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> Freedom headline news:
> 1- Happy tax day: it took longer to file this year for many
> 2- IMF warns U.S. deficit threatens world finance
> 3- Iraq violence means U.S. military breaks deployment promises
> 4- Verichip pushes chipping people to use firearms
> 5- U.S. to get domestic spy agency?
> 6- UT senator Hatch says USA Patriot only rankles the "fringe"
> 7- Ethics complaint filed against Kennedy aide over memo
> 8- U.S. Army drops charges against Yee, but silences him
> 9- Iraqi politicians "an obstacle" to U.S. occupying force
> 10- Dallas company uses creative data-mining to find state nonpayers
> 11- Western Amerinds file claim for 20+ million acres of U.S.
> 12- CIA had pilot-school alert; failed to act
> 13- U.S. gov squashes privacy rights for sensitive drug testing
> 14- Largest U.S. bureaucracies communicate worst
> 15- Gov critics say management is FBI's problem
> 16- Some question harsh penalties for breaking CAN-SPAM
> 17- Most Wisconsinites are sheep on taxes
> 18- Cali fire protection: choose between people and environment
> 19- Houston gov mulling privatized parking meters
> 20- Colorado CLU sues drug thugs
> 21- Arizona university gets athletics welfare tax
> 22- Detroit mayor's prayer vigil doesn't quell crime
> 23- Indianapolis busybodies crack down on private signs
> 24- Bin Laden offers Europe a terrorism truce?
> 25- UN envoy proposes "caretaker" gov to transition Iraqi gov
> 26- Kiwi police get DNA-swiping okay
> 27- Aussie Prime Minister to meddle in teen's sex change treatment?
> 28- Canadian prime minister the "prince of pork"
>
> Freedom commentary:
> 1- April 15: a day of moral shame
> 2- Book review: "Liberation by Oppression"
> 3- The power of language and the language of power
> 4- Bush is a piker at manipulating science
> 5- The truth about freedom
> 6- Fixing a broken tax system
> 7- April 15: the American citizen's final exam
> 8- Five reasons you don't owe income tax, dammit!
> 9- The new neutrality
> 10- Dangerous minds: Hernando de Soto
> 11- Time to take another look at teacher certification
> 12- The FSP's unique role among libertarian organizations
> 13- A taxing meditation
> 14- FASB stumbles stock options
> 15- Social Security and taxes
> 16- Parental rights and the pledge
> 17- Dominion and stewardship: believers and the environment
> 18- Hubris and nemesis
> 19- "It's so simple, it's ridiculous"
> 20- Feeling a draft
> 21- How our government evolved
> 22- Private promises, public priorities
> 23- Rolling democratic dice in Iraq
> 24- The media and power
> 25- Warning: eating can be hazardous to your health
> 26- Hybrids in carpool lanes: a nonstarter
> 27- A national ID card won't make us safer
> 28- Protest is not terrorism
> 29- Robin Hood, friend of liberty
> 30- Why I love the IRS
>
> Freedom movement news:
> 1- Guidelines for creating a new institute
> 2- ISIL 2004 world conference
> 3- 2004 summer seminars in political economy
> 4- Shoots from the Grassroot Institute, 4/14/04
> 5- Iraq quiz
>
>
> 1- Happy tax day: it took longer to file this year for many
> ----------
> Fox News
> "The [U.S.] government estimates that the average taxpayer
> filing a typical tax return with itemized deductions and
> income from interest, capital gains and dividends, has
> to spend 42 minutes more than last year doing the math
> and paperwork. The total estimated time to finish these
> common forms is 28 hours and 30 minutes." (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/271362037.html
>
> 2- IMF warns U.S. deficit threatens world finance
> ----------
> Newsday
> "Uncontrolled U.S. budget deficits would pose a serious threat to
> global prosperity in coming years as rising interest rates depress
> economic growth in the United States and around the world, the
> International Monetary Fund warned ..." (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/270131615.html
>
> 3- Iraq violence means U.S. military breaks deployment promises
> ----------
> Salt Lake Tribune
> "The Pentagon has extended orders for 450 Utah combat engineers
> whose yearlong tour was to have ended this month, breaking a
> pledge to all GIs when they were deployed to Iraq last year."
