06/29 -- US House passes "cap and trade" bill; Madoff to be sentenced

[Thomas L. Knapp]

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In The News:

0) RRND/FND mid-year subscription drive
1) US House passes "cap and trade" bill
2) Madoff to be sentenced
3) Iraq: Five killed, 21 wounded
4) Honduras: Military ousts Zelaya; US regime condemns coup
5) US withdraws from Iraqi cities despite violence
6) US: Rising government debt raises prospects of eventual inflation
7) New program helps manage student loan debt
8) Feds squabble over who directs military's border role
9) UK: Parents of unruly children to be fined
10) UK: Doctors condemn "commercial" NHS
11) Moon rocket test is on shaky ground
12) Obama adviser not ready to back a second "stimulus"
13) NATO, Russia to resume military relationship
14) NJ: Bill to limit gun purchases gets idiot pols' approval
15) Iran: Firewall doesn't block video games
16) India: Hot chili grenades
17) PC repair techs serve as police spies
18) AZ: Tax issues stall talks in House on budget
19) MA: Patrick set to keep "health" welfare
20) Healthcare "reform:" Taxing employee benefits still an option
21) Report: India to review laws banning homosexuality
22) Czech Republic: Some note sexism in "ova" suffix
23) US strategy changes on Afghan drug trade
24) Graham: If America forgave Clinton, why not Sanford?
25) Billy Mays, 1958-2009

Everybody Has An Opinion:

26) The uncompromising Rothbard
27) Liberty and the Tehran spring
28) Another reason to end the war on drugs
29) The myth of social justice
30) The political class is in session
31) Where is the real stimulus bill?
32) Markets vs politics: Lessons in intolerance
33) The subjectivist paradox
34) Privatization versus sub-contracting
35) Obama's politburo of proctologists
36) Mr. President, Iran has a question
37) Public schools and the public option
38) Drowning in the sea of disbelief
39) A closer look at the Second Amendment
40) Death by Obamanomics?
41) What can I do to help Obama?
42) Obama pulls an agency out of his ... hat
43) The deadly fallacy of believing "the boogeyman will go away"
44) From the US to Zimbabwe
45) I want my money back
46) How NOT to remember Matthew Shepard
47) Enough is enough
48) A governor undone by love
49) Getting off the grid
50) How Confucianism could curb global warming
51) Guess who's selling Wall Street's bull?
52) Salinger 451
53) Obama's Stonewall
54) Obama healthcare poison pill
55) "Repressed inflation": The ailment of the modern economy
56) Responding to the "liberal middle"
57) Time for term limits
58) The misrepresentation of healthcare reform
59) Sticks and stones
60) Fettered free trade
61) Resorting to violence
62) Double whammy
63) Stripping away free expression
64) Death knell for mainstream newspapers
65) Shock and audit, part 5: Mission impossible

See No Evil, Hear No Evil:

66) Kathleen Polizzi on Freedom Rings Radio, 06/29/09
67) QandO Podcast, 06/28/09
68) Free Talk Live, 06/27/09
69) Freedomain Radio #1403
70) Cato Daily Podcast, 06/26/09

What's Up In The Freedom Movement:

71) Today's events

WaYbAcK:

72) The Townshend Duties

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* In The News
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0) RRND/FND mid-year subscription drive

Update, 06/29/09: Thanks to subscribing contributors GB and MA, whose
monthly payments totaling $30 arrived over the weekend! Thanks also to
"one-time" $12 contributor TP, who writes:

"I'm one of your freeloader readers. I have no extra money or income,
so I thought I would always be a freeloader. But this headline you
wrote made me dig deep and find a couple bucks."

Let me reiterate: Please don't miss meals to support RRND/FND.
However, if you value it and can peel a few bucks loose to return some
or all of the value you place on it, please accept our thanks for
doing so. If each of our readers valued RRND/FND at $1 per month or
$12 per year and paid that for it, these fundraisers would disappear
-- we'd be well beyond even our rosiest revenue projections!

It looks like we're not going to make our goal of getting "subscribing
contributor" revenues up to $2,000 per month by the end of June. That
means there are going to be some changes.

One change we're NOT going to make is cutting the amount of material
in each day's edition. Nor do we plan to run more "web-only" editions
-- we've tried to cut those to the bare minimum.

We'll run the little sidebar "mini-fundraisers" each month, with a
goal of the gap between our "subscribing contributor" revenues and
$2,000. We may run more ads, and pass links in the email edition
through our web edition so that you have to see those ads on your way
to the good stuff. And of course we'll be back with more high-profile
fundraising, sooner than we would have been if we'd made the goal.

By the end of this year, I intend to have RRND/FND pulling in $2,000
per month in revenues. To the maximum extent possible, I'll try to
make the process of getting there feel more like massage than like
unanesthetized dentistry. You may, however, feel a slight pinch - TLK

http://www.rationalreview.com/content/64484

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1) US House passes "cap and trade" bill
Reuters

"The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed a sweeping climate
change bill [Friday] that will significantly change the way Americans
use and produce energy. The American Clean Energy and Security Act
(ACES), which passed on a 219-212 vote, now moves to the Senate, where
experts predict another battle. Environmental groups hailed the bill's
passing." (06/26/09)

http://tinyurl.com/md6oxl

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2) Madoff to be sentenced
Boston Globe

"Bernard Madoff will get one last creature comfort before he is
sentenced today, probably to spend the rest of his days in prison. The
judge has given him permission to don his own clothes for the hearing.
Jack Cutter is wearing something special, too, these days: a butcher's
smock. The 80-year-old from Longmont, Colo., had to go back to work
after he lost his retirement savings in Madoff's swindle. He used to
be a petroleum engineer. Now he spends his weekdays at a Safeway
supermarket. ... Prosecutors, who have asked a judge to sentence
Madoff to 150 years, promise to seize his assets and force him to pay
restitution. On Friday, a judge ruled Madoff must forfeit $171
billion; his wife, Ruth Madoff, was stripped of over $80
million." (06/29/09)

http://tinyurl.com/nrmy85

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3) Iraq: Five killed, 21 wounded
AntiWar.Com

