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Produced in cooperation with the International Society for Individual Liberty http://www.isil.org ---------------------------------------------------------- Volume IV, Issue #959 Friday, August 11th, 2006 Email Circulation 2,008 ------ SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS -------------------------------------- THE FUTURE OF FUEL, THE FUTURE OF FORD With one of the worst fuel efficiency records of any car company, Ford is trying to "go green." As another oil crisis looms on the horizon, can they turn talk into action? http://tinyurl.com/jr5aw REDHANDED, BY JOHN WESLEY DOWNEY What if you had blood on your hands that would not wash away? That's the dilemma of Will Mason in the supernatural mystery novel, Redhanded. Get it at amazon.com and watch a 4 minute short film about Redhanded that's better than the DaVinci Code movie! http://www.redhanded.info/ YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION? Portland Purge got you down? 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Online convention -- August 19th, 2006 http://www.bostontea.us -------------------------------------- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS ----- Today's News: 0) RRND Summer Fundraiser 1) Iraq: Fighting continues as US KIAs found 2) AK: BP may keep half of field open 3) Judges consolidate telecom spy lawsuits 4) US forces repel attack on base in Afghanistan 5) MD: Schools, owner fight for stolen property 6) WA: Plea postponed in Jewish Federation attack 7) BetonSports buckles to US thugs 8) VA: Judge won't dismiss Israel spy case 9) Richardson calls on Lieberman to step aside 10) Lay's lawyers take first step to erase his convictions 11) OH: two charged with aiding terrorism 12) British: Foiled plot possibly days away 13) Nine charged in Asia-US prostitution ring 14) Israel delays northern push in Lebanon 15) Passengers can expect double screening 16) Sources: US, France agree on peace plan 17) UK: Physics in downward spiral 18) British troops "in worst fighting since Korea" 19) Philippines: Crime spurs push for gun ownership 20) NY: Man jailed for self-defense 21) OR: Wife won't be tried in husband's death 22) WA: Shot suspect may face charges 23) SD: Cameras let law enforcement spy 24) WV: Hatch finds political prisoner gig taxing 25) Australia: $3.2 billion a year for war on drugs Today's Commentary: 26) What is Left? What is Right? Does it matter? 27) Go, Joe ... no, really. Just go. 28) Patriot Act by another name 29) Who needs the USDA? 30) Don't be terrorized 31) Killing us softly 32) Bush vs. Condi 33) Women and the freedom philosophy 34) Running out of money 35) Second-guessing the Fed 36) America: Freedom to Fascism 37) Israel's blunder 38) Da county don't count 39) Sore losers 40) Breaking the illegal immigration logjam 41) Compromising positions 42) Lieberman without tears 43) Guns and children 44) Day of reckoning for US warmongers 45) How to talk to your Jewish friends about Israel 46) How Carl Schmitt spawned fascist America 47) Awakening the Resistance 48) The featherless eagle 49) The face behind AOL user 4417749 50) Semantic sneak-attacks 51) Today's immigrants, tomorrow's entrepeneurs 52) Immigration: Now, tomorrow, forever 53) How many people is too many? 54) Clueless in Condi-land 55) Life as usual in the capital 56) Bring back fiscal corruption 57) Terrorists have taken our toothpaste! 58) How to cut wasteful government spending 59) Confirm Bolton now! 60) The other side of the soda fat scare story Today's Audio and Video: 61) Radio Free Liberty, Episode 33 62) Free Talk Live, 08/10/06 Today's Movement News & Events: 63) STR: Can you help with this project? 64) Seminar: Liberty, Economy & Society 65) Authority and autonomy in the family 66) Boston Tea Party organizational convention 67) Reason in Amsterdam 2006 68) 4th Annual Africa Resource Bank Meeting Today in Political History: 69) Off on the road to Coyotepe News 0) RRND Summer Fundraiser Rational Review "As of now, our regular, recurring net revenue from subscribing contributors (i.e. exclusive of 'one time donations') stands at less than $150 per month. 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Rational Review will be making a server change later today to increase its accessibility and reliability (there may be some "down time" today and tomorrow while DNS information propagates); we've added a new feature this week, and plan to add more next week. Stand by for a better RRND/FND ... and help us continue to bring it to you - TLK] http://www.rationalreview.com/content/15649 ----- 1) Iraq: Fighting continues as US KIAs found Contra Costa Times "The bodies of two American service members missing since a helicopter crash this week were found west of Baghdad, officials said Friday, while gunmen loyal to a radical Shiite cleric torched an office of the Iraqi president's Kurdish party. About 50 gunmen in the northern city of Kut stormed the office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, headed by President Jalal Talabani, beat up the guards and set the building on fire, said police Lt. Othman al-Lami. ... Gunmen on Friday shot and killed three people in Baghdad and one in the northern city of Mosul in separate incidents, police said, and three unidentified bodies were found in Baghdad." (08/11/06) http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/15251201.htm ----- 2) AK: BP may keep half of field open Chicago Tribune "BP Plc will know by tomorrow whether it can keep operating the western half of the Prudhoe Bay oil field, the biggest in the U.S., BP America President Robert Malone said. The discovery of pipeline corrosion and a leak has already forced BP to shut the eastern section. The company said on Aug. 7 that it would close all of Prudhoe Bay, which produces 400,000 barrels a day or 8 percent of U.S. output, because of the damage to pipes that feed oil to the Trans Alaska Pipeline. Oil prices jumped 3 percent on that announcement." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/q9zmo ----- 3) Judges consolidate telecom spy lawsuits USA Today "A federal panel of judges has consolidated 17 lawsuits throughout the United States filed against telephone companies accused of assisting the Bush administration monitor Americans' communications without warrants. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred the cases to U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, who last month declined to dismiss one of the lawsuits brought against the federal government and AT&T Inc., according to an order released Thursday." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/znxwq ----- 4) US forces repel attack on base in Afghanistan Baltimore Sun "U.S. soldiers and warplanes drove off an insurgent attack on a new American base early yesterday, reportedly killing 19 militants in an area where rebels are trying to resist a push by coalition troops into remote mountains of eastern Afghanistan. In the volatile south of the country, suspected Taliban rebels hanged an elderly woman and her son from a tree, accusing them of spying for President Hamid Karzai's government, officials said." