Some of you may have experienced a problem connecting to the site this morning. Since I'm responsible for the site, and I had made no administrative changes recently, it caught me rather by surprise. It was clear from the start that since no other site our ISP's server was working, and since it was producing a download link rather than running the PHP scripts the site uses, that PHP was not functioning properly. Here is what the ISP says: "We're sorry for the inconvenience, there was a problem...

The so-called terrorist bust in Canada is a government created farce. Update: Holes begin to appear in Canadian terrorism case Update II: The London "dirty bomb" was bullshit too.

There is a horrible civil war raging in Iraq, just like David Wurmser - who helped lie us into this war from the Office of Special Plans and the state dept. - predicted in 1997. Hell, I predicted it too. I read "The Commanders" by Woodward in High School, and in it Powell explained that if they had overthrown Saddam in 1991 the place would have broken apart. It did. Wurmser was promoted. I guess it doesn't matter how many people die as long as James Baker can keep that oil off the market and...

Bob Dreyfuss's blog ought to get you going. He quotes from the LA Times: "'Her Brains Splattering on His Boots" An account from Haditha by a Marine photographer who is the first to speak out: "[H]is worst moment, and one that haunts him to this day, was picking up the body of a young girl who was shot in the head."'I held her out like this, he said, demonstrating with his arms extended, 'but her head was bobbing up and down and the insides fell on my legs.' "As he spoke, his mother, Susie...

Here's a link to RFK JR.'s article in Rolling Stone about the 2004 election. Kennedy makes a compelling case that the Republicans won by way of cheating. What a...shock. Just about every major election is won by way of cheating. In fact, the winner is the side that can cheat better than the other side (like Henry Gondorff out-cheating Doyle Lonnegan in the poker game from The Sting. Lonnegan: "Four 9s"; Gondorff: "Four Jacks"). For example, the supreme example of cheating to win is the 1960 US...

It's June, and you know what that means: It's time for all good humans on earth to oppose their state's very existence - er, I mean torture policies. To better understand how the United States of America kidnaps and tortures people, may I suggest some of the following links?: http://antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2504 http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2444 http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_fact http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040517fa_fact2...

It shouldn't really be a surprise, but Michael Badnarik, former LP Presidential candidate and current congressional candidate, after turning his campaign over to some ridiculous asshole named Alan Hacker, has decided that Mexican immigrants are an "invasion force" whose presence demands the response of the military "defense forces" of the US government. "We must work to either replace or reclassify the Border Patrol and treat border issues as what they are: national defense issues coming under...

They are despicable barely-human pieces of government filth. Nazis. Liars. Read all about the injustice of the "Lodi Terrorist Cell" here. This shit stresses me out. What the Hell is this, East Germany? Pevious post on the subject here. Update: Raimondo's take.

There are a million WordPress Widgets and plugins (I haven't widgetized the theme yet, but I'm getting around to it) that can add all kinds of crazy features to this site. What I'm wondering is, what features would you like to see? Live Chat? More Newsfeeds in the sidebar? Random Quotes? Spyware infections? (just kidding. I'd neeeeevvveerr....do that). Drop a comment if you have any ideas, and I'll give them some consideration.

Boy, is it ever a hell of a thing to want the Rockefellers to win. Especially after reading Palast's new book.

I am always amazed when I read Rothbard. I wonder if he and Bill Hicks are pals in the pretend after-life. Here is just one choice cut out of an incredible article about the great Harry Elmer Barnes: "One of Barnes

I thought I should explain some things about leaving comments here. We always welcome just about any comment from anyone, because we post here to discuss issues. We have, however, been receiving at least 2 dozen spam comments per day. These spammers create scripts that automate the process of sending comments, including filling out form info - email, URI, name etc. One way to combat the spam is to restrict who can leave comments to registered users. I will not take that step, because it...

Mr. Lif wrote a song about it.

When I sold my sticker company and my 600 something stickers, I also gave up control of the stickers and site. The time honored classic "I wish I could go back in time to murder Woodrow Wilson," was removed by the current owner based upon some really crappy advice or something. Well, now I'm selling stickers again. And I can have back all the ones that were too much for ol' Rick. So here goes one of the old greats - now with improved jpg. of a time machine.

"The 'war on drugs' has in fact been the most effective assault on an underclass since Stalin's campaign against the kulaks." Actually though, it was Nelson Rockefeller who invented the mandatory minimum sentence for possession.