"In Hamrin Dam, a roadside bomb blasted a car, killing the driver and
wounding three members of his family. Nearby, gunmen killed the
brother of an Iraqi lieutenant colonel when they could not find the
army officer; they left a bomb that injured two more people. Gunmen in
Mosul killed an imam and a civilian in separate incidents
yesterday. ... A bomb blasted a vehicle belonging to a local official
in Ramadi. Her husband was killed and the official was
wounded." (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/nchfjx

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4) Honduras: Military ousts Zelaya; US regime condemns coup
ABC News

"The U.S. government today called the overthrow of Honduran President
Manuel Zelaya, 'illegal' and 'illegitimate' and it is calling for
Zelaya to be returned to his country. In a statement, President Obama
said he was 'deeply concerned' about the situation and he called on
'all political and social actors in Honduras to respect democratic
norms, the rule of law and the tenets of the Inter-American Democratic
Charter. Any existing tensions and disputes must be resolved
peacefully through dialogue free from any outside
interference.'" (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/nc9ksq

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5) US withdraws from Iraqi cities despite violence
Winston-Salem Journal

"Death squads roamed the streets, slaughtering members of the rival
Muslim sect. Bombs rocked Baghdad daily -- until thousands of U.S.
troops poured in two years ago, establishing neighborhood bases and
taking control of the Iraqi capital and other cities. By Tuesday, all
but a small number of American soldiers will have left Baghdad and
other urban areas, handing over security to Iraqi soldiers and police
still largely untested as an independent fighting force." [editor's
note: Nice revision of history there, but in fact it was depopulation/
flight that drove violence down first, before the US proclaimed a
"surge" to take credit for it - TLK] (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/l7eagz

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6) US: Rising government debt raises prospects of eventual inflation
USA Today

"Inflation is as dead as the Wicked Witch of the West in a waterfall.
The consumer price index has actually fallen 1.3% in the past 12
months. So why is everyone so worried about soaring prices? In a word:
debt. The government owes the world $11.4 trillion -- $37,000 for
every person in the U.S. In the next fiscal year, the government will
add $1.8 trillion to the deficit." (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/mnnmn5

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7) New program helps manage student loan debt
MSNBC

"Repaying a student loan could soon be a little less painful. Starting
this week, anyone with a federal student loan can apply for a program,
run by the Department of Education, that caps monthly payments based
on income, and forgives remaining balances after 25 years. Those
choosing to work in public [sic] service could have their loans
forgiven after just 10 years." (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/m2tdg4

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8) Feds squabble over who directs military's border role
MSNBC

"A proposal to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to
counter drug trafficking has triggered a bureaucratic standoff between
the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security over the military's
role in domestic affairs, according to officials in both departments.
The debate has engaged a pair of powerful personalities, Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Defense Secretary Robert M.
Gates, in what their subordinates describe as a turf fight over who
should direct the use of troops to assist in the fight against Mexican
cartels and who should pay for them." (06/27/09)

http://tinyurl.com/klo2ns

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9) UK: Parents of unruly children to be fined
Independent [UK]

"Parents could be fined or sent to prison if their children misbehave,
under powers to be awarded to schools. They form part of a government
White Paper on education to be published by the Schools Secretary, Ed
Balls, tomorrow. Most schools operate agreements under which parents
and pupils undertake to promote good behaviour, but they are not
enforceable. The new powers could see parents who fail to abide by
them fined or given community sentences. In some cases, they could end
up in prison if they did not pay the fines." (06/29/09)

http://tinyurl.com/lrndmc

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10) UK: Doctors condemn "commercial" NHS
BBC [UK]

"Doctors are urging the government to row back on its 'dogmatic
commercialisation' of the NHS to help protect services during the
recession.The British Medical Association (BMA) has attacked what it
calls a 'sledgehammer' approach to reform to the health service in
England. The union is calling on ministers to instead work with
doctors to cope with the tough times ahead." (06/29/09)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8123338.stm

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11) Moon rocket test is on shaky ground
Orlando Sentinel

"The violent shaking that threatens to destroy the Ares I rocket that
NASA hopes will one day return astronauts to the moon is also
threatening to delay -- or even cancel -- the first flight of its test
version, the Ares I-X. Air Force officials who have safety
jurisdiction over all launches from Kennedy Space Center are worried
that the rocket's vibrations could knock out the self-destruct
mechanism required in case the launch goes awry." (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/nc2qmy

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12) Obama adviser not ready to back a second "stimulus"
San Antonio Express-News

"A senior White House adviser said Sunday the economic stimulus has
not yet 'broken the back of the recession' but set aside calls for a
second massive spending bill. Republicans, meanwhile, called spending
under way a failure. White House adviser David Axelrod urged patience
for President Barack Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus package in
the face of sliding poll numbers. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
Romney, a past and potentially future presidential candidate, said the
spending was ill-designed and served only to expand the size of
government." (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/mghels

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13) NATO, Russia to resume military relationship
CNN

"NATO and Russia have agreed to restart their military relationship,
nearly a year after it had been frozen over the war in Georgia, the
top NATO official said on Saturday. 'The NATO-Russia Council is up and
running again also at the political level,' said NATO Secretary-
General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, speaking at a meeting of ministers in
Corfu, Greece." (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/nrxhjx

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14) NJ: Bill to limit gun purchases gets idiot pols' approval
NJ.com

"Firearms sales in New Jersey would be limited to no more than one per
month under controversial legislation that had stalled earlier this
year but won final approval early this morning in the rush before the
Legislature's summer recess. The bill's sponsors and supporters argue
the law would stem the flow of guns from other states and prevent
criminals from distributing handguns throughout New Jersey. ... If
enacted, people would be able to purchase only one weapon per 30-day
period. The measure also prohibits firearms sellers from 'knowingly
delivering' more than one gun per 30-day period. Violators would face
a fourth-degree felony charge, carrying a $10,000 penalty." (06/26/09)

http://tinyurl.com/mfgjxu

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15) Iran: Firewall doesn't block video games
1 Up

