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Number 661, March 11, 2012
A great artificial hysterical fuss.

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(Yes I used this in issue 653)


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Down With Power
by L. Neil Smith
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The unabridged audio version of my 1983 novel The Nagasaki Vector, brilliantly read by the great libertarian radio host Brian Wilson, is finally available for purchase.

Many feel that this is the funniest book I've written so far—at least intentionally—and features our old friend Win Bear, G. Howell Nahuatl, a sapient coyote, time traveler Bernie Gruenblum, and Georgie, the time machine who loves him.

The price: $12.99.
The place: CD Baby.

I understand that it will soon be available in iTunes, as well.

—L. Neil Smith

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Sweeter Than Wine
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EDITORIAL MATTERS:

A WORD FROM THE PUBLISHER

Our last edition of L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise started out with a photograph of Rush Limbaugh, cleverly doctored so that his mouth more nearly resembled the orifice at the other end of his gastro-intestinal channel. It was pretty well done, and the fact that the man was holding a cigar made it even more horrible for some reason.

But this was not, in my opinion, TLE's finest hour; had I known of it in advance, we would not have run the photograph for a number of reasons. One of them is that, having been plenty rough on the Formerly Fat Flumpus myself over the years, whenever I felt he deserved it, I don't ever want to be seen as leaping onto a dogpile—especially a "progressive" dogpile. When this publication or its publisher has something to say, we can damned well say it on our own, thank you very much. You will see my opinion about the Sandra Fluke dust-up somewhere below.

On the other hand, as publisher of this weekly exercise in freedom of speech, I have always left decisions like this to the small number of valiant individuals who have consented to be its editor. In the seventeen amazing years that it has been online, I have often been surprised as a result of this policy, sometimes one way, sometimes the other.

But I have never been bored.

So am I apologizing for having run the work of art in question? Absolutely not. I'm simply distinguishing my personal opinion in the matter from that of others who have helped to make L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise the most consistently interesting online publication in the movement and sometimes, at need, its conscience, as well.

L. Neil Smith
Publisher and Senior Columnist
L. Neil Smith's THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

What can I say, if it's funny, I'll run with it!

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A Sign of Weakness
by L. Neil Smith
Unless you've spent the week down at the bottom of an abandoned missile silo, you know that a young female law student gained some notoriety by testifying before a Congressional hearing in favor of forcibly compelling a religious institution that she chose to educate her to shell out—through some kind of student insurance program, I gather—for contraceptives of which that institution morally disapproves.
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Anarchy, Murder and Mayhem for Fun and Profit
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What would be the best way to start a revolution, and not get caught? I have spent twenty-plus years in the computer industry mostly in the software development end of it. One day, this story premise came to me in a moment of inspiration: What if a piece of software was directing the assassination of certain people? That story premise eventually became my first published novel, KILL CODE.
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Just as I Predicted
by Sean Gangol
Not too long after Obama's inauguration in 2009, I wrote an article titled "The Age of Obama" where I predicted that Obama's so-called stimulus plan would not only become an utter failure, but it would actually prolong the economic crisis that we were in. I also predicted that Obama would find another conflict to intervene with military force so that he could distract the public from all the economic problems that we would be facing. In that same article I also predicted that the subsidiaries given to so-called green companies would not create jobs like Obama promised, but instead become a series of black holes that would devour our tax dollars.
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The State vs. Superpowers
by Boris Karpa
Imagine for a moment you had a minor superpower. Let us say, for example, that you could sense the magnetic fields emitted by electronics and electric appliances. You could feel computer labs through the walls, or trace the power lines in the walls of your house by touching the wall with your finger. That would be really great, wouldn't it? It would be the sort of thing people write about in science-fiction novels.
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Atlantea The Beautiful No. 167
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Number 167 of a weekly cartoon series.
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The unabridged audio version of my 1983 novel The Nagasaki Vector, brilliantly read by the great libertarian radio host Brian Wilson, is finally available for purchase.

Many feel that this is the funniest book I've written so far—at least intentionally—and features our old friend Win Bear, G. Howell Nahuatl, a sapient coyote, time traveler Bernie Gruenblum, and Georgie, the time machine who loves him.

The price: $12.99.

The place: CD Baby.

I understand that it will soon be available in iTunes, as well.

—L. Neil Smith


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Down With Power
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Lever Action
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Sweeter Than Wine
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Roswell, Texas
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