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July 28, 2004
Eco-Feudalism in the Adirondacks by William Norman Grigg
The ability of Adirondack residents to use their own property is at the whim of an appointed commission entirely unaccountable to the people.
July 25, 2004
Sing-Song of the North by Joseph R. Stromberg
Now that the South has been so profoundly reformed and improved by armed exophilanthropists, what objection can there possibly be, especially from self-named classical liberals, to substantial local autonomy for the South, or indeed, full political independence?
July 23, 2004
Enforce Current Immigration Laws by Lou Dobbs
The direct net cost of illegal immigration to our economy, including social services, is now roughly $45 billion annually, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Those costs to the American taxpayer have more than doubled since Dr. Donald Huddle's original study in 1996. And they will continue to grow unless we reform our approach to illegal immigration.
July 22, 2004
Israeli Spies - Mega Was Not An Agent; Mega Was the Boss by Jeffrey Steinberg
If there were anyone in the Clinton Administration's political hierarchy who
was a prime candidate to be the Israeli spy Mega, it was Indyk . . . In 1982, Indyk came to America, ostensibly on a six-month sabbatical from his duties with the Office of the Israeli Prime Minister. Based out of Cornell University, Indyk formed a research department for the America-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the "official" Israeli lobby in the United States . . . Mega was not a deep mole inside the White House. Mega was a far more visible, far more powerful entity,
known among its several dozen members as "the Mega Group."
July 21, 2004
Constitutional Futility by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
But this whole enterprise of preaching about the Constitution, as conservatives and libertarians have been doing since at least the 1930s, is utterly futile. It has had no effect whatsoever, yet Cato, Heritage, and many other institutions continue to churn out essentially the same old arguments about how the Constitution can limit government.
July 20, 2004
July 19, 2004
Hamdi and the End of Habeas Corpus by JENNIFER VAN BERGEN
Justice Scalia was the only justice who spoke honestly about it. He said: "The very core of liberty secured by our Anglo-Saxon system of separated powers has been freedom from indefinite imprisonment at the will of the Executive."
Kicking the Bully’s Dog by Butler Shaffer
Boobus Americanus – a species brought to our attention by H.L. Mencken – has long been torn between two competing sentiments: the first, born of self-righteousness, demands the punishment of wrongdoers, with the penalty having less to do with the wrong than with the need to relieve some deeper, unrequited sense of anger. This need for punitive reaction becomes most troubling when a wrong is perpetrated not upon the physical being of Boobus, but upon a collective identity he shares.
July 17, 2004
Secede: Honoring Jefferson by Joseph Sobran
Jefferson’s 1798 Kentucky Resolutions — one of his most important writings, neglected and disparaged today — took the Declaration’s self-evident truths a step further. He argued that the “free and independent states,” as parties to the Constitution, must not allow the Federal Government to monopolize constitutional interpretation; for if that government could define the extent of its own powers, the whole purpose of the Constitution would be defeated.
July 16, 2004
The Coming Break Up of America: Part II by Frosty Wooldridge
Demand a 10-year moratorium for all immigration, NOW! Demand troops on the border. Demand English as our only language. Demand no benefits for illegal aliens. Demand S. 2671 the Clear Act be passed. Demand HR 946 is passed to shut down legal immigration to fewer than 300,000 per year. Demand no amnesties for illegals. Demand deportations begin. Demand the rule of law be followed and employers of illegals be arrested.
The Coming Break Up of America: Part I by Frosty Wooldridge
I never thought I would have to fight for my own country inside my own country. But the time is fast approaching. Chittum adds that if immigration continues at 2.3 million per year, we won’t have enough Americans to stand up for America.
July 15, 2004
Liberty Forum Being Taken Down?
LibertyForum.org is one of the best free speech discussion boards on the net, and it has been gaining about 20 new posters signing up each day as of lately.
It has 5,888 registered users and is growing like wildfire.
Now, all of a sudden it is crashing from SQL errors, which has not happened in 3 months.
Is the board being deliberately knocked out to keep truth from being discussed as there is talk of the election being cancelled?
All Loyalty Is Local by Fred Reed
Today the government regards me if not as an enemy, then as a suspect. I begin to reciprocate . . . It is Washington’s business to determine at the border that I am a citizen, and perhaps that I am not a wanted criminal. It has no other business.
July 13, 2004
History Abused by Charley Reese
We no longer have the rule of law, either, since judges routinely legislate or amend the Constitution by interpretation while federal legislators and presidents ignore it. Intellectuals claim that everybody can be proud of his or her heritage – unless it is the heritage of the British Isles and Europe.
What made America was not multiculturalism, secularism or unrestrained tolerance amounting to license and an absence of standards. But those things will destroy America.
July 12, 2004
The Life and Death of Civilizations by Butler Shaffer
The death of civilizations is facilitated by a movement from individualized to collective patterns of thinking. It is mass-mindedness that produces the state’s deadliest expressions: wars and genocides. The indiscriminate slaughter of people and the massive destruction of cities, factories, transportation systems, and other forms of material wealth are inconsistent with the creative processes of civilizations.
July 9, 2004
Why Capitalism is Inevitable by Joseph Stromberg and Jeffrey Tucker
To be optimistic about the prospects for capitalism requires only that we understand Mises's argument concerning the inability of socialist means to produce rational outcomes, and to be hopeful about the triumph of choice over coercion.
