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Produced in cooperation with the International Society for Individual Liberty http://www.isil.org ---------------------------------------------------------- Volume IV, Issue #968 Thursday, August 24th, 2006 Email Circulation 2,016 ------ 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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"'Free Talk Live' is more than a typical political jabfest." -- Sarasota Herald Tribune http://www.freetalklive.com -------------------------------------- SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS ----- Today's News: 1) Stem cell breakthrough saves embryos 2) Iraq: Two US soldiers, 15 Iraqis killed 3) 12 arrested in cell phone terror scare 4) Court: Nader must pay ballot blockers 5) CT: Lieberman certified to appear on ballot 6) CA: School moves to steal funeral home 7) "Survivor" plays the race card 8) IRS warns against copycats 9) US says Iran proposal falls short 10) Judge orders probe of leak in spy case 11) Report rips US intelligence on Iran 12) US offers Japan more Patriot missiles 13) 12: Custody extended for bomb plot suspects 14) Apple settles iPod suits for $100 million 15) Bush: Katrina recovery will take time 16) Tax thugs eye juicy online victim pool 17) Mediscare's $50 million refund error 18) CA: Rights group sues over sidewalks 19) Syria opposes UN forces on border 20) Austria: Girl, held for 8 years, escapes 21) MN: Diocese cancels nun's Duluth talk 22) Study: A few extra pounds could mean fewer years 23) IL: Chefs file suit over foie gras ban 24) Body parts recalled in tainted tissue scandal 25) Debate grows on out-of-wedlock laws 26) Glitch reveals too much on DoE site 27) New Zealand: Porn parade outdraws Santa Claus 28) Rainbow Warrior in French "siege" 29) OH: Property owner charged in teen's shooting 30) South Africa: Man shoots, kills burglar Today's Commentary: 31) Hillary? Who? 32) Environmental what ifs 33) This panic won't create air safety 34) Conservatives and the courts 35) Downsizing 36) No, Rice Krispies aren't bio-toxic 37) Out for justice 38) Ten righteous states 39) And the loser is ... everyone 40) Why they don't hate us 41) Meat is a global warming issue 42) Mind matters 43) From welfare to poverty 44) It's not Bush's fault? 45) Cue the clown music 46) US fails on security scorecard 47) Article points to crisis in paternity judgments 48) Should Coke be banned in India? 49) The greatest column 50) Joe Lieberman and the soul of the GOP 51) Open letter urges action 52) Rocks and powder 53) Is there a real "pork buster" in Congress? 54) Tax cut revenue rewards 55) The vitiated center 56) Forbes' female trouble 57) Sabotaging US sovereignty 58) It's time for some government accountability 59) Welfare reform is working 60) Tide of war turns 61) "Take Back the Night" for men as well 62) Gun Control: Rebuttal to James Alan Fox 63) Mexico approaches combustion point 64) What is a Gold Star family? 65) The trouble with Star Trek Today's Audio and Video: 66) Thomas L. Knapp on Freedom Rings 67) Black operation 68) Free Talk Live, 08/23/06 69) Freedomain Radio #380 Today's Movement News & Events: 70) Mont Pelerin Society Essay Competition 71) 4th Annual Africa Resource Bank Meeting 72) Mont Pelerin Society Special Meeting Today in Political History: 73) Alaric sacks Rome News 1) Stem cell breakthrough saves embryos Buffalo News "In an innovative move, a biotech company says it has discovered how to make stem cells without destroying embryos, touting it as a way to defuse one of the country's fiercest political and ethical debates. Some opponents of the research said the method still doesn't satisfy their objections, and many stem cell scientists and their supporters called it inefficient and politically wrong-headed. But a spokeswoman for President Bush, who vetoed legislation last month that would have allowed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, called it a step in the right direction." (08/24/06) http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060824/1045117.asp ----- 2) Iraq: Two US soldiers, 15 Iraqis killed ABC 13 News "Two U.S. soldiers were killed south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Thursday .... One U.S. soldier was killed Wednesday during a raid to capture 'foreign terrorists,' the U.S. military command said. Two of the militants also were killed, it said, without elaborating. The other American soldier died Thursday when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb .... a car bomb in the mixed neighborhood of al-Mashtal in eastern Baghdad killed two civilians and injured five others .... Another car bomb -- targeting a police patrol in the Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah -- killed two civilians and wounded four people .... five day laborers were wounded when a bomb hidden in trash exploded .... a roadside bomb exploded next to an Iraqi police patrol, wounding two policemen .... gunmen opened fire on a police patrol, killing one policeman and wounding another .... a bomb in a minivan killed three policemen and wounded a minivan driver in Baqouba .... a roadside bomb struck an Iraqi army convoy, killing three soldiers and destroying their armored vehicle ..." http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=4491829 ----- 3) 12 arrested in cell phone terror scare OhMyNews "Twelve passengers were arrested by Dutch police after the India-bound plane they were aboard returned to the Netherlands escorted by two F-16 fighters, according to reports Wednesday. Authorities said the crew had requested that Northwest flight 42 to Mumbai return to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport while the plane was over German airspace after several passengers were found to be behaving suspiciously. ... According to one passenger interviewed by the AP, several men of south Asian appearance were handcuffed and removed from the plane before other passengers. They reportedly had aroused suspicion by getting out their cellular phones in flight." (08/24/06) http://tinyurl.com/pe4v9 ----- 4) Court: Nader must pay ballot blockers MSNBC "Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader and his running mate must pay more than $80,000 in expenses for the lawsuit that challenged their nominating papers and kept them off the 2004 ballot, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. There was an implication of 'fraud and deception' in their petition drive, the court said in its ruling. A group of Pennsylvania voters sued to block Nader and Peter Camejo, who were running as independent candidates, from being placed on the ballot. As a result of the lawsuit, the state Commonwealth Court found wide-ranging improprieties among Nader and Camejo's petition signatures and disqualified nearly two-thirds of the 51,000 signatures they submitted." [editor's note: So now they can not only keep alternative choices off the ballot, but actually shift the costs of doing so to the victims. Wow -- what a great scam! If "fraud and deception" in politics is actionable, then the Republicans and Democrats should be broke by now, shouldn't they? - TLK] http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14484394/ ----- 5) CT: Lieberman certified to appear on ballot USA Today "U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman has enough voter signatures to secure a spot on the November ballot with a new party, the secretary of the state said Tuesday. The certification means that Lieberman, who lost the Democratic primary to a political newcomer, will run for re-election as the candidate of the Connecticut for Lieberman party. Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz said Lieberman exceeded the 7,500 signatures necessary to get on the ballot as an independent." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/z7her ----- 6) CA: School moves to steal funeral home Contra Costa Times "Livermore school trustees Tuesday unanimously authorized their lawyers to begin eminent domain proceedings against a funeral home to gain more room for Livermore High. The school district will contend in Alameda County Superior Court that the 1.05-acre property at 3070 East Ave., near the high school just outside the redeveloping downtown area, be sold for $2 million, said Robert Thurbon, an attorney representing the district. It is owned by the Wilson Family Funeral Chapel. Livermore facilities director Floyd Wilson said the land is needed for 10 new science classrooms the district hopes to start building in the spring. Floyd said the district had an agreement with the landowners to buy the property for $2.1 million. But in May, for reasons unknown to the district, the property owners backed out. New lawyers began representing the owners, who have yet to give a new sale amount." (08/24/06) http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/15348834.htm ----- 7) "Survivor" plays the race card ABC News "Get ready for a segregated 'Survivor.' Race will matter on the upcoming season of the CBS show as contestants will be divided into four tribes by ethnicity. That means blacks, whites, Latinos and Asians in separate groups." (08/24/06) http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2347544 ----- 8) IRS warns against copycats USA Today "The IRS warned taxpayers Wednesday not to be duped by scammers posing as private debt collectors the agency has hired to chase unpaid tax debts. The Internal Revenue Service designed the debt collection program to minimize that risk 'because we know what it's like out there with regard to identity theft nowadays,' said Brady Bennett, IRS director of collection. Identity thieves have posed as IRS agents in 'phishing' schemes that use the tax agency's logo to lure victims. The e-mail schemes are designed to dupe taxpayers into revealing personal financial information." [editor's note: Because, you know, it's so much worse to have your money stolen by a freelance thug than by an affiliated one - TLK] (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/h9hcs ----- 9) US says Iran proposal falls short Vail Daily News "The Bush administration said Wednesday a proposal by Iran for nuclear negotiations falls short of U.N. demands that it cease uranium enrichment, and the U.S. began plotting unspecified 'next moves' with other governments. Those could include U.N. sanctions against Iran unless it reverses course and agrees to a verifiable halt to enrichment activities that can be central to making nuclear weapons." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/rxyxn ----- 10) Judge orders probe of leak in spy case Jackson Clarion-Ledger "A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to investigate how media organizations learned about a criminal probe involving the activities of two pro-Israel lobbyists, who now face trial on charges that they illegally disclosed national defense information. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III ordered the investigation following complaints by defense lawyers that the government failed to follow proper procedures in obtaining and executing a secret warrant for surveillance of lobbyists Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/hjm4l ----- 11) Report rips US intelligence on Iran MSNBC "The U.S. intelligence community is ill-prepared to assess Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities and its intentions for developing weapons of mass destruction, a congressional report said Wednesday. Noting 'significant gaps in our knowledge and understanding of the various areas of concern about Iran,' the House Intelligence Committee staff report questioned whether the United States could even effectively engage in talks with Tehran on ways to defuse tensions." (08/23/06) http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14489338/ ----- 12) US offers Japan more Patriot missiles MSNBC "Washington has offered to provide Tokyo with up to 80 more advanced Patriot interceptor missiles for deployment in Japan in the wake of North Korea's missile tests last month, a news report said Thursday. Japan's Defense Agency will take up the offer in fiscal 2007 to accelerate the already planned deployment of the advanced missiles on American bases in Japan for the first time, Kyodo News agency reported, citing unidentified individuals familiar with U.S.-Japan relations." (08/23/06) http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14489062/ ----- 13) 12: Custody extended for bomb plot suspects Plainfield Courier News "A British court Wednesday extended the time nine suspects in the alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound flights can be held without being charged, officials said. Scotland Yard said two others were freed. Authorities said eight suspects who have not been charged could be kept in custody until Aug. 30, giving police more time to quiz them about the plot they have said involved liquid-based explosives, while the ninth suspect had his detention extended until Thursday. The 11 were among about two dozen people arrested Aug. 10 in police raids in London, Birmingham and High Wycombe, about 30 miles northwest of the capital. The others arrested have either been charged or released." (08/24/06) http://tinyurl.com/ewglx ----- 14) Apple settles iPod suits for $100 million East Valley Tribune "Apple Computer Inc. will pay $100 million to rival Creative Technology Ltd. to settle five patent lawsuits over technology for navigating through songs on the popular iPod digital music player, the companies said Wednesday. The settlement allows Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple to recoup a portion of its payment if other electronics companies license Creative's technology." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/g4qdo ----- 15) Bush: Katrina recovery will take time CNN "President Bush on Wednesday cautioned against placing too much importance on the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's Gulf Coast strike, saying it will take a long, sustained effort to rebuild the area. 'It's a time to remember that people suffered and it's a time to recommit ourselves to helping them,' Bush said. 