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Six Myths About Libertarianism dd   Six Myths About Libertarianism by Murray N. Rothbard This article, first published in Modern Age, 24, 1 (Winter 1980), pp. 9-15, as "Myth and Truth About Libertarianism," is based on a paper presented at the April 1979 national meeting of the Philadelphia Society in Chicago. The theme of the meeting was "Conservatism and Libertarianism." LIBERTARIANISM is the fastest growing political creed in America today. Before judging and evaluating libertarianism, it is vitally important to find out precisely what that doctrine is, and, more particularly, what it is not. It is especially important to ...

THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE Number 155, January 7, 2002 THE BRIGHT AND THE BLEAK The Winter of Our Discontent by L. Neil Smith lneil@lneilsmith.com Special to Net Planet News Winter has come to the United States of West America. Days are dark, nearly as short as they're going to get, and cold. A bitter wind blows down from the Wyoming plains, having arrived there from Siberia. It's winter for the cause of liberty, too. Religious criminals have dealt a shattering blow to the heart of the nation's principal city. Politicians, instead of trying to discover who really did it, or ...

China court indicts Hong Kong trader for imported Bibles HONG KONG (Reuters) - A court in China's Fujian province has issued an "evil cult" indictment to a Hong Kong businessman for transporting Bibles into China and may hand him a death sentence, a Hong Kong rights group said on Saturday. &nbsp The court in the city of Fu Qing said Hong Kong trader Li Guangqiang had "used an evil cult to damage a law-based society", the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said in a statement. &nbsp Li Guangqiang in April and May 2000 took 33,000 bibles in two ...

A Nearly Perfect Analogy by Jack Glaab &nbsp Zeitgeist defininition from the American Heritage Dictionary n.German. The spirit of the time; the taste and outlook characteristic of a period or generation &nbsp &nbsp What a wonderful tool language is. Included in the word zeitgeist are many useful building blocks for those of us who would change the minds of our countrymen. Zeitgeist, if you will, is a snapshot of the present moment without awareness of the past or regard for the future. And the perfect description of the way our countrymen "see" their environment. &nbsp With that introduction please rent ...

<p>SANTA ANA -- Orange County police chiefs met secretly Wednesday and unanimously approved a policy that encourages officers to accept cards issued by the Mexican government as identification for people stopped for minor offenses.</p> <p>The cards, called "matricula consular," are available to Mexican nationals who are in the United States either legally or illegally. The cards will help illegal immigrants unable to obtain other common identification cards issued in the United States.</p>

Studios USA’s 'Crossing Over with John Edward' will attempt to communicate with victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in several episodes planned for the November sweeps for the syndicated and, perhaps, cable runs of the show. &nbsp Steve Rosenberg, the studio’s domestic syndication president, anticipating concerns by viewers, says the shows 'will be done tastefully…and won't be exploitative,' and notes that the idea grew after relatives of victims first approached Edward, not the other way around. &nbsp The show, that airs on WCBS-TV New York and other stations nationwide, as well as on the Sci-Fi cable channel, is premised ...

Those who fear Russia are easily mocked. "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming," is on video. Watch it and laugh. Concern about communist subversion is also mocked. All you have to do is remember what a bad egg Joseph McCarthy was, if you remember at all. To allay any lingering doubt or fear, go to Russia and take the KGB tour. See all the rusting submarines and missile boats you want. You can even see rusty signs in front of Russia's ABM radar at Sofrino. &nbsp If you subscribed to "National Review" when it was still under the ...

(note the time and date of this post): RE: Condit "interview" by Chung. Ten bucks says Condit turns on the waterworks and bawls like a woman during his "interview" this evening, in an attempt to gain sympathy/appear pathetic/victimly...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's attorney general has filed lawsuits against a television psychic hot line for allegedly violating the state's no-call law and consumer fraud. &nbsp "Miss Cleo should have seen this coming," Attorney General Jay Nixon said. "It doesn't take a crystal ball to realize that ripping off consumers isn't without consequences." &nbsp Nixon filed two suits Tuesday against Access Resources Services Inc., a Florida company best-known for promoting Miss Cleo's tarot psychic reading. &nbsp Speaking with a Caribbean accent, Miss Cleo appears in national television commercials promising insights into love, money and other personal matters. &nbsp ...

