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Number 665, April 8, 2012
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What Would Jesus Shoot?
What Would Jesus Shoot?
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Down With Power
by L. Neil Smith
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The unabridged audio version of my 1983 novel The Nagasaki Vector, brilliantly read by the great libertarian radio host Brian Wilson, is finally available for purchase.

Many feel that this is the funniest book I've written so far—at least intentionally—and features our old friend Win Bear, G. Howell Nahuatl, a sapient coyote, time traveler Bernie Gruenblum, and Georgie, the time machine who loves him.

The price: $12.99.
The place: CD Baby.

I understand that it will soon be available in iTunes, as well.

—L. Neil Smith

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Sweeter Than Wine
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EDITORIAL MATTERS:

Our Easter Illustration and Question (above) is "What Would Jesus Shoot?" Things to ponder while we celebrate Passover by eating ham—that's a thing to ponder all by itself of course. And since next issue is Number 666, we'll have a special edition with Nietzsche's fine book Der Antichrist for your reading pleasure.

I, myself, wrote an article for this issue. It's all about how I managed to loose a big bunch of computer files without even trying. What happens when you forget to backup? You loose! Don't be a Looser like me, backup your important files!

Down With Power: Libertarian Policy In A Time Of Crisis (A.k.a. "L. Neil Smith's Little Gold Book") is on the web at down-with-power.com and [Amazon.com dead tree] and [Amazon.com Kindle] and [BarnesAndNoble.com dead tree and Nook]

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ARTICLES

Nullification Act

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Three ads this week. We always have three ads.
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Letters to the Editor
from David Larsen, L. Neil Smith, and I B Titter
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An Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh
by L. Neil Smith
Dear Mr. Limbaugh, I began listening to you early in the Clinton Administration. For years you've said you're playing with half your brain tied behind your back "just to make it fair". For the same number of years, I've been saying (admittedly to a much smaller audience), that if you ever untied and started using the other half of your brain, you'd be a libertarian.
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The Games People Play: Republican Primary Edition
by Jonathan David Morris
Here's what I love about the presidential primaries. They show us American politics for exactly what it is. Immediately after Mitt Romney won Maryland, Wisconsin, and D.C. this week, I started hearing people who identify themselves as Republicans or conservatives calling for Romney's rivals—Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul—to drop out. This sentiment echoes what I've been hearing from these people for several months now, since long before Romney won enough states to make a Santorum, Gingrich, or Paul comeback mathematically uncomfortable. The thinking here goes that the nomination is Romney's, we already know the nomination is Romney's, and the longer these other guys continue to challenge this foregone conclusion, the more time, energy, and money will be wasted focusing on the primaries instead of Barack Obama.
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The Liberty Restoration Project
by Jim Davidson
As the year 2007 progressed, something was happening to faces on MySpace and Facebook. More and more of my friends became an old white guy. Instead of my friend, I would see Ron Paul. It wasn't a drug-induced hallucination. The pictures really had been substituted.
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The Republicans Still Don't Get It
by Sean Gangol
About three years ago I wrote an article titled "Can the Republicans be Saved?" where I discussed what the Republicans could do to recover from their losses. I suggested that they could tone down on their social conservative rhetoric regarding issues like gay marriage, abortion and the war on drugs. I also wrote that they needed to abandon the neoconservative platform where they start unnecessary wars and suspend civil liberties in the name of fighting terror. These were the things that cost the Republicans their seats in 2006 and 2008. Unfortunately the Republicans still don't get it.
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Banksters
by Jim Davidson
The banking gangsters have been at it a long time. It might well be said that mankind will finally be free when the last bankster is hanged in the entrails of the last politician.
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The Rock Star
by L. Neil Smith
Blathering more absurdly than I've ever heard Jesse Jackson or even Al Sharpton manage, Van Jones has declared that the culprits to blame for Trayvon Martin's death are none other than Charlie and David Koch.
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Losing It
by Ken Holder
Well, I lost it. And it's mostly my fault I know, but I have a bit of external help. What happened was last Wednesday I was installing a Linux distro. I do this about once a year or so to see if there's finally something as usable and flexible as M*cr*s*ft W*nd*ws out there. Also faster, also cheaper, also more stable, and more safe. (So far there's not, or not all of those at once.)
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Atlantea The Beautiful No. 171
by L. Neil Smith and Rex May
Number 171 of a weekly cartoon series.
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The unabridged audio version of my 1983 novel The Nagasaki Vector, brilliantly read by the great libertarian radio host Brian Wilson, is finally available for purchase.

Many feel that this is the funniest book I've written so far—at least intentionally—and features our old friend Win Bear, G. Howell Nahuatl, a sapient coyote, time traveler Bernie Gruenblum, and Georgie, the time machine who loves him.

The price: $12.99.

The place: CD Baby.

I understand that it will soon be available in iTunes, as well.

—L. Neil Smith


Down With Power front cover
Down With Power
by L. Neil Smith
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The Probability Broach
by L. Neil Smith

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Lever Action
by L. Neil Smith

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Sweeter Than Wine
by L. Neil Smith

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The American Zone
The American Zone
by L. Neil Smith

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Ceres
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Pallas
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The Venus Belt
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The Crystal Empire
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Tom Paine Maru
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Hope
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Roswell, Texas
by L. Neil Smith and Rex F. May
Illustrated by Scott Bieser
Colored by Jen Zach

Published by Bighead Press, 2008
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The Probability Broach:
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Published by Bighead Press, 2004
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