Effort to Curb Scope of Antiterrorism Law Falls Short by Eric Lichtblau
The vote, a 210 to 210 deadlock, amounted to a referendum on the antiterrorism law known as the USA Patriot Act and reflected deep divisions in Congress over whether the law undercuts civil liberties. Under House rules, the tie vote meant the measure was defeated.
Paul Continues Fight for US Independence
Congressman Ron Paul continued his fight this week against the United Nations and its global government ambitions, authoring two amendments to a State department funding bill that would hobble the UN by cutting off its main source of funding: American taxpayers.
Bush Prevails as House Refuses to Curb Patriot Act by Alan Fram
The House has voted before to block portions of the nearly three-year-old law, but Congress has never succeeded in rolling back any of it. Yet neither has Bush succeeded in his quest to expand some of its powers.
July 7, 2004
The Divine Right of Capital by Marjorie Kelly
Kelly argues that blind devotion to short-term profits for stockholders over the well-being of everyone else is equivalent to corporate feudalism. She says nothing short of a peaceful democratic revolution in American business can save global capitalism from itself.
July 6, 2004
Ashcroft Calls For Tougher Patriot Act by Christopher J. Petherick
Free trade protesters, members of environmental groups, anti-abortion demonstrators and other people attending some types of patriotic rallies could risk being sentenced to death for acts of civil disobedience that the government labels as terrorist in nature.
The American Revolution and Iraq by William Marina
In America, the conflict with the British played out from 1768 to 1783, and it took until 1789 to craft a Constitution that could be agreed upon. The sooner the Iraqis can start their own Constitutional Convention, forging a system that is truly "of and for" their people, one with "legitimacy" and capable of gaining the consent of the governed, the sooner insurgency, death, and destruction will end in Iraq.
July 5, 2004
Put the 'Independence' Back in Independence Day by Michael Berliner
Jefferson and Washington fought a war for the principle of independence, meaning the moral right of an individual to live his own life as he sees fit.
The Magnificent Dissenter by Paul Gottfried
The question posed by Congressman Paul, who represents the classical liberal constitutionalist tradition of Robert Taft, is whether Americans should be celebrating the hemorrhaging of constitutional liberties or the opportunity for reckless intervention by the federal bureaucracy in social and commercial relations. Paul is speaking as a true classical liberal . . .
Defining 'America' by Brian McCandliss
The states remained separate nations, and merely agreed to abide by certain common "by-laws" such as the Articles of Confederation, and later the Constitution, which were negotiated within the nation's capital – but by which no state was bound to obey under force of law, being once again free and independent nations.
The American Revolution by Jeffrey Bennett
The United States of America born - not a nation at first, but a loosely knit confederation brought together by common dissatisfactions and shared inspirations
July 3, 2004
Happy Birthday, U. S. A.!
Happy Birthday, U. S. A.!: America was 132 years young on July 4, 1908. Three days later, on Tuesday, July 7, 1908, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Ladies Memorial Association, of Marietta, Georgia, unveiled a new Confederate Monument at the local cemetery. Marietta Confederate Cemetery, is home to 3,000 Southern soldiers. The Kennesaw battlefield, like those at Gettysburg, Shiloh, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Sharpsburg, Vicksburg, First Manassas and Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Bentonville, Nashville, Franklin and many other such places is covered with monuments that call out for us to remember. read now
The Trouble With Forced Integration by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only violated the Constitution and reduced individual liberty; it also failed to achieve its stated goals of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society. Federal bureaucrats and judges cannot read minds to see if actions are motivated by racism. Therefore, the only way the federal government could ensure an employer was not violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to ensure that the racial composition of a business's workforce matched the racial composition of a bureaucrat or judges defined body of potential employees.
Bummer of a Year For Conservatives by GINA HOLLAND
"This court seems incapable of admitting that some matters - any matters - are none of its business," he wrote on the court's final day.
July 2, 2004
The American Revolution and Iraq by William Marina
The lessons of the American Revolution applicable to today epitomize the adage, “those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” Such a sea-change has occurred in Iraq, as continued American occupation and misuse of power has resulted in increasing numbers of common Iraqis seeing America’s involvement—and America’s hand-picked replacement government—as illegitimate.
Making Torture Legal by Anthony Lewis
The idea that presidential power overrides treaties and congressional laws appeared soon after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. John Yoo, a professor at the University of California in Berkeley, was then a deputy assistant attorney general. He wrote several memos in late 2001 and then, in collaboration with Robert J. Delahunty, another Justice Department lawyer, an important paper dated January 9, 2002. It was addressed to the Defense Department's general counsel, William J. Haynes II. "Restricting the President's plenary power over military operations (including the treatment of prisoners)" would be "constitutionally dubious," the memo said.
July 4th - Another Occasion For Hypocrites by Russell R. Bingman
Independence is the chief element of freedom, and celebrating freedom in America is a real act of hypocrisy, or stupidity - because it doesn't exist anymore. Maybe for uneducated, over-zealous adolescents suckered into Conservative politics, and dumbed-out sheeple, who have no idea what freedom really is . . . . . they'll believe that freedom abounds, because their task masters told them that slavery is freedom, and they're stupid enough to believe it.
July 1, 2004
Agenda 21 -- the blueprint to advance Sustainable Development by Daniel Beckett
It doesn't seem to make much difference who is in power, be it Democrat or Republican, the Agenda 21 beat goes on. It is a very troubling and discouraging to realize that our own government is implementing a program that would make the Marxists proud.
Plans To Cancel Elections After 'Terror Attacks' by Erica Werner
The government needs to establish guidelines for canceling or rescheduling elections if terrorists strike the United States again, says the chairman of a new federal voting commission.
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