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I agree with Mssr. Jerale.


 * It's not enough to preserve the Sacred Lexicon, which was foisted upon the galaxy back in the counterrevolution of 2787 by the Centralist Army Horde, lead by Lord Cyg Hamiltron. The Centralist Army Hord ensured that the Sacred Lexicon made too many concessions to the Slave Dominions of the Inner Sectors, and set the course for aggrandisements by the Mondo Supreme and his Assemblage of Chieftains.


 * While it is true that the preliminary preservationist agenda of returning to and upholding the Sacred Lexicon would be a tremendous step in the proper direction, it does not go far enough; ultimately, the Assemblage of Chieftains must be abolished along with the Office of Mondo Supreme. The many great species of our galaxy, along with the cyborgs and the androids, must be freed from all tyranny, must be freed to pursue their own lives without the Chieftain yoke restraining their progress.


 * Insofar as the Sacred Lexicon devolves power away from the Mondo Supreme and his Assemblage of Chieftains, it is to be lauded; but insofar as it maintains the fiction of the legitimacy of the Mondo Supreme and his Assemblage of Chieftains, it is ultimately a tool of counterrevolution and Hord Centralism.

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Cyborg Ron Paul has been providing bioelectrical care to beings of all species (and even to androids) since his memory implantation centuries ago, without bias. While it is definitely unfortunate that Cyborg Ron Paul failed to appropriately scan the brainwave data signal posted under his thoughtline before allowing it to be broadcast, that only proves he has a malfunctioning scanner unit, not that he endorsed the specist brainwave data signal. And, given that his conduct operations have indicated continually that he harbours absolutely no specist programming, methinks that those claiming that Cyborg Ron Paul is somehow himself a specist are either misguided, misprogrammed, or deceptibots.

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True preservationists are completely cool with interspeciest relations, and reject all regulations thereupon, at any level of galactic control. However, preservationists also acknowledge that regulations are worse when enacted by a one-size-fits-all Assemblage of Chieftains. If regulations on interspeciest relations must exist, it is better for them to exist on the micro-dimensional level, so that it is easier to overthrow them and thereby allow interspecies equality.

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Influx.

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&#65374; Our natural rights don't actually "come," per se, from anywhere. They're innate. It is within our nature to possess them, just as it is within the nature of something with green pigment to reflect light. We can logically deduce that we possess these natural, inalienable, negative rights because of the necessary absurdities that arise when we imagine either (A) the contradictory premise of positive rights (which we would have to accept were we to accept authority without negative rights) or (B) the other contradictory premise of inherent illegitimacy in all things (which we would have to accept were we to reject all conceptions of legitimate authority).

&#65374; To put it another way, there are three options. The first option is that there is no such thing as legitimate authority, in which case all actions (even scratching one's own nose, even living, even dying) are inherently illegitimate and constitute violations of natural law. Without legitimate authority, all actions are natural crimes. The second option is that legitimate authority exists, but only over other people and the property of other people, never over one's self or one's own property. This takes the notion of positive rights to its logical extreme, thereby eliminating all possibility of negative rights. In such an existence, the right to enslave would exist, and the right to not be enslaved would not. Two persons could simultaneously be each others slaves, and would be in violation of natural law whenever they refused to abide by each others demands, including the command to unenslave. The absurdities are boundless with that option, and since every conception of positive rights must inherently conflict with one's negative rights, that leaves us with only one last option. The third option is that each individual is the natural owner of her or his own will and body (her or his inalienable property) and, by extension through the labour one commits with her or his body, all legitimately-acquired alienable goods (e.g., a chair, a farm, a piece of string, a bank note). In this third option, only negative rights exists because positive and negative rights logically cannot coexist in any universe bound by the law of noncontradiction. Since this third option is the only option that does not lead to logical absurdities, it's the only option that can be real. This is a true trichotomy.

&#65374; Rights do not come from government, or society, or even from a god or demigod. That's why I call them innate and natural; it is within our nature to possess them. As conscious, acting, reasoning individuals, we could not exist any other way.

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IN THE YEAR 2081...

