Freedom Unfiltered - October 12, 2012

www.FreedomUnfiltered.com Home      |      About Us      |      Podcasts      |      Links     |      Blog      |      Contact Contents   Weekly Commentary     - Living Like a King   Freedom Five     - This week's top articles   Liberty Out Loud Podcast     - Atlas Shrugged   Freedom Features     - Website of the Week     - Video of the Week     - Meme of the Week     - Book of the Week   Today's Thought   "Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times."    - Lawrence W. Reed Living Like a King (or Better!) by Jason Riddle   The choices available to the average person in America today could not be imagined by the aristocracy of a century ago. We live far more lavishly and have far more opportunities than most all people that have walked the earth at any time throughout history; including the present day.   I am not royalty, but I live better than kings and queens of the past.  The opportunities and experiences I have been afforded in my lifetime would make the great rulers of history rile with envy.   Continue... This Week's Freedom Five #1  Projections of U.S. Public Debt Continue to Accelerate by Veronique de Rugy (Mercatus.org) In 2007, the CBO projected that public debt would equal up to half of total U.S. economic output by 2019. In reality, public debt-to-GDP passed this milestone in 2009—ten years ahead of the CBO’s 2007 projection. Read More...   #2  How Government Sort of Created the Internet by Steve Fritzinger (TheFreemanOnline.org) The government directly funded the original research into many core networking technologies, but after creating the idea the government sat on it for a quarter century and denied access to all but a handful of people. Its great commercial potential was locked away.  Read More... #3  DHS to start testing drones over US for 'public safety' (RT.com) The agency expects as many as 30,000 UAVs will be in America’s airspace by the decade’s end.   Read More... #4  Amtrak Joins the Police State by Wendy McElroy (FFF.org) The partnership between DHS and Amtrak allows the government one more avenue of surveillance; it chips one more bit of freedom away from the average person, who is just trying to make it through the day. Another channel of convenience and freedom is being lost to national-security agents who seem determined to turn all of America into an airport screening zone. Read More... #5  Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors: 2012 by Chris Edwards (Cato.org) In this new report, Cato scholar Chris Edwards examines the tax and spending decisions made by governors since 2010. Read More... Liberty Out Loud Podcast   Atlas Shrugged - 55 Years Later Tonight is opening night for Atlas Shrugged Part II. In today's podcast, Jason talks about the theme of Ayn Rand's classic novel and how the message is even more relevant today than when it was written 55 years ago. (Listen Here)   Freedom Features   Video of the Week Ayn Rand - Objectivism vs Altruism (7 mins 51 sec) Click to Watch     Website of the Week   Laissez-Faire Books has been publishing and distributing books on liberty, with a focus on economics and finance, since 1972. The theme is freedom and its role in building a prosperous civilization, and the belief that state intervention is universally dangerous and damaging to human liberty.       (Visit LFB.org)     This Week's Reading Recommendation   Rollback - Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse – Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (2011) - explains that the only chance to avert total economic disaster is to completely change our understanding of government. With bracing candor, he dissects just how the political class has nearly destroyed America. (Read More) Meme of the Week Send us your favorite memes and pictures to be included on our Website and Facebook page. © 2012 Unfiltered Freedom. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright laws of the United States and international treaties. This newsletter may only be used pursuant to the subscription agreement. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution, in whole or in part, is encouraged with appropriate attribution. Filtering out the establishment bias so you can enjoy the message of pure, unadulterated freedom! www.FreedomUnfiltered.com