Lewrockwell.com is getting addictive!
Submitted by elviejo on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 10:50
I have always enjoyed lewrockwell.com, but lately EVERY SINGLE article is just outstanding. It is taking up my entire morning! Lew is having a fund raiser right now and I hope we will all meander over to his site and donate. He really has the cream of the crop of Libertarian writers.
If you want a well-rounded and mentally challenging experience, add Lew's site to your morning read.
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"Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6pAcBXt2j8
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Lew Is Outstanding
Strictly out of the box thinking approaching today's issues and historical occurences with new eyes...
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
– Patrick Henry, speech to the Virginia Convention
“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had." - Eric Schmidt
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Did anyone ...
Did anyone see the recent article by Glenn Jacobs? It looks like they have a few plans for lewrockwell.com.
Excerpt:
"With few resources, Lew wants to expand LRC. He wants to make it more like a daily libertarian newspaper for the 21st century, covering culture and sports as well as economics, history, politics, and everything.
First, however, Lew wants to add comments to the blogs and articles, which readers have been clamoring for. But it’s expensive if done right. We have to make sure that our anti-spam software is the best, since spam can knock a site off the air by itself. And we must have moderators to make sure that the comments are civil and intelligent. Why? Because Lew is a lightning rod.
For a guy dedicated to social cooperation and international peace, to freedom and non-violence, to private property and sound money, to our libertarian heritage and our great heroes, Lew sure has a lot of opponents. There are the freedom haters. But the regime pays well, in fact and in prospect. Others will offer their souls to the state because it seems cool, and so uncool to be a dissident in fascist times.
But there are many of us who love this site, and who think it’s essential to the cause of liberty, here and all around the world, and we love liberty. Not only must LRC survive in that cause, it must thrive. My dream: to see it challenge the very top sites in news and opinion. It is possible."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/jacobs/jacobs6.1.1.html
Lewrockwell.com is a great information bastion of free sppech
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe." - Thomas Jefferson
Podcast
His podcast was also GREAT--and he had a new one nearly every day... but there hasn't been a new one in over a month now.
I know,,What gives????
For Freedom!
For Freedom!
STUGOTS! To the high and felutent establishment!
Paultian Powerhouse!
LRC is the best
The articles on their site are a wealth of information. I think it is simply the best on line resource available today. 2nd is the DP, and 3rd is Anti-War.com.
Then AJ’s site and the Misies institute round out the fab five.
I had cable cut off two years ago and these 5 sites have helped me recover from matrix quickly.
God bless the internet – it has the same social relevance and impact as the printing press did centuries ago.
rn
Liberty = Responsibility
Liberty = Responsibility
It's a great website. I
It's a great website. I like their defense of economic liberty, support of civl liberties, exposing of corruption, and opposition to war and drunk driving laws.
I draw the line when they fail to defend the U.S. Constitution, and instead back the Articles of Confederation.
A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for James Madison.
From what I've
read from some of the columnist, the articles are favored because they didn't compromise as much. The Constitution on the other hand, has hamilton's paws all over it and the suggestions he made have given the the statist the tools to misinterpret and abuse.
Hamilton had virtually no
Hamilton had virtually no influence at the Constitutional Convention.
He didn't speak very often, and when he did, he was ignored.
He missed large chunks of the Convention.
When he was there, he was almost always out-voted by Robert Yates and John Lansing.
When he was there alone, he was not allowed to vote (2 delegates were required from a state to vote).
A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for James Madison.
just a helpful suggestion
not that it is the end all be all.....and i respect your opinion on Hamilton,
try reading Hamilton's Curse, and The Hologram of Liberty.
Both excellent books.......Hologram touches on this very issue we speak of.
I read Hamilton's Curse.
I read Hamilton's Curse. It's an excellent book, and I even bought a copy for a friend of mine.
I agree with most of the book. What I don't agree with is blaming Hamilton for stuff that other people did. For example, the bank bill passed the House by a vote of 39-20, and Hamilton wasn't even in the House.
Washington also signed off on the bill, as well as the Senate. And there were a LOT of important Founding Fathers in the 1st Congress.
Also, the book focuses on Hamilton's negatives, which is important. But we should not forget the good things Hamilton did:
He was a Patriot in the Revolutionary War.
He even lead at least one battle charge.
He became General Washington's assistant.
His excellent revolutionary writings are collected in this book:
THE REVOLUTIONARY WRITINGS OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON
by ALEXANDER HAMILTON
http://www.amazon.com/REVOLUTIONARY-WRITINGS-ALEXANDER-HAMIL...
He served in the Confederation Congress.
He served at the Mt. Vernon Conference.
He served at the Annapolis Conference.
He helped get the Constitutional Convention organized.
He signed the Constitution.
He helped get the Constitution ratified in New York.
He wrote 51 of the Federalist Papers, and organized its publication.
He helped get Thomas Jefferson elected president in 1800, by persuading James Bayard of Deleware to change his vote.
Hamilton's greatest legacy is the Federalist Papers. It is too bad he did not follow the advice written in them when he was the Secretary of the Treasury.
The bank bill was a temporary measure adopted under the duress of war debt. The second bank was the same thing.
But after we shook off Great Britian, opened the shipping lanes & Mississippi, and got our economy rolling, the federal government did not need a central bank anymore, and Jackson got rid of it.
Alexander Hamilton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton
A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for James Madison.
I should also added, that
I should also added, that much of the important work at the Convention was conducted in several committees, which met privately and presented their findings to the delegates.
