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Despite protests and petitions, German government implements internet censorship. Coming soon to the internet near you.

NASA to crash rocket into moon in attempt to observe water in the exploding debris. I'm surprised environmentalists aren't condemning this. As we advance, there's going to be a movement to keep humanity from "spoiling" other planets and moons.

Boortz takes Obama to task for his deafening silence on the election and subsequent protests and violence in Iran. Obama isn't about to make a stand on principle.

While pushing for the FairTax, Boortz shows just how badly Republicans governed:

"A recent Gallup polls shows that 40% of Americans describe themselves as conservative. Only 21% of Americans call themselves liberal and 35% consider themselves moderate."

And that's after Republicans blew it so spectacularly. Amazing.

Knowing that Obama's health care plan will limit their salaries and put many of them out of business, doctors at the AMA booed Pharaoh Obama during his health care speech. Great Pharaoh was not pleased. This shows how stunningly out of touch Obama is. Anybody who wasn't an extreme narcissist would have expected to get booed for presenting that plan in front of that audience. The public health care plan is sinking Obama's socialized medicine agenda. Excellent. Even not counting Obama's public health care plan, the rest of the plan is going to cost over $1 trillion. Obama is loving every minute of bankrupting all of us and our country.

Obama didn't consult Britain over sending detainees to Bermuda because he was afraid Britain would say no. I want Obama to send me to Bermuda.

Republican Sen. Thune proposes bill that would force government to divest from all companies by July 2010 and block the government from buying into companies in the future.

"The Government Ownership Exit Plan would require the sale of any ownership interest such as warrants, preferred stock, or common stock and apply any revenue from the sale of those assets to the reduction of the national debt. The plan would also prohibit the federal government from making or unduly influencing management decisions of private companies such as appointing senior executives and board members."

Hell yeah. Now this is a positive development. It's a positive agenda. This is the kind of thing that will help Republicans recover. I didn't know the government has bought into over 500 banks. Wow.

Dick Cheney responds to Panetta's accusation with class.

I'm not the least bit surprised to find that politicians and serial killers share many personality traits. The only people who want to be professional politicians are warped individuals who want to lord power over others. Much like serial killers. And our political system rewards the worst of the lot, so our country is being run by freakishly power hungry and corrupt politicians.

"Kouri, who's a vice president of the National Assn. of Chiefs of Police, has assembled traits such as superficial charm, an exaggerated sense of self-worth, glibness, lying, lack of remorse and manipulation of others.
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Kouri notes that these criminals are psychologically capable of committing their dirty deeds free of any concern for social, moral or legal consequences and with absolutely no remorse.

"This allows them to do what they want, whenever they want," he wrote. "Ironically, these same traits exist in men and women who are drawn to high-profile and powerful positions in society including political officeholders.""

I'm copying this article to my computer in case it disappears.

Mises scholar uncovers 2002 Paul Krugman essay in which he calls for Fed Chairman Greenspan to create a housing bubble. He got what he wished for, and we're all suffering for it. Now he wants a new bubble to replace that one. It's amazing that people listen to this village idiot.

Unemployment to reach 10 percent by next year. Comparison of employment rate calculation to those for the Great Depression.

Biden is trying to cover his and Obama's butts since it was his economist that claimed if Congress passed Obama's $787 billion stimulus boondoggle, unemployment would bottom out at 8 percent. Of course Biden's economist was one of those who failed to predict this recession. Those who predicted this recession also predicted that Obama's stimulus boondoggle would make unemployment worse - and now it's at 9.4 percent on its way to double digits.

US to borrow money from China to give to China to fight climate change. This is a redistribution of wealth from the broke US to wealthy China. We're mired in recession, and China's economy is growing at over 7 percent this year. Why do we tolerate this insanity?

While this health care plan is far superior to Romney's and the Democrats' plans, I wouldn't call it a free market plan. Here's my free market health care plan - stop all interference in the health care market by government. That'll save way more than this guy's $5 trillion, and it's fantastically simpler. But this guy is wrong about the goal of aristocrats regarding health care - seizing power. It has nothing to do with actually providing health care.

This might be where Chavez has overreached.

As I posted a prediction a year or two ago, cooling temperatures are hurting farmers and threatening our food supply. More CO2 would help, but kook-aid drinkers still want to reduce CO2 to cool the already cooling planet.

Tax Foundation's tax and trade household calculator.

Doug Bandow from Cato is right that the US needs to shed defense commitments, not increase them by formalizing extending the US nuclear shield to cover South Korea. He used some of the lines he tried out in his email exchange with me:

"Kim Jong-il is evil, not stupid; he wants his virgins in this life, not the next."

He also picked up something from me in that exchange he uses here:

"And the U.S. government's principal responsibility is to protect American lives, not to guarantee the security of foreign lands."

He's dead on about South Korea and Japan developing an offensive missile capability to deter NK and China, but I think he's wrong about leaving the door open to nuclear weapons development by those countries. That last thing we want is another nuclear arms race. Pakistan, India and China are too much of a nuclear arms race already. Bandow's willingness to risk the loss of millions of lives on his personal feeling that deterance will work with lunatic Kim Jung Il the same as it worked with sane regimes is exceedingly egotistical and reckless, imo. His ego was on display in that email exchange with me too.