12/27/03
THE
IRAQ MODEL FOR RETAKING AMERICACarl F. Worden, Sierra Times Having
had a hand in forming the Southern Oregon Militia back in 1993, a curious
news reporter from back east contacted me to ask if I really thought it
possible that a raggedy group of American citizens could band together,
overthrow the existing government and return America to the constitutional
rule the Founding Fathers envisioned.
I
asked, “Are you asking me if we could win?” “Yes”, he replied. I
told him, “Yes, we would win, but the real issue is what would we
win?”
[more...]
12/27/03
Superpower
Syndrome Robert Jay Lifton The confrontation between Islamist and
American versions of planetary excess has unfortunately tended to define a
world in which the vast majority of people embrace neither. But
apocalyptic excess needs no majority to dominate a landscape. All the more
so when, in their mutual zealotry, Islamist and American leaders seem to
act in concert. That is, each, in its excess, nurtures the apocalypticism
of the other, resulting in a malignant synergy
[more...]
12/22/03
Making
Money the Old-Fashioned Way?Karen Kwiatkowski, LewRockwell.com The gift of U.S. universal hegemony seems to
have arrived early inside the Beltway. Like impatient children,
neo-conservative aficionados have shaken the box, ripped the wrapping and
are dreaming of a brave new world where they will both rule and profit.
[more...]
12/20/03
The
American Memory Hole Joseph Sobran You
may be surprised to learn that Washington, Jefferson, and
other Founding Fathers took the right of secession for
granted. Probably not one American in a thousand is aware of
this today. But it was inherent in the Declaration’s
proposition that the original colonies “are, and of Right
ought to be, Free and Independent States.” This
is what Abraham Lincoln actually denied when he said that no
state could leave the Union. Unlike Lincoln, Davis wasn’t
even a lawyer; yet his grasp of law and history was far wider
and deeper than Lincoln’s. After
the Confederacy was conquered, Davis was arrested and held in
solitary confinement for two years on a charge of treason. But
in the end the government dropped the charge and released him,
having been warned by its own lawyers that Davis, defending
himself in court, might well win acquittal by making a
powerful case for secession — and thereby dealing a terrific
blow to Union war propaganda. The intended show trial might
have backfired — with Davis summoning the Founding Fathers
themselves as his star witnesses!
[more...]
12/16/03
The
Disinformation Age Michael Crichton,
Wanniski.com
I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important
challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest
challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from
fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a
challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the
disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.
[more...]
12/16/03
GOP Is Now The "Fraternal Twin" Of Socialist Democrats
Chuck Baldwin The Republican Party's full-court press to enact the biggest expansion of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" welfare state by passing the recent Medicare reform bill proves that the GOP is the "fraternal twin" (Howard Phillips) of socialist Democrats. In fact, G. W. Bush and his fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill make Bill Clinton look like an economic conservative!
[more...]
12/04/03
Century In, Century Out
- It's Crusade Time
Jim Pinkerton, Newsday For 14 centuries, Christians and
Muslims have waged a series of conquests and crusades. And while we know
who started the fighting, we don't know who will end it. The one safe bet
is that America's current crusade in the Middle East will not be the last.
[more...]
December
2003 The
Bubble of American Supremacy by
George Soros, Atlantic Monthly
It is generally agreed that September 11, 2001, changed the course of
history. But we must ask ourselves why that should be so. How could a
single event, even one involving 3,000 civilian casualties, have such a
far-reaching effect? The answer lies not so much in the event itself as
in the way the United States, under the leadership of President George
W. Bush, responded to it. [more...]
11/28/03
A Politician's
Public Service Walter E.
Williams, CATO Institute
Dick Gephardt unwittingly performed a public service
in his address to the Teamsters Local 238 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, last
month. He revealed the true agenda behind so much of the support for
minimum wages. He pledged that if he became president he'd press the World
Trade Organization to establish an international minimum wage -- one that
he says is high enough so that American workers are not competing with
slave, sweat-shop and child labor around the world.
[more...]
11/27/03
Responsible only for good
intentions Jeff Snyder LewRockwell.com
It is certainly no longer news that our elected
representatives rarely read the laws they pass, let alone think through
the possible applications and implications of those laws before casting
their votes.
[more...]
11/22/03
Persecuting Col. West
Washington Times
Col. West's action may well have saved
the lives of hundreds of American troops under his command. "I felt
there was a threat to my soldiers," he said on the stand."If
it's about the life of my men, I'd go through hell with a gasoline
can."
[more...]
11/21/03
Free
trade succumbs to politics Jerry
Heaster Kansas City Star President Bush is jeopardizing
America's long-term economic health by using protectionist trade policy to
further his quest for a second term in the White House.
