12-21-12 Links

Posted: December 21st, 2012 | Author: John | Filed under: links | Tags: links | 1 Comment »

Two Paths to Riches Voluntary trade or political favoritism.

New York’s top court highlights the meaninglessness and menace of the term ‘terrorism’ What’s initially so striking about the decision is the court’s obvious inability to state what “terrorism” even means.

Civilian Disarmament and the War on Self-Reliance Whether democratic, communist or socialist or every difference in between; the state must extinguish individual self-sufficiency wherever it finds it.

NDAA Conference Committee Strips Right to Jury Trial The Bill of Rights is dead, buried and forgotten.

Why Are Sick People Who Use Medical Marijuana Put In Prison? This is the 1st installment of a series of articles attempting to address the 32 questions posed by Ron Paul in his recent farewell speech given in front of Congress.

It’s Time for the Truth about US Torture Methods The cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners is not only wrong in principle and a stain on our country’s conscience, but also an ineffective and unreliable means of gathering intelligence.

Chuck Hagel and the Neocon Smear Machine People who are “pro-Israel” in a right-wing sense of the term favor policies that are, in my view, bad for Israel.

Three Women Teachers with Guns Shot Adam Lanza in a Classroom When everybody is diagnosed with a mental disorder, gun permits will be a thing of the past.

Fiscal Cliff: Time to Call Their Bluff The “fiscal cliff” has all the earmarks of a false flag operation, full of sound and fury, intended to extort concessions from opponents.

Why Reported Inflation Seems Different Than Reality The need to find solutions to reducing spending, without actually cutting spending, led to several substantial changes in the calculation of inflation.

Too Big To Jail If the Drug War laws don’t apply to the big banks — then how is incarcerating low-level drug users really much different to chattel slavery?

Republican Soul-Searching In their soul-searching Republicans need to ask themselves an important question: Why should Americans have voted for Mitt Romney?

Words and Things I think that even libertarianism is basically common sense, with an edge on it.

Empty People Not Loaded Guns “The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.”

The Best and Worst Christmas Films (Libertarian Edition) Video du jour.

Helping Shylo get over her fears There’s hope for humans after all du jour.

Gabon: President Ali Bongo Ondimba lays first stone of Mining School Ruined by western colonialism du jour.

Officer smells smoke, saves lives Heroic cop du jour.

Ex-Police Officer Pleads Guilty To Stealing $60K From Youth Scholarship Fund Sociopathic cop du jour.

Madama attack – Harrowing account from the Nassar family The real terrorists du jour.

Winter dream — Romio Hasan

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