Wind Power - Butler Shaffer on the language of politics. - "Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."  ~ George Orwell
None of Your Business! - Ron Paul on the overly-intrusive aspects of the current National Census
The Lynch-Mob Mentality - At least Salem witch hunters gave pretenses of trials before burning their fellow citizens at the stake.  Article by Glenn Greenwald.
Mark Twain: Literary Libertarian - Jeff Tucker on Samuel Clemens.
The Neoconservative Empire - Ron Paul on the US warfare state. (although this speech was given 3 years agao, it rings as true today as then.)
Could All the Freezing Weather Lately Have Anything to Do With Climate Change?
Offend Obama? - He can imprison you forever, without charges, in secret. Article by Glenn Greenwald.
NSA beats warrantless wiretap rap - Because it took in a nation of millions.  Also check out my reading of "Obama's Black Widow - Bush's legacy to telecommunications?" in the list of Roadkill Reports at - http://kurtericson.com/txroadkill/roadkillshow/#Armadillo_Roadkill_Report
Jim Quinn's "The Burning Platform" - this guy has some really good thoughts on the state of America and the world in general.
Secure your checked bags -- fly with a gun
COLD WEATHER SURVIVAL GUIDE - Would you know how to survive on your own in the kind of extreme environment faced by the Ice Road Truckers every day?
Dave Barry's year in review: 2009 - Good Riddance to 2009 - But at least we can laugh (he's really out-done himself with this one :-)
Strange Days Indeed - I'm calling this damnable decade over and done with first thing Friday morning...I say good riddance to bad rubbish.
Have Americans Traded Freedom for Security? - With stunning insouciance, Americans have given up the rule of law that protected their liberty. The silence of law schools and bar associations indicates that the age of liberty has passed. In short, the American people support tyranny. And that’s where they are headed.
Welcome to Orwell’s World 2010 - In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that "passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’."
America's Looming Class War - The regime vs. the rest of us. Article by Mark Crovelli (I could not have stated my feelings about the current administration to me Republocrat friends better or more succinctly)
FOUNDING FATHERS OF OUR NEW COUNTRY - a long but excellent piece about the foundations of our country.  Well worth the read.