"With the Iranian government doing its best to crack down on the
growing unrest following its contested election, most forms of
interactive communication have been blocked. However, that firewall
does not yet appear to include video games, suggesting a unique route
by which Iranians can communicate with the world. ... The Iranian
government has since began filtering the Internet and other
communications, making mobile phone difficult or impossible to use,
and denying access to sites associated with the BBC, among others. For
at least a little while though, it appears that the Xbox 360 and other
services continue to be available. In Iran, it may be that video games
have become far more important than they have ever been before."
906/25/09)

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174959

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16) India: Hot chili grenades
Ananova [UK]

"Indian scientists are to put one of the world's hottest chilli
powders into hand grenades. They say the devices will be used to
control rioters and in counter-insurgency operations. Defence
researchers say the idea is to replace explosives in small hand
grenades with a certain variety of red chilli to immobilise people
without killing them." (06/27/09)

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3377473.html

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17) PC repair techs serve as police spies
the Register [UK]

"A visit to your PC repair shop could be swiftly followed by a trip to
court and a short stay in your local jail if it harbours any remotely
questionable material -- whether you knew about it or not. That, at
least, is the fear as the latest confirmed outing for the Dangerous
Pictures Act sees one individual prosecuted after a PC engineer
spotted potentially unlawful pictures on their PC -- and his line
manager passed on details to the police." (06/26/09)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/dangerous_pictures_act/

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18) AZ: Tax issues stall talks in House on budget
Arizona Republic

"Arizona's great budget debate will drag into the last two days of the
fiscal year. Hopes of pushing the $8.4 billion spending plan through
the House of Representatives on Saturday evaporated when a key
committee adjourned without getting to the controversial issues of
creating a flat income tax and referring a temporary sales-tax
increase to voters in November. 'People are conflicted,' said House
Appropriations Chairman John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills. The tax
issues are major stumbling blocks to a budget accord, even though they
have been agreed to by Gov. Jan Brewer and the Republican leaders of
the Legislature." [editor's note: An income tax where there was none?
Where are the horn-honkers? - SAT] (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/kmlgng

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19) MA: Patrick set to keep "health" welfare
Boston Globe

"Governor Deval Patrick plans to announce a spending proposal tomorrow
that retains medical coverage for some 30,000 legal immigrants who are
at risk of losing it, and will also agree to ensure dental coverage
for another 700,000 of the state's poorest residents, administration
officials said yesterday. State-subsidized coverage for the two groups
has been endangered this year as Patrick and lawmakers struggled to
craft a budget amid an economic downturn that has sharply curtailed
tax revenues. The governor will propose the healthcare spending for
legal immigrants as an amendment to the state's $27.4-billion budget
that he will sign tomorrow. Patrick's proposal for the legal
immigrants is a short-term fix that will require more work with
lawmakers, who have resisted the coverage because it is especially
expensive for the state." (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/lo9j94

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20) Healthcare "reform:" Taxing employee benefits still an option
Fox News

"The White House left open the possibility Sunday that President Obama
could tax employer-provided health insurance to pay for his $1
trillion universal healthcare plan, a violation of the president's
campaign pledge to not raise taxes on middle-class families. White
House adviser David Axelrod said the administration wouldn't rule out
taxing some employees' benefits to fund a healthcare agenda that has
yet to take final form. The move would be a compromise with fellow
Democrats, who are pushing the proposal as a way to pay for the
massive undertaking without ballooning the federal deficit. 'There are
a number of formulations and we'll wait and see. The important thing
at this point is to keep the process moving, to keep people at the
table, to the keep the discussions going,' Axelrod said. 'We've gotten
a long way down the road and we want to finish that
journey.'" (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/lsr8s6

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21) Report: India to review laws banning homosexuality
Agence France-Presse

"India is set to review its long-standing laws barring gay sex, in a
move that could decriminalize homosexuality in the largely
conservative country, a report said Sunday. Consensual sex between
same-sex adults is currently punishable by a fine and a 10-year prison
term under the Indian Penal Code, and most politicians have so far
resisted amending the statute which dates back to British rule. Now
three key ministers have agreed to meet shortly to discuss a possible
revamp of the country's homosexuality laws." (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/kr7aac

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22) Czech Republic: Some note sexism in "ova" suffix
Los Angeles Times

"Lucie Kundra is something of a feminist rebel -- not because she
wouldn't take her husband's name when they got married in 2008, but
because she did. She adopted his surname exactly as it was and in
doing so defied centuries of tradition and the wishes of her own
mother. That's because she refused to add the customary feminine
suffix 'ova' to the end of her husband's name, as the Czech language
normally dictates; she answers to Lucie Kundra, not Lucie
Kundrova. ... Though still a small minority, more and more young Czech
women are grappling with that question as women make further inroads
in Czech society and inch closer to parity with men." (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/mtnblc

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23) US strategy changes on Afghan drug trade
Associated Press

"The U.S. is shifting its strategy against Afghanistan's drug trade,
phasing out funding for opium eradication while boosting efforts to
fight trafficking and promote alternate crops, the U.S. envoy for
Afghanistan said Saturday. The aim of the new policy: to deprive the
Taliban of the tens of millions of dollars in drug revenue that is
fueling its insurgency. The U.S. envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan,
Richard Holbrooke, told the Associated Press that poppy eradication --
for years a cornerstone of U.S. and U.N. efforts in the country -- was
not working and was only driving Afghan farmers into the hands of the
Taliban. 'Eradication is a waste of money,' Holbrooke said on the
sidelines of a Group of Eight foreign ministers' meeting on
Afghanistan, during which he briefed regional representatives on the
new policy." (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/kr9mrd

