Free kibbles

Pharaoh Obama to set pollution standards for cars and trucks. Al Gore is pleased. Great Pharaoh to use his divine wisdom and power to keep our economy in balance, whatever the hell that means. Karl Marx would be pleased. Pharaoh Obama is so smart, he's taken charge of every activity in America. Can I have permission to go to the bathroom now? Mises scholar was channeling the same theme...

In their quest to free us from economic instability, our betters may find it necessary to institute new rules. It is our job to accept these new rules with docility and thanks. These rules might have to be kind of sweeping, perhaps on the order of nobody may do anything. In liberal times that could perhaps be modified to nobody may do anything without asking permission. True, we could then wind up with a lengthy debate about whether asking permission itself counted as doing something, such that we'd need to ask permission in order to ask permission, in an endless regress. We'd then be back to the original nobody may do anything, which is probably the safest place to be anyway.

I'm sure Homeland Security is wiretapping our phones because we're so dangerous.

A literal ball and chain forces children to study. That this device exists shows the abject failure of parents in America.

Supreme Court ends 9/11 lawsuit against Ashcroft and Mueller.

Sri Lanken military claims head of Tamil Tigers was killed in battle. Good for them, and good for the people of Sri Lanke who are celebrating the end of 26 years of war by dancing in the streets, but who also recognize the treachery of the international community led by Great Britain for trying to stop Sri Lanke from defeating its enemy.

Besides the celebrations in Colombo, there was a demonstration against Britain, with protestors accusing it of seeking to help the rebels by earlier calling for a ceasefire.

If the international community had had its way, Sri Lanke might have suffered another 26 years of war. There is no substitute for victory. Israel should take note.

It's good to know that John McCain agrees completely with Pharaoh Obama's interventionist approach to economic problems:

Mark Zandi, a former economic adviser to John McCain, adds that "policymakers always intervene in a downturn. So it is necessary for policy makers to take action against bubbles. You've got to be symmetrical in your policy." What we need, says Zandi, is a "systemic regulator" who will decide whether or not bubbles exist and then take appropriate action. (See how much different a McCain administration would have been on the economy?)

Gotta love the two party system. It gives us so much choice.

Compulsory service is a type of slavery.