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November 29, 2004
The Bush Doctrine: Selective Bullying by Harry Browne
The "Bush doctrine" of foreign policy is really very simple: Attack any country that can't fight back, but don't rock the boat with any country that might be able to attack the United States.
This doctrine isn't original with George Bush. It is the strategy employed by every schoolyard bully in the world: attack the weak but steer clear of the strong.
November 28, 2004
Albert Jay Nock, Forgotten Man of the Right by Jeffrey A. Tucker
To follow Nock, what traits must a man of the Right have? He must be both fiercely independent and believe in the power of social authority; he must love tradition but hate the State and everything it does; he must believe in radical freedom while never doubting the immutability of human nature and natural laws; he must be anti-materialist in his own life while defending economic freedom without compromise; he must be an elitist and anti-democrat yet despise elites who hold illicit power; and he must be realistic about the dim prospects for change while still retaining a strong sense of hope and enthusiasm for life.
November 23, 2004
The Growth of Government in America by Stephen Moore
Let us begin with a simple but vitally important proposition: Government in America was never supposed to engage in the multitude of activities that it does today.
American government has far outgrown the limits set by our founders in the Constitution. If the twenty-first century is to be the American century, government must be redirected to its proper and legitimate role. The growth of government is the greatest tragedy of the twentieth century.
November 22, 2004
Tens of Thousands of Votes Lost, Stolen, Miscounted by Christopher Bollyn
The unexplained discrepancy leaves two explanations, Freeman wrote. “The polls were flawed or the count is off. Given that neither the pollsters nor their media clients have provided a solid explanation to the public, suspicion of fraud, or among the less accusatory, ‘mistabulation,’ is running rampant and unchecked. That so many people suspect misplay undermines not only the legitimacy of the president, but faith in the foundations of this democracy.”
2004 - Year of the Slave
The founding fathers set up a nation in which government was by the consent of the people. We The People agreed to certain obligations, and the government we allowed to care for our national sovereignty agreed to abide by certain limits set forth in the Constitution. The present government has broken the agreement, discarding the Constitutional limits on their power and authority while at the same time piling more and more obligations onto the people. Were you able to refuse them? No? This more than any of the other reasons is why you have ceased to be a free human being, and are now a slave.
November 20, 2004
Raising the Debt Limit: A Disgrace by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
The only way to control federal spending is to take away the government’s credit card. Therefore, I call upon my colleagues to reject S. 2986 and, instead, to reduce government spending. It is time Congress forces the federal government to live within its constitutional means. Congress should end the immoral practice of excessive spending and passing the bill to the next generation.
November 18, 2004
THE ARRIVAL OF SECRET LAW
A new report from the Congressional Research Service describes with welcome clarity how, by altering a few words in the Homeland Security Act, Congress "significantly broadened" the government's authority to generate "sensitive security information," including an entire system of "security directives" that are beyond public scrutiny, like the one former Rep. Chenoweth-Hage sought to examine.
America's Textbooks and America's Wars by Gary North
In the Constitutional debate of 1787, the libertarians were on the side of the Articles of Confederation: a weak central government, no strong executive, no national tariffs, and no standing Army. As President, George Washington opposed all four views. By the time the nation divided politically under John Adams, the original libertarians were out of the picture. Their fallen flag was being carried by the Jeffersonians.
November 17, 2004
Libertarianism, Conservatism, and All That by Jude Blanchette
Every person attracted to the thought of Ludwig von Mises is eventually faced with the question: should I be a conservative or a libertarian or must I choose at all?
November 16, 2004
Cuffing Bush and the FBI by Nat Hentoff
In striking down the noxious National Security Letters section 505 of the Patriot Act, Marrero wrote: "Under the mantle of secrecy, the self-preservation that ordinarily impels our government to censorship and secrecy may potentially be turned on ourselves as a weapon of self-destruction . . . "
The end of the Eighth Amendment by Joan Dayan
After the revelation of abuses at Abu Ghraib, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld found time to draw comparably subtle distinctions: “I’m not a lawyer, but I know it’s not torture—probably abuse.” Rumsfeld’s own blurring of the distinction between obvious torture and possible abuse has a real legal history.
November 15, 2004
Jefferson Davis - Our Greatest Hero by Dr. Grady McWhiney
In the twentieth century, Yankees gained increasing control over the historical journals, the university presses, the commercial publishing houses, and the production and distribution of professional historians; consequently, the Yankee version of the American past became the history most often taught in the colleges and in the public schools.
What do police departments really do? by VIN SUPRYNOWICZ
The only thing that has changed is that our land is now occupied by large, professional, overlapping paramilitary "police forces" that have to keep busy, ginning up manufactured "crime waves" and filling the prisons (we now have the highest incarceration rate in the world -- and many of those inmates have never hurt anyone), in order to justify their ever-burgeoning budgets.
White House And Goss Intend To Remake CIA Into PNAC True Believers
And it is important to focus just a moment on why there were leaks, and why the Agency staff may now rue the day that they didn’t leak more in the days before the election: Bush and the White House, including Goss as chair of the House Intelligence Committee fingered the Agency for Iraq and 9/11, instead of looking into the mirror. The real problem was that the Bush White House ignored intelligence that didn’t conform to their agenda and world view, and instead made their own intelligence paramount, even when it was questioned by those experts who had reason to know better.
In Defense of Christian Fundamentalists by Bob Murphy
Why do I believe Jesus is Lord? Not because I would be oh so lonely without a personal God. No, I believe it because it is the most sensible explanation I can come up with.
