Friday, August 18

Julius Streicher, Catharine MacKinnon, Jesse Jackson, And David Duke

"Much of human behavior is templated. Certain kinds of personality do certain things. They can't help it. Common templates are the True Believer, the Hater, and the Victim. The salient point is that the template comes first, the content second and sometimes almost as an afterthought. They are like empty forms waiting to be filled in."  Column by Fred Reed.

The Difference One Can Make

"The truest hero does not think of himself as one, never advertises himself as such and does not perform the acts that make him a hero for either fame or fortune. He does not wait for government to act if he senses an opportunity to fix a problem himself."  Column by Larry Reed.  (Editor's pick)

Sustainable Freedom: Shifting the World

Claire Wolfe culminates her four-part musings on living freedom with a look at how this paradigm shift really could happen.

Judge Rules Bush’s Domestic Spy Program Unconstitutional

"U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency's program, which she says violates the rights to free speech and privacy as well as the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution."  But the White House "couldn’t disagree more with this ruling."

Plame Lawyer Plans to Force Cheney, Rove Testimony

And he’s using the precedent that allowed suit to be brought against sitting President Bill Clinton.

Gene Researchers Find More Clues to Human Individuality

"Imagine 10 years from now we can resequence your genome to show that the one gene will vary and predict that you could have heart disease when you're 40 years old. Doctors could then tailor treatments to that person depending on their genetics."

Georgetown University Hospital Suspends E-Prescribing

"The hospital had securely transmitted the data to e-prescription provider InstantDx. But a consultant accidentally discovered the data on InstantDx’s computers while working to install medical software for a client."

Biometric Device Able to Sniff Terrorists?

"In the latest Israeli trial, the system caught 85% of the role-acting terrorists, meaning that 15% got through, and incorrectly identified 8% of innocent travelers as potential threats, according to corporate marketing materials."  Gee, I feel much safer now.

The Currencies of the Anti-Idiots

"So the next time somebody asks you how high gold could go, since $13,462 is just the dollar value of the 2005 government budget deficit alone, anything up to $100,000 per ounce is not too unreasonable to suit me!"  The Mogambo Guru rants and rocks on.

TSA Concept Video Shows Future RFID-Enabled Airport

So high-tech will it be, that no one apparently will need bother to learn to spell.

Good as Gold

"Whenever gold was in an intermediate-term rising trend, Greenspan was raising interest rates to head off the inflation that the gold price was warning about. When gold was in a falling trend, Greenspan lowered interest rates because gold was now warning of deflation."  Donald Ruskin argues that Greenspan didn’t really abandon the gold standard after all.

Inflation Is Dead!  Long Live Inflation!

"The U.S. may muddle through an adjustment to less reliance on foreign debt, and households may regress to the mean in terms of savings and debt, as John Mauldin suggests. That is my hope. But highly leveraged nations and households are prone to crises, and with little savings and much debt, the opportunity to muddle through a crisis is limited."  By Eric Janszen.

Part of Our Outlaw Charm

"Charm is made with equal parts of magic, passion, love, and pure (never “lite” or imitation) joy.   And charm is exactly what the statists don’t have."  Blog entry by today’s guest editor, Taran Jordan.

Liberty, If You Can Grasp It

"Once you actually grasp the concept, there is no ‘leap of faith.’ It seems, if anything, inevitable – ‘but, of course, how else could it be?’"  A classic from the late Richard Rieben.

Self-Sufficiency with Style

"Whatever the motivation, [self-reliance] has a long and honourable place in many cultures, and need not be associated with extreme or weird political views, poverty or deprivation.  A love of personal freedom is always present. Is that such a terrible thing?"

Pleasantly Tilted

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