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7/15/12: Thomas Ricks Wants Your Kids
By Edward Cline
Just when you thought the government was finished scheduling your life and mapping out how you can become an exemplar of gung-ho "giving back" citizenship, another Pulitzer Prize winner concocts still another scheme to best exploit your life, time, and energies.
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7/11/12: The Leftist-Islamic Alliance Against Freedom of Speech
By Edward Cline
Robert Spencer, a tireless defender of freedom and the freedom of speech against Islam, was attacked recently in the New York Daily News and charged with having "inspired" Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik to go on his killing spree in July 2011.
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7/03/12: A Clash of Supremacies over Obamacare
By Edward Cline
Before Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, wrote the majority opinion upholding the alleged constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (on one hand, denying its constitutionality under the Commerce Clause, but, on the other, sanctioning the individual mandate as a tax Congress has the power to impose), otherwise known as Obamacare (ADA), several states had announced that they would refuse to implement the law or conform to its specific provisions.
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6/29/12: The Supreme Court's 'Declaratory Act'
By Edward Cline
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, wrote the majority opinion upholding the alleged constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare. Obamacare will compel, under penalty of a monetary payment, all Americans to purchase health insurance.
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6/27/12: Ludwig von Mises's 'Omnipotent Government': A Primer on Statism
By Edward Cline
Given today's political circumstances, in which this country, in November, will either reject the boisterous, crude, arrogant statism of the current administration in favor of one that will consume the country at a less gluttonous rate (thus allowing champions of freedom to marshal their intellectual and political forces), or submit to a suicidal sanctioning of its demise, I thought it would be timely to revisit a classic that over half a century ago projected the consequences of omnivorous statism, Ludwig von Mises's
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War.
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6/16/12: The Bedlam of Statism
By Edward Cline
Is statism bipolar? Schizophrenic? Autistic? Obsessive-compulsive? Multi-phobic? Inherently dysfunctional? Psychotically antisocial? A form of dementia? A narcissistic personality disorder? A kind of panic or anxiety disorder? Just plain maladaptive? Or all of the preceding? This column will enter the mad house of statism and explore its various wards.
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6/10/12: Book Review: 'Nothing Less Than Victory' by John David Lewis
By Edward Cline
In each of the armed
conflicts that he illustrates, classicist John David Lewis economically dwells
on military strategies of opponents, but places far more importance on the moral
force, or lack of it, that guides one side to victory and the other to defeat.
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5/30/12: Watch What You Say: A Guide for Dhimmis
By Edward Cline
Feeling a need to humor
myself, and casting about for a way to cock a snook at the Department of
Homeland Security and The Transportation Security Administration (in German,
Die Abteilung der Heimatland-Sicherheit, and Die
Transport-Sicherheitsverwaltung, one click of the heels and raised right
arm, palm down, required for pronunciation, if you can manage it) and strike a
blow for freedom of speech and the First and Fourth Amendments, the DHS provided
me with a salubrious vehicle.
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5/23/12: Sticks and Stones
By Edward Cline
Sticks and stones may be used in the commission of an actual felony, as well as guns, knives, one's fists, or any other physical object. But an evolving complement of new chargeable felonies, often appended to legitimate ones, is growing, and if not challenged, will reach a "critical mass" in law that will stifle all realms of speech.
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5/20/12: Facebook Founder Flees Fleecing
By Edward Cline
Senator Schumer and his grim-faced co-author of the "Ex-Patriot Act" bill, Pennsylvania Democrat, Senator Bob Casey, are "globalists." That is, they wish to pursue "tax dodgers" beyond American shores with the full power of the Treasury Department to snare expatriate money squirreled away by its owners to protect it from evangelical thieves like Schumer and Casey and their ilk in Congress and the various Washington satrapies.
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5/12/12: Alias Marx and Alinsky
By Edward Cline
Calling
socialists liberals is as deceptive as calling goose gizzards foie gras.
It fools no one but the epistemologically blinkered. The term liberal
allows liberals to pose as concerned, generous and forward-thinking individuals
and to act under what was once an honorable term for anyone who advocated or
endorsed liberty. And as any well-read American knows, liberals do not advocate
liberty. Quite the opposite.
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5/6/12: The Peril of 'Hate Crimes'
By Edward Cline
A totalitarian anti-concept of "justice" has been gnawing away at objective law without correction or opposition, and making rapid progress in a judicial system that has steadily abandoned reason and the protection of individual rights: hate crime.
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