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People have written that you are contrarian. Do you agree with that? I tend to speak my mind, which is not necessarily a good idea. I do not think I am the soul of tact...
...speak Mandarin or Shanghainese?” my mom asked our tour guide when he greeted us at the airport...
...central goal of Libertarianism is hard to disagree with: freedom. Defining it is another matter. Party members I've met often speak of freedom as if it were a phantom limb: you're born with it, but it gets taken from you by the bureaucratic violence of the EPA, the ATF, the DOE, the DEA, the U.N., NCLB, NAFTA and--above all--the IRS. Freedom's restoration is the magic moment when the nanny state melts away and you can see the life you were supposed to live before the tax auditors and environmental regulators and drug warriors all came...
...least like to get a nationally syndicated radio show out of this presidential campaign. It would be a mistake, though, to write Root off. The things he cares about--being able to gamble legally via his home computer, continuing to homeschool his kids without much interference, keeping taxes low--speak to a lot of Americans. If the old party was cobbled together from hard-line strains of voluntarianism, propertarianism and paleolibertarianism, the new Libertarian Party is more likely to build off Root's take, which is essentially suburbanarianism...
...afraid to act. "Previously, yes, the army was present here," says Basra military commander General Mohammed Jawad Huwaidi. "But the outlaws and bandits were working under the names of parties. So we needed the political will to start the operation." One top Iraqi commander, who only agreed to speak anonymously, says the local police had been particularly corrupt. Once the central government's operation began, he says, "1,000 police were arrested in Basra and Al-Faw." Now, says Colonel Abbas Tamimi, an Iraqi military spokesman in Basra, "the most important thing is for the Iraqi army to control...