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Sometimes I wonder if America can continue to govern itself as a free nation endowed with certain unalienable rights by its Creator. Too many Americans, including some with great minds, have lost their bearings – lots all perspective on right and wrong, good and evil. This is not, as some believe, a relativist mental disorder afflicting and spreading through only the so-called "progressive" camp of the political spectrum. Even some on the other side of the ideological line can no longer distinguish between black and white, up and down, right and left. Take, for instance, Lew Rockwell – a man...

Libertarian movement veterans, and a Paul campaign staffer, say it was "paleolibertarian" strategist Lew RockwellJulian Sanchez and David Weigel | January 16, 2008 Ron Paul doesn't seem to know much about his own newsletters. The libertarian-leaning presidential candidate says he was unaware, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, of the bigoted rhetoric about African Americans and gays that was appearing under his name. He told CNN last week that he still has "no idea" who might have written inflammatory comments such as "Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their...

I know freerepublic doesn't let us post articles from lewrockwell, but this isn't an article, it's a video link. I hope the moderators are OK with this! http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/016523.html

EXCLUSIVE EXCERPTS FROM: "AMERICAN MOURNING" CINDY WAS in Crawford, trying to flush President Bush out, when a process server found her and handed over the lawsuit that would end her marriage. Casey’s father filed for divorce on August 12, 2005, at 2:47 p.m. Pacific time. He cited irreconcilable differences. Court papers show that Cindy and Pat separated on June 1, 2005, after twenty-eight years and two months together. Cindy wasn’t surprised when she received the divorce papers. She had a boyfriend and decided not to reconcile with Pat, even though he wanted to forgive her and fix their relationship. Pat...

He told her that Cindy’s grief had turned into panic attacks that forced her to leave a job with Napa County. At home, she took refuge with a computer that became her companion day and night.“This went on for months,” Cherie recounted. “Cindy had become addicted to online chat rooms of a pornographic nature. She had many men communicating with her. She eventually had physical rendezvous as well.

A Conservatives with Attitude exclusive.Finally, after several weeks of respecting the embargo that was placed on this information, I am now free to report it. Before Drudge puts it up or Sean Hannity has the authors on his radio show today, you are getting it first, right here and right now!!Authors Melanie Morgan and Catherine Moy have a written a great book that is available today called American Mourning, A Story of Two Families. Cindy Sheehan is profiled in this book and the information revealed is stunning to say the least.(This is all from the book American Mourning):Internet Pornography and...

MOTHER SHEEHAN'S MARRIED LOVER Activist breaks camp in Crawford to do 'damage control' Cindy Sheehan packed her bags and left Crawford ,Texas, Tuesday afternoon and arrived home in Berkeley, Ca. late Tuesday evening. Sheehan rushed back to do damage control after explosive information became public today about an alleged affair that began while she was still married to her husband Patrick, and after her son Casey Sheehan died in Sadr City, Iraq attempting to rescue members of his trapped squad. Sources are telling authors Melanie Morgan and Catherine Moy, (American Mourning, Cumberland Press) that Sheehan is furious that the news...

Since the outbreak of the Hezbollah-Israeli conflict, Pat Buchanan and other paleoconservatives have made themselves true exponents of populism: the Jew-baiting, conspiracy-driven demagoguery of 1890s agrarians. In two columns, posted at WorldNetDaily this week, Buchanan accused President Bush of being a puppet of nefarious Jewish warmongers. Outlets of the Hate America Right – especially Paul Craig Roberts and LewRockwell.com – have joined him, and then some. Nothing sets Buchanan’s imagination racing like a Bush-backed Israeli war. On Tuesday, Pat asked, “Who is whispering in his ear?” His answer: bloodthirsty Hebrews. That Tel Aviv is maneuvering us to fight its wars...

Sacerdotal Flagism: Should the Flag Be Permanently Displayed in Church Sanctuaries Or Other Explicitly Christian Environments? "My house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples."—Mk 11:17 The question is not "What must be done?" The question is "How to do it," without dividing a Church that has been subject to mis-evangelization for decades. Bishops throughout this country must know the issue. In their hearts they must be aware that it is not a trivial concern before God. They certainly must be conscious of what their own rules and regulations dictate on the matter. But they also know...

