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ALASKA FREEDOM NEWS
Alaska's Aggressive Warrior
Alaska’s Sarah Palin is one of the heroes of the conservative movement.
She frequently invokes the libertarian beliefs of America’s
founding figures to tremendous applause.
Yet, like most modern day Republican conservatives, Palin strongly
supports our military invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq to the bitter,
bloody end. She is also
open to more Presidential warfare in places like Yemen and presumably
anywhere else. Last month,
she took the position the United States should, in circumstances short
of a nuclear attack, explode nuclear weapons of our own. Palin
objects to a non-proliferation treaty that might limit killing hundreds
of millions of innocents across the
world on Presidential authority alone.
She proudly sends her own sons into harm’s way to a war our
nation has no true stake in. |
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Starbucks, Guns and Property Rights
By Jacob Hornberger |
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The controversy over guns and Starbucks provides us with an opportunity
to understand the relationship between gun rights and property rights.
The gun-control crowd is upset with Starbucks because the chain is
permitting people to openly carry firearms into its stores. They say
that this is carrying the right to keep and bear arms too far.
On the other hand, some gun-rights advocates are claiming that the
Second Amendment guarantees the right of people to keep and bear arms in
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As a private business, Starbucks has the right to operate its business
any way it sees fit. If it wants to permit people to bring weapons into
the store, that is its right. That's what private ownership entails.
By the same token, Starbucks has the right to ban its customers from
bringing guns into its stores. That's what private ownership also
entails.
If Starbucks changes its policy to no longer permit people to bring guns
into its stores, it hasn't violated the rights of any gun owner.
Instead, it has exercised its right to run its own stores in the manner
it sees fit. No one, including gun owners, has a right to impose his
views on Starbucks.
Of course, customers have the right to take their business elsewhere if
they disagree with Starbucks' policy. |
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Inventing an Alaskan Crime Wave
Alaska’s law-enforcement lobby is about to give the Last Frontier
something to go with the largest mountain in the world, a grand new
crime lab to be built in Anchorage.
Through an ornamental gate and fencing on the 15-acre property, along a
tree-lined route, one will come to the boxy monstrosity clad with
$1,000,000 of charcoal black granite.
On entry, one sees in the large atrium a grand glass-enclosed
stairwell with stairs of polished marble.
The three conference rooms and
sixteen bathrooms offer plenty of elbow room for the lab’s 39 employees.
One key piece of forensic
equipment the size of a microwave has its very own room. The exterior
recreational amenities for lab staff are to be world-class
The public, of course, will not be allowed access to the fineries of the
new lab, unless you can get past the armed guards.
Our modern crime-fighters need a lot of privacy in their work.
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Obama Widens Drone Attacks in Pakistan
Republished from the World Socialist Web Site |
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The Obama administration has granted secret permission to the CIA to
carry out more indiscriminate drone missile strikes in Pakistan, even as
protests over civilian casualties caused by the attacks continue to
grow.
Officials revealed this week that the US intelligence agency is
operating under rules that allow it to target suspected “militants” in
Pakistan based upon “pattern of life” analyses, without even
ascertaining their identity. For the most part, they acknowledge, the
names of those assassinated with Hellfire missiles fired from Predator
and the larger Reaper drones are never known.
This description of the drone program flies in the face of official
propaganda, which has presented the missile attacks as part of a
carefully prepared exercise in “targeted killings” aimed against
high-ranking leaders of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
But according to the Los Angeles Times, which cited current and
former intelligence officials, “The CIA received secret permission to
attack a wider range of targets, including militants whose names are not
known, as part of a dramatic expansion of drone strikes in Pakistan’s
border region.” |
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Election 2010:
Republican Power
Bubble
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Forgetful of their own blown reputation, the more warfare end of the Republicrat Party in America is celebrating its looming ascendancy on Capitol Hill following this year’s federal elections. Nothing has changed in America's two-party politics, from the Republican point of view, despite the ongoing economic disaster. Republicans are going to crush Democrats in November no matter what just because America’s economy continues to crumble under Obama’s rule just as it did under George Bush’s rule. Under this Republican bubble belief, every Democrat office-holder is imperiled by their Republican opposing candidate, but amazingly few Republican incumbents bear the same risk of being tossed from office just on general principles. No one in Washington yet believes all of the bums would actually be thrown out of office, certainly not by a conservative tidal wave, a hugely soothing thought for conventional Republicans right now. |
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Is the
warfare end of our government about to have its turn at power again?
Will it happen, al a Scott Brown?
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