12/08 -- Iran: Streets, campuses erupt in protest; Commercial spaceship makes first public appearance

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In The News:

1) Iran: Streets, campuses erupt in protest
2) Commercial spaceship makes first public appearance
3) Iraq: 19 killed, 56 wounded
4) Pakistan: Alleged US missiles kill three
5) NY: Peace prize protests scheduled
6) Japan: Pols unveil $80.6 billion "stimulus" scam
7) World climate talks open with pressure on US
8) Miranda rights warning could get rewrite
9) Panel calls for pushing Iraqi elections back 45 days
10) NJ: Marriage freedom bill passes key Senate hurdle
11) Secret Service report details 91 "breaches"
12) Historic EPA "finding:" Greenhouse gases harm humans
13) Gates to Afghans: US "in this thing to win"
14) Obama administration weighs using TARP funds "to stimulate job
growth"
15) "Fake fingerprint" Chinese woman fools Japan controls
16) UK: City in uproar at plan for bonus "supertax"
17) China: Trucker pulled over with cardboard windscreen
18) Alaska joins legal battle to ensure Right to Bear Arms
19) Government event on transparency ... closed to public
20) Study: Lost DNA can make kids obese
21) MA: Musical surgeon examines OR soundtrack
22) SCOTUS takes up "honest services" law
23) MN: Man arrested for tomatoing Palin
24) CBS "Frosty" ad riles critics
25) Canada: Couple taken for a ride

Everybody Has An Opinion:

26) Boobs in Congress
27) Five good reasons to avoid a war with Iran
28) Kill the insurance mandate
29) Revisiting another infamous December 7
30) Best performance in a farce
31) Drunk driving is not a crime
32) The Salahis vs. the state
33) Collateral damage
34) Liberals are useless
35) Why the Climategate controversy matters ...
36) The 50 best protest signs of 2009
37) The White House: Too big for its breaches since 1792
38) Pay back the debt
39) Marriage equality: Lessons learned, 2008-2009
40) Gun control on campus
41) We're increasingly ruled by rules
42) Living in shock and infamy, years later
43) Is democracy a dirty word?
44) Inside Cuba: Guerrilla blogging
45) The road to re-election runs through Kabul?
46) The sloppy phrasing of a professor
47) The march of folly
48) All the president's regulators
49) Unchaining the human heart -- a revolutionary manifesto: Thank you
for smoking!
50) Dear Glenn Beck ...
51) The cell phone hazard
52) Another Catholic moment: Is one coming?
53) A new report questions "suicides" at Guantanamo
54) Infatuated with the New Deal
55) Palin's pals
56) Where is the US economy heading?
57) Understanding Climategate's hidden decline
58) Tupperware really locks you in
59) The man-made global warming hoax: Phase 4
60) The mammogram scam
61) A left-eye view of Tea Party parentage
62) ClimateGames
63) Why I prefer French health care
64) Going south
65) Ten signs the failed drug war is finally ending

See No Evil, Hear No Evil:

66) Free Talk Live, 12/07/09
67) Cato Daily Podcast, 12/07/09
68) Foreign policy libertarians seek a party
69) Becky Akers on Antiwar Radio
70) Freedomain Radio #1521

What's Up In The Freedom Movement:

71) Today's events

WaYbAcK:

72) Knowles v. Iowa

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* In The News
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1) Iran: Streets, campuses erupt in protest
Los Angeles Times

"Campuses across Iran erupted in protests Monday as defiant college
students chanting anti-government slogans clashed with security [sic]
forces armed with clubs in a forceful new round of confrontations over
the nation's disputed June presidential election. The daylong protests
on National Students Day were not as large in Tehran as those that
broke out in the days after the reelection of President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad. But they took place in a larger number of cities and
towns and followed weeks of ominous warnings by security [sic]
officials. They continued through the day despite efforts by security
[sic] forces arrayed on streets and inside campuses." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yb2an7c

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2) Commercial spaceship makes first public appearance
Southeast Missourian

"A spacecraft designed to rocket wealthy tourists into space as early
as 2011 was unveiled Monday in what backers of the venture hope will
signal a new era in aviation history. The long-awaited glimpse of
SpaceShipTwo marks the first public appearance of a commercial
passenger spacecraft. The project is bankrolled by Virgin Galactic
founder, British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, who partnered with
famed aviation designer Burt Rutan, the brains behind the
venture." (12/08/09)

http://www.semissourian.com/story/1593060.html

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3) Iraq: 19 killed, 56 wounded
AntiWar.Com

"While Shi'ites observed the Eid al-Ghadeer holiday, one Shi'ite
school in Sadr City suffered a tragic attack. At least 19 Iraqis were
killed and 56 more were wounded there and across the
country." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yaaml7r

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4) Pakistan: Alleged US missiles kill three
Philadelphia Inquirer

"Suspected U.S. missiles killed three people in a Taliban-riddled
northwest region early Tuesday, intelligence officials said, as
Pakistanis reeled from a day's worth of bombings that killed at least
59 in the U.S.-allied, nuclear-armed nation. The bombings signaled a
relentless determination on the part of the militants, who, despite
being pressured by a major army offensive along one of their Afghan
border strongholds, have sustained a retaliatory campaign since
October that has killed more than 400 people." (12/08/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yav4crd

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5) NY: Peace prize protests scheduled
New York Times

"It looks like President Obama is unlikely to get the Nobel Peace
Prize without the occasion being marked by protests. At least one
antiwar group is already calling for a midday march to the United
States Armed Forces Recruiting Station in New York's Times Square to
coincide with the award ceremony in Oslo City Hall on Dec. 10, the
date on which Alfred Nobel died.Days before the event protesters were
already handing out leaflets headlined: 'You Don't End a War By
Sending More Troops! Stop the Occupation of Afghanistan.'" (12/06/09)

