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  • Nov 1, 2004

    Vote For Badnarik!

    by Liberty and Power

    Like Roderick T. Long, I too intend to vote for Michael Badnarik. His post directly below makes mention of my most important reason, the historical model of third party success. His David Friedman quote goes precisely to the point. You don’t have to take power to profoundly influence policy. Even though the Socialists are on the ballot in only eight states this year they are still the most successful third party
  • Nov 1, 2004

    Kerry or Badnarik?

    by Liberty and Power

    [cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire]

    FERRIS: Are you going to be as impractical as that?
    REARDEN: The evaluation of an action as"practical," Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice.
    FERRIS: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else?
    REARDEN: That is what I am doing right now.

          -- Ayn Rand,
  • Oct 31, 2004

    Off the Breeders and Snuff the Geezers

    by Liberty and Power

    The IRS has begun an investigation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as a first step in revoking the organization's tax exemption. And a good thing too. They caught Julian Bond, the NAACP's president, making an anti Bush speech at the civil rights group's annual convention. Tax exempt organizations are not allowed to engage in political activities unless they are churches in which case it is OK. Bond has been accused of being a non-believer and
  • Oct 31, 2004

    Why I Support Kerry, Part I

    by Liberty and Power

    While it undoubtedly might cause great distress to some of my colleagues here and elsewhere, I have decided that I have no choice but to vote for John Kerry on Tuesday, given what I consider to be the significant and unprecedented danger represented by the prospect of a second Bush term. I explain some of my reasons in this entry, of which this is an excerpt:

    It is a profound indictment of the media's general
  • Oct 30, 2004

    Well, Hello, Osama, Not so Glad to Have You Back in Town

    by Liberty and Power

    Just as America had lost itself inside its private crystal ball where the campaign snow flakes had fuzzed out every shape and color, who should come a tap-tap-tapping on the glass but Osama bin Laden. There was his long stringy self on our TV screens saying a whole bunch of things no American public figure will treat seriously, though the failure to do so will cost more lives, many of whom will be our own.

    The American government did its level best to prevent Al Jazeera te

  • Oct 29, 2004

    Bin Ladin's Motives

    by Liberty and Power


    My guess is that Bin Ladin released his recent tape because he thinks it will help Bush. It may bump off the news the deep do-do about Al Qa Qaa and other issues that hurt Bush and replace them with the bogus "Bush as strong leader against terror” theme that polls suggest helps Uncurious George among the gullible morons that comprise most of the electorate. Bin Ladin, I think, would prefer a Bush victory because the mess in Iraq helps Bin Ladin's cause and Bush will have a harder
  • Oct 29, 2004

    Wolves Howl While Wee Persons Try to Register

    by Liberty and Power

    Mid-level White House staffers have written a memo which they intend to submit to President Bush after he is re-elected. The memo says that the term"Mr. President" is an outmoded form of address suited to a pre-9/11 America. The memo proposes that in the future the President be addressed as"My Leader" or"Our Leader" and that when being introduced to a group he be referred to simply as"The Leader." Karl Rove, President Bush's consigliere, has yet to rule on the idea but is said to favor
  • Oct 28, 2004

    Archbishop Bush and the Shemale

    by Liberty and Power

    Reports are coming in from here and there that Republican campaign workers are dressing up in Crusader costumes - - white doublets with large red crosses on their chests. Other reports from the same areas have it that these house-to-house canvassers are telling would be voters that if they cast their vote for George Bush they will increase their chances of being chosen one of the elect and therefore of getting into the high rent district post mortem. Another variant of this still not
  • Oct 27, 2004

    Hoover Beats Roosevelt!

    by Liberty and Power

    Given the months of bad news and administration blunders, Kerry should be 30 points ahead of George Bush instead of wherever he is. Should the ineptness of Kerry and his campaign managers finally bring him down to defeat it will be the same as if Herbert Hoover had defeated Franklin Roosevelt in 1932.

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    One of our far flung secret agents has called in with a report on the hows and wheres of the 380 tons of

  • Oct 27, 2004

    Candidates and Photo Ops

    by Liberty and Power

    Candidates would do well to think twice about those inviting photo ops. One of the few things some of us remember about Michael Dukakis, the hapless 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate, was the picture of the silly man's head, enveloped in a large helmet, sticking up out of the porthole of a very, very big tank. George Bush has had reason enough to regret his stomping around the deck of an aircraft carrier in front of the famous"Mission Accomplished" banner. Latterly, I had to end