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24) Graham: If America forgave Clinton, why not Sanford?
Christian Science Monitor

"A clearly emotional Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) of South Carolina Sunday
invoked former President Clinton as a defense for why embattled Gov.
Mark Sanford, also of South Carolina, should potentially be allowed to
finish his term. Senator Graham is the godfather of Governor Sanford's
fourth and youngest son, and he fielded questions about Sanford's
admitted infidelity with difficulty on NBC's Meet the Press. In a
contrite moment, he called the GOP a party of sinners -- apparently
referring to his own religious convictions, because he added that the
same was true of 'every other group in America.'" [editor's note: The
hypocrisy of this clown, after the way he hounded Billy Boy so (for
all the wrong reasons) - SAT] (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/ndnrkc

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25) Billy Mays, 1958-2009
CNN

"Infomercial pitchman Billy Mays died at his Tampa, Florida, home
Sunday morning, authorities told CNN. The 50-year-old known for his
shouting OxiClean ads was pronounced dead at 7:45 a.m. The
Hillsborough County medical examiner will perform an autopsy, Tampa
police Lt. Brian Dugan said. ... Mays was a spokesman for Orange Glo
and detergent OxiClean and appeared in commercials for other products.
He is featured on the reality TV show 'Pitchmen' on the Discovery
Channel, which follows pitch people in their jobs." (06/28/09)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/28/mays.death/

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* HEALTH-OF-THE-STATE-O-METER, 06/29/09
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* Reported Civilian Deaths in Iraq: Min - 92,393 ... Max - 100,868
* (source: www.iraqbodycount.org)
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* American Military Deaths in Iraq: 4,318
* (source: www.antiwar.com/casualties/)
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* Everybody Has An Opinion
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26) The uncompromising Rothbard
LewRockwell.Com
by Llewllyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

"Trimming and compromising for the sake of the times or the audience
was just not Rothbard's way. He knew that he had a once-in-a-lifetime
chance to present the full package of libertarianism in all its glory,
and he was not about to pass it up. And thus do we read here: not just
a case for cutting government but eliminating it altogether, not just
an argument for assigning property rights but for deferring to the
market even on questions of contract enforcement, and not just a case
for cutting welfare but for banishing the entire welfare-warfare
state. Whereas other attempts to make a libertarian case, both before
and after this book, might typically call for transitional or half
measures, or be willing to concede as much as possible to statists,
that is not what we get from Murray. Not for him such schemes as
school vouchers or the privatization of government programs that
should not exist at all. Instead, he presents and follows through with
the full-blown and fully bracing vision of what liberty can
be." (06/29/09)

http://tinyurl.com/murrsg

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27) Liberty and the Tehran spring
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

"The U.S. government has long ago ceased to represent the forces of
freedom in the world, but that doesn't mean the glorious history of
this country as the avatar of freedom is or can be erased. The glow of
what was once a light unto the world lingers yet, ironically stronger
the further away it is geographically and temporally. To those of us
who seek to relight the torch of freedom in the U.S., it is imperative
that we balance the legitimate impulse on the part of foreign peoples
to gain a greater measure of freedom with the imperatives of opposing
U.S. government intervention. And, yes, I do mean rhetorical as well
as military and financial intervention, especially in the case of the
Iranian events. Presidential palavering does nothing to concretely aid
the Iranians being beaten in the streets, and, as we have seen, it has
been just a cover for Obama to back away from his campaign promises to
negotiate in a meaningful way with Tehran." (06/29/09)

http://tinyurl.com/kq44jd

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28) Another reason to end the war on drugs
KN@PPSTER
by Thomas L. Knapp

"[B]ecause selling pot is illegal, most dealers aren't going to call
the cops to report a robbery. In this particular case, the cops did
get called, but this case was an exception. Maybe the caller panicked
because his wife was in the clutches of a gunman. Maybe he has a
conscience and wasn't willing to let the gunmen run wild a minute
longer in a building full of children. Maybe both. But I'd bet money
that if the robbery had come off cleanly and he had heard about it
only after the fact, 911 would never have been dialed. For all
practical purposes the 'war on drugs' might as well have been
designed, on every major point, to create situations just like this
one. The war itself is far, far more dangerous and deadly than the
drugs ever were." (06/27/09)

http://tinyurl.com/ngs856

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29) The myth of social justice
Liberty For All
by Jessica Pacholski

"Many people clamor for 'social justice,' they want a turn of the tide
against the evils that have haunted humanity through the ages. This is
a term I have never understood, mostly because it's an impossibility.
Justice is only applicable to individuals, since it can only be just
to punish someone for their own actions. Social justice is a dragnet,
in reality it punishes everyone for being part of society, whether
they have committed a crime or not. How can a person be held
responsible for crimes committed before they were born? They can't,
and what's more there is no way to repay people for certain wrongs
committed against their ancestors, such as slavery. How do you ever
make that right?" (06/28/09)

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=2772

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30) The political class is in session
Center for a Stateless Society
by Thomas L. Knapp

"Do you often find the operations of government confusing and
seemingly counterproductive? You're not alone. It's not your fault.
There's actually a simple explanation, but understanding that
explanation requires you to mentally rebel against a lifetime of
"education," conditioning and propagandization. Here's that simple
explanation: The purpose of all, or nearly all, functions of the
modern state is to facilitate and maximize the transfer of wealth from
the pockets of the productive class to the bank accounts of the
political class." (06/26/09)

http://c4ss.org/content/707

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31) Where is the real stimulus bill?
Dallas Libertarian Examiner
by Garry Reed

"We're still waiting for the real economic stimulus bill from congress
that will allow America to recover from the mess that our meddling
megalomaniac government officiouscrats got us into. Where is the
legislation that tells politicians and bureaucrats to get the hell out
of the way so that workers can work and creators can create and
inventors can invent and entrepreneurs can entrep? Where is the bill
that will allow libertarians to liberate?" (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/n9cptk

