British PM Gordon Brown wants to outlaw tax havens. I guess he thinks he's king of the world, so he can tell other countries what to do. I like how they call it "hiding money". If don't put your money where the government wants you to, instead putting it where government can't touch it, you're not being smart - you're hiding money that aristocrats think belongs to them. Hey Mr. Brown, I'll tell you what would serve our prosperity: dramatically reduce the size and scope of your oppressive government instead of whining about tax havens.
Any Republican that supports a Democrat Truth Commission witch hunt should be immediately drummed from the party. In order for Republicans to be successful and for the country to survive, they have to repudiate their government uber alles philosophy from the Bush years, but there's no way any Republican should partner in this witch hunt. But you watch Arlen Specter sign up.
This FDIC thing is a red herring being used to keep the American people gripped by fear. Government will borrow more money from China to cover it.
The green movement is battling itself, blocking green projects in court. That's because the green movement has very little to do with environmentalism. It's mostly an anti-capitalist, anti-progress, anti-development, anti-human movement masquerading as an environmental movement.
Michelle Malkin reports some of our stimulus money is going to beautify bike paths. I feel more prosperous already.
Missouri proposes constitutional amendment requiring presidential candidates to prove they meet the constitutional requirements for the office, namely they must produce an official copy of a birth certificate before they can be placed on the state ballot. The amendment specifically excludes the bogus, non-official certificate of live birth that Obama tried to con us into believing is a birth certificate. This should be the law in every state, and it should have been that way for centuries. Naturally liberals don't want candidates to prove they meet the Constitution's requirements. They must know something about Obama we don't, or else they're planning to run frauds in the future.
I don't see any reason to believe a word this recently released Guantanamo detainee says, he still sounds like a terrorist wannabe who'll say anything to help his terrorist cause to me, but the circumstances of his capture are significant. According to the article, this guy was arrested for suspicion of attending an al Qaeda training camp and conspiring to build a dirty bomb. If the article is accurate, those are civilian crimes, not acts of war. He should have been charged and tried in a civilian court. If he'd been caught delivering a bomb, that would be different. But people like this should never be in Guantanamo in the first place. Guantanamo should exclusively house enemy combatants - i.e. people captured in the act of waging war against the US or our allies. And yes, I would say Osama bin Laden's driver qualifies as an enemy combatant just like Hitler's driver was an enemy combatant.
Some Guantanamo detainees may soon end up in Federal Court.
Switzerland considers helping resettle Guantanamo detainees. Hillary Clinton impressed by European leaders hot air on the subject. That and a $1.25 will get you a cup of coffee.
Google Earth accidentally leaks details of secret nuclear base in UK. Oops. I really don't understand the problem. Surely both the Russians and the Chinese have this info. Who were they trying to keep it from? Terrorists maybe? I bet all the bad guys have it. It seems to me they were just trying to keep it from the public.
Israeli ex-President indicted for rape. The rule of law is stronger in Israel than here, where Bill Clinton managed to escape multiple indictments on rape. It's sad to think I would prefer to have Bill Clinton in office than Barack Obama.
As if Reason is reading my blog, a new article says that Barack Obama will make people will miss Bill Clinton.
Why would Cisco and NASA partner to create a global skin to track climate change if, as Al Gore has told us for a decade, the debate is over? This is the kind of science we need to to do to understand our climate, and since I don't trust NASA one iota, it still employees one of the world's leading global warming frauds, I have more confidence in Cisco. I'm just afraid Cisco won't question NASA's all too frequenct bogus science.
I've been wondering how Obama plans to make the case for a second term after destroying our economy. Mises scholar highlights a liberal writer who is developing the argument liberals will use to convince Americans that America can't have a growing economy anymore - mother nature caused the recession because of overconsumption, and mother nature won't let us do that again. Obama will play to liberals' guilt and religous belief that god (mother nature) is punishing us for our sins. It's like Jimmy Carter all over again, but with green drapes and more dangerous.
Once the public is convinced that we have to live with high unemployment and economic insecurity, Obama and his people can govern forever. There is no way that the policies that Obama and Congress are trotting out can result in anything but double-digit unemployment and near-zero economic growth. I repeat, there is no way for those policies to have any different effects.Furthermore, by having the press serve as cheerleaders, and by preying on the minds of voters by telling them that we are in a "new era of social, economic, and environmental responsibility," the game is over. I believe we need to frame our arguments in that vein.
Nice job seeing this coming at us. But Obama will still have to control communication on the radio and internet to succeed.
Verizon is planning to share users' personal data, and is making hard for users to stop it.
Cato offers several Constitutional suggestions for D.C. to get voting rights, and my favorite alternative - no federal taxes. What do the aristocrats care about the Constitution?
Obama is trying to redefine the term tax increases to mean savings. Nope. They're just tax increases. Obama's picture is in the dictionary next to double-speak.
