http://www.thelibertyvoice.com Independent News and Commentary for the Freedom Movement Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Independent News and Commentary for the Freedom Movement The Liberty Voice no A Fiercely Independent Newspaper http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/category/print-edition http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/print-edition-of-the-liberty-voice http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/print-edition-of-the-liberty-voice#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:09:30 +0000 sherry http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/?p=9936 The Liberty Voice is back in print! And honestly, I know it sounds trite to say, but it's better than ever! The Libertarian Party of Ohio has taken out a full page in support and have done a great job in laying out their "Small Government - Low Taxes - More Freedom" philosophy. The Not-So funny page is mostly funny this time, and twice as big! And best of all, with the help of the LPO and liberty-friendly businesses like Old Skool Skate Shop, half our pages are in full color!]]> http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/print-edition-of-the-liberty-voice/feed 0 http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/romney-is-very-good-looking http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/romney-is-very-good-looking#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:29:33 +0000 sherry http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/?p=9978 by Sherry Mann The National Review editors recently wrote, “Mitt Romney ran a firm that invested in struggling businesses, made money, and never asked for a bailout,” and described any attacks on his Bain record as “asinine”. On October 25, 1994, the Boston Globe wrote, “Republican Senate nominee Mitt Romney's rescue of a business consulting firm was achieved, in part, by convincing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to forgive roughly $10 million of the company's debts, according to sources close to the deal and federal records obtained by the Boston Globe.” David Shuster commented on this in the January 11, 2012 edition of Countdown, “...In other words, not only did Romney ask for a bailout, he received one. And let's be clear — when any institution lets you or your company forgive and forget a ten million dollar debt, that is a bailout.” ]]> http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/romney-is-very-good-looking/feed 0 http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/print-edition-of-the-liberty-voice-2 http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/print-edition-of-the-liberty-voice-2#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:10:45 +0000 sherry http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/?p=9967 By Sherry Mann If were picking my favorite candidate only by watching the debates, I’d pick Newt Gingrich. But this time, I want more than promises for change. I want change! So I decided instead of just listening to the announcers, I’d pick the “winning horse” by going down to the barn and turning over the straw; because I've found that presidential candidates can serve up a surprisingly, enticing organic by-product that comes from hay and horses. My mother told me that if I couldn't say anything nice, I shouldn't say anything at all, so I’m not going to offer you my opinions about Newt Gingrich after looking through his stall. Instead, I've assembled Newt Gingrich's quotes (with context), so you can draw your own conclusions. “Either we are going to have to rethink our Constitution or we are going to have to rethink our process of making decisions...” Newt Gingrich in a speech to the Center for Strategic and International Affairs saying that, the challenge for the United States in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution. “We need to be honest about the fact that we are transferring from the United States at a practical level, significant authority to a new organization…This is not just another trade agreement. This is doing something which twice, once in the 1940’s and once in the 1950’s, the US Congress rejected…It is a very big transfer of power.” Newt Gingrich in Congressional Testimony on the World Trade Organization and GATT. He later arranged for the vote on GATT, voted in favor of it, and bears the shared responsibility for transferring America’s foreign trade matters over to an international authority. ]]> http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/print-edition-of-the-liberty-voice-2/feed 3 http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/mencken-says http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/mencken-says#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:45:18 +0000 Jason Rink http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/?p=4702 http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/mencken-says/feed 0 http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/whats-wrong-with-states-rights http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/whats-wrong-with-states-rights#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:33:47 +0000 Jason Rink http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/?p=4696 http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/whats-wrong-with-states-rights/feed 0 http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/wikileaks-soldier-reveals-orders-for-360-rotational-fire-against-civilians-in-iraq http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/wikileaks-soldier-reveals-orders-for-360-rotational-fire-against-civilians-in-iraq#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:10:42 +0000 Jason Rink http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/?p=4690 By Ralph Lopez Ethan McCord, one of the soldiers seen in the now-famous Wikileaks video in which two American Apache helicopters fire upon a relaxed, unhurried gaggle of men in Baghdad, has stated in an interview with World Socialist Website that he witnessed numerous times the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians in Iraq after IED attacks. McCord is on of the soldiers seen helping two wounded children after the attack. He has stepped forward with open opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and written a