wind
30) Washington's 1796 farewell address: Did he waste his breath?
31) Founding Fathers - Carter Braxton
32) Hidden causes of the rise of green on blue violence
33) Election 2012: Neither candidate has anything to fear from the
real "entitlement class"
34) Changes needed to ensure justice
35) Biting the hand that feeds them
36) FAQ #73: Will China crash and burn in an apocalyptical fashion?
37) A Webb of lies
38) Physics, economics, and hurricane arguments
39) Boycott the vote
40) Oklahoma challenges health care tax in federally-run insurance
exchanges
41) "Sovereign citizens" and government's monopoly on crime
42) A free market in health care
43) Three ways of reacting to the obvious
44) Save the death penalty
45) Will someone please develop an app to protect us from
protectionists?
46) Drug dealers protecting their turf
47) Romney tax returns: Days late, $$ short, still incomplete
48) How Obama came to be the biggest defender of indefinite detention
49) A sure-fire place to cut the US defense budget
50) Pentagon spending: Politics & profit trump national security
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1) Rebel leadership announces move from Turkey to Syria
Source: CNN
"The leadership of the rebel Free Syrian Army is moving from Turkey
into Syrian territories its fighters seized, its leader said Saturday.
FSA head Riad al-Asaad made the announcement in a video posted online.
The move is a milestone for the rebel group, which formed last
year." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/bmne6l4
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2) Voting laws may disenfranchise 10 million Hispanic US citizens
Source: Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"New voting laws in 23 of the 50 states could keep more than 10
million Hispanic U.S. citizens from registering and voting, a new
study said on Sunday, a number so large it could affect the outcome of
the November 6 election. The Latino community accounts for more than
10 percent of eligible voters nationally." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/d8ahrga
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3) Iraq: Ten killed, 11 wounded
Source: Antiwar.com
"As many as three people were killed and eight more were wounded when
a bomb on a minibus exploded in Sadr City. Two children were killed
when a bomb exploded in Hilla. In Baghdad, gunmen killed a brigadier
general who was the head of the Interior Ministry's complaint
department, and his driver. A bomb in Mosul killed two soldiers. A
policeman was shot dead." (09/23/12)
http://bit.ly/RUFfhT
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4) Afghanistan: Occupation airstrikes kill seven
Source: Press TV [Iranian state media]
"At least seven people have been killed in US-led airstrikes carried
out in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand. Local sources said
a warplane with the US-led NATO coalition forces carried out
airstrikes on Trikh Nawar area of Naway-i-Barakzai district on
Sunday." (09/23/12)
http://bit.ly/PyTfzz
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5) Pakistan: Bounty placed on anti-Islam filmmaker
Source: Reuters
"A Pakistani minister offered $100,000 on Saturday to anyone who kills
the maker of an online video which insults Islam, as sporadic protests
rumbled on across parts of the Muslim world. 'I announce today that
this blasphemer, this sinner who has spoken nonsense about the holy
Prophet, anyone who murders him, I will reward him with $100,000,'
Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told a news conference, to
applause. 'I invite the Taliban brothers and the al Qaeda brothers to
join me in this blessed mission.' A spokesman for Pakistan's prime
minister said the government disassociated itself from the minister's
statement." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/9f3tu78
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6) WI: Woman scares off burglar
Source: WMTV News
"The investigation revealed that the resident, while investigating the
sound of footsteps, was confronted by a masked intruder, who attempted
to use a form of pepper spray on her. In response to this, the
resident, who had armed herself with a handgun, fired several shots at
the intruder, who subsequently fled the residence on foot. The
resident was not injured during this incident." (09/23/12)
http://bit.ly/OOjk0L
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7) UT: Gunman dies from gunshot wounds
Source: KSL News
"Just before 2:30 p.m. Friday, a gunman at Francis Peak Apartments,
located at 600 West Mutton Hollow Road in Kaysville, shot 51-year-old
maintenance manager Steve Bailey multiple times, 'emptying the clip'
and critically wounding him. Witnesses report that Bailey witnessed a
domestic dispute between a man and woman in a common area of the
apartment complex and tried to intervene when the man shot Bailey at
close range. Police report that an armed witness shot at the gunman,
but it is unknown at this time if those gunshots were those that
caused the suspect's death." (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8q8wx5m
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8) US soldier who refused to go back to Iraq arrested on return from
Canada
Source: MSNBC
"The first female American soldier to seek refuge in Canada rather
than return to duty in Iraq was arrested at the U.S. border Thursday
after losing her appeal against deportation, according to an advocacy
group that had campaigned on her behalf." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/c3yvacx
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9) Ivory Coast reopens air space with Ghana
Source: Northwest Indiana Times
"Ivory Coast says it will allow flights to resume with Ghana, and has
reopened its air space after closing its borders following last week's
cross-border attack. However, the country has not yet agreed to reopen
its land and maritime borders. Four gunmen were killed in an attempted
raid on security posts on Friday in the town of Noe, near the Ghanaian
border." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/cq22jpf
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10) Iran threatens to hit US bases if attacked
Source: Austin American-Statesman
"A senior commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard warned
Sunday that Iran will target U.S. bases in the region in the event of
war with Israel, raising the prospect of a broader conflict that would
force other countries to get involved. The comments by Gen. Amir Ali
Hajizadeh, who heads the Guard's aerospace division, came amid tension
over Iran's nuclear program and Israel's suggestion that it might
unilaterally strike Iranian nuclear facilities to scuttle what it
believes are efforts to build a bomb." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/dxq62ca
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11) Vietnam tries three bloggers for "anti-government propaganda"
Source: Biloxi Sun Herald
"A lawyer says three prominent bloggers are being tried for spreading
anti-government propaganda.Lawyer Ha Huy Son said the three were put
on trial by the People's Court in southern Ho Chi Minh City on Monday.
