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Brian Doherty from Reason explains to the readers of the LA Times the destructive nature of America's domestic and international Drug War. "When drugs are outlawed, only outlaws deal drugs. If it weren't illegal, the sale of narcotics would be no more prone to violence and corruption than the sale of cola or cigarettes." Why isn't everyone a libertarian? This was the first issue that really woke me up to the irrationality and impunity associated with state power as a youth. It is also a...

There was a bunch of crap on the Austin, Texas (virtual) ballot Saturday. Proposition 1 proposed that every bit of city business be made public - including all the council's dealings with contractors and lobbyists and the results of investigations by the citizen's police oversite board, whose job it currently is to investigate police crimes and do nothing in secret. The editor of the Texas Monthly sent me some flyer in the mail warning me that Prop 1's enforcement would waste money badly...

They have lied us into war for the benefit of Israel and Iran (and have since lied about and plotted against the latter), killing who knows how many hundreds of thousands of people, turned the two-bit rapist nobody, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, into a new bin Laden, tortured and murdered with impunity [.pdf] at "ghost prisons" (some the actual gulags of the former Soviet Eastern Bloc), asserted the authority to nullify the Bill of Rights due to an undeclared war, kidnapped Americans and turned them...

By Arthur Silber "The tenacity of the Churchill myth is instructive: the kind of idolatry focused on Churchill (and Reagan, and several others similarly situated -- and even on Bush by his most ardent and self-blinded worshippers) reveals a gross kind of immaturity on the part of a distressingly large number of people. Without their Great Men to whom they can turn for protection in times of danger, they appear to feel utterly helpless and to believe they are doomed to destruction."

A million thank yous to Luke Ryland for the transcription: Sibel Edmonds, the Turkish FBI translator turned whistleblower who has been subjected to a gag order could provide a major insight into how neoconservatives distort US foreign policy and enrich themselves at the same time. On one level, her story appears straightforward: several Turkish lobbying groups allegedly bribed congressmen to support policies favourable to Ankara. But beyond that, the Edmonds revelations become more serpentine...

The National Day of Slayer: 6.6.06 isn't a date that comes around very often (once per century, to be exact), and while plenty of stupid horror movies and terrible albums will be released for the hype value of the day that bears "the number of the beast", we here at NDoS decided that this would be a perfect day for Hessians across the country to come together and engage in something upon which we can all agree - listening to Slayer! Also, do you really want those evangelical Neo-Cons to have...

At the Huffington Post He must think that the vast majority of Americans don't read or something.

Republican right abandoning Bush Just 33 percent of the public approves of Bush

Crooks and Liars has the video. Listen to the less-than-human Rumsfeld fans in the audience cheer his non-sequitur answer to why he's not a liar, "The troops didn't wear all that mop gear because it's in style," and then the pathetic fag-love qestion at the end beginning with something about, "Wow, I am so impressed and enthralled by your manly presence and passion for life..." Where do these people come from?