War Without End
Robert Higgs of The Independent Institute on Suppose You Wanted to Have a Permanent War: The war-on-terrorism rationale has proved congenial to the American public, who have swallowed bogus government assurances that the so-called...
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You’re Free To Do As We Say
Jacob G. Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation on The Ten Planks of the “Freedom” Manifesto: Now, tell me if I have this right: It doesn’t really matter whether President Bush and his...
Liberated to Death
Kamal Taha of Agence France-Presse on Shepherd sues over slaughter: An Iraqi shepherd is seeking $US200 million ($300 million) in damages from the United States military for the deaths of 17 members of his...
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
The Associated Press on Hatfields and McCoys sign truce: Descendants of the Hatfield and McCoy families gathered Saturday in Pikeville to sign the truce, making a largely symbolic and official end to a feud...
Tulia Railroad
Lee Hockstader of The Washington Post on 13 Imprisoned in Tulia Drug Sweep To Be Freed Today: It began one sultry summer morning four years ago, just before dawn, when masked police officers swept...
Kind Bloggage
Big thanks to Happy Furry Puppy Story Time with Norbizness for the nice mention: 520. James Landrith: Also good to read an actually independent-minded libertarian, not an Administration-apologist what-drug-war-and-civil-rights-abuses crypto-libertarian. Also properly uses the...
Nanny Congress Again
Associated Press/MSNBC on House votes to ban Net bet transfers: THE VOTE BANNING Americans from using credit cards, checks and electronic fund transfers to pay for online betting transactions passed 319-104, a victory as...
New Blogger, Old Acquaintance
I'd like to welcome a newbie to the blogosphere – Phil Shapiro. Phil may or may not remember me, but I remember him. Through his work at Push Literacy Action Now (PLAN), where I...
Belt Promotion
The youngest Landrith (five years old) just earned his yellow belt in Tae Kwon Do. His daddy is psyched. That is all.
Rock Droppers
Agnostic heathen though I be, there is certain amount of comfort in the thought that there is a special place in Hell for those who drop 70 pound rocks from overpasses.