Hehe… right, slightly misleading. Syntax is corrected. 
John Stossel’s Illegal Everything aired on Fox News on Saturday, February 24, 2012. Watch it if you missed it.
Rand Paul as a Potential Anti-Dick Cheney
Epic
‘It’s a Sin’: Iran Calls on Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons
Iran, who is suspected by many western nations of secretly developing weapons of mass destruction, has proposed a ban on nuclear weapons, calling their production or possession as “a great sin.”
*“The production, possession, use or threat of use of nuclear weapons are illegitimate, futile, harmful, dangerous and prohibited as a great sin,”* said Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi in a speech to the UN-hosted Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Tuesday.
He said Iran does not see any glory, pride or power in nuclear weapons, but, “quite the opposite.”
Salehi suggested a limited number of options for states worried about Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
“We have clearly stated time and time again that there are two alternatives in dealing with Iran’s peaceful nuclear program. One way is engagement, cooperation and interaction. The other is confrontation and conflict,” he said.
However, he stressed that Iran is “confident of the peaceful nature of its program,”**“does not seek confrontation, nor does it want anything beyond its inalienable, legitimate rights."
Iran maintains that it is seeking peaceful cooperation with western countries, despite all allegations and sanctions.
That looks remarkably like de-escalation. Hmmm
Politicians’ Religious Beliefs Are Generally Fair Game
London-based oil executive linked to 9/11 hijackers
FBI misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape
Teen Locked in Autistic Body Finds Inner Voice
Awesome!
EDIT: @Bert - please god let that spread around enough so that we don’t go to war…
EDIT: @Bert - please god let that spread around enough so that we don’t go to war…
It’s better than the pink model drone they sent back to our overseers. They indirectly called every other super power who has nuclear weapons a bunch of sinners. The Christian right has nothing to say back, they can only agree and condemn our own nuclear policies and hypocrisy.
So I happened to be going through some old books, some I never read, but bought in a lot off Ebay because it seemed like a good deal. Anyway, 3 of them happen to be;
Individuals and their Rights by Tibor Machan
Money and Inflation: A Monetarist Approach by McCulloch
On Liberty: Man v. The State by Milton Mayer
Anyone read these before? Worth the time to read?
Jargon - amazing article!!
+1
That article was really awesome. Just goes to show how much propaganda is sloshing around the global press as “settled fact.”
Clayton -
Just goes to show, that if someone who lives in a one-room shanty can afford “private” education, so can any american with a job. Education is just a person teaching you something, not a building.
Also I’m sure this has been posted before, but it’s great:
I’m actually going through that book right now. Machan is a sort of post-Randian/Aristotelian realist/ethical naturalist. He makes a natural-rights argument that , as far as I can tell, you probably won’t be convinced by unless you are already a believer in ethical egoism.
The book is useful, though, to the extent that it contains all sorts of interesting replies to skeptics and critics, either of libertarianism, of moral philosophy, or even of the possibility of knowing anything at all.
One trouble I have with Machan’s minarchism is that he claims that while people can get together and form a minimal state via “consent of the governed,” people could not in doing so consent to “taxing” themselves in order to provide welfare for others (only nightwatchman functions). Any such “social contract” would be invalid because it involves making decisions over which you have no authority (other people’s liberty).
But this seems to be inconsistent with the libertarian notion that he defends elsewhere, that positive rights can be incurred through contract. Why couldn’t people get together and agree to give up a certain portion of their income every year to provide for others? (E.g. mutual aid.)
This seems to be a shortcoming of minarchism he doesn’t address (at least so far that I’ve read; I’m only on Chapter 4).
This guy feels really strongly about IP
Fred Wilson: “Everybody Is a Pirate, So Fix the System”
You forgot the period. Dude, you’re pefectness is fading.