[more...]
08/04/03
Connerly's
dream of a color-blind society Woody
West, Insight Magazine
One day when the last neo-Marxist professor has been
retired from a public university, when the last "diversity"
trainer and the last "multicultural facilitator" have been told
to vacate their cubbyholes by sundown, and when the American Association
of University Women reluctantly announces it no longer will issue its
scathing annual report on how the nation's schools discriminate against
females because 75 percent of undergraduate degrees are being awarded to
women - on that glorious day - there should be a cheer for Ward Connerly.
[more...]
08/10/03
The
Patriot Act Seattle Times sidebar .
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Some of the
fundamental changes to Americans' legal rights by the Bush administration
and the USA Patriot Act after the 9-11 attacks
[more...]
08/04/03
Government
Malpractice by Robert Klassen
Can our system of health-care delivery be saved? Yes. If the State would
absolutely, unconditionally, 100% get out of medicine, and stay out, then
the business might be saved by the people who work in it. Otherwise, no.
An infinite demand for limited resources cannot be
satisfied in this universe. Socialism doesn’t work
[more...]
07/17/03
Who's
rich? Part IIThomas
Sowell Someone once pointed out that there are at least
50 colleges that claim to be among the top 25 colleges in the country.
There is a similar congestion among the 400 "richest" Americans,
as shown in data recently released by the Internal Revenue Service. [more...]
07/10/03
We’ve been
Neo-Conned Ron Paul, MD
The modern-day, limited-government movement has been co-opted. The
conservatives have failed in their effort to shrink the size of
government. There has not been, nor will there soon be, a conservative
revolution in Washington. Political party control of the federal
government has changed, but the inexorable growth in the size and scope of
government has continued unabated. The liberal arguments for limited
government in personal affairs and foreign military adventurism were never
seriously considered as part of this revolution..
[more...]
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07/10/03 The
Horrors of Senator John McCain CounterPunch May
1999
McCain is often called a "war hero", a title adorning an
unlovely resume starting with a father who was an admiral and graduation
fifth from the bottom at the US Naval Academy, where he earned the
nickname "McNasty". McCain flew 23 bombing missions over North
Vietnam, each averaging about half an hour, total time ten hours and
thirty minutes. For these brief excursions the admiral's son was awarded
two Silver Stars, two Legions of Merit, two Distinguished Flying Crosses,
three Bronze Stars, the Vietnamese Legion of Honor and three Purple
Hearts. US Veteran Dispatch calculates our hero earned a medal an hour,
which is pretty good going. McCain was shot down over Hanoi on October 26,
1967 and parachuted into Truc Boch Lake, whence he was hauled by
Vietnamese, and put in prison.
[more...]
06/29/03 'Democracy:'
It's a threat to our republic By
David P. Shreiner, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Most people believe the United States is a country created with a
democratic form of government. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
The Founding Fathers were almost as fearful of democracy as they were
the monarchies of Europe.
[more...]
06/25/03
Ashcroft's Secrecy by
St. Petersburg Times
Secrecy in government inevitably leads
to abuse of power. A government that operates in the open will be far more
accountable to its people. But Attorney General John Ashcroft isn't
interested in accountable government, just the arrogation of power to the
executive branch.
[more...]
1997
Redux Neoconservatism: a CIA
Front? by Gregory Pavlik
Although it is now widely conceded that
there was never any serious threat of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe,
let alone of the United States, the menace of the Soviet Union was the
pretext underlying discussion of foreign policy. To pay for the Cold War,
Harry Truman set out, as Arthur Vandenberg advised, to "Scare the
Hell out of the American people." A daunting task, considering the
years of pro-Soviet accolades that had been previously flowing from the
executive branch.
[more...]
05/23/03
Lee's Summit School District Education is not a federal issue,
it is a state issue. Who says so? The Constitution does. There is no
way possible to interpret the Constitution as to support the taking of
money from people of the various states to pay for education of those in
one state. We are in trouble because we have come to depend on educational
largesse from Washington rather than depend on the funds we raise within
the state. Of course, some people would be horrified by what I have
written. The very idea of people having to pay themselves for services
they receive is anathema to them. Welcome to the "welfare
state." Missouri, like other states, had no problem with national
legislators violating the Constitution by spending on education because
they all received a percentage of the goodies. [more...]
04/17/03
Out
of the UN DeWeese, Washington Times
Delay, negotiate, recommend, study, reconsider, do nothing — that is the
game the United Nations played while allowing the brutal Iraqi
dictatorship to exist. It is the same game the United Nations has played
in nearly every international crisis. It is the reason North Korea remains
a threat and its oppressive dictatorship remains in power after 50 years.
