Laissez Faire Books, RIP

I have read the Laissez Faire Books is going to be shutting down. I work for a company that does business with them, so I have access to a list of books that they offer. I am not sure that it is complete, but just about everything on the list is worth reading.

The links lead to a price comparison for each book. I know it's ridiculously long, but it makes it fun to randomly click somewhere for a book to read. Enjoy, and thank you to LFB for such a great service.

Here goes:

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

How to Read a Book by Mortimer Jerome Adler

Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Discovery of Freedom Man's Struggle Against Authority by R. Wilder Lane

Atheism The Case Against God by George H. Smith

Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden

What Every Investor Should Know About Austrian Economics and the Hard Money Movement by Mark Skousen

Judgment Day My Years With Ayn Rand by Nathaniel Branden

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand

Prosperity Versus Planning How Government Stifles Economic Growth by David Osterfeld

Mises An Annotated Bibliography A Comprehensive Listing of Books and Articles by and About Ludwig Von Mises by Bettina Bien Greaves

Freedom of Informed Choice: FDA Versus Nutrient Supplements by Pearson, Durk

The God of the Machine by I. Paterson

From Magna Carta to the Constitution Documents in the Struggle for Liberty by David L. Brooks

A Man of Principle Essays in Honor of Hans F. Sennholz by John W. Robbins

How the West Grew Rich The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World by Nathan Rosenberg

Market for Liberty by Morris Tannehill

Resampling: The New Statistics by Julian Lincoln Simon

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

Liberty and the Great Libertarians by Charles T. Sprading

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden

None of the Above by Sy Leon

True Odds How Risk Affects Your Everyday Life by James Walsh

Community Technology by Karl Hess

Ending Affirmative Action The Case for Colorblind Justice by Terry Eastland

Free to Try by Hans F. Sennholz

Venetian song. by Kay Nolte Smith

Laissez-Faire Banking by Kevin Dowd

Explorations In Economic Liberalism by GEoffrey Wood

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

People's Pharmacy by Joe Graedon

Net Gain Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities by Arthur Armstrong

Human Action A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig Von Mises

Mortal Peril Our Inalienable Right to Health Care? by Richard A. Epstein

Breaking the Environmental Policy Gridlock by Terry L. Anderson

Insanity The Idea and Its Consequences by Thomas Szasz

The State by Franz Oppenheimer

The State by Franz Oppenheimer

No Law Against Mercy Jailed for Sheltering a Child from the State by Rachel B. Lapp

Taxing Choice The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination by William F. Shughart

Taking Responsibility Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life by Nathaniel Branden

Facts, Not Fear Teaching Children About the Environment by Michael Sanera

On Liberty Vindication of the Rights of Woman by John Stuart Mill

The Prince/Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by MacHiavelli

Communist Manifesto Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand by Douglas & Rasmussen, Douglas Den Uyl

The Other Americans How Immigrants Renew Our Country, Our Economy and Our Values by Joel Millman

Release 2.0 A Design for Living in the Digital Age by Esther Dyson

Those Dirty Rotten Taxes The Tax Revolts That Built America by Charles Adams

How to Get Happily Published by Judith Appelbaum

Less Than Zero The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy by George Selgin

Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men A History of the American Civil War by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

Ayn Rand A Sense of Life The Companion Book by Michael Paxton

Going Digital! A Guide to Policy in the Digital Age by William A. Niskanen

The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn

Transformation The Promise and Politics of Empowerment by Clint Bolick

New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources by H. L. Mencken

Regulating Financial Markets A Critique and Some Proposals by George J. Benston

The Right to Home School A Guide to the Law on Parents Rights in Education by Christopher J. Klicka

The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang

The Twelve-Year Sentence: Radical Views on Compulsory Education by Boaz, David

The Twelve-Year Sentence by William F. Rickenbacker

Guilt, Blame, and Politics by Allan Levite

Letters of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand

The End of Money And the Struggle for Financial Privacy by Richard W. Rahn

Who Rules America The People Vs. the Political Class by Eric O'Keefe

Cyber Rights Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age by Mike Godwin

Real Federalism Why It Matters, How It Could Happen by Michael S. Greve

The Mocker by Steve Ditko

Speaking of George Gilder by Frank Gregorsky

Ayn Rand's Marginalia Her Critical Comments on the Writings of over 20 Authors by Ayn Rand

The Fuzzy Future From Society and Science to Heaven in a Chip by Bart Kosko

Crossing by Deirdre N. McCloskey

Addiction Is a Choice by Jeffrey Schaler Ph.D.

Building Regulation, Market Alternatives, and Allodial Policy by John Cobin

Freedom in Chains The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen by James Bovard

Actual Innocence Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted by Jim Dwyer

The Golden Globe by John Varley

Monopoly Politics by James C. Miller III

Thrust for Freedom An Introduction to Volitional Science by Andrew J. Galambos

Genesis by Poul Anderson

Days of Obligation An Argument With My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez

Home and Work Negotiating Boundaries Through Everyday Life by Christena E. Nippert-Eng

Minds, Machines & Evolution by James Hogan

What Art Is The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand by Louis Torres

Gesundheit, Dummy The Best of Baloo by Rex F. May

Cutting Green Tape Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation and the Law by Richard L. Stroup

Harnessing Complexity Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier by Michael D. Cohen

Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand by Mimi Reisel Gladstein

An Enemy of the State The Life of Murray N. Rothbard by Justin Raimondo

From the Fountainhead to the Future: And Other Essays on Art and Excellence by York, Alexandra