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32) Markets vs politics: Lessons in intolerance
Classically Liberal
by CLS

"On one hand we have a government-owned park making a same-sex couple
and their children feel especially unwelcome while the Chamber of
Commerce, that represents 70 businesses in the area, is going out of
its way to tell people that they welcome everyone as visitors in their
community. I am not the least bit surprised by this. ... Political
power is inherently conservative, markets embrace
diversity." (06/27/09)

http://tinyurl.com/krkfy3

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33) The subjectivist paradox
Tibor's Space
by Tibor R. Machan

"Although most people encounter philosophy primarily in college, the
discipline has a way of sneaking up on them elsewhere as well. A
simple and familiar example is when one says that 'Beauty is in the
eye of the beholder,' meaning that when one judges something to be
beautiful or ugly one is just expressing how things seem to be to
oneself. Making such judgments, the idea goes, is really impossible --
at best they amount to stating what one feels or believes but without
the possibility of proving it true. Indeed, by this account truth and
falsehood do not apply to aesthetic judgments. Some go much further
and claim that all our judgments are of this sort, subjective or mere
statements of personal outlook or preference, not of anything that
could be true or false." (06/28/09)

http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B2FD693F4B9A5746!964.entry

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34) Privatization versus sub-contracting
Ayn R. Key
by Ayn R. Key

"The State of California, in trying to manage a state park owned by
the state government, hired AIG to manage the state park. AIG hired
private firefighters to perform the firefighting service in the state
part, at the behest of AIG, at the behest of the State of California.
Those private firefighters apparently didn't do a very good job, and
so after being paid by the state (ultimately) to do a state job on
state land it is considered a failure of privatization. A real example
of privatization would not have the state involved. These private fire
fighters would be hired, not by California (via AIG) but by the
private owner of the private land. The two do not compare." (06/25/09)

http://tinyurl.com/msbgbu

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35) Obama's politburo of proctologists
WorldNetDaily
by Ilana Mercer

"Obama is a heavy-duty planner; a command and control kind of guy. He
aims to replace cumbersome, heavily regulated medicine -- the kind
Americans have now -- with Kafkaesque, centrally controlled care.
He'll start small -- a modest health care expansion totaling $2
trillion -- and will proceed from there. During the recent ABC News
health care infomercial, put on for the Big Man's benefit, the
president smirked: 'If private insurers say that the marketplace
provides the best-quality health care; if they tell us that they're
offering a good deal, then why is it that the government, which they
say can't run anything, suddenly is going to drive them out of
business?' The marketplace, of course, doesn't conceive of separate
spheres, neatly carved-up by statists. The laws of supply and demand
don't answer to Barry the Bolshevik." (06/26/09)

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102186

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36) Mr. President, Iran has a question
Slate
by John Dickerson

"There was a tiny tempest this week in the Washington press corps. The
White House arranged to have Nico Pitney of the Huffington Post ask a
question he received over the Web from an Iranian. This caused mild
upset among some traditional news organizations, which, in turn,
prompted harsh derision from many in the Web-only world. This is an
intramural fight that won't go away. We love to talk about
ourselves." (06/26/09)

http://www.slate.com/id/2221400/

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37) Public schools and the public option
The Liberty Papers
by Quincy

"Imagine a private school where students sat in a math class for weeks
misbehaving and learning nothing. Imagine that school gets on TV news
because the administrators suspended the young lady who blew the
whistle by taking a cell phone video and giving it to her mom who
confronted them. Do you think that school would have enough students
to start the next school year? Well, this happened at a public high
school in the SF Bay Area .... When parents pay for an education, they
absolutely will not tolerate a school run like Clayton Valley HS. When
the state provides an education for free, a vast majority of parents
will generally take what they can get and call it good
enough." (06/27/09)

http://tinyurl.com/ksoqqq

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38) Drowning in the sea of disbelief
Adam Smith Institute
by Steve Bettison

"Conservative leader, David Cameron, gave a speech at Imperial
College, London, on Thursday, outlining how the Conservatives would
roll back the state. This would involve publishing information
relating to any public expenditure over £25,000 (why not publish
everything?), abolishing such things as ID Cards, reviewing Ripa and
also the extradition treaty between the UK & US. It's painfully true
that our freedoms have been eroded faster than ever over the past 12
years, but the Conservatives are just as culpable having been a
subservient opposition that has failed on a number of occasions to
stand up for liberty." (06/29/09)

http://tinyurl.com/kw4p8t

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39) A closer look at the Second Amendment
The Price of Liberty
by The Hunter

"In the traditional American view of the relationship between citizens
and government, all power ultimately derives from The People. The
phrase 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed,' from the preamble to the
Declaration states unequivocally the view of the Founders on the
proper role of government in society. A view the same men later
enshrined in the constitutional federal republic created by the
ratification of the United States Constitution. As quite carefully
explained in that remarkable document, many basic 'natural' rights
were placed FOREVER beyond the purview of the federal government.
Immutable rights such as freedom of the press, freedom of religion,
freedom of association, protection from arbitrary and capricious acts
of government, AND the right to keep and bear arms were explicitly
placed off limits in the Bill of Rights, which should more properly be
called the Bill of Restrictions on Government." (06/29/09)

http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/09/06/29/hunter.html

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40) Death by Obamanomics?
The Weekly Standard
by Irwin M. Stelzer

"Death by a thousand cuts. Or in the case of the efficiency of the
U.S. economy, by at least four: energy policy, health care policy,
trade union resurgence, and fiscal madness." (06/26/09)

http://tinyurl.com/muu4bl

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41) What can I do to help Obama?
Salon
by Robert Reich