'But I also want people to remember that a one-year anniversary is just that, because it's going to require a long time to help these people rebuild.'" (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/zscpx ----- 16) Tax thugs eye juicy online victim pool CNN "In an effort to crack down on under-reporting by individuals and businesses that sell goods online, an IRS official said the tax agency is discussing creating new tax reporting requirements. .... The IRS' attempts to promote better reporting of online profits has been stymied by the fact that most online transactions leave behind very little evidence for the tax man to track, especially if shoppers don't use a credit card or opt for an online payment system such as PayPal, which is also owned by eBay. 'A lot of things go unreported because there's no paper trail,' explains Cindy Hockenberry, a tax information analyst at the National Association of Tax Professionals. One remedy the IRS is considering is third-party reporting, or having an outside source, such as an online auction site, report information to the IRS. Representatives from eBay stressed that maintaining their clients' privacy was of the utmost importance, but that they would turn it over to if the government request were accompanied by a subpoena." (08/23/06) http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/23/pf/taxes/online_taxes/ ----- 17) Mediscare's $50 million refund error CNN "The federal government erroneously has reimbursed about 230,000 Medicare recipients for monthly premiums they paid this year for prescription drug coverage. For many, the checks -- totaling nearly $50 million -- have already arrived. The refund will undoubtedly cause confusion, particularly because it comes with a letter that mistakenly instructs older people that their monthly premiums will no longer be deducted from their Social Security check." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/lxgpl ----- 18) CA: Rights group sues over sidewalks Sheboygan Press "A disability rights group sued the state Wednesday alleging sidewalks along California highways violate federal and state law because they are unfit for wheelchairs. The suit filed in federal court against the Department of Transportation by Californians for Disability Rights Inc. seeks no money, but demands the state repair the sidewalks." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/korue ----- 19) Syria opposes UN forces on border Cadillac News "Syria on Wednesday opposed deployment of an international force along its border to prevent arms shipments to Hezbollah, and Israel called the situation in Lebanon 'explosive.' A cease-fire was further shaken by artillery shells and explosions that killed three Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli. Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora asked the U.S. to help lift an Israeli blockade on his country's coast and airport -- something Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said would not happen until U.N. troops deployed along the Lebanon-Syria border to block the flow of weapons." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/p3xym ----- 20) Austria: Girl, held for 8 years, escapes Times Online [UK] "An Austrian girl held prisoner in a cellar for eight years was reunited with her parents last night after making a dramatic dash for freedom. Police searching for a man suspected of kidnapping Natascha Kampusch and holding her prisoner said that the alleged kidnapper had committed suicide late last night by jumping in front of a train. Natascha vanished on March 2, 1998, while walking to school in Vienna. She was 10 years old at the time. She reappeared yesterday after leaping out of a black BMW when it was stopped in a routine police roadcheck." (08/24/06) http://tinyurl.com/ksr35 ----- 21) MN: Diocese cancels nun's Duluth talk Duluth News-Tribune "Catholic Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and a longtime social activist, has been uninvited as the keynote speaker at the Diocese of Duluth education dinner in October. In a letter to some diocese residents sent Monday, Duluth Bishop Dennis Schnurr said the decision to cancel the event and Prejean's address was based on her name appearing on an Aug. 3 New York Times advertisement calling for President Bush to be removed from office. Schnurr said the ad was brought to his attention by lay people in the diocese. 'Upon reviewing the advertisement, I find that I share their concerns,' Schnurr said in the letter. 'Therefore we have made the difficult decision to cancel her appearance.'" (08/23/06) http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/15339220.htm ----- 22) Study: A few extra pounds could mean fewer years Washington Post "Bad news for all those baby boomers starting to pile on the pounds as they go through middle age: You don't have to be obese -- just a little overweight -- to increase your risk of dying prematurely, according to a large government study. The 10-year study of more than 500,000 U.S. adults found that those who were just moderately overweight in their fifties were 20 percent to 40 percent more likely to die in the next decade. Another study involving more than 1 million Korean adults, also being published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, produced similar results." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/nzx82 ----- 23) IL: Chefs file suit over foie gras ban Arizona Republic "Saying the [Chicago] City Council stuck its beak where it didn't belong, a restaurant association sued the city Tuesday in hope of making foie gras legal again. Meanwhile, a handful of chefs said they will continue to serve the duck and goose liver delicacy -- it just won't appear on the bill. 'The law says we can't charge for it. It doesn't say we can't give it away,' said Michael Tsonton, chef and partner at Copperblue. The ban was approved by the City Council in April and implemented Tuesday. Animal rights activists contend that the production of foie gras, which involves force-feeding ducks and geese to enlarge their livers, is inhumane. The lawsuit showed that chefs aren't content muttering in their kitchens about the ban." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/zpu64 ----- 24) Body parts recalled in tainted tissue scandal Fox News "A leading medical firm has quietly recalled hundreds of human tissue products destined for transplants around the nation that were supplied by a North Carolina body parts broker believed to have a tainted history. The broker used an unsterile embalming room to carve up dozens of corpses to procure tissue, a Raleigh funeral home director said Tuesday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration shut down the body broker on Friday, but refuses to say how many people may have received potentially risky tissue." (08/23/06) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,209966,00.html ----- 25) Debate grows on out-of-wedlock laws Christian Science Monitor "In Black Jack, Mo., (pop. 6,792), the city council wrangled last week over precisely how to define a family. In West Virginia, religious conservatives are getting ready to do battle with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over the use of a law that aims to bolster marriage by outlawing 'lewd and lascivious cohabitation.' In North Carolina, a state judge in July ruled unconstitutional a law that states it's illegal for unmarried couples to live together. Still, 1.6 million Americans in seven states are breaking their states' laws for doing just that, according to Unmarried America, a lobbying group for singles' rights based in California. States enforce these morality-based laws -- which can include fornication and 'criminal conversation,' sweet-talking a married woman with a mind toward adultery -- only in select cases, experts say." [editor's note: Let's see now, I've "cohabited" with several women, for periods ranging between one and eight years, in both states where I've established residence since I became of "legal age" -- whoops! One more victimless crime on my docket! - SAT] (08/23/06) http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0823/p03s02-ussc.html ----- 26) Glitch reveals too much on DoE site Boston Globe "Nancy Newark, a Boston lawyer, just wanted to change the phone number listed on the federal government website where she manages her student loans. But when she clicked 'update'on Monday night, she saw someone else's Social Security number, date of birth, and other personal information. She clicked three more times, each time, getting a new person's information -- and enough of it, she said, to commit identity theft. 'How many opportunities were there for how many individuals to be provided with my information?' Newark asked. A federal Department of Education official said yesterday that a routine software upgrade made Sunday night introduced a bug into the system that mixed up the data of different borrowers." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/qu3h7 ----- 27) New Zealand: Porn parade outdraws Santa Claus CNN "Two dozen bare-breasted porn stars paraded on motorcycles and military vehicles down the main street of New Zealand's biggest city on Wednesday after beating efforts by Auckland officials to prevent the promotional stunt. Thousands of people, many of them clicking away with cell phone cameras, lined the street for the parade by male and female porn actors, most semi-clad in black leather, to publicize an erotica show which opens in Auckland later this week." (08/23/06) http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/23/porn.parade.ap/ ----- 28) Rainbow Warrior in French "siege" BBC News [UK] "Angry French fishermen have laid siege to the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior II outside the southern port of Marseille in a row over tuna fishing. About 20 boats surrounded the Greenpeace vessel after it sailed to the area to highlight the alleged over-fishing of red tuna. Port officials have now ruled it cannot enter the harbour because of the risk of public disorder." (08/23/06) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5279158.stm ----- 29) OH: Property owner charged in teen's shooting WBNS-10TV "A man who told police he was annoyed by trespassers at his house considered spooky by local teens was charged Wednesday with shooting and critically wounding a teenager whom authorities say might have been looking for a scare. The 17-year-old girl and her friends got out of their parked car about 10 p.m. Tuesday near the home by Walnut Grove Cemetery and heard what they thought were firecrackers, Worthington Police Chief Mike Mauger said. They got back in the car, went around the block and heard more of what turned out to be gunshots, Mauger said. Allen S. Davis, 40, was charged with five counts of felonious assault. 'He admitted to never calling the police (about trespassers), but it just had been occurring and he got frustrated and he was upset saying someone trespassed on his property and he was protecting his property,' police Lt. Doug Francis said." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/r9jo4 ----- 30) South Africa: Man shoots, kills burglar News 24 "A home owner shot dead a burglar in his house at Sundra near Delmas, Mpumalanga police said on Tuesday. Inspector Thabiso Ncongwane said two men broke into Nicholas Botha's house on Monday morning. Botha was woken up by noise and found the pair trying to steal from him. 'Botha, 38, fired two shots with his 3.57 rifle and [hit] one of the suspects in his chest.' The man died at the scene." (08/22/06) http://tinyurl.com/o7xwk ---------------------------------------------------------- HEALTH-OF-THE-STATE-O-METER, 08/24/06 Reported Civilian Deaths in Iraq: Min - 40,592 ... Max - 45,144 (source: www.iraqbodycount.org) American Military Deaths in Iraq: 2,609 (source: www.antiwar.com/casualties/) ---------------------------------------------------------- Commentary 31) Hillary? Who? National Review by Kathryn Jean Lopez "Move over, Hillary: Russ Feingold is going to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008. For far too long the assumption has been that the former First Lady would be the Dems' obvious pick. The storyline had dynastic flair, plus the sexy-milestone first-woman-president aspect. It had the wronged-woman-coming-out-on-top Style-section and glossy headline opportunities. The idea launched many a Clinton-hater (hey, nothing wrong with that, I'm a card-carrier) book. It was scary while it lasted. But the moment's gone. Enter Sen. Russell Feingold, three-term Democrat from Wisconsin." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/khl8h ----- 32) Environmental what ifs Free Market News Network by Tibor R. Machan "One of the most dangerous trends today, as far as our right to liberty is concerned, is the environmental movement. I am not talking about their worries, of which some are surely justified. But like so many zealous people, environmentalists tend, in the main, to urge greater government powers and invasion of individual rights, especially the right to private property, in support of dealing with their concerns. But if we think about this a bit, it becomes clear that the greatest friend of the environment, including endangered species, is the principle of private property rights. One way to appreciate this fact is by considering what would have happened if in the past the principle had been firmly adhered to." (08/24/06) http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/117/5832/what.asp?nid=5832&wid=117 ----- 33) This panic won't create air safety Boston Globe by Alan Wolfe "Sociologists use the term 'moral panic' to describe a sudden episode of hysterical behavior set off by exaggerated threats and fueled by endlessly reiterated stories of dangerous behavior. Examples include Prohibition and the crusade against marijuana, the Cold War and its quest for communist spies as well as its frenzy of bomb-shelter construction, and charges of sexual abuse associated with recovered memories. I have always been a skeptic of the idea of moral panics. ... But as I read accounts of airport security workers scrutinizing water bottles and banning make up, I wonder whether we are not in the midst of a moral panic that we will later view as wildly overblown. Terrorists are out there; don't get me wrong. But what happens in airport security lines has little to do with protecting innocent people against them." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/ecc2b ----- 34) Conservatives and the courts Future of Freedom Foundation by Sheldon Richman "It is always amusing to watch conservatives react to court decisions they don't like. They were firmly in character last week when Federal District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that the Bush administration broke the law and violated the Constitution when it began wiretapping, without warrants, international phone calls between Americans and 'suspected terrorists.'" (08/23/06) http://www.fff.org/comment/com0608g.asp ----- 35) Downsizing WolfesBlog by Thunder "We're one step closer to a gulch of our very own. We no longer have a mortgage to worry about, our 'house' will be paid for soon and we'll be able to use it while we build the gulch house. I'm also going to pay off my truck and get us almost completely out of debt. It's a win-win for us. No one said it was going to be easy, but damn, it sure is going to be exciting! Freedom is the key: to life, love, and the spirit. And, we just made a huge leap forward down our personal paths to freedom." (08/23/06) http://www.clairewolfe.com/wolfesblog/00002171.html ----- 36) No, Rice Krispies aren't bio-toxic TCS Daily by Gregory Conko "On Friday, Bayer CropScience and the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that traces of an unapproved bioengineered rice variety were found in harvested rice from the nation's southern rice-growing region that includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas. The biotech variety, known as Liberty Link 601, was developed by a company Bayer acquired in 2001. It has an extra gene that makes the rice crop resistant to the Liberty brand of herbicides also produced by Bayer. No one knows how the unapproved rice got into the commercial crop -- at levels equivalent to about 6 of every 10,000 grains in the tested samples. LL601 was field-tested from 1998 to 2001, but it didn't perform as well as some of Bayer's other varieties, and the company never submitted it to regulators for commercial approval. Figuring out how this variety re-surfaced five years later, and how to keep such leaks from happening in the future is a genuine issue that will keep scientists and agronomist busy for years. That's the bad news. The good news is that the new gene in LL601 and the protein it helps to make are known to be perfectly safe for consumers and the environment." (08/24/06) http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=082406C ----- 37) Out for justice The Weekly Standard by Jennifer Chou "Supporters of human rights in China were heartened when, during her recent visit to Beijing, Assistant Secretary of State Ellen R. Sauerbrey urged the Chinese government to release Chen Guangcheng. Chen, a 35-year-old blind legal advocate from the eastern province of Shandong, had incurred the wrath of local officials in June 2005 when he helped villagers file an unprecedented class-action lawsuit. The suit charged health officials with subjecting the villagers to sterilization and forced abortion in order to meet Beijing's birth-control quotas. Assistant Secretary of State Sauerbrey's plea fell on deaf ears. A mere nine days later, on August 18, Chen Guangcheng was tried in a proceeding that, according to his defense lawyers, is itself illegal under Chinese law." (08/24/06) http://tinyurl.com/z5sez ----- 38) Ten righteous states LewRockwell.Com by Michael S. Rozeff "Can we find ten righteous states? Can we find even one? Can we find a state that does not steal? Can we find one that does not make itself an idol, or one that does not dishonor mothers and fathers? Can we find a state that upholds basic canons of justice? And if righteousness and justice are concepts that are too arguable for modern man's skepticism and relativism, then can we find ten states that are benign or benevolent? Can we find even one? Perhaps there is a Liechtenstein, a Monaco, or a Pacific island nation that qualifies or at least approaches benevolence. I do not know. If there are, they can't look anything like the United States, California, Burma, Uganda, Russia, or India." (08/24/06) http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff98.html ----- 39) And the loser is ... everyone AntiWar.Com by Leon Hadar "Since the start of the current Middle East crisis, analysts have been trying to figure out who is responsible for this mess. Who made the crucial decisions that triggered the fighting between the Israeli military and the Hezbollah guerrillas, which has resulted in death of many Israeli and Lebanese civilians and the destruction of villages and urban centers in both countries? And why were these decisions made in the first place? Or to put it in more stark terms: Cui bono? Who benefits from what seems to be, to anyone watching the horrifying images on television, an unwinnable war as well as a major humanitarian crisis?" (08/24/06) http://www.antiwar.com/hadar/?articleid=9599 ----- 40) Why they don't hate us The American Spectator by Christopher Orlet "It doesn't take much research to discover what the world really thinks of America. For example, a 2006 Pew Global Attitudes poll found that only four out of 14 countries surveyed held a favorable opinion of the U.S. Three of the four, however, are liberal democracies: Japan (63 percent favorable), Nigeria (62) Great Britain (56), and India (56). Not surprisingly all five predominately Muslim countries surveyed held highly negative views. Of the remaining five countries France, Germany and Spain, understandably, continue to begrudge the U.S. its power, wealth, prestige, and influence, while China and Russia continue to flip flop, approving of the U.S. one year, and changing their minds the next." [editor's note: Assumptions are interesting things. Orlet notes that unless the US stops subsidizing the existence of Israel (direct US aid to Israel comes to more than $1,500 per year for every Israeli man, woman and child, excluding sweetheart defense deals and other indirect aid) "Muslims will continue to hate America regardless of what we do." Yet he doesn't question the wisdom of the subsidies. He just takes it for granted that "we" should continue them - TLK] (08/24/06) http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10268 ----- 41) Meat is a global warming issue AlterNet by Dan Brook "There are many human activities that contribute to global warming. Among the biggest contributors are electrical generation, the use of passenger and other vehicles, over-consumption, international shipping, deforestation, smoking and militarism. (The U.S. military, for example, is the world's biggest consumer of oil and the world's biggest polluter.) What many people do not know, however, is that the production of meat also significantly increases global warming. Cow farms produce millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane per year, the two major greenhouse gases that together account for more than 90 percent of U.S. greenhouse emissions, substantially