If convicted the three face up to 20 years in prison." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/d4xd39r
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12) NY zoo attack: Man lives, big cat forgiven
Source: Christian Science Monitor
"Bashuta, the 400-pound tiger who mauled a man who jumped from an
elevated train into the Bronx Zoo Wild Asia exhibit Friday, 'did
nothing wrong' and won't be euthanized, zoo officials say. The
acknowledgement that the 26-year-old man was the culprit and the big
cat was only acting out its nature isn't uncommon in tiger attacks. In
a long line of tiger attack cases, survivors tend to blame themselves
or other factors, not the cats. Some victims even mourn when big cats
are put down after an attack." [editor's note: Nice to know that
"acting normally" is not a crime, at least in this case (too bad the
analogy fails in so many self-defense incidents - SAT] (09/22/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8eqjart
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13) Libya: Regime orders disbanding of "illegitimate" militias
Source: Fox News
"Libya President Mohammed el-Megaref has ordered rogue militias to
disband by Tuesday, an effort to regain control of the country amid
violence and armed attacks, including one that killed four Americans,
according to news reports. The president reportedly made the
announcement late Saturday and said the effort to disband the
illegitimate groups would be a joint-operation between the official
army and authorized militia brigades." (09/23/12)
http://fxn.ws/PyUaQv
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14) Portugal backs down on social security tax rise
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"The center-right government in Portugal has agreed to look for
alternatives to a social security tax rise a week after huge anti-
austerity street protests. Previously, it had planned to raise
contributions next year from 11% to 18%, to meet the conditions of
Portugal's international bailout. Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho
announced his decision at a meeting with President Anibal Cavaco
Silva. Thousands of protesters chanted slogans outside the
presidential palace." (09/22/12)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19684712
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15) Iran denies hacking US banks
Source: Reuters
"Iran denied its hackers attacked American banks, the semi-official
Fars news agency reported on Sunday, following a Reuters report that
three of the largest American lenders were repeatedly targeted over
the past year. ... Reuters reported the hackers targeted the three
banks in retaliation for their enforcement of Western economic
sanctions against Iran's disputed nuclear program." (09/23/12)
http://reut.rs/PyPJp3
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16) Honduras: Private city will have minimal taxes, government
Source: Fox News
"Small government and free-market capitalism are about to get put to
the test in Honduras, where the government has agreed to let an
investment group build an experimental city with no taxes on income,
capital gains or sales. Proponents say the tiny, as-yet unnamed town
will become a Central American beacon of job creation and investment,
by combining secure property rights with minimal government
interference. 'Once we provide a sound legal system within which to do
business, the whole job creation machine -- the miracle of capitalism
-- will get going,' Michael Strong, CEO of the MKG Group, which will
build the city and set its laws, told FoxNews.com." (09/22/12)
http://tinyurl.com/9gxms7j
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17) Nigeria: Suicide car bomber kills two, injures 45 at Sunday Mass
Source: Christian Science Monitor
"A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church conducting Mass in
northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing two people and wounding another 45
in a region under assault by a radical Islamist sect, officials
said. ... The blast appeared to hit a parking lot alongside the St.
John's Catholic Church in [Bauchi]." (09/23/12)
http://bit.ly/PyOBlh
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18) Cuba launches first nanopharmaceutical
Source: The Raw Story
"Cuba has unveiled its first manufactured nanopharmaceutical drug (a
tweaked variety of cyclosporine, used to help prevent transplant
rejection) official media reported Saturday. 'Its main advantages are
that it can achieve the same favorable effect with a dose three times
less powerful, using the most prescribed drug of its kind in its
class, and while significantly reducing side effects,' lead researcher
Dario Lopez told the Communist Party newspaper Granma. His research
included design of the drug, also used to treat arthritis, 'in a
totally water soluble form, in which cyclosporine appears dissolved in
the form of nanoparticles in microcapsules.'" (09/22/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8dqso9p
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19) TX: Houston cop murders man in wheelchair
Source: Detroit Free Press
"A Houston police officer has fatally shot a one-armed, one-legged man
in a wheelchair after police say the double amputee waved a metal
object that turned out to be a pen." (09/23/12)
http://on.freep.com/PyNdio
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20) AZ: State wants undocumented immigrants to be undocumented,
uninsured drivers, too
Source: Arizona Republic
"After conducting a review, the Arizona Department of Transportation
has concluded that the state will not issue driver's licenses to
undocumented immigrants granted work permits under President Barack
Obama's deferred-action program. The decision, confirmed Friday in
response to an inquiry by The Arizona Republic, is consistent with
Gov. Jan Brewer's Aug. 15 executive order telling state agencies to
take steps to make sure undocumented immigrants who receive deferred
action on deportation do not get driver's licenses or public benefits.
Many other states are grappling with the same issue." (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/92pmhus
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HEALTH-OF-THE-STATE-O-METER, 09/24/12
Iraqi Deaths Due to US Invasion: 1,455,590
(source: justforeignpolicy.org/iraq)
US Deaths in Afghanistan: Bush 575, Obama 1456
(source: justforeignpolicy.org/obamavsbush)
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FREEDOM COMMENTARY
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21) Spinning Benghazi
Source: Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo
"Washington can't seem to get their story straight: first we were told
the attack on our Benghazi consulate and the murder of Ambassador
Chris Stevens was the result of a spontaneous demonstration that got
out of hand -- and today we're told it was all a plot initiated by a
heretofore little-known 'al Qaeda affiliate.' Before we get to the
obvious question -- which is it? -- let's linger awhile and wonder:
why the sudden change in spin?" (09/21/12)
http://bit.ly/PyMTAr
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22) Economy tanks, Mideast aflame, Romney doomed
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal
by Vin Suprynowicz
"The economy is in shambles. The policy of appeasement of Muslim
radicals has the Middle East in flames and an American ambassador
dead, dragged through the streets after Hillary Clinton declined to
provide him with a Marine bodyguard. A missile defense sellout to the
Russians awaits only Mr. Obama's re-election in seven weeks. But it's
Mitt Romney who's 'struggling to recover from a cascade of
missteps?'" (09/23/12)
http://bit.ly/RUFuJO
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23) Interventionism serves no national interest
Source: Liberty For All
by Brian Irving
"Libertarian presidential candidate Gov. Gary Johnson believes, as I
do, that the Bush-Obama-and-now-Romney interventionist foreign policy
is getting Americans killed and contributing to the bankruptcy of our
nation without clear sight of our national interests. Writing in an op-
ed published in the Huffington Post, Johnson said, "Foreign policy is
supposed to make us safer, not get Americans killed and bankrupt
us." (09/22/12)
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=8109
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24) Frankness about wealth redistribution
Source: A Passion for Liberty
by Tibor R. Machan
"When taxation is part of government, wealth redistribution goes hand
in hand with it. Taxation was what feudal systems used so as to pay
rent to the monarchy. The monarch, after all, used to own the realm.