> (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/325783398.html
>
> 4- Verichip pushes chipping people to use firearms
> ----------
> Wired
> "A new computer chip promises to keep police guns from firing if
> they fall into the wrong hands. .... The technology is the latest
> attempt to create a so-called 'smart gun' and could be marketed to
> law enforcement agencies within a year ..." And of course, there's
> talk of legislation mandating chips for firearms owners. (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/261739365.html
>
> 5- U.S. to get domestic spy agency?
> ----------
> San Francisco Chronicle
> "Revolutionary changes in the nation's counterterrorism efforts --
> including creation of a new domestic spy agency -- are among ideas
> receiving serious consideration from members of the commission
> investigating the Sept. 11 attacks." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/266430838.html
>
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> publish or reprint many excellent Latin-American commentaries in
> English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/740209835.html
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>
> 6- UT senator Hatch says USA Patriot only rankles the "fringe"
> ----------
> Salt Lake Tribune
> "Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, says the USA Patriot Act is an
> excellent weapon against terrorism that rankles only those on the
> political fringes. .... But at a hearing of the U.S. Senate
> Judiciary Committee ... opponents from across the political
> spectrum voiced concerns that parts of the act are eroding civil
> liberties ..." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/343186788.html
>
> 7- Ethics complaint filed against Kennedy aide over memo
> ----------
> CFIF
> "The Center for Individual Freedom ... filed an ethics
> complaint ... against Olati Johnson, the former aide to
> Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) who wrote the ... memo
> urging the Senator to delay consideration of a judicial
> nominee in order to manipulate ... the outcome of the
> University of Michigan affirmative action cases ..." (4/13/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/282184572.html
>
> 8- U.S. Army drops charges against Yee, but silences him
> ----------
> Seattle Post-Intelligencer
> "The Army dismissed the final, minor charges against Capt. James
> Yee ... tossing out the last thread of an espionage case that once
> tied him to a prison holding suspected terrorists but which later
> unraveled. However, the victory for Yee ... will be a silent one.
> ... [T]he Army handed Yee an order gagging him from speaking
> publicly about the case." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/276813543.html
>
> 9- Iraqi politicians "an obstacle" to U.S. occupying force
> ----------
> Washington Times
> "Iraqi politicians are playing a growing role in blocking U.S.
> commanders from unleashing fatal force on insurgents. In the most
> glaring example, Adnan Pachachi, a Sunni member of the U.S.-
> appointed Iraqi Governing Council, insisted to American
> Administrator L. Paul Bremer that Marines cease their attacks on
> insurgents in Fallujah so he could initiate talks." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/356840923.html
>
> 10- Dallas company uses creative data-mining to find state nonpayers
> ----------
> SEMissourian
> ACS Inc. is a company that works with states to increase
> collections of fines and fees. One of their methods of finding
> individuals relies on buying databases from other companies,
> including pizza delivery lists and magazine subscriptions.
> (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/610246066.html
>
> 11- Western Amerinds file claim for 20+ million acres of U.S.