"Executive Office of the President of the United States Lysander Spooner: Eternal Chairman of the Republic • Harry Browne:  Eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission  • Kmele Foster: President of the United States • Mary Ruwart: Vice President of the United States"

Cabinet of the United States (United States federal executive departments)"United States Department of State Nomination pending: United States Secretary of State • Nomination pending: United States Deputy Secretary of State"

United States Department of Justice"Nicholas J. Sarwark: United States Attorney General • Dick Clark: United States Deputy Attorney General • Steve Kubby: Drug Enforcement Administration (If unavailable, then Gary Johnson"

United States Department of the Treasury"Ron Paul: United States Secretary of the Treasury • Nomination pending: United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence • Nomination pending: Treasurer of the United States"

United States Department of Defense"Office of the Secretary of Defense Colin Powell: United States Secretary of Defense • Nomination pending: United States Deputy Secretary of Defense • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (possibly Earl Ravenal) • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence • Angela Keaton: Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs • Nomination pending: General Counsel of the Department of Defense • Nomination pending: Director of Administration and Management (possibly Earl Ravenal)"

Military Departments"United States Department of the Army—Nomination pending: United States Secretary of the ArmyUnited States Department of the Navy—Nomination pending: United States Secretary of the NavyUnited States Department of the Air Force—Nomination pending: United States Secretary of the Air Force"

Joint Chiefs of Staff"Nomination pending: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff"

Unified Combatant Command

National Guard Bureau

Department of Defense Inspector General

United States Department of Veterans Affairs"R. Lee Wrights: United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs • Nomination pending: United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Benefits • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Memorial Affairs"

United States Department of Labor"Kevin A. Carson: United States Secretary of Labor • Brad Spangler: United States Deputy Secretary of Labor"

United States Department of the Interior Nomination pending: United States Secretary of the Interior • Nomination pending: United States Deputy Secretary of the Interior • Russell Means: Bureau of Indian Affairs • Other nominations pending

United States Department of Education"Nomination pending: United States Secretary of Education • Nomination pending: United States Deputy Secretary of Education • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Education"

United States Department of Energy"Nominations pending"

United States Department of Health and Human Services"Nominations pending • Note: If Mary Ruwart is not serving as Vice President, then Mary Ruwart: Food and Drug Administration; if Mary Ruwart is serving as Vice President, then nomination pending"

United States Department of Homeland Security"Nominations pending"

United States Department of Commerce"Russell D. Roberts: United States Secretary of Commerce • Nomination pending: United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce • Other nominations pending"

United States Department of Housing and Urban Development"Nomination pending: United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development • Nomination pending: United States Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development • Ralph Nader: Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization"

United States Department of Agriculture"Nomination pending: United States Secretary of Agriculture • Nomination pending: United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics • Nomination pending: Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs"

United States Department of Transportation"Walter Block: United States Secretary of Transportation • Nomination pending: United States Deputy Secretary of Transportation"

United States Department of Equality"Diana Moon Glampers: United States Handicapper General"

United States Congress"United States Senate Mary Ruwart: Vice President of the United States • Michael Badnarik: President pro tempore of the United States Senate"

United States House of Representatives"Penn Jillette: Speaker of the United States House of Representatives"

Galactic Senate"Senator from Naboo: Cyborg Murray Rothbard (L-Naboo) • Senator from Luna:  Cyborg Robert Heinlein  (RH-Luna) • Prime Rebel:  Cyborg SEK3  (A-Anarcho-Village)"

Independent agencies of the United States government"Federal Communications Commission Alexander S. Peak (L): Chairman"Federal Reserve System"Lew Rockwell: Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System" "Federal judiciary of the United States Supreme Court of the United States Andrew Napolitano: Chief Justice of the United States"

United States courts of appeals"Nomination pending: chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit • Richard A. Epstein: chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit • Nomination pending: chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit • Randy Barnett: chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit • N. Stephan Kinsella: chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit • Nomination pending: chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit • Nomination pending: chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit • Nomination pending: chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit • James P. Gray: chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit • Butler Shaffer: chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit • (See also: Institute for Justice: Staff Biographies, Dick Clark Law: Libertarian Legal Professionals)"

United States district court"Nominations forthcoming"

"Notes Gary Johnson, Anthony Gregory, Wendy McElroy, Mike Gravel, George Phillies, Barry Hess, Jacob Hornberger, Carla Howell, David Bergland, Dean Akmand, Jo Jorgensen, Nancy Lord, Toni Nathanfederal agencies, independent agencies, law enforcement, public policy, intelligence community, uniformed services"

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"The State! Always and ever the government and its rulers and operators have been considered above the general moral law. The "Pentagon Papers" are only one recent instance among innumerable instances in history of men, most of whom are perfectly honorable in their private lives, who lie in their teeth before the public.  Why?  For "reasons of State."  Service to the State is supposed to excuse all actions that would be considered immoral or criminal if committed by "private" citizens.  The distinctive feature of libertarians is that they coolly and uncompromisingly apply the general moral law to people acting in their roles as members of the State apparatus.  Libertarians make no exceptions.  For centuries, the State (or more strictly, individuals acting in their roles as "members of the government") has cloaked its criminal activity in high-sounding rhetoric.  For centuries the State has committed mass murder and called it "war"; then ennobled the mass slaughter that "war" involves. For centuries the State has enslaved people into its armed battalions and called it "conscription" in the "national service." For centuries the State has robbed people at bayonet point and called it "taxation." In fact, if you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place."

