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The abuse and proper use of a political label - por Thomas Sowell

The Fascists were completely against individualism in general and especially against individualism in a free-market economy. Their agenda included minimum-wage laws, government restrictions on profit-making, progressive taxation of capital, and “rigidly secular” schools.
Unlike the Communists, the Fascists did not seek government ownership of the means of production. They just wanted the government to call the shots as to how businesses would be run.
They were for “industrial policy,” long before liberals coined that phrase in the United States.
Indeed, the whole Fascist economic agenda bears a remarkable resemblance to what liberals would later advocate.
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Chavez Calls for Farm Seizures, Raises Prices Amid Shortages

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in an effort to deal with food shortages nationwide, threatened today to expropriate farms and raised the price rice producers are permitted to charge.
Fallow farmland “can’t be allowed,” Chavez said on his weekly television and radio broadcast, calling for the National Guard to take over farms with nonproductive lands. He also announced a price boost of 44 percent for rice growers.

As the state grows, one’s sense of self-ownership is destroyed, liberty is traded for “security,” the human spirit diminishes, and the citizenry increasingly thinks and behaves like dependent children. – Eric Englund em Income Taxes, Obesity, and Other Maladies of Nanny Statism

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Gary McCoy

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Chuck Asay

Glenn McCoy

Lisa Benson

Gary Varvel

Michael Ramirez

The Life and Times of Milton Friedman:

Throughout his life, Friedman spoke bravely and compellingly for the idea that the world should be shaped by our free choices. Reviewing his life and career as an economist and polemicist, we find a story of unexpected, unprecedented success promoting ideas that pushed against the Zeitgeist and in many ways managed to change it.

Misoginia e racismo num só cartoon publicado no jornal egípcio Al-Ahram:

“Hillary” e “Obama” - Uma mulher e um negro participam na campanha para a presidência dos E.U.A.

Homem religioso: “Mais um sinal do colapso da civilização ocidental.”

Infidel, por Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

(Cairo) No primeiro dia de uma festa muçulmana (Eid), uma multidão constituída por centenas de homens assediou sexualmente raparigas e mulheres (egípcias ou estrangeiras, veladas ou não), perante a passividade das forças policiais - que parecem ter um historial em facilitar agressões a mulheres.
Os ataques duraram cerca de cinco horas e a única ajuda partiu dos locais que ofereceram refúgio às raparigas e mulheres em lojas ou em táxis.
A polícia recusou todas as queixas apresentadas pelas mulheres e o incidente foi inicialmente censurado pelos media árabes (a Al Jazeera foi mesmo impedida de emitir imagens dos incidentes pelas autoridades egípcias).
Mas vários bloggers que testemunharam o mega-assalto, fizeram a denúncia nos seus blogs através de descrições, vídeos e fotos, e organizaram manifestações nas ruas de Cairo (na segunda manifestação alguns manifestantes foram presos).
A discussão na blogosfera acabou eventualmente por chegar aos media nacionais.

Toda a informação, com descrições e vídeos,via Apaniguado:
The Eid sexual harassment incident
Mass sexual assault in downtown Cairo

The Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights has been organizing a campaign for some time against the persistent verbal and physical violence against women in Cairo. It is possible to contain it and deter it; it has virtually vanished from several Gulf countries as a result of increased police vigilance, fines, and the publicizing of the pictures of perpetrators. Something like that should be done here. Just because the men of Egypt are sexually frustrated, poor, and oppressed does not mean they can oppress others. Let’s do something - go volunteer, anything. I will. We women are Egyptians too and the streets are just as much ours as theirs.

SELVAJARIA EGÍPCIA: detalhes aqui
SELVAJARIA EGÍPCIA 2

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Townhall

Libertarians emerge as a force:

GLUM Republicans might turn their attention to the Libertarian Party to vent their anger. Libertarians are a generally Republican-leaning constituency, but over the last few years, their discontent has grown plain. It isn’t just the war, which some libertarians supported, but the corruption and insider dealing, and particularly the massive expansion of spending. Mr Bush’s much-vaunted prescription drug benefit for seniors, they fume, has opened up another gaping hole in America’s fiscal situation, while the only issue that really seemed to energise congress was passing special laws to keep a brain-damaged woman on life support.
In two of the seats where control looks likely to switch, Missouri and Montana, the Libertarian party pulled more votes than the Democratic margin of victory. Considerably more, in Montana. If the Libertarian party hadn’t been on the ballot, and the three percent of voters who pulled the “Libertarian” lever had broken only moderately Republican, Mr Burns would now be in office.

Via Instapundit

Bush says min wage hike area of common ground

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Wednesday said increasing the national minimum wage is likely an issue on which he could cooperate with Democratic leaders in Congress. (…)
Hiking the minimum wage, which is now $5.15 per hour and has not been raised since September 1997, is a key initiative identified by Democrats. The president said he would be meeting with Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who is poised to be the next speaker of the House when the new Congress convenes in January.

GOP Says Rumsfeld Stepping Down

Republican officials say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down. Word comes a day after the Democratic gains in the election, in which Rumsfeld was a focus of much of the criticism of the Iraq war.

