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Bushwhacked!In 1555, Nostradamus wrote:
Come the millennium, month 12,
In the home of greatest power,
The village idiot will come forth
To be acclaimed the leader.
Libertarian Party - Holiday 'Grinch' taxes gobble up 41% of your travel costs: speaking of the Grinch stealing Christmas. The LP reminds us of how much of our hard-earned cash is eaten by various taxes.
| Item | Taxed Price | Untaxed Price | Potential Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plane Ticket | $400 | $240 | 40% |
| Hotel Room | $80 | $45.60 | 43% |
| Restaurant Meal | $50 | $36.20 | 27.6% |
| Tank of Gas | $20 | $9.80 | 54% |
| Bottle of Liquor | $20 | $5.60 | 72% |
Tom Gibb at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - High court casts doubt on searches at bus stops: Another blow against nazi tactics used to search for drugs. [unknown]
"They probably ought not to do that," said Thomas Crawford, a Pittsburgh attorney representing Turner. "People are citizens. You can't just board a bus and say, 'Stop, identify your luggage. Sieg heil!'"
Tim McCall at Cryptome - New book on encryption technology vs. NSA from Steven Levy, author of Hacker: a review of Steven Levy's new book, Crypto: When the Code Rebels Beat the Government-Saving Privacy in the Digital Age, to be released on January 8, 2001. Sounds like a good one. [grabbe]
There's a new article in The Libertarian series by Vin Suprynowicz:
- Thousands for overhead... hardly a cent for textbooks - of the $4,800 per student per year that Nevada budgets for education, only $100.53 is for supplies, e.g. textbooks. Hence, they're now sharing textbooks, so noone can take them home. Another good argument for the separation of school and state.
Joseph Sobran at LewRockwell.com - Accuracy and Other Illusions: why the problem with this year's election had nothing to do with accurately counting votes. The problem is a government that has grown too powerful. [lew]
A popular vote may provide a useful mode of succession. It may be preferable to hereditary rule or to a raw, violent struggle for power. But it can't authorize a government to expand its powers beyond the bounds of natural justice. It can't justify taxing some people for the benefit of others. The majority has no more right to rob the minority than to exterminate it....
When your real problem is constitutional, you can't solve it by improving methods of counting votes.
The Java Telnet Application/Applet: a 100% Java terminal emulator and Telnet/SSH protocol handler. I haven't tried it. [meat]