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On Who Would Win in a Fight: James Bond or Michael Weston


If James Bond and Michael Westen were fighting, Michael Westen would surely win. Despite Bond and Westen both being spies, Westen is the better spy, fighter, narrator, and strategist. In conclusion, if there were a fight between James Bond and Michael Westen, Michael Westen would surely be the victor.

Letter to the King of Warioland
Dear King Wario:We, the people of Warioland, have certain grievances that we believe need to be addressed. (1)   Because of your prohibition on domestic production, import, trade, and consumption of toothpaste, we, the people of Warioland, have no access to any toothpaste outside of the black market. Toothpaste sold on the black market is notably less safe than toothpaste sold on a free market, for when a person buys unsafe toothpaste in a free market, the purchaser can easily sue the person or persons responsible for the hazardous contents of said toothpaste, while a person who buys toothpaste in a black market cannot issue lawsuits without outing her- or himself as a criminal purchaser of the prohibited product. By regulating or outlawing toothpaste, not only do you ensure that a black market in toothpaste will arise by inflating the profit margins of those dabbling in the trade of toothpaste (which you do by artificially decreasing supply of toothpaste relative to the demand thereof), but you create a sort of "bubble of protection" around black-market toothpaste chemists and peddlers, a bubble that protects them from the responsibility they would otherwise have in a self-regulating free market, the responsibility to ensure that their products are safe for consumers. Indeed, the sole good that has ever arisen out of your antitoothpaste laws are that they make using toothpaste seem "rebellious," "cool," and "hip" to the youth of Warioland. Kids in the schools of Warioland are known for sneaking off to the bathroom between classes for a brushing. But let's face it, King Wario, other than that one unintended positive consequence of your otherwise tyrannical law, your antitoothpaste laws are an utter failure. You cannot even keep toothpaste out of your own prisons; how, then, do you propose to rid the entire island of toothpaste? (Also, why?) (2)   Other reasons, too. So, as you can see, King Wario, we have a number of grievances we need addressed. Please make haste. Signed, The People of Warioland

Classical Latin

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Days
There are four days in the Peakian week. They are: Winday, Earthday, and Waterday are weekdays, while Fireday is the weekend.
 * 1) Winday
 * 2) Earthday
 * 3) Waterday
 * 4) Fireday

It must be noted that there is a very small, albeit vocal, minority that petition to have the days renamed Gasday, Soliday, Liquiday, and Plasmaday respectively. Two factors that have hitherto prevented this from gaining steam include the general displeasure associated with the name Gasday and the scientific reality that the full number of material states actually exceeds the four states about which one commonly thinks.

Weeks
There are seven weeks in the typical Peakian month (excluding Member and sometimes also excluding September). They are: Some have suggested that the names of the weeks be changed, but the general consensus remains that the seven traditional names remain. One set of alternative names that have been suggested include: Another set of alternative names that have been suggested include:
 * 1) Freedomweek
 * 2) Loveweek
 * 3) Mindweek
 * 4) Restweek
 * 5) Friendweek
 * 6) Dreamweek
 * 7) Musicweek
 * 1) Mercuriana
 * 2) Venusiana
 * 3) Marsiana
 * 4) Jupiteriana
 * 5) Saturiana
 * 6) Uranusiana
 * 7) Neptuiana
 * 1) Nameriweek
 * 2) Sameriweek
 * 3) Euriweek
 * 4) Afriweek
 * 5) Asiweek
 * 6) Australiweek
 * 7) Antartiweek

Months
There are thirteen months in the Peakian calendar, each lasting exactly twenty-eight days (or seven weeks), except for Member, which would have twenty-nine days, and September, which would have twenty-nine days each leap year. They are: Leap year in the Peakian calendar works in exactly the same way as it does in the Gregorian calendar.
 * 1) Member (sometimes called Primilis)
 * 2) Bember (sometimes called Sectilis)
 * 3) Trember (sometimes called Tertilis)
 * 4) Quadrember (sometimes called Quadrilis)
 * 5) Quintember (sometimes called Quintilis)
 * 6) Sextember (sometimes called Sextilis)
 * 7) September
 * 8) Octember (sometimes called October)
 * 9) November
 * 10) December
 * 11) Undecember
 * 12) Duodecember
 * 13) Tredecember (sometimes called Smarch)

Other recommendations for amending the Peakian calendar
One suggestion commonly made is to measure the day in seconds, decaseconds, hectoseconds, kiloseconds, and myriaseconds. However, given the desire to not alter the unit of second, and considering that there are technically approximately 86,164.0910 seconds in each rotation period of the Earth, the question ultimately remains on how best to go about this.

