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May I have a little freedom please?!
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Ernest Hancock
I know this is what every level of government here in America is using to justify the confiscation of every bit of wealth they can get their hands on before we are able to turn it over to our children and grandchildren. But I just want to know where
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My Life!
by
Ernest Hancock
America is founded on the ideal that the only legitimate purpose of government is the delegated stewardship, from the people, to protect us from those who would deny us our freedom to be left alone.
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Heroes
by
Ernest Hancock
I’ve taken some time to define for myself the word “hero”.
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Graduating Children or Adults
by
Ernest Hancock
Got Children? How about grandchildren or other children you love? If not, then maybe you have an opinion about how your life is impacted by children educated in government approved schools. I’d like to make some observations and share some experience
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I vote for “Yellow Page Non-Government”
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Ernest Hancock
What if there was an election and nobody came? Would the government’s justification for ruling us go away? I think maybe the various levels of government would argue that we our chance to vote several times a year. That one time they allowed a vote o
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When Johnny Comes Marching Home
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Ernest Hancock
Eventually the Americans that were convinced that they were defending America when they enlisted in the armed services are going to be coming home.
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A Case for Anarchy
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Ernest Hancock
The study of complexity, or chaos, informs us of patterns of regularity that lie hidden in our world, but which spontaneously manifest themselves to generate the order that we like to pretend authorities have created for us.
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Where will all of the water come from?
by
Ernest Hancock
Anyone with a taxpayer funded paycheck (and almost anyone other than a libertarian campaigning for one) will tell you that water is so important that it must be placed into the hands of the government. A libertarian’s natural reflex is exactly the op
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The Libertarian
'IT IS THE INSTITUTIONALLY INDOLENT THAT I AM TALKING ABOUT'
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Vin Suprynowicz
Last week, we started dealing with the mail on my Sept. 11 column about the fading American virtue of self-sufficiency, as hastened by the growth of the welfare state, on display in the person of the mendicant class of New Orleans at the Superdome in
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The Libertarian
STRAIGHT TALK, THE REAL ENDANGERED SPECIES
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Vin Suprynowicz
Haven’t heard enough euphemisms in the John Roberts confirmation hearings, where Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Animal Farm -- that champion of “leaving us alone” who would have armed goons invade our homes and jail us for growing pot or mounting a “bad” w
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The Libertarian
HIGHER WAGES WOULD LIKELY FREEZE OUT KATRINA SURVIVORS
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Vin Suprynowicz
On Sept. 8, President Bush signed an executive order suspending the Davis-Bacon Act and allowing contractors to pay actual going rates to rebuild flood-stricken New Orleans.
The AFL-CIO immediately began squawking. “Employers are all too eager t
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By the Power of the State,... "I Now Pronounce"!
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Ernest Hancock
How is it that state sanction became part of the most private relationship known to human beings?
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The Libertarian
'A BLACK UNDERCLASS ISOLATED BY POVERTY'
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Vin Suprynowicz
Some mail rolled in, responding to my Sept. 11 column on the aggrieved residents of inner-city New Orleans.
These were residents who, admittedly, had been ordered to the Superdome by city authorities despite the woeful lack of supplies or facili
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The Libertarian
NATURE CULT'S DEVIOUS TACTICS EXPOSED
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Vin Suprynowicz
Nature cultists have been lying for decades about the supposedly “devastating” impacts of ranching, mining, lumbering, and just about any other productive use of the Western lands that you can think of.
One of their favorite tactics is to post m
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The Libertarian
NEVADA CORPORATIONS -- A 'FRAUDULENT SCHEME'?
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Vin Suprynowicz
There is a final
defense against excessive taxation -- one that tyrants and their henchmen have
been railing against since Pharaoh sent his armies chasing Moses to the Red Sea.
Those who face unacceptable levels of confiscation of their li
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The Libertarian
WHAT CAN 70 YEARS OF WELFARE PRODUCE?
by
Vin Suprynowicz
Juicier details will doubtless
emerge -- I’m betting we’ll see faked-up emergency response plans; levee repair
money diverted to build fancy marinas, riverboats, and casinos; the “best and
the bravest” abandoning their posts and the buses that
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The Libertarian
JOE STALIN, 'CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN'
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Vin Suprynowicz
A few worthwhile books have
crossed the desk lately, the most notable being Thomas E. Woods’ “Politically
Incorrect Guide to American History,” Regnery, $19.95.
