ARTICLES

Letters to the Editor
from Dennis Lee Wilson, Michael T. Bradshaw, Jim Davidson, Lady Liberty, the Editor, and The Free State Project
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A Message From The Publisher
by L. Neil Smith
You may have read my article in last week's TLE, "The Boys Who Cried Terrorism". When I wrote it, I had no idea that the flapdoodle that had inspired it—the clear and present danger to our homeland security represented by those heinous villains Chapstick and Perrier and their ilk—had stricken anybody else as the transparent hoax it is. Boy, was I ever wrong!
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We're Not Beaten Yet!
by Lady Liberty
This is a story, at least in part, of three women. They're separated by years and individual circumstances, but they're tied together by something I don't doubt they'd all prefer they didn't have in common.
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". . .to institute new Government, laying its foundation. . ."
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
by Dennis Lee Wilson
From Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, dated 1776: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
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World Trade Center: See It Again, For The First Time
by Jonathan David Morris
A guy I know told me the other day he doesn't plan on seeing Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. When I asked him why, he told me he doesn't feel the need to "relive" September 11th. I thought this remark was somewhat unusual.
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Fear Itself
by Chris Claypoole
Why are so many Americans so afraid of the risk of dying in a terrorist attack? It has been pointed out in many venues that such a risk is negligible compared to many of our everyday activities. Recently, Ronald Bailey, Reason magazine's science correspondent, compared the risk of dying from a terrorist attack to dying from events like drowning, being murdered, struck by lightning, or perishing in a "catastrophic asteroid strike." While some death from some scenarios are even more unlikely than that from a terrorist attack, he concludes at one point, "your risk of dying in a plausible terrorist attack is much lower than your risk of dying in a car accident, by walking across the street, by drowning, in a fire, by falling, or by being murdered."
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Control-Freak News
Week of 006-08-14
by E.J. Totty
Being free of control freaks entails just one thing: Disallow them any degree of power.
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Wrongfully Convicted Man Freed
by Wendy McElroy
"Uncle Clarence killed Grandma." That sentence spoken in 1998 by six-year-old Brooke Sutton initiated a seven-year nightmare for Inmate Number A375856, who was convicted of murder and child rape. The nightmare ended on Dec. 15, 2005 when the State of Ohio released Clarence Elkins and agreed to pay him more than $1 million for wrongful imprisonment.
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