Antidote Essays against the Socialist Indian State by Sauvik Chakraverti

Harmonizing Sentiments The Declaration of Independence and the Jeffersonian Idea of Self-Government by Hans L. Eicholz

A Personal Odyssey by Thomas Sowell

Telecosm How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World by George Gilder

Roots of Freedom A Primer on Modern Liberty by John W. Danford

A Force More Powerful A Century of Nonviolent Conflict by Peter Ackerman

Regulation Without the State by Colin Robinson

Egalitarianism As A Revolt Against Nature And Other Essays by Murray N. Rothbard

Trust on Trial How the Microsoft Case Is Reframing the Rules of Competition by Richard B. McKenzie

Genome The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley

Faster The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick

The Teacher Unions How They Sabotage Educational Reform and Why by Myron Lieberman

Why Atheism? by George H. Smith

A Student's Guide to Economics by Paul Heyne

More Guns, Less Crime Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws by John R. Lott Jr.

The Psychology of Self-Esteem A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding That Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology by Nathaniel Branden Branden

The Homeschooling Revolution by Isabel Lyman

The Future of Financial Privacy

Surthrival Guide for Under 18ers by Mark Feest

The Founders' Constitution by Philip Kurland

The Government Vs. Erotica The Siege of Adam & Eve by Philip D. Harvey

The Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand Truth and Toleration in Objectivism by David Kelley

Rebel Code (The Inside Story of Linux and the Open Source Revolution) by Glyn Moody

Tethered Citizens Time to Repeal the Welfare State by Sheldon Richman

Miss Liberty's Guide to Film and Video Movies for the Libertarian Millennium by Jon Osborne

Think Free to Live Free A Political Burnout's Guide to Life, Activism and Everything by Claire Wolfe

The Changing Fortunes of Economic Liberalism Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by David Henderson

Anti-Liberalism 2000 The Rise of New Millennium Collectivism by G.C. Harcourt

The End of Privacy by Charles Sykes

Fool's Errands America's Recent Encounters With Nation Building by Roger W. Fontaine

The Ceo of the Sofa by P. J. O'Rourke

Human Rights & the U.S. Drug War by Chris Conrad

Cosm by Gregory Benford

Armed New Perspectives on Gun Control by Gary Kleck

Njal's Saga by Robert Cook

Egil's Saga by Paul Edwards

The Essays A Selection by Michel E. De Montaigne

Origin Of Species by Charles Robert Darwin

Baghdad Without a Map And Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz

The Einstein Syndrome Bright Children Who Talk Late by Thomas Sowell

Germs Biological Weapons and America's Secret War by Judith Miller

Ayn Rand and Business by Theodore B. Kinni

Breaking The Pattern The 5 Principles You Need To Remodel Your Life by Charles S. Platkin

Secrets from an Inventor's Notebook by Maurice Kanbar

Invasion of Privacy How to Protect Yourself in the Digital Age by Michael Hyatt

The Ten Things You Can't Say in America by Larry Elder

Lectures on the Relation Between Law and Public Opinion in England During the Nineteenth Century by Albert V. Dicey

School Reform The Critical Issues by Williamson M. Evers

Martha Washington Goes to War by Dave Gibbons

Liberation by Oppression A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry by Thomas Stephen Szasz

Gold Wars The Battle Against Sound Money As Seen from a Swiss Perspective by Ferdinand Lips

Power of Economic Thinking by Not Available

Showdown Confronting Bias, Lies, and the Special Interests That Divide America by Larry Elder

Exiting the Balkan Thicket

Napoleon A Penguin Life by Paul Johnson

Personal Character and National Destiny by Harold B. Jones

Space The Free-Market Frontier by Edward L Hudgins

The Rule of Lawyers How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law by Walter K. Olson

Government America's No. 1 Growth Industry How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Impoverishing America by Stephen Moore

Diversity The Invention of a Concept by Peter Wood

Collapse of a Dream Social Effects of Economics in India and the World by Rayasam Prasad

The Bias Against Guns Why Almost Everything You'Ve Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong by John R. Lott

The Commanding Heights The Battle for the World Economy by Daniel Yergin

Teach Your Own The John Holt Book of Homeschooling by John Holt

Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume20) by Richard Phillip Feynman

Dependent on D.C The Rise of Federal Control over the Lives of Ordinary Americans by Charlotte Twight

Tethered Citizens Time to Repeal the Welfare State by Sheldon Richman

To Begin the World Anew The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders by Bernard Bailyn

Lafayette by Harlow Giles Unger

Government Creep What the Government Is Doing That You Don't Know About by Philip D. Harvey

The Illusion of Victory America in World War I by Thomas Fleming

What's Yours Is Mine Open Access and the Rise of Infrastructure Socialism by Adam Theirer

The Liberal Tide from Tyranny to Liberty by Jim Peron

Liberty, Security, and the War on Terrorism by Richard M. Ebeling

Terrorism And Tyranny Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil by James Bovard

Adventures in Legal Land by Marc Stevens

Economic Freedom of the World 2003 Annual Report by James D. Gwartney

Bioevolution How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World by Michael Fumento

Whatever Happened to Justice? by Richard J. Maybury

Art A New History by Paul Johnson

Origin of the American Revolution 1759-1766 by Bernhard Knollenberg

Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists Unleashing The Power Of Financial Markets To Create Wealth And Spread Opportunity by Raghuram Rajan

The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible! by Otto L. Bettmann

The Seven Myths of Gun Control by Richard Poe

Breach Of Trust How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders by John Hart

