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Leading Humanity out of the Darkness, Part 1

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 The ancient Chinese symbol for “crisis” perfectly depicts the situation currently facing the American people. That symbol was actually composed of two separate symbols. One was the symbol for “danger” and the other was the symbol for “opportunity.” The danger we face as Americans comes in the form of a perfect storm, a storm composed of the U.S. government’s warfare state and the U.S. government’s welfare state. The danger posed by this storm constitutes the greatest threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people in our lifetime, and possibly in the history of our country. Consider, first of all, the warfare state. We now live in a country in which the government wields the power to assassinate people, including its own citizens, After all, that’s what they’re doing in places such as Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, and who knows where else. They’re assassinating people whom the military ...

Hornberger’s Blog, June 2010

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010 The Silence of the Gun-Control Crowd While the gun-control crowd is going bananas over the fact that state and local governments are not constitutionally permitted to ban private ownership of handguns, they are remaining mute over a killing that took place in an apartment in Forestville, Maryland, on the same day that the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the Chicago gun-ban case. According to the Washington Post, a maintenance man shot and killed an intruder in his apartment. The maintenance man, who remains unidentified, had confronted the intruder as he was trying to force a woman into her apartment. The intruder forced the maintenance man into the maintenance man’s apartment, where the shoot-out occurred. The intruder shot at the maintenance man but missed, and the maintenance man, who was able to reach his gun, returned fire and shot the intruder, who later died at the hospital. If they weren’t remaining mute about this shooting, what would the ...

Libertarians versus Liberals and Conservatives

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As I stated in yesterday’s blog post, both conservatives and liberals are using the Rand Paul controversy as a springboard to attack libertarianism in general. One almost gets the feeling that during the past several years, as the libertarian movement has been growing by leaps and bounds, a lot of pent-up anti-libertarian emotion has been building up within the statist community and that it has finally erupted as a result of the Rand Paul controversy. Why do liberals and conservatives resent libertarians so much? For liberals, it has to do with facing reality. For conservatives, it has to do with facing the life of the lie. For decades, liberals have maintained a big delusion with respect to economics. For example, convincing themselves that the Great Depression was caused by America’s free-enterprise system, they then convinced themselves that Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs were simply free-enterprise reforms that saved America’s free-enterprise system. Actually, the reality is that it wasn’t free enterprise that brought ...

Is the Peace Movement Finally Awakening?

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What America needs most today is a peace movement, a broad-based coalition that opposes not only the American empire’s operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (as well as less overt activities elsewhere), but also their attendant accretion of presidential power, which diminishes or eliminates civil liberties and the traditional protections accorded criminal suspects. Unfortunately, there have been impediments to the ...