-snip- The president moves about like Caesar Augustus, with a vast, graded court of civil and military aides, doctors, secretaries, valets, hairdressers, makeup artists, bodyguards, drivers, baggage handlers, cooks, food tasters, Praetorian guards, snipers, centurions, bulletproof limos, a portable hospital, and an armored rostrum. And that’s when he travels in the U.S. -snip- After all, the long-term mean value of paper currency is zero. Is the dollar magic, so that it is permanently immune from the norm? For the last 100 years, it has lost value more quickly than the Roman denarius after Nero. -snip-

Paul Craig Roberts and the Certifiable Right By Ben Johnson FrontPageMagazine.com | March 17, 2006 Quick – what columnist alleged in an article Thursday that President “Bush intends to attack Iran and that he will use every means to bring war about?” That Bush has used “bribery and coercion” to block “every effort to bring the dispute to a peaceful end”? That “in order to gain a pretext for attacking Iran,” he and a “’black opts’ [sic.] group will orchestrate [an] attack” on U.S. soil? One would never expect to hear the author is “chairman of the Institute for Political...

At View from the Right, Lawrence Auster observes that “Patrick Buchanan comes out 100 percent against the European papers that published the cartoons of Muhammad, seeing the act as an anti-religious provocation by secular modernists.” Auster notes that Buchanan’s piece was published by “the anarchist libertarian website lewrockwell.com.” This is not to say that the website endorses Buchanan’s view, but it’s important to note that lewrockwell.com is highly selective about content, usually posting perspectives—and people—that comport with its mission. “Patrick J. Buchanan on tweaking the Muslims” is how the column was billed on the site, clearly saddling the “tweakers” with...

It has been decades since legislatures have struck out daringly in some new and uncharted territory of social and economic management. For the most part, in the US, Europe, Russia, China, and Latin America, legislatures are constantly at work reforming the systems they created in the past rather than embarking on totally new ventures. And what are they working to reform? Sectors of governance that are not operating as they should due to dislocations, expense, perceived violations of fairness or some other consideration. We need only think of the financial mess of Medicare and Medicaid, the wholesale crookery of Social...

The Right’s Left TurnBy Jacob LaksinFrontPageMagazine.com | October 5, 2005 In late September, as throngs of placard-wielding protestors were descending on the nation’s capital, Lew Rockwell, the nominally libertarian proprietor of the website LewRockwell.com, was holding forth at an anti-war rally convened by the far-left Alabama Peace and Justice Coalition (APJC).  That the APJC’s rallying cry – “Spend money for human needs, not war!” – was of questionable accordance with principled libertarianism’s aversion to government largesse, didn’t seem to phase Rockwell, who joined a roster of speakers with an altogether different view about the proper role of the federal government....

Llewellyn Rockwell: Leftist Darling Posted by Jacob Laksin @ Monday 26 September 2005, 4:59 pm Llewellyn Rockwell, proprietor of Lew Rockwell.com, the site that deals in leftist-like anti-Americanism in the cloak of "classical liberalism," has been a dependable cheerleader for America’s enemies in the "war on terror," and he keeps that ignoble tradition going with his speech this weekend at an Alabama anti-war rally convened by the far left. Rockwell is full of curious insights. For instance, did you know that "war is a kind of totalitarianism," and that "George Bush was brazen enough to make the doctrine explicit"? Yes, it’s...

Iraq: Where socialists and anarchists join in with racialists and paleocons. It is becoming nearly impossible to sort the extreme rhetoric of the antiwar Left from that of the fringe paleo-Right. Both see the Iraqi war through the same lenses: the American effort is bound to fail and is a deep reflection of American pathology. An anguished Cindy Sheehan calls Bush "the world's biggest terrorist." And she goes on to blame Israel for the death of her son ("Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect...

A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7. Reynolds, who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas and is now professor emeritus at Texas...

Saying that the Joint Chiefs and combatant commanders “strongly support” ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), General Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has stated that the measure “ensures the ability of the US Armed Forces to operate freely across the vast expanse of the world’s oceans under the authority of widely recognized and accepted international law.” [1] But would our military leaders support the treaty if they knew that the activists behind it were also instrumental in promoting the International Criminal Court (ICC), which could prosecute and imprison American troops and military...

Two items: [1] From Laurie Mylroie's "Iraq News" Newsletter - Tue, 17 May 2005 20:03:39 -0400 Subject: Michael Rubin, Prior Isikoff Use of Faulty Source From the list of Michael Rubin, previously at DoD and now at AEI (May 17, 2005): This was not the first time Michael Isikoff has used faulty or fabricated sources. In reporting the myth that Doug Feith’s office created its own intelligence unit, he relied on Karen Kwiatkowski, who associated with the Lyndon LaRouche movement. Kwiatkowski said on tape that she was Isikoff’s chief source. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s Report on the U.S....