All of it. So just as owners of apartment houses, monarch's collect
rent from those living in there. The meaning of this is that members
of the population got to live in the country by permission of the
government, be that a tzar, king, pharaoh, caesar or some other ruler
who had nearly absolute power to run the place." (09/22/12)
http://bit.ly/PyO2rD
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25) Why support the troops?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger
"One of the most fascinating phenomena of our time is the extreme
reverence that the American people have been taught to have for the
military. Wherever you go -- airports, sports events, church -- there
is a god-like worship of the military." (09/21/12)
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-09-21.asp
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26) Why does the government so desperately want indefinite detention
for terror suspects?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington
"What is the government doing? Last year, when Congress passed the
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with its contentious
passages endorsing the mandatory military detention of terror
suspects, there was uproar across the political spectrum from
Americans who believed that it would be used on U.S.
citizens." (09/21/12)
http://www.fff.org/comment/com1209p.asp
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27) The Constitution or liberty
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman
"After the Constitution was ratified, something like Article II was
added to the Constitution as the Tenth Amendment. Unfortunately it is
like Article II in the same sense that a whale is like a fish--
superficially. The Tenth Amendment says: 'The powers not delegated to
the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the
States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the
people.'" (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/957xytz
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28) Junk science is worse for your health than egg yolks
Source: OpenMarket.org
by Michelle Minton
"We all know that eggs contain a lot of fat and cholesterol. While
that does not make them 'bad,' most of us realize that if you eat eggs
or any other food to excess you will likely suffer some negative
health effects. But are egg yolks as bad as cigarettes for heart
health?" (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8pz2t2h
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29) QE3: Sowing the wind
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Frank Shostak
"The US central bank announced on Thursday, September 13, 2012, that
it will expand its holdings of long-term securities with open-ended
purchases of $40 billion of mortgage debt a month as it seeks to boost
economic growth and reduce unemployment." (09/21/12)
http://mises.org/daily/6200/QE3-Sowing-the-Wind
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30) Washington's 1796 farewell address: Did he waste his breath?
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Joe Wolverton, II
"As he prepared to leave office, President George Washington was
concerned about the partisan and martial path the young republic he
helped found was heading down. Even the 'Father of His Country' was
not above criticism and vitriolic attacks in the press." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8ckpm4a
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31) Founding Fathers - Carter Braxton
Source: Liberty For All
by staff
"Braxton was a signer of the United States Declaration of
Independence, a planter, and a representative of Virginia. Braxton was
the son of a Virginia merchant-planter, and grandson of Robert 'King'
Carter, one of the wealthiest landowners and slaveholders in the Old
Dominion. Carter Braxton was active in the Virginia legislature, 'a
moderate politician during the Revolution-often viewed as sympathetic
to the British (but not a Loyalist).'" (09/23/12)
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=8110
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32) Hidden causes of the rise of green on blue violence
Source: Campaign For Liberty
by sam.aydlette
"Recently, there has been an upswing of Green on Blue violence in
Afghanistan. Green on Blue violence is the term for when Afghan forces
switch sides and attack NATO or American troops. The fact that these
attacks are increasing is a tragic byproduct of our flawed foreign
policy. It exposes the total failure of the inept American media to
inform the public about what is happening in the Middle
East." (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8kpxjp4
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33) Election 2012: Neither candidate has anything to fear from the
real "entitlement class"
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Jason Lee Byas
"Romney is certainly right that there exists an entitlement class with
strong political power, but he's wrong about who it is. Also, while
Obama doesn't have anything to fear from the real one, neither does
Romney." (09/22/12)
http://c4ss.org/content/12953
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34) Changes needed to ensure justice
Source: Clovis News Journal
by Kent McManigal
"There is never any justice involved in prosecuting any victimless
crime; doing so always creates a victim out of thin air. If you
advocate, pass, support, or enforce any 'law' that attempts to
criminalize and punish anything other than a physical attack on an
innocent person, or the theft or destruction of private property, the
result will always be injustice." (09/20/12)
http://bit.ly/PyTWJlhttp://bit.ly/PyTWJl
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35) Biting the hand that feeds them
Source: Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor
"Of course, churches and pastors have the same First Amendment free
speech rights as the rest of us taxpaying slaves but we don't enjoy
tax exempt status. If pastors want to conduct political activities in
their churches they certainly can, but in that event they should in
all fairness become just like you and me -- tax payers. If churches
can become political entities and retain their tax exempt status, then
perhaps all of us should enjoy that status. But many churches and
pastors want to have their cake and eat it too." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/9d2dm64
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36) FAQ #73: Will China crash and burn in an apocalyptical fashion?