This is a non-threatening 246-page large-format paperback. In fact, what I
mis
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The Libertarian
'LABOR' IN THE MODERN AGE
by
Vin Suprynowicz
Labor Day has a different history in
America than in Europe, points out Julia Vitullo-Martin, a senior fellow at the
Manhattan Institute and editor of the book “Breaking Away: The Future of
Cities.”
Europe’s Labor Day observance was announ
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The Libertarian
LET'S NOT CONFUSE 'RIGHTS' WITH MANDATES AND HANDOUTS
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Vin Suprynowicz
Being a
libertarian, I’m pro-choice -- and against government intervention -- in just
about everything. Given the levels of privacy and intimacy involved, that
certainly applies to people’s reproductive decisions.
Unfortunately, many who c
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The Libertarian
TRAFFIC PLANNERS MISUSE TAX MONEY FOR ONE-SIDED AD BLITZ
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Vin Suprynowicz
“Transportation For All? It’s your call,” advise the massive billboards
that stare down at Las Vegas drivers in the Spaghetti Bowl and along other major
travelways this month.
The irony is, those drivers’ own tax dollars are being used in th
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The Libertarian
AND THE TYRANT SAID, 'I WANT YOUR LAND, IT'S PRETTY'
by
Vin Suprynowicz
The U.S. Supreme Court’s execrable
Kelo vs. New London decision -- holding local government can seize any property,
no matter how prosperous, and turn it over to a different private owner so long
as this is held to somehow benefit the amorphous
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The Libertarian
'TEACHER SHORTAGE' A BUREAUCRATIC FRAUD
by
Vin Suprynowicz
Despite flying in bands of
Philippine mercenaries armed with sneakers, chalk and pointers, the gargantuan
Clark County School District claims it’s still short 287 teachers to start the
school year, and will fill those gaps with long-term substi
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The Libertarian
BUT WHO WILL DECIDE WHICH JOBS ARE 'COMPARABLE'?
by
Vin Suprynowicz
For the record, I see little
evidence President Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge John G. Roberts of
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, an honors graduate of
both Harvard College and Harvard Law who has argued 39 c
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The Libertarian
QUICK FIX FOR GLOBAL WARMING: DEMOLISH 3 MILLION HOMES
by
Vin Suprynowicz
How far would the “global
warming” loonies go if left to their own devices?
“One item that may attract the Brits’ attention,” reports the July newsletter
of Arizona-based Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (
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The Libertarian
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY? NOT IN HIS BACK YARD
by
Vin Suprynowicz
The forces of political correctness
strive mightily to promote “alternative” energy sources at every turn -- and
regardless of the cost or inconvenience to everyone else.
For example, always-PC California for years has required auto manufact
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The Libertarian
UNIONS CLOSE RANKS AROUND BAD TEACHERS
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Vin Suprynowicz
What happens to the staff of a
unionized, government-run school that gets a reputation for being a “bad”
school, whether that be for academic performance, or behavioral problems, or
(all too often) both?
The few good teachers promptly use
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The Libertarian
WHO CALLED JOE STALIN 'A CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN'?
by
Vin Suprynowicz
A few worthwhile books have
crossed the desk lately, the most notable being Thomas E. Woods’ “Politically
Incorrect Guide to American History,” Regnery, $19.95.
This is a non-threatening 246-page large-format paperback. In fact, what I
mis
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The Libertarian
SOME SUSPICIOUS PRISON STATISTICS
by
Vin Suprynowicz
Demonstrating his macho
qualities for reporters (at least, after the fashion of lawyer-politicians in
business suits) California Attorney General Bill Lockyer bragged not long ago
that he would like to “personally escort” Enron CEO Kenneth Lay
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The Libertarian
ALLOWING CITIZEN SELF-DEFENSE 'BORDERS ON INSANITY'
by
Vin Suprynowicz
(Originally appeared in
"Shotgun News")
I wish I could say it was amusing, but that would be disingenuous. It’s more
like having to deal with a child who continually wakes up screaming that there
are monsters under the bed.
(Th
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The Libertarian
LAWYER SEEKS TO CHANGE HOW WE EAT, TALK
by
Vin Suprynowicz
John Banzhaf, a professor of “public
interest law” at George Washington University Law School, is famous enough to
merit his own “hostile” Web site at www.banzhafwatch.com, where his critics
complain
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