Is the Starving Man Free? – Ben O'Neill – Mises Institute
The starving man is not free from the nature of his own body, nor can he be, even in the welfare state. But the starving man should be free from coercion by other men.
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AP and Susan Harding: Mayor's racy photos become the talk of the town
[Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist] posted pictures of herself wearing only a black bra and panties on her MySpace page. She was on one of the town’s fire engines. Kontur-Gronquist’s MySpace page is blocked to all but her friends, but the pictures were at one time available to all users. [...]
In an interview with the (Pendleton) East Oregonian, the mayor said she did nothing wrong and those who are offended need to get over it. “That’s my personal life,” she said. “It has nothing to do with my mayor’s position.” Kontur-Gronquist, who is also the fire department’s executive secretary, said the photos were taken before she was elected mayor three years ago, and she saw no reason to remove them from the Internet after taking office. “I’m not going to change who I am,” she said. “There’s a lot of officials that have a personal life, and you have people in this community who have nothing better to do than scrape up stuff like this.” [...]
And at least one city council member is speaking out, saying the photos are inappropriate and send the wrong message to kids. “It gives the impression that it’s just OK to do whatever you feel like doing, whenever, and not have any kind of concern about how it might affect other people, and that is a big concern I have,” council member Alice Courtney told KATU.
[Article continues at link. A proud salute to Mayor Kontur-Gronquist! And a big raspberry to council member Courtney. If 'kids' are using the Internet without parental supervision, that's an issue of poor parenting skills and nothing else. If a relatively tame photograph such as this is going to 'affect other people,' then maybe those other people need to not be using the Internet either. Or living in 21st Century America. There are countries in the world where the women are kept covered up and those who rebel are beaten or killed for it - maybe council member Courtney would prefer to live there instead. As use of digital cameras and Internet access increases, I strongly suspect that there will be many more cases such as this in the near future. People playing around, then finding the record of their playing around on a global stage. What I hope to see more of at the same time are people like Mayor Kontur-Gronquist, who say 'yeah I did that, it doesn't conflict with my job as (Mayor, entertainer, parent, educator, clergy, etc.), and why don't you get a life of your own instead of picking pieces off mine?' - Trevor Blake]
The Memory Hole
Selected quotes from articles archived at this site. Seems to be an older version of Russ Kick’s work.
Privacy International
Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations.
New law could make gay jokes illegal – Telegraph
The right to crack jokes or be rude about homosexuals could fall victim to new government laws to stamp out “homophobic” behaviour
Instead Of A Book, By A Man Too Busy To Write One
This is a complete electronic transcription of the second edition (1897) of Instead Of A Book, By A Man Too Busy To Write One by Benjamin Tucker
Samizdata.net
a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property.
Classical Values
“End the culture war by restoring classical values.”
Belmont council wants to ban smoking in condos and apartments
“It’s to give people who are intolerant of secondhand smoke a chance to say, ‘Please stop – you’re violating the city’s ordinance.”
Belmont council wants to ban smoking in condos and apartments
The Road to Serfdom in Cartoons
Wikipedia has an entry for The Road to Serfdom. Economic planning is the doom of socialism, as explained by David Steele at Posing the Problem: The Impossibility of Economic Calculation under Socialism and the Wikipedia entry for Economic Calculation Problem.
The Road To Serfdom
This is a condensed and abridged version, reproduced without permission.
The Road to Serfdom – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Road to Serfdom is a book written by Friedrich Hayek (recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974) and originally published by Routledge Press in March 1944 in the UK and then by the University of Chicago in September 1944.
Reason Magazine – Generation Dobler
The fight to avoid buying, selling, or processing in a wealthy modernity
Free Market Cure
dedicated to correctly diagnosing the problems with the U.S. health care system and promoting solutions which preserve and extend individual liberty.