Agricultural Policy and the Environment by Roger E. Meiners

The Grounds and Limits of Political Obligation by Emile Capriotti

Growth of the American Revolution, 1766-1775 by Bernhard Knollenberg

Words to the Wise A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary by Thomas Szasz

National Identification Systems Essays in Opposition by Wendy McElroy

Just Get Out of the Way How Government Can Help Business in Poor Countries by Robert E. Anderson

Weeping by Shelly Reuben

Mugged by the State Outrageous Government Assaults on Ordinary People and Their Property by Randall Fitzgerald

How to Be Invisible The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Personal Privacy, Your Assets, and Your Life by J. J. Luna

Financial Reckoning Day Surviving The Soft Depression Of The 21st Century by Bill Bonner

Ex America The 50th Anniversary of the People's Pottage by Garet Garrett

The Real Lincoln A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas J. Dilorenzo

Commerce, Culture, and Liberty Readings on Capitalism Before Adam Smith by Henry C. Clark

Faith in Freedom Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices by Thomas Stephen Szasz

Operation Hollywood How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies by David L. Robb

Ottoman Centuries The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire by Kinross

The Skeptic The Life of H.L. Mencken by Terry Teachout

Bad Trip How the War Against Drugs Is Destroying America by Joel Miller

Economy and Virtue by Dennis O'Keefe

Abuse Of Power How The Government Misuses Eminent Domain by STEVEN GREENHUT

Economic Freedom of the World 2004 Annual Report by James D. Gwartney

The Limits of Civic Activism Cautionary Tales on the Use of Politics by Robert Weissberg

Shakedown How Corporations, Government, And Trial Lawyers Abuse The Judicial Process by Robert A. Levy

A Practical Guide to Winning the War on Terrorism by Adam M. Garfinkle

The Universal Hunger For Liberty Why the Clash of Civilizations Is Not Inevitable by Michael Novak

Gun Laws of America Every Federal Gun Law on the Books With Plain English Summaries by Alan Korwin

Hard America, Soft America Competition Vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future by Michael Barone

Turn Neither to the Right Nor to the Left A Thinking Christian's Guide to Politics And Public Policy by D. Eric Schansberg

Betrayal How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics by Linda Chavez

Africa Unchained The Blueprint for Africa's Future by George B.N. Ayittey

Sowing The Wind Essays And Articles On Popular Economic Policies That Make Matters Worse by Hans F. Sennholz

Enlightened Democracy The Case For The Electoral College by Tara Ross

Perilous Times Free Speech In Wartime From The Sedition Act Of 1798 To The War On Terrorism by Geoffrey R. Stone

State Of Fear by Michael Crichton

Creating Equal My Fight Against Race Preferences by Ward Connerly

Wilson's War How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War ii by Jim Powell

Against All Enemies Inside America's War On Terror by Richard A. Clarke

Bubbles and How To Survive Them by John P. Calverley

Noble Vision by Lagreca

Public Schools, Public Menace How Public Schools Lie to Parents And Betray Our Children (volume1) by Joel Turtel

No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow

For Us, The Living A Comedy Of Customs by Robert A. Heinlein

Bound For Canaan The Underground Railroad And The War For The Soul Of America by Fergus M. Bordewich

Ayn Rand And Song Of Russia Communism And Anti-communism In 1940s Hollywood by Robert Mayhew

The Republican Revolution 10 Years Later Smaller Government Or Business As Usual? by Chris Edwards

Cato Handbook On Policy by David Boaz

Christianity and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State by Laurence M. Vance

Big Fat Liars How Politicians, Corporations, And The Media Use Science And Statistics To Manipulate The Public by Morris E. Chafetz

Varieties Of Conservatism In America by Peter Berkowitz

Vindication A Life Of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon

Breaking Free Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice by Sol Stern

Hoodwinked How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture by Jack Cashill

Smut A Sex Industry Insider (And Concerned Father) Says Enough Is Enough by Gil Reavill

Thomas Jefferson Author of America by Christopher Hitchens

Hot Commodities How Anyone Can Invest Profitably In The World's Best Market by Jim Rogers

The Organization of Inquiry by Gordon Tullock

Citizen Of The Galaxy Library Edition by Robert A. Heinlein

The Tenth Man The Great Joke (Which Made Lazarus Laugh) by Wu Wei Wei

Vienna & Chicago, Friends or Foes? A Tale of Two Schools of Free-Market Economics by Mark Skousen

Sandstorm Policy Failure In The Middle East by Leon Hadar

The Narnian The Life And Imagination Of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs

Tax Revolt The Rebellion Against An Overbearing, Bloated, Arrogant, And Abusive Government by Phil Valentine

After Enron Lessons For Public Policy by William A. Niskanen

The Closing Of The Western Mind The Rise Of Faith And The Fall Of Reason by Charles Freeman

The Naked Crowd Reclaiming Security And Freedom In An Anxious Age by Jeffrey Rosen

How Capitalism Saved America The Untold History Of Our Country, From The Pilgrims To The Present by Thomas Dilorenzo

Underexposed What If Radiation Is Actually Good for You? by Ed Hiserodt

Spychips How Government And Major Corporations Are Tracking Your Every Move by Katherine Albrecht

Economic Freedom Of The World 2005 Annual Report by James D. Gwartney

Insatiable Government and Other Old-Right Commentaries, 1923-1950

Making Great Decisions in Business and Life by David R. Henderson Ph.D.

