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Open Borders Means Big Government
Post Date: 2006-09-09 19:22:22 by YertleTurtle
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I am a libertarian who does not believe in open borders. Why? Because the only way a country can have open borders is if it has a huge federal government. Right now, we have a huge federal government, so we have open borders. It overrules the states, counties, neighborhoods, and individuals. Under a purely libertarian society, all property would be private. Contrary to the belief the borders would be open, the truth is the exact opposite. There would not be mass migration, because the owners would not stand for it. I was raised in an area with a bunch of farmers who owned very large tracts of land. I learned at a very young age I was to never trespass on their property without permission. ...
It's Up to Leaders Because Sheeple Will Always be Sheeple
Post Date: 2006-09-09 14:36:55 by YertleTurtle
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Why Organizations Fail - Part I An Unsaleable Vision Recently I met with a small group of men who represent an organization devoted to stopping “illegal” immigration in Mississippi. The men were kind and courteous as well as studied on the issues at hand. I was invited to advise on various approaches to fighting immigration, including strategies we used during the Mississippi State Flag fight. I listened carefully to their plans before offering my two cents worth. There were three things in particular that I pointed out, two of which concern this article. First of all, the men spoke of apathy among the people of Mississippi. I cringe when I hear that filthy word. It’s all ...
President to Announce Rumsfeld Resignation
Post Date: 2006-09-09 13:43:44 by FI_10-Gale
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The President of these United States has requested air time on 9/ll. White House Press Secretary Tony "snow job" Snow has indicated that this will not be a political speach, that the President's only purpose for the speach will be to reflect back on what 9/11 has meant to him. The four major networks have granted him the privilege to contaminate our airwaves with distortion and obfuscation at 9 PM eastern time. Be assured that in the speech will be an attempt to instill fear in us. With the expected installation of fear of further attacks will be the insinuation that if republicans lose their majority in the house in the upcoming elections more attacks will occur because the ...
How to Think About Terrorism
Post Date: 2006-09-08 21:13:20 by Dakmar
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In the aftermath of September 11, many Americans have embraced the belief, or at least the hope, that acts of terror can be prevented in the future. More-advanced technologies, better-trained people, and better-organized bureaucracies, it is thought, will shield us from danger by revealing the future more clearly than America’s intelligence agencies were able to do before the Al Qaeda attacks. This hope goes naturally with the traditional “can-do” ethos of American culture. A little hard thinking shows the expectation to be futile, but a great deal more thought is required if we are to understand what we can reasonably hope to accomplish in combating future terrorism. If we ...
About Those Nazi Appeasers, Bush Family Values
Post Date: 2006-09-08 03:53:52 by Zoroaster
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September 7, 2006 About Those Nazi Appeasers Bush Family Values By MICHAEL DONNELLY It's astonishing to see how desperate our homegrown fascists have become. The entire cabal is in full-on media blitz mode with Rummy, Dick and Theodosius, er, Bush slamming their foreign opponents with the latest absurd tag "Islamic Fascists;" and, their domestic ones as "Nazi appeasers." Or, in the deranged mind of Condi Rice; domestic opponents are tantamount to folks who would have stopped the Civil War and allowed slavery to continue in the South. It's not just desperate; it's monumentally moronic, given the real history. This bizarre trip on the Wayback Machine demands a deeper ...
F-4 fighter jet hitting a concrete wall at 500 mph - 9-11 information here
Post Date: 2006-09-08 01:24:52 by tom007
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Safely Surrendered Baby Law Fact Sheet
Post Date: 2006-09-07 21:37:11 by Dakmar
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On Sept. 6, a dead newborn baby was surrendered at a Modesto hospital. In an effort to increase awareness and educate the public about the Safely Surrendered Baby Law (SSB), the California Department of Social Services would like to take this opportunity provide media with the following facts and information: -- 153 newborns have been safely surrendered in California while another 139 infants have been found alive following their illegal abandonment since the SSB law took effect in January 2001. It provides a safe alternative to desperate mothers who are unwilling or unable to keep their babies. -- To ensure continued safety and protections ...
