Conan the Republican
A Letter to Our Government - hilarious satire. [stanleyscoop]
Dear Sir,
My friend, Ed Peterson, over at Wells, Iowa, received a check for $1,000 from the government for not raising hogs. So I want to go into the "not raising hogs" business next year. What I want to know is, in your opinion, what is the best kind of farm not to raise hogs on, and what is the best breed of hogs not to raise?
Edgar J. Steele - In Defense of Racism: Part 7 - The Price of Empire - I didn't like most of this essay, but I'm linking to it for the following paragraph, which I do like.
Most are unable to see trends until they have passed. Forests and trees, and all that. But we can certainly see other forests. Just as we can see other empires and thereby know what lies ahead for America. But most people won't. That's why middle America will not march on Washington next week and hang all the politicians from lampposts, as it should.
Dean Weingarten at The Libertarian Enterprise - Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken - a review of Mr. Bracken's rocking novel. [tle]
Read this book. Pass it on to friends. Distribute it at gun shows. Buy lots of copies. I will.
William Stone, III at The Libertarian Enterprise - Professional Paranoid, Part III - our own government is the terrorist organizataion most dangerous to most Americans. Why our so-called "leaders" are evil and why we can, mostly, safely ignore them. [tle]
The statistical likelihood of being killed in a car accident is very low in the United States. The chance of being killed in a terrorist attack is far closer to 0% than 1%. However, it is literally a 100% certainty that you will be a victim of government policies.
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Who, then, is the true enemy of freedom in the United States? Terrorists who haven't struck in two years and only three times previously in the entire history of the United States? Or evil, power-mad politicians who spend all their waking hours scheming and taking away as many freedoms as they possibly can--every single day?
Jesse Walker at Counterpunch Loving the Man in Black - "Everybody loves Johnny Cash," says Mr. Walker. [grabbe]
Joseph Hall, Michelle Shephard and Tim Harper at The Toronto Star - Revered Muslim cleric held in U.S. - a Canadian Imam, who is outspoken about avoiding extremism, was arrested on September 11 and held until September 12. To quote Monty Python, "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition." [grabbe]
Ahamad Kutty, who has preached tolerance and peace throughout North America for more than two decades, was ordered off his Orlando-bound flight from Toronto and interrogated in an airport holding cell and a local jail for 16 hours as the U.S. marked the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
He has been declared a risk to national security.
