Archive for January 2nd, 2007
Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Persians, Europeans…the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question.
Source: Imperial History
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NEWS RELEASE FROM THE LIBERTARIAN ALLIANCE
In Association with the Libertarian International
Release Date: Tuesday 2nd January 2007
Release Time: Immediate
Contact Details:
Dr Sean Gabb (Director), 07956 472 199, sean@libertarian.co.uk
For other contact and link details, see the foot of this message
Release url: http://www.libertarian.co.uk/news/nr046.htm
“NO AGE LIMIT ON BUYING CIGARETTES”, FREE MARKET AND CIVIL LIBERTIES THINK TANK TELLS BRITISH GOVERNMENT
The Libertarian Alliance, the radical free market and civil liberties policy institute, today condemns the decision by the British Government to raise the age limit for buying cigarettes from 16 to 18.
Libertarian Alliance Director, Dr Sean Gabb, says:
“We note with some amusement that in Tony Blair’s New Britain, a man may sodomise a schoolboy in a public lavatory, and the police must look the other way; but if he gives the boy a cigarette afterwards, he will soon be committing a criminal act.
Continue Reading “The British Oppose Affronts to Freedom” »
The United States did right to hand over Serb tyrant Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague. But Saddam had to be silenced before he told the world about his long collusion with the United States. Dead men tell no tales.
Read the rest: US Buries Truth by Eric Margolis
But judges should not have to accept salaries that “fall further and further behind the cost of living…. The time is ripe for our nation’s judges to receive a substantial salary increase,” he said.
How much should they make?
Roberts did not indicate how much he thought judges should be paid.
Before you start picturing Federal Judges foraging dumpsters for food, consider what their salaries are.
In 2006, senators, representatives and federal district judges were paid $165,200. That was $3,100 more than in 2005.
Judges on the U.S. appeals courts were paid $175,100. The eight associate justices of the Supreme Court earned $203,000, and the chief justice made $212,100.
Source: Roberts calls for pay raise for judges - Los Angeles Times