Source: The Libertarian Standard
by Tim Swanson
"No. Contrary to the hyperbole of the blogosphere, this year neither
the US nor China will burn to the ground in some grotesque
fashion." (09/21/12)
http://bit.ly/PyTCu1
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37) A Webb of lies
Source: WendyMcElroy.com
by Wendy McElroy
"As implausible as the new Soviet man might seem, left-wing radicals
in the West applauded the Soviet Experiment. They clearly believed
Trotsky[s] description in Literature and Revolution: the 'average
human type' under communism would be the equal of Aristotle and 'above
this ridge new peaks' of humanity would rise. Among the loudest voices
cheering ere the prominent British socialist utopians, Sidney and
Beatrice Webb." (09/22/12)
http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.4910
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38) Physics, economics, and hurricane arguments
Source: Ideas
by David Friedman
"I just finished an interview, via Skype, that will eventually be up
on the web. One question I was asked was how knowledge of one field
feeds into thinking about another. It occurred to me that I had an
interesting example, a case where two unrelated fields, both of which
I have worked in, showed that two different arguments for a conclusion
in a third field were both wrong." (09/20/12)
http://bit.ly/PyRNgG
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39) Boycott the vote
Source: Idaho Liberty
by Ted Dunlap
"One more time, someone rolls out the old 'boycott the vote.' I've
heard that frustrated sales pitch for over a decade. The claim is that
withdrawing your permission will make the fascism go away. Absolutely
myopic at best; more likely fully blind to reality." (09/21/12)
http://idaholiberty.com/?p=1810
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40) Oklahoma challenges health care tax in federally-run insurance
exchanges
Source: Show-Me Institute
by Patrick Ishmael
"Many employers under the ACA can be fined/taxed if they do not
provide health insurance to individuals who qualify for the federal
government's subsidies. However, if a state does not build its own
exchange, then no employee would qualify for the subsidy, and
therefore employers in the state not would be subject to the tax
because none of their employees would meet the criteria set out in the
law. ... Not surprisingly, it was only recently that Washington woke
up to this reality." (09/21/12)
http://bit.ly/PyR4vS
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41) "Sovereign citizens" and government's monopoly on crime
Source: LewRockwell.com
by William Norman Grigg
"When a 'Sovereign' kills a police officer, the SPLC -- speaking on
behalf of the entire police state apparatus -- commands us to mourn
and rend our garments. When Officer Erik Sammis guns down a 12-year-
old African-American, or Barack Obama slaughters an Yemeni-American
teenager with a drone-fired missile, the SPLC maintains a reverent
silence in the face of what it must regard as the sacramental exercise
of the government's transcendent authority -- while it quietly adds
names to its ever-expanding roster of dissidents and
heretics." (09/22/12)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w282.html
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42) A free market in health care
Source: EconLog
by David Henderson
"One great thing about free markets is they tend to break out when not
totally oppressed. There's an obvious reason: gains from exchange. And
the web often facilitates that breakout." (09/22/12)
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/09/a_free_market_i.html
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43) Three ways of reacting to the obvious
Source: Liberty Unbound
by Stephen Cox
"At this writing, no one can say what happened in Benghazi on
September 11, when Ambassador Chris Stevens was brutally murdered by a
mob of Muslim fanatics, driven to frenzy by an obscure YouTube
feature. Or was he murdered by a Muslim army, conducting a well-
planned attack? Or was it an inside job, perpetrated by Libyan
employees of the embassy? Or perhaps all three? The administration's
account of the enemy has frequently changed. But what about America's
arrangements to defend its people and property?" (09/23/12)
http://www.libertyunbound.com/node/900
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44) Save the death penalty
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
by Debra J. Saunders
"Recently, Editorial Page Editor John Diaz asked Mark Klaas if he
expects to feel closure if California executes Richard Allen Davis,
the man who kidnapped, toyed with and then killed Klaas' 12-year-old
daughter, Polly, in 1993. A jury found Davis guilty and sentenced him
to death in 1996. ... Klaas has been a highly visible advocate for
strong laws to protect the public, especially children, from career
criminals and predators like Davis. He had come with other opponents
of Proposition 34, the ballot measure that would end California's
death penalty and resentence California's 700-plus death-row inmates
to life without parole." (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/9mod9ae
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45) Will someone please develop an app to protect us from
protectionists?
Source: Cafe Hayek
by Don Boudreaux
"If manufacturing in America really does need to be 'revitalized' --
and if it's appropriate for government to try to engineer that
revitalization by preventing Americans from buying low-priced products
that 'destroy' manufacturing jobs -- then Sen. Brown should attack not
only Americans who buy from China but, also, Americans who download
apps onto their smart phones. The number of traditional manufactured
products now being made obsolete by apps is staggering." (09/20/12)
http://bit.ly/PyNO3F
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46) Drug dealers protecting their turf
Source: In These Times
by David Sirota
"If you heard a drug dealer denigrate his competitor's product as
unsafe, would you trust his criticism? Last week, thanks to Democratic
Gov. John Hickenlooper (Colo.), that became the central political
question in the fight over whether to continue America's destructive
War on Marijuana. The frontline in that war is Colorado, where the
federal government has interfered with its system of state-regulated
medical marijuana businesses, despite President Obama's promise to
refrain from doing so. Countering that crackdown is a 2012 ballot
initiative that would make Colorado the first state to fully legalize
marijuana and regulate it like alcohol." (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8ndkqvc
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47) Romney tax returns: Days late, $$ short, still incomplete
Source: The Nation
by George Zornick
"After months of withering attacks, Mitt Romney has finally (sort of)
lifted the veil of secrecy around his personal finances. At 3 pm, his
campaign released his full 2011 tax return and a summary from
PriceWaterhouseCooper of his tax filings over twenty years, from
1990-2009. The bottom line: as everyone suspected, Romney pays a lower
tax rate than the typical middle-class family -- and he seems to have
purposely engineered a higher rate for himself for optical reasons.
Moreover, by only summarizing the past twenty years of returns,
there's a lot we don't know. Here's a look at what we learned so
far." (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/9pjzpx5
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48) How Obama came to be the biggest defender of indefinite detention
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
"Perhaps it's all for the best that the Obama administration oversaw
the scrubbing of civil liberties vows that graced the 2008 Democratic
Party platform from the 2012 edition. It's one thing to promise to end
practices implemented by your nefarious political opponents; it's
quite another to commit to ending abuses you yourself have practiced
without restraint." (09/21/12)
http://bit.ly/PyMIVy
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49) A sure-fire place to cut the US defense budget
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by John C. Hulsman
"It is the kind of bizarre Alice-in-Wonderland story that drives
average Americans crazy. Confronted with the worst economic crisis
since the Great Depression, the federal government has insisted on
continuing to fund a defense program that will admittedly never be
made operational. Instead of recognizing the blindingly obvious, and
ending this farcical story, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has instead
urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to reinsert $400 million in
funding for the air-defense program known as MEADS (Medium Extended
Air Defense System). He wants to take advantage of research on the
surveillance radar part of the program." (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8hmdmmt
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50) Pentagon spending: Politics & profit trump national security
Source: Our Future
by Stephen Miles & William Hartung
"This week in Washington the halls of Congress have been flooded with
talk about looming cuts to the Pentagon. With members of Congress
floating plans to undo planned cuts (known in Congressional jargon as
'sequestration') due to start in January, the lobbyists for America's
weapons makers, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), have been
storming the Hill to scare Congress with talk of layoffs and
'doomsday.'" (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/9568j3j
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Rebel leadership announces move from Turkey to Syria
2) Voting laws may disenfranchise 10 million Hispanic US citizens
3) Iraq: Ten killed, 11 wounded
4) Afghanistan: Occupation airstrikes kill seven
5) Pakistan: Bounty placed on anti-Islam filmmaker
6) WI: Woman scares off burglar
7) UT: Gunman dies from gunshot wounds
8) US soldier who refused to go back to Iraq arrested on return from
Canada
9) Ivory Coast reopens air space with Ghana
10) Iran threatens to hit US bases if attacked
11) Vietnam tries three bloggers for "anti-government propaganda"
12) NY zoo attack: Man lives, big cat forgiven
13) Libya: Regime orders disbanding of "illegitimate" militias
14) Portugal backs down on social security tax rise
15) Iran denies hacking US banks
16) Honduras: Private city will have minimal taxes, government
17) Nigeria: Suicide car bomber kills two, injures 45 at Sunday Mass
18) Cuba launches first nanopharmaceutical
19) TX: Houston cop murders man in wheelchair
20) AZ: State wants undocumented immigrants to be undocumented,
uninsured drivers, too
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Spinning Benghazi
22) Economy tanks, Mideast aflame, Romney doomed
23) Interventionism serves no national interest
24) Frankness about wealth redistribution
25) Why support the troops?