Since there are 86,400 seconds in any given twenty-four hour period, one suggestion is to continue defining the day as twenty-four hours in length, also known as 8,640 decaseconds, 864 hectoseconds, 86.4 kiloseconds, or 8.64 myriaseconds. This would leave the calendar&#8217;s standard on leap years intact.

The other suggestion is that, since there are approximately 86,164.0910 seconds in each rotation period of the Earth, to define the length of the day as 86,164.091 seconds, 8,616.4091 decaseconds, 861.64091 hectoseconds, 86.164091 kiloseconds, or 8.6164091 myriaseconds. While this would allow for the day to be defined strictly by the rotational period of the Earth, and would allow for a revision on the way leap year works.

The apparent problem with both of these approaches, however, is that they leave an untidy mess of decimal points, thus making it that much more difficult for the average person to calculate easily how long ago something may have occured in measurements more fine-tuned than the day.

A countersuggestion sometimes made is to adopt French Revolutionary Time. However, this would obviously require changing the standard length of the unit the second, which most users of the Peakian calendar greatly desire avoiding.

Standard time
All users of the Peakian calendar agree that daylight saving time (DST) is absurd. Users of the Peakian calendar advocate permanent standard time, and abolition of all government edicts aimed at forcing people to recognise and adhere to DST.

However, how to go about promoting permanent standard time is debated amongst users of the Peakian calendar.

Those users of the Peakian calendar who advocate sticking to a twenty-four-hour-day system typically promote the view that there should be twenty-four separate standard times, with the various standard times set not by governments, but rather by the passing of Sol over the twenty-four respective meridians, roughly similar to the manner in which time zones are set up currently. The difference would be that, because governments would no longer be defining their respective time zones, two different time zones may exist within the same country, state, county, or even town.

Contrariwise, those users of the Peakian calendar who prefer to see days divided into hectoseconds, kiloseconds, &c., tend to prefer a panterrestrial standard time, wherein the standard time is set for the whole planet based on the passage of Sol over the Prime Meridian. Advocates argue that this would decrease confusion by allowing all Earthlings to know exactly what is meant by zero-o-clock without having to figure out what time zone is being used.

Klemit
A klemit is a fictional humanoid creature. According to legend, the klemit is a very rare, wall-dwelling monster with a strong sweet tooth and a nasty temper. Klemits are also said to have very little tolerance for light, which explains their general preference for living within walls. While owning a house with a klemit comes with the responsibility of constantly feeding it sugary foods, such as candy or syrup, the major benefit of owning such a house is that it brings said owner tremendous good fortune. The degree to which this luck is good diminishes, however, to the extent that the klemit&#8217;s presence is popularly known.

The mythical creature was created by Philip Levens and made its first appearance in the eighth episode of R. L. Stein&#8217;s The Haunting Hour: The Series, titled &#8220;Walls.&#8221; This episode first aired on 5 February 2011 on The Hub. The klemit depicted in this episode was short (by modern Homo sapiens standards), and had little to no hair, six clawed fingers, a tail, and wrinkly, dark, yellowed skin. It was played by Matt Phillips.

Fictional uses of salt
In the 1993 family movie Hocus Pocus, salt is used as a weapon against witches. A ring of salt can be made, over which the witches cannot cross.

In the television series Supernatural, salt is primarily used to fight ghosts and dæmons. A ring of salt can be made over which ghosts and hellhounds cannot cross, and rifles can be loaded with rock salt, which, when shot at a ghost, causes it to dissipate. In order to eliminate a ghost for good, the bones of the ghost must be salted and burned.

Rings of salt are also used by Wiccans in television series True Blood. In “Fresh Blood” (S3E11, 29 August 2010), Holly Cleary sets up a circle of salt and candles “for protection and purity,” inside of which she is able to create an abortive tea potion. Wiccans also perform spells within a ring of salt in “I'm Alive and On Fire” (S4E4, 17 July 2011), and in “And When I Die” (S4E12, 11 September 2011), a possessed medium (Lafayette Reynolds as possessed by Marnie Stonebrook) is unable to cross the salt circle.

The aliens in the R. L. Stine&#8217;s The Haunting Hour: The Series episode “Alien Candy” (S1E10, 19 February 2011) are vulnerable to salt. It is explained by the main character, Walt, that the aliens possess permeable skin like frogs and slugs; thus, by throwing salt onto the aliens, water is drawn out of their bodies, causing them to shrivel and die.