Will Russia Stop the War?
Post Date: 2006-09-07 18:23:31 by Eoghan
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Israel and the US, the terrible Siamese twins conjoined by their Jewish communities, are on the warpath. The usually knowledgeable Uzi Mahanaimi wrote in the Sunday Times that the plans have been laid out, and preparations are being completed for the resumption of the war on Syria and Iran temporarily stopped by the Hezbullah fighters in the mountains of Southern Lebanon. President Bush hopes to improve his sagging popularity by the war, says Alex Cockburn. A condemnation of Iran by the Security Council is all he needs before the attack at dawn. Until now, such resolutions were produced after a short period of haggling. Now there is a chance Russia will use its veto, and then the US plans ...
6th Circuit rules Ohio law too tough on minor parties
Post Date: 2006-09-07 16:02:55 by Brian S
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09-07) 11:28 PDT CINCINNATI (AP) -- Ohio's rules for primary elections make it too hard for minor parties to get on the ballot, a federal appeals court ruled. Parties automatically qualify for the primary ballot if their candidate for governor or president received at least 5 percent of the vote in the previous Ohio election. Any other party must file a petition four months before the primary election with signatures equal to 1 percent of the number of total votes cast in the last state election. That requirement meant minor parties had to file petitions with 32,290 voter signatures by Nov. 3, 2003, to get candidates on the March 2004 primary ballot. In a 2-1 opinion, a U.S. 6th ...
Government Only Has Our Best Interests at Heart
Post Date: 2006-09-07 14:38:25 by sheltonmac
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I admit that my essays over the years have been rather critical of government. In fact, on occasion, they may have seemed a bit sarcastic and even downright cynical. Well, perhaps it's time I turned over a new leaf. I have come to realize that, when you get right down to it, politicians really only have our best interests at heart. They remind us of that consistently. And it's a good thing, too, because so many people seem to forget—and no one has been guiltier of that than yours truly. As a Minnesotan, I have seen firsthand just how caring government officials can be. Those elected to public office—and even those in positions of power who aren't elected—have demonstrated ...
All Karl Rove's Gloves Are Off Now Hotlist
Post Date: 2006-09-07 13:36:29 by Morgana le Fay
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What follows is just a little essay giving my views on the current GOP tactics, including the Bush administration rhetoric that Karl Rove has so obviously scripted for the 2006 Fall Election campaign. I also flirt with Godwin's law just a little bit. (Okay, maybe it's more than just a flirtation, but one well justified by the facts, I believe). Oh, and that whole "Path to 9/11" rigamarole and nonsense? Yeah, I give you my take on about that too. But please, don't let that stop you ... (Cont. below the fold) * Steven D's diary :: :: * The Republican Fall election campaign, as dictated by Karl Rove, makes it very clear that nothing is out of bounds. Certainly not the rhetoric ...
Is It Time to Expand the 'Axis of Evil'?
Post Date: 2006-09-07 13:18:36 by Brian S
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Posted Sep 07, 2006 Since his Sept. 20, 2001 ,speech denouncing Iraq, Iran and North Korea as members of an “Axis of Evil,” President Bush has been viciously ridiculed. We’ve all heard the nasty names, everything from “unsophisticated” and “foreign policy novice” to “warmonger,” “murderer,” and “fascist.” Why it somehow works to call Bush a fascist but is terribly improper for him to refer to Muslim terrorists as “Islamic fascists” is discussion for another time. But as we now approach the five-year anniversary of his bold description we realize one stark fact: he didn’t go far enough in his listing of ...
