Libertarian Commentary on the News, 29 July 2015, #15-30D: Garbage in, garbage out

By Nathan Barton

Garbage in, garbage out. As we continue to see the war between the hoploclasts (haters of guns) and the rest of us heat up, the WaPo spouts some more nonsense about how “regular people” can’t use guns in self-defense, once more citing a whole series of bogus, biased “scientific studies” and running a bunch of people through fake “training situations,” including one dealing with larceny which is NOT something to be commonly responded to by drawing and using a weapon. (Findlaw defines larceny as: “Larcenyis what most people think of as common theft: it is the taking of someone else’s property without the use of force from a location other than inside their home.”) Mama Liberty and I have long pushed people to get trained properly and constantly practice to use firearms in self-defense and defense of others, but this article is a push to use that as an excuse to register and control… the police state at work. Continue reading

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 28 July 2015, #15-30C: Warning

By Nathan Barton

The last week has featured several warnings by prominent people, not even really covered by independent media, much less the mainstream media. These warnings point out that, in the past decades, it is not just that government has grown more powerful, but has become a threat to people that rivals that of any tyranny in history.

First, of all people, one of the Nazgul himself, Justice Scalia, as reported in Truth and Action, warns that the insane detentions of Japanese Americans in World War Two can – and WILL – be repeated on a vastly larger scale if things continue as they are, and that internment could begin very quickly. He clearly expects that the traitorous and increasingly evil SCOTUS will sustain such actions as constitutional, as the language also continues to be more and more perverted. Continue reading

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 27 July 2015, #15-30B: Gun haters and Lies

by Nathan Barton

In a separate commentary, I discuss neutrality as regards political issues and liberty and wars. One of those fields where it is sometimes hard to tell friends from foes, and hard to be neutral, is the realm of self-defense, and the God-given right to keep and bear arms.

JPFO just published an article which they entitled “How An Anti Thinks,” reproducing an article in Salon from a Baton Rouge writer, ex-USAF, saying the Second Amendment must go. Now, Salon is well-known for its constant hatred of firearms, and its disdain for those who own and carry them. But this time, they really outdo themselves. Continue reading

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 26 July 2015, #15-30A: Disappearing Liberty

By Nathan Barton

The speed at which liberties of free speech and freedom of religion are disappearing in the Fifty States is rather surprising. World Net Daily reports on a situation in Kentucky in which a Baptist preacher was “fired” from his volunteer work assisting troubled youth in the Department of Juvenile Justice because he refused to sign a pledge that he would not tell anyone that homosexuality was sinful. Yes, he was volunteering in a government-run program, but this still seems to be very much an overreach on the part of the government in prohibiting this. Continue reading

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 24 July 2015, #15-29D: This and That

By Nathan Barton

End of the “work week,” with a few news stories of interest.

Waste Management News explains how the company Waste Management Inc. is suing the City and County of San Francisco over their Recology recycling contract. This is interesting because Recology is a frequent poster child for Tranzi greenies to “prove” that recycling can pay for itself (remembering that “profit” is evil, and with sufficient subsidies by government (using money stolen from taxpayers)).  WMI is making what the professional community knows is pretty much an accurate claim, that San Fransisco is steering the $130 million contract to Recology in violation of competitive processes and any number of laws.  So? It is for Mother Earth, so who cares if it is legal or fair? Continue reading

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 23 July 2015, #15-29C: The State Fails, and Fails, and Fails

By Nathan Barton

The Third Reich is a classic example of a failed state. Now, welcome to the “Fourth Reich” here in the Fifty States.  Personal Liberty discussed this on Monday; A second view is found at “First Look” That most political of political generals, retired NATO commander and former Democrat presidential candidate Wesley Clark, publicly advocated and promoted “reeducation” or “concentration camps” for “disloyal Americans,” seeking to revive the evils perpetrated against German-speaking Americans in the Great War (1917-1918), Japanese-speaking and descendant Americans in 1941-45, and pioneered by the Brits in Sud-Afrika during the Boer Wars (and the US during the Indian Wars).  This thug, a progressive or Tranzi, wants to open the doors to putting someone in an internment camp for such evil crimes as defending the Southern Cross, speaking ill of that squatter in DC, speaking out against SSM (same-sex “marriage”) or speaking out for Arabs, Muslims, or… christians.  No, he did not mention any of these specifically, but what he proposes leads to all these things, already seen as evil or even hate crimes. Continue reading

