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News and Opinion Archive

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)
Obama Is Disappearing Our Freedoms - An interview with Nat Hentoff.
Worse Than War Criminals: Fred Reed on Santa and the elves
Global Warming? - Hockey Puck vs. Ice Core Samples - James Delingpole on the one YouTube Algore doesn’t want you to watch.
Bailed-Out AIG Forcing Poor to Choose Between Running Water and Food - Thanks to AIG, some of the poorest residents of rural Kentucky learned you can always be made poorer by corporate villains.
Homeland Security Embarks on Big Brother Programs to Read Our Minds and Emotions - Half-baked Homeland Security is spending millions to develop sensors capable of detecting a person's level of 'malintent' as a counterterrorism tool.
Are Americans a Broken People? Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression - A psychologist asks: Have consumerism, suburbanization and a malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down that we no longer have the will to save ourselves?
Brave New World 2009 - We live in a world startlingly similar to the one described in the classic Aldous Huxley novel.  Commentary by Jim Quinn.
Mowing the Sward of Damocles - Fred Reed on current news, June 14, 2009. Funny stuff.
Global Warming: 'Fixing the Climate Data Around the Policy'
Prefabricated Fascists: The FBI’s Assembly-Line Provocateurs
No Rose-Colored Glasses - Don Cooper on seeing the regime as it is.
Edgar Allan Poe, Virginian - Dave Franke on what you don't know about the great Southern writer.
Judicial Terrorism: The State vs. Robert and Danille Kahre
Q&A With Jesse Ventura - On conspiracy theories, being the Gov., pro-wrestling, and more.
Practical Internet Privacy – Paul Green on what you need to know now.
NATIVE AMERICANS CALL FOR DEPORTATION OF 299 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS - from Paul Krassner's Ironic Times
LIBERTARIAN HUMOR - You might be a libertarian if you believe...
"If you think 99 percent of politicians give the rest of them a bad name, you might be a Libertarian."
15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams - Are we nearing a tipping point as rapacious elites push a heavily armed populace too far?
Authoritarian USA - Counterinsurgency war tactics are being used in our neighborhoods.
Don't Make It Easy for Spies and Hackers - It takes five minutes to make your passwords unbreakable.
What Have You Got To Hide? - Probably plenty, and you had better start doing it.
The Rabbit Hole - Don Cooper on what the heck happened to America.
The Relentless War on Drug Users Is Escalating Violence in the US: It's Time for Harm Reduction - Hundreds gather in Albuquerque to celebrate a new dawn of wider acceptance of drug reform, while still feeling a little nervous about the path ahead.
When Dictatorship Came to America - a very different view of President Lincoln
Cancer in the Skies, by Becky Akers - An article which might make you want to consider the train or bus rather than flying...
Forget Columbus, Magellan, Cook - Chinese Admiral Zheng was the real great discoverer.
U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets - CIA Buys Another Front Company. 
This time, to track blogs, tweets, Amazon book reviews.
A Few Good Kids? - How the No Child Left Behind Act allowed military recruiters to collect info on millions of unsuspecting teens
6 Signs That the American Empire Is Coming to an Early End - The day of America's global pre-eminence is over. We must face the new global realities.
Our Economy Was a Scam and Now We're Dead Broke - America is broke. And the easy credit, phantom "growth" economy has been exposed for what it was: a credit scam.
The American Idea - It's distrust of government, not redistribution of wealth, says Walter Williams.
LAPD’s ‘Orwellian’ anti-terror ads creeping out viewers
After the Billionaires Plundered Alabama Town, Troops Were Called in ... Illegally - "We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all," says one Goldman Sachs adviser. But tell that to the people of Samson, Ala.
US Joins Ranks of Failed States - The government pays $400/gal for gas, but we can't find a way to get decent health care for everyone.
This ONE Action Keeps Brain Function at Its Peak...
War Is Peace. Ignorance Is Strength - Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to his impressive record
Have we entered a Libertarian era?
The Menace from U.N.C.L.E. - INTERPOL AND U.N. BACK ‘GLOBAL POLICING DOCTRINE’
The US Police State Arms Against You - With even more advanced weaponry.
Swiss Health Care Thrives Without Public Option -  Like every other country in Europe, Switzerland guarantees health care for all its citizens.
