By Doug Casey

AWay Gut of March 2007 $4.00 Iraq o-~ r- m 0"0 00 m lll~o- ~ o If)m I'- u=====================~==~===~=~ i ..... ..... ---0 I'-~ ==== ~ "Liberty is a man-oj-war, and we are all crew." - Boston T. Party o :::J REPUBUC: '''EI~~ Civil Liberties ·,";~egency Reston • Reston, Virginia Andrew P. Napolitano Senior judicial analyst for Fox News and author of several books about the Constitution. Joseph Margulies Lead counsel in Rasul VS. Bush and author of Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power. Robert Scheer Columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle and editor in chief of Truthdig.com. Representative Ron Paul Republican Congressman from Texas. • Fax: (703) 352-8678 March 2007 Inside Liberty Volume 21, Number 3 4 Letters The customer is always opinionated. 7 Reflections We give Congress a raise, swoon like a Spice Girl, buy a country, recruit stoners, sue labor unions, pull a lion out of a hat, bomb the children (for the children!), watch idiots vote, make condoms disappear, and disband the Libertarian Party. Features 23 A Way Out of Iraq Progress in the Middle East, Jon Harrison argues, requires a new perspective. 27 The French Occupation of America David G. Danielson tells what American history would have been like if the French had been thinking like George W. Bush. 31 The Empty Breadbasket Doug Casey sees how to destroy a country in less than a decade. 33 Twenty Observations on Liberty and Society Jayant Bhandari warns that totalitarian government is only a symptom of the real enemy: totalitarian culture. 38 The Art of Letting Go Mark Skousen lauds a Chinese philosopher who drove away a third of the students in a class at Columbia Business School. Reviews 43 What Causes Terrorism? When it comes to the culture war, Robert VerBruggen points out, there's more than enough responsibility to go around. 45 American Dictator There are times, Bruce Ramsey shows, when there is something to be said for assassins. 47 The Best Movies of 2006 Jo Ann Skousen fills out your Netflix queue. 48 The Importance of "Happyness" The new Will Smith movie is a hit with libertarians. David T. Beito and Gary Jason were there when the curtain went up. 50 Topping the Charts Jo Ann Skousen watches the Supremes bio-pic that has America falling in love all over again. 51 Medianotes Merchants of death, dangerous professors, gay stoners with guns, and a boy's inadequate dragons. 52 Notes on Contributors Book 'em, Danno. 54 Terra Incognita All the world is strange but thee and we. About [~=============L====e====t t====e====r====8=============:::::J Literal Vittles it was demonized by people in the"en YOur I was intrigued to read in February's vironmentalist" movement, and that Terra Incognita that overindustrious demonizing cost many lives needlessly. British nanny statists have forced the And the organization that has recently relabeling of Welsh Dragon sausage urged the use of DDT in indoor spray Subscription because it "did not contain any dragon ing to control malaria (and which meat." occasioned my reflection) is the World One shuddersto consider theimport Health Organization, for Pete's sake, Q: When does my subscription expire? of this ruling on traditional favorites hardly a "conservative" organization. A: Please look to the right ofyour name such as toad in the hole and spotted As to mosquitoes developing resis on your mailing label. There you dick. tance to DDT, what's the surprise there? will find (except in some cases when C.D. Tavares Evolution has been an accepted biologi receiving your first issue) the number Morristown, Ariz. ofissues left in your subscription, cal fact for 150 years now. That doesn't followed by the word "left," as in "3 Glamour Science mean that DDT isn't still a valuable tool. LEFT." In "Think globally, spray locally" Penicillin has been used for decades, (January, Reflections) Gary Jason saves and has saved countless lives. Does the fact that there are now a number of Q: I've moved. How do I change the the children with DDT after "enviros address to which my magazines are push their agenda ... using junk sci strains of penicillin-resistant bacteria sent? ence." But the glamorization of DDT is mean that penicillin is useless? Hardly. A: Write us at the postal or email ad "junk science." Itonly means that we have to keep look dresses below. Be sure to include I found over 200 scientific pa ing for new antibiotics. your previous address, your new pers between 1947 and 1960 (mostly Can we then agree that we should address, and a telephone number or in Mosquito News) documenting the resume the use of DDT with caution, email address where we can reach evolution of resistance to DDT in one while developing other pesticides? And you ifwe have