Meltdown The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, And the Media by Patrick J. Michaels

Attention Deficit Democracy by James Bovard

Downsizing the Federal Goverment by Chris Edwards

Something for Nothing The All-consuming Desire That Turns the American Dream into a Social Nightmare by Brian Tracy

Size Matters How Big Government Puts the Squeeze on America's Families, Finances, And Freedom (And Limits the Pursuit of Happiness) by Joel Miller

America's Coming War with China A collision course over Taiwan by Ted Galen Carpenter

Basic Principles of Economic Value by Eugen Von Bohm Bawerk

No Place To Hide by Robert O'Harrow

Creators From Chaucer And Durer to Picasso And Disney by Paul Johnson

FDRs Folly How Roosevelt And His New Deal Prolonged The Great Depression by Jim Powell

Government without Taxes Operating For-Profit and Paying Dividends to Its Owners the Constitution for Capitalism by Donald Kirchinger

The Last Free Man in America Meets the Synthetic Subversion (volume2) by Gatewood Galbraith

Homeland Security Scams by James T. Bennett

Street Smart Competition, Entrepreneurship, And the Future of Roads by Mary E. (FWD) Peters

The Constitution in Exile How The Federal Government Has Seized Power By Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land by Andrew P. Napolitano

The Global War on Your Guns Inside the U.N. Plan to Destroy the Bill of Rights by Wayne Lapierre

The Early Ayn Rand A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction by Ayn Rand

The White Man's Burden Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little Good by William Easterly

Identity Crisis How Identification Is Overused And Misunderstood by Jim Harper

Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China's Peasants by Chen Guidi

Life, Liberty, And Happiness An Optimist Manifesto by Frank S. Robinson

One Nation Under Therapy How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-reliance by Sally L. Satel

What Would the Founders Do? Our Questions, Their Answers by Richard Brookhiser

The Bottomless Well The Twilgiht of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, And Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy by Peter Huber

Bully Boy The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy by Jim Powell

Unwarranted Intrusions The Case Against Government Intervention in the Marketplace by Martin S. Fridson

Flight from Inflation by E.C. Riegel

The New Approach to Freedom by E.C. Riegel

Flight from Inflation by E.C. Riegel

Reclaiming Our Children The Healing Solution for a Nation in Crisis by Peter Breggin

The Identity of Man by Jacob Bronowski

Nation Of Rebels Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture by Joseph Heath

White Guilt How Blacks And Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele

Depression, War, And Cold War Studies in Political Economy by Robert Higgs

The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett And George Soros by George Soros

Time and Money: The Macroeconomics of Capital Structure by Roger Garrison

Freedom! by Martin Harry Greenberg

Buck Wild How Republicans Broke the Bank And Became the Party of Big Government by Stephen Slivinski

The Christian Theology of Public Policy Highlighting the American Experience (volume1) by John M. Cobin

Then Athena Said Unilateral Transfers And the Transformation of Objectivist Ethics by Kathleen Touchstone

Excellence Without a Soul How a Great University Forgot Education by Harry R. Lewis

The Big Ripoff How Big Business And Big Government Steal Your Money by Timothy P. Carney

War by Edward Cline

Ghost Plane The True Story of the CIA Torture Program by Stephen Grey

Liberty for All Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality by Elizabeth Price Foley

The Star Sailors by Gary L. Bennett

Moral Minority Our Skeptical Founding Fathers by Brooke Allen

Cato Supreme Court Review 2005-2006 by Mark K. Moller

The Road More Traveled Why the Congestion Crisis Matters More Than You Think, and What We Can Do About It by Sam Staley

Radicals for Capitalism A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement by Brian Doherty

A Religious Orgy in Tennessee A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial by H. L. Mencken

Dictionary of Dangerous Words by Digby C. Anderson

Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

The Stem Cell Controversy Debating the Issues by Ruse

Bastiat's 'the Law by Norman Barry

The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible by Ken Schoolland

Somebody's Gotta Say It by Neal Boortz

Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime The Creation of Private Property in Russia, 1906-1915 by Stephen F. Williams

In Defense of Advertising Arguments from Reason, Ethical Egoism, and Laissez-faire Capitalism by Jerry Kirkpatrick

Eco-freaks Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health! by John Berlau

Electric Choices Deregulation And the Future of Electric Power by Andrew N. Kleit

Leviathan on the Right How Big Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution by Michael D. Tanner

Milton Friedman A Biography by Lanny Ebenstein

Silence of the Rational Center Why American Foreign Policy Is Failing by Jonathan Clarke

Freedom and Capitalism by John Robbins

The Structure of Production by Mark Skousen

The Economic Naturalist In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas by Robert Frank

Samuel Adams Father of the American Revolution by Mark Puls

It's Getting Better All the Time 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years by Stephen Moore

Discover Your Inner Economist Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist by Tyler Cowen

Common Genius by Bill Greene

I'm Moving to Seattle

Look like the nanny state is leaning my way for once, as Seattle considers banning city employees from making microwave popcorn.

It's just a first step, but it's a good one-- they've established that there is a 'public cost' to microwave popcorn, what with all the overcooking and smoke evacuations. From here there's nowhere to go but up.

To me, the smell is every bit as offensive as the cheapest Cambodian cigarette. And if only microwave popcorn can be banned for everyone instead of me just avoiding it, well, that's the wave of the future. I'm sure we can get a study on the carcinogenic effects of the superheated plastics and corn smoke, and if it's inaccurate, so much the better-- it'll make the case almost identical to that of tobacco.

Coming up next-- coffee. No more coffee in public buildings, buildings accessible to the public, or private attached buildings.