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Big Brother Britain 2006: ‘We are waking up to a surveillance society all around us’

Britain has sleepwalked into becoming a surveillance society that increasingly intrudes into our private lives and impacts on everyday activities, the head of the information watchdog warns.
New technology and “invisible” techniques are being used to gather a growing amount of information about UK citizens. The level of surveillance will grow even further in the next 10 years, which could result in a growing number of people being discriminated against and excluded from society, says a report by the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas.
Future developments could include microchip implants to identify and track individuals; facial recognition cameras fitted into lampposts; and unmanned surveillance aircraft, predict the report’s authors.

Poll: Majority believes government doing too much:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A quarter century after the Reagan revolution and a dozen years after Republicans vaulted into control of Congress, a new CNN poll finds most Americans still agree with the bedrock conservative premise that, as the Gipper put it, “government is not the answer to our problems — government is the problem.”
The poll released Friday also showed that an overwhelming majority of Americans perceive, correctly, that the size and cost of government have gone up in the past four years, when Republicans have had a grip on the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House.
Discretionary spending grew from $649 billion in fiscal year 2001 to $968 billion in fiscal year 2005, an increase of $319 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Queried about their views on the role of government, 54 percent of the 1,013 adults polled said they thought it was trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses. Only 37 percent said they thought the government should do more to solve the country’s problems.

Ainda sobre a polémica que envolveu uma professora muçulmana:

THE Muslim teacher who insisted on wearing a veil in class has been following a fatwa issued personally to her by a Islamic cleric belonging to a hardline sect.
Aishah Azmi found herself in the middle of a national row about integration when she took her school to an employment tribunal after it suspended her for refusing to remove the veil in class.
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Azmi, 24, has maintained that her decision to wear the veil was driven entirely by her personal beliefs, rather than the advice or instruction of a third party. But this weekend it emerged that she refused to take the veil off at school after receiving a fatwa, or religious ruling, from Mufti Yusuf Sacha, a Muslim cleric in West Yorkshire.
Her legal team revealed that the advice Sacha issued to Azmi ruled that it was obligatory for women to wear the niqab (face-veil) in the presence of men who were not their blood relatives.
Sacha is one of several hundred Islamic clerics in Britain with the status of mufti, entitling him to issue fatwas based on Islamic law. Although Muslims are expected to follow fatwas, they are not obliged to do so, particularly if they live in a non-Muslim state. Fonte

Ler também este artigo de Hirsi Ali : Muslim women are the key to change

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Notícias da Intifada:
France Prepares 50,000 Riot Police for Muslim Attacks
Immigrant youths march through Paris
One year later, French ‘banlieues’ still smoulder

Sarkozy retorts that it is left-wing welfare policies of 30 years that have led to the crisis — and that a liberalised economy combined with positive discrimination is the only way to provide jobs and hope.
In the “Cite des 3000″ there is little appetite for a new flare-up of rioting to mark the October 27 anniversary — but if Sarkozy is elected that could be another matter.
“Sarko is the provocative element,” said Kiko. “And if he is elected next year I warn you: people will be killed.”

The Libertarian Vote

Our new research finds that 15 percent of American voters are libertarian rather than liberal or conservative. People generally say that a liberal favors government intervention in the economy and protection of civil liberties, while a conservative is opposed to both economic intervention and the expansion of civil liberties. Libertarians oppose government intrusion into both the economy and personal freedoms.
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Via Jihad Watch

Local: Faixa de Gaza
Estudo de Caso: “Para que serve uma Estufa?”

Antes da retirada israelita

(3500 palestinianos trabalhavam nas estufas e estas serviam para produzir vegetais e fruta)

Depois da retirada israelita

(dezenas de estufas foram saqueadas, incendiadas e agora servem para escavar túneis)

Via LGF

Cox & Forkum

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Porque ardem 112 carros todos os dias:

The figures are stark. An average of 112 cars a day have been torched across France so far this year and there have been 15 attacks a day on police and emergency services. Nearly 3,000 police officers have been injured in clashes this year. Officers have been badly injured in four ambushes in the Paris outskirts since September. Some police talk of open war with youths who are bent on more than vandalism.
“The thing that has changed over the past month is that they now want to kill us,” said Bruno Beschizza, the leader of Synergie, a union to which 40 per cent of officers belong. Action Police, a hardline union, said: “We are in a civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists.”

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Depois do escândalo do Photoshop, agora foi a vez de um “cameraman” da al Reuters (Imad Muhammad Intisar Boghnat) ser preso por ter encorajado manifestantes palestinianos a atirar pedras contra veículos israelitas:

A videotape that the prosecution presented to the judge shows Boghnat encouraging and directing rioters in Bil’in to throw large chunks of rock at Israeli vehicles in such a way as to cause maximum damage. The accused is heard shouting, “Throw, throw!” and later, “Throw towards the little window!”

Ainda sobre a questão da recusa de taxistas muçulmanos em transportarem certos passageiros (invisuais acompanhados de um cão guia ou passageiros que transportem álcool), aqui ficam as opiniões de muçulmanos moderados:

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