http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog Anti-State, Anti-War, Pro-Market Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:09:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Earlier today we went to a park for a picnic with some friends. I took a bunch of photos and created a slideshow in iPhoto with some music that Apple includes with its iLife suite. After the video was complete we uploaded it to Facebook, where it was summarily rejected ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028894.html There was no military parade in my small town today, just forlorn government flags on government parking meters on the government street through downtown. I thought about the progress we've made since the dark nationalistic days after 911, complte with that order given to Heaven: "God, bless America" to flag ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028900.html ... with a domestic problem, unless your intention is for potentially fatal harm to come to you or the relative with whom you're having trouble. A 14-year-old girl from Tucumcari, New Mexico wound up in the hospital with a Taser dart embedded in her skull after her mother, Stacy Akin, took ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028893.html How did the lovely idea of Secession Day morph into this monstrosity where one's neighbors can set off what sounds like mortar rounds all day starting at three in the morning and scaring the bejeezus out of those of us who have had the misfortune to have actually been in ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028890.html Senator Robert Taft (1889-1953) was no Ron Paul, but, in his day, was more like Paul than most members of Congress at the time. Here is Taft on the danger of giving Truman war power to fight in Korea: "If the President can intervene in Korea without Congressional approval, he ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028886.html Arizona Lawmakers Approve Bill Allowing Guns in Bars "The Arizona Senate has given final approval to a bill that would allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry a gun into a business that serves alcohol. Supporters say they should be able to protect themselves and their families even if they happen ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028881.html Last night, my wife and I attended a showing of the Edmund O'Brien/Jan Sterling version of Orwell's "1984." Orwell was quite prescient, and certainly saw the seeds of modern statism in the 1940s. I commented afterwards on the technology now being put together by the statists - as ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028880.html Bob: Or, as the late Edward Abbey expressed it: "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028878.html Good for Sarah Palin, who has resigned unexpectedly from the governership of Alaska to take up life as a taxpayer rather than a taxeater. How dare she without informing her dedicated enemies in the national media, they complain. Very funny. Many Americans are subjected to a ten-minute hate by the opinion ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028872.html The three best-read pieces on LRC yesterday were by Will Grigg on lying jackbooted thugs;   Selwyn Crawford on keeping private thieves out of your home while you're on vacation; and Doug French on the football condo boom and bust. http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028866.html Secession = Freedom in the words of Thomas Jefferson, the great anti-Lincoln. http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028864.html The three best-read yesterday were: Ron Paul on the necons' false choice in foreign policy; Doug Wead on Ron Paul in 2012? and Sheryl Walters on skin brushing. http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028860.html Actually it's neither. It's Loudon Wainwright III, singer of Depression songs, singing his new tune, "The Krugman Blues." I read the New York Times, that's where I get the news. Paul Krugman's on the Op Ed page, that's where I get the blues. Bill, I know, could have written some killer lyrics ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028852.html Maryland resident Shawn M. Leake was enjoying an evening drive near Hyattsville on May 25, 2008 when he caught the unwelcome sight of a police car behind him, its running lights on. When he pulled over he was accosted by Prince George's County Police  Corporal Steven Jackson, who told him that ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028833.html Had the regime underststood what the internet would mean-- the destructon of official media and the proliferation of unofficial thinking, booming web commerce instead of brick and mortar stores, etc.--it never would have allowed it to come into existence. Given their typical mistake--they are always trying to catch up to ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028827.html Murray Rothbard wrote that "There have been only two wars in American history that were, in my view, assuredly and unquestionably proper and just": "the American Revolution, and the War for Southern Independence." Now these wars may be just under "just war" theory, but in my view they were all ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028819.html Women & Children’s cares for Ontario ‘miracle baby’ One-week-old Ava Isabella Stinson — all 2 pounds of her — has made quite a dramatic entrance into the world. First her birth. Last Thursday, her parents, Natalie Paquette and Richard Stinson, rushed to a Hamilton, Ont., hospital, where she was born 20 ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028815.html In Reason: Copyright Should Last Half A Century I mentioned libertarian writer Cathy Young's advocacy of a 50-year copyright term in discussing the looming book-banning of a Catcher in the Rye sequel based on copyright. Well, the judge has made her decision and banned the book. Yep. Here, in America, ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028808.html Pastor Jose Elias Moran was preparing for an early Wednesday prayer service yesterday (July 1) at the Iglesia Profetica Peniel in Webster, Texas when he was informed that a member of his congregation had been stopped by the police. Out of concern for the church member, Pastor Moran went out to ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028801.html There's a (90-minute) video of Terence Kealey giving a recent talk about whether science is a public good. I do not believe that there are goods that the market can not provide, but Kealey's research in this area reveals that the argument of science as a public good is not ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028796.html Chris: A dictionary definition informs us that the word "patriotism" means not simply a love of one's country [and is "country" synonymous with "state"?], but to favor one's own country above all others. This leads to the moral dilemma - and conflicts - noted by many others: "our" ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028794.html Hans Hoppe, Karen DeCoster, and others have made the point that an easy credit monetary regime not only distorts the economy, but it also has an effect upon personal time preference habits of individuals, enabling people to live (temporarily) beyond their means and to encourage high-end consumption that only leads ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028791.html Samuel Johnson called it the "last refuge of a scoundrel," but today Karl Rove gives it new heft (and takes it to a new low): now the scoundrels use other people's patriotism to vindicate and glorify -- themselves! http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028785.html The three best-read articles yesterday were: Gerald Celente on Obamageddon; Matt Taibbi on responding to Goldman Sachs; and Justin Berger on Congress paying attention to to Ron Paul's audit the Fed bill. http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028783.html Writes JB in response to this article: Seems the hypocritical conservatives are at it again in Kentucky.  On Friday night [6/19/09] many of those tea party attending conservatives will be forking over the big bucks for Trey Grayson, who will likely be Rand Paul's main opponent in the Republican senate primary.  ... http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028776.html