contributing to 'global scorching.'" (08/24/06) http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/40639/ ----- 42) Mind matters The American Prospect by Neil Sinhababu "In the seventh chapter of his new book, The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life, Ramesh Ponnuru draws a distinction: 'There is a radical difference that separates both an adult human being and a human embryo from a kitten and a sperm cell. The first two are complete, living human organisms and the second two are not. Yet the party of death ignores that basic difference while making a difference of degree -- the adult's greater age and development of his capacities -- the basis of a radical difference in treatment. To draw distinctions in this way is to violate the most basic canons of justice.' I think that killing the kitten would be worse than killing the embryo. If you agree, dear reader, you stand beside me in the party of death. We don't think the lives of all human organisms have equal value. For my part, I hold that ... the lives of creatures that can think and feel -- regardless of their species -- are of greater value than the lives of creatures that cannot." [editor's note: This is very close to my own "hierarchy of values" on this topic - SAT] (08/23/06) http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=11909 ----- 43) From welfare to poverty Tom Paine by Randy Albelda & Heather Boushey "This week marks the 10th anniversary of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act -- commonly known as 'welfare reform.' The much hailed legislation abolished a cornerstone of the New Deal known as the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program which was criticized for discouraging work. But 10 years later, we know that the program Congress put in its place -- Temporary Assistance to Needy Families -- encouraged work, but many remain in poverty and struggle to make ends meet. Since welfare reform was passed, poor women have moved into jobs in record numbers. In 1996, more than half (54 percent) of low-income mothers with children under 6 years old were in the labor force. By 2002, that share jumped to over two-thirds (67 percent). But the workplace has not adapted to the needs of the millions of new working single mothers." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/qc346 ----- 44) It's not Bush's fault? San Francisco Chronicle by Mark Morford "I get this a lot, from the distraught and Bush-embarrassed right, whenever I happily cough up Dubya's name in a column that would seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with our bumbling, neck-groping disaster of a whimpering leader: Hey (I'm paraphrasing here) you gay-loving yoga pervert communist! What the gosh-golly hell does George W. Bush possibly have to do with (fill in the blank) cancer rates/MS Windows/electric sports cars/Christina Aguilera? Why do you insist on sneaking in little slaps and stabs at the beleaguered monkeyman even when writing about problems and issues that (seemingly) have nothing to do with him -- like, say, iTunes or vibrators or global warming? Why, in other words, do you blame every social ill on Dubya? It's so not fair!" (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/lnux9 ----- 45) Cue the clown music Arizona Republic by Laurie Roberts "They've been gathering all week in the stately wood-paneled courtroom, a swarm of attorneys in dark suits with their paid experts and their PowerPoint presentations and their exhibits. Sixty -- count 'em -- 60 exhibits. All that has been missing are the giant red rubber balls, the ones I'm pretty sure these people wear on their noses when nobody's looking. This, after all, is Maricopa County Superior Court, where this week attorney David Michael Cantor is on trial for contempt. Cantor is the star in everybody's favorite Superior Court comedy: Anybody Seen Our Suspect? He's the lawyer for Muneerah Al-Tarrah, the drunk who hit Todd DeGain last September and left him dead in the street. In October, Judge David Talamante ordered Cantor to hold onto Al-Tarrah's passport amid fears that she might flee to Kuwait. Nine weeks later, she fled to Kuwait. Not only did she still have her passport, she also had her bail money." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/nr3ak ----- 46) US fails on security scorecard Christian Science Monitor by John Hughes "In the movie 'World Trade Center,' Nicolas Cage, playing the role of a real-life police sergeant rushing on 9/11 to the burning Twin Towers that had just been hit, is asked by an accompanying officer what the rescue plan is. 'There is no plan,' he replies grimly. While the various New York emergency forces had planned for more predictable disasters, they were ill-prepared for an aerial Al Qaeda attack on the huge skyscrapers. While much has been done in the five years since 9/11 to plan for another terrorist attack, two of the most credible authorities to speak on the subject fear that Americans are still unprepared in a number of critical areas." (08/23/06) http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0823/p09s02-cojh.html ----- 47) Article points to crisis in paternity judgments Liberty For All by Mike McCormick and Glenn Sacks "Child support enforcement programs are supported by all sides of the political spectrum, from women's advocates on the left to traditionalists on the right. While this popularity is sometimes understandable, it has also allowed glaring and inexcusable abuses to fester and grow. Of these, none is more egregious than when men are forced to pay 18 years of child support for children who are not theirs, and who in many cases they've never even met." (08/23/06) http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=32 ----- 48) Should Coke be banned in India? Ludwig von Mises Institute by Jayant Bhandari "Several provinces in India have recently banned sale of Coca Cola and Pepsi. The reason: they are claimed to contain a higher level of pesticides than is acceptable in Europe. It is as if the cola companies have been adding pesticides to poison Indians. Here is the story. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a top non-governmental organization, has been in the forefront of the environmental movement in India. When CSE came into existence, smoky chimneys were shown around India -- in propaganda and educational material -- as a sign of development." (08/23/06) http://www.mises.org/story/2288 ----- 49) The greatest column Independent Institute by Alvaro Vargas Llosa "Occasionally, I ask myself what the ideal column is. I don't have a definitive answer -- only memories of great columnists. The greatest column of the 20th century was by British journalist Bernard Levin in The Times of London predicting -- in September 1977 -- that communism would fall in 1989." (08/23/06) http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1797 ----- 50) Joe Lieberman and the soul of the GOP The Free Liberal by Paul Gessing "[W]ith Republicans running to embrace Lieberman and Democrats in his own state and in the Senate supporting Lamont, it must be considered what will happen if Lieberman were indeed to maintain control of his Senate seat. It is hard to imagine that Lieberman would want to return to the Democratic Party or even caucus with them -- or that the Democrats would allow him to do so. Thus, there is probably a good chance that Lieberman would either become a Republican or at least caucus with them. What would it mean for Republicans to accept Joe Lieberman as one of their own? Simply put, it would signal the depth of their slavish dedication to their adventure in Iraq at the expense of nearly all other policy areas." (08/23/06) http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002254.html ----- 51) Open letter urges action Heartland Institute by J. Peyton Knight and Myron Bell "Rising energy costs are taking their toll on millions of American households. Price increases for natural gas in particular have created an enormous burden on the over 60 million American homes that depend on natural gas for heating, as well as the 90 percent of new power plants that depend on natural gas. Increased energy production in the Outer-Continental Shelf would lead to lower energy prices and help strengthen the American economy. These are goals that every member of Congress should be fighting to achieve." (08/06) http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=19480 ----- 52) Rocks and powder Slate by Larry Schwartztol "In federal court, crack offenses generate sentences 100 times greater than comparable powder-cocaine crimes. In other words, while it takes 500 grams of cocaine to trigger a five-year mandatory minimum sentence, 5 grams of crack earns the same punishment. Last month, four senators introduced a bill to close that gap. The proposed bipartisan legislation, sponsored by Republicans John Cornyn and Jeff Sessions along with Democrats Mark Pryor and Ken Salazar, would reduce the penalty ratio from 100-to-1 to 20-to-1 by increasing powder penalties slightly while decreasing crack sentences significantly." (08/23/06) http://www.slate.com/id/2148269 ----- 53) Is there a real "pork buster" in Congress? Independent Institute by Winslow T. Wheeler "Ever since there has been a Congress, our national legislators have been directing federal dollars to their states and districts. They believe the spending helps the local economy -- to say nothing of their re-election prospects. The longstanding practice has become so abusive, however, that some politicians are declaring themselves opposed to it. Their reforms vary from duplicitous to sincere, but sadly they all are only cosmetic." (08/23/06) http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1798 ----- 54) Tax cut revenue rewards FreedomWorks by Richard W. Rahn "Many in the Washington establishment were shocked Aug. 17, when the Congressional Budget Office reported a surge of 'unanticipated tax receipts' that will sharply push down this year's deficit. Those who had been proclaiming the Bush tax rate cuts would result in a big reduction in tax revenues tried to hide their disappointment. It was tough being proved wrong again after having said the same thing when Ronald Reagan cut tax rates in the early 1980s." (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/pjgnw ----- 55) The vitiated center Reason by Brian M. Doherty "Two new books detail, and sometimes lament, the recent history of liberal and conservative ideas in America: Eric Lott's The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual and Jeffrey Hart's The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times. Together, they explore the perils and possibilities of radical ideologies in a centrist nation. Lott, a professor of English at the University of Virginia, argues that prominent liberal intellectuals in the Clinton era and beyond have smothered any truly revolutionary leftist radicalism. Hart, a retired Dartmouth English professor and longtime National Review hand, relates the saga of conservatism's flagship magazine along with the history of the American right the magazine shaped." (08/06) http://www.reason.com/0608/cr.bd.the.shtml ----- 56) Forbes' female trouble Slate by Jack Shafer "The blogs entries collected by Technorati accuse Forbes of culling the academic literature for fodder that will shove women back into the kitchen; send them back to the 1950s; and force them to put their biscuits in the oven and get their buns in bed. But I've yet to read a blog item or a protesting e-mail from a reader that convinces me that the article -- as opposed to the deliberately provocative headline -- really insults women, career or otherwise." (08/23/06) http://www.slate.com/id/2148274/fr/rss/ ----- 57) Sabotaging US sovereignty Intellectual Conservative by Alan Caruba "The SPP didn't start out as an idea the presidents of the three nations started kicking around on March 23, 2005 in Waco, Texas, but it became the official policy of the United States at a special summit convened by President Bush and joined by then Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. Like so many really bad foreign policy concepts, SPP owes its origins to the Council on Foreign Relations; in this case, CFR's Task Force on North America. Its report, 'Building a North American Community,' envisions the elimination of U.S. borders in just five years. Like termites eating away at the sovereignty of the United States of America, this grandiose scheme is a major threat to American security and prosperity." [editor's note: By "American security and prosperity," Caruba means "the illusion of control of movement over imaginary lines on the ground by my preferred gang of thugs" - TLK] (08/22/06) http://tinyurl.com/kh9w5 ----- 58) It's time for some government accountability Center For Individual Freedom by staff "Liberals constantly declare that money corrupts, but have you ever heard one acknowledge that government money corrupts even more? After all, at least private entities must answer to shareholders, the public, board members, owners, accountants, customers, numerous government agencies, or other authorities. Moreover, private companies must publish detailed and accurate financial statements, under penalty of government prosecution, as well as frivolous class-action lawsuits." (08/17/06) http://tinyurl.com/fzkr3 ----- 59) Welfare reform is working Acton Institute by Anthony B. Bradley "August 22 marked the tenth anniversary of welfare reform. The 1996 legislation made radical changes to the process of receiving unearned government cash. The results have been massive reductions in child poverty, increases in employment, and a subsequent increase in the freedom of the poor from government control. In the mid-1990s many attempted to incite fear to kill the reforms. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (DNY) proclaimed the 1996 law to be 'the most brutal act of social policy since Reconstruction.'" (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/hhc6v ----- 60) Tide of war turns The Onion by staff "With his highly touted, top-ranked team on the brink of elimination, Secretary Of Defense Donald Rumsfeld delivered an emotional, off-the-cuff barracks pep-talk to his men Monday, inspiring them to mount an offensive surge that just may turn the tide of the contest going into the second half. 