Month: January 2012

A Progressive Who Almost Gets It….

…as to why the Left is a failure. Even if he does use the term “morality” with nauseating frequency. Read the article. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Some of you might have missed Glenn Greenwald’s essay on Progressives and Ron Paul over the holiday weekend. If so, you should go read it now. It’s […]

The Rothbard Strategy Works

Article by Ian Huyett. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Andrew Sullivan says that what he conveniently calls the “Rockwell Strategy” – that libertarians should openly defy political correctness and primarily court the right – has failed libertarianism. The opposite is true. Firstly, the strategy to which Sullivan refers should rightly be called […]

The Law — War By Other Means

Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————— Law is no longer — if it ever was — about the ostensible reason the law was passed. It is simply a toolkit for achieving the real objectives of the state. The state starts with those real objectives, then searches the full range […]

Child sacrificed, liver offered to gods: Indian police

Maoists and human sacrifice enthusiasts unite? It would make sense. Both tend to be about as bloody. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– A seven-year-old Indian girl was murdered in a tribal sacrifice and her liver offered to the gods to improve crop growth, police in the central state of Chhattisgarh said on Sunday. The […]

Pleasure-Dome Police State: How Democracy Ends

Article by Mark Hackard. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- “We should expect tyranny to result from democracy, the most savage subjection from an excess of liberty”. -Plato, Republic, Book VIII, 564 a   This December, as many Americans attended to their rituals of shopping, spectator sports and celebrity voyeurism, the 2012 fiscal year’s National […]

The Battle Over Zomia

From The Chronicle Review. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Scholars are enchanted by the notion of this anarchic region in Asia. But how real is it? Standee Pawan, OnAsia A woman of the Akha people goes off to harvest coffee berries in northern Thailand. By Ruth Hammond The region of Zomia had […]

Mighty White

Article by Jack Donovan. — I started rubbing elbows with White Nationalists a few years ago. I call ‘em “The Mighty Whites.” I support White Nationalists. They are not all equally right about everything, but I am sympathetic to many of their general aims. I think white people […]

American Family Association founder endorses Newt Gingrich: Religious Right Determined to Go Down with the Sinking Neocon Ship

The “religious right” must really be desperate if they’re endorsing this turdball.  ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Newt Gingrich secured a major endorsement from the social conservative community Tuesday with a nod from Mississippi-based Rev. Donald E. Wildmon, founder and chairman ofAmerican Family Association. Wildmon, who will travel to Iowa over the […]

Twitter lawsuit threatened over alleged Hezbollah aid

Article by Kevin Flower. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Is Twitter aiding and abetting terrorism? The director of an Israeli legal outfit says yes, and is threatening to sue the micro-blogging site if it doesn’t change its policies. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, sent a letter to […]

Tougher drug laws mean nearly 1/3 arrested by age 23

Article by David Edwards. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Topics: Carnegie Mellon University professor Alfred Blumstein ♦ National Longitudinal Survey of Youth ♦ usa today Nearly one in three Americans will already have been arrested by the age of 23, recent research suggests. A study analyzing data from the federal government’s National Longitudinal Survey of Youth found that 30.2 […]

Prepare to Have Your Email Read by the NSA

Article by Adam Clark Estes. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- With a new major hacking incident seemingly daily, the Department of Defense is scrambling to find the right shield against future for attacks. But why hide behind a shield when you can charge onto the battlefield underneath the invisible but ironclad cloak […]

U.S., Saudi Arabia agree to $30 billion deal for F-15s

From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- The U.S. government has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia to sell nearly $30 billion worth of F-15 fighter jets, federal officials said Thursday. The $29.4 billion deal — announced against the backdrop of rising tensions with Iran — calls for the production of up […]

Chevy Volt Costing Taxpayers Up to $250K Per Vehicle

Article by Tom Gantert. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it – a total of $3 billion altogether, according to an analysis by James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac […]

The Courageous Legacy of Siobhan Reynolds

Article by Bill Anderson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The attractive, diminutive woman who drove into my driveway on the last Saturday in October hardly looked to be the person that federal authorities desperately were trying to find a way to throw into prison. Her lovely eyes had a sparkle in them, […]

Newt Gingrich: Tribune of tyranny

Article by Bruce Fein. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich champions presidential tyranny, not constitutional government enforced by judicial review. He would have sided with King George III against the Founding Fathers on making judges dependent on his will alone. In the Oval Office, Gingrich would coronate himself […]

2012: Revolution or Devolution

Article by Kelley Vlahos. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– The year 2011 marked a critical confluence of militarism and revolution, not only in places like Libya and Egypt, but also here at home, where massive demonstrations in cities and towns throughout the country were met with a well-oiled law enforcement machine deployed […]

Ron Paul and the Future of American Foreign Policy

Article by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– “Between government in the republican meaning, that is, constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other, or one will destroy the other. That we know. Yet never […]

Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies

Article by Glenn Greenwald. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– As I’ve written about before, America’s election season degrades mainstream political discourse even beyond its usual lowly state. The worst attributes of our political culture — obsession with trivialities, the dominance of horserace “reporting,” and mindless partisan loyalties — become more pronounced than ever. […]