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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
IRAQ: The U.S. invasion has boomeranged, creating a different deadly threat.
Post Date: 2006-02-22 17:48:59 by Brian S
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ON JAN. 29, 2002, President Bush infamously singled out three countries for his "axis of evil": North Korea, Iran and Iraq. But the number of words he devoted to each revealed a great deal about his intentions: 17 to North Korea, 19 to Iran and 84 to Iraq. The president suggested that these three states posed grave danger not only because they sought to develop WMD but because they could share such weapons with terrorists. By devoting more words to Iraq, Bush began making a case that would later become familiar to Americans: Iraq was this nation's most serious threat. Yet we now know that Iraq was not the closest to developing WMD. North Korea already had them. Iraq also was not ...
Oregon: A Paradise for the Mentally Incompetent
Post Date: 2006-02-22 07:57:26 by continental op
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Did you know that it is against the law to pump your own gas in Oregon? For those who live in the Peoples Republic of Oregon, we have to suffer the indignity of being treated like absolute mental incompetents every time we need to fuel up our automobiles. This "no-self-serve" law was passed in 1951 and should have been repealed long ago. Although there are many lame excuses as to why this law is still in force, anyone with half-a-brain understands that it is a make-work law forcing gas station owners to hire the barely-employable or those who are just breaking into the work force. And these pump-jockeys, as far as Oregon?s lawmakers are concerned, keep us idiot-citizens from ...
David Irving
Post Date: 2006-02-21 19:07:09 by continental op
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The trial and conviction of David Irving provides much food for thought. First, there is Irving?s own confession that he is a ?holocaust denier.? Whatever one may think of the merits of Irving?s work, his confession?for whatever motive (probably fear)?casts an ugly shadow on what he has done. He and many of his defenders have always denied this charge. Now he has admitted it, there is no more to be said. Then, there is his recantation. You see, he is now convinced, after going through Adolf Eichmann?s papers, that the Nazis really did kill millions of Jews. That should about do it for Irving?s admirers who based their defense of the Third Reich on his work. Irving?s foolish and dishonest ...
Republic for Sale
Post Date: 2006-02-21 15:04:33 by continental op
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Despite mounting policy setbacks and declining public support, until recently the Republican Party stood triumphant. President George W. Bush was re-elected. The GOP strengthened its control of Capitol Hill. From Fox News to Rush Limbaugh, Republicans gained major media beachheads. Moreover, the GOP has been asserting control over other organs of influence, including Washington?s fabled ?K Street,? or lobbying sector. In fact, the latter reflects a conscious strategy of increasing the Republican presence among lobbyists, commonly termed the ?K Street Project.? The Washington Post reported in June 2003 that ?a decade after Republicans launched a campaign to oust Democrats from top ...
The Law
Post Date: 2006-02-21 08:27:07 by continental op
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 The Law (Stirling Translation, 1874) by Frederic Bastiat [Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006] [Subscribe at email services and tell others] The law perverted! How has this been accomplished? The right to assistance, the poor man's plunder Partial and universal plunder Explaining plunder. Socialism confounds Government and society. Bossuet | Fenelon | Montesquieu | Rousseau | Raynal | Mably | Condillac | Saint-Just | Robespierre | Billaud Varennes | Lepelletier What sort of liberty should be allowed to men? What is law? What ought it to be? I cannot avoid coming to this conclusion? [The essay was published in French in 1850. This piece was published in ...
The Conservative Reform Game
Post Date: 2006-02-21 08:19:18 by continental op
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Here we go again. The reform game. In the wake of the federal government?s disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is unveiling ?reforms? that will ensure that such federal disasters never happen again. Yawn! Just more standard conservative ?reform? claptrap. This is par-for-the-course conservatism. Engage in the never-ending game of criticizing federal paternalistic programs for being ?inefficient? or for having ?waste, fraud, and abuse? and then calling for ?reform,? always in the perpetual but futile quest to make such programs succeed. Another example of this standard conservative reform nonsense is a recent op-ed entitled ?The Junkets ...
Darwinian Graffiti
Post Date: 2006-02-21 08:16:51 by continental op
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I can never sufficiently thank Al Gore for creating the Internet. It has become an indispensable tool for my work and even an important part of my life. I owe it new friendships and the renewal of dear acquaintances, to mention only two of its countless benefits. The drawbacks are hardly worth complaining about. But if I were the plaintive type, I might wish that Mr. Gore had also invented a Coward Filter. Now and then I get messages from people who don?t like what I write. Usually they are reasonably polite and intelligent; sometimes they correct me in real errors and leave me indebted. But then there are the others. I got several of them in a single day after I wrote about my friend ...
Those Cartoons: A Libertarian Analysis
Post Date: 2006-02-21 08:14:36 by continental op
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There are several perspectives now making the rounds regarding those cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. For those who have been in Rip Van Winkle land, they first surfaced in Denmark and are now being reprinted all over the world. The libertarian claim is that these caricatures did not constitute fraud, force, or the threat of initiatory violence; therefore no physical sanctions should be visited upon the cartoonists, or those who reprint their work. This does not mean that such artistic acts were nice or moral or appropriate or considerate; they were not. They hurt the feelings of vast numbers of people, Muslim and non-Muslim. But, as long as private property rights and freedom ...
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