Thank You, Franklin Delano Bush by Karen De Coster I took the liberty (what few of those I have left) of putting President Bush's November 8 speech – at the Georgia World Congress Center – into the LewRockwell.com "truth translator". This fun, little tool examines and interprets the rhetoric of government spokespersons, and translates such twaddle into the statist prose that it actually represents. What emerges from the translator in this instance is an incriminating verbal assault on the sovereignty of all Americans.GWB: "I said in my speech to a joint session of Congress that we are a nation awakened ...

Inside the neo-con PentagonOfficer reveals how Bush appointees suppressed facts and twisted truth to drive America to war with Iraq . In July of last year, after just over 20 years of service, I retired as a lieutenant-colonel in the U.S. Air Force. My career started in 1978 with the smooth seduction of a full four-year ROTC scholarship. It ended with 10 months of duty in a strange new country, observing up close and personal a process of decision-making for war not sanctioned by the Constitution. ~snip~ The education I would receive there was intense, fascinating and frightening. While the...

Hell Freezes Over! by Minority Mike Great balls o’ fire! Katy bar the door! An’ shut my mouth wide open! I ain’t been this stunned since Biggun Stump said he couldn’t go fishing with me one weekend ‘cause he was going to a Meryl Streep film festival! My head is spinnin’ fer sure. The reason for my bewilderment is that one of the foulest bunch of socialist organizations known to man, and one of the foulest socialist men known to any organization, issued a couple of statements the other day that actually ring true! Believe it or not – ...

Finally, an America Hater by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Bring up US foreign policy to a warhawk, point out that the terrorists have specifically named US policy in Muslim lands as the reason for their desire to kill, and the response is always the same: you are blaming the victim, which is America, and exonerating the guilty. This is nonsense! To say that the wife killed the husband to get the insurance money isn’t to blame the husband for being insured. To say the robber held up a bank to get the money isn’t to say that it’s the bank’s ...

Liberty or Death? Choose One by Paul Gross The horrible events of September the 11th have brought America to a crossroads. Down one road lies a police state, perpetual war, and more dead innocents both here and abroad. Down the other road lies freedom, peace and prosperity. One would think that such a choice would be easy and obvious. Yet our leaders, from the President on down, seem to be hell-bent on taking the wrong road. The first thing to realize is that the attack of Sept. 11 was not unprovoked, nor was it "an attack on our freedom." ...

Notice: Whoever's posting stories written by Bob wallace please cease and desist at once! I have no idea who this guy is or who is posting his stories, but whoever is doing it, please stop. He's demanding it be stopped or he will call his lawyer. He's also prohibiting me from posting his email message to me (or, you guessed it, he will call his lawyer). So, rather than post his email message, I'm posting this message: Do not post stories written by BOB WALLACE! Thank you. That is all.

8:38PM CT The first report from St. Louis is in - and presidential candidates Michael Badnarik (Libertarian) and David Cobb (Green Party) were just arrested. Badnarik was carrying an Order to Show Cause, which he intended to serve the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Earlier today, Libertarians attempted to serve these same papers at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the CPD - but were stopped from approaching the CPD office by security guards.

A recent article of mine on a public sector scandal, this one in Milwaukee, brought several e-mails from friends and strangers telling me that it was read and discussed on WTMJ-AM in that city by its weekday morning host, Charles Sykes. WTMJ is Milwaukee’s highest rated talk station, and while I appreciated the plug, I was not sure if that is the sort of station that friends of liberty need to be associated with. That’s because that station, like so many across the U.S., have adopted the pro-war, pro-Bush nationalist format that dominates AM radio today, robbing it of much...

If you have been watching what passes for television "news," you have undoubtedly become aware that a sociopath is loose in Washington, D.C. He has been moving from one location to another, attacking and killing innocent victims. Whether he is possessed of a perverted sense of self-righteousness, or simply enjoys the feelings of power that come from terrorizing others, is as difficult to determine as is his agenda for future attacks. He apparently has a personal list of target areas for his deadly assaults, but just what his purposes are remain as unclear as trying to fathom when and where...

If we aren't attentive, Bill Buckley's antiwar pronouncement, issued in an interview with the New York Times, could be relegated to a minor footnote in this week's news pages, whereas it really speaks volumes about the history of the last 50 years and the fall of American freedom in the push for perpetual war. What he said, in his famously circuitous way, was this: "With the benefit of minute hindsight, Saddam Hussein wasn't the kind of extra-territorial menace that was assumed by the administration one year ago. If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation...

