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Obama claims the stimulus bill he signed three weeks ago saved 25 police jobs in Columbus. I don't believe him. There's no way the federal money made it to Columbus that fast. There's no way Columbus put those men through months of training only to kick them out right before the finish. That money went to cover jobs that were already being paid for.

Obama to restore federal funding of stem cell research. I guess he couldn't find any more divisive issue than taking money from Americans by force and using it for a purpose half of Americans find outrageously immoral, but I'm sure he's trying. Everything government does, by definition, somebody doesn't like and somebody else does. Therefore government is inherently divisive, and the bigger the government, the more divisive. But this issue is about as divisive as it gets.

NASA launches telescope for hunting earth-like extra-solar planets.

A Republican and a Democrat have partnered to destroy the last impediment to the Federal government effectively nationalizing the financial industry by taking over the accounting rules for the industry so government can change them based on political whim and the desires of special interests (as the government does with its own budget) instead of using the centuries long standard of best accounting principles. Naturally both parties agree on this power grab and destruction of freedom. We're going the wrong way. The right thing to do is to make the government adopt best accounting principles, not to allow government's corruption of accounting to infect the private sector.

Mises scholar flips the voting in private argument on its head, but his argument is a fallacy from the point of view of freedom. He's suggesting that coercion would stop Americans from voting to take money from their neighbors. While that's probably true, it's still coercion, and coercion is the antithesis of freedom.