> ----------
> Rocky Mountain News
> "The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes of Oklahoma filed a claim
> ... for 27 million acres given to the tribes in a 19th
> century treaty but said they would settle for 500 acres
> to build a casino in a symbolic return to Colorado." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/355340723.html
>
> 12- CIA had pilot-school alert; failed to act
> ----------
> Toronto Star
> "In August, 2001, George Tenet and his deputies at the CIA were
> given a briefing paper labelled 'Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly'
> about the arrest days earlier of Zacarias Moussaoui -- but they
> did not act on the information. The incident was one of a string
> of glaring intelligence failures at the CIA ..." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/353770236.html
>
> 13- U.S. gov squashes privacy rights for sensitive drug testing
> ----------
> Fox News
> "As soon as next year, the [U.S.] federal government will overhaul
> its drug-testing program for certain highly sensitive government
> jobs and begin requiring hair, saliva and sweat tests along with
> the urine checks. .... [T]he government says employees in highly-
> sensitive jobs must be clean -- a mandate that outweighs their
> privacy rights." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/348278752.html
>
> 14- Largest U.S. bureaucracies communicate worst
> ----------
> GovExec.com
> "The Defense and Homeland Security departments, two of the
> largest federal agencies, did a relatively poor job of
> relaying clear, comprehensive and meaningful information
> in their annual performance reports last year, according
> to George Mason University researchers." (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/253265585.html
>
> 15- Gov critics say management is FBI's problem
> ----------
> c|net news
> "... Ashcroft warned that through the 1990s, 'the FBI's
> information infrastructure had been starved, and by
> Sept. 11, it collapsed from budgetary neglect.' The
> analysis drew a skeptical response from government
> watchdogs, who painted it as a typical bureaucratic
> reflex: Blame the budget rather than management." (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/268781516.html
>
> 16- Some question harsh penalties for breaking CAN-SPAM
> ----------
> c|net news
> "Spammers convicted under a recently enacted national
> antispam law could face stiff sentences under newly
> finalized government recommendations. .... [A]
> representative for the National Association of Criminal
> Defense Lawyers [said] 'The whole idea behind the
> federal sentencing guidelines was to make the punishment
> fit the crime. But this is just junk mail.'" (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/256457299.html
>
> 17- Most Wisconsinites are sheep on taxes
> ----------
> Capital Times
> "With the April 15 deadline looming, an overwhelming share of
> Wisconsin residents say it's wrong to cheat on their income taxes.
> .... Ninety-one percent of those surveyed say citizens have an
> obligation to be completely honest when they fill out their tax
> forms. Only 5 percent said it's OK to cut corners." (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/364482760.html
>
> 18- Cali fire protection: choose between people and environment
> ----------
> Contra Costa Times
> "California must choose between protecting the environment or
> protecting life and property as homes spring up in what once were
> wildland areas in the nation's most populous state, a governor's
> review panel concluded ..." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/323732978.html
>
> 19- Houston gov mulling privatized parking meters
> ----------
> Houston Chronicle
> "[V]anishing meters cost the city [Houston] thousands of
> dollars in lost collections ... and creates confusion
> for drivers looking to park legally. The inability of
> the city's Parking Management Division and Department of
> Public Works and Engineering to ensure contractors
> replace meters and signs is one of example of why a
> private company should take over meter operations ..." (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/322882890.html
>
> 20- Colorado CLU sues drug thugs
> ----------
> Colorado Freedom Report
> "The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Colorado
> (ACLU) announced ... that it had filed suit ... against
> the North Metro Drug Task Force .... The suit alleges
> that Task Force made her strip naked ... in full view of
> her neighbors and male law enforcement officers and
> forced her to submit to an unjustified, humiliating, and
> degrading 'decontamination' ritual ...." (4/12/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/299157811.html
>
> 21- Arizona university gets athletics welfare tax
> ----------
> Arizona Daily Star
> "Pima Community College [AZ] students will be paying more -- some
> substantially -- to attend classes next year even though the
> tuition rate will remain the same. The college's governing board
> ... approved a new student services fee of $2.50 per credit hour
> that would generate money for activities such as athletics."