November 11, 2004
Privacy Experts Shun Black Boxes by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Some safety and privacy experts are reacting with apprehension, others with all out condemnation over a recent ruling by the National Transportation Safety Board (search) to require electronic data recorders or "black boxes" in all new cars manufactured in the United States.
November 10, 2004
War, Peace, and the State by Joseph R. Stromberg
This essay lists essential historical readings on wars (and related matters) which have involved or affected the United States (plural), starting in 1776.
Our goal is to present, in one place, a broad bibliography of works which go against conformist "liberal-internationalist" – and now one would have to add "neo-conservative" – readings of the history of US foreign relations.
I Drink for the Old Republic by Charlie Bowen
Less than one hundred years ago, folks in rural America “paid their taxes” with a few days of labor. It might have meant building a one room school house or fixing the roads, but I doubt there was much complaining. The gatherings were really social functions and beer flowed as stories were swapped amongst neighbors. There was real diversity and real tolerance, for there was a real need for community.
November 9, 2004
National Mythologies and the Aftermath of Election 2004 by Mark Dankof
Writing from Dallas and Dealey Plaza this week, Mark Dankof reminds BATR readers that in the wake of the beginning of the Fallujah offensive; the fall of the dollar; the rise of the Euro; the deepening budget and trade deficits; the ominous signs of eventual American-Israeli military preemption of Syria and Iran; and the coming re-institution of the Draft in the United States, the notion that the victory of George Bush one week ago signals victory for Constitutional and Conservative government in America ranks with the National Mythologies surrounding Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt as one of the great falsehoods in our nation's history.
Bread, Circuses, Tax Cuts, and Debt by Robert P. Murphy
Now that Bush has been reelected, and has comfortable majorities in both the House and Senate, we will have at least a two-year unambiguous test of Republican fiscal policies. My prediction? Massive spending and massive deficits. After all, that's what Republican presidents do, if history is any guide.
November 8, 2004
LIBERTY-COMMITTED-SOLIDARITY IS GENUINE PATRIOTISM by Sergei Hoff
I call upon the genuine conservatives who have been betrayed by their Republican Party, and the liberty-committed-patriots of the Constitution and Libertarian parties to rise above their conflicts. Do not be distracted! Focus on the most malignant of cancers in our nation. "New World Order" Socialism! Our illness is grave and we can no longer ignore the difficult yet certain cure of liberty-committed-solidarity.
November 7, 2004
Freedom and Morality: A Response to the Prof by Jude Blanchette
For the past fifty years or so, the standard conservative argument against libertarianism has been this: it is a nihilistic, hedonistic philosophy that supposedly holds everyman as an island, free to pursue all sorts of deviant behavior so long as it's voluntary. To be "free" is to break away from the societal shackles of morality, tradition, and God. Libertarians, conservatives say, are naïve -- they believe man is inherently good, and therefore, no restraints on humanity are needed.
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism by Lawrence Britt
Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20).
He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.
A Day of Infamy by Paul Craig Roberts
The world is amazed that Americans do not care that they have been deceived, lied to, and incompetently led and that Americans have chosen to continue along this path.
Bush’s reelection has ended forever respect for America. New and unflattering sobriquets for Americans are emerging. The American century is over.
November 5, 2004
America’s Other Democracy by William H. Peterson
So facing us are three challenges: Challenge One, can we free up our market democracy from the tightening binds of preemptive heavy taxation, regulation, and power grab, to bring it into broad public grasp, approval, and esteem? Challenge Two, can we use America’s second democracy to widen individual freedom and help tame or relimit political democracy à la our Founding Fathers in 1776? And Challenge Three, will we welsh on what freedom remains and let political democracy with its latent authoritarianism go the way it did in Ancient Greece?
November 4, 2004
Voting without auditing. (Are we insane?)
Black Box Voting (.ORG) is conducting the largest Freedom of Information action in history. At 8:30 p.m. Election Night, Black Box Voting blanketed the U.S. with the first in a series of public records requests, to obtain internal computer logs and other documents from 3,000 individual counties and townships. Networks called the election before anyone bothered to perform even the most rudimentary audit.
Liberty Yet Lives by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
In the end, however, there was no great choice to be made. Voters were being asked to choose between two forms of central planning, one domestic, tired, and uninspiring, and another international and promising to conquer ever more countries until the whole region and world bent the knee. One plan required higher taxes and more economic regimentation, and the other required higher debt and more death.
November 2, 2004
Documents reveal 3-hours missing from electronic vote election-night audit log by Tom Flocco
Smoking gun evidence of election night vote tampering just 6-weeks ago in King County, Washington’s September 14 primary was discovered in a response to a public records request by the founder and the associate director of Black Box Voting (BBV), a non-profit election watch-dog and research group.
The Electoral College vs. Mob Rule by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
Those who call for the abolition of the Electoral College are hostile to liberty. Not surprisingly, most advocates of abolition are statist elites concentrated largely on the east and west coasts. These political, economic, academic, media, and legal elites overwhelmingly favor a strong centralized federal government, and express contempt for the federalist concept of states’ rights. They believe in omnipotent federal power, with states acting as mere glorified federal counties carrying out commands from Washington
November 1, 2004
Russell Kirk on Immigration by W. Wesley McDonald
By 1992, Pat Buchanan had apparently convinced Kirk that the nature of immigration had radically changed. The new immigrants were not expected to assimilate into the existing inherited America culture. Instead, they threatened the very existence of the civilization and its achievements Kirk had fought his entire life to preserve.
Today, I am confident that Kirk would not be an enthusiast for the pro-immigration views advanced by Whitney. Instead, he would be joining forces with those on the other side—such as John Attarian, Paul Gottfried, Sam Francis and Peter Brimelow.
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