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Posted on 10.03.08 by Thomas L. Knapp
Update, 10/03/08 – As advertised yesterday, today’s edition is a wee bit late. Sorry about that — I was out last night at the VP debate protests and didn’t get home and to bed until 1ish. Since I was running late anyway, I figured I’d wait a bit to see if the House acted quickly one way or the other on the “bailout.” No dice — they’re messing around, so I’m pushing today’s edition out the door now. HUGE THANKS to NEW subscribing contributor B, and to long-time subscribers DFD and MB. Their combined payments of $17.50 bring our running total to $2662.13 against our goal of $5,000. “Mini-goal” for Monday morning: $3,000. Bonus to all contributors during this fundraiser: A free subscription to my new publication, KN@PPSTER: The Newsletter. Normal price, $17.73 per year. Your price, nada. Check out the first issue — it’s a free download Reminder: This week only, Laissez Faire Books is letting go of copies of Henry Hazlitt’s classic Economics in One Lesson for only $14.95 — shipping and handling included! If you’d like a case of 22, it’s only $210, shipped anywhere in the US at no extra charge! This “moving special” (ISIL and LFB are “re-headquartering to Arizona) is good only through Sunday. Place your order (specify single copies or case) by email to laissezfairebooks at gmail dot com - TLK —– Dear readers, Earlier this year, I told you that RRND/FND would be moving to a “twice-a-year” fundraising schedule — and we’re keeping our word. We’ve even waited almost a month past mid-year to start our first 2008 drive. But now it’s time. The goal is $5,000, and we’ll keep plugging until we reach it (even if that means extending into our year-end fundraiser, which we’d certainly prefer not to do!). You can support “the freedom movement’s daily newspaper” (and our offshoot publications — 2nd Amendment News Digest, Liberty Action News Digest and Progressive News Digest) in any of several ways: One-Time Payments Online
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And Now For Something Completely Different Would you like to see NO MORE RRND/FND fundraisers for nearly a year? So would we … so here’s a “side bet.” Up-front disclaimer: This mid-year fundraiser WILL continue until the goal is met, even if that’s some time next year (hopefully it will be some time next month!). But, we’re running a simultaneous “contingent pledge drive” through Fundable.Com to raise ANOTHER $5k … and if we make it, our next fundraiser won’t be until at least mid-2009. It’s a simple concept: You pledge the amount of money you’re willing to contribute to that second $5k. If we raise $5k in pledges like yours, you pay. If we don’t, you don’t. That simple. Click here to make your pledge. We didn’t make the Fundable.Com goal … but we’ll set a new project of this type up Real Soon Now. Yours in liberty, Filed under: 2AM News and Feature Articles and LAND News and PND News and RRND News | |
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Posted on 09.30.08 by J. Neil Schulman
Yesterday’s House vote can be the Concord Bridge of a renewed American Revolution — if the idea gets out fast enough. The congressional representatives — both conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats — who yesterday stood up to the water-boardings given to them by President Bush, Treachery Secretary Paulson, Federal Reverse Chairman Bernanke, and the McCain-Obama Presidential Ticket — voted against the Bail Out of OPEC. Why else would the price of oil have plummeted when the bail-out went south? The failure of the bail-out showed us who was really going to get bailed out. The House made a good first step yesterday. But they need a second step. Now the representatives who voted in good faith with the American people should vote to reject their foul bought-and-paid-for party leadership and caucus together into a new political party. This idea needs to get out before the Jewish holidays are over and the House reconvenes. Let’s show them a path back to the Republic. Spread the word virally and quickly. —– Filed under: Guest Columns | |
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Posted on 09.09.08 by J. Neil Schulman
In the wonderful movie Contact, from Carl Sagan’s novel about first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, scientist Ellie Arroway must convince a panel that she’s the right candidate to be earth’s first ambassador to non-humans. When asked by one selector whether she believes in God — as does most of the human race — Ellie answers that, as a scientist, she only believes what can be proved, and doesn’t believe there’s proof either way. Ellie is rejected in favor of the opportunistic David Drumlin, who cynically gives the panel exactly the pious affirmation of faith they need to select him over Ellie. The Saddleback Church presidential forum cast Barack Obama as Ellie Arroway and John McCain as David Drumlin. Filed under: Guest Columns | |
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Posted on 08.31.08 by J. Neil Schulman
Let’s start with my voting history, so you’ll know where I’m coming from. In my first eligibility to cast a ballot in a presidential election — in 1972 — I could not bring myself to vote either to re-elect Republican Richard Nixon or replace him with Democrat George McGovern. I cast a write-in vote for the 19th century libertarian, Lysander Spooner, for president. In 1976 I was one of the activists in the “Vote for Nobody!” campaign, and did not vote either for Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter. In 1980 and 1984 — even though I liked him better than any other major-party candidate for president since I’d become eligible to vote — I refrained from voting for Ronald Reagan. I remained a non-voter on the Jack Parr principle that “voting only encourages them.” In 1988 without even a major-party candidate on the ballot as appealing to me as Reagan, I again refrained from voting. By 1992 I’d argued myself into becoming a voter again, on the principle that if I believed in self-defense with a gun, I could believe in self-defense with a proxy gun — the ballot. But unable to vote for either George H.W. Bush or Bill Clinton, I voted for Ross Perot. Filed under: Guest Columns | |
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Posted on 06.09.08 by Thomas L. Knapp
Guest column by Barry Klein. How free market activists can achieve a pattern of victories ———————————————- … Recognize that money to fund an organization office with staff is critical. The following package of ideas probably cannot be done well without a budget of This is a strategy to reach the small number of opinion setters in each urbanized area. I call this group the “political village.” They are the civic activists and members of business groups who are watching the issues, developing opinions and sometimes trying to shape policy. It is much more affordable to reach and educate this relatively small number of people than a whole population of voting adults. I estimate 10,000 people fit this description in the Houston area where I live, and people are entering and leaving the village continuously. Filed under: Feature Articles and Guest Columns | |
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