"People who voted for Barack Obama tend to fall into one of two camps:
Trusters, who believe he's a good man with the right values and he's
doing everything he can; and cynics, who have become disillusioned
with his bailouts of Wall Street, flimsy proposals for taming the
Street, willingness to give away 85 percent of cap-and-trade pollution
permits, seeming reversals on eavesdropping and torture, and
squishiness on a public option for healthcare. In my view, both
positions are wrong. A new president -- even one as talented and well-
motivated as Obama -- can't get a thing done in Washington unless the
public is actively behind him. As FDR said in the reelection campaign
of 1936 when a lady insisted that if she were to vote for him he must
commit to a long list of objectives, 'Ma'am, I want to do those
things, but you must make me.' We must make Obama do the right
things." (06/29/09)

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/29/reich/

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42) Obama pulls an agency out of his ... hat
Reason
by Katherine Mangu-Ward

"Part of the fun of the magic trick is when the magician asks his
duped audience to recount the chain of events: No matter how carefully
they retrace their steps, they omit the incident where he touched the
deck simply because they know for sure he never touched the deck. It's
called 'provoked confabulation,' and this particular gambit is on
display, sans Bicycle deck, in the current debate over the creation of
the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and the rest of President
Barack Obama's proposed financial regulatory reforms." (06/26/09)

http://reason.com/news/show/134395.html

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43) The deadly fallacy of believing "the boogeyman will go away"
Sipsey Street Irregulars
by Dutchman 6

'Hitler willed, wanted, craved war and the destruction wrought by war.
He did not want the war he got. Its origins lay through his own
miscalculations and misperceptions, as much as through those of his
eventual opponents, not least in their belief that he was bluffing,
that he would recoil, that in Paul Claudel's words, 'Croque-mitaine se
degonflera' (the boogeyman will go away). ... The only people who
could have stopped him permanently were those least conditioned to do
so, his Generals, and their soldiers, if they had been ready to obey,
by coup d'etat, or an assassin capable of penetrating into the Reichs
Chancellery from which, in the last days of peace, Hitler never
emerged. History knows this did not happen." (06/26/09)

http://tinyurl.com/lp8jve

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44) From the US to Zimbabwe
Asia Times
by Richard Daughty [The Mogambo Guru]

"The United States Federal Reserve is creating too much money, putting
the US on the same path as Zimbabwe which, I guess you heard, has
finally created so much money that its currency is now officially
worthless. Worthless!" (06/27/09)

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KF27Dj01.html

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45) I want my money back
Common Dreams
by Marie Marchand

"I'm not that young, so I possess some cynicism. But I'm not that old
either, so I manage some idealism. Sure, I am used to being betrayed
by my government. But I thought my days of calling the White House in
tears were over. To think that Barack Obama preyed on this naive hope
in me and millions like me is unforgivable." (06/28/09)

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/28

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46) How NOT to remember Matthew Shepard
CounterPunch
by Alex Cockburn

"The Matthew Shepard Act is a ham-handed attempt to right injustice by
establishing different legal treatment for some classes of crime
victims. The proposed statute classifies as 'hate crimes' attacks
based on a victim's actual or perceived race, color, religion,
national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or
disability. America is well on its way to making it illegal to say
anything nasty about gays, Jews, blacks and women. 'Hate speech,' far
short of any direct incitement to violence, is on the edge of being
criminalized, with the First Amendment gone the way of the
dodo." (06/28/09)

http://counterpunch.org/cockburn06262009.html

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47) Enough is enough
The Libertarian Enterprise
by L. Neil Smith

"For each of us who demands nothing more from the civilization we live
in and contribute to than absolute ownership and control of our own
lives (and, as Ayn Rand noted, the products of our lives) there has
been nothing but increasingly bad news as long as most of us can
remember. Since the turn of the 20th century, collectivism -- called
by every conceivable euphemism: communism, progressivism, socialism,
fascism, liberalism -- has taken more and more and more from us. It is
insatiable. It wants everything we earn, everything we own, everything
we hope to own. It wants our homes, our land, our children. It wants
our cars and our weapons. It wants our very lives and strives for the
means to observe and control them every minute, every step, and every
breath." (06/28/09)

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle525-20090628-02.html

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48) A governor undone by love
The American Prospect
by Terence Samuel

"Mark Sanford's press conference on Wednesday ... made for riveting
television; the more you listened to the South Carolina governor, the
less interesting the story's political implications became compared to
the raw human drama of a man getting crushed by the consequences of
falling in love. Sanford's sudden implosion seems that the political
fates have decided that to save the GOP they must destroy it, or, in
their own parlance, the party must be born again. Sanford was that
rare figure who fought at the barricades of the GOP revolution in 1994
and who survived its collapse with enough credibility intact to think
about a future. ... Sanford did things people in his position never
do: He admitted that he was in love and that the relationship was not
over. He apologized to his mistress as much as to his wife, and he did
not even remotely pretend that the worst was behind him." (06/26/09)

http://tinyurl.com/m54ola

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49) Getting off the grid
In These Times
by David Sirota

"As you read this, I am somewhere in rural China, probably
disoriented, perhaps eating a fish eye, and certainly not paying
attention to the news. This column was the last thing I wrote before
embarking on what's become an all-too-rare experiment in human life: I
decided to see what will happen when I go fully off the grid. Because
I am completely cut off, you cannot call or text me from your phone;
you cannot IM, Friend or Tweet me from your computer; and you cannot
message me via my avatar on Xbox Live. You cannot even e-mail me or
leave me a voice mail -- my mailboxes tell you that all messages are
being deleted, and that you will have to re-contact me when I'm back.
(Legend has it that Napoleon waited until he received two letters to
respond to requests, figuring that most problems become moot in the
interim -- I guess I'll find out if he is right)." (06/26/09)

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4525/getting_off_the_grid/

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50) How Confucianism could curb global warming
Christian Science Monitor
by James Miller

