How the Death Tax Kills Small Businesses, Communities and Civil Society - The death tax: What does it kill? Who does it affect? It affects hundreds of thousands of small-business owners across the country—as well as their employees and community residents who benefit from the senior and day care centers, playgrounds, charities, and learning centers that are built or supported by small-business owners.

Wikileaks editor skips NYC hacker event - Julian Assange, public face of a Web site that posted a video embarrassing to the U.S. military, doesn't seem to want to get too friendly with inquisitive Homeland Security agents.

Originally posted at News - Security

That's not how liberty works.

You enjoy a right to be free from governmental intrusion unless and until you have shown yourself incapable of exercising that right responsibly. That determination can only be made in a court of law.

The very reason for the American experiment was -- and is -- to establish the principle and the reality that no man or government may alienate a person's life, liberty or pursuit of happiness.

Anyone who has experienced the expectation of the imminent loss of any of those conditions knows profoundly their value -- and thus the value of our form of government, which exists to protect those rights.

Vatican Joins Transnational Elites in Devising New Forms of Capitalism - In response to the present global economic crisis, Pope Benedict XVI and some transnational elites have announced proposed reforms to market capitalism that are designed to more directly respond to the economic and social needs of individuals and society. In most cases, these new capitalist models are in their embryonic stages, lacking specificity and objectivity.

Years ago, coyotes were small operators often smuggling the same illegal immigrants into the U.S. from year to year. “Now, organized gangs own the people-smuggling trade,”

writes Millman. “According to U.S. and Mexican police, this is partly an unintended consequence of a border crackdown.

Eaarth follows the time-honored structure of environmentalist tracts, opening with a quick rehearsal of the science that allegedly seals our terrible fate,

followed by a much longer disquisition outlining the author’s elaborate plan for salvation. Give McKibben some credit: Unlike many prior doomsters, such as Paul Ehrlich and Stephen Schneider, he doesn’t argue for a top-down solution.

Cyber Attacks and Friendly Fire

Obama internet 'kill switch' bill approved - http://www.campaignforliberty.com/wire.php?view=12212 [Campaign for Liberty]

U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Limits on Its Use of International Law - It is unfortunate that, in the recently decided case of Graham v. Florida, the Supreme Court of the United States refers to international opinion against the sentencing of juveniles to life without parole as support for the Court's decision.