Thursday, April 16

Cheryl Cline is the guest editor today.

 

Tea Parties Are Missing the Point

"[The tea party protesters] are trying to mimic the real revolutionaries, the Sons of Liberty who boarded ships of the British East India Company and threw the company tea into Boston Harbor . Unlike the conservatives today, the Sons of Liberty did not first purchase the tea from the British East India Company, they stole it and then destroyed it. They were real revolutionaries, not pretend revolutionaries."  Column by Robert Johnson.

 

Potholes and the Crisis of Confidence

"...if a company can fix potholes at no cost to the taxpayer, and a few neighbors can get together and clean up a state park, why do we need the government and its bloated agencies? Its ineptitude calls into question its legitimacy."  Column by Michael Kleen. 

 

DHS Warns of Right-Wing Extremists

MUST READ  Do you support the right to bear arms or states' rights?  Then you might be a terrorist, says the Department of Homeland Security.  (Editor's pick)

 

Tax Day Tea Parties

 

Reflection In Blood

Will Obama’s body count rival Reagan’s?

 

How Do You Ask a Man to Be the Last Man to Die for a Mistake?

Rad Geek:  “[E]very day that United States government soldiers spend on beginning to leave, instead of actually leaving — is another day when Iraqis and Afghans and Pakistanis and Americans will all be killed by this Peace President’s war and his policies of gradualism.”

 

Death By the Numbers: Pakistan Counts the Toll of the Bush-Obama Drone War

 

In Defense of Pirates (the Old Time Ones)

 

Will Deadly Force Deter Somali Pirates?

Or will deadly interventionism beget more of the same?

 

Tax Freedom Day® to Arrive April 13 in 2009

 

Did “Save Darfur” Lose Darfur?

Pressure from the U.S. only prolongs the conflict.

 

Hitmen's Bloody Reign All About Logic, Trafficker Says

The Drug War has created murderous cartels in Mexico .

 

The Cost of War in Afghanistan

(video)

 

Seasteading: Homesteading the High Seas for Liberty

(video)

 

The “Dark Side” of Lazy, Ideological Journalism

“Neo-liberal” doesn’t describe Dubai ’s problems with slave labor.

 

Do Global Climate Models Contain Keynesian Macro Models?

 

2009 Congressional Pig Book Summary

10,160 federal pork projects at a cost of $19.6 billion in the 12 Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2009.

 

Auto Accidents, AIDS, Contraception and the Pope

David Friedman interprets the Peltzman Effect.

 

Why 'Male Privilege' Probably Doesn't Matter

Terrence Watson: “[F]or any ‘male privilege’ I can show a male burden that comes as part of the package.”

 

The War Against Women

"Is it not...partial in men to the last degree to contend for and practice that arbitrary dominion in their families which they abhor and exclaim against in the state?"

 

75 Years Later, Same Error

 

80,000 Unique Visitors Per Month

That's how many STR now gets, according to Statsaholic.  Thank you for your support, especially Guest Editors, Root Strikers and Supporters.  This wouldn't have been possible without you!  (Editor's pick)

 

Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle On Obama's Double-Homicide

Satire.

 

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