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Number 680, July 22, 2012
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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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THE CURRENT ISSUE

EDITORIAL MATTERS:

Sorry this issue is late. Them ol' lightening storms tend to cut-off the flow of electrons.

First: Smith book nominated for Freedom Book Club's Book of the Month:

Greetings Mr. Smith:

It is with great pleasure that I inform you that your book, Down with Power: Libertarian Policy in a Time of Crisis, has been nominated as Finalist C on freedombookclub.com. There are three other finalists, one of which will become our club's next Book of the Month.

The Book of the Month is chosen by participants in our preference poll. The poll is open to all, and the rules governing the voting are posted on our website. The URL for the preference poll is freedombookclub.com

It is our goal to garner greater exposure to all the finalists on our website, and to make our Book of the Month a best seller. If your book is selected as Book of the Month, it will further be considered for our annual literary award.

Thanks for writing.

Be seeing you,
FURB
managing editor

freedombookclub.com
making freedom a best seller

So go cast your vote, y'all. And now:

A Word from the Publisher

Here we are with another remarkable "coincidence".

There hasn't been a shooting like this week's in Aurora, Colorado, for a relatively long time. But now—Barack Obama's and Eric Holder's "Operation Fast and Furious" having failed miserably to inspire more victim disarmament the way it was intended to—and just a week before a Senate vote on the United Nations Small Arms Treaty, the enemies of liberty have fallen back on an older, tried-and-true tactic. All of a sudden there's another spectacular, photogenic, all too convenient mass killing of the kind that was fairly obviously manufactured and used in England and Australia as an excuse to disarm those populations completely.

I have written on this subject before—in fact, it was almost the first thing I ever wrote editorials about—listing the many incidents of this type that have been used to advance government control and confiscation of privately-owned weapons. This kind of "coincidence" has happened far too often to ignore any more. Just when there's legislation under consideration, the very weapons that are the legislative target—in this case, reportedly, an AK-47—are involved in an event the media can really get their teeth into.

Although I agree that investigating Barack Obama's fraudulent identity is important, perhaps a little of the investigative power mustered to do that should be retasked to look into Parallax View events like this one.

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

My first question (as always) was "did anybody shoot back?" And the answer is people in Aurora, Colorado aren't "allowed" to bear arms for defense of themselves and others. I suggest lynching the ones who think they own the residents of Aurora, Colorado. (Is there any other way to get rid of them?)

And then there's this:

Quotas Limiting Male Science Enrollment: The New Liberal War on Science
by Hans Bader

And two articles to consider by J. Neil Schulman:

"Aaron Sorkin, You Magnificent Bastard!"

and

Stopping the jokers

Happy reading!

Happy trails!

Ken Holder
Editor-in-Chief

editor@ncc-1776.org


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ARTICLES

Nullification Act

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Letters to the Editor
from Bill St. Clair, Bob Gibson, R. Sheets, from A.X. Perez, Ann Morgan, P. Scott Williams, Laird Minor, Paul Konig, Neale Osborn, Richard D. Bartucci, Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder), Barry Smith, and Renata Amy Russell
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Post-Traumatic School Disorder
by Bob Wallace
I have only one recurring nightmare, which I have about once a year, and have had since I graduated high school. It is the last day of my senior year, and I suddenly realize there is a required class that I have not been to all year. Unless I take the final and pass it, I will have to go another year, while all my friends are away at college. I will be 18 years old, stuck for another year with a class of 17-year-olds. It gives me the exact same feeling as being a high school senior and being returned to first grade. "You have to repeat everything from first grade to high school...you'll be 30 when you finally graduate high school." It's like being an adult and forced to sit at the kiddie table all your life during Christmas.
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The Forward Observer
by Bill Koehler
The manure spreader at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue says that success is business is not because of our efforts but the results of help which we received form "others".
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Learn Something New Every Day ...
by Tom Knapp
This, in a USA Today story about the 30-year mortgage rate hitting a new record low, caught my eye (emphasis mine):
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This Theater is a Gun-Free Zone—Feel Better Now?
by Rex May
A liberal friend of mine in Australia got sarcastic about my POST concerning Piers Morgan's reaction to the Aurora massacre, saying in part:
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No Guarantees
by Susan Callaway
The "news," blogosphere, and almost every forum on the internet is ablaze with speculations and pontifications regarding the latest mass murder in Aurora, Colorado. The sheer volume of statist and self serving posturing, jumps to conclusions absent facts, and plain old stupidity are almost as staggering as the actual death toll.
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Choose the Counter-Establishment Economy
by Jim Davidson
We aren't well served by pretending that a constitutionally limited government worked out. Yet we see the pretence every election year, as millions of Americans go to the polls and cast votes, some of which are counted. Some portion of the counted votes are reported; many who have cast write-in votes and third-party-candidate votes have noticed their votes are not reported by election officials. Tens of millions of dollars were spent, again, this year, by liberty-oriented Americans supporting Ron Paul. At least millions of dollars are likely to be spent by libertarians supporting Gary Johnson. To what end?
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Atlantea The Beautiful No. 186
by L. Neil Smith and Rex May
Number 186 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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