"Now here's a curveball to secular Western policy experts: China's
intellectuals are openly debating the role of Confucianism, Buddhism,
and Taoism in promoting the Communist Party's vision of a harmonious
society and ecologically sustainable economic development. Nowhere is
the question of what to do about the environment more vital than in
China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases -- especially
because scientists agree that climate change disproportionately
affects the poor and the disenfranchised and that climate change will
affect future generations far more than the present. Yet the general
impression of China's role in issues relating to environment is one of
foot-dragging because it hasn't bought into a Western model to address
it." (06/26/09)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0626/p09s01-coop.html

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51) Guess who's selling Wall Street's bull?
Mother Jones
by Daniel Schulman

"The strategic communications specialist advising a financial industry
effort to enhance Wall Street's image has plenty of experience in
spinning the American public: In the Bush White House, he was one of
the aides in charge of the administration's fact-bending campaign to
sell the Iraq War. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that Jim Wilkinson,
a one-time senior aide to former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, is
part of a campaign, spearheaded by the Securities Industry and
Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), to quell the upsurge of
'populist' anger directed at the financial sector. But the story
leaves out an important part of his résumé: He's a GOP PR operative
with a history of disseminating misleading information and once served
as the deputy communications director in the Bush White
House." (06/26/09)

http://tinyurl.com/kj4utw

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52) Salinger 451
Boston Globe
by staff

"We can understand why the famously private New Hampshire hermit JD
Salinger would be chagrined at the publication of a cheesy sequel to
Catcher in the Rye. But does he have the right to block its
publication? Salinger's estate has sued in federal district court to
stop American distribution of 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye,
by the pseudonymous JD California. The book, originally published in
Britain, picks up the story of a character very much like Holden
Caulfield, though his name is never used, at age 76 -- a resident of a
nursing home. The legal question at issue is whether the new work is
parody or criticism, both permissible under the fair-use provisions of
the copyright laws. In 2001, publishers beat back a federal court
challenge from the estate of Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with
the Wind, attempting to block publication of The Wind Done Gone, a
similar tale told from the point of view of the slaves." (06/28/09)

http://tinyurl.com/l4p8uu

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53) Obama's Stonewall
The Nation
by Richard Kim

"In 1996, when Barack Obama was running for the Illinois Senate, he
was asked in a survey by Outlines, a gay community newspaper in
Chicago, if he supported same-sex marriage. Unlike most candidates,
who merely indicated yes or no, Obama took the unusual step of typing
in his response, to which he affixed his signature. Back then not a
single state permitted same-sex marriage, and sodomy was a crime.
Nonetheless, Obama took a position on the progressive edge of the
Democratic Party, and he did so with unmistakable clarity: 'I favor
legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit
such marriages.' Since then, as Obama traced his dazzling arc to the
presidency, his stance on gay rights has become murkier, wordier, less
courageous, more Clintonian." (06/24/09)

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090713/kim

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54) Obama healthcare poison pill
Fox News
by Jon Kraushar

"In his crusade to bring healthcare -- one-sixth of the country's
economy -- under government control, President Obama is asking
Americans to swallow a huge and potentially poisonous policy pill.
Just as many Canadian politicians and their families have,
hypocritically, come to the U.S. when they prefer our advanced,
private health care over their own socialized system, President Obama
got caught last night in a 'do as I say not as I do' moment. In a
special broadcast on ABC, the president refused to pledge that he'd
limit his own family to the tests and treatments that the general
public would have to confine themselves to under his proposed health
care 'public option' restrictions. Obama dismisses as 'fear tactics'
charges that his program amounts to 'socialized medicine' similar to
Canada, the United Kingdom and Sweden. Yet, ironically, Canada, the
United Kingdom and Sweden are all beginning to open their socialized
systems to private care, due to citizen protests that critical
treatments are delayed or denied." (06/25/09)

http://tinyurl.com/mbystr

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55) "Repressed inflation": The ailment of the modern economy
Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wilhelm Röpke

"It is this repressed inflation that is associated with our present
age of collectivism, and associated in the double sense that
collectivism is at once a cause of inflation and an instrument of its
repression. A host of subtle questions are connected with this, but it
would lead us too far to discuss them here. One might analyze the
different degrees and types of repressed inflation, and one might also
argue about whether, and in what circumstances, a temporary and
moderate repression of inflation is the lesser evil. The question I
ask, however, is this: Where does repressed inflation end, if, in
today's more normal peacetime conditions, it becomes a system
dominating economic life?" (written 06/1947; posted 06/26/09)

http://mises.org/story/3492

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56) Responding to the "liberal middle"
FreedomWorks
by Rossputin

"Obama and the Democratic leadership explicitly support policies which
have been tried elsewhere, whether socialized medicine or 'green jobs'
or an even more success-punishing tax code. And those policies have
failed everyone. It's typical of the liberal pathology to believe that
it would have worked had only smart enough people been in charge of
the implementation. As I've said it is indeed 'the fatal
conceit.'" (06/27/09)

http://tinyurl.com/klnc37

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57) Time for term limits
Freedom Politics
by Tom Lucente

"Even before Barack Obama was sworn in as president of the United
States, one of the very first bills the Democrats introduced in the
new Congress was one to repeal the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution,
which limits presidents to two terms. After all, when your messiah is
elected you cannot have that annoying Constitution prevent him from
staying in power. To be fair, U.S. Rep. José E. Serrano has introduced
the bill at the beginning of every Congress since Bill Clinton was
president. In fact, many similar bills have been introduced in
Congresses dating back to 1956, shortly after the amendment's
ratification." (06/26/09)

http://tinyurl.com/nlutql

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58) The misrepresentation of healthcare reform
Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

"In the debate over medical reform, everyone can find a public-opinion
poll to support his or her position. Robert Reich, who favors deeper
government involvement in healthcare than we already have, wrote
recently, 'In the most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, 76%
of respondents said it was important that Americans have a choice
between a public and private health-insurance plan. In last week's New
York Times/CBSNews poll, 85% said they wanted major healthcare
reforms.' Yet Catherine Rampell, economics editor for nytimes.com,
reports there has been 'no sea change in public opinion' about
healthcare reform." (06/26/09)

http://tinyurl.com/nxw744

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59) Sticks and stones
Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Ivan Osorio