Martial Law Is Their Business – and Business Sure Is Swell
'You Can’t Do This to People': Robin McDermott’s Resistance
Helot on Wheels - Do you think your Constitutional right apply when you're driving?  Think again...
Checklist for Hard Times - an excellent list of essential items
New Government Policy Imposes Strict Standards on Garage Sales Nationwide - Americans who slap $1 pricetags on their used possessions at garage sales or bazaar events risk being slapped with fines of up to $15 million, thanks to a new government campaign.
'Contempt of Cop' - sometimes, the worst crime of all
76 Reasons To Have a Gun - some very good arguments for gun ownership
10 Secrets Your Dentist Doesn't Want You To Know
Ignore Government Flu Hysteria - Just build up your body's immune-system defenses.
Heroic Police Electro-Torture, Humiliate Double Amputee
No Place Else To Go - Mike Gaddy on where we must take our stand.
Group calls scent ID evidence 'junk' - Innocence Project says it will release report detailing cases in which innocent people were arrested after scent ID lineups.
Nuclear No-Contest - It's the power of the future, unless we want the dark, says James P. Hogan
Eight Spelling Mistakes Even Smart People Make - English is a screwy language. There’s just no logic to it.
Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Products: Find Out What's in the Stuff You Use - At HealthyStuff.org, consumers can find over 15,000 test results on over 5,000 common items including pet products, back-to-school items, children's toys, and cars.
A Recipe for Disaster: School Cops Are Being Armed with 50,000-Volt Tasers - Tasers aren't 'nonlethal'; they've killed hundreds. With younger people being especially vulnerable to the Taser's shock, the risks could be very deadly.
Quietly Building the Totalitarian State in America - With the Full Complicity of the Big Media
Natural Law Provides the Answers - "The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions... "
20 most bizarre Craigslist adverts of all time - Craigslist, the anarchic classifieds website, has developed a reputation for hosting some of the oddest adverts on the internet
50 things that are being killed by the internet - The internet has wrought huge changes on our lives – both positive and negative – in the fifteen years since its use became widespread
The Great Fakeroo Recovery - Lew Rockwell on "prosperity" through the printing press
Vegas dreamers go all in - Feeling down and out about the economy?  You're not alone
Living In Beverly Hills - Or at least that's what we thought ;)  An excellent article on where the American 'standard of living' went wrong.  It includes many very useful graphs.
The Drug War Is Working - For the government and its pals. Article by Wilt Alston
Obama To Seize Control of Internet - When he declares an "emergency."
Democratic Health Care Bill Divulges IRS Tax Data
Is 'Friending' in Your Future? Better Pay Your Taxes - Tax deadbeats are finding someone actually reads their MySpace and Facebook postings: the taxman.
Reverse Aging: Easier Than You Think - A landmark experiment suggests reverse aging needn't be relegated to the realm of science fiction.
Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts? - Before throwing you in a cell at the airport, and then lying about why we put you there?
Democracy Going Dark: The Electronic Police State - The FBI's Multi-Billion "High-Tech Surveillance" Program
The Obama Needle Stick - Government Flu Vaccine Gives Its Victims a Deadly Nerve Disease
It Turned My Children into Hallucinating, Sobbing Wrecks - Tamiflu
Americans: Serfs Ruled by Oligarchs - Paul Craig Roberts on the USSA.
How To Get Rich . . . and Why - by Gary North
And the Surveillance Society Marches On - We've been living in a surveillance society for years.
Posse Comitatus Act: R.I.P. - The Pentagon has approached Congress to grant the Secretary of Defense the authority to post almost 400,000 military personnel throughout the United States.
Big Brother may be watching you… - Again
Turning the US Army Against Americans - Is this a military dictatorship?
The Plague of Punitive Populism - It's KGB-Gestapo Time.  Will Grigg on the police state.
For the Sixty-Fourth Time: No More Nuclear War - Reflections on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Our World
Monumentally Tragic Disappointment on the Horizon - Don't Believe the Media.  Far worse is ahead of us.
Fred Admits Journalistic Dishonesty About Mexico - He told the truth about Mexico, for which he profoundly apologizes.
Privacy in America Is Dead - Are We Crazy?  Privacy is almost dead in America, says Gary Barnett.
