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Somehow people doubt that this is true, but it is a fact: I was a professional chef with a highly regarded firm that served exotic meats such as elephant, giraffe, snake.

May this treatise stand as an example of how to fight for what is right even when everyone else is silent.

<a href="http://store.mises.org/Foreign-Policy-of-Freedom-A-P359C0.aspx"><img src="http://store.mises.org/images/ForeignPolicy_T.jpg" border=0 align="right"></a>From Ron Paul's historic new book: Noninterventionism is not isolationism. Nonintervention simply means America does not interfere militarily, financially, or covertly in the internal affairs of other nations. It does not mean that we isolate ourselves; on the contrary, our founders advocated open trade, travel, communication, and diplomacy with other nations. Thomas Jefferson summed up the noninterventionist foreign policy position perfectly in his 1801 inaugural address: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none." Washington similarly urged that we must, "Act for ourselves and not for others," by forming an "American character wholly free of foreign attachments."

The Adventures of Tintin is a series of 24 comic books created by Belgian comic writer and artist Georges Remi (1907–1983), better known as Hergé.

If history is any judge, financial meltdowns like what's happening in the subprime arena prompt the Federal Reserve to act in the only way it knows how. The Fed's playbook was written with its inception in 1913 and anointed by easy money cranks like Alan Greenspan and his successor in crime Ben Bernanke along the way.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to solve these problems. We need to return to the sound monetary policy of the gold standard and an America where education and assistance to the needy are in the hands of the private sector, not government bureaucrats.

Programs such as welfare, unemployment insurance, and government-provided healthcare and insurance all must go. The job market provides a great incentive to not abuse drugs.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just released the summary of its latest, forthcoming report on global warming.

A strange culture of emergency has taken over this country, and the slightest provocation triggers it.

Being a genuine individualist, Frank again pursued the logic of liberty without flinching to arrive at an even more dangerous position: 'isolationism' …