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/peace-prize-protest/

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6) Japan: Pols unveil $80.6 billion "stimulus" scam
MarketWatch

"Japan's government on Tuesday unveiled a new economic stimulus
package which includes a 7.2 trillion yen ($80.6 billion) in spending
in an effort to appease demands for more public assistance. ... Prime
Minister Yuko Hatoyama's first stimulus plan includes 3.5 trillion yen
to help regions, 600 billion yen for employment and 800 billion yen on
environmental initiatives, the Cabinet Office said, according to
Bloomberg News." (12/08/09)

http://tinyurl.com/y9nryhk

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7) World climate talks open with pressure on US
MSNBC

"The largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in
history opened Monday, with organizers warning diplomats from 192
nations that this could be the last, best chance for a deal to protect
the world from calamitous global warming. Negotiations have dragged on
for two years and only recently have shown signs of breakthroughs with
new commitments from major emitters such as the United States, China
and India to control greenhouse gas emissions." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yfzayf6

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8) Miranda rights warning could get rewrite
MSNBC

"The Supreme Court on Monday seemed headed toward telling police they
must explicitly advise criminal suspects that their lawyer can be
present during any interrogation. The arguments in front of the
justices were the latest over how explicit the Miranda warning rights
have to be, as justices debated whether the warnings police gave Kevin
Dwayne Powell made clear to him that he could have a lawyer present
while being interrogated by police." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yl37x4u

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9) Panel calls for pushing Iraqi elections back 45 days
Detroit News

"Iraq's electoral commission on Monday recommended a 45-day delay in
parliamentary elections until Feb. 27, raising concerns that the
postponed balloting could complicate the planned withdrawal of U.S.
combat troops and bring a possible surge of violence. American
commanders have noted the chance of increased pre-election bloodshed
aimed at destabilizing the pro-Western government. A series of attacks
struck around the country as officials tried to hammer out the
election timetable, including an explosion outside a Baghdad
elementary school that killed 10 people, including six
children." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yc22nm4

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10) NJ: Marriage freedom bill passes key Senate hurdle
Reuters

"A proposal to legalize gay marriage in New Jersey narrowly passed a
key state Senate committee on Monday, paving the way for a legislative
showdown this week and boosting the possibility New Jersey will join
the handful of U.S. states allowing gay couples to wed." (12/08/09)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B70GG20091208

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11) Secret Service report details 91 "breaches"
CNN

"The media spotlight has focused on the brash couple who recently
managed to attend a White House state dinner, but a U.S. Secret
Service training document details 91 breaches of security between 1980
and 2003. Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan confirmed the
existence of the internal report, which was first disclosed in the
Washington Post on Monday. Donovan would not provide CNN a copy of the
report, but said it is a historical document that is used to help
train agents in preventing and responding to breaches of
security." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/ydlqdvp

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12) Historic EPA "finding:" Greenhouse gases harm humans
Baton Rouge Advocate

"The Obama administration took a major step Monday toward imposing the
first federal limits on climate-changing pollution from cars, power
plants and factories, declaring there was compelling scientific
evidence that global warming from manmade greenhouse gases endangers
Americans' health. The announcement by the Environmental Protection
Agency was clearly timed to build momentum toward an agreement at the
international conference on climate change that opened Monday in
Copenhagen, Denmark." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/ygamvku

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13) Gates to Afghans: US "in this thing to win"
Aberdeen News

"Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived Tuesday in Afghanistan with
plans to assure officials and American troops there that the United
States is committed to winning the war despite plans to begin pulling
forces out in 2011. 'We are in this thing to win,' Gates told
reporters while traveling to Kabul, where he plans to meet privately
with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and later with troops bearing the
brunt of combat." (12/08/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yfvldd4

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14) Obama administration weighs using TARP funds "to stimulate job
growth"
ABC News

"The $700 billion financial bailout has caused controversy and outrage
from the moment it was enacted last fall, an attempt by the Bush
administration to save the financial system from a collapse that could
imperil the overall economy. A year later, critics argue, the bailout
has only helped Wall Street, not Main Street. But the Obama
administration Monday revealed that the program's 10-year cost to
taxpayers would be $200 billion less than expected -- and now a chunk
of the remaining funds could be used to help put Americans on Main
Street back to work [sic]." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/ylz9zdz

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15) "Fake fingerprint" Chinese woman fools Japan controls
BBC News [UK]

"A Chinese woman managed to enter Japan illegally by having plastic
surgery to alter her fingerprints, thus fooling immigration controls,
police claim. Lin Rong, 27, had previously been deported from Japan
for overstaying her visa. She was only discovered when she was
arrested on separate charges. Tokyo police said she had paid $15,000
(#9,000) to have the surgery in China. It is Japan's first case of
alleged biometric fraud, but police believe the practice may be
widespread." (12/07/09)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8400222.stm

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16) UK: City in uproar at plan for bonus "supertax"
Independent [UK]

"Alistair Darling will impose a one-off 'supertax' on big bonuses paid
to individual bankers but has ruled out a windfall tax on banks'
profits. The Chancellor will announce his plan to claw back excessive
bonuses in his pre-Budget report tomorrow. His officials are still
drawing up the scheme in the hope of stopping bankers finding a
loophole such as incorporating bonuses into basic pay." (12/08/09)

http://tinyurl.com/ygzd6zq

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17) China: Trucker pulled over with cardboard windscreen
Ananova [UK]

"A lorry driver was pulled up by police in China -- after driving for
hundreds of miles with a sheet of cardboard covering his broken
windscreen. Mr Li drove by sticking his head out of the side window --
in freezing conditions -- or by peering through tiny holes in the
cardboard, reports China News Network. Traffic officers ordered him to
pull over after spotting him on the Jinggang'ao Highway in Henan
province." (12/07/09)

