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Samuel Schmid évite d'assumer ses responsabilités: DEFENSE. Roland Nef est suspendu jusqu'au 20 août. Le Conseil fédéral tranchera alors sur le sort du chef de l'armée, a déclaré le ministre de la défense Samuel Schmid lundi devant la presse. L'Appenzellois devra d'ici là amener les preuves qu'on peut lui faire confiance.On a envie de dire que d'ici-là, la presse s'en chargera, d'amener plus de

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Supreme Court says Americans have right to guns The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices' first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history. The court's 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The decision went

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Ireland rejects EU reform treaty with 53.4 percent "no" voteWhile the Eurocrats tried to double-cross some 500 million citizens with the so-called "Lisbon reform treaty" after the aborted "constitution" in 2005, the brave Irish people has shown the red card to Brussels. The reform treaty does not contain especially bad things compared to the existing treaty. But the Irish vote is a good thing

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Aus der heutigen Medienkonferenz von Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf über die Abstimmungsresultate: Der Entscheid des Zentralvorstandes der SVP Schweiz sei nicht überraschend. «Ich finde, dass der Ausschluss einer Kantonalpartei eine Ausgrenzung ohne Beispiel ist», sagte die Bündnerin. Sachlich könne man der SVP Graubünden nichts vorwerfen. Das Ganze stimme sie sehr nachdenklich, es sei eine

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In a dramatic announcement, the Prime Minister's Office said that Israel and Syria had begun indirect peace talks.This is certainly dramatic news. Though many rumors spread in the last months on this issue, it is actually quite unexpected to get an official confirmation now on contacts between the two countries. It is especially remarkable when remembering that Israel obviously carried out a

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I don't know why but I love the interpretation of that song. It can be found on the soundtrack of Robert Rodriguez' stylish movie Planet Terror.

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60 years ago, on 14 May 1948 at 4 p.m., David Ben-Gurion read a 979-word declaration of independence in front of a small audience at the Tel Aviv Art Museum. He finished, "The state of Israel is established! The meeting is ended." At midnight, British rule over Palestine lapsed.Happy Birthday, Israel.

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Wie soll ich nur bei der kommenden "Einbürgerungsinitiative" abstimmen? Gibt es eine liberale Haltung zur Frage? Ich habe drüben bei freilich, zu einem Beitrag von Christian Dreyer versucht, diese Sache mal "anzudenken": Ich gestehe, ich bin bei dieser Abstimmung noch nicht wirklich einer gefestigten Meinung. Hätte sich die Initiative damit begnügt, a) Urnenabstimmungen und damit mehr

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“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” "The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to

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Many people have already heard of this. But seeing these young and inoffensive people getting interrupted and arrested by all-too zealous policemen at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial! really makes you feel you're in some sort of 1984-parody. Here's the original Facebook group, here's an account of that night, here on flickr, here's the new corresponding Facebook group and here's where you can

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And Penn & Teller on the 2nd Amendment, I just love them:

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Albert Hofmann, creator of LSD, has died last night in his hometown, near Basel, Switzerland at the age of 102. Even if you are not a drug user (I am not), his book, LSD: My Problem Child, is very much worth reading. Hat tip: Lorenzo.

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You would think that you'd get to see such sites in communist China only. Yet, if you want to have a closer look at certain things on the internet which do not please the government, you experience state censorship made in Switzerland (note that I did not want to watch or buy any porn or terror items or the like but just take a look at a 60 year old Bayonet). Dear User: Unfortunately, access to

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Roger Schawinski will Tele Züri zurückhaben Im Frühsommer vergibt das Bundesamt für Kommunikation die neuen Konzessionen für Radio- und Fernsehsender. Tamedia steht unter Druck, denn der Zürcher Regierungsrat hat sich nicht für Tele Züri und Radio 24 ausgesprochen. (...) Nach Ansicht von Roger Schawinski braucht Tele Züri gar keine Konzession. «Ohne Konzession liesse sich das Sendegebiet

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Pelli will die FDP auf drei Schwerpunkte einschwören Die FDP Schweiz soll sich in den nächsten Jahren auf die drei Kernthemen Arbeitsplätze, nationaler Zusammenhalt und schlanker, bürgerfreundlicher Staat konzentrieren. «Wir hoffen, damit spürbarer zu werden,» sagt Parteipräsident Fulvio Pelli. Aha, also wieder mal ein schwachsinniges Programm der FDP Schweiz. Nach dem "Hop Sviz"-Flopp wollen

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A new site has been created, dedicated to Ayn Rand's great novel, Atlas Shrugged: http://AtlasShrugged.com/ In Atlas Shrugged, Rand outlined her philosophy, Objectvism, which she described as follows: My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his

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Je croyais d'abord que c'était une mauvaise farce (via freilich.ch). La dignité de la créature dans le règne végétal La question du respect des plantes au nom de leur valeur morale Communiqué de presse du 14 avril 2008 La dignité de la créature vaut-elle aussi pour les plantes ? La Constitution fédérale et la loi sur le génie génétique l’affirme et exige qu’on la prenne en considération. La

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Today's the 265th birthday of Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), 3rd president of the United States and especially the author of the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights

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Mettez à jour vos favoris: Le forum francophone de référence réunissant libéraux, libéraux-conservateurs, libéraux-anarchistes, libertariens et autres variantes, Les Pères Fondateurs, a migré son site à http://www.peresfondateurs.com/forum/index.php L'inscription est libre.

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pour de bon: http://www.ludovicmonnerat.com/ UPDATE (24.03.2008, 10:23): On dirait que ça re-coince.

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This is probably what I'd buy if I had some $ 50'000 left to spend. The 2008 Dodge Challenger, almost as cool as his elder brother, Kowalski's 1970 Challenger. Should you like muscle cars, car chases, the desert and, above all, Freedom, and should you not know Vanishing Point yet, I'd vividly recommend you go and buy that movie and take care of that deficit.

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Nous avons été à Lugano pour assister à une conférence du professeur libéral français Pascal Salin, auteur notamment de Libéralisme. Cela a aussi été l'occasion de retrouver / faire la connaissance de Pan, Turion, Lorenzo et Pinocchio. Merci à Pinocchio et à l’Associazione liberisti ticinesi pour l'organisation de la conférence et pour la Cena exquise!

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Kürzlich hatte ich die Ehre, über Skype meine Meinung zur Unternehmenssteuerreform II in einem Interview mit dem Ordnungspolitischen Blog abzugeben. Ich war ja aus liberalen Gründen gegen diese Reform, weil sie zum einen ungerecht (sie geht zu wenig weit, indem sie Steuererleichterungen nur willkürlich gewährt) und zum anderen strategisch unklug (Steuererleichterungen müssen primär auf Stufe der

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As Palestinian terrorism is back at its murderous best, it is worth to study the speech which Israel's ambassador delivered today at the UN: Statement by Ambassador Itzhak Levanon, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, Geneva 7th Regular Session - Human Rights Council Response to Resolution A/HRC/7/1 6 March 2008 Mr. President, I cannot compete with the exaggerations,

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Die Sozialisten glauben noch immer an ihre alte mystische Welt, in welcher die menschliche Natur wegreguliert und reale wirtschaftliche Zusammenhänge weggeglaubt werden können: Der abtretende SP-Präsident Hans-Jürg Fehr hat am Samstag am ausserordentlichen Parteitag in Basel für Nähe der Partei zu den Gewerkschaften plädiert. (...) Weiter plädierte Fehr dafür, dass die Überwindung des

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