Saving Our Brave, New World - It's the End of the World as We Know It, And Butler Shaffer feels fine.
Shouldn't Read the News. I Really Shouldn't. -   Buoyant Cannibals - Fred Reed on US war criminals
Cops “Justified” in Taser Attack on Disabled Man - a deaf and mentally disabled 37-year-old man
The Cheney plan to deploy the U.S. military on U.S. soil - something which the Constitution forbids
ANIMAL FARM - 2009 - Jim Quinn on just how Orwellian the Unites States has become
NEVER Believe Uncorroborated Police Testimony - an incident last August in Philadelphia
Murder, Inc. - That should not be another name for America, says Eric Margolis.
If Only Walter Cronkite Had Left His Integrity Behind - The greatest sorrow in marking Cronkite's death is recognizing that the media has replaced his wisdom with pontification. The Enthusiastic War Bride  - War Is Organized Crime.  It wrecks others countries and us, says Bill Buppert.
Big Pharma Bribes Doctors to Hook Your Kids on Drugs - Americans must start to question the legitimacy of the exploitative pharmaceutical-industrial complex and the predatory people atop them.
Liberty and Safety - The American Police State: Andrew Napolitano on our former civil liberties.
Spies In the Classroom: The Government Is Running a Secretive Intelligence Recruitment Program in Schools - The "Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program" may become a permanent budget item, making universities unwitting agents of state intelligence
Flag Waving Is Not My Kind of Patriotism - Bob Higgs on being an actual patriot.
Independence and Liberty - We're losing both, says Anthony Gregory, but it need not be so.
"More Better Faster!": How Our Spastic Digital Culture Scrambles Our Brains - The digital communications apparatus is crowding out deeper relationships and more deliberative modes of thinking.
Basic Premises - Charley Reese's Basic Premises - a newspaperman rather than a shill for the regime.
Obama Contemplates Executive Order for Detention Without Charges - Proof of guilt? In 21st-century America, there is no longer any need for such annoyances
Question Authority: Always and Forever Hereafter - Be the resistance, says Bill Buppert.
Time to Take the Tasers Away - more stories of the police abuse of taser weapons
An American 'Yezhovschina'? - String Up the Barbed Wire and Sharpen the Guillotine
There are haters in our midst.  (A real blood-boiler about Soviet-style supression of political dissent)
The Lone Truthteller - Ron Paul is the lone dissenter on the vote for further military funding.
Back in the U.S.S.A. - Peter Schiff on what the Obama financial "reforms" really mean.  "Obama proposes to entrust the critical job of “systemic risk regulator” to the Federal Reserve, the very organization that has proven most adept at creating systemic risk. This is like making Keith Richards the head of the DEA."
Intriguing Plan in Michael Moore's Home Town: Bulldoze the Ghost 'Burbs, Return Them to Nature - Concept of razing post-industrial "rust belt" empty neighborhoods draws interest in Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities.
No More Murderous Rip-Offs - Ron Paul on war spending.
The American Empire Is Bankrupt - This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency.
Economic Fallout Has Spurred an Epidemic of Murder and Suicide That Has Gone Largely Unnoticed - A silent, nationwide epidemic of drastic measures may be underway, so why aren't we talking about it?
Who Will Tell the People? - About what the monster state is doing to them.
Fail, Fail, Fail, Fail - Lew Rockwell on the Bush-Obama War on Recession.
Fight Government Encroachment into Healthcare! - Ron Paul on the peeping toms of healthcare.
Am I Glad I'm in Mexico - Fred Reed on the US fascist revolution.
Frail, cowardly Winston saved us - George Orwell got many things wrong in his great novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, but he changed the way we see ourselves
Life in Vichy America - Bill Buppert on collaboration vs. resistance.
The 'No Problem' Mindset: Guaranteed Destruction - Gary North on the mindset that will wreck us.
Exceptional Us - John Liechty on funny and crazy American nationalism.
A New Private-Public Partnership: The Citizen Police State - The danger of government enlisting masses of private citizens to report "suspicious behavior."
Coming Soon To a City Near You - Michael Gaddy on fearmongering in the USA
For Summer Sunburn - 10 Natural, Safe Food and Herbal Remedies
Canadians Take Notice, the U.S. Is Militarizing the Border - More troops, more searches, more surveilance drones. The U.S. is taking Canadians' pictures as they cross the border, and their biometrics.