> (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/345447016.html
>
> 22- Detroit mayor's prayer vigil doesn't quell crime
> ----------
> Detroit Free Press
> "Despite recent citywide prayer vigils, public appeals by police
> and politicians to end gun violence, and [Detroit MI] Mayor Kwame
> Kilpatrick's multi-agency task force charged with getting wanted
> felons off the streets, guns continue to kill and injure
> Detroiters at an alarming rate." Maybe they would do better
> focusing on the criminals instead of the guns. (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/337555525.html
>
> 23- Indianapolis busybodies crack down on private signs
> ----------
> Indy Star
> "Indianapolis inspectors trashed more than 190 illegal signs in a
> single sweep ... as part of an effort to crack down on a code
> enforcement issue they said affects both aesthetics and public
> safety." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/361011770.html
>
> 24- Bin Laden offers Europe a terrorism truce?
> ----------
> Reuters
> "A purported audio tape by Osama bin Laden, aired on Arab
> television ... offered a truce to Europeans if they
> pulled troops out of Muslim nations but vowed to
> continue fighting the United States and Israel." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/324803110.html
>
> 25- UN envoy proposes "caretaker" gov to transition Iraqi gov
> ----------
> San Francisco Chronicle
> "The United Nations emissary to Iraq laid out a blueprint for
> Iraq's transition to sovereignty ... proposing a caretaker
> government to shepherd the country to free elections by the end of
> January 2005. Under the proposal, the U.S.-appointed Governing
> Council would be dissolved when the United States hands over power
> June 30 ..." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/274242486.html
>
> 26- Kiwi police get DNA-swiping okay
> ----------
> New Zealand Herald
> "[New Zealand] Police will be able to take DNA samples from
> burglary suspects and those suspected of offences
> punishable by at least seven years in jail under a new
> law .... Justice Minister Phil Goff said the Criminal
> Investigations (Bodily Samples) Amendment Bill ... would
> greatly enhance the police ability to resolve crimes." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/333644714.html
>
> 27- Aussie Prime Minister to meddle in teen's sex change treatment?
> ----------
> Sydney Morning Herald
> "Prime Minister John Howard said ... he was seeking further advice
> in relation to a Family Court decision allowing a 13-year-old girl
> to start treatment to become a boy. .... The decision is the first
> time an Australian child who is biologically one sex has been
> given legal approval to begin a gender change for purely
> psychiatric reasons." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/328863946.html
>
> 28- Canadian prime minister the "prince of pork"
> ----------
> Canada.com
> "The Liberal [Canadian] government embarked on a spending
> spree in the first two weeks of April, announcing more
> than $1-billion in spending that targeted Liberal
> constituencies and regions expected to be key
> battlegrounds in an upcoming election." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/330574157.html
>
> For more News Reports see:
> http://www.free-market.net/directorybycategory/news/
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> FREEDOM COMMENTARY
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> FEATURED COMMENTARIES:
> 1- April 15: a day of moral shame
> ----------
> TOC
> by Edward Hudgins
> "[T]his is ... the relationship between most citizens and
> politicians. Politicians tell us, 'We know you're not up
> to the burden of raising your own children..., insuring
> yourselves ..., saving for your retirement, tying your
> own shoes or wiping your own noses without our help.
> Don't worry, we'll give you all you need.' If we have
> any integrity we should spit on such offers." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/288535927.html
>
> 2- Book review: "Liberation by Oppression"
> ----------
> FEE
> by Brian Doherty
> "... Thomas Szasz ... has tirelessly agitated for over four
> decades ... in defense of the rights of our culture's
> most abused group: the so-called mentally ill. .... In
> Liberation by Oppression Szasz uses another illuminating
> metaphor to revisit his favorite topic, 'mental illness'
> as an excuse for oppression." (4/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/290316335.html
>
> 3- The power of language and the language of power
> ----------
> Strike the Root
> by Roderick T. Long
> "[E]uphemism of some sort is a pervasive and universal
> feature of (nonlibertarian) political speech -- and not
> accidentally so. Government, by its nature as a coercive
> monopoly, necessarily violates the norms of peaceful
> cooperation and reciprocity whose approximate observance
> is a precondition for social existence." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/183286436.html
>
> 4- Bush is a piker at manipulating science
> ----------
> CEI
> by Henry I Miller
> "The political silly season has spawned a flurry of attacks on the
> Bush administration for 'politicizing science.' To be sure, some
> of the criticism is justified. .... But the critics seem to have
> become overnight converts in wanting public policy to be science-
> based. Not one of them was publicly censorious of the Clinton
> administration's blatant and heavy-handed abuse of science."
