L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise: working to fulfill the promise of the American Revolution since 1995

The Purple Shaft
(The Feature Article)

The Libertarian Enterprise
— An International Journal of Opinion —

Now In Our 19th Year Online
A Reader Supported Web Magazine
Who is a libertarian?
Receive an e-mail when this page changes

Number 821, May 10, 2015
What we learned so very painfully
in the 1960s mustn't be in vain.

Winner of the First Annual "Draw Mohammad Contest"
in Garland, Texas, Pamela Geller, Prop.
pamelageller.com

The Down With Power audiobook read by Brian Wilson
Get it here!

Americans Have Obeyed Their Last Gun Law
A cyberpamphlet by L. Neil Smith

ARTICLES

The Impeachable Offenses of Barack Hussein Obama
by Terence James Mason
In 7 parts.
• READ ARTICLE

Letters to the Editor
from Nate Granzow
• READ ARTICLE

The Purple Shaft
by L. Neil Smith
As you may already know by now, the United States military is planning an exercise across the American southwest, from southern California to southern Texas, ostensibly, say the handouts, for the purpose of training its troops in the practice of "urban warfare". It has been stage-named, surrealistically—and somewhat phallically—enough, by its apologists "Operation Jade Helm" and by whatever name, it begs the question what the bloody hell is the government preparing for?
• READ ARTICLE

Book Review: Brightsuit MacBear
by MamaLiberty
L. Neil Smith is unique, far as I've discovered, in believing that almost any living creature in the universe can be, or modified to be, a sentient, sapient being. This makes all of his stories exceptionally interesting, almost always hilarious, and occasionally philosophically very challenging. In a universe like that — with an infinity of alternate universes — finding something to eat might become very difficult unless one eats rocks or plasma from the sun. The carrots and peas might just begin arguing semantics or pull a gun...
• READ ARTICLE

Atlas Shrugged Part III: A Movie Review
by Sean Gangol
When I first wrote this review, it was difficult for me to contain my disappointment, so I was rather harsh in my critique of the movie. I delayed publication of this review because I thought about how J. Neil Schulman must have felt when Davi Barker unfairly trashed Alongside Night. I was afraid of becoming that ugly critic who harshly tears down the dreams of any would be movie maker. Usually I don't write reviews to trash the things that I don't like. I write reviews to help give exposure to the things that I do like. I suppose that it is the completest in me that compels me to write a review for the final installment, since I wrote reviews for the other two. I have rewritten parts of the review to make it seem less harsh, but it will still remain honest.
• READ ARTICLE

Schooling the Academics
by J. Neil Schulman
As I write this Cinemax is running the 1986 comedy Back to School The movie stars Rodney Dangerfield, the brilliant stand-up comic whose theme was always, "I get no respect."
• READ ARTICLE

Melissa Explains It All
by L. Neil Smith
Life must be extremely frustrating for the former Vice president Albert Gore Junior—or "Algore", as we've come to know and love him thanks to Rush Limbaugh and Scott Bieser. If you look back on the past few years, it seems every time he or one of his Gorbots is about to make a speech, attend a rally, or march in a parade celebrating Global Warming (I mean "Climate Change") and make a few million more carbon bucks, he is greeted by record-setting frigid weather and yards of snow.
• READ ARTICLE

I'm Taking a Hiatus...
by Neale Osborn
... from my weekly gun rants. lately, my heart just hasn't been in these little missives. Between my father (he's got his good hours and his bad days), the change in the seasons, and, well, I'm just plain bored with them. I won't be absent, but the rants will be. My apologies to one and all of the people who have enjoyed these over the last 2 years (and my heartiest "Don't get excited, I haven't been driven off!" to you losers who don't like me) and I hope to feel revived and back on the warpath soon. Here's what little I did until I realized I just wasn't into it this time around.
• READ ARTICLE

Atlantea The Beautiful No. 327
by L. Neil Smith and Rex May
Number 327 of a weekly cartoon series.
• READ ARTICLE

www.baloocartoons.com

List of WikiLeaks mirrors:
wikileaks.info

Exposing War Crimes is NOT a crime!
Free Bradley Manning

Join TLE on Facebook

L. Neil Smith personally recommends Climate Depot
as the best general source of infomation on the subject.

EDITORIAL MATTERS

The odd thing is, Mohammad's book doesn't forbid drawing pictures of Mohammad. This is a later thing invented by some nut-jobs somewhere, probably in Saudi Arabia.

See also: Depictions of Muhammad in the World Heritage Encyclopedia.

And then:

Joss Whedon WTF?

W T F ?

Now, you may not have heard that Joss Whedon was driven from Twitter by a major shit-storm of criticism from the Political Correctors calling him a misogynist sexist. Er... yes, that Joss Whedon. Yes, MISOGYNIST SEXIST. I know, WTF, eh? Just once again proving that being a Political Corrector requires being also a considerable psychopath. And also demonstrating they will soon have driven themselves far beyond The World We Know. More than they already are, I mean.

We are a Reader-Supported on-line eMagazine. Click the "Pay" button here and at the end of most articles to pay the author of what you just read whatever you want to pay. We all will appreciate it!

Ken Holder
Editor-in-Chief
editor@ncc-1776.org
Click here

Holsters and Sheaths from Survival Sheath Systems

Used and recommended by L. Neil Smith
Take a look at: survivalsheath.com

Back Issues Archive

Advertise in
L. NEIL SMITH'S THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE

Receive an e-mail when
this page changes:

Monitor page
for changes

by ChangeDetection

Search The Libertarian Enterprise

Agenda 21: The United Nations Programme of Action

Planning for Your future, serf!
Read all about it!:
Download .pdf
View publication

Libertarian National Radical Campaign Committee
Time to re-radicalize the LP!

The Last Sonuvabitch of Klepton Archive

PROJECT WONDERFUL ADVERTISEMENTS

This site may receive compensation if a product is purchased through one of our partner or affiliate referral links. You already know that, of course, but this is part of the FTC Disclosure Policy found here. (Warning: this is a 2,359,896-byte 53-page PDF file!)
Permission is hereby granted to quote from TLE, provided that the author is fully cited, that the quotation is unaltered in any way, and that TLE is fully identified as the source (include TLE's URL plus the issue number and/or the specific URL of the article).

Permission is further granted to reprint articles from L. Neil Smith's THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE, provided that the article is printed in full and is not altered in any way, that full recognition is given to the author, and that TLE is fully identified (include TLE's URL plus the issue number and/or the specific URL of the article). NOTE: articles are owned by the authors and you must have their permission for any other use.

NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, all material contained herein is distributed for nonprofit educational purposes, and for other fair use purposes including, but not limited to, criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and/or research.

http://ncc-1776.org/
L. Neil Smith's
The Libertarian Enterprise