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In Flanders field the poppies blow
Written by: Dr. John McCrae (1872-1918)
Having gotten the Traditional Memorial Day Poem out of the way, you
notice this issue islike I warned you last weekslightly late.
The reason being to convey the results of Sunday's Libertarian Party
Convention nominating shindig to a world waiting with ... you know, and
a full essay by Our Publisher, Mr. L. Neil Smith.
Ken Holder
Letters to the Editor
On Texas Libertarianism and Secession
The Single Biggest Problem
Molon Labe: The World's Most Authoritarian Freedom Book
Two Reviews of Flight from Eden
Poor Rev. Malthus; Still Wrong After All These Years
Show and Tell Me Everything
The Kaptain's Log
Death by Theory?
Michael Badnarik: The LP Picks a Winner
"That Guy Scares Me", by Tom Toles
(Thanks to Marc Brands Liberty for pointing us to this.)
Number 273, May 30, 2004
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the
ones you want to concentrate on."
President George W. Bush, speaking at a Gridiron Club dinner,
Washington, D.C., March 2001
EDITORIAL MATTERS:
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
in Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
in Flanders fields.
Your Mr. Ed
ARTICLES
Letters from Alan R. Weiss, EJ Totty, Carl Bussjaeger,
Edward Nash Jr., Steve Seech, Larry, Jeff Williams, and Randall D. Langkraehr:
FULL STORY
by Alan R. Weiss
Now thenpull up a chair, young feller .... I'm fixin' to tell
you why Texas secession is highly unlikely, a libertarian one even
less so.
FULL STORY
by Ron Beatty
To me, it seems as if the single biggest problem in this country
today, after government, is education. No longer are our children required to learn
to think, but only to memorize, with the material to be memorized strictly controlled by
teachers, school boards, and religious groups.
FULL STORY
by Debunker Hill
Molon Labe by Boston T. Party claims to be a novel about
40,000 libertarians moving to Wyoming and turning it into a free
state. Don't believe that claim. "Molon Labe" isn't a novel and it
isn't about 40,000 libertarians. It is actually about one surprising
authoritarianthe author himself.
FULL STORY
by Ron Beatty and Ken Holder
I was just cruising through libertarian web-sites one day, and came
across one hosted by Kathryn A. Graham. I looked through the site,
and there were several short stories and a bunch of articles, some
of which had appeared in TLE. I found that I enjoyed the stories
and the articles, so I looked at the page which featured this book,
Flight from Eden.
FULL STORY
by Charles Stone, Jr.
In 1798, an English clergyman, Reverend Thomas R. Malthus issued his
famous law of population. He warned that humanity's increasing
fertility would soon outstrip the earth's capacity to provide
sustenance. In an essay on the "Principle of Population," Malthus
unveiled his projections on how populations would grow exponentially
and asserted that "subsistence increases only in an arithmetical
ratio." Thus, population would run itself out of room and resources
unless action was taken.
FULL STORY
by Lady Liberty
It likely comes as no real surprise to anybody that some of my
friends consider me the "go to" person whenever some question of
civil liberties arises. So when the phone rang last week and a
friend told me he needed my opinion on a matter of rights, I was
ready to tell him what I knew, or to steer him in the direction of
an appropriate web site for more information. But every time I think
I'm prepared, it turns out that the forces of authority have gone
just a little further than I could have expected, and I must
overcome my disgust just to deal with some matter that should never
have become an issue in the first place.
FULL STORY
Religious War in the 21st Century
by Kaptain Kanada, aka Manuel Miles
"They are puritans, uncomfortable with suggestiveness in speech
or dress. They are deeply suspicious of the corrupting influence
of... [rock 'n' roll] music. They hate drugs. They believe in
patriotism... They want to get tough on criminals, and have no
problem with enforcing the death penalty. They see military service
as the crowning glory of the individual's relationship with the
state, and they believe that a country's leaders, from the
schoolhouse to the very top, should be given respect and
considerable leeway to carry out their responsibilities."
That sounds like yet another article about the neocons of the Bush
Imperium, but it's actually a quote from Brothers In Arms, by
William Broyles, Jr, and he was writing of socialist Viet Nam ca
1985. I cite this description of an atheist regime to demonstrate
my thesis that a religious war is being fought in the third
Millennium between worshipers of the State and those who truly
follow God. ["Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I
came not to send peace, but a sword."Matthew 10: 34]
FULL STORY
by Wendy McElroy
The little boy Bruce Reimer was never had a chance. As an adult, he
chose suicide on May 4th rather than live in unbearable torment.
Underlying his death is a theory that still impacts little boys
across North America: namely, that sexual identity comes from
nurture not nature and, so, can be entirely determined by proper
social conditioning.
FULL STORY
by L. Neil Smith
It gives me more pleasure than I can possibly express to be able
to announceto the three or four cave-dwellers who haven't heard
the news yet that the Libertarian Party's nomination for President
was won on the third ballot this past Sunday, May 30, 2004 by Michael
Badnarik.
FULL STORY
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