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April 27, 2005
Being Among the Few Who are Right by Tibor R. Machan
But then I went out to point out that taxes are a form of extortion and the majority’s approval of it—and Justice Holmes calling it the price we pay for civilization—doesn’t change this fact. I also defended the view that the power wielding of the democratic method is at most appropriate for small role of selecting administrators of a just legal order and, perhaps, in the initial institution of a constitutional system of individual rights.
April 26, 2005
Republican Leadership Seeks To Ensconce Judicial Tyranny by Chuck Baldwin
Clearly gives Congress the power to hold Courts accountable. It states, "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior." Obviously, it is Congress that must determine what is and what is not "good Behavior."
April 25, 2005
Fascism, State Capitalism and Outsourcing by weebies
Many of the causes of outsourcing/globalization can be directly attributed to state policies, not the effect of the free market. Consider just the pernicious effects of US government fiscal policy caused by the Federal Reserve, which has destroyed the value of the dollar through inflation (enter 1, 2005, 1913 submit) so that a dollar today is only worth the value of a nickel in 1913.
April 24, 2005
National ID critics have 8 months to block it
CRITICS of the national identification system planned by Malacañang will have about eight months to block it.
Executive Order No. 420, which President Macapagal-Arroyo signed on April 13 and which was deemed to take effect 60 days hence, requires all state agencies and government-owned and -controlled corporations to harmonize their ID systems.
The Silencing of Sibel Edmonds by James Ridgeway
The unsettling story of whistleblower Sibel Edmonds took another twist on Thursday, as the government continued its seemingly endless machinations to shut her up. The U.S. Court of Appeals here denied pleas to open the former FBI translator's First Amendment case to the public, a day after taking the extraordinary step of ordering a secret hearing.
April 22, 2005
LET'S ABOLISH THE DANGEROUS PATRIOT ACT by Ted Lang
When will these criminals be held accountable for the crimes they have committed? Why do they want more powers? This will be America’s last chance, so please don’t fall asleep in the couch! Get started with that letter, call their offices, and keep writing. If we fail now peaceably, the alternative will be fearsome.
April 21, 2005
Truckers bristle at anti-terror rules by Mimi Hall
The licenses cost $94 in most states. Once a driver submits his fingerprints at an approved collection center, it takes a week to two months to get approval back from the federal government. In several states, there's only one place where drivers can get their prints collected; it can take a day or more to get there and back.
"We're going to have to respond by increasing recruiting efforts and increasing driver pay to make it worth their while," Harvison says. Those costs will be passed on to consumers. "Ultimately, that's going to result in higher prices on the shelves and at the pumps."
Urgent action needed on REAL ID Act
A tri-national ID card, merging US driver license databases with Canada and Mexico could be passed under the banner of 9/11 today. Here's an urgent action alert from CivilRights.org:
Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA) has introduced the REAL ID Act as an amendment to the Emergency Supplemental bill. This amendment may well come up for a vote on the Senate floor either tonight or tomorrow. It is also possible that amendments may be offered to improve the REAL ID Act or to make it even more punitive.
April 20, 2005
Federal intervention and the liberal hypocrisy by James Lester
It has always been my belief that state rights were paramount to a healthy republic. Just as various checks and balances were placed into our form of government to prevent tyrannical rises, so too were our states provided with relative autonomy from the threat of national despotism.
April 19, 2005
There Must Never Be Another Waco by Chuck Baldwin
It is unconscionable (not to mention a violation of U.S. law as prescribed in the Posse Comitatus Act) that tanks and other military equipment would be used against mostly women and children within our own country. The bizarre tactics employed by the BATF and FBI at Waco are unfathomable and unforgivable! Our government has been more lenient and patient when dealing with many of America's deadliest enemies than it was in dealing with those poor Davidians.
Big Brother Surveillance State Grows New Tentacles
Why does Big Brother want to know who you are, where you’ve been, your magazine subscriptions, your financial records, and what brand of toothpaste you buy?
The reasons are multifaceted. It’s not just making sure the serfs know who their master is.
April 18, 2005
Walling off Christianity by Robert Novak
The venerable Rep. Henry Hyde is a staunch supporter of Israel, but he is also a prominent Catholic layman known for telling the truth. He did so two weeks ago to Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres. He made clear how unhappy he was that Israel's government had ignored his previous protests about the destruction of the Christian community in the Holy Land.
GodAssault: Morality as the Ultimate Game by Lisa Lambert
Leading Democrats were also looking to put new moral moves in their political playbook. At a Roe v. Wade commemoration Hillary Clinton announced that her once-firm stance on legal abortion had turned Jell-o soft, showing exactly what churches like Calvary Chapel mean to politicians. Clinton and other party leaders are now determined to win over Calvary Chapel-style evangelicals by taking stands they imagine those Christians will consider "moral." In the meantime, they hope to preserve their wider political philosophies in the shadows.