Joe Wilson: The End of an Error
Post Date: 2006-09-07 10:04:49 by It Is A Republic
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As National Public Radio described the story behind Joe Wilson's amusingly titled book, "The Politics of Truth" (available on the $1 table in fine bookstores everywhere), in May 2004: "Last July Wilson wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times saying that this particular intelligence regarding Iraq was false. A week later, columnist Robert Novak revealed that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative." This is like saying: "John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan; Reagan later died." Every word of that is true, but what it implies -- that Hinckley killed Reagan -- is false. In the exact same way, the grand White House conspiracy promoted by Wilson and the ...
Planet of the Arabs
Post Date: 2006-09-07 06:23:34 by Ferret Mike
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Planet of the Arabs The Truth Will Set You Free | September 6 2006 This 9-minute feature is an acute dramatization that uses a collection of Hollywood clips from 1896-2000, that negatively depict Arabs, to demonstrate how badly the West has been brainwashed through fiction to fear and despise Arabs in real life. Offensive and abrasive, the film is highly effective in portraying how, over a century, entire nations can be insiduously groomed to play the role that they play today. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you [to do]. You dress like ...
The Pro-War Media's Re-Positioning Problem
Post Date: 2006-09-07 04:05:19 by Zoroaster
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The Pro-War Media's Re-Positioning Problem by Gary North by Gary North DIGG THIS Fox News and the other pro-war media outlets are now facing the day of reckoning. The United States is slowly losing the war in Iraq. More important for the pro-war media, pro-war consumers of soap are becoming anti-war. When a true believer switches sides on a major belief, he does not want to hear people spouting the belief that he has now abandoned. He wants to hear something else. Today, millions of Americans are abandoning faith in Bush's wars. If those media broadcasters that openly defend this abandoned belief do not change, they will lose market share. People will simply stop listening. But, as I ...
Ya Gotta See It To Believe IT
Post Date: 2006-09-06 23:38:26 by tom007
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Olbermann’s Latest Special Comment Targets Bush: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
Post Date: 2006-09-06 22:31:38 by Morgana le Fay
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Keith Olbermann gave us another special comment tonight, but with a different target. Tonight he went after Bush himself. Keith: "More over, Mr. Bush, you are accomplishing in part what Osama Bin Laden and others seek — a fearful American populace, easily manipulated, and willing to throw away any measure of restraint, any loyalty to our own ideals and freedoms, for the comforting illusion of safety." Nothing could be truer than that right there. It’s not only insulting that Bush once said "they hate us for our freedoms" and then proceeded to strip away those freedoms with such things as the Patriot Act and the warrantless wiretapping, but he also constantly ...
Even loyalists desert Blair's ship of state
Post Date: 2006-09-06 19:32:47 by aristeides
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Even loyalists desert Blair's ship of state (Filed: 07/09/2006) Comment on this story Read comments In a little over a fortnight the Labour Party gathers in Manchester for its annual jamboree. From the gloomy depths of the Downing Street bunker, those two weeks will seem an eternity. A chemical reaction is tearing through New Labour and it would take a brave soul to predict its outcome – or even to have confidence that Tony Blair will still be at the helm when the conference opens. What we witnessed yesterday was a coup. They may be tiddlers in the Westminster pond, but the resignation of the junior defence minister Tom Watson and six parliamentary aides is a body blow to the ...
Blair has nothing more to say to us: he should go at once
Post Date: 2006-09-06 19:23:54 by aristeides
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Blair has nothing more to say to us: he should go at once By Boris Johnson (Filed: 07/09/2006) Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. You have only to read the latest memo from Downing Street to see that something in the bunker has finally snapped. Maybe they are putting Orozac in the water cooler. Maybe they've disconnected the television. Maybe they have special dummy editions of the papers, produced by Alastair Campbell's gnomes in the dungeons and then brought up on silver salvers to where Tony and Cherie recline on their couches and dangle grapes into their crazy mouths. Here we are, with British soldiers being killed almost daily in Iraq and Afghanistan on missions ...
