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Arbitrary Arrest by Bob Murphy If there?s one thing you can count on in this world, it?s that LewRockwell.com will show you how the most popular and apparently innocuous government actions are in fact sinister. So that?s why I?m going to devote this article to defending sex offenders from a particularly ominous encroachment of State power. My point of departure is a January 25 article in the Long Island Newsday entitled, "After Time Served, More Time," from which I quote extensively: Saying that women and children need protection from sexual predators inclined to strike again once they?re released from prison,...

Teen shot by DEA agents in case of mistaken identity ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday, February 10, 2003 SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A 14-year-old San Antonio girl was shot by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents who were attempting to make an arrest in what was later determined to be a case of mistaken identity, a police spokesman said. The girl was in critical condition Monday at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Tech Sgt. Steve Elliott, a spokesman for the U.S. Air Force hospital, told The Associated Press on Monday. A woman who answered the phone at the DEA field office in San Antonio...

It's not the left that is sounding some of the harshest criticism against the president's tactics in fighting the war on terrorism, it's many of the nation's most solid Republican conservatives. So says Michelle Goldberg, writing for Salon.com, claiming that "rock-ribbed" Republican conservatives are the "newest, most outspoken critics of the war on terrorism and Iraq." While the administration isn't surprised when it's being assailed by left-wingers for what liberals claim are increasingly draconian assaults on civil liberties, it has been surprised by a similar chorus from more and more members of the traditional right wing. Goldberg cites such prominent...

The Republicans regained control of the Senate and now hold all top positions in the federal government. The chest pounding has begun by Republican leadership and conservative pundits alike as the death of liberalism is announced and the dawn of a new Conservative Era is hailed. We're promised lower taxes, more conservative judges, stronger defense, less abortion and what? What is the Republican agenda? Should it not be to stand against anything that would increase the size, power or scope of the federal government? Are not those conservative, i.e. Republican principles? Republicans have promised for years that they would begin...

There was a headline on Drudge recently that contained a strong hint of the coming storm: Song Mocking Schroeder Tops German Pop Charts... It?s about the lies and broken promises of the head of state in Germany, Europe?s strongest nation. Herr Schroeder claimed he was going to cut taxes and get control of the kleptocracy - he sounded much like Clinton in fact. Now his erstwhile German supporters are publicly mocking him. The fabric is coming unraveled in Europe, in the United States, South America, all over the world. Wherever men sought to worship government as their god, their god...

This past Saturday in the New York Times, John J. Miller condemned Libertarians for taking votes away from Republicans and allowing Democrats to win important elections. He cited three recent U.S. Senate races in which Libertarian candidates won more votes than the margin of victory for the Democrats. And he said: Libertarians are now serving, in effect, as Democratic Party operatives. The next time they wonder why the Bush tax cuts aren't permanent, why Social Security isn't personalized and why there aren't more school-choice pilot programs for low-income kids, all they have to do is look in the mirror. Perhaps...

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger ...

You see it in daycare centers, and you see it in the public schools, from kindergarten to high school. Group projects abound, shoving together individuals who have no formal bonds, yet are banded together for the purpose of collective decision-making.Universities, both public and private, are not immuneto this affliction. In fact, if you attend a business college today, you'll think it'sthe newest rage, but it's been the rule for decades. Most university programs may not use group projects, but undergraduate and graduate programs in business are full of them. It is our contention that group projects are criminal in themselves ...

TIJUANA -- Baja California residents will soon be asked to trade their illegal firearms for coupons worth as much as $100 toward food products and alarm systems. Private ownership of guns is technically illegal in Mexico, but local authorities estimate up to 80 percent of Tijuana's households have guns bought on the black market for protection. These unregistered firearms are being blamed for increasing numbers of crimes and accidents. "The citizens have made it clear that they want to be armed, despite legislation to the contrary, and this forced us to look for ways to encourage them to turn ...