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SONY INTRODUCES TWO MAINSTREAM DSLR CAMERAS WITH UNIQUE “QUICK AF LIVE” VIEW SYSTEMSAN DIEGO, Jan. 30, 2008 – Sony is bringing live-view shooting to its digital SLR camera line with today’s (alpha) DSLR-A350 camera and 10.2-megapixelintroduction of a 14.2-megapixel α (alpha) DSLR-A300 model. Both cameras feature new technologies that make picture taking faster, easier, and more familiar for...
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The following information is true and accurate at the time of publication.January 30, 2008Sony Develops 35mm full size CMOS Image Sensor with 24.81 Effective Megapixel resolution and extremely high signal conversion speed for use in Digital SLR CamerasAll-pixel scan mode of 6.3 frame/sTokyo, Japan - Sony Corporation today announced the development of a 35mm full size (diagonal:43.3mm/Type 2.7)...
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Are Americans Facing a Perfect Storm? →
Hornberger’s Blog Monday, January 28, 2008 Hornberger’s Blog Index Are Americans Facing a Perfect Storm? by Jacob G. Hornberger President Bush is advising the members of Congress not to load up his “economic-stimulus” package with a bunch of lard and pork. Unfortunately, he didn’t explain why. After all, if $800 in the hands of each taxpayer will “stimulate” the economy, why won’t a bunch of...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Insanitized →
InsanitizedRadley Balko | January 28, 2008, 4:59pmA 14-year-old boy in Lewisville, Texas was arrested, booked, and fingerprinted last October for sniffing his teacher’s hand sanitizer.Mr. Ortiz said the family’s ordeal began Oct. 19, when his son picked up a bottle of hand sanitizer from the desk of his fifth-period reading teacher at Killian Middle School in Lewisville. He rubbed the...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Georgia Sheriff... →
Georgia Sheriff Pattons Up for the War on DrugsRadley Balko | January 28, 2008, 3:19pmJust in case you thought talk about how the drug war has “militarized” our police departments was exaggerated:Officials in Clayton County have intensified their efforts in the war on drugs. Sheriff Victor Hill announced he is planning an invasion into drug-infested communities.The ACLU said the...
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Paying the Price for the Fed’s Success - New York... →
OP-ED CONTRIBUTORPaying the Price for the Fed’s Success By JAMES GRANT Published: January 27, 2008 HIGH finance, like some unreliable common stock, goes lower and lower. How did so many experts misjudge so badly? How could the supposedly “contained” subprime mortgage problem metastasize into a global financial panic (some days to the down side, other days to the up side)? And after this drama,...
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Kill ‘Em All; Let God Sort ‘Em OutRadley Balko | January 27, 2008, 10:58pmSome truly astonishing behavior at ONDCP:Public health workers from New York to Los Angeles, North Carolina to New Mexico, are preventing thousands of deaths by giving $9.50 rescue kits to drug users. The kits turn drug users into first responders by giving them the tools to save a life.[…]The nasal spray...
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TORCHWOODTorchwood is the Frankenstein of TelevisionYou’ve got to say this for awkward adultDoctor Who spinoff, Torchwood - even when its detractors try to tear it down, they end up making it sound like one of the greatest television shows ever made. Actually, they make it sound like the greatest ten television shows ever made, sewn together Frankenstein-style.Quoth the haters at Jesus...
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yes, exactly January 27th, 2008 by bkmarcus
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while the analogy sinks in January 26th, 2008 by bkmarcusA classic Calvin & Hobbes, forwarded by Mr B:
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Immigration officials detaining, deporting American citizensBy Marisa Taylor | McClatchy NewspapersPosted on Thursday, January 24, 2008email | printU.S. citizens detained? | View larger imageFLORENCE, Ariz. — Thomas Warziniack was born in Minnesota and grew up in Georgia, but immigration authorities pronounced him an illegal immigrant from Russia. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held...
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War is the Health of the State - Jeffrey Rogers Hummel The Theme Origin of the Secret Service Origin of the Logan Act Example of War’s Impact on Civil LIberties Example of War’s Economic Impact Conclusion
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just semantics January 23rd, 2008 by bkmarcus “No collection of Mafia or private bank robbers can begin to compare with all the Hiroshimas, Dresdens, and Lidices and their analogues through the history of mankind. … In fact, the state provides an easy, legitimated channel for crime and aggression, since it has its very being in the crime of tax theft, and the coerced monopoly of...
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DrapetomaniaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaA Ride for Liberty — The Fugitive Slaves c. 1862, by Eastman Johnson (1824-1906)In psychiatry [1], drapetomania was a mental illness described by American physician Samuel A. Cartwright in 1851 that caused black slaves to flee captivity.[2] Today, drapetomania is considered an example of pseudoscience,[3] and part of the edifice of scientific...