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3591935.html

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18) Alaska joins legal battle to ensure Right to Bear Arms
SIT News

"At the direction of Governor Sean Parnell, the State of Alaska
announced last week that it has joined the legal battle to prohibit
state and local governments from denying individual Americans their
right to bear arms, which is provided under the Second Amendment of
the United States Constitution. Attorney General Dan Sullivan, along
with his counterparts in three dozen other states, recently signed on
to a friend-of-the-court brief in the case of McDonald v. City of
Chicago, now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Alaska had
previously joined other states in successfully petitioning the court
to hear the case, in which Chicago firearm owners challenge a handgun
ban in the city." (12/07/09)

http://www.sitnews.us/1209news/120709/120709_arms.html

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19) Government event on transparency ... closed to public
Arizona Republic

"It's hardly the image of transparency the Obama administration wants
to project: A workshop on government openness is closed to the public.
The event today for federal employees is a fitting symbol of President
Barack Obama's uneven record so far on the Freedom of Information Act,
a big part of keeping his campaign promise to make his administration
the most transparent ever. As Obama's first year in office ends, the
government's actions when the public and news media seek information
are not yet matching up with the president's words." [editor's note:
Name one instance in which they have so far - SAT] (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/y9thyre

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20) Study: Lost DNA can make kids obese
Associated Press

"Some children get severely obese because their lack of particular
chunks of DNA kicks their hunger into overdrive, researchers report.
The British researchers checked the DNA of 300 children who had become
very fat, on the order of 220 pounds by age 10. They looked for
deletions or extra copies of DNA segments. The researchers found
evidence that several rare deletions may promote obesity, including
one kind they studied further and found in less than 1 percent of
about 1,200 severely obese children. That deletion, on Chromosome 16,
seems to cause trouble because it removes a gene that the brain needs
to respond to the appetite-controlling hormone leptin, said Dr. Sadaf
Farooqi of Cambridge University." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/ylqnw6l

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21) MA: Musical surgeon examines OR soundtrack
Boston Globe

"For performing a routine colorectal surgery, Dr. Claudius Conrad
prefers the music of Bach, whose fugues and preludes mirror the
methodical, structured steps of the procedure. But when operating on a
patient with terrible burns, Conrad queues up techno or rap to set the
right tone of tension and urgency. Surgeons have long listened to
music while they work -- everything from classical to Celtic to rock.
They say it helps them relax and concentrate. But now Conrad, an
accomplished pianist and a senior surgical resident at Massachusetts
General Hospital, is scientifically testing how music affects
surgeons, their patients, and even relatives in the waiting room. The
goal is to understand whether music can improve results of surgery,
and whether it might be used as a medical treatment." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yzrvu9e

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22) SCOTUS takes up "honest services" law
Christian Science Monitor

"The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear three cases in its current
term examining a controversial federal statute that makes it a crime
'to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services.' The
law is a powerful weapon in the arsenal of prosecutors seeking to root
out all forms of public and private corruption. But the statute,
critics say, fails to give fair warning of precisely which conduct
violates the law. On Tuesday, two of the cases arrive at the high
court for oral argument, and the justices will confront a murky issue:
What is an intangible right of honest services, and when does its
absence rise to the level of a federal crime? It is not exactly a new
question." (12/07/09)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1207/p02s01-usju.html

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23) MN: Man arrested for tomatoing Palin
WCCO News [MN]

"Bloomington Police say a man threw a tomato at former Alaska Governor
Sarah Palin during her Monday appearance at the Mall of America, but
didn't hit her. Officers say two of their own were hit by tomato
fragments instead, after the tomato hit the stage about 10 feet from
Palin. People on the second level balcony, where the tomato was thrown
from, helped police apprehend the man accused of throwing it. Police
identified him as Jeremiah Wobbe from St. Paul. They said he was
arrested and could face assault and disorderly conduct charges.
Officers added that they found two more tomatoes he'd been
carrying." (12/07/09)

http://wcco.com/politics/palin.tomato.moa.2.1355722.html

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24) CBS "Frosty" ad riles critics
Fox News

"A video advertisement on CBS's Web site that 'mashes' material from
the iconic Frosty the Snowman Christmastime cartoon with two of the
network's comedy series is offensive and should be pulled, media
analysts told FoxNews.com. The video ad, 'Frosty the Inappropriate
Snowman,' takes authentic dialogue from CBS' How I Met Your Mother and
Two and a Half Men and dubs it on top of the cartoon classic, changing
well-known 'Frosty' scenes to contain suggestions that the snowman and
his friends visit a 'strip club.' The mash-up also discusses Frosty's
'porn collection' and contains repeated mentions of prior sexual
conquests." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/ylqtw8d

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25) Canada: Couple taken for a ride
Toronto Sun [Canada]

"'It's not a mixed message. You can't be intoxicated in a public
place. It's an offence.' -- Insp. Charlie Green, Durham Regional
Police ... That argument may be a tough sell. Especially considering
that two people charged with public intoxication -- and they are not
alone in this roust -- were standing on the corner, hand-in-hand,
waiting for the arrival of A Ryde Home, a local designated driver
service. It's a service, in fact, that 61-year-old retiree Jack
Knowler and his girlfriend, Bev Rogers, use every Thursday when they
take in karaoke night at Hanc's Bar. ... On the night they were
charged, Jack Knowler and Bev Rogers had first gone to Maddy's Pub,
just up the street from Hanc's, and that's where Knowler left his
truck -- about a block and a half from Hanc's. The main drag of this
town has little or no public parking, and so that is where cars are
left -- in the parking lots of the pubs, the restaurants, and the
Legion. Publican Vic Hanc sees this ticket tactic as nothing but
harassment, and was on the phone last week to his local councillor and
MPP to raise a stink about it. 'By issuing these tickets, the police
are enticing people to try to drive home,' says Hanc. 'It just blows
my mind.'" (12/06/09)

http://tinyurl.com/y96jorc

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* HEALTH-OF-THE-STATE-O-METER, 12/08/09
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* Reported Civilian Deaths in Iraq: Min - 94,544 ... Max - 103,160
* (source: www.iraqbodycount.org)
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* American Military Deaths in Iraq: 4,367
* (source: www.antiwar.com/casualties/)
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* Everybody Has An Opinion
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26) Boobs in Congress
Reason
by Steve Chapman