26) Why does the government so desperately want indefinite detention
for terror suspects?
27) The Constitution or liberty
28) Junk science is worse for your health than egg yolks
29) QE3: Sowing the wind
30) Washington's 1796 farewell address: Did he waste his breath?
31) Founding Fathers - Carter Braxton
32) Hidden causes of the rise of green on blue violence
33) Election 2012: Neither candidate has anything to fear from the
real "entitlement class"
34) Changes needed to ensure justice
35) Biting the hand that feeds them
36) FAQ #73: Will China crash and burn in an apocalyptical fashion?
37) A Webb of lies
38) Physics, economics, and hurricane arguments
39) Boycott the vote
40) Oklahoma challenges health care tax in federally-run insurance
exchanges
41) "Sovereign citizens" and government's monopoly on crime
42) A free market in health care
43) Three ways of reacting to the obvious
44) Save the death penalty
45) Will someone please develop an app to protect us from
protectionists?
46) Drug dealers protecting their turf
47) Romney tax returns: Days late, $$ short, still incomplete
48) How Obama came to be the biggest defender of indefinite detention
49) A sure-fire place to cut the US defense budget
50) Pentagon spending: Politics & profit trump national security
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FREEDOM NEWS
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1) Rebel leadership announces move from Turkey to Syria
Source: CNN
"The leadership of the rebel Free Syrian Army is moving from Turkey
into Syrian territories its fighters seized, its leader said Saturday.
FSA head Riad al-Asaad made the announcement in a video posted online.
The move is a milestone for the rebel group, which formed last
year." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/bmne6l4
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2) Voting laws may disenfranchise 10 million Hispanic US citizens
Source: Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"New voting laws in 23 of the 50 states could keep more than 10
million Hispanic U.S. citizens from registering and voting, a new
study said on Sunday, a number so large it could affect the outcome of
the November 6 election. The Latino community accounts for more than
10 percent of eligible voters nationally." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/d8ahrga
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3) Iraq: Ten killed, 11 wounded
Source: Antiwar.com
"As many as three people were killed and eight more were wounded when
a bomb on a minibus exploded in Sadr City. Two children were killed
when a bomb exploded in Hilla. In Baghdad, gunmen killed a brigadier
general who was the head of the Interior Ministry's complaint
department, and his driver. A bomb in Mosul killed two soldiers. A
policeman was shot dead." (09/23/12)
http://bit.ly/RUFfhT
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4) Afghanistan: Occupation airstrikes kill seven
Source: Press TV [Iranian state media]
"At least seven people have been killed in US-led airstrikes carried
out in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand. Local sources said
a warplane with the US-led NATO coalition forces carried out
airstrikes on Trikh Nawar area of Naway-i-Barakzai district on
Sunday." (09/23/12)
http://bit.ly/PyTfzz
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5) Pakistan: Bounty placed on anti-Islam filmmaker
Source: Reuters
"A Pakistani minister offered $100,000 on Saturday to anyone who kills
the maker of an online video which insults Islam, as sporadic protests
rumbled on across parts of the Muslim world. 'I announce today that
this blasphemer, this sinner who has spoken nonsense about the holy
Prophet, anyone who murders him, I will reward him with $100,000,'
Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told a news conference, to
applause. 'I invite the Taliban brothers and the al Qaeda brothers to
join me in this blessed mission.' A spokesman for Pakistan's prime
minister said the government disassociated itself from the minister's
statement." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/9f3tu78
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6) WI: Woman scares off burglar
Source: WMTV News
"The investigation revealed that the resident, while investigating the
sound of footsteps, was confronted by a masked intruder, who attempted
to use a form of pepper spray on her. In response to this, the
resident, who had armed herself with a handgun, fired several shots at
the intruder, who subsequently fled the residence on foot. The
resident was not injured during this incident." (09/23/12)
http://bit.ly/OOjk0L
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7) UT: Gunman dies from gunshot wounds
Source: KSL News
"Just before 2:30 p.m. Friday, a gunman at Francis Peak Apartments,
located at 600 West Mutton Hollow Road in Kaysville, shot 51-year-old
maintenance manager Steve Bailey multiple times, 'emptying the clip'
and critically wounding him. Witnesses report that Bailey witnessed a
domestic dispute between a man and woman in a common area of the
apartment complex and tried to intervene when the man shot Bailey at
close range. Police report that an armed witness shot at the gunman,
but it is unknown at this time if those gunshots were those that
caused the suspect's death." (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8q8wx5m
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8) US soldier who refused to go back to Iraq arrested on return from
Canada
Source: MSNBC
"The first female American soldier to seek refuge in Canada rather
than return to duty in Iraq was arrested at the U.S. border Thursday
after losing her appeal against deportation, according to an advocacy
group that had campaigned on her behalf." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/c3yvacx
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9) Ivory Coast reopens air space with Ghana
Source: Northwest Indiana Times
"Ivory Coast says it will allow flights to resume with Ghana, and has
reopened its air space after closing its borders following last week's
cross-border attack. However, the country has not yet agreed to reopen
its land and maritime borders. Four gunmen were killed in an attempted
raid on security posts on Friday in the town of Noe, near the Ghanaian
border." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/cq22jpf
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10) Iran threatens to hit US bases if attacked
Source: Austin American-Statesman
"A senior commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard warned
Sunday that Iran will target U.S. bases in the region in the event of
war with Israel, raising the prospect of a broader conflict that would
force other countries to get involved. The comments by Gen. Amir Ali
Hajizadeh, who heads the Guard's aerospace division, came amid tension
over Iran's nuclear program and Israel's suggestion that it might
unilaterally strike Iranian nuclear facilities to scuttle what it
believes are efforts to build a bomb." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/dxq62ca
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11) Vietnam tries three bloggers for "anti-government propaganda"
Source: Biloxi Sun Herald
"A lawyer says three prominent bloggers are being tried for spreading
anti-government propaganda.Lawyer Ha Huy Son said the three were put
on trial by the People's Court in southern Ho Chi Minh City on Monday.
