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...puff on a narghile. One recent Friday, a procession of black-coated ultra-Orthodox Jews hurrying through Damascus Gate toward the Western Wall ran into a crowd of prayer-going Arabs. They all stopped to gape at a large, dead shark hanging from a hook outside a butcher's shop. It was one of those fleeting moments when Arabs and Jews forgot their differences and stared in awe at one of God's truly scary creatures. But it doesn't take much--a stabbing in the Old City, a riot or an explosion--for the lines of this invisible grid...
Kinsley implied that libertarians emphasize the individual over society. I am a libertarian, and I am totally dependent on a smoothly functioning society. I need bread from the baker, meat from the butcher and a network of family and friends for support and fellowship. All of this occurs spontaneously, without government managing it. Yes, a limited government is needed to defend liberty and property, but this only creates the framework in which free people create society. Kinsley equates government with society, and this is what separates statists from libertarians. Mark Gibb, LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS...
Kinsley implied that Libertarians emphasize the individual over society. We all need bread from the baker, meat from the butcher and family and friends for support and fellowship. All of this occurs spontaneously, without government's managing it. Yes, a limited government is needed to defend liberty and property, but this only creates the framework in which free people create society. Kinsley equates government with society, and that's what separates statists from libertarians...
...recent weeks has prompted widespread demonstrations led by Buddhist monks and the arrests of thousands. Prime Minister General Soe Win first impressed his bosses in 1988 when he brutally quashed an uprising at Rangoon University by ordering troops to open fire on protesters. He later earned the moniker "Butcher of Depayin" for masterminding a bloody 2003 attack on democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters. He was 59 and had leukemia...
Back in White Haven, Teddy was probably too large for his assassin to cart off or butcher on the spot, which rubs restaurant manager Lisa Fisher raw. "[The poacher] was on our property when he killed that bear," she huffs. "Teddy never bothered anyone. He'd make a mess; we'd clean it up. Our customers just loved...