"In November, the United States Preventive Services Task Force, a
federally sponsored panel of medical experts, announced that it was
recommending against routine mammography among women younger than 50.
The proposal, coming amid the health care debate, was taken as a
gruesome attempt to sacrifice lives to save pennies. In fact, cash was
not a consideration. The task force's rationale was that the benefits
of routine breast cancer screening to women in that age group are
insufficient to justify the harms it causes them. Yes, it can be
expected to save one life for every 1,904 women aged 40 to 49 who get
mammographies, but it also yields false positives, which require
additional procedures." (12/07/09)

http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/07/boobs-in-congress

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27) Five good reasons to avoid a war with Iran
Campaign For Liberty
by Philip Giraldi

"As America's founding fathers clearly understood war is a serious
business and should only be engaged in when there is a threat to vital
national interests. The US Constitution stipulates that there must be
a declaration of war from congress, a safeguard inserted in the
document to prevent presidents from going to war without a clear
national consensus behind them. Nevertheless, even though the federal
government has fought many wars in the past hundred years only two
were preceded by an actual declaration by Congress, World War I and
World War II. Every other war has been both illegal and
unconstitutional, including the current involvement in Iraq,
Afghanistan, and on various fronts in the so-called global war on
terror." (12/07/09)

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=419

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28) Kill the insurance mandate
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

"If Congress manages to pass a health-insurance bill in the next few
weeks, it will undoubtedly require every person to have medical
coverage or pay a fine. If someone's employer doesn't offer a policy,
he will be obligated to buy one for himself no matter how expensive.
(Subsidies will be available to lower- and middle-income people.)
Coverage is not likely to be cheap because the bill that President
Obama signs will also undoubtedly mandate that 'basic' coverage
contain far more than coverage for bankruptcy-threatening catastrophic
illness." (12/04/09)

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0912c.asp

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29) Revisiting another infamous December 7
Freedom Politics
by Gary Galles

"December 7, 1941 -- Pearl Harbor -- has since 'lived in infamy.' But
December 7 had been infamous in America before. In 1683, Algernon
Sydney, one of American colonists' primary inspirations and sources of
insight into political liberty, was executed for treason on that date,
after a trial blatantly violating his rights (violations so egregious
that Parliament overturned Sydney's conviction in 1689), for opposing
England's King Charles II as overstepping his powers. The key evidence
was nothing more than a private, unpublished manuscript arguing that
the king was not above the law, which later was published as
Discourses Concerning Government." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yflj6pb

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30) Best performance in a farce
AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos

"Within the last 11 months, while 500 coalition soldiers have perished
and thousands have been wounded on the battlefields of Afghanistan,
the Obama administration has treated the rest of us to an elaborate,
Oscar-worthy performance of how to act in charge from the back seat of
a car. In other words, instead of approving the tens of thousands more
in reinforcements military leaders said they needed to win right away,
the president spent most of 2009 trying to look deliberative and in
charge -- and pleasing no one. Turns out the escalation was hardwired
from the beginning. He'll do what the military wanted all along. It
makes one wonder which is worse -- the escalation itself, or leaving
the operation foundering in virtual limbo for a year while this kabuki
theater ran its course." (12/08/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yk99poa

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31) Drunk driving is not a crime
LewRockwell.Com
by Mark R. Crovelli

"There is a virtual consensus among the American public that drunk
driving is an horrific crime that deserves only ruthless punishment.
Indeed, the level of consensus on this issue is so unanimous that
virtually the only debate that ever occurs with regard to drunk
driving revolves around how best to step up enforcement and inflict
ever more merciless punishments on people who choose to drive drunk.
Few and far between are any substantive criticisms of the idea of
hunting down and imprisoning people, just because they happen to have
an arbitrary amount of alcohol in their blood." (12/08/09)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/crovelli/crovelli38.1.html

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32) The Salahis vs. the state
Center for a Stateless Society
by Alex R. Knight III

"Personally, I don't feel at all insulted by the Salahis' presence at
that dinner -- as a matter of fact, I could care less about it. And I
don't see how their walking in under the auspices of being invited
smears any kind of mud on those ridiculously hallowed (and entirely
hollow) rituals like the Pledge or the Anthem. I also don't think the
Salahis walked into that tax-financed obscenity (elites dining and
drinking off of the blood and sweat of working Americans) in order to
make fun of anything or anyone. I think they just wanted to see what
they could get away with -- just like politicians and bureaucrats do
all the time. For that matter, the White House itself is financed by
taxation. Anyone forced to pay taxes at gunpoint should be able to
waltz right in, unlike a private residence paid for by the production
of useful goods and services or by wise investing." (12/05/09)

http://c4ss.org/content/1504

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33) Collateral damage
Nolan Chart
by DR Starr

"The common use for this term is for the unintended damage resulting
from a military assault. But there is another form of collateral
damage, one for which no tally could be made. This collateral damage
isn't always immediately apparent. It can come in many forms, and a
myriad of victims." (12/06/09)

http://www.nolanchart.com/article7107.html

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34) Liberals are useless
TruthDig
by Chris Hedges