Then pets. Because I just can't keep to myself, everything that annoys me and a slight majority must be banned to everyone. You know, for the collective good.

Good Times

This is who I am

You'd think I could pull it together enough to just be aware of my various bank balances, but no, not me. The worst part is, if someone had said that crappy Jack in the Box milkshake would cost me effectively $30, I'd have still taken it:

09/18/2006	MC-SUBWAY II SALEM	-$9.99	$0.96
09/19/2006	MC-MCDONALD'S F594 Q17 SALEM	-$4.55	($3.59)
09/20/2006	*OVERDRAFT CHARGE	-$27.00	($30.59)
09/20/2006	MC-JACK IN THE BO00071Q43 SALEM	-$2.49	($33.08)
09/21/2006	*OVERDRAFT CHARGE	-$27.00	($60.08)
09/21/2006	*CUSTOMER DEPOSIT	+$60.00	($0.08)

The best part is where I decided to go put $60 in just in case the balance was getting low. I'm sure the teller thought I was a genius in coming up $.08 short. I didn't even look at the receipt.

My Evening on the Mean Streets of Salem

Earlier tonight was kind of a downer. Headed for Subway and parked a block away, and an older homeless guy hit me up for a dollar for food. I had no cash on me, so I had the genius idea of offering him a meal at Subway. Not only did he not really want food, he was kind of indignant, and said, "I can get my own food." Obviously wanted booze, not food.

So I was a little discouraged, figuring all homeless were basically the same as those freeway onramp career panhandlers or lying drunks.

Well, coming back from my midnight stroll through Bush Park, I ran into a guy in my back alley carrying a couple of blankets to wherever he planned to sleep. When I got to my driveway, his bike was parked there, my Diet Coke 2-liter bottles in a plastic bag, and it hit me that his blankets were the two I'd thrown in the trash earlier that night during Spring cleaning.

Obviously it was kind of a downer, but at the same time, the guy was making his way, whatever way that was, on his own. I talked to him when he came back for the bike, and he had a little route he runs every day. So we worked out what I can do with stuff he might use, he doesn't have to root through my trash, and I have my own personal Goodwill drop-off.

I'll probably get ripped off now somehow, but I'm Mother Teresa tonight. At the very least I got the bad taste of that old drunk guy out of my mouth.

My Message to Ron Wyden Today

Mr. Wyden,

I look forward to seeing how you apply your Internet Non-Discrimination Act to the US package delivery service industry and other industries with different levels of service.

We are all tired of having to choose between Next Day Air, Second Day Air, and Ground transport for packages, and look forward to our egalitarian future where nothing can be delivered any faster than USPS Media Mail, regardless of what you are willing to pay.

From there, with your foresight and guidance, we can work on abolishing charter and private plane flights that move passengers back and forth in a discriminatory fashion, only based on how much they are willing and able to pay. Better yet, ground the planes and get everyone on Amtrak, for the ultimate in delivering poor service equally to all.

I'll leave it to your imagination where we can go from there, but suffice it to say we are all looking forward to a future with less confusing choices to make, or, God willing, no choices to make at all.

Thank you,
Morgan B MacArthur
Salem, OR

Go George - The UAE Ports Deal

Lawmakers, he said, must 'step up and explain why a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard.'

Exactly. We have both enemies and allies in the Middle East, and I'm glad someone is keeping track of them by criteria beyond skin color and religion.

Besides the racial idiocy on this one, our ports system should not rely on the trustworthiness or security of a private business to safeguard our country. It shouldn't matter who is managing the ports, the policies are ours to set, not theirs.

My Hat's Off to Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google

Everyone's outraged at our Internet companies doing business in China without somehow single-handedly overturning their Communist government. As though it is business's role to actually affect change in the form of government in their marketplace.

Microsoft was never a fan favorite, and Yahoo has been getting it pretty good lately. For my part, I don't really like Google. "Don't be evil" is a little self-righteous for my taste.

But let's be honest. Before these American companies were doing business in China, nobody knew or cared to know the extent of the censorship that goes on in China. We have learned more about the Chines government's repression in the last few months than we ever wanted to before.

When a company does business in a foreign country, they are generally required to follow local law, not write it. The people complaining should instead be applauding, because there is now a spotlight on the Chinese government's abuses.

So keep it up, American tech giants, you're doing the right thing-- business.

I Haven't Seen Outrage Like This Since...

I haven't seen outrage in the Muslim community like that over this image--









--since the outrage in the Muslim community over this image:









Oh yeah, I forgot.

Happy Birthday Dr. King

In comments commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, Mayor Ray Nagin seamlessly joined the insanity Pastor Pat Robertson --

"Surely God is mad at America... Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses."

-- with the racism of former Klansman Robert Byrd --

"It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans _ the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans."

-- Happy Birthday, Dr. King.

Why Oh Why Do I Watch Lost? Part 1

This weeks installment:

Monsters about? Murderers in the night? Have a new born baby? Don't move indoors with the showers and kitchen, just spread this crappy tarp on the sand next to the deadly jungle.

Learning to shoot? Short on food? Use a gallon of ranch as a target instead of a piece of wood. It'll give the show a good opportunity to showcase the mysterious Dharma logo and it looks dramatic blowing up.

Need parts? Engines? A radio? Something to make a boat out of? Nope. Burn the wrecked plane anyway, and don't worry about torching the jungle or attracting the "Others".

I'm sure I'll watch next week anyway.

