On Friday, July 14 (Bastille Day -- Way to make it pay off, France) Ian Bernard, of Free Talk Live (www.freetalklive.com) joined Gardner Goldsmith to discuss many national and state issues. On the agenda was the incredibly brilliant idea of imposing federal "wellness" standards on local school districts.

Wonderful!

Now that more than 200 bolts were found to be "in danger", and following the death of a mother of three, it migh tbe productive to question the paradigm of federal funding of road projects, or government funding altogether.

Graft, corruption, failed and shoddy work. A deadly combination.

Stated, again, with all due respect to the family of the deceased.

It happened! Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld graced "Against the Grain", and all of NH, with his presence.

Thank you, Mr. Secretary.

To see more, turn to the AMAZING piece by investigative reporter Gardner Goldsmith, at the Foundation for Economic Education's website...

http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=618

Not everyone buys the claims of the Bush Adminstration that the so-called "war" gives the Executive Branch special powers.

One such man is James Bovard.

This is part two of two, with James.

Attention Deficit Democracy

On Wednesday, July 12, well-known author James Bovard, whose latest book, "Attention Deficit Democracy" is a wake-up call for freedom-lovers everywhere, joined Gardner Goldsmith on "Against the Grain". Together, James and Gard explored the news that the Bush Administration will now conform to the Geneva Conventions on prisoner treatment, when the adminstration has repeatedly told us it WAS already conforming to them.

Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil

The Bush Betrayal

Attention Deficit Democracy

Freedom in Chains : The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

Please refer to this article: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003119967_webpows11.h...

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Administration decides all detainees covered by Geneva accords
By Anne Plummer Flaherty

The Associated Press

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Defense Department memo on prisoner treatment (PDF)
Geneva Conventions | Treatment of prisoners of war
Guantánamo legislation unlikely until the fall
Archive | Supreme Court rules against Bush on detainee trials

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration, called to account by Congress after the Supreme Court blocked military tribunals, said today all detainees at Guantanamo Bay and in U.S. military custody everywhere are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions.

Part two of two, with Dan. Bookmark his website: www.dankeohane.com!

Christmas Trees and Monkeys: Collected Horror Stories

Massachusetts-based writer Dan Keohane recently joined Gardner Goldsmith to discuss NECON the New England Horror Writers Convention (held July 13-15 at Roger Williams College, Bristol, RI www.CAMPNECON.com), and to chat about writing in general. Many thanks to Dan for his time, and his fine work. You can see his website by going to www.dankeohane.com and you will want to get "Christmas Trees and Monkeys" if you like well-written short stories of the scary variety.

Great stuff!

Christmas Trees and Monkeys: Collected Horror Stories

Does everything have to be DIETS, STARS, and CHIT CHAT CHIT CHAT CHIT CHAT (to quote King Crimson)?

With respect to the deseased, we investigate the problem of mispent money, unconstitutional projects, and Congressmen who take our cash for their pet ideas.

Many thanks to Todd Feinberg, who can be heard each weeknight starting at 7 pm, on 680 WRKO, Boston.

On Tuesday, July 11, Paul Mirski joined Gardner to discuss the history of licensure, and how it restricts competition, retards economic growth and diminishes freedom.

On July 7, Benjamin King, an attorney representing Dr. Terry Bennett, spoke with Gardner Goldsmith about the case, freedom of speech, markets, and licensing.

Many thanks to Mr. King.

One woman is dead, and her husband in the hospital, after a 3 tonne section of the Ted Williams Tunnel fell on their car the night of July 10, 2006.

Here is the rest of the story...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/07/11/state...

This was something that should not have happened, both in the specific case of this death, and in the general issue of the Big Dig funding itself. Two years ago, the Foundation for Economic Education published a piece by Gardner Goldsmith on the Big Dig. The link is here:

http://209.217.49.1

Thanks to Number Two, the Conspiracy would like to offer for your perusal the comments of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, member of the Senate Commerce Committee (better known at the "Anti-commerce Committee"). As a member of the committee, Senator Stevens is charged (though not constitutionally) with regulating the nation to death.

This he does with aplomb and striking enthusiasm, despite his glaring lack of knowledge about the things he wants to regulate. Case in point, the internet. Ted and his pals in DC are looking into the interest of businesses to provide upgraded levels of internet service for added fees. Since Ted does not seem to believe that people can be free to use their money to get something better, because it might make others feel inadequate, he is against letting businesses offer things like faster service, video news, and music options for a bit more. Equality means the equal sharing of misery, not equal treatment under the law.

Thanks to Number Two, the Conspiracy would like to offer for your perusal the comments of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, member of the Senate Commerce Committee (better known at the "Anti-commerce Committee"). As a member of the committee, Senator Stevens is charged (though not constitutionally) with regulating the nation to death.

This he does with aplomb and striking enthusiasm, despite his glaring lack of knowledge about the things he wants to regulate. Case in point, the internet. Ted and his pals in DC are looking into the interest of businesses to provide upgraded levels of internet service for added fees. Since Ted does not seem to believe that people can be free to use their money to get something better, because it might make others feel inadequate, he is against letting businesses offer things like faster service, video news, and music options for a bit more. Equality means the equal sharing of misery, not equal treatment under the law.

If one were to listen only to the pop media, he would get the impression that NJ governor John Corzine was standing firm against an income tax, as if he were opposed to placing such a burden on his people in order to make up for a $4.5 billion budget deficit. But what the pop media "reporters" don't report is that Corzine is simply in favor of a different way to take money from the citizens. He wants a sales tax.

Regardless of the brand of poison, the tax ideas are pernicious. Majority sanctioned theft is still theft. But, of course, don't expect the pop media to make this observation. Don't expect them to note one of the major reasons New Jersey is in this financial mess, which is due to the fact that NJ, like New Hampshire and more than thirty other states, was targeted by educrats for a lawsuit that would centralize education funding decisions in the state. This has brought about an explosion in education costs for NJ, NH, Texas, New York, VT, CT, and all the other states where the education establishment and leftist legal community have joined forces to destroy local control of schools.

Intellectual honesty is a rare commodity in the political world.

Over the Independence Day weekend, radio stations around New Hampshire aired thirty second commercials for Charles bass, the man who promised he would only run for three terms, and who is now running for his sixth. In the spots, "Charlie" is heard defining "independence", which, in an example of post-modernist, deconstructionist, leftist linguistics he defines to fit his agenda.

Like many people who heard his commercials, Gardner Goldsmith recognized the fallacies in them, and the verbal sleight of hand used by Charlie and his PR staff.

This is part one of two.

We hope you will have the time to listen to this and more on the Hamdan Ruling.