letter of apology for his part in the incident to the mother of the children, who has accepted his apology. The mother's husband was killed in the attack and found with his body shielding that of one of his children. McCord said to reporter Bill Van Auken: "we had a pretty gung-ho commander, who decided that because we were getting hit by IEDs a lot, there would be a new battalion SOP [standard operating procedure]. He goes, "If someone in your line gets hit with an IED, 360 rotational fire. You kill every motherf*cker on the street." Myself and Josh and a lot of other soldiers were just sitting there looking at each other like, "Are you kidding me? You want us to kill women and children on the street?" And you couldn't just disobey orders to shoot, because they could just make your life hell in Iraq. So like with myself, I would shoot up into the roof of a building instead of down on the ground toward civilians. But I've seen it many times, where people are just walking down the street and an IED goes off and the troops open fire and kill them."]]> http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/wikileaks-soldier-reveals-orders-for-360-rotational-fire-against-civilians-in-iraq/feed 0 http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/arizonans-dare-to-defy-the-feds-again http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/arizonans-dare-to-defy-the-feds-again#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:05:23 +0000 Jason Rink http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/?p=4686 by Derek Sheriff tenthamendmentcenter.com Just when you thought Arizona couldn’t get any more provocative, or push any more of the federal government’s buttons, it looks like America’s 48th state may actually become the 15th state to adopt another very controversial law! This proposed law, on the other hand, may actually make some people on the Left, as well as the Right, happy for a change. I have my doubts about whether it will make those who put party above principle, or anyone_employed by the U.S. Department of Justice happy, however. While Arizona was getting tons of media attention related to the passage of its high profile immigration enforcement law, (SB 1070), the grassroots activists that were delivering more than 100 boxes of petitions containing 252,000 signatures to the Arizona Secretary of State’s office received little.]]> http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/arizonans-dare-to-defy-the-feds-again/feed 0 http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/hemp-for-victory http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/hemp-for-victory#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:59:16 +0000 Jason Rink http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/?p=4681 by Patrick Reagan This past week, hemp advocates and aficionados nationwide engaged in educational and awareness building exercises during their annual “Hemp History Week”. The aim was to enlighten the public’s perception of hemp by demonstrating its versatility in several facets of everyday life and drawing attention to its pivotal role in American agriculture up until the mid-20th century. Before hemp can be understood in its contemporary context, a stroll down memory lane may refresh the reader on this critical crop. While the history of hemp and humans goes all the way back to the Neolithic Revolution ~10-12,000 years ago, for brevity’s sake, the focus of this reminiscence will remain on hemp’s history in the New World. Hemp helped propel European explorers to America’s shores by providing tough and durable sails and rope for riggings on long, trans-Atlantic voyages. The climate proved suitable, and in 1564, King Philip II of Spain proclaimed that hemp be cultivated in his New World possessions, ranging from the tip of Tierra del Fuego to the Willamette Valley.]]> http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/hemp-for-victory/feed 0 http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/the-best-introduction-to-economics-in-print http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/the-best-introduction-to-economics-in-print#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:46:38 +0000 Jason Rink http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/?p=4676 Thomas Eddlem reviews "How and Economy Grows and Why It Crashes" by Peter and Andrew Schiff If this writer were to claim that Peter and Andrew Schiff have created the master work of introducing basic Austrian economics that could be clearly understood by anyone of middle-school age and older, I would be only partly incorrect in describing their new book, How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes. The genius of this book comes from neither Peter nor Andrew Schiff, however. Much of the credit belongs to Irwin A. Schiff, who created the first draft of this introduction to Austrian economics back in 1985. The Schiff brothers acknowledge that “this story would best be described as a riff on the original.” But Peter and Andrew Schiff have perfected their father’s already brilliant work, which had some presentational shortcomings. The sons have new illustrations by Brendan Leach, and additional material that brings the text up to date. ]]> http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/the-best-introduction-to-economics-in-print/feed 1 http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/afghan-bling http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/afghan-bling#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:41:18 +0000 Jason Rink http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/?p=4669 by Justin Raimondo www.antiwar.com Just as John McCain was telling Gen. David Petraeus how worried he is that the US is going to leave Afghanistan before “the job” is done, the General’s head dropped onto the desk in front of him: had he passed out from ennui? McCain had the same effect on the American electorate in 2008. Petraeus blamed it on not having had breakfast, but, in any case, the US government seems intent on having Afghanistan for lunch – and what a rich meal that is going to be! According to a piece by James Risen in the New York Times, there’s gold in them thar hills! “The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.”]]> http://www.thelibertyvoice.com/afghan-bling/feed 0