It's the reason Zimbabwe's murderous dictator, Robert Mugabe, is able to
steal an election and then steal the land of white property owners,
inflict famine on his country and still have a voice at the U.N.
Sustainable Development Conference, which took place last fall in South
Africa. It's the reason why Libya can be put in charge of the U.N. Human
Rights Council and Iraq can be put in charge of the U.N. Disarmament
Commission [more...]
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04/15/03 America's
Marxist Income Tax System Murray
Sabrin, Daily USA
April 15th, 2003 - Another year has gone by and the United
States, the "land of the free", still has a Marxist income tax
system. Our income tax system is similar to the one advocated by Karl Marx
in The Communist Manifesto. In his manifesto Marx laid down ten
planks that would lead to a communist society, one of which (Number 2) is
"A heavy progressive and graduated income tax".more...]
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04/09/03 Welcome,
Mom, to the Neo-Fascist, Imperialist, Police StateKaren
De Coster, LRC
As I explained to my Mom in terms of the present war, we are living under
fascist statism in the United States, with its related Imperialist
ambitions running roughshod over peoples abroad that have no desire to be
"democratized" or Americanized. It’s against the rules, you
see, to want to live two-hundred years behind us, in stone houses,
praising your own God, on your own land. [more...]
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04/07/03 A
Time for UnityPat Buchanan, The
American Conservative The war debate has been
protracted and bitter. Now it is over, and patriotism commands that when
American soldiers face death in battle, the American people unite behind
them. [more...]
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03/09/03 Going
Off to War Supplied With Lies Nicholas
von Hoffman, New York Observer
"War whore" is the name.
They’re the ladies and gentlemen of the mediawho whoop, holler and thigh-slap the United States into war. Day in
and day out, hour after hour, on the TV news channels in particular, they
tingle with happy excitement as they strain to infect their viewers (and
somewhat less often, their readers) with their enthusiasm for the looming
death and disfigurement of others. [more...]
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02/16/03 Don't
worry, the government is in charge Vince
Supryovich, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Have the federals thought of offering
to buy anything brought in to help them facilitate this so-called
"investigation"? Of course not. Because the federal government
-- just like Prince John claiming to own all the deer in Sherwood Forest,
just like any feudal overlord -- figures it already owns all the private
property in Texas and Louisiana, along with the wages and daily lives of
all the people living there. The peasants are merely tolerated so long as
they pay their rents and follow orders [more...]
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02/13/03 If
only the Führer Knew... Michael
Peirce, LewRockwell.com
American conservatives ... are quite
aware that the United States government is working actively against the
best interests of the people of this country. The failure to defend our
borders, the draconian and unconstitutional assault on our God-given right
of self defense, the mass murders of the unborn, the transformation of the
public school system into left wing indoctrination centers –
conservatives are aware of these things. But there exists this huge
disconnect – constantly one hears the same mantra, "Don’t worry,
the adults are in charge now." [more...]
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01/29/03 Sorry,
Mr. Franklin, “We’re All Democrats Now” Rep.
Ron Paul, MD [R-TX] LewRockwell.com
At the close of the Constitutional
Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin told an inquisitive citizen that the
delegates to the Constitutional Convention gave the people “a Republic,
if you can keep it.” We should apologize to Mr. Franklin. It is obvious
that the Republic is gone, for we are wallowing in a pure democracy
against which the Founders had strongly warned. [more...]
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01/17/03 Rule By the
Ridiculous Jeffrey Tucker LewRockwell.com
Take any public building and
assign new management every four years and see what happens. It will be
a mess, just as every older government building in Washington is a dump.
... imagine putting the people who can't be bothered to wipe up a coffee spill – and have no
reason to do so or care either way, only the incentive to use up what
they can before their time is over – in charge of the whole country.
This is a metaphor for how the government treats the entire country.
[more...] .
01/15/03
Why
the Arab world hates America Dennis Prager
Townhall.com Because America alone (and the
little America in the Middle East, Israel) prevents the expansion of
Islamic rule ... We talk a great deal about winning Arabs' and Muslims'
minds and hearts. Yet, we have yet to win all Americans' minds and hearts.
For confirmation, just visit your local university.
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01/07/03 Social
Security Number promotes identity theftRon Paul
First, it is simply common sense that
repealing those federal laws that promote identity theft is more effective
in protecting the public than expanding the power of the federal police
force. Federal punishment of identity thieves provides cold comfort to
those who have suffered financial losses and the destruction of their good
reputation as a result of identity theft. [more...] .
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This
is what Abraham Lincoln actually denied when he said that no
state could leave the Union. Unlike Lincoln, Davis wasn’t
even a lawyer; yet his grasp of law and history was far wider
and deeper than Lincoln’s.