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Somebody please tell President Obama to shut up. He thinks he needs to be on TV every day. I guess with this plans spinning out of control and the country rising up against him, that's to be expected, but I'm sick of seeing him.

Paul Krugman unleashes his anti-freedom views on readers.

The Executive Vice-President of AIG's financial products division, who was working for a salary of $1, resigned because his CEO is dancing for the government aristocrat lynch mob. He'll donate his bonus to charity instead of giving it back to the aristocrats. I don't know if this guy was in charge when AIG was making all its mistakes, but I like to see this guy standing up to principle. This is another tiny example of Atlas shrugging. Our ruling aristocrats are driving the best and the brightest from the wealth producing parts of our society.

Czech Prime Minister calls Obama's stimulus boondoggle the "road to hell", also saying it undermines international financial stability. The Czechs know first hand how devastating socialism is. I think every liberal should have to live in a socialist country for 5 years. Those that like being poorer and less free can stay.

Lots of graphs and charts nailing Bush, Republicans and conservatives on 8 years of irresponsible spending. When I read or hear some pundit talking about conservatives being for fiscal responsibility, I almost spit all over my keyboard.

The left hates private charity because liberals in general aren't nearly as compassionate as they pretend to be, preferring to take money from others by force to support their causes instead of reaching in their own pockets and voluntarily giving their own time and money. They also want to control everything, so Obama is trying to crush private charity and socialize it completely.

Cute graphic of how much money government has taken from taxpayers and allocated and delivered to financial institutions. This corporate welfare on a scale the world has never seen or imagined.

How the same policies Obama and Bernanke are undertaking today was the last straw that caused the collapse of Yugoslavia.

If it were true that government can merely use its brute force to create a successful economy than all the totalitarian countries throughout history would have been prosperous paradises!

Thank you.

Chris Dodd's wife was director of a company owned by AIG. Shocker. This is just typical of how these aristocrats work. They're all corrupt.

Obama's stoking up hatred of the private sector on purpose. He stoked up anger at AIG on purpose. That anger is the anger of Marxist revolution, and that's Obama's goal.

The Heritage Foundation breaks down Obama's welfare programs that he pretends are tax cuts, but they aren't, and shows this is just a mechanism for Obama to spread the wealth around.

10 mostly really bad ideas for government grabbing AIG bonuses. I like the first one and last one though.

Bloomberg illustrates why punishing the rich with higher taxes is a bad thing.

Government is force, and it can only be force, so it's not surprising that in an attempt to address the failure of government schools, government would open a school in conjunction with Marines. That's the best way to insure that government school kids grow up to work for and fight wars on behalf of the kids of the aristocrats who are going to private schools and who will rule the government school kids.

Yet another Democrat aristocrat caught cheating on his taxes. The funny thing is, these Democrats want us to believe that raising taxes doesn't change people's behavior - it doesn't push jobs overseas, it doesn't make people work less, it doesn't cost Americans anything - but it sure turns Democrats into tax cheats.

Michelle Malkin has a funny parody of the presidential seal for the teleprompter president.

Mother of girl who killed herself after sending naked pictures to her boyfriend who forwarded them all over Cincinnati blames others for her daughter's suicide and is calling for laws. I have a better idea. Teach your kids not to send naked pictures of themselves over the phones or internet. If you aren't a responsible enough parent to do that, don't let your kids have camera phones or internet cameras. (I've never understood why parents allow their kids to have these phones anyway - get a phone that only you can program and give it to them.) And if you're not responsible enough to do either, don't use the consequences of your failure to take away my freedom.

Tim Geithner calls for unprecedented government power to not only regulate, but to control and seize financial firms. Who said Obama wasn't a socialist? How many times have we talked about an unprecedented power grab since Obama took office just over 2 months ago? Geithner doesn't think this idea is radical. He thinks it prudent because out system is too fragile. That begs 2 questions: is it really fragile, and if it is, why is it? Government interference in our economy like termites infesting a home makes our economy weaker. More termites is not the solution. If Geithner really wanted to limit risk, he'd extract the government from our economy, putting an end to the moral hazard that powers extraordinary risk and enabling free competition that would provide a break on risk taking. Remember it was the Fed, which is a regulator, and the regulators Fannie and Freddie and the CRA that caused this crisis.

Obama preaches to the converted in online town hall to keep the money flowing in for his 2012 run. The power of incombency is overwhelming.

It was a bad idea when George Bush nominated active military personnel to head the NSA and the CIA, undermining the division between the civilian leadership of the country and the military, and continuing his role of playng George Bush on steroids, Obama names an acting general to be ambassador to Afghanistan.

My Republican representative thought it was a good thing to put a 90 percent tax on TARP executive bonuses. Put him on the list that have buried the Constitution.

House Democrats yank global warming provisions from Obama's budget so they will be subject to Republican debate. They're still protecting the health care provisions from debate though.

Barack Obama's budget would give the US a higher percentage deficit than Cuba. Democrats respond with cheers because they want turn America into Cuba.

Zogby reports Obama's approval rating has plummeted to 50 percent. It's going to keep dropping like a rock. I never heard liberals complain about Zogby when his polls gave them absurdly high numbers.

This is a pretty effective ad showing that Obama is governing far different than he promised.

Obama flip-flops on armed pilot plan, deciding to expand it. That's a good thing.

Chicago is privatizing police. You have to be kidding me. That's one of the few legitimate powers of government. Chicago has everything backwards.

Bill would allow newspapers to become non-profit companies.

Man convicted of drunk driving even though he didn't drive his car. He just started it.

How many plane crash stories begin by talking about how wealthy the victims were?

Every day I walk my dog, I look at literally tons of heavy equipment sitting idle. Since Dayton is building or repairing 8 bridges at once, fixing I-75 through downtown, building a new bus terminal downtown, and I live at the intersection of I-75 and the river across the river from downtown, I see many of these construction projects every day. Big earth movers, bulldozers, cranes all sit idle at 4 building sites nearly every day. When I see the other bridges, the equipment is typically sitting idle. The equipment sitting next to our bridge to nowhere hasn't been touched in weeks. That's government waste, and we're paying for every dime of it.

Cato describes how and why each government policy since the financial crisis hit drove down stocks, and explains that the recent stock rally had nothing to do with Geithner's bank plan, contrary to what the press is telling us, but was sparked by good news in the housing market. There's even a sensible comment from Bernanke about regulation causing problems in this essay. Too bad Bernanke, like all central planners, thinks the only problem with central planning is he isn't in charge of all of it.

The price of oil is about to skyrocket again. I bet this is already built into the price of oil futures though.

Ann Coulter provides the numbers and explodes the myth that Wall Street support Republicans. In fact, Wall Street pays much more money to Democrats than Republicans. I've long known this, but she's right that the media very successfully cover it up and make it appear otherwise.

California just gets stupider every day. Now they're planning to ban black and dark cars to fight global warming.