Call Your Representatives - Support Shadegg

We have a real opportunity to make meaningful change in the House. Call your representative and tell them to support John Shadegg for House Majority Leader. The reason I think he'd be great? The Enumerated Powers Act says it all. Anyone that would conceive it has my support.

I called my lonely Oregon Republican Greg Walden, and they said he's supporting Blunt. But the girl on the phone also wanted to know my opinion, which was nice, enough calls into the offices have got to at least make the members take notice.

Republican Representative Reference

State		Name	Phone
AL	1	Josiah R Bonner Jr	202-225-4931
AL	2	R Terry Everett	202-225-2901
AL	3	Michael D Rogers	202-225-3261
AL	4	Robert B Aderholt	202-225-4876
AL	6	Spencer T Bachus III	202-225-4921
AK		Donald E Young	202-225-5765
AZ	1	Rick Renzi	202-225-2315
AZ	2	Trent Franks	202-225-4576
AZ	3	John Shadegg	202-225-3361
AZ	5	John D Hayworth Jr	202-225-2190
AZ	6	Jeff Flake	202-225-2635
AZ	8	James T Kolbe	202-225-2542
AR	3	John Boozman	202-225-4301
CA	2	Walter W Herger	202-225-3076
CA	3	Daniel E Lungren	202-225-5716
CA	4	John T Doolittle	202-225-2511
CA	11	Richard W Pombo	202-225-1947
CA	19	George P Radanovich	202-225-4540
CA	21	Devin Nunes	202-225-2523
CA	22	William M Thomas	202-225-2915
CA	24	Elton W Gallegly	202-225-5811
CA	25	Howard P McKeon	202-225-1956
CA	26	David T Dreier	202-225-2305
CA	40	Edward R Royce	202-225-4111
CA	41	C Jeremy Lewis	202-225-5861
CA	42	Gary G Miller	202-225-3201
CA	44	Ken Calvert	202-225-1986
CA	45	Mary W Bono	202-225-5330
CA	46	Dana Rohrabacher	202-225-2415
CA	48	John Campbell	202-225-5611
CA	49	Darrell E Issa	202-225-3906
CA	50	Randall Cunningham	202-225-5452
CA	52	Duncan L Hunter	202-225-5672
CO	4	Marilyn N Musgrave	202-225-4676
CO	5	Joel M Hefley	202-225-4422
CO	6	Thomas G Tancredo	202-225-7882
CO	7	Bob Beauprez	202-225-2645
CT	2	Robert R Simmons	202-225-2076
CT	4	Christopher H Shays	202-225-5541
CT	5	Nancy L Johnson	202-225-4476
DE		Michael N Castle	202-225-4165
FL	1	Jefferson B Miller	202-225-4136
FL	4	Ander Crenshaw	202-225-2501
FL	5	Virginia Brown-Waite	202-225-1002
FL	6	Clifford B Stearns	202-225-4501
FL	7	John L Mica	202-225-4035
FL	8	Richard Keller	202-225-2176
FL	9	Michael Bilirakis	202-225-5755
FL	10	C William Young	202-225-5961
FL	12	Adam H Putnam	202-225-1252
FL	13	Katherine Harris	202-225-5015
FL	14	Connie Mack IV	202-225-2536
FL	15	David J Weldon	202-225-3671
FL	16	Mark A Foley	202-225-5792
FL	18	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen	202-225-3931
FL	21	Lincoln Diaz-Balart	202-225-4211
FL	22	E Clay Shaw Jr	202-225-3026
FL	24	Thomas C Feeney III	202-225-2706
FL	25	Mario Diaz-Balart	202-225-2778
GA	1	John H Kingston	202-225-5831
GA	6	Tom Price	202-225-4501
GA	7	John E Linder	202-225-4272
GA	8	Lynn Westmoreland	202-225-5901
GA	9	Charles W Norwood Jr	202-225-4101
GA	10	J Nathan Deal	202-225-5211
GA	11	Phillip Gingrey	202-225-2931
ID	1	C L Otter	202-225-2911
ID	2	Michael K Simpson	202-225-5531
IL	6	Henry J Hyde	202-225-4561
IL	10	Mark S Kirk	202-225-4835
IL	11	Gerald C Weller	202-225-3635
IL	13	Judith B Biggert	202-225-3515
IL	14	J Dennis Hastert	202-225-2976
IL	15	Timothy V Johnson	202-225-2371
IL	16	Donald A Manzullo	202-225-5676
IL	18	Ray H LaHood	202-225-6201
IL	19	John M Shimkus	202-225-5271
IN	2	Chris Chocola	202-225-3915
IN	3	Mark E Souder	202-225-4436
IN	4	Stephen E Buyer	202-225-5037
IN	5	Danny L Burton	202-225-2276
IN	6	Mike Pence	202-225-3021
IN	8	John N Hostettler	202-225-4636
IN	9	Michael E Sodrel	202-225-5315
IA	1	James A Nussle	202-225-2911
IA	2	James A S Leach	202-225-6576
IA	4	Thomas Latham	202-225-5476
IA	5	Steve King	202-225-4426
KS	1	Jerry Moran	202-225-2715
KS	2	Jim R Ryun	202-225-6601
KS	4	Todd Tiahrt	202-225-6216
KY	1	W Edward Whitfield	202-225-3115
KY	2	Ron Lewis	202-225-3501
KY	3	Anne M Northup	202-225-5401
KY	4	Geoff Davis	202-225-3465
KY	5	Harold D Rogers	202-225-4601
LA	1	Bobby Jindal	202-225-3015
LA	4	Jim McCrery	202-225-2777
LA	5	Rodney Alexander	202-225-8490
LA	6	Richard Baker	202-225-3901
LA	7	Charles Boustany	202-225-2031
MD	1	Wayne Gilchrest	202-225-5311
MD	6	Roscoe Bartlett	202-225-2721