In the 2013 film The Last Exorcism Part II, a ring of salt is made around Nell Margaret Sweetzer, and salted holy water is given to her intravenously in order to aid the Order of the Right Hand in freeing Nell from a dæmon's grasp. While the salt succeeds in preventing the dæmon from stepping across the salt line, the dæmon is nevertheless capable of reaching across it.

Cartesian libertarianism
The central thrust of Cartesian libertarianism can be summed up in the maxim, "Cogito, ergo sum prandium non libero."

Kennedy
Former conservative, rose to fame as a VJ on MTV hosting Alternative Nature. Political discussions with Kurt Loader caused her to shift away from conservatism to libertarianism. That said, she still has an affinity for Ronald Reagan, which she expressed on the 30 April 2014 episode. She is the only host who identifies herself as a Reagan fan.

Matt Welch
Reason Books

Kmele Foster
FreeThink Media Became a libertarian because of Ron Paul, for whom he campaigned in 2008. He describes himself as "somewhere between Rothbardistan and Nozickville."

Party Panel
The "Party Panel" is a segment involving two guest commentators (for example, Gavin McInnes and Santita Jackson) discussing, with the hosts, various news topics. Usually, the same two individuals return for the "Game" segment or the "What Should the Panel Discuss?" segment. Although it was never uncommon to have two guest commentators together on Friday episodes, it wasn't until [insert date here] that the segment header "Party Panel" began to also be used on Friday episodes.

K Walking
This "man-on-the-street" segment involves Kennedy going out on the streets of New York talking to the people she encounters. Sometimes, Kennedy goes out to publicly break what the show describes as stupid laws.

The "K Walking" segment is one of the few segments to be adopted into Kennedy's new show, Kennedy.

Topical Storm
The "Topical Storm" is a segment in which a small number stories or topics are discussed. While the number of topics ranges from three to five, most commonly the Topical Storm is comprised of four topics. The segment is presented halfway into the programme. Sometimes, "K Walking" is incorporated into the Topical Storm. It is common that, on Mondays, a mugshot is revealed; this is usually referred to as "Mugshot Monday."

The "Topical Storm" is another of the few segments to be adopted into Kennedy.

What Should the Panel Discuss?
Viewers choose via Facebook one of two topics for the Party Panel to discuss          ((((((((is it called "You Decide"? 8Apr)))))))

Game segment
No official name, various games with such names as "Who Spent It?", "Name that Scandal", and "Regulation: Fact or Fiction?"

Meet the Independent
Viewers introduced to an independent candidate

2 Minutes Hate
http://www.mightyheaton.com/2014/01/27/two-minutes-of-hate/ http://www.mightyheaton.com/2014/02/11/two-minutes-hate/ Andrew Heaton as "Bernie Maxsmith, Fox Business human resources director"

After Hours
The aftershow, which one could stream immediately following the show on the official website, was called "After Hours." People could call in to the show at 1-877-249-9626.

https://twitter.com/independentsfbn/status/435972089665687552

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Greg Lukianoff

6 June 2014, "The War on Men"

The main complaint here is that local police departments haven't been taking the real problem of sexual assault on college campuses seriously enough, but it seems they've been trying to fix that by simply making it really easy to convict people on campus. The solution, I think, really should be making local police departments take this issue seriously. …<! --9:25-- > We do need to get detectives, we do need to get SVU students, to take the problem of sexual assault on campus seriously.

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Jared Polis

8 April 2009 [not The Independents]

The hippie in me (my family legacy, my parents were hippies) bemoans the fact that we defeated the Iraqi military only to help them build an even stronger one that might one day be used against children and innocents, as often is the case. When will all the killing end? Where have all the flowers gone? And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and they shall study war no more.

Alas, the Iraqis are studying war under our all-too-capable tutelage.

Jared Polis [ https://web.archive.org/web/20090429203000/http://polis.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=121695 "Congressional Visit to Iraq, Part II"], Huffington Post, 8 April 2009

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28 April 2014

On almost every appropriations bill that came before the house, there's cuts to be made. ... Sometimes you try across-the-board cuts, entire agencies like the misnamed Department of Homeland Security, which certainly doesn't make our homeland safer—we tried an across-the-board cut for that one. There are a lot of cuts to be had.

