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The Libertarian
I'M STICKIN' WITH THE UNION
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Vin Suprynowicz
Let’s start a union.
Oh, I have my differences with modern organized labor. They’ve long since abandoned George Meany’s sensible advice to remain non-partisan, instead aligning themselves with the freakiest, most far-left “progressive” social ag
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The Libertarian
WHIP ME, HURT ME, SUE ME
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Vin Suprynowicz
In popular literature, the chubby loser who eagerly pays the stern dominatrix in the black corset to whip, denigrate and otherwise abuse him is an object both of humor and of pathos.
In Washington, he’s called the Environmental Protection Agency
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The Libertarian
CALIFORNIANS DISCOVER INDUSTRY NOT YET
CRIPPLED, SET QUICKLY TO WORK
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Vin Suprynowicz
Guess what?
Evoking a level of public surprise not seen since the last grizzled Japanese World War II straggler was found subsisting on coconuts and taro on some abandoned Pacific outpost, California regulators recently discovered -- less than 2
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Touchscreen Voting Ripe for Fraud
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Ernest Hancock
Until voting computers are randomly validated with paper ballots at a high enough percentage (say, 100%) to ensure their accuracy, I choose not to believe that the people support what has happened to their government.
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The Libertarian
'THE UNLIMITED POWER OF THE SWORD'
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Vin Suprynowicz
A couple of loyal readers asked me, in response to my recent evisceration of the discredited “militia clause” argument, “But Vin, do you think the Founders would have written the Second Amendment that way if they’d known we’d have Uzis”?
Leaving
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The Libertarian
BUDGET 'CUTS' ARE MOSTLY SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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Vin Suprynowicz
It’s too bad the rhetorical smoke and steam generated in the House budget battle in Washington Monday couldn’t be funneled into a pipeline -- they might have saved millions in home heating costs in the frigid Northeast.
Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.,
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The Libertarian
HEARINGS NEEDED ON SECRET WIRETAPS
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Vin Suprynowicz
The New York Times disclosed last week that in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, President Bush has authorized the National Security Agency to monitor telephone conversations and e-mails within the United States.
The president acknowledge
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The Libertarian
BUG LOVERS BLOCK BORDER FENCE FOR TWO YEARS
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Vin Suprynowicz
Quick: What powers are granted by the Constitution to the Department of Homeland Security?
No, it doesn’t matter that there was no such department till recent years. The Constitution grants its limited powers to “the executive” -- the president
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The Libertarian
OUR SECOND NATIONAL HOLIDAY
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Vin Suprynowicz
Americans make a big hubbub over the Fourth of July.
True, the victory of 1781 was an amazing triumph, and the vision of those gathered in Philadelphia five years before -- that men may rightfully form or disband governments at will, for the h
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Fascist Nation
Bill of Rights Day: December 15th
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Powell Gammill
A time to celebrate our heritage of recognising the rights of humans, including the right to our life free from interference of others and to keep the product of our labors and the products we freely trade amongst one another.
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The Libertarian
FANS OF A DISARMED PEASANTRY RECYCLE SAME OLD LIES
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Vin Suprynowicz
My column of last week, dealing with uniformed cops shooting undercover cops, and the bizarre proposal that to solve this problem undercover cops must stop carrying guns so their uniformed brethren can continue to feel free to shoot any black man in
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The Libertarian
BATF CHANGES RULES OF THE GAME IN NEVADA
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Vin Suprynowicz
Originally published in Shotgun News Magazine
Despite the Constitution, only in Vermont (and now Alaska) can Americans carry a concealed firearm without a government “permit,” and not worry about being put in jail.
So, wishing to do t
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The Libertarian
THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND TYRANNY, PORKFAT, AND JOB SECURITY
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Vin Suprynowicz
Large sections of the Constitution and Bill of Rights may lie in tatters (“I’m seizing this. No, I don’t have to show you any advance list of what we can seize. Shut up and stand over there. I’m going to feel your genitals now with the back of my han
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The Libertarian
IF A BLACK MAN IS ARMED, IS HE 'A CRIMINAL'?
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Vin Suprynowicz
An "old police tradition of requiring off-duty officers to carry their weapons -- 'always armed, always on duty' -- is being scaled back in police departments nationwide following the shootings of off-duty officers by colleagues who thought they were
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The Libertarian
FORCED CHARITY DOESN'T MAKE THINGS MORE 'AFFORDABLE'
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Vin Suprynowicz
The Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas delivered a report to the Clark County Growth Task Force Nov. 22, recommending the establishment of a community land trust that could buy federal land at a discount (in
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Fascist Nation
Time for the Death Penalty to Die
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Powell Gammill
Ray Krone is the 100th person cleanly exonerated and freed from death row over the past 30 years!