"Liberals are a useless lot. They talk about peace and do nothing to
challenge our permanent war economy. They claim to support the working
class, and vote for candidates that glibly defend the North American
Free Trade Agreement. They insist they believe in welfare, the right
to organize, universal health care and a host of other socially
progressive causes, and will not risk stepping out of the mainstream
to fight for them. The only talent they seem to possess is the ability
to write abject, cloying letters to Barack Obama -- as if he reads
them -- asking the president to come back to his 'true' self. This
sterile moral posturing, which is not only useless but humiliating,
has made America's liberal class an object of public
derision." (12/07/09)

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/liberals_are_useless_20091206/

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35) Why the Climategate controversy matters ...
Spiked
by Andrew Orlowski

"Turn on the radio or TV at any point in the past two weeks, or
eavesdrop on our professional commentariat, and you'll certainly have
heard the mantra that despite Climategate, the 'science behind global
warming' remains as strong as ever, and unquestionable." (12/07/09)

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7806/

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36) The 50 best protest signs of 2009
Buzz Feed
by Matt Stopera

"We saw some really great protest signs in 2009. Thanks to our
President for being a socialist, gay people for being gay, and Kanye
West for interrupting Taylor Swift. America, I applaud your
creativity. Here's to you! " (12/09)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-50-best-protest-signs-of-2009/

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37) The White House: Too big for its breaches since 1792
Center for a Stateless Society
by Thomas L. Knapp

"At one time, the very idea of 'breaching White House security' didn't
exist. It was understood to be 'the public's house,' and if you felt
like dropping in for a visit or a walk around the grounds ... or for
that matter, a chat with the president ... that was your prerogative
as a citizen, right up to at the middle of the 20th century. These
days, you can get a guided tour of the house you allegedly own, where
your alleged employees work -- if you can get one of those alleged
employees, to wit 'your' congresscritter, to request permission on
your behalf for you to visit. It's not just about the White House.
It's about your right to use 'your' property. You are a member of 'the
public,' right?" (12/07/09)

http://c4ss.org/content/1513

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38) Pay back the debt
Fox News Forum
by John Stossel

"Sunday, the Administration released what should normally be
considered good news: The Obama administration is planning to slash
its estimate of the losses from the government's bailout package by
about $200 billion. That from today's Washington Post. Apparently,
banks have been so eager to pay back the TARP (perhaps so that they
won't have to submit to a 'pay czar'), that TARP won't increase the
deficit as much as initially expected. That would be good news if this
Administration wasn't hell-bent on digging itself deeper into a fiscal
hole. The move could pave the way for Democrats to tap some of the
unspent TARP funds for a jobs bill, currently being crafted by House
Democrats. ... Administration officials talk about their commitment to
reducing the deficit, but they keep doing the opposite." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yffjsos

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39) Marriage equality: Lessons learned, 2008-2009
Nolan Chart
by James Oaksum

"Given the type of campaign marriage equality advocates waged in
Maine, and the realities of running such a campaign in a state like
Maine, the No on 1 forces did about the best they could have. But
close does not count, and a loss is a loss. There are five reasons the
No on 1 forces lost Maine. Advocates of marriage equality must re-
think what they are doing, or more electoral defeats are forthcoming.
However, if they make some adjustments, they will obtain the result
they seek, eventually." (12/06/09)

http://www.nolanchart.com/article7109.html

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40) Gun control on campus
State Bill News
by Peter Marcus

"Colorado is at the center of a national debate concerning gun
control, revolving around moves to ban guns at two of the state's
universities. The most recent move comes as a proposal by Colorado
State University's public safety and president's cabinet to ban
students from carrying guns on campus. Their recommendation flies in
the face of the students' will, with the governing body voting 21-3
last week in support of keeping CSU a conceal-and-carry campus. As the
debate in Fort Collins continues, Students for Concealed Carry on
Campus is currently appealing a lower Colorado court decision that
dismissed a suit filed last year by the group seeking to overturn the
University of Colorado's gun ban." (12/07/09)

http://www.statebillnews.com/2009/12/gun-control-on-campus/

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41) We're increasingly ruled by rules
Orange County Register
by Steven Greenhut

"To the extent that anyone still thinks about the former Soviet Union
and its satellite communist states, they understandably think about
the suffocating oppression -- the Berlin Wall, the gulags, the KGB,
the political prisoners, the persecution of religious people and
minorities. Yet, in talking to refugees from that nightmarish world,
it's clear that one of the worst aspects of communism was the endless
waiting in line, the ceaseless bureaucracy and the incomprehensible
rules and regulations that governed every aspect of everyday life.
Despite some real assaults on civil liberties in America (by
Republican and Democratic administrations alike), Americans aren't
facing too many serious dangers of the first kind mentioned above.
But, as government expands its reach, we are facing bigger lines,
additional nonsensical rules and more bureaucracy." (12/06/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yf2h4gb

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42) Living in shock and infamy, years later
Boston Globe
by James Carroll

"When the waves of Japanese dive bombers flew in on Pearl Harbor on
Dec. 7, 1941, the good news was that the US Navy had previously sent
its Pacific fleet aircraft carriers out to sea. ... It was those
surviving carriers that turned the tables on Japan little more than a
half-year later at the Battle of Midway. ... The American public's
rage at the blow's perceived unfairness was such that, had Hitler not
'quixotically' declared war against the United States four days later,
it is possible, according to war historian John Keegan, that American
forces could have been deployed 'en bloc' to the Pacific. Not so after
9/11. Instead of battleships and aircraft carriers, the real danger
comes from variations on box cutters and explosive charges hidden in
shoes. ... After Pearl Harbor, the scale and meaning of mobilization
was crystal clear. After 9/11, with our futile, misdirected, ongoing
wars of vengeance, which lay nary a glove on Al Qaeda, the
mobilization has mainly been against ourselves." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yfkl9hf

