Friday, February 8
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Anthony Gregory is the guest editor today. |
"One of the obscenities of recent governments was to have put obstacles in the way of further patterns of such travel, at the very time that technology had so dramatically reduced its cost...." Column by Jim Davies.
The NRA: Friend of Freedom, or Foe of Firearms?
"The NRA, for all of its hyperbole, does not even want its own membership to be aware of the concept of jury nullification, even when an innocent gun owner may be standing in the dock." Column by Alex R. Knight III.
The
Torture State’s Domestic Face
“We've become at least somewhat inured to the spectacle of sadistic violence being inflicted on dusky-skinned foreign terrorist suspects, or the occasional...violent death of black Americans...as a result of paramilitary police raids [or]...accused criminals who have been 'lit up' by corrections officers in jails or brutalized in prison [or]...accounts of similar treatment inflicted on illegal aliens held in ICE detention facilities....Hearts unmoved by such cases tend to melt at the spectacle of a slender, helpless woman shrieking in fear and impotent rage as she is pinned down and violently disrobed by skinheads wearing the uniform of Ohio's Stark County Sheriff's Department.” Column by William Norman Grigg.
The “Islamofascists” aren’t the only ones to do it. Column by Ron Jacobs.
From
Welfare State to Police State
“Despite the stereotype of the ‘deadbeat dad’ as a wealthy playboy squiring around his new trophy wife in a bright red Porsche, federal officials have acknowledged that most unpaid child support is uncollectible because it is owed by fathers who are as poor as or poorer than the mothers and children.” Article by Stephen Baskerville.
Warning: A very sad photo.
Foreign
Policy and Civil Liberties
Come
to the Future of Freedom Foundation’s conference this June in Reston,
Virginia. What a great lineup of anti-imperialists from across the political
spectrum!
The
Right to Privacy Is a Property Right
Obviously. Column by Chlopecki.
Bush
to Congress: Don’t Let My People Go!
Another evil development in the drug war.
Border
Thugs Copying Travelers’ Data
Waterboarding is illegal.
Buchanan:
McCain Will Make Cheney Look Like Gandhi
Google
to Spend Hundreds of Millions on Alternative Energy
Outspending the government.
Column by Jacob Heilbrunn.
The
Ten Funniest Anti-Drug Ads
The
Six Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You
Column by Alex Levinton.
Three-Parent
Embryo Created in Lab
PETA
Ad Compares American Kennel Association to KKK
Anarcho-Pacifist Films brings the second installment in this epic tale of the libertarian civil war. And here’s part 1.
Republicans
Are the Health of the State
An op-ed by Anthony Gregory.
A photo blog. (6 pages)