A New Revolution is In The Air by Henry Lamb
In the West, the federal government not only dictates how the land will be used, it also dictates how the law will be enforced. Duly elected county sheriffs are forced to stand aside while law enforcement officers of the U.S. Forest service confiscate the private property of ranchers who allow their cattle to eat grass that the federal government claims as its own - despite a hundred years of undisputed ownership by the rancher’s family.
April 15, 2005
Good day to remember Jefferson by HOWARD J. BLITZ
Today marks the 262nd birthday of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, who wanted to be remembered for authoring two documents — the American Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom — and for being the founder of the University of Virginia.
Judge Roy Moore and the Myth of the Separation Clause by Christian Hartsock
It is on account of this brand of narcissistic judicial hubris, this denial of subordinance to a Higher Law that an innocent woman was allowed to be inhumanly starved to death recently, that activist judges have been able to recklessly redefine the institution of marriage, and that an unremitting fetal holocaust has been sanctioned by the highest levels of government for 32 years and counting. The more we forget that we are “one nation under God,” the more we will become “one nation under the State.” If this becomes the case, then our rights will become conditional and susceptible to abuse, rather than God-given and immune to meddling. As many could argue, resting our rights solely on the state is like building a house on sand. (Note to liberals: Please pardon the biblical reference.)
April 14, 2005
Religion under a secular assault by Julia Duin
They're part of a network of organizations that shares logistics, troops, board members and funding sources and includes radical feminists, humanists, atheists and liberal Jewish and Christian groups. Four organizations furnish most of the leadership.
The oldest and best-known is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), whose Kentucky chapter is a plaintiff in the two cases before the Supreme Court. The others are Americans United for Separation of Church and State, People for the American Way (PFAW) and the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF). The latter two filed friends-of-the-court briefs in support of the lawsuits.
April 13, 2005
Patriotism Does Not Mean Support or Love Of Big Government by Chuck Baldwin
Furthermore, conservatives need to remember the words of President Ronald Reagan when he said, "Government is not the solution to the problem; government is the problem."
April 12, 2005
How U.S. Supreme Court Is Destroying America by Gordon Bishop
Levin traces the beginning of the attack on the U.S. Constitution to the year 1803 when then Chief Justice John Marshall proclaimed that the Supreme Court would have the power to decide what is, or is not, Constitutional. That led to the process of “judicial review.” That put the Supreme Court in charge of America’s destiny – not the Congress, and not the President.
The Breadth and Scope of Libertarianism and the Role of Student Activism by Daniel J. D’Amico
Libertarianism stands apart from mainstream political debate because it proposes a dramatic restructuring of current government. In addition to being marginalized from the political mainstream, libertarianism is divided within itself. An individual libertarian can be more specifically defined by many other titles such as Libertarian v. libertarian, minarchist v. anarchist, paleo-libertarian v. left-leaning-libertarian, and probably more which I am unaware of.
April 11, 2005
The Guts to carry the TRUTH by Leigh E. Wise
There is a secret unconstitutional law that denies military members and their families equal protection and justice under The United States Constitution and The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. 1346 et seq., to seek final redress for wrongful actions taken upon them while serving. These certain actions may include Murder, Reprisal (for reporting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse of taxpayer money), Rape, Human Experimentation, Medical Malpractice, Gross and Criminal Negligence, etc.
DARPA developing electromagnetic collars for humans
The agency, is working on a project known as Advanced Speech Encoding, aimed at replacing microphones with non-acoustic sensors that detect speech via the speaker's nerve and muscle activity, rather than sound itself.
Another system, being developed for DARPA by Rick Brown of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, relies on a sensor worn around the neck called a tuned electromagnetic resonator collar (TERC).
Public Servants, My Foot by Charley Reese
The American people deserve a sound currency that keeps its value. They deserve a frugal government that will not burden future generations with debts for things long ago consumed. Thomas Jefferson said that no government debt should extend beyond 20 years, generally considered one generation.
April 8, 2005
A Breaking Point? by Butler Shaffer
Our current American society has been in this state of turbulence for some time, without much focused intelligence guiding alternative courses of action. Because governments thrive on conflict – which they promise to "manage" – America is characterized by cross-currents of demands people make upon one another, a destructive force arising from endless divisions, confrontations, politically-enforced expectations, and discord. Such conflicts find expression in efforts to micromanage the personal and social lives of others; a disrespect for the inviolability of one another’s lives and property interests; quarrels over the role that "spiritual" versus "secular" values are to play in legal and political policies; disputes regarding the sanctity of life, and the social value of "wars" and "peace;" and the relative importance of the "individual" versus the "collective."