> (4/11/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/293756822.html
>
> 5- The truth about freedom
> ----------
> USTL
> by Paul Jacob
> "Folks in the Middle East are ready for freedom and
> democracy. They can handle it. That's always been my
> view: people everywhere naturally love freedom and are,
> well, darn good and ready for it." (4/12/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/287185796.html
>
> 6- Fixing a broken tax system
> ----------
> Heritage Foundation
> by Daniel J Mitchell
> "Maybe it's time for America to board the flat-tax bandwagon. It's
> frustrating to see former communist nations adopt the flat tax
> while the United States struggles with an unfair tax system that
> combines the worst of class-warfare ideology and the worst of
> special-interest deal-making." (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/314731350.html
>
> 7- April 15: the American citizen's final exam
> ----------
> Antiwar.com
> by Anthony Gregory
> "Government education is responsible for the attitudes of so many
> Americans that allow the state to get away with its worst crimes.
> As my friend Stony pointed out to me, the government's
> perspective, concerning its school system, could be summed up as
> follows: 'We taught you everything you know.' It's kind of creepy
> when you think about it." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/173184206.html
>
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>
> 8- Five reasons you don't owe income tax, dammit!
> ----------
> Reason
> by Brian Doherty
> "Here are some of the core arguments against the legality of the
> income tax one finds in the tax honesty movement. Devotees
> probably would regard them as oversimplifications. This is
> certainly not an all-inclusive list." (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/130055976.html
>
> 9- The new neutrality
> ----------
> TCS
> by Michael J Totten
> "Europeans may feel anxiety about America's oversized role in the
> world. But Americans are not going to go into their countries and
> murder their citizens. Middle Easterners have and will." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/300747974.html
>
> 10- Dangerous minds: Hernando de Soto
> ----------
> Cato Institute
> by Gene Healy
> "... de Soto is an extraordinary individual. It's not every
> economist that finds himself the target of terrorist bombings and
> assassination attempts. Because of his scholarship and activism on
> behalf of the world's poor, in the late '80s and early '90s, de
> Soto was repeatedly targeted by the Marxist terror group, the
> Shining Path." (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/279294024.html
>
> 11- Time to take another look at teacher certification
> ----------
> Mackinac Center
> by Jon B Perdue
> "School districts typically require teachers to finish an
> accredited teacher certification program involving costly and
> lengthy courses on teaching theory. This system precludes retired
> military personnel, corporate leaders or anyone with expertise
> outside of the education field who would bring real-world
> experience into the classroom." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/297677346.html
>
> 12- The FSP's unique role among libertarian organizations
> ----------
> FSP
> by Stephen Cobb
> "The libertarian failure can be seen in the lack of concrete
> results: by nearly any measure one could name, our ideas have not
> won out. .... As the only libertarian organization performing the
> role of concentrating activist manpower, it is critical that the
> FSP stay focused ...: 'The Free State Project is an effort to
> recruit 20,000 liberty-loving people to move to New Hampshire.'"
> (4/12/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/295827209.html
>
> 13- A taxing meditation
> ----------
> PRI
> by Lloyd Billingsley
> "This year, tax freedom day, the day Americans cease working for
> the government and begin working for themselves, came on April 11,
> the earliest it has been since 1967. While a welcome change, that
> is still not early enough." (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/278233913.html
>
> 14- FASB stumbles stock options
> ----------
> Townhall
> by Alan Reynolds
> "The FASB proposal to require companies to treat the estimated
> fair value of stock options as an actual and current expense rests
> on a dubious conjecture about what the cost of stock options to
> stockholders really is and when it occurs. .... The FASB scheme
> looks like a risky way to repair some problem that has yet to be
> seriously defined." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/301558433.html
>
> 15- Social Security and taxes
> ----------
> FoG
> by James Hamilton
> "Because a financial crisis looms over Social Security, the huge
> tax bite that falls on Americans will only get bigger unless
> something changes. Social Security has to be fixed -- now."