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/qv334 ----- 5) MD: Schools, owner fight for stolen property Howard County Times "As construction crews worked on the steel skeleton of a new elementary school in Ellicott City this week, 2 miles away lawyers battled over 1.3 acres of land officials will need to finish the school before its scheduled opening a year from now. ... The trial is the result of the Howard County Board of Education's September 2005 decision to use eminent domain to [steal] a small parcel on Montgomery Road for the school after the landowner, Ellicott City resident and developer Chris Pippen, refused to sell the property to the school system. Officials say the parcel represents the best place on which to build a driveway to the new school .... Pippen this week said he might continue to fight the system's effort to take his land, no matter the outcome of the current trial, potentially drawing out the process in appeals. He argues that the driveway could be built elsewhere on the school property and that school officials inappropriately closed a deal to turn over the bulk of his 1.3- acre parcel to a neighboring YMCA." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/k2h6m ----- 6) WA: Plea postponed in Jewish Federation attack Chicago Tribune "Naveed Haq, accused in the shootings at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, tried to plead guilty Thursday to nine felonies, including a charge of aggravated first-degree murder that could bring the death penalty. But after objections from Haq's attorney, who said he had concerns about his client's mental competency, the judge ordered Haq's arraignment to be continued until Tuesday, and no pleas were entered. ... Haq, 30, is accused of forcing his way into the offices of the federation on July 28 and opening fire on employees. One, Pamela Waechter, was killed, and five other women were injured. Haq is charged with one count of aggravated first-degree murder, five counts of attempted murder, kidnapping, burglary and malicious harassment, the state's hate-crime law." (08/11/06) http://tinyurl.com/k2ovm ----- 7) BetonSports buckles to US thugs Fox News "BetOnSports PLC, the British-based Internet gambling company that has been charged with fraud and racketeering in the United States, said Friday it will shut down its services for American gamblers. BetOnSports said it plans to stop operating in Costa Rica and Antigua -- from where it accepted wagers from tens of thousands of customers in the United States -- as soon as possible following a U.S. federal court order for the company to stop taking bets from the country. Shares in the company were temporarily suspended on the London Stock Exchange." (08/11/06) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207910,00.html ----- 8) VA: Judge won't dismiss Israel spy case Houston Chronicle "A federal judge rejected claims Thursday that two former lobbyists' constitutional rights would be violated if they were prosecuted under a World War I-era espionage law for receiving and disclosing national defense information. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III ruled that the 1917 Espionage Act is not unconstitutionally broad and vague when it seeks to bar receipt or disclosure of 'information related to the national defense.' The indictment against Steven Rosen of Silver Spring, Md., and Keith Weissman of Bethesda, Md., alleges that they conspired to obtain classified reports on issues relevant to American policy, including the al-Qaida terror network; the bombing of the Khobar Towers dormitory in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 U.S. Air Force personnel; and U.S. policy in Iran. Rosen and Weissman, former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, are accused of sharing the information with reporters and foreign diplomats. No trial date has been set." (08/11/06) http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4109450.html ----- 9) Richardson calls on Lieberman to step aside CNN "New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson became the first prominent national Democrat to call on Sen. Joe Lieberman to drop his independent bid for re-election in Connecticut. Richardson, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association and a possible 2008 White House contender, called Lieberman 'a good friend of mine' and a 'true public servant.' But he said in a statement Thursday that he was backing Ned Lamont, the man who defeated Lieberman in this week's Democratic primary. 'I look forward to supporting Ned as he fights to help Democrats take back the Senate, and I call on Joe Lieberman to respect the will of the voters and step aside,' Richardson said. Lieberman lost Tuesday's primary to Lamont, a millionaire cable executive, 52 percent to 48 percent." (08/11/06) http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/11/lieberman.senate/ ----- 10) Lay's lawyers take first step to erase his convictions USA Today "Lawyers for Enron founder Kenneth Lay have taken the first step toward erasing his felony convictions following his death last month. Lay, 64, was convicted May 25 of fraud and conspiracy in the federal government's foremost criminal trial to emerge from Enron's flameout. His co-defendant, former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, 52, was convicted of 19 counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading and lying to auditors." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/g6vth ----- 11) OH: two charged with aiding terrorism Salt Lake Tribune "Attorneys for two Arab-American college students accused of supporting terrorism through the sale of mobile phones said their clients were victims of discrimination, while authorities charged them Thursday with an additional felony. 'These are all-American kids that unfortunately, in this day and age since 9-11, have names that call them into question,' said defense attorney Rolf Baumgartel." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/jp4f4 ----- 12) British: Foiled plot possibly days away Las Vegas Review Journal "British police said Thursday they thwarted a terrorist plot, possibly just days away, to blow up U.S.-bound jetliners over the Atlantic and kill thousands. Chilling accounts leaked by investigators described a plan on the scale of 9/11 that would use liquid explosives concealed as sports drink bottles and common electronic devices to bring down as many as 10 planes in a nearly simultaneous strike. The bombs were to be assembled on the aircraft apparently using a peroxide-based solution detonated by such devices as a disposable camera or a music player, two American law enforcement officials told The Associated Press." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/gq7zx ----- 13) Nine charged in Asia-US prostitution ring Joplin Globe "Authorities said nine people were arrested Thursday as investigators broke an international sex-trafficking ring that smuggled Asian women into the U.S. in shipping containers. Seven conspirators in a 'highly organized national network prostitution ring' were arrested in Seattle and two in Los Angeles, the U.S. attorney's office said. According to court documents, Yong Jun Kang, 36, of Seattle, operated brothels in Portland, Ore., and Seattle, where he and others would bring Asian women, most of whom were in the United States illegally." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/jzdhw ----- 14) Israel delays northern push in Lebanon El Paso Times "Israel grabbed strategic high ground in south Lebanon on Thursday but delayed a major push northward, as diplomats cited progress toward agreement on a U.N. cease-fire resolution that could soon go to a vote. With Israeli troops closer to Beirut than at any time since the war began, diplomats said they were close to unlocking the stalemate over a U.N. effort toward a cease-fire. The U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, said a vote was possible on Friday. The United States and France have been trying to bridge differences over a timetable for an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/oztsw ----- 15) Passengers can expect double screening Detroit Free Press "Beginning Friday, airline passengers will go through double screening to make sure they're not carrying liquids onto planes, the head of the airline industry's largest trade group said. Passengers and their carry-on luggage will be checked not only at the main security checkpoint, but also a second time at the boarding gate. The stepped-up screening in response to a new terrorist threat began Thursday at 25 airports where planes leave for Britain." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/qsjbf ----- 16) Sources: US, France agree on peace plan CNN "The main points of a resolution to end fighting between Israel and Hezbollah have been agreed to by the U.S. and France, diplomatic sources said Thursday. John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said council members hope to vote Friday on the resolution, but 'we're not there yet.' Under the plan, the Lebanese army and an expanded U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon will deploy to southern Lebanon in parallel with an Israeli withdrawal, the sources said, adding that Hezbollah forces will move north." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/p9bwg ----- 17) UK: Physics in downward spiral Guardian [UK] "The study of physics in schools and universities is spiralling into decline as many teenagers believe it is too difficult, academics warn in a damning report today. Just days away from the publication of A-level results in England and Wales next Thursday, the analysis by researchers from the University of Buckingham shows that the number of A-level exam entries in the subject has halved since 1982. One in four universities which had significant numbers studying physics have stopped teaching the subject since 1994, they say. Even in the 26 top universities with the highest ratings for research, the trend has been downwards." (08/10/06) http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1842182,00.html ----- 18) British troops "in worst fighting since Korea" Independent [UK] "British soldiers in Afghanistan are engaged in the most intense conflict faced by the UK since the Korean War, according to the Nato commander in the country. The comments by Lieutenant General David Richards, the British officer in charge of Western forces in Afghanistan, came with the news that another soldier had been killed -- the 11th to die in eight weeks. ... Lt-Gen Richards spoke of British troops involved in 'days and days of intense fighting, being woken up by yet another attack when they have not slept for 24 hours. This sort of thing has not happened so consistently, I don't think, since the Korean War or the Second World War.'" (08/10/06) http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1218449.ece ----- 19) Philippines: Crime spurs push for gun ownership Yahoo! News "Philippine lawyer Johnmuel Mendoza vividly recalls the day his gun saved his life. He was sitting in his pick-up truck in a Manila suburb when a deranged man appeared out of nowhere and started attacking his car with a metal pipe. 'As he was about to smash my windshield I took out my gun and told him to stop,' Mendoza recalls. At the sight of the gun the man came to his senses, dropped the pipe and fled. Today, Mendoza uses the lessons of that incident as president of PROGUN, perhaps the only organization in Asia fighting for the right of private citizens to own guns." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/hrmcf ----- 20) NY: Man jailed for self-defense Democrat & Chronicle "When Matthew L. McDonald tried to rob Stuart D. Miles at gunpoint, Miles responded by shooting and killing McDonald with a .38-caliber revolver. Now Miles is in trouble for illegally possessing the gun he used in self-defense. Miles, 25, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to second- and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the May 1 slaying of McDonald, 18, on Jefferson Avenue.If convicted, Miles could be imprisoned up to 15 years. Monroe County Court Judge Patricia D. Marks ordered him held without bail in County Jail." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/z2xye ----- 21) OR: Wife won't be tried in husband's death Oregon Live "A 50-year-old Milwaukie woman who said she killed her husband during an argument over a child he'd fathered with another woman will not be prosecuted. A spokesman for the Clackamas County district attorney's office said Wednesday that after a seven-month investigation by police and prosecutors his office believes Rose Perez killed Juan Gabriel Perez Solis, 36, in self-defense as he was beating her with a stick. ... Authorities learned Juan Perez was dead after a hysterical Rose Perez ran to a neighbor's house about 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19 to say she'd shot her husband with a rifle .... Juan Perez wasfound dead from a bullet wound to the chest in the couple's kitchen. He was holding a wooden dowel or stick in his hand, and Rose Perez's hair was intertwined in his fingers as though he'd pulled it from her head, Horner said.Rose Perez told investigators that she and her husband had been arguing because he told her he was going to move out of their home and into the home of their daughter-in-law, who was pregnant with Juan Perez's child. Horner said the couple's argument was considered as a possible motive for murder, but investigators also saw that Rose Perez had been badly beaten." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/nwwgs ----- 22) WA: Shot suspect may face charges Longview Daily News "Longview police have requested that Kelly Charles Foster Smith, who is recovering from a gunshot wound, receive a court summons on a charge of second-degree burglary once he is released from the hospital. Smith, 44, of Castle Rock, was shot near the left shoulder and the bullet exited through the front of the sternum, police said .... Police said that property owner Frank Perry Amadon, 61, called 911 early Monday morning to report he shot a suspected burglar in his warehouse in the 1300 block of Beech Street. Amadon lives in the building, police said. Police said they found Smith yelling and moaning, lying in a pool of blood at the base of a large metal sheet. Police noted an opening had been made in the wall. Wire was placed near the opening and stacked outside the opening, and die grinders and other equipment were nearby, police said." (08/09/06) http://www.tdn.com/articles/2006/08/10/area_news/news01.txt ----- 23) SD: Cameras let law enforcement spy Argus Leader "With the punch of a button and a twist of his wrist, the sheriff focuses in on a food vendor sign announcing deep-fried veggies at the Sioux Empire Fair. 'We can zoom in pretty good with this,' said Minnehaha County Sheriff Mike Milstead. ... A homeland security grant meant for infrastructure protection paid for the the camera system, he said .... While some fairgoers said they felt strange about being on camera, others didn't mind. 'It doesn't bother me at all,' said Jesse Freeburg of Brookings. 'It's Sioux Falls, so I feel safe anyways.' Kim Rebis of Sioux Falls said in her mind, a clear conscience was the key to not caring about the cameras. 'If you're not doing anything wrong, there's nothing to worry about,' she said." (08/09/06) http://tinyurl.com/rjmoy ----- 24) WV: Hatch finds political prisoner gig taxing 13 WHAM TV "The food might be good and the inmates might be friendly at the Robert F. Kennedy Federal Correctional Institution, but 2000 Survivor star Richard Hatch just can't seem to settle in. 'I'm doing lots of intake stuff, like clothing and getting to know the place ... but I don't think I will adjust to any of this until I can prove I was unethically prosecuted,' he said Wednesday during an exclusive phone interview with The Dominion Post. Hatch arrived at the minimum security prison on Green Bag Road July 25, after a Rhode Island judge sentenced him to 51 months for failing to pay taxes on the $1 million he won in the first season of Survivor." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/rd5yl ----- 25) Australia: $3.2 billion a year for war on drugs Melbourne Herald Sun "Australia's fight against illicit drugs costs about $3.2 billion a year, with more than half blown on drug-related policing, a hard-hitting report has found. An ambitious independent report has calculated for the first time how much money state and Federal Governments spend on drug prevention, treatment and the consequences of addiction. ... researchers involved with the project are concerned the governments are 'running blind' -- spending money with no clue of the return on their investment." (08/11/06) http://tinyurl.com/my8jh ---------------------------------------------------------- HEALTH-OF-THE-STATE-O-METER, 08/11/06 Civilian Casualties in Iraq: Min - 40,069 ... Max - 44,596 (source: www.iraqbodycount.org) American Military Deaths in Iraq: 2,596 (source: www.antiwar.com/casualties/) ---------------------------------------------------------- Commentary 26) What is Left? What is Right? Does it matter? The American Conservative by various "Since its inception, The American Conservative has been dealing with questions of what Right and Left mean in the modern context and to what extent the terms even apply anymore. Commentary memorably took up similar issues in a 1976 symposium, and, 30 years later, in a time of renewed ideological flux, we think a reconsideration is in order." Symposium including pieces by Andrew J. Bacevich, Jeremy Beer, Austin Bramwell, Pat Buchanan, John Derbyshire, Ross Douthat, Rod Dreher, Mary Eberstadt, Nick Gillespie, Paul Gottfried, Jeffrey Hart, Nicholas von Hoffman, James Kurth, Michael Lind, John Lukacs, Heather Mac Donald, Scott McConnell, Kevin Phillips, James P. Pinkerton, Justin Raimondo, Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., Claes G. Ryn, Kirkpatrick Sale, Phyllis Schlafly, Fred Siegel, Taki Theodoracopulos, Philip Weiss, Chilton Williamson Jr., Clyde N. Wilson and John Zmirak. (for publication 08/28/06) http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_08_28/cover.html ----- 27) Go, Joe ... no, really. Just go. [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Thomas L. Knapp "After the Democratic Party failed of its real, true, sole purpose -- the care and feeding of Joe Lieberman -- three times, Joe Lieberman made it clear that it isn't just the Democrat Party which exists to serve Joe Lieberman. Now, the purpose of the existence of the state and people of Connecticut is to provide Joe Lieberman with a US Senate seat in perpetuity. It's not about politics. It's not about issues. It's not about representation. It's. All. About. Joe. Lieberman. The world revolves around Joe Lieberman, see?" (08/10/06) http://knappster.blogspot.com/2006/08/go-joe-no-really-just-go.html ----- 28) Patriot Act by another name Liberty For All by Jessi Winchester "History is repeating itself right before our very eyes. The current administration is following the blueprint conceived by Hitler only three-quarters of a century ago ... and it's working. In the 1930s, the new Reichstag, or German Parliament, met in Berlin to consider passage of a deceitful act that would end democracy in that country and establish Adolf Hitler as dictator. It was given an innocuous title of, 'Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich' but became known as the 'Enabling Act.' Today, we have the equivalent in America known as the 'Patriot Act.'" (08/10/06) http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=21 ----- 29) Who needs the USDA? freeman, libertarian critter by freeman "If food safety is to be a serious concern, then realizing that testing and other safeguards will only be administered, or even allowed, by the government to the extent that it doesn't threaten privileged businesses is a necessary step towards ensuring that the right paths are taken to ensure safety. Rest assured that the USDA will always go down the wrong path, while also setting up roadblocks preventing passage through more proper paths. Food won't be safe until a separation of food and state occurs." (08/10/06) http://freemanlc.blogspot.com/2006/08/who-needs-usda.html ----- 30) Don't be terrorized Reason by Ronald Bailey "Yesterday, British authorities broke up an alleged terror plot to blow up as many as ten commercial airliners as they flew to the United States. In response, the Department of Homeland Security upped the alert level on commercial flights from Britain to 'red' and boosted the alert to 'orange' for all other flights. In a completely unscientific poll, AOL asked subscribers: 'Are you changing your travel plans because of the raised threat level?' At mid-afternoon about a quarter of the respondents had said yes. Such polls do reflect the kinds of anxieties terrorist attacks, even