April 7, 2005
Hearing No Evil: Rosy visions of the PATRIOT Act by Julian Sanchez
The current version of the SAFE Act has been significantly revised [PDF] from the version that died in committee in the 108th Congress, easing proposed restrictions on notification delays following "sneak-and-peek" searches and attempting to fix controversial sections of PATRIOT by providing oversight and various judicial safeguards rather than sunsetting them.
April 6, 2005
Patriot Act's 'sneak and peek' searches nearly double by CHARLIE SAVAGE AND RICK KLEIN
Justice Department investigators nearly doubled the rate at which they used a controversial new search-and-seizure power allowed under the USA Patriot Act during the past 22 months, according to data released by the Bush administration yesterday on the eve of congressional testimony by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Cooler Heads Review PATRIOT Act in Congress by William Fisher
Among those pushing for modification of provisions they say violate constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties and privacy rights is an unusual coalition of left- and right-leaning groups known as Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances.
April 5, 2005
The next chapter in the Patriot Act by Declan McCullagh
The law is long and convoluted. But five sections that are set to expire will have the most impact on the technology and telecommunications industries:
Is Libertarianism Amoral? by Ralph Raico
The publication of a symposium on the question, "What is conservatism?"[1] provides us with an opportunity to explore once again a complex of issues frequently raised in these pages—that having to do with the differences between libertarianism and conservatism. In this article, I shall not attempt to deal with all of the areas covered by these differences, nor with the essays of all twelve contributors to Meyer's symposium. Instead, I shall deal merely with certain aspects of the attempted reconciliation of the two philosophies that goes by the name of "fusionism."
April 4, 2005
The Living Bill of Rights by Edgar J. Steele
We keep hearing from our elected officials and so many media talking heads that the U.S. Constitution is a "living document," which changes with the times and adapts to situations not considered by America's founding fathers. In particular, I understand how innumerable statutes, legal rulings and widespread bureaucratic fiat work together to make our Constitution a "living document." Some might say subvert it, but I, of course, never would be one of those.
Analysis: The fight over the Patriot Act
Calling themselves Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances and headed by former Rep.Bob Barr, R-Ga.,, the group consists of several interests including the liberal American Civil Liberties Union, the American Conservative Union, the conservative Americans for Tax Reform and the conservative Free Congress Foundation.
April 2, 2005
An Unlikely Group Of Patriots Paul M. Weyrich
Section 213 (which I handled at the press conference). We, the PRCB, say that Congress should modify Section 213 by imposing strict monitoring on the use of secret warrants. Under the Patriot Act, investigators can secretly enter your home or office (the so-called sneak-and-peek provision), secretly examine your possessions, and not inform you that they have done so for a very long time. In fact, there is no time limit in the bill. Not only is that a problem but warrants that are issued can have no connection with terrorists or terrorism. Much of the Patriot Act has been used for other purposes than preventing terrorism because it circumvents the much stricter requirements of the Constitution
Republican Stepchildren by W. James Antle III
As this warning suggests, some veterans of the Religious Right feel a sense of having been here before—they vote in large numbers for GOP candidates, but to little effect. The other players in the big tent end up getting to set the agenda. Christian conservatives were first a major factor in national politics during the Moral Majority years of the 1980s. Many of them hoped that by electing Ronald Reagan and a Republican Senate, they could at least roll back the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and at best help usher in a spiritual reawakening.
Neither goal was realized.
April 1, 2005
Terri Schiavo: The Locked-in State by Sherry and Steven Eros
To a corrupt nation, Terri Schiavo is a living, breathing, thinking, willing, loving rebuke and provocation. She exposes all that is worst in us, the lawlessness, crassness, hard-heartedness, and viciousness that we see almost everywhere around us. In her silence she elegantly refutes the shameless fraud of the bioethics experts, the callousness of the Death Doctors and the Right-to-Die enthusiasts, the tyranny of an unchecked judiciary, the utter depravity of the secular humanists. In her debilitated state, nearly squeezed dry of life, she filled the world with her voiceless eloquence.
Principles by Frank Speiser
Anyone standing in favor of a draft does not believe in individual rights, or human rights at all, for that matter. A draft, which is brought about because of lack of support for a particular military engagement, requires people who would not normally volunteer for the military to be conscripted. If the person had wanted to be in the military without the draft, and he decided it to be the best option available, that person would already be in the military. The draft is, by definition, involuntary servitude.
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