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Number 713, March 24, 2013
"Nobel Peace Laureate with a Kill List"


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The Impeachable Offenses of Barack Hussein Obama
by Terence James Mason
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Letters to the Editor
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Separating Medicine and State
by L. Neil Smith
Readers have occasionally complained that my columns are too conversational, too personal, or too intimate. That's okay with me. I'm a novelist by persuasion, and, as such, my interest, above all, is in individual character—more so, it seems, with every year that passes. In this instance—the politics of what's generally referred to as "healthcare" (for many reasons, I don't care for that expression, myself)—that may be a good thing. In many ways, there is nothing more intimate, more personal, and, one hopes, more conversational than one's relationship with one's "primary healthcare provider", another politically charged catchphrase that tends to trigger my reflex to vomit. remotely.
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Musings on Freedom
by Neale Osborn
I just wrote this, in response to a forum on the 1st Amendment, and some people's claim that America was never free, and cannot be. We do happen to live in the greatest experiment/country mankind has tried so far. We started out with the highest ideals. We started out flawed, with slavery and a limited "citizenry", but we created the mechanism to correct those flaws. Some we corrected relatively painlessly, others took bloodshed and a huge chunk of time. Many here have told me "If you don't like the way things are done here, you damn anarchist/libertarian/republican/whatever, move somewhere else!" (usually, they want me in Somalia, because they think Somalia is a volunary anarchy..... but I digress). my response is always the same. "No. America may not be perfect, but unlike any other country in the world, we have two things going for us. We deliberately set this country up so that We, the People, providing we want to work at it, can change the direction of this country at any time.
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What is Freedom?
by L. Neil Smith
Freedom is the state of not being coerced by any human or human institution. That's all there is to it. Weather is not coercion. Gravity is not coercion. he Laws of Thermodynamics are not coercion. Only human beings and the groups they build can coerce us, which is the main reason we have guns.
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Neale's Weekly Gun Rant, Volume 2
by Neale Osborn
Old Business—Dinnae ken hoo Ah did it, but Ah forgot summat last week. (Channeling my inner Scotsman) But before I address it, please note—this is in NO WAY endorsing TSA when I happen to support an action by Director Pistol (Gotta love the name!) Last week, TSA announced it was going to allow small pocketknives on planes, and people freaked out. Why, I do not know. Remember 9/11/2001? 19 Arab men (no, I do not believe GWB or the Isareali's took down the Twin Towers) armed with boxcutters hijacked a bunch of sheep (and one plane of pissed off Scotties) and altered forever the face of America. Now, a boxcutter has a razor blade as it's sharp edge. The razor blade protrudes no more than 1 inch from the handle. TSA will now allow knives with blades 2 1/8th inches to be carried on planes. IF the 44 people on Flight 93 had posessed knives of the type now being permitted, they might not have crashed into a PA cornfield. Perhaps the Twin Towers would still stand. Perhaps the Pentagon would..... never mind—that wasn't such a bad thing. Perhaps 4997 US soldiers would still live. Hell, Dubbya mighta lost in 2004. Who knows? Now, do not get me wrong—I advocate allowing any and all passengers to verify their handguns carry only frangibles rated for airframe safety, then carry their weapons on board. But these tiny knives are a (tiny) step in the right direction.
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CHAPTER SIX: Practice, Practice, Practice
An Excerpt From General Jenny

by Forthcoming by L. Neil Smith AND Craig Franklin
This is the "secret project" I've been working on, with my old friend, libertarian singer-composer Craig Franklin. We hope you like it.
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The Nobel Peace Laureate with a Kill List
by Wendy McElroy
On February 5, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney offered a rare defense of America's drone policy. He stated, "These strikes are legal, they are ethical, and they are wise." The rarity of his statement arises from the fact that the White House has stonewalled reporters on the drone program since its inception.
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Atlantea The Beautiful No. 219
by L. Neil Smith and Rex May
Number 219 of a weekly cartoon series.
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Next week, I will be reviewing one of the most remarkably refreshing books I've read in the last ten years, Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism (New Atlantis Books, 2011).

You may recognize Zubrin as the author of the "Mars Direct" plan, The Case for Mars, and as founder of the Mars Society. He has also written or co-written a great many other books on a variety of topics. Merchants of Despair is a hell of a ride, a bracing blast of sanity in a world gone thoroughly insane.

While you're waiting for my full review, my lovely and talented wife Cathy has, via our friend Gary Margetson, discovered a similar mind, with similar ideas at work. The website WattsUpWithThat.com has republished an article by Ross McKitrick called "Earth Hour: A Dissent" McKitrick reintroduces oxygen into the stifling, fetid atmosphere of anti-technological, anti-humanist climate madness.

Go here and rejoice:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/17/earth-hour-a-dissent/

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