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No One is Freer than Zeus: Another Terrible... →
No One is Freer than Zeus“There is nothing devoid of discomfort but the rule of the gods, for no one is freer than Zeus.” Might, Prometheus BoundThursday, January 17, 2008Another Terrible Argument Against ImmigrationKeith Preston continues the fine LRC tradition of being unable to come forth with a libertarian argument for immigration controls. Preston makes several arguments: 1....
Rad Geek People’s Daily 2008-01-18 – Fryeday quote →
Fryeday quote18 January 2008Besides taking very kind notice of my article in The Freeman, Roderick Long (2008-01-18) and Micha Ghertner (2008-01-14) each also mention the epigraph that I included — a long quotation on the experience of oppression by the radical lesbian feminist philosopher Marilyn Frye. The quotation is one of my favorite passages from her essay Oppression, in The Politics of...
Rad Geek People’s Daily 2008-01-20 – The Spitting... →
The Spitting Image, Captain of the Hosts Edition20 January 2008What is it that unnerves me so much about the media’s duly-appointed Presumptive Republican Front-Runner, Senator John McCain? Is it the rampaging militarism? The austerely fascist aesthetic of his campaign materials? The newsmedia’s idiotic enthusiasm for any politician who can, in some sense or another, be packaged as a straight...
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Monday January 21, 2008 Private Lawby Bob Murphy8/18/2001In a recent article Jeremy Sapienza treated us to his kindler, gentler side. He used his (largely wasted) talents to describe his vision of a stateless society. Although I agree that his suggestion is better than the State’s compulsory alternative, I think there are problems with Sapienza’s system. However, I’ll hold off on my...
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Insuring Chaos Theoryby Bob Murphy7/1/2002In a recent article, Silas Barta has expressed doubts concerning the system of private law that I describe in my pamphlet Chaos Theory. (For those of you unfortunate readers who have not yet purchased your copy, my basic framework is outlined here. If you haven’t at least read this article on “Private Law,” I encourage you to do so before...
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They’re Coming To Americaby Gene Callahan3/1/2002Many libertarians have been far too complacent in the face of a growing threat to our cultural cohesion, our way of life, and our liberty. I’m talking, of course, about the thousands of people who arrive in our country everyday, hoping to make it their new home.Those arrivals present us with a myriad of social problems. For the most...
The Libertarian in First Grade by Joshua Katz →
The Libertarian in First Gradeby Joshua Katz by Joshua Katz DIGG THIS I remember only one event from first grade. It happened on the first day of school, a time of excitement and new challenges for all of us, I’m sure. I was excited to be a “grader” – that is, to be in a grade which ends with “grade.” The school had a milk program, where parents could pay each week...
Rad Geek People’s Daily 2001-05-28 – The Civil War... →
The Civil War and Slavery: Why Confederate Revisionism is Dead Wrong28 May 2001Richard Shedenhelm wrote a good, brief article using the Confederate Constitution to help refute revisionist claims that Southern secession was about state’s rights,Northern tariffs, or what have you. Although Shedenhelm doesn’t note it, one of the provisions he discusses — Article IV, Section 3 codifies the decision of...
The Goal Is Freedom: Those Too-Consistent... →
News & CommentaryThe Goal Is Freedom: Those Too-Consistent LibertariansJanuary 18, 2008by Sheldon Richman Sheldon Richman is the editor of The Freeman and “In brief.” TGIF appears Fridays. Comments welcome. The writer Michael Kinsley is very intelligent. He is also very glib, and his glibness often gets in the way of his intelligence. The expression “too clever by...
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Why Are Politicians Always Trying to Scare Us? Thursday, December 6, 2007AudioDescriptionLengthDownloadStreamingIntroductory Remarks by David Theroux6:15DownloadStreamingPresentation by Robert Higgs, Part 148:31DownloadStreamingPresentation by Robert Higgs, Part 231:59DownloadStreamingQuestions and Answers26:57DownloadStreaming
Resurrecting Racism: The attack on black people... →
Resurrecting Racism The modern attack on black people using phony science © 2004 Francisco Gil-White http://www.hirhome.com/rr/rrcontents.htmTable of Contents _______________
Free Market Thinking: Not Applicable →
Free Market Thinking: Not Applicableby Per BylundExclusive to STRIn a world of left and right, libertarians should fit nicely somewhere in-between or – even better – in a neither-nor position. But still libertarians tend to identify much more with the right wing in politics rather than with the left wing. How is this so? Perhaps it is the rightists’ common talk of free market economics and the...