MI	2	Pete Hoekstra	202-225-4401
MI	3	Vern Ehlers	202-225-3831
MI	4	Dave Camp	202-225-3561
MI	6	Fred Upton	202-225-3761
MI	7	Joe Schwarz	202-225-6276
MI	8	Mike J Rogers	202-225-4872
MI	9	Joe Knollenberg	202-225-5802
MI	10	Candice Miller	202-225-2106
MI	11	Thad McCotter	202-225-8171
MN	1	Gil Gutknecht	202-225-2472
MN	2	John Kline	202-225-2271
MN	3	Jim Ramstad	202-225-2871
MN	6	Mark Kennedy	202-225-2331
MS	1	Roger F Wicker	202-225-4306
MS	3	Charles W Pickering Jr	202-225-5031
MO	2	Todd Akin	202-225-2561
MO	6	Sam Graves	202-225-7041
MO	7	Roy Blunt	202-225-6536
MO	8	Jo Ann Emerson	202-225-4404
MO	9	Kenny Hulshof	202-225-2956
MT		Dennis R Rehberg	202-225-3211
NE	1	Jeff Fortenberry	202-225-4806
NE	2	Lee R Terry	202-225-4155
NE	3	Thomas W Osborne	202-225-6435
NV	2	James A Gibbons	202-225-6155
NV	3	Jon C Porter	202-225-3252
NH	1	Jeb Bradley	202-225-5456
NH	2	Charles F Bass	202-225-5206
NJ	2	Frank LoBiondo	202-225-6572
NJ	3	Jim Saxton	202-225-4765
NJ	4	Chris Smith	202-225-3765
NJ	5	E Scott Garrett	202-225-4465
NJ	7	Mike Ferguson	202-225-5361
NJ	11	Rodney Frelinghuysen	202-225-5034
NM	1	Heather A Wilson	202-225-6316
NM	2	Steven E Pearce	202-225-2365
NY	3	Peter King	202-225-7896
NY	13	Vito Fossella	202-225-3371
NY	19	Sue Kelly	202-225-5441
NY	20	John E Sweeney	202-225-5614
NY	23	John McHugh	202-225-4611
NY	24	Sherwood Boehlert	202-225-3665
NY	25	Jim Walsh	202-225-3701
NY	26	Tom Reynolds	202-225-5265
NY	29	Randy Kuhl	202-225-3161
NC	3	Walter Jones Jr	202-225-3415
NC	5	Virginia Foxx	202-225-2071
NC	6	Howard Coble	202-225-3065
NC	8	Robin Hayes	202-225-3715
NC	9	Sue Myrick	202-225-1976
NC	10	Patrick McHenry	202-225-2576
NC	11	Charles Taylor	202-225-6401
OH	1	Steve Chabot	202-225-2216
OH	3	Michael R Turner	202-225-6465
OH	4	Michael G Oxley	202-225-2676
OH	5	Paul E Gillmor	202-225-6405
OH	7	David L Hobson	202-225-4324
OH	8	John A Boehner	202-225-6205
OH	12	Patrick J Tiberi	202-225-5355
OH	14	Steven C LaTourette	202-225-5731
OH	15	Deborah D Pryce	202-225-2015
OH	16	Ralph S Regula	202-225-3876
OH	18	Robert W Ney	202-225-6265
OK	1	John Sullivan	202-225-2211
OK	3	Frank D Lucas	202-225-4811
OK	4	Tom Cole	202-225-6416
OK	5	Ernest J Istook Jr	202-225-5711
OR	2	Greg Walden	202-225-6730
PA	3	Phil English	202-225-5406
PA	4	Melissa Hart	202-225-2565
PA	5	John Peterson	202-225-5121
PA	6	Jim Gerlach	202-225-4315
PA	7	Curt Weldon	202-225-2011
PA	8	Michael G Fitzpatrick	202-225-4276
PA	9	Bill Shuster	202-225-2431
PA	10	Don Sherwood	202-225-3731
PA	15	Charlie Dent	202-225-6411
PA	16	Joe Pitts	202-225-2411
PA	18	Timothy Murphy	202-225-2301
PA	19	Todd Platts	202-225-5836
SC	1	Henry E Brown, Jr	202-225-3176
SC	2	Joe Wilson	202-225-2452
SC	3	J Gresham Barrett	202-225-5301
SC	4	Bob Inglis	202-225-6030
TN	1	Bill Jenkins	202-225-6356
TN	2	Jimmy Duncan Jr	202-225-5435
TN	3	Zach Wamp	202-225-3271
TN	7	Marsha Blackburn	202-225-2811
TX	1	Louie Gohmert	202-225-3035
TX	2	Ted Poe	202-225-6565
TX	3	Sam Johnson	202-225-4201
TX	4	Ralph Hall	202-225-6673
TX	5	Jeb Hensarling	202-225-3484
TX	6	Joe Barton	202-225-2002
TX	7	John Culberson	202-225-2571
TX	8	Kevin Brady	202-225-4901
TX	10	Mike McCaul	202-225-2401
TX	11	Mike Conaway	202-225-3605
TX	12	Kay Granger	202-225-5071
TX	13	Mac Thornberry	202-225-3706
TX	14	Ron Paul	202-225-2831
TX	19	Randy Neugebauer	202-225-4005
TX	21	Lamar Smith	202-225-4236
TX	22	Tom DeLay	202-225-5951
TX	23	Henry Bonilla	202-225-4511
TX	24	Kenny Marchant	202-225-6605
TX	26	Michael Burgess	202-225-7772
TX	31	John Carter	202-225-3864
TX	32	Pete Sessions	202-225-2231
UT	1	Robert Bishop	202-225-0453
UT	3	Christopher B Cannon	202-225-7751
VA	1	Jo Ann S Davis	202-225-4261
VA	2	Thelma Drake	202-225-4215
VA	4	J Randy Forbes	202-225-6365
VA	5	Virgil H Goode Jr	202-225-4711
VA	6	Robert W Goodlatte	202-225-5431
VA	7	Eric I Cantor	202-225-2815
VA	10	Frank R Wolf	202-225-5136
VA	11	Thomas M Davis III	202-225-1492
WA	4	Doc Hastings	202-225-5816
WA	5	Cathy McMorris	202-225-2006
WA	8	Dave Reichert	202-225-7761
WV	2	Shelley M Capito	202-225-2711
WI	1	Paul Ryan	202-225-3031
WI	5	Jim Sensenbrenner	202-225-5101
WI	6	Tom Petri	202-225-2476
WI	8	Mark Green	202-225-5665
WY		Barbara L Cubin	202-225-2311