9:15 PM ET

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28 May 2014

So this is a 1989 act that basically was written before email existed. (Email was something that a few academics used; it wasn't an everyday privacy concern.) And it's been construed since that, somehow, you and I don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy with our old emails. And, I mean, I've, y'know, talked to my constituents about this, listened to them—of course we do! You don't expect that, somehow, the IRS, without a warrant, can read your eight-month-old emails—that's just outrageous. It's a very simple fix; it doesn't require going back and re-writing the whole bill—and that's what we're aiming to do with this bill. We don't even know the extent to which this power has been used or abused.

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Santita Jackson

18 March 2014

Look, I come out of the civil rights movement, and—but I'm going back to Benjamin Franklin, now. He said people who are willing to give up, or trade, their freedoms for—oh, what is it?—for temporary security—well, you're going to lose both, and you're deserving of neither. Now, we're gonna have to make a decision—the American people are—about what kinda country that it is that we want. The people who—

History is rear-view mirror often shows us that the people that we're looking at are not the people we're looking for. Time magazine just did a study, and they said that the most famous American in history is not an American president, it's Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King. This man was harassed into his grave by our government. And I have a healthy scepticism about what any government—Democratic or Republican, whatever the administration is—whether they tell me about listening in on my phone calls. But now is the time for the American people to step up to the plate and make a decision: what do you want—do you want to be free, or do you want to be slave? Really, that's what this is. We can be enslaved to fear, or we can be free from fear, which is what F. D. R. told us that we needed to be, and grow up and hold this government accountable—I mean all of them, because we get upset— If you're a Democrat, you get upset with the Republicans then you let the Democrats go. If you're a Republican, you let the Democrats....

[Libertarians] are making the most sense, because more—this—the independents are the fastest-growing group demographic politically in America, because we've had it—because both of the major parties are serving the same masters—it's not helping us.

9:04–9:06 PM ET

Who I love, quite frankly. (referring to Ron Paul)

9:11 PM ET

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Patrick Moore, cofounder of Greenpeace, said on Stossel that he used to oppose nuclear power but now supports it.

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Belle Knox

19 March 2014

I've done a lot of research on sex work; I actually did my term paper on it. I've always been very intrigued by it.

9:42 PM ET

I identify more as a libertarian.

9:43 PM ET

I really believe in the libertarian values of freedom of choice and freedom from government intervention, you know. I think maybe it could be from personal experience in my own life. I dislike being told what to do with my body and what to do, you know, in my own pursuit of happiness. And, I really think the government is way too intrisuve on our lives.

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Benjamin Powell

21 April 2014

Working in a sweatshop stinks, and it's much worse than that. But, recognising that it's the best available option to them now has important implications because the last thing we should want to do, as people in the first world who care about these people, is take away their least-bad option and then throw them into the even-worse alternatives, which is often subsistence agriculture, informal service sector work, places that pay much less where poverty is much more pervasive. These sweatshop jobs, as undesirable as they are, are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty, both in our own history and in countries around the world today.

9:52–9:53 PM ET

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Kmele Foster

24 March 2014

There have been legitimate incidents of police officers sexually assaulting prostitutes.

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24 March 2014

I find it somewhat offensive, the notion that, because of the shape or shade of my genitalia, I would get some sort of preference in hiring.

9:17 PM ET

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7 April 2014

I'm a guy who genuinely believes that if people want to come to this country, they ought to be able to do so.

9:16 PM ET

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8 April 2014

Transparency is absolutely essential to fight police corruption, to fight abuses of power on the part of the police—and these are police officers who are patrolling communities that have already had very significant problems interacting with the communities that they're working in, so these cameras are an important way to try to combat that. We need some accountability.

9:45 PM ET

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14 April 2014

Taxation is theft! I totally agree with that.

9:58 PM ET

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21 April 2014

I think it is absolutely imperative that we are clear that there is no room for the Alex Jones charlatans of the world—and, perhaps, even the folks who—well-intentioned, and perhaps honestly believe there is some sort of dubious conspiracy being perpetrated by the federal government—there's no evidence of that. It's ridiculous, and we need to draw a line in the sand.

9:58–9:59 PM ET

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20 May 2014

Property rights are sacrosanct.

9:36 PM ET

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20 May 2014

Rich Benjamin: The NRA didn't do that. Kmele Foster: No, that's what the government does. Kennedy: Yeah, that's right.
 * Kmele Foster: We object to the use of force to get those things done.  I don't like when you wave a gun around and say, "Raise the miniumum wage!"  That's wrong.

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ON Stossel 1 MAY 2014

Racial tribalism should always be abhorrent, or we at least should view it in exactly the same way.

9:06 PM ET

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Kennedy

25 March 2014

We are apes, though; I mean, in all honesty, we are...human beings, Homo sapiens, are apes.

