Spanish American War tax finally sunsetted....

May 25, 2006
Mises Blog
Phone Tax Finally Sunsetted...

After 108 YearsTim Swanson
Several months ago Ted Roberts wrote an article discussing the tax on international phone calls that was originally levied to finance the Spanish-American War back in 1898. Today, MSNBC and others are reporting that effective July 31, this tax will finally disappear. In addition, consumers can file for a refund on this tax from March 2003 through the present - this is expected to be approximately $13 billion when the dust settles.
While much can be said on the topic of coerced philanthropy, this should serve as a clear illustration of how when the State gains the authority to do something, it is reticent to relinquish the authority. One down, thousands more to go.

May 12, 2006

How many secessionists are there?

By Thomas Naylor

posted May 12, 2006

The 2006 Vermonter Poll recently conducted by the Center for Rural Studies at the University of Vermont indicates that the percentage of eligible Vermont voters who favor secession from the United States could very well be the highest in the nation....

The Story of John Henry: Spy against the New England Republic

After retiring from the Army, he relocated to northern Vermont to farm and study law (presumably falling asleep during the ethics part of the curriculum). Also to write anti-republican diatribes. Let’s not forget that. In 1809, after reading some of his work, Sir James Craig, the British governor of Canada hired Henry to spy on the Federalists. It was well known in Great Britain that the New England Federalists were unhappy. Many Boston essays and pamphlets found their way to England where they enjoyed a life renewed in British newspapers (for example, Massachusetts Senator Timothy Pickering’s [the leader of the so-called Essex Junto] letter to Governor James Sullivan was more widely circulated in British newspapers than in American newspapers). John Henry was sent to Boston to measure their unrest and to ascertain if secession was likely (and if it was likely, to help shepherd the wayward states back into the Empire’s fold).

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Look Homeward, America - new Bill Kauffman

Look Homeward, America
In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists
By Bill Kauffman

INTRODUCTION

I am an American patriot. A Jeffersonian decentralist. A fanatical localist. And I am an anarchist. Not a sallow garret-rat translating Proudhon by pirated kilowatt, nor a militiaman catechized by the Classic Comics version of The Turner Diaries; rather, I am the love child of Henry Thoreau and Dorothy Day, conceived amidst the asters and goldenrod of an Upstate New York autumn. Like so many of the subjects of this book, I am also a reactionary radical, which is to say I believe in peace and justice but I do not believe in smart bombs, daycare centers, Wal-Mart, television, or Melissa Etheridge’s test-tube baby.

“Reactionary radicals” are those Americans whose political radicalism (often inspired by the principles of 1776 and the culture of the early America) is combined with—in fact, flows from—a deep-set social “conservatism.” These are not radicals who wish to raze venerable institutions and make them anew: they are, in fact, at antipodes from the warhead-clutching egghead described by (the reactionary radical) Robert Lee Frost:

With him the love of country means

Blowing it all to smithereens

And having it all made over new

Look Homeward, America

Affections for a country not their own in MA

Massachusetts has real problems including an "opposition candidate" like this in the 4th District running against Barney Frank who recently (scroll down) voted for "war" against Iran.

The 51st state: Israel and America
By Charles A. Morseweb posted May 15, 2006

Chuck Morse is the Republican Congressional candidate for the Massachusetts 4th district.

Romney Nearly Drops Panel

Boston, MA High Culture? Romney "nearly" drops panel?


Gay-Lesbian Group Survives Parade Incident
May 13, 2006By STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press

BOSTON -- Gov. Mitt Romney flirted with abolishing a state advisory commission on gay youth for promoting a parade today featuring a cross-dressing master of ceremonies and embracing transgender teens, a spokesman said Friday.

Cops told Pat K was at watering hole before crash

Boston Herald

By Dave WedgeFriday, May 12, 2006 - Updated: 04:28 AM EST

Capitol police in Washington, D.C., investigating U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy’s early-morning car wreck have been told by witnesses that the Rhode Island congressman was at a Capitol Hill bar before the crash, the Herald has learned.

Now Is the Time for a Left-Right Alliance

Read The Article Here: May 10 Antiwar.com
A rebel alliance already exists that could stop Bush administration attacks on the Constitution
by Thomas R. Eddlem

Thomas R. Eddlem is a native of the Boston area of Massachusetts and a graduate of Stonehill College. He is a radio talk show host in Southeastern Massachusetts and is a frequent contributor to The New American magazine.

Wartime explosives still turning up

Wartime explosives still turning up

NANTUCKET, Mass. - An excavator working in the area of a former Navy base found what the Inquirer and Mirror called an "ordnance" and took it home. Someone realized it was a hazard and called fire and police, who called the state police bomb squad, which arrived by helicopter, carried the World War II shell to a site near the airport and detonated it with what the newspaper called a "loud explosion."

Also note, this Block Isalnd paper is highlight Maine Island Secessionist news...

New microbrewery to open in Milford (NH)

Jewett is planning to market what he calls a "firehouse ale" series with a portion of the profits to go to local police, fire and emergency medical providers. He also plans to make a Vienna-style lager featuring the names of different locomotives.

We here at the Remnant, do not support Continental Lagers, however, it seems like this is a sort of local thinking that can and should be supported.

New Policy???

Illegals to be banned from jobs in Milford restaurants

MILFORD -- In response to what the Board of Health sees as a growing health crisis, local restaurants may be banned from employing illegal immigrants as a condition of their food serving licenses.
The policy will go into effect this summer.
The board plans to notify restaurant owners and managers of the new policy in a letter to be mailed in June. According to a draft, the move comes in response to a growing concern "with the resurgence of some serious infectious diseases nationally and locally."