Committees at the Constitutional Convention
http://www.usconstitution.net/constcmte.html
Hamilton's only minor significance was his service on 2 committees:
"Rules Committee
Proposed and appointed May 25, to set rules for the convention
Alexander Hamilton (NY)
Charles Pinkney (SC)
George Wythe (VA)"
Wythe was the leader of this committee, with Pinckney the 2nd most influential. The significant rules adopted were:
1) Two delegates required to be in Philadelphis to allow a state to vote (which worked against Hamilton later on).
2) Votes taken in general assembly were officially recorded (when George Washington presided).
3) Votes in committtee of the whole not recorded (they were recorded privately by Madison, Nathaniel Gorham of MA presided over the committee of the whole. Gorham had also been president of Congress.)
4) An oath of secrecy was taken the delegates not to talk about the proceedings with the outside world until the convention was over (this had been insisted upon by George Washington).
"Committee of Style and Arrangement
Proposed and appointed September 8, to revise the style and arrangement of the Constitution
Result: September 12 Draft
Alexander Hamilton (NY)
William Johnson (CT)
Rufus King (MA)
James Madison (VA)
Gouvernour Morris (PA)"
Morris wrote the final draft of the Constitution. he did not deviate from what had been agreed upon earlier. Four of these men (all but Hamilton) were among the most influential at the Convention, including Morris (the most frequent speaker), King (who was the leader of the MA delegation), and Madison (the Father of the U.S. Constitution).
A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for James Madison.
hamilton was
responsible for phrases such as "implied powers" and "provide for the general welfare" being in the U.S. Constitution. He was for big and centralized govt.
"hamilton was responsible
"hamilton was responsible for phrases such as "implied powers" and "provide for the general welfare" being in the U.S. Constitution."
source? I don't believe it.
A vote for Ron Paul is a vote for James Madison.
in my opinion it is hands down....
the best site on the internet. no other site has played a bigger role than lewrockwell.com in my libertarian education. i've always known something was dreadfully wrong with our government. why i joined the army at the age of 28 i have no idea. but lewrockwell.com helps me get the thoughts i formed while serving in Iraq in perspective.
my suggestion is instead of donating, buy something from mises.org. even if you don't read it give it to someone who will.
No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in - Bill Hicks
Good idea
I prefer buying something to donating. Long live the profit mechanism!
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"The world conflict of today is the conflict of the individual against the state, the same conflict that has been fought throughout mankind's history." - Ayn Rand
The site helps me
to balance my thoughts. I found that before I started following RP I fell for most of the media stories and now I find myself questioning things more. It helps me to be more critical.
I thought it was getting
I thought it was getting repulsive during the holiday weekend, but i still read it every day so what do I know ?
Just remember that it is an anarchist site that believes that emotional hatred is better than unbiased analysis when it comes to government(yes, they posted a Rothbard article that actually said this in so many words) and you will be fine.
Ventura 2012
I don't know what you mean by repulsive....
but it is very hard to discover the abundance of lies that have been told to us for our entire lives. At first the information seems abhorrent and we reject it...... but after we absorb more and more information and readjust our thinking to the true reality of the world, we can accept things we used to fine "repulsive" as the truth.
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"Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6pAcBXt2j8
Thomas Jefferson: “Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever."
Viva La Revolucion!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmaTNf4YhEs
I mean hating the Founding
I mean hating the Founding Fathers and the American Revolution for shock value, which they repeatedly did.
Ventura 2012
Think for yourself, question authority
Lew Rockwell reminds me of a great song by Tool -
(Timothy Leary speaking)
Think for yourself.
Question authority.
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening,
terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in
this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the
religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by
giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their
view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and
learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness;
chaotic, confused, vulnerability, to inform yourself.
Think for yourself.
Question authority.
Order
Regulations
Rules
Think for yourself.
Question authority.
Regulations
Rules
Comfort us
Dreaming of
that face again
It's bright and blue
and shimmerin'
Grinnin' wide
and comforting me with his
three warm and wild eyes.
On my back
and tumblin'
down that hole
and back again
Rising up
and wiping the
webs and the dew
from my withered eye.
?????Maynard
?????screaming
?????something
In… Out… ( about 30x )
A child's rhyme
stuck in my head.
It said that life
is but a dream.
I've spent so many
years in question
to find I've known
this all along.
So good to see you
I missed you so much
So glad it's over
I missed you so much
Came out to watch you play
Why are you running away?
Came out to watch you play
Why are you runnin'?
Shroud-ing all the ground around me
Is this holy crow above me.
Black as holes within a memory
And blue as our new second sun.
I stick my hand into his shadow
To pull the pieces from the sand.
Which I attempt to reassemble
To see just who I might have been.
I do not recognize the vessel,
But the eyes seem so familiar.
Like phosphorescent desert buttons
Singing one familiar song...
Singing one familiar song
So good to see you
I missed you so much
So glad it's over
I missed you so much
Came out to watch you play
Why are you running away?
Came out to watch you play
Why are you runnin away?
Prying open my third eye
Prying open my third eye
Prying open my third eye
Prying open my third eye
So good to see you once again.
I thought that you were hiding.
And you thought that I had run away.
Chasing the tail of dogma.
I opened my eye…
I opened my eye…
I opened my eye and there we were.
I opened my eye…
I opened my eye…
I opened my eye and there we were.
So good to see you once again
I thought that you were hiding from me
You thought that I had run away
Chasing a trail of smoke and reason
Prying open my third eye
Prying open my third eye
Prying open my third eye
Prying open my third eye