questions. It's best to mosquito population after another. keep the process free from junk science send us your current label and your There's probably another 200 papers, or and politicization - from all sides? new address. Allow 4-6 weeks to more, between the end of my study and Now Abideth Charity begin receiving Liberty at your new the DDT ban more than a decade later. Doug Casey's article "Charity? address. DDT isn't worthless. If malaria can Humbug!" (November 2006) bears be wiped out in the human population the subtitle: "If Warren Buffett really Q: I'm receiving duplicate copies of before the mosquitoes come back (two wanted to be charitable with his bil Libert}'. What should I do? years), then there's no malaria for the lions, he would have concentrated on A: Clip the mailing labels from both DDT-resistant mosquitoes to spread. making billions more." Is Casey sug copies and send them to the postal But usually someone with malaria was gesting that Buffett must work until the address below. We'll make sure you missed or came from outside; then the receive all the issues you've paid for. instant of his death at making money, "cure" was lost. DDT is some help but that he isn't allowed to retire and rest? it's not the panacea conservatives would I doubt that is what Casey meant. But Q: How can I buy gift subscriptions for have it be. if we do allow Mr. Buffett the freedom friends and family? Enviros aren't the only ones pushing to stop producing wealth, he is then left A: Call the toll-free number below. agendas using junk science. We should with the question of what to do with the We'll be happy to assist you. be very careful taking science from con wealth he has personally accumulated servatives too. so far. And given that it's his money Q: Is Liberty on the Web? Tom Porter he is perfectly free to choose the route A: Yes. Selected articles from each is Reseda, Calif. of private, voluntary charity, leaving sue are published online. Visit our Jason replies: I thank Mr. Porter for his less for the government's forced char website at libertyunbound.com. feedback. For the record, I don't want ity when he dies. Private charities and to "glamorize" DDT ... I just think that foundations actually have an interest in To subscribe, renew, or ask questions about your subscription E-mail: [email protected] Write: Liberty Circulation, P.O. Box 1181, Port Townsend, WA 98368 Call toll-free: (800) 854-6991 during regular West Coast business hours Outside the U.S., call: (360) 379-8421 March 2007 maintaining or increasing their wealth, - miserable, in fact - and the transfor to produce "the first with the best" in and are strongly driven to make sure mation improved his level of personal new technologies. However, I fear he their disbursements are to worthy re well-being dramatically. Furthermore, has fallen for a common fallacy - that cipients. Do you find that concern for Dickens makes it clear that the transfor hydrogen is an alternative source of en accountability in government charity? mation didn't cost Scrooge his business ergy. It is not. It is a way to store energy. Casey mentions the freedom the or its profitability, that Scrooge's charity Hydrogen, whether burned to produce Chinese billionaire in Hong Kong has actually added to the net total of hap mechanical energy or used in fuel cells to avoid estate taxes that his American piness in the world. Most people in the to produce electricity, takes a lot of en counterpart lacks. But that is obviously world actually like to see their generos ergy to produce. The energy to produce not a question of charity. It is a political ity benefit other people. This does not hydrogen usually comes from hydro difference, one that might not persist, make them busybodies, or psychologi carbons (oil, natural gas, coal). and the situation with Hong Kong is cally flawed. Michael Christian unique. Lumping government largesse Dan Karlan San Diego, Calif. Waldwick, N.J. with taxpayer funds into the same Whatever That Was moral and psychological pot as private Editors' note: The "subtitle" is an ab In "Word Watch" (Reflections, stract of sorts, prepared by Liberty staff, voluntary charity only muddies the December 2006), Stephen Cox engag that appears in front of most articles. It logical waters, seeming to make criti es in the very same behavior that he cism of the government's bungling and was not written by Doug Casey. condems in that column. Early in the corruption of a piece with criticism of Step Three: Profit column, Cox sarcastically asks why private charities. In an enthusiastic Reflection news reporters should bother to look In his article, Casey specifical ("Hydrogen Balm," December 2006), up the facts.

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