Bring on Shadegg

Between the Enumerated Powers Act and this:

“We need to ferret out anyone embroiled in this mess and any practices that contributed to it. We need to be taking the initiative to get back to our core principles. We need to shrink the size of government, not grow it. We need to reform government, not manage it.”

All I can say is-- SOLD.

Just because the Democrats are a little weak right now, it seems like our party has no incentive to do the right thing, and it's pathetic. We'll deserve what we get if we don't clean up quick.

Keeping People Safe With Gun Control

Thank goodness the French can't carry concealed firearms, so they can't be victims of violent crime. Oh yeah, knives:

The gang of between 20 and 30 youths boarded the train, heading from Nice on the French Riviera to Lyon, in eastern France, early on Jan. 1, as it carried 600 passengers home from New Year’s Eve partying overnight.

Once inside, they went wild, forcing passengers to hand over mobile phones and wallets, and slashing seats and breaking windows. A 20-year-old woman cornered by several of the marauders was sexually molested.

Aside from how sick it is that French people aren't permitted to forcefully defend themselves, the police that people are forced to depend on were in turn forced wait an hour and a half to board while they waited for a formal complaint.

Dear Palestinians: You Are Our Enemy

How many Palestinians polled give "Support to Al-Qaeda's actions like bombings in USA and Europe"? Interestingly enough for a place that receives hundreds of millions of dollars from us, 38% strongly support, and 27% support, Al-Qaeda actions like bombings in USA ans Europe.

That's 65% of the polled population. That is an enemy, not just the government, the entire country. A country that wouldn't exist if it weren't for us and Israel. Jordan certainly wasn't ever going to give them their homeland. The only place they ever had any rights to speak of was in Israel.

This is exactly the response to expect from 20+ years of negotiating with terrorists.

The poll results can be seen here.

Why I Love Public Transportation

It's the same reason I love gun control. Reliance on police takes away your ability to protect yourself. Reliance on public transportation takes away your ability to transport yourself. So now these folks are your only way to get to work. Merry Christmas.

So New Yorkers, you better give those transit workers the the respect they demand and deserve (and $50K a year), because you've already given them a government-sanctioned monopoly, and you'll never get your transport independence back.

Candid News Photo of the Day

This photographer has skillfully captured an honest, unrehearsed, moment of pure emotion.

"Iraq is worse than Vietnam."

Jimmy Breslin, Profiles in Moronacy

I don't care for Hillary Clinton, but Jimmy Breslin uses one of the lamest, most shopworn, tired, and stale statements ever constructed to criticize her politics:

If Hillary Clinton wants this war to go on, then she should send her daughter to fight in Iraq.

Oh, very clever, and fresh too!

Our fighting men and women continue to be 100% adult, 100% volunteer, whatever the Sheehans, Moores, and Breslins of the world pretend to believe. But "she should persuade her daughter to volunteer to fight in Iraq" doesn't have the same punch.

Fortunately for everyone, they are fantastic, brave, adult volunteers, and history will erase the nonsense of the naysayers and doom-and-gloomers.

More on the Negroponte $100 Fiasco

David Henderson makes some great points about the miguided $100 computer project, but I think he gives Negroponte far too much credit:

"Few people admire Mr. Negroponte more than I do, but his plan for how to distribute the computers is a tragedy in the making."

The results that Mr. Henderson points out were completely avoidable from the start, and they are inexcusable for someone with Mr' Negroponte's stated intentions.

For one, the entire project was inspired by the use of donated laptops by some Cambodian families. But when you read the story, you realize the laptops were being used as light bulbs. The target audience is far, far away from needing a laptop to put them over the top into the information age.

Further, the results of a public project like this are already being felt in places like Thailand, where schools that can barely stay open are being tasked with creating a network infrastructure to support these computers. Taking the decisions out of locals, the higher-ups in the government get to sign on to a sexy project like this one, and everyone crows about the vision, and avoids thinking about the results.

Last, November's over. The prototype didn't even get made. Trevor Bayliss came away less than impressed, saying the prototype "could have been made with Lego". This is the man tasked with creating the crank charging system.

Bottom line, read the David Henderson piece, it's more important to understand the economic mechanisms at work than to even worry if the product will ever exist.