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A must read for any guys (especially Dads) at or close to 40.
I spent two decades slogging my guts out at work. As my responsibilities grew - four kids and counting - so did my earning power. I changed jobs, companies, even countries to further my career. But as the years went by I became [...]

Seen on the Future of Freedom Foundation website:
The Conservative:
I’m a conservative. I believe in individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government, except for:
1. Social Security;
2. Medicare;
3. Medicaid;
4. Welfare;
5. Drug laws;
6. Public schooling;
7. Federal grants;
8. Economic regulations;
9. Minimum-wage laws and price controls;
10. Federal Reserve System;
11. Paper money;
12. Income taxation and the IRS;
13. Trade restrictions;
14. [...]

Slashdot readers had the opportunity to submit questions to LP candidate Michael Badnarik:
Last monday, you were given the chance to Ask Questions of the Libertarian Party’s US Presidential nominee, Michael Badnarik. Today we present to you 15 of the most highly rated comments, and the answers from the man himself. Thanks to Mr. Badnarik [...]

Intersting article by Bruce Bawer on Hudson Review:
Living in Europe, I gradually came to appreciate American virtues I’d always taken for granted, or even disdained—among them a lack of self-seriousness, a grasp of irony and self-deprecating humor, a friendly informality with strangers, an unashamed curiosity, an openness to new experience, an innate optimism, a willingness [...]

From this month’s CryptoGram:
The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided the three legal challenges to the Bush administration’s legal maneuverings against terrorism.
These cases have been endlessly debated on legal and civil liberties grounds. They were decided, mostly but not entirely, in favor of presumption-of-innocence and due process.
But I want to talk about how [...]

The Cato Institute has a page that contains all of Bush’s most recent budget charts. So much for the Republican party being the party of small government and fiscal responsibility…

Interesting opinion piece on LewRockwell.com:
“Being patriotic in America means being devoted to the Constitution, if not the natural rights philosophy that motivated much of it. Since neither of the major political parties has any interest whatsoever in enforcing the constitutional limitations on the state, they are all traitors to the Constitution (with one lone exception, [...]

I Love New York…from today’s WaPo:
New York City, site of the country’s most horrific terrorist attack, Wednesday became the latest in a long list of cities and towns that have formally opposed the expanded investigatory powers granted to law enforcement agencies under the USA Patriot Act.
“The Patriot Act is really unpatriotic, it undermines our [...]

Note to self - do not move to Georgia. It continues to be the most back-assed state in the country…
Georgia considers banning ‘evolution’
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — The state’s school superintendent has proposed striking the word evolution from Georgia’s science curriculum and replacing it with the phrase “biological changes over time.”
[Superintendent Kathy] Cox repeatedly [...]

From the Guardian:
Dear Mr President,

Today you arrive in my country for the first state visit by an American president for many decades, and I bid you welcome.

You will find yourself assailed on every hand by some pretty pretentious characters collectively known as the British left. They traditionally believe they have a monopoly on [...]