those that have been stymied, provoke in the public. But how afraid should Americans be of terrorist attacks? Not very, as some quick comparisons with other risks that we regularly run in our daily lives indicate." (08/11/06) http://www.reason.com/rb/rb081106.shtml ----- 31) Killing us softly TCS Daily by James H. Joyner, Jr. "The news that Scotland Yard managed to foil a terrorist attack that would have conceivably dwarfed the 9/11 attacks is not quite as good it might first appear. Certainly, the prevention of 'mass murder on an unimaginable scale' is something for which we can be tremendously thankful. Still, our reaction to it has already furthered the terrorists' aims." (08/11/06) http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=081106D ----- 32) Bush vs. Condi AntiWar.Com by Justin Raimondo "The longer the Israelis pound away at Lebanon, the more apparent is this essential divergence of Israeli and American interests. Rice wants to negotiate, instead of fighting another war -- or series of wars -- and has come out in favor of 'engaging' both Syria and Iran in order to tamp down Hassan Nasrallah's ambitions to become the new Saladin. The mere suggestion of dealing with Tehran had the neocons in a lather well before the Israelis launched their campaign of destruction, and neocon 'Dark Prince' Richard Perle struck back with an op-ed piece in the Washington Post that accused Condi of an 'ignominious retreat' in the face of Iran's nuclear sword. Bush has apparently taken this view of his former confidante to heart." (08/11/06) http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9519 ----- 33) Women and the freedom philosophy LewRockwell.Com by Karen De Coster "When we look at ideas, and the radical thought processes that drive them, we observe those who are the catalysts and trailblazers in the world of ideas -- academics, writers, bloggers, scholars, editors, philanthropists, and the like. Among this group of individuals is a sea of men amid a few women. Why is that so? But wait, women are heavily involved in politics, aren't they? You see them at rallies, in their gray, tweed skirts and spray-glued hair, waving their banners and holding up signs that say 'I'm a woman, and I vote.' (That's supposed to be a big threat, warning a politician not to vote against anything that falls under the category of women's rights.) But clearly, involvement in Democratic or Republican politics is like playing adult tee-ball. It is not an intellectual pursuit." (08/11/06) http://www.lewrockwell.com/decoster/decoster117.html ----- 34) Running out of money Free Market News Network by Bill Bonner "Yesterday brought news that Toyota sells more automobiles in America than Ford does. But nothing to worry about, say economists, soothingly. Of course, we agree; it is nothing to worry about. Like approaching death. You are far better off maintaining a serene outlook. Besides, it is summertime. We do not worry about things in the summer. There is plenty of time to fret in the autumn, winter and spring. Summer is a time for insouciance. Still, we find that Ford has lost even more than expected in the last quarter -- $254 million. And no chance of making it up on volume; those SUVs aren't selling, despite all the discounts and incentives. We don't know how Toyota does it, but it looks to us as though U.S. consumers are slowly running out of money -- just as we guessed they would." (08/11/06) http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/28/5762/money.asp?nid=5762&wid=28 ----- 35) Second-guessing the Fed Human Events by Alan Reynolds "The Federal Reserve's open market committee opted to stop raising the federal funds rate, leaving it at 5.25 percent for the time being. This was no surprise on Wall Street, unlike additional bad news about oil and natural gas, yet it unleashed a barrage of editorial criticism from such leading conservative papers as The Washington Times and The Wall Street Journal." (08/10/06) http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16433 ----- 36) America: Freedom to Fascism from Reason to Freedom by Herman Gardner "Aaron Russo is a man with guts. A former music promoter, talent agent, film producer, and near candidate for President of the Libertarian Party, Russo is one of those uniquely American iconoclasts whose stubbornness has led him to stray far and wide to satisfy his intellect. Initially a film about his search to find out whether Americans indeed are required to pay Federal Income taxes, Russo became compelled to delve into much deeper topics related to political corruption, the influence of international banking on American policy and, ultimately, the fate that awaits our nation if we continue to allow our government to increase its control on our daily lives." (08/11/06) http://www.reasontofreedom.com/America_Freedom_to_Fascism.html ----- 37) Israel's blunder The Partial Observer by James Leroy Wilson "After four weeks of war, I still encounter apologists for Israel. The standard refrain is, 'Israel doesn't target civilians, but Hezbollah does.' Although Israel has actually killed twenty times as many civilians as has Hezbollah, the argument goes, it retains an insurmountable lead on the moral scorecard. After all, they say, Israel doesn't mean it. Let's concede the point for a moment. In a war, the side with greater firepower is bound to inflict more extensive damage than the other. That doesn't mean the stronger is in the wrong, or that the weaker is a victim. 'Good guys' have the right to punish 'bad guys,' regardless of their relative strengths. Even so, the arguments from Israel's apologists neglect a key point. And it's one even Israel's critics tend to miss. The moral problem isn't in the body counts or infrastructure damage per se. Rather it is that Israel's leaders should have known that bombing Lebanon wouldn't work." (08/10/06) http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1914 ----- 38) Da county don't count The American Spectator by Jay D. Homnick "Ask anyone where they live, they tell you neighborhood, city, state and country. I grew up in the borough of Brooklyn, New York, only vaguely knowing that it was called Kings County. Racking my brain now, I can't recall if there was a County Hall nor any service or fee that was transacted directly with county government. When I married my ex-wife in Chicago in 1979, I did get the license from the County Clerk. That's about it. Even a county the size of Miami-Dade with 2.2 million residents and an annual budget of nearly $7 billion -- more than eleven states -- is hardly noticed, governmentally, by its inhabitants." (08/11/06) http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10212 ----- 39) Sore losers Salon by Joe Conason "The overthrow of Joe Lieberman has intensified the anxieties of the Republican establishment and their friends in Washington's professional chattering class. This week they were full of furious insults, dire predictions and brazen lies about the political uprising of those well-heeled peasants in Connecticut