Official Website of James Landrith Blog

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Site Updates

I've added a few pages to the website recently. Last week, I added a chronology of my USMC career. Today, I've added a Liberty Freebies page, that will feature classic and historic texts on...

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Bob Barr

Jacob Sallum at Reason, shares my conflicted sense about the defeat of Bob Barr. As I said earlier this week, while he was an enthusiastic Drug Warrior, that nasty side of him was partially...

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Chickenhawks

The Guardian kicks a little tail on the military service (or lack of ) of some of the Right and Left's politicos and talking heads, especially those so eager to go to war. The...

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Stereotypes

Armstrong Williams takes a "Washington newspaper" to task for a recent stereotype-riddled story. Hmmm, I wonder, could that be the Times???? A Washington newspaper recently reported that a wild pack of black journalists heckled...

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More School Stuff

Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation takes on education, The Pledge, coercion and sets the record straight for the Religious Right: Let’s leave aside whether children should be pressured or forced to...

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Out of Control Cops

(stepping on soapbox) I know what you're thinking. That Landrith has put on his civil libertarian hat again and is griping about the cops. Well, I come from a family with law enforcement representation...

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Blue Mohawk

More zero tolerance nonsense in the Lincoln Journal Star. Here you've got a kid with good grades and good behavior being punished for not conforming. I wish these public school adminstrators paid as much...

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Barr and McKinney

Defeated in Primaries – Yahoo! News. While I won't miss Cynthia McKinney one bit, I'm conflicted on Bob Barr. On one hand he sides with the tunnel-vision drug prohibitionists, on the other he was...