If convicted the three face up to 20 years in prison." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/d4xd39r
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12) NY zoo attack: Man lives, big cat forgiven
Source: Christian Science Monitor
"Bashuta, the 400-pound tiger who mauled a man who jumped from an
elevated train into the Bronx Zoo Wild Asia exhibit Friday, 'did
nothing wrong' and won't be euthanized, zoo officials say. The
acknowledgement that the 26-year-old man was the culprit and the big
cat was only acting out its nature isn't uncommon in tiger attacks. In
a long line of tiger attack cases, survivors tend to blame themselves
or other factors, not the cats. Some victims even mourn when big cats
are put down after an attack." [editor's note: Nice to know that
"acting normally" is not a crime, at least in this case (too bad the
analogy fails in so many self-defense incidents - SAT] (09/22/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8eqjart
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13) Libya: Regime orders disbanding of "illegitimate" militias
Source: Fox News
"Libya President Mohammed el-Megaref has ordered rogue militias to
disband by Tuesday, an effort to regain control of the country amid
violence and armed attacks, including one that killed four Americans,
according to news reports. The president reportedly made the
announcement late Saturday and said the effort to disband the
illegitimate groups would be a joint-operation between the official
army and authorized militia brigades." (09/23/12)
http://fxn.ws/PyUaQv
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14) Portugal backs down on social security tax rise
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
"The center-right government in Portugal has agreed to look for
alternatives to a social security tax rise a week after huge anti-
austerity street protests. Previously, it had planned to raise
contributions next year from 11% to 18%, to meet the conditions of
Portugal's international bailout. Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho
announced his decision at a meeting with President Anibal Cavaco
Silva. Thousands of protesters chanted slogans outside the
presidential palace." (09/22/12)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19684712
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15) Iran denies hacking US banks
Source: Reuters
"Iran denied its hackers attacked American banks, the semi-official
Fars news agency reported on Sunday, following a Reuters report that
three of the largest American lenders were repeatedly targeted over
the past year. ... Reuters reported the hackers targeted the three
banks in retaliation for their enforcement of Western economic
sanctions against Iran's disputed nuclear program." (09/23/12)
http://reut.rs/PyPJp3
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16) Honduras: Private city will have minimal taxes, government
Source: Fox News
"Small government and free-market capitalism are about to get put to
the test in Honduras, where the government has agreed to let an
investment group build an experimental city with no taxes on income,
capital gains or sales. Proponents say the tiny, as-yet unnamed town
will become a Central American beacon of job creation and investment,
by combining secure property rights with minimal government
interference. 'Once we provide a sound legal system within which to do
business, the whole job creation machine -- the miracle of capitalism
-- will get going,' Michael Strong, CEO of the MKG Group, which will
build the city and set its laws, told FoxNews.com." (09/22/12)
http://tinyurl.com/9gxms7j
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17) Nigeria: Suicide car bomber kills two, injures 45 at Sunday Mass
Source: Christian Science Monitor
"A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church conducting Mass in
northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing two people and wounding another 45
in a region under assault by a radical Islamist sect, officials
said. ... The blast appeared to hit a parking lot alongside the St.
John's Catholic Church in [Bauchi]." (09/23/12)
http://bit.ly/PyOBlh
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18) Cuba launches first nanopharmaceutical
Source: The Raw Story
"Cuba has unveiled its first manufactured nanopharmaceutical drug (a
tweaked variety of cyclosporine, used to help prevent transplant
rejection) official media reported Saturday. 'Its main advantages are
that it can achieve the same favorable effect with a dose three times
less powerful, using the most prescribed drug of its kind in its
class, and while significantly reducing side effects,' lead researcher
Dario Lopez told the Communist Party newspaper Granma. His research
included design of the drug, also used to treat arthritis, 'in a
totally water soluble form, in which cyclosporine appears dissolved in
the form of nanoparticles in microcapsules.'" (09/22/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8dqso9p
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19) TX: Houston cop murders man in wheelchair
Source: Detroit Free Press
"A Houston police officer has fatally shot a one-armed, one-legged man
in a wheelchair after police say the double amputee waved a metal
object that turned out to be a pen." (09/23/12)
http://on.freep.com/PyNdio
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20) AZ: State wants undocumented immigrants to be undocumented,
uninsured drivers, too
Source: Arizona Republic
"After conducting a review, the Arizona Department of Transportation
has concluded that the state will not issue driver's licenses to
undocumented immigrants granted work permits under President Barack
Obama's deferred-action program. The decision, confirmed Friday in
response to an inquiry by The Arizona Republic, is consistent with
Gov. Jan Brewer's Aug. 15 executive order telling state agencies to
take steps to make sure undocumented immigrants who receive deferred
action on deportation do not get driver's licenses or public benefits.
Many other states are grappling with the same issue." (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/92pmhus
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HEALTH-OF-THE-STATE-O-METER, 09/24/12
Iraqi Deaths Due to US Invasion: 1,455,590
(source: justforeignpolicy.org/iraq)
US Deaths in Afghanistan: Bush 575, Obama 1456
(source: justforeignpolicy.org/obamavsbush)
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21) Spinning Benghazi
Source: Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo
"Washington can't seem to get their story straight: first we were told
the attack on our Benghazi consulate and the murder of Ambassador
Chris Stevens was the result of a spontaneous demonstration that got
out of hand -- and today we're told it was all a plot initiated by a
heretofore little-known 'al Qaeda affiliate.' Before we get to the
obvious question -- which is it? -- let's linger awhile and wonder:
why the sudden change in spin?" (09/21/12)
http://bit.ly/PyMTAr
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22) Economy tanks, Mideast aflame, Romney doomed
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal
by Vin Suprynowicz
"The economy is in shambles. The policy of appeasement of Muslim
radicals has the Middle East in flames and an American ambassador
dead, dragged through the streets after Hillary Clinton declined to
provide him with a Marine bodyguard. A missile defense sellout to the
Russians awaits only Mr. Obama's re-election in seven weeks. But it's
Mitt Romney who's 'struggling to recover from a cascade of
missteps?'" (09/23/12)
http://bit.ly/RUFuJO
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23) Interventionism serves no national interest
Source: Liberty For All
by Brian Irving
"Libertarian presidential candidate Gov. Gary Johnson believes, as I
do, that the Bush-Obama-and-now-Romney interventionist foreign policy
is getting Americans killed and contributing to the bankruptcy of our
nation without clear sight of our national interests. Writing in an op-
ed published in the Huffington Post, Johnson said, "Foreign policy is
supposed to make us safer, not get Americans killed and bankrupt
us." (09/22/12)
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=8109
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24) Frankness about wealth redistribution
Source: A Passion for Liberty
by Tibor R. Machan
"When taxation is part of government, wealth redistribution goes hand
in hand with it. Taxation was what feudal systems used so as to pay
rent to the monarchy. The monarch, after all, used to own the realm.