who dared to ignore the conventional wisdom and did what they felt was best for country and party. Not surprisingly, the most vicious and partisan attacks emanate from those same statesmen and intellectuals whose propensity for fear-mongering and falsifying first led us into the Iraq quagmire. They hate being held to account for the catastrophe they authored, which is why they again stoop to questioning the patriotism of their critics -- in this instance, the ordinary voters who went to the polls to register their dissent from George W. Bush's war." [subscription or ad view required] (08/11/06) http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/08/11/pundits ----- 40) Breaking the illegal immigration logjam Cato Institute by Daniel T. Griswold "A group of nine suspected illegal immigrants died and 12 were injured in a car crash while fleeing federal agents on Tuesday, in what has become the latest gruesome reminder of the necessity of immigration reform. The accident occurred in Yuma, Arizona, where only three months earlier President Bush made the case for a comprehensive immigration overhaul. Thankfully, a proposed compromise gaining attention in Washington offers hope for securing our borders, reducing illegal immigration, and meeting the needs of our growing economy." (08/11/06) http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6599 ----- 41) Compromising positions The Weekly Standard by Sonny Bunch "V for Vendetta was a disappointment upon its initial theatrical release. Having had five months to reconsider that diagnosis, viewing the film again on DVD has led me to realize that it's not just disappointing: It's downright terrible." [editor's note: Actually, I watched it on DVD the other day and liked it better than I had in the theatre. I was mildly impressed by it on the big screen, but now suspect I'll want to own it and watch it often - TLK] (08/11/06) http://tinyurl.com/ev73c ----- 42) Lieberman without tears Slate by Michael Tomasky "I do not deny the existence of symbolism in politics. Lieberman was almost vice president (would that he were, right now!) and therefore had a higher profile than most. His defeat does have ramifications -- it will influence, at least for a time, how Democratic candidates in some (but by no means all) states talk about Iraq. And Ned Lamont, for his own vote-getting sake in Connecticut's general election and for the Democratic Party's sake, needs to be more careful about giving people a reason to flash peace signs and chant 'Bring Them Home!' at his rallies in the future. But Lamont is only one man, and his primary victory over one uniquely annoying incumbent hawk scarcely means the end of moderation in the Democratic Party." (08/11/06) http://www.slate.com/id/2147566/ ----- 43) Guns and children NY Times by John R. Lott, Jr. "Jane E. Brody's column claiming that people should store their guns locked and unloaded is dangerous advice and will lead to more deaths ('Is Your Child a Split Second from Disaster?'). Her discussion focuses on accidental gun deaths in the home, but 85 percent of the fatality number she misleadingly points to involve homicides. Surely a concern, but locking up guns in law-abiding homes is unrelated to stopping drug gangs from murdering one another. Despite her claim, adult males with criminal records and histories of alcoholism or drugs are the ones firing the guns that accidentally kill most young children. Gun locks won't stop adult criminals from firing their own guns, but they will prevent law-abiding citizens from defending themselves." (08/09/06) http://tinyurl.com/q9nsd ----- 44) Day of reckoning for US warmongers Asia Times by Jim Lobe "Tuesday's defeat in Connecticut's primary election of US President George W Bush's 'favorite Democrat,' Senator Joe Lieberman, by a little-known anti-war candidate marks a major setback to neo-conservative hopes of maintaining bipartisan support for the administration's aggressive foreign policies, particularly in the Middle East. ... In particular, the primary result is likely to give pause to several likely Democratic presidential aspirants. These include Senator Clinton and Senator Joseph Biden, who, while critical of the administration's competence in Iraq, have steadfastly resisted setting a timetable for withdrawal." (08/10/06) http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HH11Aa02.html ----- 45) How to talk to your Jewish friends about Israel Common Dreams by Ira Chernus "'I can talk to my Jewish friends about anything -- except Israel. When that subject comes up, they just shut down.' I've heard this complaint from so many people, so many times, that I want to offer a few suggestions about how to talk to your 'pro-Israel' Jewish friends. I hope this will be helpful to everyone, Jew and non-Jew alike, who is critical of Israel's war policy and wants to move public opinion toward peace." (08/10/06) http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0810-22.htm ----- 46) How Carl Schmitt spawned fascist America CounterPunch by Arthur Versluis "As is well known, the White House has been eager to assert what is claimed to be the power of the 'unitary executive,' that is, the asserted power of the executive branch to override those provisions of laws with which it does not agree .... What very few people have realized is that this notional 'unitary executive' power has an instructive precedent, which is outlined in the works of the German legal theorist, Carl Schmitt. In the 1920s, Schmitt sharply criticized the parliamentary system of the Weimar Republic, in an analysis that has a striking resonance with the contemporary American Congress's morass of ineptness, paralysis, and manifest corruption. When National Socialism came to power in the 1930s, Schmitt defended the Third Reich and its right to peremptory justice by reference to the juridical example of the Inquisition." (08/10/06) http://www.counterpunch.org/versluis08102006.html ----- 47) Awakening the Resistance CounterPunch by Jennifer Loewenstein "Sixteen years of civil war, of murderous sectarian acrimony, of inter-ethnic killing, suspicion and paranoia and today -- after 28 days of hell unleashed upon it by the arrogant racism of a militant and ideological Zionism -- 89% of Lebanon's Sunni Muslims, 80% of its Christians, 80% of its Druze and 100% of its Shiite populations support Hizbullah's resistance against Israel and the United States. At least as telling are statistics showing that 97% of Palestinians support Hizbullah's position toward Israel including 95% of Christian Palestinians. Lebanon, Syria, the Palestinian territories and Iran are not the only places where support for Hizbullah has increased dramatically in the last month. Among the populations of the American-backed Arab states, notably Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, there is also widespread support." (08/10/06) http://www.counterpunch.org/loewenstein08102006.html ----- 48) The featherless eagle Financial Times by Bertrand Benoit "Pile up the mass of