A Thank You To My First Grade Teacher

By: Cat, the Brunette

Warning: This is not the heartwarming, mushy sort of Thank You letter most teachers would want to read — it’s taken me fifty years to write it, but looking back on it she taught me the most important lesson of my early life. If you were or are a happy student, or teacher, or just a firm believer in public education — kindly do us both a favor and do not click the “more” link — this was not written for you; I’m not interested in arguing with you, and am glad your experience was a positive one. It’s been written for all those other kids — of all ages — out there who’ve been damaged by the educational system, who choose to read it. I hope they’ll share their stories too … this is just mine, and no doubt others have far worse stories to tell. Continue reading →

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E-books from The Future of Freedom Foundation

NOTE: Limited time offer… Thursday and Friday, 12 -10 and 11
If you didn’t get your free download, you can still get these fine books in kindle format for only 99 cents each at the links below. [ML]

In light of the recent shootings in San Bernardino, we thought promoting the fundamentals of why an armed citizenry is critical to a free society be good. Individual rights are curtailed or abrogated in times of crisis, in the names of safety and security. Advocates of liberty standing against the tide is most important during these times.

Therefore, we are pleased to offer our 2 ebooks on gun rights and gun control FREE OF CHARGE on Thursday and Friday, 10-11 December 2015. Please bring this FREE offer to the attention of others.

Freedom and Security: The Second Amendment and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Scott McPherson

The Tyranny of Gun Control
Editors: Richard M. Ebeling and Jacob G. Hornberger

 

 


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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 10 December 2015, #15-49B: Are you kidding?

By Nathan Barton

I suppose it is old news now, after the shootings in Colorado Springs and San Bernadino, but even Fox News is pointing out (together with JPFO) that the squatter is totally wrong in his televised claim that ONLY in the US do we have such mass killings: and not just referring to that long-ago event in Australia that was the excuse for disarming the Aussies. Germany, France, even Norway, and of course virtually every nation with a majority Muslim population, all have these evil monsters in human form that kill innocents on a large scale. Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 08 December 2015, #15-49A: World Crisis or Circus?

By Nathan Barton

WANT AD: Are you a snoop? Here is your opportunity to join the Big Brother Corps or even go into competition with the NSA. Arstechica reports on the software that can be coupled with a webcam or other imaging devices (such as on a drone) to read license plates, apparently as many as 60 per minute, and help you track locations and directions! Fun, profitable, and nasty: either blackmail ‘em or report ‘em for rewards!

Well, on to the news: Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 03 DEC 2015, #15-48D: Terrorism and other threats

By Nathan Barton

With at least fourteen dead and seventeen wounded in yet another “Gun-Free Zone,” mainstream media like MSNBC are quick to point out it is “one of the deadliest mass shootings” in US history, and provide us a list of events with 12 or more dead in 13 shootings since 1966.  Why that date? Probably because 12 and 13 are “fearful” numbers and inspire panic and fear.  That is, by the way, a total of 50 years: an average of one “super-kill” every 4 years. Events with a death toll typical of an AVERAGE day in Mesopotamia (Iraq) or Syria or Libya, or a typical Sunday in Nigeria, every 1400 days or so. Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 02 December 2015, #15-48C

by Nathan Barton

What comes across my desktop these days seems a steady stream of fearmongering, and predictions of disaster, the world economy is rushing to catastrophe, the American economy is crashing, World War III is being gestated in Syria, and… global warming, caused by man, will flood the world. This is what is being spouted by the squatter at 1600 PA on one of his theft-funded junkets to foreign places, and 20,000 “representatives” from every country on the planet. (Who will produce 300,000 TONS of that evil old Carbon Dioxide for this conference.) Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 01 December 2015, #15-48B: Clunkers and Junkers

By Nathan Barton

If you haven’t had one yourself, you know someone who has: an old clunker that just keeps breaking down, one thing after another, and always a bit more expensive. Finally, you give up and decide it is time to junk the thing.

Government, assuming we have to have it, is like that old clunker. Except we have been stupid the past several decades and refused to read the writing on the wall. The thing is past the point of economical repair. Continue reading →

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, 30 November 2015, #15-48A: This and That, Bid Farewell to November

by Nathan Barton

Politics 2015: Sadly, he will quickly learn that GOP is just as bad in its own way. He seems a likeable and dedicated young man, and has high hopes. The Blaze reports how, bucking years and years of tradition, a young Dineh (Navajo) Arizona State Senator, appointed to replace another and then elected in his own right as a Democrat (as are easily 95% of most AmerInd tribal politicians) has gotten disgusted with the Democratic Party and switched to the GOP. Political affiliations in many tribes, including the Dineh, are very much tied to tradition and past history. For example, both the Dineh and the Ahkota (Sioux) tribes have a deep hatred of the Republican Party thanks especially to one man (Abraham Lincoln) who oversaw many offenses against tribes (such as the execution of captured Dakota warriors after the failed Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota in 1862, and the Dineh’s “Great Fear” of 1863-64 which crushed Navajo resistance, as well as the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 in Colorado). And GOP presidents were in office during the last 30 years of the Indian Wars. Continue reading →

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AmmoMan – Hollow Point Ammo Review

By MamaLiberty

A few weeks ago I wrote a review of FMJ ammo that AmmoMan sent me to test. It was a very interesting experience, so I anticipated pretty much the same with the hollow points they sent. That proved to be the case.

Along with the caliber wars, the people of the gun also discuss things that affect suitability of different kinds of ammunition for self defense purposes. One of those factors is penetration. We know that a solid, round nose bullet will penetrate seriously, and the concern is that it will pass through the target and possibly harm others. It may also not produce the trauma needed to stop the attack. So, many of us use a hollow point round that promises to blossom out and not over penetrate. Continue reading →

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Tech Rant: Airliner Bombing

By Nathan Barton

Airliner bombing attacks – some analysis of recent events

Downing airliners is always a good ploy and excuse for expanding the police state.  So it comes as no surprise that everyone in power has decided that the Metrojet airliner downed in the Sinai is a victim of the Caliphate. Such an evil organization MUST be about doing evil things.

CNN reports that the Caliphate has claimed downing the aircraft. In fact, the Caliphate (ISIS/ISIL/IS) released a photo of a plausible soda-can bomb, which would (based on the image) have to be a suicide type bomb. Other recent news stories report that both the Russians and Americans agree that they did. That, I suppose, makes sense, but the CNN report itself does not.

Looking at it from an engineering point of view (not some political view), a standard European soda can (330 ml, slightly larger than a US can) can hold 528 grams (bit over a pound) of Composition C-4, the standard moldable (plastic) explosive since 1960 (US military), but it would (of course) weigh about 60% more than a can of soda with actual soda in it. Continue reading →

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