From Reason to Freedom
March 3, 2010
13:14
"Professor Jones has been accused of ‘scientific fraud’ for allegedly deliberately suppressing information and refusing to share vital data with critics.
"Discussing the interview, the BBC’s environmental analyst Roger Harrabin said he had spoken to colleagues of Professor Jones who had told him that his strengths included integrity and doggedness but not record-keeping and office tidying."
* Data for vital ‘hockey stick graph’ has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995
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11:12
This is a Public Service Announcement. A PSA, according to Wikipedia, is "an advertisement broadcast on radio or television for the public interest." The "public interest" is whatever the government says it is. This particular PSA is embedded in an article on a webpage for your personal interest. Your "personal interest" is whatever you say it is. The type of PSA we're most familiar with is typically created by incestuous public/private bedfellows consisting of a private ad agency that produces the ad pro bono (a Latin phrase that means, in this case, "in exchange for political favors") and is funded by a public government agency using tax dollars taken from citizens under threat of fine or imprisonment. read more
February 25, 2010
16:09
The "sign war" against small business owners in Dallas is heating up again. Last fall, the city council outlawed advertising signs in the upper two-thirds of store windows and glass doors, and they cannot cover more than 15 percent of a store's facade. The city sees the issue as a matter of "security" and cleaning up "sign clutter" while business owners contend it's a matter of free speech and the life or death of their businesses. read more
February 24, 2010
12:22
You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance, you cannot kill a dream or an ambition. God, manufactured by mortals in their own quintessential image, exists only to make daily life bearable despite the path that every one of us treads toward extinction. As long as men are obliged to die, some of them, unable to endure the prospect, will concoct fond illusions. We cannot assassinate or kill an illusion. In fact, illusion is more likely to kill us — for God puts to death everything that stands up to him, beginning with reason, intelligence, and the critical mind. All the rest follows in a chain reaction.
— Michael Onfray
February 22, 2010
14:21
Videos of area Libertarian Party candidates are posted on YouTube.The videos of the Texas Libertarian Party debate among its four gubernatorial candidates have been posted on YouTube thanks to John Jay Myers who "edited these together in a frenzy" in an effort to make them available as quickly as possible. read more
February 20, 2010
February 18, 2010
09:04
Four Texas Libertarians seeking their party's gubernatorial nomination appeared on stage Tuesday night at Southern Methodist University in Dallas to showcase their debating skills.The candidates concentrated on traditional libertarian themes of limited government, lower taxes, and individual and state sovereignty. read more
February 16, 2010
13:29
Last week we were reminded that ours is not the only country suffering from severe economic turmoil. The Greek government is the latest to come close to default on their massive public debt. Greece has insufficient funds in their treasury to make even the minimum payments that are now coming due. Their debt level is about 120 percent of their gross domestic product and their public sector absorbs what amounts to 40 percent of GDP. Any talk of cutting costs and spending is met with violent protests from the many Greeks heavily dependent on government payments. Mounting fears of default have sent shockwaves through their creditors and all of the eurozone countries.
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February 15, 2010
13:11
Ballot Proposition #4: Public Acknowledgement of God - The use of the word "God", prayers, and the Ten Commandments should be allowed at public gatherings and public educational institutions, as well as be permitted on government buildings and property. YES OR NO – Texas Legislative UpdateEven though it only appears on the Texas Republican Party Primary ballot, non-binding Prop 4 is causing a stir all across the state, including the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. read more
February 13, 2010
09:37
Emails zapping back and forth through the webways amongst Libertarian and Libertarianish Meetup members in the Metroplex have been outdoing each other in pummeling Glenn Beck for dismissing Debra Median, the Ron Paulian Libertarian-tilting Republican candidate for Texas Governor, as a "911 Truther."Medina appeared on Beck's radio show via local Dallas outlet 570 KLIF Talk Radio. When Beck asked her about the 911 Truth movement Medina replied that she wasn't taking a position on it, to which Beck responded through his chuckles, "People in America might think that might be a Yes." read more
February 11, 2010
16:26
Strung out along the bottom of Tarrant County, just south of Interstate 20 and the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex is Texas House District 96. And Lindy Suze of Mansfield wants it.At least she wants to be the Libertarian Party candidate for the office. But that will be decided at the county convention on March 13 and the district convention on March 20. Once those hurdles are cleared she will become the LP flag-bearer for her local district in November. read more
February 8, 2010
16:37
Given the libertarian tenet that everyone has the right to do as they choose as long as they don't initiate or threaten force or fraud against anyone else, how can a person be both a Libertarian and a judge?
Wouldn't libertarian judges have to recuse themselves from every victimless crime case on the books?
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13:07
Last week, the House approved another increase in the national debt ceiling. This means the government can borrow $1.9 trillion more to stay afloat and avoid default. It has been little more than a year since the last debt limit increase, and graphs showing the debt limit over time show a steep, almost vertical trend. It is not likely to be very long before this new ceiling is met and the government is back on the brink between default and borrowing us further into oblivion. Congressional leaders and the administration acknowledge that the debt limit will need to be increased again next year. They are crossing their fingers that the forecasts are correct and they will not need another increase sooner, even before the 2010 midterm elections.
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February 6, 2010
23:02
The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.
— Carl Sagan
22:51
go to work, send your kids to school
follow fashion, act normal
walk on the pavement, watch T.V.
save for you old age, obey the law
repeat after me: i am free
— anonymous
22:29
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
— Chapman Cohen
22:26
Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, "Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down. Amen!"
If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it.
— Dan Barker
22:16
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.
— H. L. Mencken, 1919
February 3, 2010
00:00
Mr. Chairman, I am extremely concerned over current US policy toward Yemen, which I believe will backfire and leave the United States less safe and much poorer. Increasing US involvement in Yemen may be sold as a fight against terrorism, but in fact it is more about expanding US government control and influence over this strategically-placed nation at the gateway to Asia.
The current administration, according to today's testimony of Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman, has dramatically increased foreign aid to Yemen, from $17 million in FY 2008 to $40 million in FY 2009, to $67 million for FY 2010, to, according to the president's recent budget sent to Congress, $106 million for FY 2011. That represents an incredible six-fold increase in US aid to Yemen over just four years, at a time when the US economy continues to falter.
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February 2, 2010
09:47
It seems that virtually every newspaper in America is a finger puppet of the Census Bureau, blindly playing the public do-gooder role by patting their little readers on their little heads and telling them to be good little sheep and eagerly spill their guts to the temporarily government-badged snoopers. read more
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