This is a coup
Post Date: 2006-09-06 19:09:49 by aristeides
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This is a coup If Gordon Brown succeeds in driving Tony Blair from office, the legacy will be dire. September 6, 2006 05:01 PM In more than 100 years of its history, the Labour party has never had a leadership coup. But it's got one now and, rather like in a real coup d'etat, it's too early to say whether this one is going to succeed or what its legacy will be. Let's assume that Gordon Brown's coup works and that he now drives Tony Blair from office much earlier than even the reduced timetable to which Blair is now reconciled - in other words that he forces Blair to quit any time between now and early 2007. The legacy of that will be threefold. First, it will leave a certain amount of ...
What's discrimination?
Post Date: 2006-09-06 19:05:34 by christine
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There's so much confusion and emotionalism about discrimination that I thought I'd take a stab at a dispassionate analysis. Discrimination is simply the act of choice. When we choose Bordeaux wine, we discriminate against Burgundy wine. When I married Mrs. Williams, I discriminated against other women. Even though I occasionally think about equal opportunity, Mrs. Williams demands continued discrimination. You say, "Williams, such discrimination doesn't harm anyone." You're wrong. Discriminating in favor of Bordeaux wine reduces the value of resources held in Burgundy production. Discriminating in favor of Mrs. Williams harmed other women by reducing their opportunity set, ...
Bush's Botched Legacy: Death, Destruction and Debt!
Post Date: 2006-09-06 12:02:44 by Brian S
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On NBC TV last week Brian Williams was interviewing George Bush. At one point, he asked Bush what he had been reading lately. Bush replied, "Three historical books on George Washington and they are still debating Washington's legacy." I've never heard anyone say George Washington wasn't a great president. I've never heard anyone say George Bush was a great president. To even compare himself to George Washington in any way is the height of political blasphemy. After the blasphemy Bush continued reflecting on his current reading list. "I'm also reading a book on Teddy Roosevelt," he explained, "a couple Shakespeares and Camus." Williams, smiling, asked, ...
Walt and Mearsheimer: the Reverberations Continue
Post Date: 2006-09-06 11:59:11 by Brian S
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Even as the Washington Post continues its effort to blackball Walt and Mearsheimer as antisemites, how interesting that their ideas gain wider and wider circulation. Later this month the giant issue they raised, the Israel lobby, will be the subject of a debate, sponsored by the London Review of Books, in the great hall at Cooper Union in New York on Sept. 28. Something else about this debate is the roster. On one side are the inevitable Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk. Joined now by Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Israeli foreign minister, who in his fine new book on the Arab-Israeli "tragedy" acknowledges the Zionists' "expulsions and atrocities" that resulted in ethnic cleansing ...
The Bush doctrine: In American foreign policy, a new motto: Don't ask. Tell. (FEB 2001: CREATE NEW REALITY)
Post Date: 2006-09-06 11:43:49 by aristeides
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The Bush doctrine In American foreign policy, a new motto: Don't ask. Tell By Charles Krauthammer February 26, 2001 Web posted at: 12:09 p.m. EST (1709 GMT) For eight years the Clinton Administration preached the need for exquisite sensitivity to the Russians. They'd had a rough time. They needed nurturing from their new American friends. They got it. We fed them loans, knowing that much of the money would disappear corruptly. We turned away from atrocity in Chechnya lest we weaken the new Russian state. But most important, we went weak in the knees on missile defense. The prospect of American antiballistic missiles upset the Russians. And upsetting the Russians was something we simply ...
Bush vs. Ahmadinejad: A Mock Debate
Post Date: 2006-09-06 11:31:19 by Brian S
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The outspoken President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has challenged President Bush to debate U.S.-Iran relations. Bush has dismissed the offer and declined. Debate is not good-faith negotiation between the opposing parties, but it is better than nothing. And it might not be as one-sided as most Americans think. We could certainly fantasize about how such a debate might play out. President Bush, of course, would begin by accusing Iran of support for the "Islamo-fascist" group Hezbollah, which is attacking Israel. Ahmadinejad might respond that the president should quit using the term "fascism" in a Goebbels-like attempt to associate every U.S. rival, no matter how small, ...
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