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The Libertarian
FOR WHAT DO WE GIVE OUR THANKS?
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Vin Suprynowicz
And so, as our modern gladiators chase a pigskin down the field in Dallas or Detroit, we settle into our living rooms, loosen our belts, and remind the little ones this is the day we echo the thanks of the Pilgrims, who gathered in the autumn of 1621
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The Libertarian
IT'S PAYDAY; GOT YOUR WHEELBARROW?
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Vin Suprynowicz
It’s human nature. The doctor tells us our symptoms are more serious than we thought, that the repercussions could be catastrophic if we don’t make drastic changes in our diet, lifestyle, and exercise regimen immediately.
But we find some pills
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The Libertarian
IT'S PAYDAY; GOT YOUR WHEELBARROW?
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Vin Suprynowicz
It’s human nature. The doctor tells us our symptoms are more serious than we thought, that the repercussions could be catastrophic if we don’t make drastic changes in our diet, lifestyle, and exercise regimen immediately.
But we find some pills
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The Libertarian
THE AMERICAN DREAM: A TENEMENT ON THE TROLLY LINE?
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Vin Suprynowicz
Another group of East Coast academics has done another study on fast-growing American urban areas (Las Vegas right up there, of course), warning that this kind of “sprawl” is going to cost us.
Las Vegas ranks 15th on this latest list of communit
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Something To Talk About
SHOW ME THE MONEY!
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Rachel Gluck
Ah, yes. It’s a “Jerry Maguire” classic phrase most of us can steal and use from time to time in life, especially when scammed. We want our due, and we don’t care how the offending party tries to get out of paying us our due (whether in letters of a
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The Libertarian
WHAT NEXT, A 'WAR AGAINST THE DRAG BUNT'?
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Vin Suprynowicz
It’s widely asserted we’re fighting a “war on terror.” But that’s absurd.
Terror is a tactic -- an attempt to undermine the morale of a much stronger foe, whom the “terrorists” know they cannot defeat in traditional battle.
When we sent Joh
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The Libertarian
THE NEW KID IN TOWN
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Vin Suprynowicz
Billboards and magazine covers now display teasing images of feminine pulchritude that our grandparents would have considered shocking. Not to mention the far more hardcore material now available to any schoolchild with a few clicks of the mouse.
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The Libertarian
'NEARER MY GOD TO THEE'
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Vin Suprynowicz
Probably the California emigres should have to pass a brief economics test before being welcomed as Nevada voters. Something along the lines of: “Do you understand the role state government played in driving you from the Golden State? Do you agree no
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The Libertarian
'IT'S TO GET US USED TO SHOWING OUR PAPERS'
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Vin Suprynowicz
Dawn Hansen is Nevada chairman of Mothers Against the Draft. Her husband, Christopher Hansen, is the paralegal and retired contractor who served as chairman of last year’s failed “Axe the Tax” tax-rollback petition drive. The couple are active in the
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WHY A BACKLASH?
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Rachel Gluck
This week, I tackle the timely question of why there is a backlash against the feminist movement coming from younger women in our twenties and thirties. The answer seems obvious: we didn’t live through the feminist movement, and, therefore, we take
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The Libertarian
THEY ARE INTENT ON DISARMING US
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Vin Suprynowicz
Sure enough. I predicted, when the videos started streaming back to America, showing our troops disarming civilians in Bosnia, Somalia, and more recently Iraq, that these brave lads and lasses were merely being trained for the new official version of
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The Libertarian
THE PEASANTS DARE CLAIM TITLE TO THEIR LANDS?
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Vin Suprynowicz
There are some who believe government has almost unlimited power to dictate what we can and cannot do with our own property.
True, they occasionally run up against that inconvenient Fifth Amendment, which says land owners must be compensated whe
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The Libertarian
A FAMILIAR SET OF ANTI-CAPITALIST SOUND BYTES
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Vin Suprynowicz
Quite a bit of response to my parking-ticket column last week. Winning the award for the most distant correspondent is Don Morrison of Toronto, who writes “The death of every major North American city must be parking. Up here in Toronto our city coun
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The Libertarian
MODEST SPENDING CUTS SEND DEMS SCAMPERING
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Vin Suprynowicz
No, the war in Iraq is not cheap, and neither was the creation of the shambling giant known as the Department of Homeland Security. But those aren’t the main reasons federal spending has grown far faster under President Bush than under his Democratic
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