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Why I don’t look at the “news”

By MamaLiberty

I happened to look at the “news” today… an increasingly rare thing as the world seems to spiral into more and more insanity. I didn’t click the “more” link on any of them, and found myself responding to most of them this way:

1. Who honestly cares? I do not recognize any other person or entity as having any legitimate authority over my life or property.
2. So what? I do not recognize any obligation not to “offend” or hurt the feelings of others by my honest thoughts and words. I will never willingly harm an innocent person, but I have no obligation to cater to their ideas of politically correct speech or behavior. I am obligated only not to aggress against them… or anyone else.
3. None of my business.
4. I have no idea who this is…   (Obviously a product of not reading the “news” or looking at any “entertainment” sources. I don’t have a TV, and don’t go to movies…)
5. or, again, why would I care what they think or believe? Has nothing to do with me… or at least shouldn’t.
6. I don’t want or need any “president” or other “representative.” I don’t “vote” or engage in any political activities.
7. I have zero interest in anything to do with the “constitution” or any other document pretending to represent the bogus “authority” of government. Continue reading

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 21 July 2015, #15-29B: Killing… and then important stuff

By Nathan Barton

Later in the commentary, I discuss one of those “more important” things, concerning a teenage girl in the UK.  She felt like she was dying.

But, at least, her parents let her live, unlike about 3,000 babies killed EACH DAY in America, often for convenience.  But that is not “good enough” for Singer, the Tranzi at Princeton University in New Jersey, who has publicly opined (as reported in Freedom Outpost) that the FedGov should make sure that ObummerCare is used “properly” to kill disabled infants, such as those with congenital birth defeats, possible mental disorders, and the like. Last week’s revelations, if delayed, about the way Planned Parenthood deals with “fetal parts” (human remains) created a wave of controversy and revulsion in some places.  But in others, such as Princeton, it produced the opposite: a call to use ObummerCare to kill MORE children: “dealing” with disabled infants as less than human.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 20 July 2015, #15-29A: Drums of War

By Nathan Barton

War came back to the Homeland again last week. Constantly on Friday, I heard the statement reported over and over that the investigators were unable to “determine the motive” of the young man who killed four Marines, wounded another and a Navy NCO and a cop, and was killed in Chattanooga.  Determine the motive?  He was Muslim, immigrated (and became a naturalized US citizen), but in recent years has traveled extensively in Jordan and Yemen.  And a tweet claimed to be posted by the Caliphate (ISIS), at almost the same time that he first opened fire at the recruiting station, praising the attack.  With hundreds and thousands of Islamists in the Fifty States, and with constant harping by the Caliphate in more and more of the world, the motive is pretty clear, even if we can’t confirm it for certain because the guy is dead.  Whatever the exact motive for him attacking these specific targets, the overall motive was to attack the Great Satan.  Continue reading

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Flags and Honor, Part II

By Nathan Barton

Racism in the Southern Cross?  Personal Liberty reports on a national poll. The CNN/ORC poll claims that 57 percent of Americans say that the Southern Cross flag is a symbol of Southern pride. That’s compared to just 33 percent who feel the flag is a symbol of racism. When broken down along racial lines, however, it’s apparent that black and white Americans have very different views about the flag. Among whites, just 28 percent feel that the flag has racial undertones. Seventy-two percent of black Americans, meanwhile, say the flag is racist.  Funny, huh?  In their bigoted little minds, Tranzis (and pandering politicians of both the old parties) would rather run roughshod over the liberties of 2 of 3 Americans when it comes to the flag (just as they want to run over the liberties of millions concerning ramming “same sex marriage” (SSM) down our throats), than stand up for free speech. Continue reading

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