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Editorial Matters
A friend of liberty, Jeff Jordan (a.k.a. "Hunter" on the 'net) has
been busted by Ohio Pigfuckers for excercising his Constitutional,
Civil, and Natural Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
More information in the Letters section from TLE authors 
Don Lobo Tiggre & Sunni Maravillosa.
Mr. Ed
Letters to the Editor
by Our Readers
Letters from Derek Benner, Caleb Paul, Jeffrey Quick, Kent McManigal,
    Julius No, and Don Lobo Tiggre & Sunni Maravillosa:
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The 51st State
by William Stone, III
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson entered into a treaty with France
that included the Louisiana Purchase:  the acquisition by the United 
States of over 800 million square acres of land.  The cost to the US 
at the time was $15 million dollars; even adjusted for inflation at 
approximately $3.75 billion 2004 dollars, it was quite possibly the 
cheapest land deal in human history.
 FULL STORY
Hopes and Fears for the New Year
by Ron Beatty
I am sitting here on New Year's Day, with Georgia-Purdue on in the 
background, and wondering what the New Year, and all the following 
New Years will bring.  Unfortunately, my crystal ball is cloudy and 
dark, with few flashes of light to lighten up the gloom.
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I Have a Dream
by Lady Liberty
The final chapter of the Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies opened 
on December 17, and was expected from Day One to break box office 
records (and it did). I decided to see the movie at an 11:30 a.m. 
matine�, partly because I wanted to have as much of the day left as 
possible (the movie runs a very long three and a half hours), but 
also because Saturday morning isn't exactly prime time for movie 
goers and I'm not fond of crowded theatres. I congratulated myself 
for arriving at the theatre by 11:15 a.m., but I'm sorry to say that 
my self-satisfaction was dashed almost immediately. Imagine my 
surprise to discover thatin a small town, on a Saturday morning 
of the last shopping weekend before Christmas, and on a day when the 
mercury barely reached 20 degreesthere was a line for tickets. A 
long line.
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The Bad Citizen
by Joel Simon
I am a bad citizen.  I admit it.  I recognize that I am powerless to 
acquire the one skill a person must have, if he is to stand tall in 
American society.
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Promises
by Dennis Kabaczy
Traditionally, the New Year is a time for resolutions, promises, and 
good intentions.  People promise to quit smoking, loose weight, be 
kinder, and all the other meaningless, emotional trivia that tends 
to plague American society today.
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Christmas in a war zone
by Wendy McElroy
What does Christmas look like in a war zone? Not in Iraq, but in 
North Americawhere a cultural war is being waged between the 
right and the left over issues ranging from grade-school curricula 
to the definition of marriage. I want to be a conscientious objector 
and allow people to make their own choices about their own lives, 
even if I disagree. But too often those choices get translated into 
laws or policies that govern my life and my family. This makes 
political pacifism impossible.
 FULL STORY
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