I didn't know the international war on drugs was 100 years old. Look how successful it's been. I guess we have another 100 years to look forward to. Aristocrats love perpetual war, and apparently so do the people. Orwell explained it to us, but we don't care. We plan to give up all our rights to government in return for perpetual wars and crises, and we're convinced we'll be better off for it.
Zombies are appearing everywhere again.
Reason says it's OK to want politicians to fail. Of course it is. Almost everything they do is bad for us.
Obama wants to reach out to Taliban moderates. That's an oxymoron. You can't repeat the success of the surge - reaching out to Sunnis in Iraq - in Afghanistan. Then again, Obama thinks he can sit down and convince the Mullah's to change their ways too. This guy's hubris just continues to damage America.
First liberals claimed that the British socialized medicine system was the best in the world and we should emulate it. Then it turned out Britain's socialized medicine system is actually about the worst in the developed world. Then they claimed Canada's socialized medicine system is fabulous and we should emulate that. Then it turned out Canada's system is just about as bad as Britain's. Now liberals claim Sweden's socialized medicine system is the wonderful and we should emulate that. Walter Williams describes some of the big and growing problems with Sweden's socialized medicine system too. And there are the health care cops at the door in Sweden just like I said would have to happen under socialized medicine. It's only going to get worse in Sweden, which still depends on the US for medical innovation. Who will perform that role when government controls our health care business? Strike three. Liberals and socialized medicine are out.
Global warming bait and switch.
Wall Street and big corporations are lobbying for cap and trade policies. Wall Street because those policies artifically create a new commodity that will traded on Wall Street. All money spent on thes caps is a hidden tax - created by government and collected by corporations. Other corporations because cap and trade policies will make it too expensive for entrepreneurs to start companies and compete with the big corporations. As always, big government boosts the power of corporations at the expense of the people. So even though it's obvious the planet is cooling, most Americans have figured out that global warming is a scam, and the people want an end to this nonsense, corporations and government aristocrats are teaming up to stick it to us again. If Obama gets his cap and trade policy passed, it's going to appear as if he literally created wealth out of thin air - for a while. It can only end badly. Guess who'll get blamed.
Michael Barone on the animal instincts which drive our economy.
George Will discusses America's corn problem.
Obama comes out and repeats that crises are to be used as an opportunity. He's making the most of this one.
Sales of Atlas Shrugged are soaring.
So far Barack Obama has named only 70 of 1,200 appointments so far. He must be having troubling finding enough tax cheats.
California Supreme Court Justice latches on to my idea to take the definition of marriage away from government and instead have government acknowledge only civil unions for both heterosexual and homosexual couples. I hope this becomes the law and sweeps the nation.
This paragraph in a devastating expose of Obama's budget paints an even scarier picture of Obama's budget than I've read elsewhere.
Mr. Obama's $3.6 trillion budget blueprint, by his own admission, redefines the role of government in our economy and society. The budget more than doubles the national debt held by the public, adding more to the debt than all previous presidents -- from George Washington to George W. Bush -- combined. It reduces defense spending to a level not sustained since the dangerous days before World War II, while increasing nondefense spending (relative to GDP) to the highest level in U.S. history. And it would raise taxes to historically high levels (again, relative to GDP). And all of this before addressing the impending explosion in Social Security and Medicare costs.
Yikes.
Not too long ago, I posted the following in my blog: Zimbabwe opposition leader is sworn in as PM in power sharing deal. Crazy.
That wasn't my initial entry. The first time I wrote it, instead of writing crazy, I wrote that Mugabe would have the opposition leader killed shortly. But I had second thoughts about my cynicism, and frankly I didn't want to be right, so I changed it.
But I shouldn't have. Opposition leader injured and wife killed in car crash.
What a surprise. Nancy Pelosi supports Obama's initiative and the Senate bill to have the FCC implement Obama's vision of diversity in ownership of radio stations. Forget the Fairness Doctrine. That's small potatoes. Obama and his henchmen are going directly for the owners. Who would have predicted that?
Aristocrats are more interested in gift exchanges than freedom or the people. Something tells me the American people, like me, don't care.
The Chinese government leads the way on reducing capital gains taxes. Seriously. The US is officially more socialist than China. Read this comment and wonder at how badly liberals in both the Democrat and Republican parties have harmed out country:
One is the simple argument of Chinese lawmakers: taxing investment less leads to more investment, which makes workers more productive and raises wages.
That's the wisdom of John Locke and one of the founding principles of America. The Chinese are surpassing us because they've embraced economic freedom and we are destroying it. How hard is that to figure out?
Kay Bailey Hutchinson fought to remove earmarks from the $410 omnibus spending bill, except for her own $150 million in earmarks. Her excuse? Her earmarks are good earmarks. Only the other people's earmarks are bad earmarks.
Apparently Obama thinks that science has no integrity unless its funded by government.
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