'Come on, boys, we're getting shelled out there, and I can't believe the shots they're getting through our defense,' said Rumsfeld, growing in confidence and passion as the speech went on. 'Now, I know they're playing rough, men, and you're hurt, dazed, and demoralized, but there's no way we're gonna let this thing go into overtime, are we! It ain't over yet -- not even close! This is our war! Our war! Our war!' The chanting troops immediately charged out of the barracks and regained possession of 80 percent of Iraq." [satire] (08/23/06) http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51854 ----- 61) "Take Back the Night" for men as well Fox News by Wendy McElroy "Every year, campuses and cities across North America hold 'Take Back the Night' -- marches and rallies to protest violence against women. But surprising data suggests that men may need to reclaim 'the night' as urgently as women." (08/22/06) http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,209863,00.html ----- 62) Gun Control: Rebuttal to James Alan Fox ChronWatch by Howard Nemerov "Guns are not the root cause of our violent society. In fact, the U.S. non-gun homicide rate (3.6 non-gun homicides per 100,000 residents) is double the overall homicide rate in virtually all our kindred nations, including Great Britain, Canada and Australia.' He notes that 'firearms do make violent attacks far more lethal.' And this is also true: Firearms make self-defense more lethal and more costly to the predator. A previous paper noted the accelerated drop in the rate of rape in right-to-carry states 1995-2004. Further corroboration comes from the fact that while the U.S. rate of rape dropped 13% between 1995 and 2004, two countries saw just the opposite trend since enacting their gun bans." (08/22/06) http://tinyurl.com/pkhj2 ----- 63) Mexico approaches combustion point CounterPunch by John Ross "The Congress of the country is ringed by two-meter tall grilled metal barriers soldered together apparently to thwart a suicide car bomb attack. Behind this metal wall, 3000 vizored, kevlar-wearing robocops -- the Federal Preventative Police (PFP, a police force drawn from the army) -- and members of the elite Estado Mayor or Presidential military command, form a second line of defense. Armed with tear gas launchers, water cannons, and reportedly light tanks, this Praetorian Guard has been assigned to protect law and order and the institutions of the republic against left-wing mobs that threaten to storm the Legislative Palace -- or so the President informs his fellow citizens in repeated messages transmitted on national television." (08/23/06) http://counterpunch.org/ross08232006.html ----- 64) What is a Gold Star family? Truthout by Amy Branham "It is sad that during a time of war, so many people do not know what a Gold Star Family is. They have no idea what a Gold Star Mother, Father, Husband, Wife, Sister or Brother is. So many times when I attend rallies, protests or other events, I have to explain what a Gold Star Mom is. So, let me tell you. A Gold Star Family is a family who has lost a much-loved one in a war. It could be World War II, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan. The location doesn't matter. What matters is that these families lost someone they loved, a much-valued member of their family, in a war. To date, there are 2,601 American Gold Star Families from the war in Iraq alone." (08/23/06) http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082306M.shtml ----- 65) The trouble with Star Trek Strike the Root by Alex R. Knight III "The trouble with Star Trek, however, lies in the insistent reliance upon the false framework of the State, even in the futuristic space-traveling universe in which Kirk, Picard, and their respective crews hypothetically exist. That such a debilitating, wasteful, arrogant monstrosity should still exist in a time where men can travel freely among the stars, teleport to and fro at will, and intermingle with beings from other worlds, is to me, an unthinkable horror." (08/23/06) http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/knight/knight1.html ----- RRND MEDIASHELF -------------------------------------------- Books, CDs and other tchotchkes from today's edition: Dead Man Walking, by Sister Helen Prejean http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679751319/rationalrev08-20 The Party of Death, by Ramesh Ponnuru http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1596980044/rationalrev08-20 World Trade Center, movie showtimes and DVD notification http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JOYM/rationalrev08-20 The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual, by Eric Lott http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465041868/rationalrev08-20 The Making of the American Conservative Mind, by Jeffrey Hart http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193385913X/rationalrev08-20 The Road to Serfdom, by FA Hayek http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/022632061/rationalrev08-20 Note: Affiliate links generate commissions for RRND's editors. -------------------------------------------- RRND MEDIASHELF ---- Audio and Video 66) Thomas L. Knapp on Freedom Rings Freedom Rings Thomas L. Knapp, publisher of Rational Review and founder of the Boston Tea Party, appears on "Freedom Rings" with Kenneth John. 9-10 a.m. CST, Monday, 08/28/06, on WRMN 1410 AM, Elgin, IL, or via webcast. http://www.freedomrings.net/ ----- 67) Black operation Free Market News Network "FMNN Constitution Analyst Noel Gibeson expands on his latest 9/11 article." [stream or MP3] (08/06) http://www.fmnn.com/eRadioLaunch.asp?rid=764 ----- 68) Free Talk Live, 08/23/06 Free Talk Live "Marines being involuntarily recalled! / Return of the Draft? / Garnishment Correction / Pushing the Sleeping Giant / Padilla Update / DCF is Bat Crazy! / British Teachers and Dentists / Was the British terror plot fake? / Editing Error / Free State Bound / Crazy Mom / Bigots Then and Now / Useless Bureaucrats." [MP3 format] (08/23/06) http://media.libsyn.com/media/ftl/FTL2006-08-23.mp3 ----- 69) Freedomain Radio #380 Freedomain Radio "An introduction to philosophy, part 3: Epistemology." With host Stefan Molyneux. [MP3 format] (08/23/06) http://tinyurl.com/ez649 Movement News & Events 70) Mont Pelerin Society Essay Competition Mont Pelerin Society thru 10/31/06 "This competition is open to Africans living in Africa, aged 30 years or below on 12/31/06. Participants must submit an essay of 1000-1500 words [on one of three titles from Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom]. Entries submitted by email attachment. Entry deadline 10/31/06. Results will be posted by 01/14/07. Everyone submitting an essay by the deadline will receive a free copy of the CD "Ideas for a Free Society." The authors of the best two submissions will receive a fully funded invitation to attend the Mont Pelerin Special Meeting in Nairobi, 02/25/07-02/28/07. 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