All of it. So just as owners of apartment houses, monarch's collect
rent from those living in there. The meaning of this is that members
of the population got to live in the country by permission of the
government, be that a tzar, king, pharaoh, caesar or some other ruler
who had nearly absolute power to run the place." (09/22/12)
http://bit.ly/PyO2rD
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25) Why support the troops?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger
"One of the most fascinating phenomena of our time is the extreme
reverence that the American people have been taught to have for the
military. Wherever you go -- airports, sports events, church -- there
is a god-like worship of the military." (09/21/12)
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-09-21.asp
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26) Why does the government so desperately want indefinite detention
for terror suspects?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington
"What is the government doing? Last year, when Congress passed the
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with its contentious
passages endorsing the mandatory military detention of terror
suspects, there was uproar across the political spectrum from
Americans who believed that it would be used on U.S.
citizens." (09/21/12)
http://www.fff.org/comment/com1209p.asp
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27) The Constitution or liberty
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman
"After the Constitution was ratified, something like Article II was
added to the Constitution as the Tenth Amendment. Unfortunately it is
like Article II in the same sense that a whale is like a fish--
superficially. The Tenth Amendment says: 'The powers not delegated to
the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the
States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the
people.'" (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/957xytz
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28) Junk science is worse for your health than egg yolks
Source: OpenMarket.org
by Michelle Minton
"We all know that eggs contain a lot of fat and cholesterol. While
that does not make them 'bad,' most of us realize that if you eat eggs
or any other food to excess you will likely suffer some negative
health effects. But are egg yolks as bad as cigarettes for heart
health?" (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8pz2t2h
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29) QE3: Sowing the wind
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Frank Shostak
"The US central bank announced on Thursday, September 13, 2012, that
it will expand its holdings of long-term securities with open-ended
purchases of $40 billion of mortgage debt a month as it seeks to boost
economic growth and reduce unemployment." (09/21/12)
http://mises.org/daily/6200/QE3-Sowing-the-Wind
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30) Washington's 1796 farewell address: Did he waste his breath?
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Joe Wolverton, II
"As he prepared to leave office, President George Washington was
concerned about the partisan and martial path the young republic he
helped found was heading down. Even the 'Father of His Country' was
not above criticism and vitriolic attacks in the press." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8ckpm4a
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31) Founding Fathers - Carter Braxton
Source: Liberty For All
by staff
"Braxton was a signer of the United States Declaration of
Independence, a planter, and a representative of Virginia. Braxton was
the son of a Virginia merchant-planter, and grandson of Robert 'King'
Carter, one of the wealthiest landowners and slaveholders in the Old
Dominion. Carter Braxton was active in the Virginia legislature, 'a
moderate politician during the Revolution-often viewed as sympathetic
to the British (but not a Loyalist).'" (09/23/12)
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=8110
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32) Hidden causes of the rise of green on blue violence
Source: Campaign For Liberty
by sam.aydlette
"Recently, there has been an upswing of Green on Blue violence in
Afghanistan. Green on Blue violence is the term for when Afghan forces
switch sides and attack NATO or American troops. The fact that these
attacks are increasing is a tragic byproduct of our flawed foreign
policy. It exposes the total failure of the inept American media to
inform the public about what is happening in the Middle
East." (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8kpxjp4
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33) Election 2012: Neither candidate has anything to fear from the
real "entitlement class"
Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Jason Lee Byas
"Romney is certainly right that there exists an entitlement class with
strong political power, but he's wrong about who it is. Also, while
Obama doesn't have anything to fear from the real one, neither does
Romney." (09/22/12)
http://c4ss.org/content/12953
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34) Changes needed to ensure justice
Source: Clovis News Journal
by Kent McManigal
"There is never any justice involved in prosecuting any victimless
crime; doing so always creates a victim out of thin air. If you
advocate, pass, support, or enforce any 'law' that attempts to
criminalize and punish anything other than a physical attack on an
innocent person, or the theft or destruction of private property, the
result will always be injustice." (09/20/12)
http://bit.ly/PyTWJlhttp://bit.ly/PyTWJl
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35) Biting the hand that feeds them
Source: Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor
"Of course, churches and pastors have the same First Amendment free
speech rights as the rest of us taxpaying slaves but we don't enjoy
tax exempt status. If pastors want to conduct political activities in
their churches they certainly can, but in that event they should in
all fairness become just like you and me -- tax payers. If churches
can become political entities and retain their tax exempt status, then
perhaps all of us should enjoy that status. But many churches and
pastors want to have their cake and eat it too." (09/23/12)
http://tinyurl.com/9d2dm64
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36) FAQ #73: Will China crash and burn in an apocalyptical fashion?