By L. Neil Smith lneil@ezlink.com &nbsp I had an argument a few days ago with my brother, a police officer who agrees with me on firearms ownership (we're for it) and on capital punishment. (We're against it -- no government should have the power to kill its people, a point he startled me by volunteering). &nbsp Despite a refreshing outlook on this and other issues, my brother sees nothing wrong with stopping you or me, in his official capacity, and expecting to be presented with some document establishing that the government approves of our existence. This, although he grew up ...

Water balloon hijinks result in assault charge Teacher 'was wet' &nbsp Chris Wattie National Post A high school student in Southwestern Ontario has been charged with assault with a weapon for throwing a water balloon at a teacher on the last day of school. &nbsp The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be identified under provisions of the Young Offenders Act, was charged after he lobbed a water-filled balloon at a group of fellow students standing outside a portable classroom at a London, Ont., high school. &nbsp "A teacher then walked out of her portable to talk to the students," said Constable ...

MIDDLESEX - A helicopter was whomp-whomp-whomping overhead when men with guns drawn surrounded Glen Coberly's tomato patch about noon Wednesday and ordered him to the ground. &nbsp Coberly said Thursday he was picking bad tomatoes off the vines and throwing them in the yard when the dark green unmarked helicopter started circling. &nbsp About three or four minutes later, a number of people and a couple of police cars converged on his house, on Route 624 near Topping. &nbsp Coberly said he wasn't sure how many people were there; he guessed 10 to 12, but Sheriff Guy Abbott said there ...

The world's leading industrialised countries agreed a set of rules to implement the Kyoto Protocol on climate change yesterday but were immediately accused of creating a "watered-down" version of the 1997 treaty. &nbsp The deal, which came at 10am after four days of intense talks in Bonn and an all-night negotiating session, went some way to repairing the chaos created by the collapse of last year's talks in The Hague and the withdrawal four months later by the US. &nbsp But Kate Hampton, climate campaigner of Friends of the Earth International, said: "The price of success has been high. The ...

**Exclusive** In a new film set for release on Friday director Tim Burton turns beloved American President Abraham Lincoln -- into an Ape! &nbsp MORE &nbsp Burton has filmed a shock scene that turns the Lincoln Memorial in the Nation's Capital from a tribute to the nation's 16th president to a shrine dedicated for an ape lord. &nbsp TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX executives began screening PLANET OF THE APES over the weekend. Scenes depicting Lincoln as ape raised eyebrows. &nbsp In the film, Lincoln's head on the statue is replaced with an ape head. &nbsp "It's another attempt by Hollywood's elite ...

A top IRS official offered to meet with hunger-striker Bob Schulz and others who believe most Americans are not legally required to pay income taxes, but Schulz turned down the offer since the agency did not want audio or video recordings made of the meeting,an activist group said. &nbsp Schulz and Oklahoma businessman Roland Croteau have vowed to eat nothing and drink only water until the IRS produces a list of government officials that will meet this fall in a public forum to discuss a theory that income taxes are illegal and the 16th Amendment was fraudulently ratified. &nbsp The ...

Writing in the Washington Times for June 15th, defense and national security reporter Bill Gertz revealed that Communist Chinese military forces were participating as observers in a U.S. mine-sweeping exercise begun the previous day in waters near Singapore. It was the first joint U.S.-China military activity since April, when a Chinese F-8 interceptor collided with a U.S. EP-3 surveillance aircraft, forcing the latter to make an emergency landing on China?s Hainan Island. According to Gertz, Chinese participation (along with more than a dozen other nations) in the Singapore-sponsored Western Pacific Mine Countermeasures Exercise was approved by Defense Secretary Donald H. ...