"The Stoning of Soraya M. is a difficult film to watch, but worth
taking the time to do so. The film, which opens today, depicts the
stoning death of a young Iranian woman falsely accused of adultery. It
highlights the outrage that the barbaric practice of stoning continues
to occur anywhere, but at times does more than that. Based on the book
of the same title by Iranian-French journalist Freidoune Sahebjam, the
film (directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh) focuses on a specific event that
illustrates the way in which a repressive, illiberal society can close
in on an individual, ultimately taking away his or her very life and
personhood." (06/26/09)

http://cei.org/articles/2009/06/26/sticks-and-stones

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60) Fettered free trade
Campaign For Liberty
by Michael Beitler

"By definition, we only trade with somebody when we both profit. If I
don't profit from the proposed trade, I walk away. If my potential
trading partner doesn't profit, he or she walks away. If we both
profit, we are delighted with each other and hope to trade with each
other again soon. Free trade promotes positive relationships between
individuals and nations. And as Adam Smith pointed out, if we all
specialize in what we do best, everybody benefits." (06/27/09)

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=122

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61) Resorting to violence
Liberty For All
by Larken Rose

"On a couple of occasions, while driving back and forth to Michigan, I
made myself listen to NPR (which I think stands for 'New Pravda
Radio'). One of the topics discussed by the collectivist brigade was
'extremism' in America, and how sometimes extremists, 'right' and
'left,' resort to violence to push their agenda. What was most
noteworthy about the show was what they did not say, and probably have
never even considered. While talking about how, out of frustration and
desperation, sometimes disenfranchised people resort to violence, they
failed to mention that 'government,' by its very nature, ALWAYS
resorts to violence." (06/27/09)

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=2770

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62) Double whammy
LewRockwell.Com
by Peter Schiff

"Misguided government policies have already dealt vicious body blows
to our economy, but that hasn't stopped politicians this week from
launching two new kicks to the groin: a national health insurance plan
and a carbon emissions regulation system called 'cap and trade.' Even
if these plans could achieve their desired ends, which is highly
unlikely, I would have hoped Washington would refrain from throwing
more monkey wrenches into the economy until it shows some signs of
resurgence. The last thing we need right now is to further encumber
our economy with higher taxes and additional regulations." (06/27/09)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff31.1.html

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63) Stripping away free expression
Reason
by Shawn Macomber

"Dressed in a low-cut pink shirt, tight black booty pants, and thick,
plastic platform stilettos, Stephanie Babines doesn't look the part of
a political rabble-rouser. Yet an activist is exactly what Babines
became when her efforts to help women shape up through fully clothed,
decidedly G-rated stripper-inspired aerobics ran afoul of overzealous
officials in the small western Pennsylvania town of Mars. This
unyieldingly perky 31-year-old entrepreneur, standing in the small
forest of steel poles that shoot up from the floor of her mirrored
dance and fitness studio, has taught dance-phobic authorities an
expensive lesson in federal court." (for publication 07/09)

http://www.reason.com/news/show/133871.html

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64) Death knell for mainstream newspapers
Intellectual Conservative
by Gary Larson

"Yes, it's a crackpot theory, I realize, that the prime function of
journalism is to inform the public impartially, without fear or favor.
Color me naive. Casting that delusion aside, journalism suffers today
from chronic, life-threatening credibility gaps amidst plummeting
daily circulations. Result: Cutbacks, suspended publication,
bankruptcy for some. Some wags might say fine, good riddance, but the
loss of daily newspapers plainly sucks. It leaves a hole in the ether
of how and where we get our news, however mangled or
tainted." (06/26/09)

http://tinyurl.com/m5xjss

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65) Shock and audit, part 5: Mission impossible
Mother Jones
by Rachel Morris

"The Pentagon doesn't know where its money goes. In fact, its
accounting systems are so spectacularly busted that it's impossible to
even conduct an audit of the agency, which has been on the Government
Accountability Office's high-risk list since 1995. Its computer
programs are prehistoric and don't connect the money that comes in
with the money that goes out. There is no reliable way to detect when
contractors are overbilling. DOD's various agencies and services
maintain 2,480 different systems to manage procurement, finances, and
logistics, many of which aren't interlinked. Often, reams of vital
data must be entered by hand. All of this creates myriad possibilities
for fraud and abuse. Over the past few decades, the government has
spent billions to modernize the DOD's bookkeeping, but to no avail.
Consequently, no one really knows for sure how much the Pentagon has
spent, is spending, or should spend on weapons. Instead, the
government essentially relies on information from private contractors
to make budget decisions." (06/26/09)

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/06/mission-impossible

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66) Kathleen Polizzi on Freedom Rings Radio, 06/29/09
Freedom Rings Radio

Kathleen Polizzi joins host Kenneth John to discuss medical marijuana
and government harassment. 9-10am Central on WRMN 1410 AM, Elgin, IL
or live on the web. [live radio or webcast] (06/29/09)

http://freedomrings.net/

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67) QandO Podcast, 06/28/09
QandO

"Bruce, Michael, and Dale discuss the situations in Honduras and Iran,
and the cap-and-trade energy bill." [various formats] (06/28/09)

http://www.qando.net/?p=3276

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68) Free Talk Live, 06/27/09
Free Talk Live

"Live from Porcfest 2009 Day 3 of 3." [MP3] (06/27/09)

http://media.libsyn.com/media/ftl/FTL2009-06-27.mp3

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69) Freedomain Radio #1403
Freedomain Radio

"A freewheeling conversation with the hosts of www.atlasmediaonline.com."
[MP3] (06/27/09)

http://tinyurl.com/fdr1403

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70) Cato Daily Podcast, 06/26/09
Cato Institute

"Health care: Fostering focus factories," featuring Regina Herzlinger.
[MP3] (06/26/09)

http://tinyurl.com/cato062609

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