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Obama leisurely gets around to signing "emergency" stimulus boondoggle. The Dow is down 195 so far. 10 minutes later, the Dow is down 255. It ended up down 297 points. Thanks for another stock market free fall, Mr. President. It's uncanny how much this guy is just like George Bush on steroids.

Pakistan and Taliban agree to implement Sharia law in Swat valley. That doesn't sound like a peace deal to me. That sounds like government sanctioned oppression, torture and murder.

Illinois attempts to force gun owners to purchase $1 million liability insurance policy. Gun control is always an attempt to keep guns out of the hands of the poor and minorities to keep them oppressed. This is a perfect example.

All this talk about the Fairness Doctrine is scary. When there's this much smoke, there's certainly fire.

The game is almost up. China is looking to get rid of dollars. Who can blame them? Our government is deliberately destroying the dollar and our economy along with it.

Obama's stimulus boondoggle takes money from taxpayers by force to heat swimming pools in his home state of Hawaii. That's the change liberals voted for.

These aristocrats are shameless. We allow them to get away with highway robbery and more, so they do that and more over and over and over. New York Gov. Patterson, after asking state employees to take a pay cut, secretly gives his staff huge raises. And liberals want to give people like this the power to make life and death decisions about our health care. It's lunacy.

I suddenly have an urge to eat a big, juicy hamburger.

I'm happy Republicans united to vote against Obama's stimulus boondoggle, but we should never be fooled into thinking they suddenly have small government principles. They're loving the big spending as much as Democrats, but they've voted against it for political expediency - they had nothing to gain and everything to lose by voting for it.

Mises scholar explains why the left is just as dangerous to freedom as the right. I would say the left is even more dangerous, and Obama is showing us why. Bush could never have done as much damage to America in his first month as Obama has. If you read this with an open mind, you'll notice the overpowering, fundamental similarities between Bush and Obama - good figureheads for conservatism and liberalsm - both are ignorant of economics, both think the government is the solution to every problem, both use government force to force their values on the rest of us. The differences between them are nothing but window dressing.

Mises scholar says that the uncertainty created by government makes the market ripe for another crash. We saw a bit of that today. The more government interferes in the market, the more uncertainty it creates, and the more it hurts the stock market.

Mises on greed. Too funny.

I hope Cato doesn't hold its breath waiting for government to meet the guidelines for infrastructure projects it laid down.

Cato agrees with me that our Asian policy must invite Japan, South Korea and other regional powers to become regional partners in stability instead of dependents on the US in order to deal with a rising China.