Carnival of Liberty 32

Liberty is the measure of how free we are to love, John Paul II was supposed to have said, though nowhere I can find online. A timely thought for the Valentine's Day edition of the Carnival of Liberty. Now with a soundtrack! (See first post.)

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." --William Hazlitt
	This week's Carnival has musical accompaniment! Libertarian love songs is a playlist of songs that celebrate the emancipating power of love. Awww! Here's the accompaniment part: These songs also appear on the radio.blog on the right side of my home page (below the ad and the handsome picture), so listen along -- detach the player by clicking 'Pop-Up' at the bottom and you can keep listening as you click the Carnival links and once you navigate away from this site. Use of the 'Crossfader' is recommended, too.
	Ok, you've queued up the best love songs, now Bill Karl brings you rave reviews for the iconic love story of blue state America, written by your favorite prominent Democrats: If Democrats wrote the reviews for Brokeback mountain.
	The Wrightwing asks, Doctor Who? The campy series is being resurrected on the Sci-Fi channel, and if the British version is representative, the "cast is made up of stereotypes that fit in with the politically correct, progressive lefts view of western society, both what is bad in it and what should be good in it."
	And before we leave the "liberal" (in the classic sense) arts this Valentine's Day, Kenneth Gregg of Classical Liberalism honors Jules Verne on his birthday (Feb. 8) in It Usually Begins With... "In social matters my taste is order," Verne said; "in politics my hope is to create within the present government a reasonable party that balances respect for justice and religious belief with consideration for people, the arts, and life itself."
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms." --Samuel Adams
	That big honking sound coming from Costa Rica was its libertarian party, reinforced with a new pragmatic approach, doing as well in the most recent election as libertarians usually do. Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey reflects on what, if anything, activists gain by playing ball in Libertarianism, moderation, and the possible futility of political action.
	Blog d'Elisson describes the Cartoon Jihad from the perspective of boots on the ground -- Beetle Bailey's, to be precise.
	The Oxford University Press blog features a question and answer session with Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Foreign Minister of Israel and a participant in many Arab-Israeli peace conferences, including the Camp David Summit in 2000.
	I sense something. A presence I have not felt since... Obi-Wan at Forward Biased was Speaking of Denmark, and brings us the tale of a local radio show that posted the Muhammad cartoons on its website, and promptly got death threats. Trying to enforce sensitivity to others through threats of decapitation since 1683!
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." --Daniel Webster
	Searchlight Crusade asks, Is This Supposed to be Helpful Legislation in Illinois? The state plans to look after mortgage borrowers in five Chicago ZIP codes as only it can. In doing so they'll raise lenders' cost of doing business, but they care!
	Ogre's Politics and Views has an object lesson in how Government Begets Government.
	Andy Clarkson, the Charlotte Capitalist, examines the ways in which the local government has expanded beyond Cops, Courts, And County Jails. "Any other activity by government becomes the reverse of protecting rights. The government becomes a violator of individual and property rights. Government becomes the initiator of force and fraud."
	At Everyman Chronicles, we learn about a plan in Alabama to pass a law requiring teaching the Bible in school. You'll need at least two guesses to figure out who's upset about it, though, and why.
"Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, every where." --Abraham Lincoln
	Combs Spouts Off about the "Marshall Plan" for the automobile industry touted by Sen. Clinton. "How else can we rebuild all the bombed-out factories and infrastructure destroyed in the terrible war with Canada?" Read on.
	Vice President Cheney shoots a guy, and hilarity and political posturing predictably ensue. Left Brain Female in a Right Brain World wants to remind us of something: "How many lives are indirectly saved by the use of a gun against a thug?" Read Sarah Brady Thinks Cheney is Scary?
	Tyranny of Paranoia explores the latest incident of hypersensitivity threatening de facto censorship at Pensees.
	Happy first anniversary to the Stop the ACLU blog. They celebrated with Top Ten Myths About The ACLU.
"How have I loved liberty? With the enthusiasm of religion, with the rapture of love, with the conviction of geometry. That is how I have always loved liberty." --Lafayette
	An important post from Gullyborg at Resistance is Futile!: U of O President Dave Frohnmayer has some explaining to do about efforts at his school to facilitate illegal immigration.
	Avant News, "Tomorrow's News Today," reports: NSA Domestic Spy Team Wins US Stock Traders Challenge For 4th Consecutive Year. "In an unrelated development, NSA employees taken as a group have also proved eerily canny at predicting and cleaning up on the outcomes of certain long shot horse races and boxing matches, as well as unearthing rare tidbits of celebrity gossip."
	The Radical Libertarian is debunking statist concepts, starting with altruism. "How can anyone not be 100% self-interested ? That is tautologically absurd." Easy -- it's Valentine's Day!

Hearts generated with the ACME Heart Maker. Go and make your own, and while you're at it, click on some of their Yahoo ads. Next week's Carnival of Liberty, number 33, is being hosted at Peter Porcupine.