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11 April 2014, "Here's the Plan"

It's all about D.I.Y., baby; do it yourself, think for yourself, don't be afraid to embrace the future.

9:59 PM ET

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28 April 2014

The notion that 'if you haven't done anything wrong, you've got nothing to fear,' that's not what it means to live in a free country.

9:53 PM ET

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30 April 2014

There is nothing enterprising about corporate welfare.

9:02 PM ET

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7 May 2014

We're not a spanking household; we-we both firmly agree there're other ways of handling conflict, and when you hit children, it sorta teaches them that hitting people is a good way to resolve things.

9:21–9:22 PM ET

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Andy Levy

26 March 2014

I just can't believe the former host of a t.v. show who's now running for public office did something that got him a lot of attention.

9:31 PM ET

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18 April 2014, "7 Deadly Sins"

The flipside of [lust] is that thids sort of Puritanism, and Puratinism, to me—that's the extreme repression of lust. And that almost inevitably leads to, in a lot of cultures, the repression of women—we see that in cultures that force women to cover themselves from head to toe—; and it also leads to the suppression of individual rights—and we see that in cultures that outlaw consensual sexual activity—whether its prostitution or whether it's just—even between just a married couple in their own bedrooms.

9:09 PM ET

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Johan Norberg

2 April 2014

If we only focus on this gap [the gap between the rich and the poor], it basically means that we think that it could be that wealth is the problem as poverty is the problem—it doesn't really matter, the problem is that there is a gap. And I don't think so, I don't think wealth is a problem; I think that poverty is a problem. And then, when we look around the world, what we see is from the last fifteen years, around 150 thousand people have been lifted out of extreme poverty every day for these last fifteen years. And that has happened in the places that have actually increased inequality because they've given people an opportunity to start new business models, use new technologies, export to other countries, and so on. So sometimes inequality can actually be a friend of poverty reduction.

9:20–9:21 PM ET

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John Stossel

2 April 2014

It's a good example to think about, that pinball was just banned as this "terrible thing" in America for thirty years—pinball! You could win a free game. And then they had debates over, "Well, if it were a game of skill, it oughta be le—it could be legal, but its just a luck"—and they had a hearing where somebody had to prove that it was really a game of skill, and I don't know what diff—still, this is one of the laws on the books: if it's a game of skill, you can get it—shouldn't make any difference. If you wanna fool around once you're an adult, you should be allowed to. They were burning pinball machines, throwing them in the East and Hudson rivers in New York City—in the seventies still. So, there's this attitude: "people're gonna hurt themselves, and government has to protect you from that." March Madness—so many of us put five bucks, ten bucks in one of these pools—illegal in many states.


 * I think parents who don't vaccinate their kids anti-scientific morons. Vaccines save lives, and they're unlikely to hurt a child even if former Playboy centrefolds claim they do.
 * John Stossel, "Life or Death", Stossel (6 March 2015), 9:37 P  .  M  . ET.

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Gavin McInnes

15 April 2014

I think politics comes down to two groups: people who want to be left alone, and people who won't leave them the hell alone.

9:48 PM ET

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Carl Hart

15 April 2014

Seventy-five percent of the people who die from a heroin overdose death do so because they combine the drug with another sedative.

9:41 PM ET

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Matt Welch

7 April 2014

What makes this even sadder is that of course President Barack Obama, who thought he could win and did win a lot of Latino votes, has turned out to be the biggest deporter in the history of the United States. ... He's deported two million immigrants, and two-thirds of them—or more than two-thirds—were for tiki tax fouls. ... You get stopped even at a checkpoint that happens, you did everything right but you were at a checkpoint, they stop you, they look through your papers, they kick you out of the country, they separate these families. It's a problem with Republicans and conservatives for too long have held onto the fiction—and it's an understandable fiction but it's a fiction—that you can secure the borders. You cannot secure the borders.

9:15 PM ET

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14 April 2014

[sarcastically] Tomorrow is tax day! Hurray for organised theft at the point of a government gun!

9:56 PM ET

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18 April 2014, "7 Deadly Sins"

Wars are basically the worst thing we can do.

9:31 PM ET

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30 April 2014

Every single pathology that conservatives otherwise like to say about poor people receiving welfare—"it's a culture of dependence" and all this kind of stuff—is equally true—actually, it's more true—the richer and more corporate you get.

9:03 PM ET

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7 May 2014

I hate spanking, and I do not practice it, and I discourage other people from doing so.

