LPA Repost II: Loretta and Phillies

This is another one of the posts that used to be at LPA.
Cross-posted from Loretta Nall’s yahoo group.
Loretta, still curious why you are supporting Phillies rather than
Kubby? I think Kubby is so much more your type of candidate! Judge
for yourself….

Kubby Blog
Not that you owe me any explanations, but I’m not the only one
wondering!

George Phillies on [...]

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Tom Tomorrow: Year In Review part I

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Cory Maye Denied New Trial

Cory Maye has lost his motion for a new trial. The opinion is half-assed and poorly argued. Reads like a guy who had already made up his mind, and didn’t want to be bothered with the damned facts. I can’t believe the same attentive judge I saw at the hearing last December cobbled the shabby [...]

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DMV prank

via Bureaucrash

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The Vehicular Thomas Crowne Affair: how to creatively defeat photo radar

What I’m proposing here is nothing short of the worldwide Vehicular Thomas Crowne Affair.
more:

Scrollin On Dubs
By way of Wendy McElroy
Also posted at
http://pauliecannoli.wordpress.com/2006/12/30/the-vehicular-thomas-crowne-affair-how-to-creatively-defeat-photo-radar/

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LPA Repost: Great Wall of America

Some Libertarians, such as recent Connecticut Congressional Candidate Phil Maymin

http://mayminforcongress.com/index_old.htm
Support white house resident Dubai-ya’s “Great Wall with Mexico” boondoggle.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6088084.stm
This is wrong for many reasons.
Some of my favorite principle-based arguments against this huge waste of stolen taxpayer money are at

http://radgeek.com/search?search=immigration
Especially

http://radgeek.com/gt/2004/03/22/freedom_is
and

http://catallarchy.net/blog/archives/2006/07/04/
rothbardians-cannot-consistently-support-increased-enforcement
-of-immigration-restrictions/

If those don’t convince you, what about the practical arguments?
Consider what the following had in common:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_wall_of_china
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_wall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_line
The [...]

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Fire in a crowded theater

http://pauliecannoli.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/trall061221.gif
Lots of people say “you can’t say fire in a crowded theater” but fewer people know that this phrase comes from a 1919 court decision in which an antiwar protestor was jailed for handing out leaflets against the war.
By way of Wendy McElroy.

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Regime Workers

via LP blog
Also posted at:

http://pauliecannoli.wordpress.com/2006/12/29/regime-workers/

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First of the LPA reposts: the Fraud Tax

Thanks to Seth Cohn for saving these and mailing me an archive.
What’s Offensive in the Boortz FairTax Book
by Jim Cox
Beyond the proposal for the “FairTax” itself, the Neal Boortz/John Linder book has even more verbiage to offend libertarians than it does points we can cheer.
The following is a comprehensive recounting of the bad to be [...]

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