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43) Is democracy a dirty word?
The American Prospect
by Tara McKelvey

"Last fall, Joshua Marks, a program officer from the National
Endowment for Democracy, met with a group of community activists in a
classroom in Abeche, a city in eastern Chad. Many of the activists had
received small grants, ranging from roughly $200 to $5,000, to help in
their efforts to foster civil liberties, political rights, and
transparency in government. Yet democracy was not what they wanted to
talk about on that day. ... As Marks has discovered, developing a
country's infrastructure and improving food security often take
precedence over long-term goals of democracy-building." [editor's
note: To answer the title-question, YES -- if it becomes the end in
itself (rather than the "second-worst" means to promoting liberty) -
SAT] (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yhyoxsr

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44) Inside Cuba: Guerrilla blogging
In These Times
by Orlando Pardo Lazo

"'Blog.' Many people in Cuba don't understand all the fuss regarding
this mono-syllabic word that seems to have no relationship to the
daily routine of survival. On the Island, the blogosphere is an
incipient media and, outside of Havana, all but invisible. Though
their work generates controversies and awards worldwide, Cuban
bloggers are largely unknown here. With Internet access in Cuba
restricted to the very few, the nation's bloggers function as a kind
of guerrilla underground. They work as independent agents whose
existence heralds a civic re-activation that will modulate the
Revolution's Realpolitik -- or is that Raulpolitik? Blogs Sobre Cuba,
an online database founded in 2007, lists more than 1,000 blogs on
Cuban topics, both on and off the island." (12/06/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yzufxu4

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45) The road to re-election runs through Kabul?
The Nation
by Christian Parenti

"To cover his flank and look tough in the next US election, Obama is
expanding the war in Afghanistan. To look strong in front of swing
voters, he will sacrifice the lives of hundreds of US soldiers, allow
many more to be horribly maimed, waste a minimum of $30 billion in
public money and in the process kill many thousands of Afghan
civilians. It is political theater, nothing else. What are the other
possible explanations for Obama's escalation? And why has he pledged
to start drawing down the new deployment after only a year of
fighting? ... The real purpose of these 30,000 soldiers is to make
Obama look tough as he heads toward the next US presidential
election." [editor's note: The good news is, if the progressive press
starts holding Barack's feet to the fire, he'll likely be a one-term
emperor (the bad news is, nobody on the GOP side's any better!) - SAT]
(12/07/09)

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091221/parenti

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46) The sloppy phrasing of a professor
Economic Policy Journal
by Robert Wenzel

"Former Princeton University professor Ben Bernanke, who is the
current Federal Reserve chairman, has been using some sloppy wording
that intensified during the Q&A that followed his speech today before
the Economic Club of Washington D.C." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yk7qm3j

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47) The march of folly
CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

"It will be a long and unnecessary war. President Obama is sending
30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to prove that the US can impose its
will on the country and crush by military means what is still a
relatively small scale insurrection. The real reasons for escalating
the conflict are very different from those declared by Mr
Obama." (12/07/09)

http://counterpunch.org/patrick12072009.html

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48) All the president's regulators
The American Spectator
by Philip Klein

"During the first year of the Obama administration, conservatives have
directed much of their fire on the major legislation the president is
pushing through Congress. This concern is justifiable, as Democrats
are moving bills aimed at taking over the nation's health care system,
creating a national energy tax to limit carbon emissions, and enabling
unions to rapidly add members by denying workers a secret ballot on
unionization. But as critical as it is for the right to expose the
damaging consequences of such major legislation, conservatives must
not lose sight of the fact that there is more than one way for the
president to impose his vision on the country." (12/07/09)

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/07/all-the-presidents-regulators

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49) Unchaining the human heart -- a revolutionary manifesto: Thank you
for smoking!
J. Neil Schulman @ Rational Review
by J. Neil Schulman

"Thank You For Smoking is a 1994 novel by Christopher Buckley, son of
National Review founder, novelist, and Firing Line host William F.
Buckley, Jr. It was made into the 2005 movie Thank You For Smoking by
Jason Reitman, son of Ghost Busters director, Ivan Reitman. But the
phrase 'Thank You For Smoking' didn't originate with Jason Reitman's
screenplay or Christopher Buckley's novel, nor did it originate with
either of their famous fathers, though Christopher Buckley's father
was possibly a conduit. 'Thank You For Smoking!' was a campaign-style
button made up possibly as early as the 1970's by Samuel Edward Konkin
III, publisher of New Libertarian Notes, author of The New Libertarian
Manifesto, and an inveterate pipe smoker." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yl35hns

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50) Dear Glenn Beck ...
The Libertarian Enterprise
by Russell D. Longcore

"Glenn, the one glaring deficiency I see in your program is LACK OF A
SOLUTION. I believe that the American Federal Government has gone past
the point of no return. Phoning, writing and emailing Congress will
absolutely not change the direction of Washington. Tea Parties,
Freedom Rallies and Tenth Amendment resolutions will have no effect on
Washington. Yet, that is what you recommend to your audience. It only
reinforces their feelings of helplessness. But there is a legal, moral
and ethical solution to Washington's criminal ways: State Sovereignty.
Specifically, State Nullification and finally, State
Secession." (12/06/09)

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle547-20091206-03.html

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51) The cell phone hazard
A Passion for Liberty
by Tibor R. Machan

"In the ongoing concern with the use of hand-held and hands free cell
phone use while driving a car, the focus seems to be all on what such
use does to one's driving and the comparison is nearly always between
such use and no distractions at all. But what about the possibility
that cell phone use in cars may not be any more hazardous than, say,
changing CDs or cassette tapes, tucking in the baby in the back,
checking the map, looking for something in the glove compartment, or
having a heated discussion with one's passenger, while driving one's
vehicle. Indeed, this is probably true but not easily tested and
confirmed (or dis-confirmed). Imposing restrictions on drivers
concerning these other possible distractions would, no doubt, be
somewhat problematic since all those are mainly personal distractions
and no big industry can be held complicit. Deep pockets are missing
there, too. Instead these other distractions seem quite normal, just
part of life on the road and have been with us since automobile and
similar vehicle use itself has been." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yjjg3y7

