Friday, February 8

Anthony Gregory is the guest editor today.

 

Travel

"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.

 

Recruiting Kids to Kill

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.

 

The Face of War

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

 

White House Confession?

Waterboarding is illegal.

 

Buchanan: McCain Will Make Cheney Look Like Gandhi

 

Google to Spend Hundreds of Millions on Alternative Energy

Outspending the government.

 

Five Myths About the Neocons

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

 

The Koch Hit 2

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.

 

Anything But Work

A photo blog.  (6 pages)