scholarship published about Nazi Germany since the second world war and you will probably end up with a stack several times the size of the Zugspitze. Is there anything at all we do not know yet about this dramatic era? Yes, answers Adam Tooze in The Wages of Destruction, a masterful economic history of the Third Reich .... Based on solid statistical foundations, his central and perhaps most counter-intuitive finding is that the Germany that went to war in 1939, steeled by six years of hectic rearmament, was no mighty industrial steamroller but a weak economy, starved of resources and foreign exchange and crippled by an oversized and utterly unproductive agricultural sector. ... Far from the juggernaut that lives on in popular imagery, Adolf Hitler's country from the mid-1930s onwards was teetering on the brink of collapse." (08/04/06) http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b5ef2df2-22b3-11db-91c7-0000779e2340.html ----- 49) The face behind AOL user 4417749 International Herald Tribune [France] by Michael Barbaro and Tom Zeller Jr. "Buried in a list of 20 million Web searches collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417749. The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcher's anonymity, but it was not much of a shield. No.4417749 conducted hundreds of searches over a three-month period on topics ranging from 'numb fingers' to '60 single men' to 'dog that urinates on everything.' Search by search, click by click, the identity of AOL user No.4417749 became easier to discern. There are queries for several people with the last name Arnold, for 'landscapers in Lilburn,' Georgia, and for 'homes sold in shadow lake subdivision gwinnett county georgia.'" (08/09/06) http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/09/business/aol.php ----- 50) Semantic sneak-attacks Rebirth of Reason by Laure Chipman "Objectivists and non-Objectivists sometimes have difficulty communicating because of differences in word usage. Sometimes, the problem is more sinister -- the non-Objectivist is not just misunderstanding us, but is trying to use blurry concepts as a kind of 'sneak attack' againt Objectivist principles. In thinking about this recently, I've come to a deeper appreciation of Ayn Rand's ability to define terms by essentials." [editor's note: True, but that does cut both ways. Rand's radical redefinition of the word "capitalism" away from its meaning as coined by Thackeray and popularized by Marx (a mixed, regulated industrial economy) has played hell with economics debates - TLK] (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/j6yer ----- 51) Today's immigrants, tomorrow's entrepeneurs National Review by Jerry Bowyer "Capital goes where it's wanted and stays where it's well-treated, said the late Walter Wriston, who was once the chairman of Citicorp. That's true of all forms of capital -- at least all mobile forms of capital. Wriston said it would flow freely across national boundaries to the point where those borders would no longer be economically relevant. This, he said, would be a wonderful thing for all. Authoritarian regimes would be punished by capital flight, and open-market societies would be rewarded by receiving it. However, for many people, all of the capital they possess is located between their heels and their hair. They have nothing else. Nevertheless, they are mobile -- and they've been proving it." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/sy6vy ----- 52) Immigration: Now, tomorrow, forever Reason by various "The nation has been swept up in a battle over immigration reform all year. As Congress and the President struggle to enact new legislation, the debate so far has been characterized by an almost complete lack of reference to history, economics, and basic research on the matter. Reason seeks to enrich the discussion, first and foremost by raising the question of whether there is, in fact, an immigration crisis in the first place." Pieces from Tony Snow, Carolyn Lochhead, Tyler Cowen, Daniel M. Rothschild, and Reason staff. (08/06) http://www.reason.com/0608/fe.ng.immigration.shtml ----- 53) How many people is too many? AlterNet by Stan Cox "By mid-October of this year, the world's third most populous nation will hit 300 million inhabitants. And thanks to America's burgeoning fertility rate, we will keep moving briskly onward, hitting 400 million in less than 40 years, by Census Bureau projections. Is 300 million people too many -- or not enough? Wade into a discussion of population size, and you're soon up to your neck in a host of knotty issues: sex, contraception, immigration, economic justice and ecological crises. To find out who'll be celebrating the big milepost, who'll be deploring it, and why, I got in touch with seven individuals who have especially strong views on the various forces that will decide the eventual size and composition of our nation's population." (08/10/06) http://www.alternet.org/story/39920/ ----- 54) Clueless in Condi-land Reason by Michael Young "With the war in Lebanon one month old this week, the jury is still out on whether the Bush administration can call the Israeli military campaign it is actively supporting a success or failure. The country will not return to the status quo ante which existed before July 12, when Hezbollah abducted two Israeli soldiers and killed three others in Israeli territory, and that's a good thing; but U.S. management of the diplomatic initiative since then has been halting, raising doubts again about whether the administration is better at launching bold initiatives than successfully seeing them through." (08/10/06) http://www.reason.com/links/links081006.shtml ----- 55) Life as usual in the capital Mother Jones by James Ridgeway "You'd never know the nation is in the midst of a terror crisis by the looks of the Capital today. The metros are running unperturbed, although a bulletin says workers are emptying the trash more often and closing the toilets. Traffic is as usual downtown. The streets along the K Street corridor, where the well-heeled lobbyists hang out, are abustle with people heading for their power lunches. Amtrak, which basically has no security, is not raising its terror level. It's seldom that you see a cop on an Amtrak train, save for an occasional quick walk through on one of the costly Acela express trains where the rich and powerful ride." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/ko22j ----- 56) Bring back fiscal corruption Ludwig von Mises Institute by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. "Nostalgia for a lost but better world is what one feels when following the growing state-pension scandal. The San Diego, California, case is the most famous, but the details are the same in every state: whistle blowers, broken promises, mismanagement, graft, and corruption, followed by toppled politicos, lawsuits, a clamor to raise cash, and ruined credit ratings of major cities. It's all so delightfully 19th-century: those days of yore when governments had to collect real money from our pockets in order to meet their obligations." (08/09/06) http://www.mises.org/story/2278 ----- 57) Terrorists have taken our toothpaste! Hawaii Reporter by Malia Zimmerman "Thanks to the terrorists and their recently uncovered plot to blow up the free world, we're all going to have to give up our toothpaste, shampoo, nail polish, makeup, hair gel, bottled water and every other liquid and gel before we get on the airplane. I have already lost at least enough nail scissors and tweezers to distribute to a moderately sized village in Africa. Now the TSA wants my makeup too." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/jpg7x ----- 58) How to cut wasteful government spending Frontiers of Freedom by Helen and Peter Evans "Subcommittees have a range of responsibilities. I'm using the committee for oversight. I'm using the Federal financial means to get as broad a sweep as I can to look at, but we do do internet security, government information security. We have the census under our committee. That's another story you'd love to hear about; the waste, abuse and fraud that goes on in the census. Plus international security; be it the Iranian problems, the Korean problems. We've had hearings on those in terms of a threat to our own international security Plus the problems with Korea's production of $100 bills. We've really broadened the discretion of the Committee. Our goal is to look at every penny the Federal government spends." (08/10/06) http://tinyurl.com/fddwq ----- 59) Confirm Bolton now! Center For Individual Freedom by staff "The partisan minority in the U.S. Senate used to content itself with obstructing the President's nominees. But lately they've expanded their partisan quest and are now actively working to oust the President's choice to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, who has now been on the job for more than a year. Recall that Democrats tried to block Bolton's confirmation to the post when President Bush first nominated him. And after months of delay, the President used his constitutional authority to give Bolton a temporary appointment." (08/04/06) http://tinyurl.com/z3apb ----- 60) The other side of the soda fat scare story Competitive Enterprise Institute by Steven J. Milloy "'Americans have sipped and slurped their way to fatness by drinking far more soda and other sugary drinks over the last four decades, a new scientific review concludes,' reported the Associated Press this week. It's too bad that the AP didn't report the full story as told -- and yet, not told -- in the review itself, rather than apparently just regurgitating the researchers' media release." 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[MP3 format] (08/10/06) http://media.libsyn.com/media/radiofreeliberty/Episode_033.mp3 ----- 62) Free Talk Live, 08/10/06 Free Talk Live "A terror plot foiled means it's time to give up more freedom! The airport crackdown on liquids, makeup, and other common products. / The Solution to Air Security / Kanning Update / Paradigm Shift / Why They Hate Us / What Freedom? / Wealth / Zoning Insanity / Soldiers rape and murder a 14yr old Iraqi girl. / FDA Crushing Freedom / Owning Animals." [MP3 format] (08/10/06) http://media.libsyn.com/media/ftl/FTL2006-08-10.mp3 Movement News & Events 63) STR: Can you help with this project? Strike the Root ongoing "I have an idea for a way to eliminate identity theft and I'm going to try and launch it as a business, but first I've put together an information website on the problem and what can be done now. My idea is to create a sort of anti-credit bureau, where every consumer would have 24/7 access to their own personal credit information file, just like we do with our bank account information." (08/08/06) http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/younga/younga1.html ----- 64) Seminar: Liberty, Economy & Society Independent Institute 08/07/06 - 08/11/06 "To help high school and college-age students better understand the social and economic issues faced throughout life, The Independent Institute sponsors the Liberty, Economy & Society Summer Seminars as a major part of the Institute's overall program for students. These dynamic seminars help students learn what economics is, how it affects their lives, and how understanding its laws can help them achieve the things they care about." Independent Institute, 100 Swan Way, Oakland, CA. Enrollment fee $195 per student, including course materials. Tuition assistance available. http://www.independent.org/students/seminars/ ----- 65) Authority and autonomy in the family various 08/19/06 "August 19, 2006 at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA. Speakers confirmed so far include Nathaniel Branden, Peter Breggin (via live video), Susan Love Brown, Marshall Fritz and Sharon Presley. Topics include liberating education, liberating childrearing, encouraging critical intelligence in children, alternative family structures, egalitarian marriage, and encouraging self-esteem in children. The sponsors are Resources for Independent Thinking, the Civil Society Institute, and the Association of Libertarian Feminists." http://www.autonomyinthefamily.org ----- 66) Boston Tea Party organizational convention Boston Tea Party 08/19/06 America's new libertarian political party opens its organizational convention -- held online and open to all members -- on August 19th. Agenda items include the election of a permanent national committee and creation of the party's program. http://www.bostontea.us ----- 67) Reason in Amsterdam 2006 Reason Foundation 08/23/06-08/26/06 "Amidst the beauty of Amsterdam's canals, flower markets and colorful people, attendees of Reason in Amsterdam, 2006 will enjoy a unique opportunity to learn about the contemporary struggle in Europe from prominent European and American intellectuals." An astounding roster of guests and speakers, including Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of the hit series "South Park," Time Magazine's Andrew Sullivan, Reason editors Nick Gillespie and Jacob Sullum, and a host of distinguished authors, activists and political leaders. August 23-26 at the Grand Amsterdam Hotel. $425. Online registration available. http://www.reason.org/amsterdam/ ----- 68) 4th Annual Africa Resource Bank Meeting Inter Region Economic Network 11/26/06-11/29/06 "IREN will publish 'Reclaiming Africa -- 2' from the views raised in this meeting. Registration is $ 300. All participants are encouraged to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements. For more details email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Attention Jackie." http://www.irenkenya.com/modules/events/index.php?event_title_id=25 Today in Political History 69) Off on the road to Coyotepe Details, and the "quote of the day," from Leon's Political Almanac at: http://perspicuity.net/cgi/hypercal.cgi ---------------------------------------------------------- RRND is published every weekday except on holidays. Forward freely. 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