Note: The Coffee Coaster Beaniegram contains synopses of writings—columns and book/movie reviews—of the week. It normally is posted and emailed on Sunday mid day. Toward the end of each week, a more journalistic newsletter, "Percolations," is emailed commenting on news and issues of the week. Last week's issue of Percolations is located here. — bw

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My Column-Article
The Freedom Philosophy
Reemerging in America at an opportune time
by Brian Wright

As I’m sitting there, a sixty-something freedom enthusiast among 90+% twenty-something enthusiasts, listening to the Good Doctor put two and two together for the umpty-umpth time,[2] it dawns on me: the speech is a point-by-point distillation of the Freedom Philosophy honed to the finest edge over decades, even centuries, by masters of the Noble Discipline—from Aristotle and Cato, to John Locke and Montesquieu, to Jefferson and Paine and Adam Smith and John Adams and Franklin and Madison (and roughly 20-40 other significant lights in the American Independence era), to the 19th-century classical liberals particularly in England, to the early 20th-century Austrian Economics school, to mid-20th-century libertarian scholars such as Murray Rothbard and rational-individualist philosopher-writers such as Ayn Rand. The Freedom Philosophy contributor-leader list grows even longer between the end of the 20th century into our own. [Full Column]

Excerpt of Review

Trial and Error (1997):
Daniels and Richards primo comic duo ___ 7/10

Take a break and return to the late 90s for a unique Hollywood offering that few people were aware of at the time, whether from poor marketing or simple inattention. Trial and Error takes the established screen actor at the time, Jeff Daniels (Gettysburg, Fly Away Home), and combines the kinetic TV presence, Kramer (Michael Richards), from Seinfield to accomplish an extremely funny and worthy satire suggesting the Biblical adage, "What shall it profit a man to win the whole world yet lose his own soul?" [Full Review]

Book Review
The Terror Conspiracy:
Deception, 9/11, and the loss of liberty
by Jim Marrs

A highly informative book but as with all such exposés, you need to be prepared for your 'Tory' friends to pooh pooh the central argument and the mountainous evidence adduced for it. [Which to those of us in the Truth and Freedom Movement is grist to the mill of our demonstration of mind control by those in power.] What distinguishes The Terror Conspiracy from other tracts concerned about 9/11 and the crimes of the Ownership Class is the more general theme that 9/11 was a key part of a broader conspiracy of false-flag terror designed to put the world, and Americans, in particular, under the heel of that would-be tyrannical global financial oligarchy.. [Full Review]

Guest Column

Don't want to see their faces
Don't want to hear them scream
Christopher Cooper (excerpted fr Common Dreams)

The whole thing is regrettable, really. Shocking, truth to tell. And so sad, I’m sure, for those people, those blanket-wearing, beard-growing, false-god-worshiping, probably-related-to-terrorists, citizens of Afghanistan whose wives and children and babies were gunned down in their beds, shot, murdered, slaughtered, and then burned by one of America’s finest Sunday morning. But hey, what are ya gonna do? These things happen... [Full Column]

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