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52) Another Catholic moment: Is one coming?
Liberty For All
by Roderick T. Beaman

"There have been turning points throughout history, events that
signaled the end of one era and the beginning of another. The huge
ones are often millennial events with just a handful of note. The
death of Jesus certainly ranks among them. Others have been the fall
of the Roman Empire and the victory of Charles Martel over the Moors
in southwestern France which reversed their onslaught Historians may
include the discovery of America, the American War for Independence,
the French Revolution, the Russian, German and Chinese Revolutions as
epochal, defining events along with the falls of German National
Socialism and Soviet and Eastern European socialisms." (12/07/09)

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=3475

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53) A new report questions "suicides" at Guantanamo
Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

"On the night of June 10, 2006, three Guantanamo detainees were found
dead in their individual cells. Without any autopsy or investigation,
U.S. military officials proclaimed 'suicide by hanging' as the cause
of each death, and immediately sought to exploit the episode as proof
of the evil of the detainees. Admiral Harry Harris, the camp's
commander, said it showed 'they have no regard for life' and that the
suicides were 'not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetric
warfare aimed at us here at Guantanamo;' another official anonymously
said that the suicides showed the victims were 'committed jihadists
[who] will do anything they can to advance their cause,' while another
sneered that 'it was a good PR move to draw attention.' Questions
immediately arose about how it could be possible that three detainees
kept in isolation and under constant and intense monitoring could have
coordinated and then carried out group suicide without detection,
particularly since the military claimed their bodies were not found
for over two hours after their deaths. But from the beginning, there
was a clear attempt on the part of Guantanamo officials to prevent any
outside investigation of this incident." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yzsmfzs

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54) Infatuated with the New Deal
The Weekly Standard
by Fred Barnes

"President Obama is a master of the 'narrative.' That's the fancy new
word in the political lexicon for a storyline that makes a politician
look good. Last year, Obama was the candidate of hope and change who
would cure Washington of its bad habits. Now he has a presidential
narrative. It goes like this: He's done his part to revive the
economy, and it's time for others to do theirs, particularly the
business community. Obama has been refining his narrative for several
months. Last week's jobs summit at the White House was cleverly
crafted as a day-long expression of his version of the economy's path
in his 11-month presidency. And if that was lost on anyone, he was
explicit in spelling it out." (for publication 12/14/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yaqa3xg

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55) Palin's pals
Slate
by Christopher Hitchens

"At least Richard Nixon had the ill fortune to look like what he was:
a haunted scoundrel and repressed psychopath. Whereas the usefulness
of Sarah Palin to the right-wing party managers is that she combines a
certain knowingness with a feigned innocence and a still-palpable
blush of sex. But she should take care to read her Alexander Pope:
That bloom will soon enough fade, and it will fade really quickly if
she uses it to prostitute herself to the Nixonites on one day and then
to cock-tease the rabble on the next." (12/07/09)

http://www.slate.com/id/2237638/

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56) Where is the US economy heading?
Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Frank Shostak

"Economists are currently divided on the issue of how strong the US
economic recovery is going to be. Some are of the view that as a
result of the stimulus policies of the Fed and the Federal government,
the recovery is going to be quite strong. Some others are more
pessimistic given still-rising unemployment, which they believe will
keep consumer spending subdued. In October the unemployment rate
jumped to 10.2% from 9.8% in the previous month and 6.6% in October
last year." (12/07/09)

http://mises.org/daily/3898

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57) Understanding Climategate's hidden decline
Heartland Institute
by Marc Sheppard

"Close followers of the Climategate controversy know that much of the
melee surrounds an email in which Climate Research Unit (CRU) chief
Phil Jones wrote about using 'Mike's Nature Trick' (MNT) to 'hide the
decline.' And yet, 17 days and thousands of almost exclusively on-line
op-eds into this scandal, it still seems very few understand exactly
which 'decline' was being hidden, what 'trick' was used to do so, and
why Jones's words have become the slogan for the greatest scientific
fraud in history. As the mainstream media move from abject denial to
dismissive whitewashing, CRU co-conspirators move to Copenhagen for
tomorrow's UN climate meeting, intent on changing the world as we know
it based primarily on their now exposed trickery." (12/06/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yepemsq

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58) Tupperware really locks you in
The Free Liberal
by Paul Jacob

"Reading a report from Jefferson City, Missouri, I learned that I
already knew something that the politicians in Missouri didn't: The
difference between polystyrene and polypropylene. Polystyrene, when
expanded, makes that wonderful white stuff we usually call
'Styrofoam.' Polypropylene makes dishwasher-safe stuff like
Tupperware. Anyway, the solons of the great state of Missouri,
concerned about floating debris from abandoned foam coolers on the
state's waterways, banned the wrong plastic. Instead of polystyrene,
they banned polypropylene. So now, slobs who leave their beer coolers
out on the river still run free (along with responsible styrofoam
users), while tidy folk who take Tupperware to the river could be
nabbed and put in jail for a year." (12/07/09)

http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/003953.html

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59) The man-made global warming hoax: Phase 4
Intellectual Conservative
by Phillip Ellis Jackson

"[R]ather than continue to point out what is becoming more and more
obvious every day -- that key scientists and their political/media
supporters manipulated and lied about the 'consensus' data that man
was responsible for Global Cooling/Warming/Climate Change -- I want to
take a step back and talk instead about the ingredients that went into
this deception. In effect, let's have a look at the building blocks of
this dishonest house of cards to understand how we got to the point we
are at today, and just as important, what it really means for all of
us going forward. A little hint about the ultimate conclusion, though:
don't expect any of the phony substance to change." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/y8pvxkd

