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Why the Individual is the Fundamental Unit of a Just Society
Originally published here on May 22, 2005. from Accountability Utah America was founded on the belief that respect for individuals, apart from family and other associations, is paramount to a just and virtuous society. In recent decades, this belief has given way to a "more civil," group-cente
Why Oil Speculators Aren’t Really To Blame
Nothing makes politicians more excited than getting to use name-calling to label something perfectly normal as being somehow deviant and evil. It lets them create a problem where there is no problem and rally the ignorant public around a cause that probably didn't exist until the windbag started yap
City Shuts Off Water, Sewer for Photo Ticket Nonpayment
from The Newspaper With more and more vehicle owners simply deciding refuse to pay red light camera and speed camera tickets, private, for-profit companies and municipalities are growing increasingly desperate. America's second-largest city shut down its photo ticketing program last year largel
Political Climate Change: Ron Paul on the College Campus Circuit
by Gary North (via LRC) First, the video of his recent UCLA rally. Second, a personal reminiscence. This video was a revelation to me. Half a century ago, I was briefly an undergraduate at UCLA. Twenty-five years earlier, my parents had been undergraduates at UCLA. The political outlook of
The Original Homeland Security T-shirt
from AaronsEnvironMental Corner Since I have a political site and am heavily into politics (see MilitantLibertarian.org, not to mention much of the content here on AaronsEnvironMental), I was asked to review a new t-shirt that is, well, very obviously of a political bent. Historical anomalies
NAFTA Partners Take Steps to Boost Trilateral Relationship
by Dana Gabriel While bilateral initiatives have dominated North American issues over the last couple of years, the trilateral relationship has suffered. With a series of high-level meetings, the U.S., Canada and Mexico are taking steps to boost the NAFTA partnership. First, the defense ministers
Day of reckoning draws nearer for IPCC
by Anthony Watts According to Dr. Clive Best, A key prediction from the 2007 IPCC WG1 report fails statistical tests. AR4 figure for long term predictions for each scenario Abstract: Global temperatures measured since 2005 are incompatible with the IPCC model predictions made in 2007 b
Random Thoughts Regarding Machismo, If Any
by Fred Reed I was delighted this morning to see a video on LewRockwell.com in which it was revealed that high-school students do not know what countries border on the United States, or how many states there are in what we think of, somewhat dubiously, as “the Union.” Decay and hopelessness












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