Don't Soil Yourself With Politics
Retta Fontana
2007-03-06 17:00
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March 7, 2007
Thanks to Angelo Mike for the stark reminder of how ugly statism really is. It's terribly useful to read the firsthand account of someone who loves liberty yet ventures into the very belly of the beast, Washington D.C. We can all use a reminder of the actual horror of reality from time to time. Thanks for sharing your experience of falling on the sword with this...
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Retta Fontana
2007-03-01 17:00
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March 2, 2007
Reason #10: Anarchists are selfish capitalists.
The desire for money is the root of all business. Anarchists look out for their own best interests and can thereby only benefit mankind, because unless they are offering us what we want, in a business sense, at a price we are willing to pay, they cannot get what it is they want ' money. This is a good, beautiful...
The Liberation of Leanne
Retta Fontana
2007-02-19 17:00
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February 20, 2007
A surprise, well-armed SWAT team visit in the middle of the night can be a very eye opening experience. It happens a lot, but since it doesn't happen to all of us, we cannot hope that all our friends and neighbors will be dosed with reality this way in order to alert them to the erosion of liberty in America today. There is another way. I'd like to...
Let Freedom Ring
Retta Fontana
2007-02-06 17:00
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February 7, 2007
After reading Jim Amrhein's article 'Alpha Dog' in 'Whiskey and Gunpowder' and Glen Allport's 'Womb, Birth, Infancy and Childhood,' I've been doing a lot of thinking about children in our culture.
Grab Hold of Reality and Take Her for a Spin
Retta Fontana
2007-01-07 17:00
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'Here's your coffee, sir, have nice day. Oh, and by the way, how many Iraqis did you kill when you were over there?' 'Uh, only a few. I was on guard duty most of the time.' 'Good job! Now, does that include women and children, or don't they really count?'
Death Due to Religion
Why is the American genocide in the Middle East considered a good and noble endeavor simply...
Find Freedom Friend
Retta Fontana
2006-12-31 17:00
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January 1, 2007
'The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool.' ~ Richard Feynman
Personal Freedom
Retta Fontana
2006-12-25 17:00
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December 26, 2006
I don't think anyone can deny that today there is a tremendous initiation of force being exerted by government at all levels in almost all nations. Some people, probably most, don't recognize it for the evil that it is. They'd say government and its cloaked coercion is 'for our own good,' but if pressed, most would at least agree that it is present.
Order Emerges from Chaos in the Big 'D'
Retta Fontana
2006-12-03 17:00
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December 4, 2006
I don't know how things work in the other 49 states, but here in southeast Michigan there has spontaneously emerged from chaos a number of orderly, beautiful, free solutions to problems. As Detroit has often earned itself the title of 'Murder Capital, USA ,' it stands to reason that if order can emerge from chaos here, it can happen anywhere.
Our Blossoms
The Real McCoy
Retta Fontana
2006-11-02 17:00
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November 3, 2006
Several years ago a friend invited me to have a drink. It was wonderful, like nothing I had ever tasted. I wanted more. I needed more. That one taste started me on a journey of research and wellness. Where could I get some of my own?!
Little Gitmos Everywhere
Retta Fontana
2006-10-16 16:00
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October 17, 2006
When I was a kid, life was simpler on every level.
If you did something stupid, you got hurt, and you learned not to do it again, or to try a better way. No one that I knew ever fell out of a tree or put their eye out. We had a basic survival instinct and some personal freedom, which I treasured.
In the Name of the Father
Retta Fontana
2006-09-24 16:00
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September 25, 2006
Tyranny, like pornography, can be difficult to describe, but as the saying goes, 'you know it when you see it.' It increases your breathing and heart rate and gets your attention whether you like it or not.
The Perfect Economic Storm
Retta Fontana
2006-09-14 16:00
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September 15, 2006
I have dear friends whom I have taken to divesting of their ignorance about the economic state of the nation. They find the information overwhelming on its face. I thought I'd write it down in what I hope is an orderly fashion and share it with you too, dear reader. This way it can be examined and digested in whole or in part, depending on your tolerance for...
Death By Handout
Retta Fontana
2006-08-28 16:00
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August 29, 2006
'We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money.' ~ statesman and patriot Daniel Webster
Freedom Is an Inside Job
Retta Fontana
2006-08-15 16:00
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August 16, 2006
It's easy for freedom lovers to get discouraged these days. The news coming at us is almost always bad. The Leviathan that is government is a heaving behemoth that, like 'the blob that ate Chicago ,' is totally out of control. The police state expands its own powers and territory at every turn, and its design is to control us, to intimidate us into submission,...
Eureka!
Retta Fontana
2006-08-11 16:00
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Mainstream news had always left me feeling unsatisfied. It was like smelling barbeque and being fed a rice cake. I was still hungry. I just knew there was something in the air, but I couldn't sink my teeth into it.
Ludicrous Headline Du Jour
Retta Fontana
2006-06-22 16:00
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Contenders for this dubious award are from Friday, June 16th 2006 , but they could be from any politico pie hole, on any given day.
In one corner we have this featherweight champion: 'U.S. inflation may be worse than what is showing up in government data. Since 1913, the U.S. Dollar has lost 95% of its purchasing power. We have yet to hear the government say so, or admit...
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