Source: The Libertarian Standard
by Tim Swanson
"No. Contrary to the hyperbole of the blogosphere, this year neither
the US nor China will burn to the ground in some grotesque
fashion." (09/21/12)
http://bit.ly/PyTCu1
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37) A Webb of lies
Source: WendyMcElroy.com
by Wendy McElroy
"As implausible as the new Soviet man might seem, left-wing radicals
in the West applauded the Soviet Experiment. They clearly believed
Trotsky[s] description in Literature and Revolution: the 'average
human type' under communism would be the equal of Aristotle and 'above
this ridge new peaks' of humanity would rise. Among the loudest voices
cheering ere the prominent British socialist utopians, Sidney and
Beatrice Webb." (09/22/12)
http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.4910
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38) Physics, economics, and hurricane arguments
Source: Ideas
by David Friedman
"I just finished an interview, via Skype, that will eventually be up
on the web. One question I was asked was how knowledge of one field
feeds into thinking about another. It occurred to me that I had an
interesting example, a case where two unrelated fields, both of which
I have worked in, showed that two different arguments for a conclusion
in a third field were both wrong." (09/20/12)
http://bit.ly/PyRNgG
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39) Boycott the vote
Source: Idaho Liberty
by Ted Dunlap
"One more time, someone rolls out the old 'boycott the vote.' I've
heard that frustrated sales pitch for over a decade. The claim is that
withdrawing your permission will make the fascism go away. Absolutely
myopic at best; more likely fully blind to reality." (09/21/12)
http://idaholiberty.com/?p=1810
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40) Oklahoma challenges health care tax in federally-run insurance
exchanges
Source: Show-Me Institute
by Patrick Ishmael
"Many employers under the ACA can be fined/taxed if they do not
provide health insurance to individuals who qualify for the federal
government's subsidies. However, if a state does not build its own
exchange, then no employee would qualify for the subsidy, and
therefore employers in the state not would be subject to the tax
because none of their employees would meet the criteria set out in the
law. ... Not surprisingly, it was only recently that Washington woke
up to this reality." (09/21/12)
http://bit.ly/PyR4vS
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41) "Sovereign citizens" and government's monopoly on crime
Source: LewRockwell.com
by William Norman Grigg
"When a 'Sovereign' kills a police officer, the SPLC -- speaking on
behalf of the entire police state apparatus -- commands us to mourn
and rend our garments. When Officer Erik Sammis guns down a 12-year-
old African-American, or Barack Obama slaughters an Yemeni-American
teenager with a drone-fired missile, the SPLC maintains a reverent
silence in the face of what it must regard as the sacramental exercise
of the government's transcendent authority -- while it quietly adds
names to its ever-expanding roster of dissidents and
heretics." (09/22/12)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w282.html
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42) A free market in health care
Source: EconLog
by David Henderson
"One great thing about free markets is they tend to break out when not
totally oppressed. There's an obvious reason: gains from exchange. And
the web often facilitates that breakout." (09/22/12)
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/09/a_free_market_i.html
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43) Three ways of reacting to the obvious
Source: Liberty Unbound
by Stephen Cox
"At this writing, no one can say what happened in Benghazi on
September 11, when Ambassador Chris Stevens was brutally murdered by a
mob of Muslim fanatics, driven to frenzy by an obscure YouTube
feature. Or was he murdered by a Muslim army, conducting a well-
planned attack? Or was it an inside job, perpetrated by Libyan
employees of the embassy? Or perhaps all three? The administration's
account of the enemy has frequently changed. But what about America's
arrangements to defend its people and property?" (09/23/12)
http://www.libertyunbound.com/node/900
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44) Save the death penalty
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
by Debra J. Saunders
"Recently, Editorial Page Editor John Diaz asked Mark Klaas if he
expects to feel closure if California executes Richard Allen Davis,
the man who kidnapped, toyed with and then killed Klaas' 12-year-old
daughter, Polly, in 1993. A jury found Davis guilty and sentenced him
to death in 1996. ... Klaas has been a highly visible advocate for
strong laws to protect the public, especially children, from career
criminals and predators like Davis. He had come with other opponents
of Proposition 34, the ballot measure that would end California's
death penalty and resentence California's 700-plus death-row inmates
to life without parole." (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/9mod9ae
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45) Will someone please develop an app to protect us from
protectionists?
Source: Cafe Hayek
by Don Boudreaux
"If manufacturing in America really does need to be 'revitalized' --
and if it's appropriate for government to try to engineer that
revitalization by preventing Americans from buying low-priced products
that 'destroy' manufacturing jobs -- then Sen. Brown should attack not
only Americans who buy from China but, also, Americans who download
apps onto their smart phones. The number of traditional manufactured
products now being made obsolete by apps is staggering." (09/20/12)
http://bit.ly/PyNO3F
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46) Drug dealers protecting their turf
Source: In These Times
by David Sirota
"If you heard a drug dealer denigrate his competitor's product as
unsafe, would you trust his criticism? Last week, thanks to Democratic
Gov. John Hickenlooper (Colo.), that became the central political
question in the fight over whether to continue America's destructive
War on Marijuana. The frontline in that war is Colorado, where the
federal government has interfered with its system of state-regulated
medical marijuana businesses, despite President Obama's promise to
refrain from doing so. Countering that crackdown is a 2012 ballot
initiative that would make Colorado the first state to fully legalize
marijuana and regulate it like alcohol." (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8ndkqvc
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47) Romney tax returns: Days late, $$ short, still incomplete
Source: The Nation
by George Zornick
"After months of withering attacks, Mitt Romney has finally (sort of)
lifted the veil of secrecy around his personal finances. At 3 pm, his
campaign released his full 2011 tax return and a summary from
PriceWaterhouseCooper of his tax filings over twenty years, from
1990-2009. The bottom line: as everyone suspected, Romney pays a lower
tax rate than the typical middle-class family -- and he seems to have
purposely engineered a higher rate for himself for optical reasons.
Moreover, by only summarizing the past twenty years of returns,
there's a lot we don't know. Here's a look at what we learned so
far." (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/9pjzpx5
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48) How Obama came to be the biggest defender of indefinite detention
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
"Perhaps it's all for the best that the Obama administration oversaw
the scrubbing of civil liberties vows that graced the 2008 Democratic
Party platform from the 2012 edition. It's one thing to promise to end
practices implemented by your nefarious political opponents; it's
quite another to commit to ending abuses you yourself have practiced
without restraint." (09/21/12)
http://bit.ly/PyMIVy
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49) A sure-fire place to cut the US defense budget
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by John C. Hulsman
"It is the kind of bizarre Alice-in-Wonderland story that drives
average Americans crazy. Confronted with the worst economic crisis
since the Great Depression, the federal government has insisted on
continuing to fund a defense program that will admittedly never be
made operational. Instead of recognizing the blindingly obvious, and
ending this farcical story, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has instead
urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to reinsert $400 million in
funding for the air-defense program known as MEADS (Medium Extended
Air Defense System). He wants to take advantage of research on the
surveillance radar part of the program." (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/8hmdmmt
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50) Pentagon spending: Politics & profit trump national security
Source: Our Future
by Stephen Miles & William Hartung
"This week in Washington the halls of Congress have been flooded with
talk about looming cuts to the Pentagon. With members of Congress
floating plans to undo planned cuts (known in Congressional jargon as
'sequestration') due to start in January, the lobbyists for America's
weapons makers, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), have been
storming the Hill to scare Congress with talk of layoffs and
'doomsday.'" (09/21/12)
http://tinyurl.com/9568j3j
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