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In the first of today's aristocrats are slime who lie for a living and will say and do anything to protect the power they covet more than anything else in the world stories, Nancy Pelosi accuses the CIA of misleading her on harsh interrogation techniques. The worm is turning back on the Democrats. Live by the slanderous lie. Die by the slanderous lie.

Chrysler to close 789 of 3,200 dealerships. I still don't know if the Obama plan is alive or dead for Chrysler.

Cato publications on the war on drugs. Cato welcomes a shift in policy away from enforcement and toward treatment by Obama's drug czar (with nice links), but it's way too little. Obama is about the most timid and fearful radical leftist in history. Everything he proposes is boilerplate radical leftism - nothing actually bold. Probably a result of severe narcissism. That timidness might just keep him from rolling tanks down our streets when his policies start crashing around our ears. Obama's Nixonian in a way. Obama won't be limited by the rule of law, but the need to be loved and praised might limit him. The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal. The average potency of marijuana continues to increase. The world may come to and end.

Obama's drug czar (I hate that term): "Regardless of how you try to explain to people it's a 'war on drugs' or a 'war on a product,' people see a war as a war on them," he said. "We're not at war with people in this country." Has this guy had his head up his ... I mean in the sand for the last 30 years?

Here we go again. The international community is silent for decades while the Tamil Tigers wage war against Sri Lanke, but now that the Sri Lanken army is about to annihilate the attackers, the international community fears catastrophe. The international community has no problem with the human toll as long as the rebels are doing the killing. Those supporters of perpetual war deserve nothing but our antipathy.

Reason blasts Obama for his extreme anti-freedom energy policy.

Reason criticizes Obama's plan to put a sin tax on soda.

Reason clamps down on the alarmism about imprisoning Guantanamo detainees in the US, but it misses the point. If they are brought to the US, the full power of the court system to undermine American security will be unleashed. It also fails to mention the danger of these terrorists radicalizing non-terrorists they meet in prison. Yes, the right is exaggerating the threat, but the real threat is far great enough that we need to keep Obama from bringing enemy combatants, (not the criminals Bush disasterously designated enemy combatants - they need to go somewhere, maybe here, for trial) to US soil.

Judge Andrew Napolitano on the history of black oppression by the law in the US.

Future history story shows how the Great Depression of 2008, caused by monetizing the debt, finally ended illegal immigration.

Labor unions are pleased their massive buyoff of Obama is paying off for them.

Lawrence Kudlow rips Obama for his claim that government health care will lower costs. Duh. But I have no doubt Obama believers believe him.

Dick Morris claims the only way to cut health care costs is to ration care. That's just stupid. There are several simple policies that will lower health care costs practically overnight. The first and most basic is to stop subsidizing health care. When people pay for their own health care, they'll spend much more on prevention and less on cure because prevention is much cheaper. Third party payer systems encourage people to go to the doctor more. The second is to empower highly trained technicians to take some of the load for minor care off doctors. Cutting government regulation and the paperwork that goes with it will also lower costs because doctors will be able to spend more time with patients and have fewer staff members. There's nothing magic about lowering the price of health care - you just have to understand the problem that's making costs skyrocket - government subsidies and restrictions on caregivers.

Prevention is not rationing.

Our health care system is like a government subsidized all you can eat buffet created by master chefs who spend a significant part of their time dealing with bureaucrats instead of cooking. If you want the cost of the buffet to drop, you end the subsidy, replace the master chefs with regular cooks and get the bureaucrats out of the kitchen.

Everybody wants to reform health care, but what Obama is planning will make it worse, not better. In fact, Obama's plan is designed to gain him political points but ultimately fail. He'll blame that failure on the private sector and try to use that to implement disasterous socialized medicine in the US.

The 20th century doesn't have to the Asian century. It can be another American century if we cut the size and scope of our government in half and more. The only thing keeping America from its past trajectory of greatness is the aristocrats of the 2 parties, the leviathan government they teamed up to create and the voters who continue to vote for them.

8 tuition free colleges.

Ron Paul calls for an end to the US escalation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Agreed.

Extended sleep deprivation can do serious harm and lead to death. That's torture, imo.

I'm not surprised monkeys feel regret.

FDIC economist busted for robbing bank.

I'm all for parents teaching kids how to handle firearms, but having government agents train boy scouts to assault a well defended terrorist position seems a bit much. And why is the terrorist a returning Iraqi war vet? Because if the terrorist was a Muslim, Muslim terrorists might attack boy scouts in retaliation?

This police officer has to have some serious guts for cuffing and arresting his acting police chief. I don't think he's going to win this one though.

Photo of space shuttle approaching the Hubble telescope with the sun as a backdrop. Wow.

It's about time California started having a fire sale.

Boortz is right about this. We have so much to criticize Bush for, but liberals spent years trying to make something out of nothing, and still are. The person who wrote this headline did the same to Obama.

For all those people who just accept the 2 party system, what would you do if you went to buy a hat and the hat seller only had red and blue hats? What would you do when, after you asked why you couldn't buy a green hat, the seller would explain that the government restricts Americans to a 2 hat system? No American worthy of citizenship would accept that. We would instantly recognize that as a fantastic affront to our economic and personal freedom. Why don't we recognize the same thing about the universally accepted 2 party system? The only reason we accept it is our parents accepted it and their parents accepted it and their parents accepted it ad nauseum. But it's time we woke up and changed that. Does anybody really think that 300 million Americans, over 100 million voters, can be represented by 2 parties? It's absurd, and we have the power to change it if we would just use that power.

When Republicans and Democrats talk about big tent parties, that's a contrived discussion created by the limitations on our political freedom placed on us by the 2 parties. And we have to overcome it.