The Humanitarian Face of the State, With Fangs - Bush the despot!  Obama the savior!
FBI Blows It: Supposed Terror Plot Against NY Synagogues Is Bogus - Turns out it is really the handiwork of a creepy FBI informant. The story strengthens the narrative that the "homeland" is under attack. It's not.
Government Experiments on U.S. Soldiers: Shocking Claims Come to Light in New Court Case - They say government scientists messed with their minds. Now, veterans who were the subject of top-secret experiments want answers.
"The Worst Is Yet to Come": If You're Not Petrified, You're Not Paying Attention [VIDEO] - Howard Davidowitz, who is nothing if not opinionated (and colorful), paints a very grim picture
If All We Get Is a Circus, Can’t We at Least Have Trained Seals and Bears on Unicycles?
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas: "I Don't Advocate Secession" - a very good clarification of his stance on secession from the Union.  He supports the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution, not secession.
Obama's Weird Idea of Auto Industry Rescue: Use Our Money to Build Car Factories Abroad - Can someone explain how outsourcing the auto industry is in our national interest?
Inflationary Sinkhole Ahead - Peter Schiff on what the Fed has done to us
Military Police Document Reveals Integration with Local Law Enforcement
Finding Joy in Frugality
No, the Free Market Did Not Cause the Financial Crisis - Tom Woods on what did
Ron Paul Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize [VIDEO] - Here he argues against intervention, mass murder, and financial disaster, and shows up one of the most sinister of Obama's lying neocons, Richard Holbrooke.
Survivalists 2.0: Regular people get ready for the worst
Is There Any Wonder Some People Snap Like in Binghamton and at Columbine? - Our entire way of life -- from our exploitative economy to our foreign policy -- is violent.
The Latest Absurdity in the Fight to Conserve Water: Making Rainwater Harvesting Illegal - Absurd laws are challenging the collection in some states, while others are embracing the practice.
World Cop and American Daddy - Even in its successful rescue mission against Somali pirates, the U.S. government sets bad precedents for future intervention and blowback.
Lonely in an Electronic Wilderness: "The Great Emotional Sickness of Our Era" - iPods and Blackberries offer instant access to a virtual world, but are technological gadgets keeping people apart and breaking down society?
Ron Paul, Right About the Economy, Right About Freedom
The war on drugs is a war on common sense  - Just Say No ... More
6 Commonly Held Beliefs Among People Who Lack Common Sense - This one ought to raise a few hackles ;)
The Martial Law Mind-Set
America Is a Dangerous Vigilante, Heroes Are Sociopaths: The Not-So-Mythical World of 'Watchmen' - "Watchmen" depicts what happens when an individual or a nation assumes unwarranted and unlimited powers
U.S. Taxpayers: The Few. The Proud. The Unprofitable.
Government Gone Wild - Some disturbing stories about government in action
Is Obama embracing the lawless, omnipotent executive? - Glenn Greenwald on the omnipotent presidency
Surprise! Bush Amended The Constitution!
"Consumerism" Is Dead -- Can Obama Lead Us to a Downscaled Lifestyle?
Are You a Brainless Obeyer?
Washington contemplates deploying the Armed Forces for domestic law enforcement
The Government's War on Recession - Dangerously wrong
Remember the Constitution? - Like Ron Paul, Don Cooper does
From One Assault on the Constitution To Another - Is anything left?
The United States: The Largest Ponzi Scheme in the World - Bill Bonner on the United States
New plan may tax U.S. drivers for every mile traveled, says Transportation Secretary Roy LaHood
Beyond Open or Closed Borders - Laurence Vance on human migration
Government: A Successful Failure - Only in the same sense as a street mugger before getting apprehended!
It can’t happen to us - Ruined financiers committing desperate acts
A Black Hole on $10 Billion a Day - It is interesting – albeit not pleasant – to witness the collapse of Western civilization.
The Nanny State - Government intervention is never the solution; it is always part of the problem.
Everything Still Looks the Same, But We've Become a New Country - The political theater of the moment in Washington is focused on the illusion that we can find new ways of keeping the old ways going.