The Valor of the Columnists by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. The war appears to enjoy wide support, which gives the warmongers an opportunity to appear populist in their writing. National Review, for example, seems to have suddenly discovered that wisdom of the common man in contrast to the "cultural elites" who are said to have the most doubts about the war. Completely out of character, Ramesh Ponnuru, Rich Lowry, and the gang have risen to the defense of the workers and peasants. What National Review doesn’t mention is the absence of support among the working class for the foreign ...

From the LRC Blog:Whatever Happened to Hate Mail? Posted by Lew Rockwell at 11:11 AM When I wrote about the US spy plane in China a few years ago, and said China was within its rights to act as it did (and that the US claimed the right to shoot down such planes off its shores), I received more than 600 hate emails, including a number of death threats. I've also received plenty of hate mail in response to articles on Iraq. But over the last year, the number of such messages has dwindled. Yesterday's article on freeing Saddam resulted...

"I want a government that does not intervene in the economy." Don't we all? But these are not the words one expects to come out of the mouth of a self-proclaimed socialist – much less the standard-bearer of a socialist party who is about to take power at the head of a major West European nation. If socialism means anything at all, it is confidence in the government's ability to manage the economy. But with the communists in China clamoring to endorse private property to buck up their credibility with the capitalist class, and the socialists in Spain swearing to...

<p>The gym has Fox television on, and perhaps I should be grateful, because otherwise it would not have dawned on me just how popular and widely embraced stupid is. By stupid, I don't really intend insult. Stupid is a mental outlook that affirms the crude and base while eschewing the noble and thoughtful. It is an attitude of mind that can be adopted by both low lights and bright lights.</p>

The 10 Commandments Question by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. The 5,300-pound monument to the 10 commandments in the Alabama supreme court, and the federal order to remove it on "constitutional" grounds, has led to a state-wide hysteria. Those celebrating its forced removal say it’s about separating church and state, and thereby preventing the descent of the state into theocracy. Meanwhile, Roy Moore, the chief justice who put the monument there, says the controversy is "about the acknowledgment of God. We must acknowledge God because our constitution says our justice system is established upon God."Now, I...

  Neo-Conservatism Explained by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Commentators across the spectrum have finally clued in to neo-conservatism as the intellectual framework of the Bush administration. We are suddenly faced with long think pieces on the role of political philosopher Leo Strauss in influencing the architects of the Iraq war and Bush's governance in general. We are also learning about the ideological path taken by former college Trotskyites into the Republican Party of the 1970s. It's an instructive example of tenacity and dedication in translating ideas into practice. Along with the political victory of the neocons (by victory I...

The Helpful Persuasion Revolt From the Heartland: The Struggle for an Authentic Conservatism By Joseph Scotchie, Transaction Publishers 2002 Review by Ryan McMaken Thomas Fleming once noted that he was struck, while reading about the American right prior to the Cold War, that there was a certain "admirable diversity and freedom of discussion" (to use Murray Rothbard's words) on the American right, and that there was no person or publication demanding adherence to a party line or "excommunicating" heretics who failed to live up to the demands of some self-appointed leader of the movement. This freedom of discussion, of course,...

Letter to a Middle-Aged Neocon In her book Slander, Ann Coulter tries to demonstrate the liberal bias in the publishing industry by complaining that Dinesh D'Souza received a mere 150,000-dollar advance on his latest book, Letters to a Young Conservative. Regardless of whether or not Coulter is right about the bias, she could not have chosen a worse book to demonstrate her point. Letters to a Young Conservative is a collection of 31 letters to an imaginary conservative student named Chris. D'Souza enlightens Chris on what conservatives should think about public policy, philosophy, and history. Although he takes a genuinely...

Lew Rockwell, a big gun in the libertarian movement, isn't too happy about Vice President Dick Cheney’s tough talk last Monday at a gathering of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Making the case for a pre-emptive strike against Iraq, Cheney argued that we don’t avoid danger by sitting on our hands while Saddam Hussein puts together a lethal arsenal of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Simply stated, we're faced with “a mortal threat,” something potentially much worse than September 11, and no amount of “wishful thinking” or “willful blindness” will make it go away. “I am familiar with the arguments...

For Freedom's Sake, No Fast Track by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. It's fast-track time again. For the first time since 1994, Congress faces the decision of whether to grant the president the authority to ignore the will of Congress in negotiating new trade agreements. According to conventional wisdom, free traders should support fast track while the protectionists should favor a Congressional role in sheltering domestic industries from the wiles of international competition. Do we really have to plod through this rhetorical nonsense again? For the past year, the Bush administration has shown itself very effective in bringing about protectionist policies...