"If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.' "
— Thomas Jefferson
Letter to W. Crawford, June 20, 1816
[...]The private homes that New London, Conn., took away from Suzette Kelo and her neighbors have been torn down. Their former site is a wasteland of fields of weeds, a monument to the power of eminent domain.
But now Pfizer, the drug company whose neighboring research facility had been the [...]
We just received a link from the Virginian-Pilot, related to yesterday's event, where we read the health care bill aloud, and recorded it on video. The influx of new visitors deserves an explanation of what InFrequently Asked Questions is, and why we're here.
' [...]"The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever."
— Angolan Proverb [...]...Jardis claims trouble began brewing in February when he was featured in a story in the New Hampshire Sunday News about his involvement with LEAP(Law Enforcement Against Prohibition).
Three days after the story ran, Jardis wrote a letter to Lt. Michael Wallace asking that he be "protected from unlawful harassment" by [...]
Rick's Prep
follow up:Geanne Rosenberg: Protections for journalists shouldn’t just apply to the ones collecting paychecks [rawstory.com] [] [] []Mike's Prep
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"[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government."
~Judge Lawrence Tribe
[...]"The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often" [...]
Comrades! We've made significant progress on our list of 10 things to do in order to achieve the worker's paradise, as passed down by our fallen comrade Karl Marx. Since our little setback in Mother Russia, we've resumed our efforts in the United States, and have nearly completed our action [...]
"I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who'" [...]
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy [...]
It seems some of the upcoming tea party tax protesters are being deterred by a government requirement for permits to protest. The fact that they’re even filing for permits to protest government abuses pretty much demonstrates why they completely failed to inspire me to participate...
[...]I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That "all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people." To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially [...]
"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe" [...]
"An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that" [...]
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
Milton Friedman
' [...]The shooting in Binghamton was high on the list of trending topics on Twitter long before I heard about it on the news. More evidence that the hive capabilities of citizen journalism would be a powerful thing, if the egos of professional journalists and editors would permit them to listen.
[...]"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."
~Laurence J. Peter
[...]"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."
~Samuel Adams
[...]"The task of weaning various people and groups from the national nipple will not be easy. The sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective will fill the air as the agony of withdrawal pangs finds voice."
~Linda Bowles
[...]"We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God."
[...]A number of conservative blogs have for some time been in the practice of using Rush Limbaugh's phrase "drive-by media". One local blogger here in Tidewater not only uses that phrase, but the more recent Limbaugh catch phrase "Obama's Teleprompter". Does a nationally syndicated radio host with 650+ affiliates need [...]
NFL Running Back Ryan Moats was pulled over for running a red light while rushing his family to the hospital. He pulled over in the hospital parking lot, and explained that his mother-in-law was about to die inside at any moment. The officer clearly did not care, and took his [...]
"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as" [...]
"The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
~Will Rogers
First, the federal government steals our money to redistribute to the likes of AIG. Then, news of exorbitant bonuses (which the politicians knew about) paid to AIG executives having gotten out, the same government wants to tax those bonuses at a confiscatory rate. This is a tactic that can later [...]
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
~H. L. Mencken
. It Took A Democrat To Respect States' Sovereignty. Who knew?
So I wonder once again: how are the drug warriors going to explain the fact that the world does not burst into flames, because somebody somewhere is smoking pot?
' [...]I know this comes as a complete shock, so brace yourself, dear visitor. All the sound and fury about the AIG bonuses is just political grandstanding. I seems Obama and Congress knew about them over a year ago. It's just politicians doing what they really do best: they find [...]
"We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money."
[...]I don't know where all of you came from, but thanks for stopping by! Please, by all means, have a look around, have fun, and try not to get too scared off by the anarchist-sounding content.
' [...]A woman orders Chicken McNuggets from a McDonald's drive through. They collect the money from her. She moves forward, only to learn that they are out of nuggets. They offer her a burger instead, which is not what she wants. They refuse to refund her money. The woman calls 911, [...]
According to at least one metric of corporate reputation, the image of Kellogg has been damaged by dropping Michael Phelps from the cover of the Corn Flakes box after he was photographed taking a rip off a bong.
I'd say the button-down jackasses that run that company didn't think this one [...]
Update 12:40 pm: I just checked Tidewater Liberty, and realized that Don posted his notes over there.
Last Night, as promised, Don Tabor went before Chesapeake city council to request a Citizen Review Board to perform an honest and public review of the investigation and subsequent raid against the [...]
"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors" [...]
Even if they are there to ask directions. They will shoot your dog.
A Pinellas County sheriff's deputy knocked on Lee Ann Hutts' door Tuesday night and her dog, Smoke, started barking incessantly.
Within moments, the deputy pulled out a gun and shot Smoke in the head.
Instead of leaving. That's the missing' [...]
At the Chesapeake city council meeting on Tuesday, 24 February, Don Tabor, on behalf of the Tidewater Libertarian Party, will address the council to request a citizen review of police procedures used during the investigation and subsequent raid performed on Ryan Frederick's home last year. Dr. Tabor will make [...]
The passing of the new stimulus bill may signify the end of the recession, but not for the reasons Congress and the President think. On 23 January, New York Times columnist Bruce Bartlett illustrated that the history of recessions and stimulus bills over the last sixty years, indicates that [...]
