12/12/04
Lessons lost on America
- Columbia
Daily Tribune - by Peter Dunn
History suggests U.S. is bound to fail in
Iraq. [
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07/20/04 In the Prophet's Name
- Wall Street Journal - by Michael
J. Ybarra
If al-Wahhab was so humane, why are some of his followers so fanatical? [
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06/22/04 Qui
solvo? By The Daily
Rekconing
Thus, at last night's MoneyWeek Roundtable, were
the great issues facing investors and economists in the year 2004
reduced to a single two-word question. Who pays?
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06/11/04 How To Destroy America
By Frosty Wooldridge
Moments later, former Colorado Governor
Richard D. Lamm, stood up and gave a stunning speech on how
to destroy America.
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06/01/04 Religion
Essentialby
Charley Reese
I have come to believe that one can
have a successful Christian society, Jewish society, Muslim society,
Hindu society or Buddhist society, but not an agnostic or atheistic
society that is successful.
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05/24/04 Sleepers,
Awake by Rusty Mason
Over the past year, I have been noticing a slight
change in the attitudes of my conservative friends and relatives. Many
suspicion that GW and them Republicans is messin' up. They see an unjust
war and the massive growth of government under their boys' leadership
and don't like it, not one bit, nosir.
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05/21/04 Candidate Kerry versus the Catholic Church
by Col. Bob Pappas, USMC, Ret.
It was as predictable as the rise and setting of the sun, that is, the storm
over the Vatican’s proscription against politicians taking communion, who
violate Catholic doctrine. As for Separation of Church and State, the US
Constitution covers the matter very clearly: first, is Article VI, which in
two parts states: [
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05/15/04 The
Definition of Insanity...
by Mary Starett
...is
repeating the same behavior and expecting different results. We must be
certifiable because that's what we did in 2000 and it appears that's
what we'll be doing again in 2004. [
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04/24/04 Judicial
Supremacy: Threat to Freedom by
Larry Pratt Newswithviews.com
The travails of Manny Miranda show clearly
the proposition that the courts are in the business of legislating.
Any claims that judicial orders and decisions are part of the rule
of law are mostly pretense. Judges are simply politicians wrapped in
black robes and given the luxury of legislating without
accountability. [
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04/08/04 Conscience
and Terrorism by
Joe Sobran
"I call upon the American people to stand beside
their brothers, the Iraqi people, who are suffering an injustice by your
rulers and the occupying army, to help them in the transfer of power to
honest Iraqis. Otherwise, Iraq will be another Vietnam for America and
the occupiers." This plea, from the
popular Shi'ite leader Sheik Muqtada al-Sadr, is notable on several
counts. [
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03/27/04 Clauses, Constitutional Disarray, and the Preservation of Liberty
by Harry Goslin LRC
At some point every semester I am forced to
instruct my students in the dangers of reducing the content and context
of the Constitution to an array of "clauses" established
nowhere in the documents’ text. Reducing the Constitution to a Reader’s
Digest version of itself only facilitates the ability of government to
enslave the individual, take his property "legally," and if
necessary in the eyes of the state, to murder the individual. [
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03/10/04
The
new Pentagon papers by
Karen Kwiatkowski, Salon.com
A high-ranking military officer reveals
how Defense Department extremists suppressed information and twisted the
truth to drive the country to war.[
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03/09/04
Give
Them Your Name and Give Up Your Rights
by Brian Doherty
One man parked on the side of the road in Humboldt
County, Nevada, in May 2000 was brave enough to say no to a police
officer when ordered to identify himself. The
officer "just walked up and started demanding my papers,"
Larry Hiibel told Associated Press. "I was there on that road
minding my own business." He refused and, as a result, was
arrested. Now Hiibel may end up redefining our ability to move in public
without having every aspect of our lives investigated at the whim of the
police. [
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02/29/04
Tax
cuts do what?
by Thomas Sowell
Some
years ago, the distinguished international-trade economist Jagdish
Bhagwati was visiting Cornell University, giving a lecture to graduate
students during the day and debating Ralph Nader on free trade that
evening. During his lecture, Prof. Bhagwati asked how many of the
graduate students would be attending that evening's debate. Not one hand
went up.
Amazed, he asked why. The answer was that the economics students
considered it to be a waste of time. The kind of silly stuff that Ralph
Nader was saying had been refuted by economists ages ago. The net result
was that the audience for the debate consisted of people largely
illiterate in economics and they cheered for Mr. Nader.
02/18/04
Arguments versus Fallacies
by Tibor Machan
In nearly all colleges and
universities today courses are taught in basic reasoning, introductory
logic, and clear thinking, courses most undergraduates are required to
take. Some of these actually prepare students to move on to upper division
logic courses and seminars, where they are taught formal reasoning,
complicated proofs and various rather technical symbolic machinations used
mainly in advanced scientific research. But in the bulk of such courses
they are simply supposed to learn how to argue a point, the relationship
between premises and conclusions and the method by which to insure that
the latter actually follow from the former and aren’t simply asserted
without support. [
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01/20/04
Taxation
through the Ages by
Joseph Sobran
I was reading a little book called The Law — a
long pamphlet, really — by the nineteenth-century French legislator
Frédéric Bastiat, when I was riveted by a single sentence: “Look
at the law, and see if it does for one man at the expense of another
what it would be a crime for the one to do to the other himself.”
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01/15/04
Neocons
Plot To Jail War Critics by Thomas
DiLorenzo The neocon cabal is beginning to
make the case for imprisoning – or possibly executing – members of
Congress who oppose the war in Iraq. An example of this development is a
December 23 Insight magazine article. [
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