> (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/316391760.html
>
> 16- Parental rights and the pledge
> ----------
> Ifeminists
> by Wendy McElroy
> "Just as separation of church and state should live or die on the
> merits of its substance, so too should the question of a
> noncustodial parent's standing in court. It is a question that
> should not be discarded on the back of a technicality." (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/578330879.html
>
> 17- Dominion and stewardship: believers and the environment
> ----------
> Acton Institute
> by Samuel Gregg
> "As the United States prepares to celebrate Earth Day on April 22,
> people of faith should be wary of a 'neo-pantheism' underlying
> much of the secular environmental agenda." (04/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/795315049.html
>
> 18- Hubris and nemesis
> ----------
> Antiwar.com
> by Nebojsa Malic
> "The wannabe global hegemons seek power, secure in their
> belief in their vast superiority over the rest of
> humanity. Since admitting errors would mean immediate
> adverse consequences, while perpetuating them only gives
> them access to more power, the second choice is
> obviously more appealing." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/106401755.html
>
> 19- "It's so simple, it's ridiculous"
> ----------
> Reason
> by Brian Doherty
> "It's devoted to the belief that the secret forces of the
> universe can be bound by verbal formulas if delivered
> with the proper ritual. There are numerous formulae in
> the tax honesty spellbook .... Which spell is best: The
> summoning of the Sovereign Citizen? The incantation of
> the Constitutional Definition of Income? The banishing
> spell of No Proper Delegation?" (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/122604521.html
>
> 20- Feeling a draft
> ----------
> Antiwar.com
> by Paul Craig Roberts
> "Moderate Shiite clerics, who have been attempting to hold the US
> to its promise of democracy and elections, have indicated that an
> attack on Najaf would lead to a generalized Shiite uprising. Such
> an uprising would involve huge numbers. The calls for more US
> troops would be urgent. The only source of those troops is to
> reinstate the draft." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/103241283.html
>
> 21- How our government evolved
> ----------
> LewRockwell.com
> by Brad Edmonds
> "The market allows the self-interest of consumers to balance that
> of producers. When forcible government steps in, people in
> government are forced to take sides; they will generally take the
> side that benefits them. Defeat always results for one of the
> sides, while free markets tend toward win-win outcomes." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/140648185.html
>
> 22- Private promises, public priorities
> ----------
> TCS
> by Duane Freese
> "Michigan's Gov. Jennifer Granholm says that she has assurances
> from ... John Kerry that he won't pursue stiff fleet fuel economy
> standards on sports utility vehicles that would hurt Michigan's
> auto industry. .... It's true that Kerry has flip-flopped on ...
> the gasoline tax. .... But in the case of CAFE, his remarks have
> been rather confusing." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/313211198.html
>
> 23- Rolling democratic dice in Iraq
> ----------
> Cato Institute
> by Patrick Basham
> "Bush may need to compromise his democratic ideals with a
> healthy dose of pragmatism. What may be desirable in
> Iraq in the short to medium term is democracy lite,
> i.e., democratic gradualism. One must appreciate that
> the United States is attempting to sow the seeds of
> 21st-century political institutions in the soil of a
> 15th-century political culture." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/285445273.html
>
> 24- The media and power
> ----------
> Strike the Root
> by Per Bylund
> "The symbiosis between the media and the government is the
> main reason I distrust whatever is on the news. Next
> time you watch the news on television, take a moment to
> count how much news originates from the government or
> bureaucracy, and how much is really a result from
> investigative, trustworthy journalism." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/206103348.html
>
> 25- Warning: eating can be hazardous to your health
> ----------
> CCF
> by staff
> "In a 1500-word masterpiece, Shaw rightly dismisses Americans'
> growing but flawed sense -- fed by activist-driven food scares --
> that their next bite could be their last." (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/302288634.html
>
> 26- Hybrids in carpool lanes: a nonstarter
> ----------
> LA Times
> by Robert Poole
> "When I was a boy, my father taught me the importance of always
> selecting the right tool for the job. Carpool lanes are a tool for
> managing traffic and making our freeways flow better. There are
> many ways public policy can encourage less-polluting and more
> energy-efficient vehicles. But trying to make HOV lanes energy
> and emissions problems is using the wrong tool for the job."