The Coming Fascism - by Karen Kwiatkowski
Putin to the West: Take Your Medicine - and don't go socialist.  A Russian lecturing us on capitalism?  Bizarro World indeed
Cures For Our Economic Disease - Ron Paul on the econmics disaster
Bush, Obama and the American State - a Libertarian perspective on Republican and Democrat governments
Stimulus for Who? - Ron Paul on the 'stimulus' package
Obama gets right to work scrubbing out 8 years of bad policies - (Kudos, Mister President.  Please keep up the good work :-)
Years of Darkness, Tyranny, and Oppression - our recent US history, and how we can avoid future mistakes
America Is Moving Toward Czarism and Away from Democracy - Every patriot should be concerned about the intensifying efforts to supplant democracy with something far more authoritarian: "American czarism."
Dear Dubya: What Next? - Dub, Old Buddy, Say it isn't so...
Five Ways We Can Build a Movement to Stop This Idiotic War on Drugs - This is a time to put big ideas on the table. We have to learn how to coexist with drugs. They aren't going anywhere.
The Bush Era Has Been an Eight-Year-Long Madoff-Style Ripoff - It will be easier for us and Obama to push for a bold agenda if we demand accountability for the robbery and theft of the Bush years.
Do Americans Have Cognitive Dissonance When it Comes to Liberty?
Rejoice in the Depression - It was long past time to cut back, says Tom Chartier.
Soviet TV Loves the Secret Police - Sorry, make that ABC and Homeland Security.
New Year 2009: Leading thinkers offer predictions of 'next big thing' - Leading thinkers - including Craig Venter and Ian McEwan - have marked New Year 2009 by predicting what will be the next big thing to shape the future.
Did You Know 200,000 Vets Are Sleeping on the Streets? - America's promise to "Support the Troops" ends the moment they take off the uniform and try to make the transition to civilian life.
I Pledge Allegiance to the Junta - Will Grigg on encroaching military rule
Thank Goodness I Live in a Free Country - Proud To Be a Murican, where at least he knows he's free. Article by Don Cooper
Life After the Economic Collapse: How Having Less Will Make Us Happier
Toxic Paper - Fiat money is the mother of all toxic papers
Losing Interest in Economic Recovery - a satirical look at the crash of 2008
Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security
Government bans tin-foil beanies - Metal headwear not fair on mind-control spooks, say Feds
Get Out Your Wheelbarrows! - Tom Chartier on Weimar USA
Too Much Stuff: How Our Profligate Consumerism Might Keep Us in Iraq - Wherever we go, our "stuff" goes with us -- in such large quantities that removing it could prove more daunting than invading in the first place
Forget Red vs. Blue -- It's the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled by Propaganda
Police State Colorado - undercover police officers posing as protesters staged a violent confrontation with another officer
The Pentagon Is the President's Private Army - Fred Reed on the militarist states of America
Most Presidents Ignore the Constitution - The government we have today is something the Founders could never have imagined
The Standard of Living Bubble (And Why It’s About to Go Pop!)
Ex-Chicago policeman charged in torture case
Our Rights Are Under Attack - Recent steps by the FBI and other law enforcement organizations have severely undermined the right to privacy
Blaming Liberty for the State's Depredations - Anthony Gregory on Jacob Weisberg of Slate
As the Violence Soars, Mexico Signals It's Had Enough of America's Stupid War on Drugs - The U.S.-financed War on Drugs has had savage results in Mexico, and now its president wants to decriminalize pot, cocaine and heroin possession
Regular Folks Who Hate War
China Unveils Frightening Futuristic Police State at Olympics - The Olympics have opened up a backdoor for the regime to massively upgrade its systems of population control and repression

The Problem Is Simple: Too Many People, Too Much Stuff - An equitable and humane solution to overpopulation and overconsumption may actually be possible

How the West (Except for the U.S.) Ended Slavery

Slip-Sliding Away - on the loss of our Democracy

McCain suggests military-style invasion modeled on the surge to control inner city crime

Ron Paul - Against Jingoism and Hypocrisy

The Coming Depression and the Actualization of Zen

The Fabric of America Is Fraying as the Economic Downturn Continues - Our economic success, as it's generally measured, obscures some deep social problems.