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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 28 May 2001 12:22:28 GMT
Short issue today. I have lots to do.

Matrushkas is a sequence of pictures of the nested Russian dolls that I bought in Lviv for my daughter. Round about 400K of pictures with links to larger versions.

Russell Madden at Laissez Faire City Times - How Big Mama Turned Rights into "Privileges": reflections on Mr. Madden's visit to the sherriff's office to apply for a permit to carry concealed.

In "The Nature of Government," Ayn Rand wrote:

"Under a proper social system, a private individual is legally free to take any action he pleases (as long as he does not violate the rights of others), while a government official is bound by law in his every official act. A private individual may do anything except that which is legally forbidden; a government official may do nothing except that which is legally permitted" [emphases in original] (The Virtue of Selfishness, pp. 109-110).

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How much longer will you beg for permission to exist from the Nanny State that cares only for itself?

It's time to sever the apron strings, once and for all.

Julian Coman at the Electronic Telegraph - Legalisation brings bureaucracy to oldest profession in the world: Holland has legalized prostitution and is now killing it with a thousand small bureaucratic cuts. The workers are asking for return of the status quo (illegal but overlooked). [grabbe]

Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk - The Appropriations Process Poses a Risk to American Taxpayers: once again congress has given Klinton even more pork than he requested. The federal budget for 2001 is nearly 2 trillion dollars. As I've said before, it should be only 2 billion dollars, and I find it hard to give them even that much of my money.

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