http://www.yorklp.org Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:37:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some years ago, about 1900, an old trapper from North Dakota hitched up some horses to his Studebaker wagon, packed a few possessions -- especially his traps -- and drove south. Several weeks later he stopped in a small town just north of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. It was ... http://www.yorklp.org/2007/02/21/the-wild-and-free-pigs-of-the-okefenokee-swamp/ "Worrycrats, as I call them, are a special breed of totalitarian bureaucrats who spawn rapidly as society is socialized. These people concern themselves with our health, education, welfare, auto safety, drug intake, diet, and what have you. Worrycrats today outnumber any other professionals in history, so rapidly have they proliferated." — ... http://www.yorklp.org/2007/02/01/worrycrats/ No Saddam link to Iraq al-Qaeda Originally Published by BBC News, Friday, 8 September 2006, 18:08 GMT There is no evidence of formal links between Iraqi ex-leader Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq prior to the 2003 war, a US Senate report says. The finding is contained in a 2005 CIA report ... http://www.yorklp.org/2006/09/08/no-saddam-link-to-iraq-al-qaeda/ Death By Handout by Retta Fontana Exclusive to STR August 29, 2006 “We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money.” ~ statesman and patriot Daniel ... http://www.yorklp.org/2006/09/06/death-by-handout/ by Jacob G. Hornberger, August 18, 2006 Don’t ever suggest that federal bureaucrats are not smart. Take, for instance, the DEA, the federal agency that has the responsibility of waging the war on drugs, a war that has obviously failed to achieve its objective after 30 years of warfare, not to ... http://www.yorklp.org/2006/08/18/dea-snake-oil/ Local Libertarians Thanked for their Efforts - Jul 26, 2006 (Columbus, Ohio) - Today, in an historic ruling, the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously held that the City of Norwood could not use eminent domain to take Carl and Joy Gamble’s home of 35 years, as well as the rental home of ... http://www.yorklp.org/2006/07/31/libertarians-celebrate-victory-over-ohio-supreme-court-eminent-domain-decision/ "To change the Constitution in a pro-freedom direction, we first have to change the (tacit) constitution, that is, people’s ideological outlook. If there are lines that government won’t cross today (and these are becoming fewer), it is because enough people would find such action intolerable. Liberty’s champions have to use ... http://www.yorklp.org/2006/07/28/where-is-the-constitution/ by Ron Paul, February 7, 2005 “…man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.” -- Ronald Reagan We’ve all heard the words democracy and freedom used countless times, especially in ... http://www.yorklp.org/2006/07/23/what-does-freedom-really-mean/ Thirds are heard Lebanon Daily News Members of Pennsylvania’s third political parties — you Constitutionalists, you Greens, you Libertarians, you independents of all stripes — it appears the state has another name for you: Ballot clutter. In a proceeding Monday in which third-party candidates are fighting for fairness in Pennsylvania’s balloting process, attorney ... http://www.yorklp.org/2006/07/17/ballot-clutter/ by Adam Young Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2004 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute “The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913,” wrote Frank Chodorov. Indeed, a man’s home used to be his castle. The income tax, however, gave the government the keys to every ... http://www.yorklp.org/2006/07/15/the-origin-of-the-income-tax/