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60) The mammogram scam
Hawaii Reporter
by Sydney Ross Singer

"About 20 years ago, when I was in medical school, I remember reading
about the bold experiment our culture was about to undertake to deal
with the rising tide of breast cancer. Without having any knowledge as
to the cause of this disease, which would allow true breast cancer
prevention, it was reasoned that the best alternative to prevention
was early detection and treatment. Towards this end, a massive
mammogram experiment began. I paid little attention to this at the
time. Breast cancer was not a personal issue for me, and the theory
that early detection and treatment was the best option seemed
reasonable. In the absence of knowing the cause of a disease, all you
can do is hope you don't get it, and look for early signs to attack
the problem before it is too late." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/ybsn8yq

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61) A left-eye view of Tea Party parentage
Dallas Libertarian Examiner
by Garry Reed

"Libertarians generally take it as a point of unquestioned fact that
the Tea Party movement was a grassroots uprising begun at the local
level by libertarians and later co-opted by the Republican Party. But
the left-eye-view can't seem to figure out who started or co-opted
what from whom or what the difference is between a libertarian, a
conservative, and a Republican." (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/yhgowx8

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62) ClimateGames
Independent Institute
by Mary Theroux

"Remember that great Cold War movie, 'WarGames?' It portrays a young
computer nerd who makes his way into a government computer and sets it
on a course convincing top government officials that the end of the
world is imminent. Based on the computer simulation playing out on
their screens, which they believe reflects reality, the top brass
cranks up the danger alarm to DefCon1 and sets out to unleash deadly
global countermeasures. Finally, at the 11th hour, a scientist who had
turned his back on the whole concept of such computer gaming convinces
the government not to act -- to wait and see that the end of the world
is not reality; it is a computer simulation -- and all is saved. The
plot is eerily similar to that coming to light from the Climate
Research Unit's hacked emails: advocates of global warming fed data
into computers to model catastrophic events unfolding right before our
eyes that demand immediate and draconian countermeasures. Except,
they're just computer models." (12/04/09)

http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=4326

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63) Why I prefer French health care
Reason
by Matt Welch

"By now I'm accustomed to being the only person in any given room with
my particular set of cockamamie politics. But even within the more
familiar confines of the libertarian movement, I am an awkward outlier
on the topic of the day (and the topic of this issue of reason):
health care. To put it plainly, when free marketers warn that
Democratic health care initiatives will make us more 'like France,' a
big part of me says, 'I wish.' It's not that I think it's either
feasible or advisable for the United States to adopt a single-payer,
government-dominated system. But it's instructive to confront the
comparative advantages of one socialist system abroad to sharpen the
arguments for more capitalism at home." (for publication 01/10)

http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/07/why-prefer-french-health-care

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64) Going south
The American Conservative
by Ximena Ortiz

"Despite a change of presidents, America remains mired in economic,
institutional, and cultural purgatory, with Obama's exalted oratory
circling the stratosphere like a taunt. Angry nationalism shouts down
prudence. Disproportionate military spending threatens economic
wellbeing. Industry has its hand so deep in the government's purse
that private enterprise is becoming public property. The currency
falters, the infrastructure crumbles. And a supine media, once a
watchdog of the powerful, happily licks the strongman's hand. If the
picture looks familiar, that's because we've seen it many times
before, from Argentina to Chile to Russia. The U.S. is third
worlding." (for publication 01/01/10)

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2010/jan/01/00006/

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65) Ten signs the failed drug war is finally ending
AlterNet
by Tony Newman

"2009 will go down as the beginning of the end of the United States
drug war. I have worked at the Drug Policy Alliance promoting
alternatives to the war on drugs for 10 years, and I can say without a
doubt that there was more debate and movement toward sensible drug
policies this year than in the last 9 years combined! Here are 10
stories that contributed to the unprecedented momentum to end
America's longest running war." (12/04/09)

http://tinyurl.com/ydn2b5b

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66) Free Talk Live, 12/07/09
Free Talk Live

"Ball Tapping, a Dangerous School Fad / Paranoid, Defeatist Conspiracy
Theories / Family Destroyed by False Child Porn Charges -- It Could
Happen to You / Raw Milk Sting Operation / Food Fears / EXTENDED
INTERNET EDITION -- NOT FOR BROADCAST / Mark Interviews Jacob
Hornberger." [MP3] (12/07/09)

http://media.libsyn.com/media/ftl/FTL2009-12-07.mp3

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67) Cato Daily Podcast, 12/07/09
Cato Institute

"Congestion, safety and driverless cars," featuring Randal O'Toole.
[MP3] (12/07/09)

http://tinyurl.com/cato120709

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68) Foreign policy libertarians seek a party
Bloggingheads.tv

Christopher Hayes of The Nation and Matt Welch of Reason talk foreign
policy. [Flash video] (12/06/09

http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/24355?in=19:31&out=25:57

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69) Becky Akers on Antiwar Radio
AntiWar.Com

"Becky Akers, columnist at Lewrockwell.com, discusses the TSA's plan
to see every air traveler naked, harsh criminal penalties for
resisting body searches, the TSA's failure to discover or thwart a
single terrorist and why concerned citizens and locked cockpit doors
provide better security than a multi-billion dollar government
agency." [Flash audio or MP3] (12/05/09)

http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/12/05/becky-akers-4/

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70) Freedomain Radio #1521
Freedomain Radio

Interview with Dr. Nathaniel Branden. [MP3] (12/03/09)

http://tinyurl.com/fdr1521

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Details, and the "quote of the day," from Leon's Political Almanac at:

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