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China's economic growth slowed to 6.1 percent last quarter. Let's get this straight. The communist Chinese government is so much smaller, more efficient and therefore smarter than US government that, while the US economy contracted, the Chinese government grew only (shamefully, I'm sure) by 6.1 percent. China has embraced freedom, and therefore the Chinese economy in the midst of the worst world recession since the 1930s is growing better than the US economy has grown since before the Great Depression. What's wrong with this picture? (The US has rejected freedom and the already titanic US government is expanding like a freak on human growth hormone, for those who really didn't know.) Our government aristocrats are lucky Americans haven't impaled them on poles yet.

Mises scholar makes the case for entirely private roads.

More on the right wing extremists. I wonder if the FBI is examining my photo taken today at Cincinnati tea party and putting me in an FBI file. Enjoy my blog, FBI!

Goldman Sachs wants to pay back its bailout money. That's a good thing, but here's a great indication of just how pervasive liberal fascism is in America. Matt Lauer, the liberals' everyman, commented on Goldman Sachs's plan:

I'm worried if you think if that's a good thing. Are they doing this because of financial stability or might they be talking about that, simply to get out from under the thumb of the federal government and be allowed to go back to running the business the way they want to run it as opposed to the way the government wants them to run it?

God forbid a company try to get out from under the fascist control of the government. No doubt liberals will generally agree with Lauer, showing just how dangerously close America has become to 1930s Germany and Italy. I'm sure all the Germans and Italians who supported the fascists had good intentions.

Ron Paul proposes allowing privateers with letters of marque to take on the pirates. Naturally statists can't stand this idea. Blackwater probably loves it.

Unionized government employee files grievance demanding pay for lunch period he missed during massacre.

This Chevy Volt sounds like a good idea to me. It'll lose money in the short term, but it will probably make money in the long term when the economy rebounds and oil prices rise. Companies should be thinking long term like this. Naturally President Obama doesn't like it.

Life insurance companies must be in terrible shape if they want TARP funds and all the painful hammering that comes with the money. Or not. This sounds more like government is planning to shove TARP funds down the throats of life insurance companies just so government can get control of them.

I wish the press would call Obama out when he claims he cut our taxes. That's a bunch of baloney. His minuscule tax rebates are not tax cuts.

List of top government porkers.

Children of illegal immigrants are twice as likely to live in poverty than children of American born parents. That's because they're the children of criminals.

Al Gore wants to turn America into the world's cleanest third world country. That's a cute line, but it's not true. There's nothing dirty about CO2. It's a plant food. If we dramatically cut CO2 emissions, it will make us a third world country, but it will also harm plant growth in America and around the world, and it will have no noticeable effect on climate.

The DVD is one of 10 dying technologies.

Cato entertains the possibility that there is no diplomatic solution to de-nuclearizing North Korea. Duh. There's never been a possibility of a diplomatic solution. Of course North Korea won't peacefully surrender its nuclear weapons. Who would?