9:21 PM ET

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4 June 2014

Kmele was looking at that video of Tankman in front of those tanks and he let out an involuntary "wow!" Um, that's what it was like at the time. Imagine, CNN was just now a ting starting about then—I watched that live back when I was twenty on t. v., and the world was watching this live to whatever extent they could on t. v., and, for the first time, we had this sense of, like, this Cold War thing that was locked in history—it was going to be the guiding parameter of our life forever—suddenly, that was all up in the air because of this. And you're right, it completely galvanised the dissidents in central Europe, and that might sound counter-intuitive because there was that Tiananmen massacre, but they saw that man, they saw those tanks, and even then they saw the massacre, and they thought to themselves, "First of all, any system that supports that is so monstrous that it must be opposed; but second, look at the bravery, look at the stones on that guy holding up his little plastic sack in front of a row of tanks!"

9:57–9:58 PM ET

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Ralph Nader

30 April 2014

The powers that be love to divide left/right, so they consentrate on the areas they disagree on, but they agree on a large number of areas.

9:14 PM ET

I spoke almost an hour the other day to Ron Paul (Rand Pauls father) and he is dead set against empire abroad, against wars of aggression, against spending all kinds of tax dollars blowing up places in other countries that are only increasing our own enemies in those places against us, and bringing it back home.

9:16 PM ET

Hillary Clinton is basically more hawkish than any prominent Democrat. She's a militarist.

9:19 PM ET

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U. S. Representative Chris Stewart, (R) Utah

5 May 2014

The number may be as high as seventy-three of them. And you [Kennedy] listed some of them, but, I mean—heavens!—the Department of Education, the Food and Drug Administration, as you mentioned, BLM, IRS, EPA—it appears that nearly every major government agency, and many of the minor agencies as well, have these, essentially—they don't call them that in many cases, but they're essentially paramilitary units.

9:40 PM ET

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TWITTER

13 May 2014

Alec Baldwin is quoted during Topical Storm as saying, "New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign."

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Fox News Reporting: The NSA's Secret War: Who's the Enemy 10 May 2014 at 10:00 PM ET

In August, it's revealed the NSA had broken privacy rules thousands of times. A few weeks later, the nation's black budget is published, showing the NSA pays U. S. communication companies for access to their networks. In the fall, news the NSA has been tapping the cell phone of German chancellor Angela Merkel and those of other world leaders. December, a judge rules collection of American phone records are [sic] almost certainly illegal. More news in March: the NSA has the capacity to listen in on phone conversations up to one month after they happen. Then in April, another heartbreak for the NSA—or, more like heartbleed: a bug that can break through a user's encryption and get at passwords, emails, and credit card numbers. The NSA knew about the heartbleed security flaw for at least two years, but kept it a secret to gather intelligence.

—Bret Baier (except for the last sentence, which was a reporter V.O.)

The NSA was created by a top-secret memorandum sent by President Truman.

— James Bamford

They were eavesdropping on thousands of people without any warrant, and they were keeping it secret from the FISA court.

—James Bamford [this news broke in Dec 2005]

A lot of people voted for him because it wasn't Bush, and yet, I have to say he's worse than Bush.

—Thomas Drake, NSA whistleblower who blew his whistle in early 2006 to The Sun.

June 5th, 2013, The Guardian, a U. K.-based newspaper, reports that the NSA used a secret court order to get Verizon to hand over the private phone records of millions of Americans. The following day, another big scoop: The Guardian and The Washington Post published articles revealing a secret Internet data-mining programme run by the NSA; it was called PRISM.

—Bret Baier

PRISM was a programme under which the NSA could reach into the content of communications, which is to say, emails, and shared documents, and video attachments, and photos, and audio…and they could do this, not with individual warrants; instead, they could do this with authority that a judge granted just once a year.

—Barton Gellman

Indeed, Senator Rand Paul went so far as to file a lawsuit against the NSA for its bulk collection of data.

—Bret Baier

We're filing suit in defence of the fourth amendment.

—Rand Paul

It really is a question: Can a single warrant apply to everyone's phone records? Or should you have to individualise the warrant? You know, the fourth amendment says you have to put a name on it. They have to say, "Mr. Smith we think is a terrorist," and then I'm fine with that, actually. I'm just not fine with looking at all Americans' data without a warrant for each individual you want to look at.

—Rand Paul

Ed Snowden let the American people know that they were being spied upon by their government. There's no transparency. There's no effort to try to have real accountability. The claims of success are overblown or even fraudulent. The Americans, uh, people are getting conned by this NSA! The NSA has launched an illegal, unconstitutional attack on Americans' right to privacy. If you're a proud American, and I am, I say it's time to stand up for who we are as Americans and get rid of the NSA and send a message to every other agency, "You spy on the American people, you're out of business!

—Dennis Kuchinich

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