Note: The Coffee Coaster Beaniegram contains synopses of writings—columns and book/movie reviews—of the week. It normally is posted and emailed on Sunday mid day. Toward the end of each week, a more journalistic newsletter, "Percolations," is emailed commenting on news and issues of the week. Last week's issue of Percolations is located here. — bw

My Column-Article
Free State Liberty Forum 2012...
Glimpse the future of freedom in Nashua, 2/23-26
by Brian Wright

For those who will attend Liberty Forum 2012[3], whether as someone considering immigration or old hands seeking to be among their people, I urge mindfulness of the dire political context we face. The 900-lb. gorilla has definitely entered the building, what with all the newfound Intolerable Acts—NDAA indefinite detention without trial, presidential extrajudicial killings, Internet blacklist bills (and treaties, e.g. ACTA, enacted w/o Senate approval), TSA groping your junk everywhere, FDA assault on food supplies and nutritional choices, ad infinitum. Paul Craig Roberts points out in a recent column on Infowars that if Ron Paul does not win this year, the US—barring massive popular resistance—will be in a condition of complete and utter tyranny before the next presidential election... that won't happen. [Full Column]

Excerpt of Review

Smallville: "Relic" Episode (2003):
Magical episode in young-Superman series _ 9/10

Interestingly, because of the BIG CONCEPT and the Superman lineage, the creators ratchet Smallville to a height several notches above Pleasantville: the 50s sensibilities are refreshing, the young protagonists (especially Lex) have quite a vocabulary and worldliness, the plots occasionally require you to pay attention, and the special effects are stellar and integral. [Most important: Smallville captures the iconic idealism of the maturing Superman.] As actors, the two awesomely attractive main characters, Welling and Kreuk, continue to improve; others in the ensemble, and many of the guest actors, can really bring it. The producers draw on a large pool of directors and writers for individual episodes, making for a varied output. [Full Review]

Book Review
Left, Right, and Prospects for Liberty
Fresh look at the political spectrum
by Murray Rothbard

...there is a burgeoning and inspiring moral ferment among the youth of America against the fetters of centralized bureaucracy, of mass education in uniformity, and of brutality and oppression exercised by the minions of the State. Furthermore, the maintenance of substantial degree of free speech and democratic forms facilitates, at least in the short run, the possible growth of a libertarian movement. The United States is also fortunate in possessing, even if half-forgotten beneath the statist and tyrannical overlay of the last half-century, a great tradition of libertarian thought and action. The very fact that much of this heritage is still reflected in popular rhetoric, even though stripped of its significance in practice, provides a substantial ideological groundwork for a future party of liberty. [Full Review]

Guest Column

America's Last Chance
Why is Ron Paul America’s last chance?
by Paul Craig Roberts

There isn’t much time in which to revive the Constitution. One more presidential term with no habeas corpus and no due process for US citizens and with torture and assassination of US citizens by their own government, and it will be too late. Tyranny will have been firmly institutionalized, and too many Americans from the lowly to the high and mighty will have been implicated in the crimes of the state. Extensive guilt and complicity will make it impossible to restore the accountability of government to law. If Ron Paul is not elected president in this year’s election, by 2016 American liberty will be in a forgotten grave in a forgotten grave yard. [Full Column]

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