Individual Liberty — Individual Responsibility

For those we lost, We will not forget 09/11/2001

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
— The Continental Congress, July 4, 1776

“The task of statesmanship has always been the re-definition of these rights in terms of a changing and growing social order.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (Commonwealth Club Address, 1932)

“Roosevelt was wrong! The principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence are the principles of individual liberty. Our unalienable rights, given to us by God are given to us as individuals. Our rights do not come from society or the government, and they cannot be redefined by politicians. The nature of these rights carries with it the implication of individual responsibility, without which we surrender them.”
— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008

Jane Fonda is spared.

Published Fri, Oct 13 2006 2:58 PM
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An American has finally been charged with treason... for the first time since World War II. Too bad it wasn't Jane Fonda.

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Global warming is happening, but is it really anthropogenic?

Published Fri, Oct 13 2006 2:09 PM
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Say anything against the current global warming hysteria and you're likely to be branded a heretic. There are even people that want to try global warming skeptics the way war criminals were tried at Nuremberg! According to the conventional wisdom, global warming is caused by Western Civilization and our consumption of fossil fuels resulting in increased CO₂ in the atmosphere, resulting in increased trapping of thermal radiation from the Earth by the atmosphere. Never mind the fact that we produce CO₂ simply by breathing. Never mind that water vapor is the single most powerful greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

Now it turns out that global warming may actually be caused by the sun. That's right, by the sun. It seems that during the 20^th Century the sun's magnetic field increased. Because of that, fewer cosmic rays reached the Earth's atmosphere. Fewer cosmic rays meant less cloud cover. Less cloud cover meant less solar radiation reflected back into space, so more radiation reached the Earth's surface, where it was converted into infrared radiation and trapped by the greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. The net effect of all of this may be as much as 7 times the net effect of all of the greenhouse gas emissions produced by man since the industrial revolution!

Don't just take my word for it. And if you don't believe Steven Milloy, how about Henrik Svensmark and Eigil Friis-Christensen? They were saying the sun was likely the cause of global warming over 10 years ago. Now they can back it up with experimental evidence, which in my opinion beats the heck out of a computer simulation. But then what do I know? I only write software for a living, so I wouldn't know how easy it is to write a simulation that confirms whatever you want it to...

Whatever you do, don't bring me up before the Hague!

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Chris Wallace - Right Wing Hack?

Published Fri, Oct 13 2006 11:42 AM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics

The Hatemonger's Quarterly throws a curveball to the left. Remember the "Path to 911" flap from last month? Remember the "right wing smear job" perpetrated by Chris Wallace against William Jefferson Clinton?

It turns out Chris Wallace is a registered Democrat, and has been for... get this... over twenty years! Sure... Chris Wallace is a real "neo-conservative".

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