> (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/249603572.html
>
> 27- A national ID card won't make us safer
> ----------
> Minneapolis Star Tribune/Schneier.com
> by Bruce Schneier
> "[T]he card would be a minor invasion of our privacy, and
> undoubtedly it would add to the growing list of interruptions and
> delays we encounter every day; but we live in dangerous times, we
> live in a new world .... It all sounds so reasonable, but there's
> a lot to disagree with in such an attitude. The potential privacy
> encroachments of an ID card system are far from minor." (4/1/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/588160604.html
>
> 28- Protest is not terrorism
> ----------
> Haaretz
> by staff
> "In addition to the protests of those directly harmed by the
> [security] fence ... there are also groups of Israelis and
> foreigners protesting against it in solidarity with the
> Palestinians. .... Demonstrators must not be made to pay with
> their lives for legitimate civil protest." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/339125664.html
>
> 29- Robin Hood, friend of liberty
> ----------
> LVMI
> by Adam Young
> "As so much in legends, the historical truth isn't what
> matters. Instead it is the legendary deeds of Robin Hood
> that excite us. The man who challenged the state, who
> dared to take what the rotten government claimed to own,
> the man who not only did these deeds himself, but also
> recruited others to help him and in doing so, gained the
> trust and affection of his people." (4/14/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/166262674.html
>
> 30- Why I love the IRS
> ----------
> Loose Cannon Libertarian
> by Garry Reed
> "How anyone can describe taxpaying as 'patriotic' is beyond
> any comprehension I've ever been able to wring from
> Psychology 101. Patriotism demands the perpetual protest
> against taxes. Our nation was born of it. .... The
> reason I love the IRS is the knowledge that once we
> abolish it ... we will have solved 90 percent of this
> nation's politically transmitted diseases." (4/15/04)
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/340806074.html
>
> For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
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> ISIL 2004 world conference
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> ISIL
> ISIL's world conferences keep getting better! 7/21-26 in lovely
> Rotorua, New Zealand, with optional post-conference tour.
> Confirmed speakers include: Elbegdorj Tsakhia, Jan Narveson,
> Louis James, Jim Peron, and many more. Great opportunity to see
> Hobbiton, too. Online reservations (price varies with currency
> fluctuations) available.
> mailto:isil@isil.org
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/781281305.html
>
> 2004 summer seminars in political economy
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> Independent Institute
> General information for II's two summer seminars for high school
> and college students, 6/14-18 and 8/9-13 at the Institute's
> Oakland CA conference center. Enrollment form, more information
> available. Email with questions.
> mailto:cclose@independent.org
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/292596667.html
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> Shoots from the Grassroot Institute, 4/14/04
> ----------
> Hawaii Reporter
> by Richard O Rowland
> "Inviting an Uncivil Society"
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/286365581.html
>
> For more Magazines and Periodic Columns see:
> http://www.free-market.net/directorybycategory/magazines/
>
> Iraq quiz
> ----------
> LewRockwell.com
> by Jim Cox
> Take a twenty question quiz to see how much you know about Iraq.
> Answers are given after the quiz with links for references.
> http://www.free-market.net/rd/145251011.html
>
> For more Games, Surveys, and Tools see:
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