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Goldman Sachs puppet tax cheat Lord Geithner says government officials acted appropriately regarding Goldman Sachs during the bailout frenzy. Then Goldman Sachs had Geithner offer to sell Americans land in Florida. Don't you just love when government investigates itself and clears itself of wrong doing?

Vick to team up with Philly animal rights group. I bet those people give him hell. I wouldn't let him near my dog.

Medicare costs $325 billion per year. Mandatory US spending.

If Obama wants anybody to believe that he doesn't really support pressuring seniors into dying early, he should quit hanging out with Tom Daschle since Daschle is one of the architects of that provision.

Obama's VA, following the lead of Clinton's VA, pressures senior veterans into end of life decisions. Do you think Obama is just ignorant or evil?

Many Americans will not be able to keep their current health insurance plan if Obama's health oppression plan passes.

House health care oppression bill gives government the power to check your "financial responsibility". You know what that would mean to a health care bureaucrat: checking out your bank account.

The burden of government on business in America has become so great that big companies are "detaching" from the US.

"Thousands of IBM employees have recently been offered a choice between losing their jobs in America or moving abroad to stay employed."

Detaching is code for shipping jobs overseas. Obama is accelerating that process. I'm sure this health care debacle is pushing businesses to stop hiring direct employees and hiring contractors instead too. The news will cover that in a few months.

Garet Garret on the transformation of America from a republic to an empire explains why we're foolish to count on the Constitution as a limit on government power.

"There is no comfort in history for those who put their faith in forms; who think there is safeguard in words inscribed on parchment, preserved in a glass case, reproduced in facsimile and hauled to and fro on a Freedom Train.
Let it be current history. How much does the younger half of this generation reflect upon the fact that in its own time a complete revolution has taken place in the relations between government and people? It may be doubted that one college student in a thousand could even state it clearly. The first article of our inherited tradition, implicit in American thought from the beginning until a few years ago, was this: Government is the responsibility of a self-governing people. That doctrine has been swept away; only the elders remember it.
Now, in the name of democracy, it is accepted as a political fact that people are the responsibility of government. The forms of republican government survive; the character of the state has changed. Formerly the people supported government and set limits to it and minded their own lives.
Now they pay for unlimited government, whether they want it or not, and the government minds their lives — looking to how they are fed and clothed and housed; how they provide for their old age; how the national income, which is the product of their own labor, shall be divided among them; how they shall buy and sell; how long and how hard and under what conditions they shall work, and how equity shall be maintained between the buyers of food who dwell in the cities and the producers of food who live on the soil. For the last named purpose it resorts to a system of subsidies, penalties and compulsions, and assumes with medieval wisdom to fix the just price.
This is the Welfare State. It rose suddenly within the form. It is legal because the Supreme Court says it is. The Supreme Court once said no and then changed its mind and said yes, because meanwhile the President who was the architect of the Welfare State had appointed to the Supreme Court bench men who believed in it.
The founders who wrote the Constitution could no more have imagined a Welfare State rising by sanction of its words than they could have imagined a monarchy; and yet the Constitution did not have to be changed. It had only to be reinterpreted in one clause — the clause that reads: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, imposts and excises to pay its debts and provide for common defense and welfare of the United States."
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The president names the members of the Supreme Court, with the advice and consent of the Senate. It follows that if the president and a majority of the Senate happen to want a Welfare State, or any other innovation, and if, happily for their design, death and old age create several vacancies on the bench so that they may pack the Court with like-minded men, the Constitution becomes, indeed, a rubberoid instrument.
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The one fact now to be emphasized is that when the process of erosion has gone on until there is no saying what the supreme law of the land is at a given time, then the Constitution begins to be flouted by Executive will, with something like impunity. The instances may not be crucial at first and all the more dangerous for that reason. As one is condoned, another follows, and they become progressive."

Great essay, and that's a nice shot at the destruction of the rule of law at the end of the quote, but I still don't agree the US is an empire. We're dumber than an empire. We have all the bad aspects of empire and none of the good. Empires conquer other lands and loot the people there. We send our troops to other lands, then we loot ourselves and give the money to the people there.

Libertarianism defined as a set of rules for property rights.

Great example of the success of severely limited government in Iraqi village.

Boortz finally gets it:

"Having begun a story of the Cloward-Piven Strategy, I now strongly believe that many Democrats in Washington actually wish to completely destroy our present economy so that they can replace it with an economy mirroring European socialism. Elections have consequences."

About time he figured it out.

The people are figuring out this global warming scam. 20,000 rooms have been canceled for the next UN climate summit. Thank God that the planet started cooling in 1998 instead of 2008 or the new communism would already have been forced down our throats. But just like health care, in a couple of decades the planet will start to warm again, and the frauds will come out of the woodwork saying "I told you so", and they'll be stronger than ever. Even before then though, look for these same frauds to revert back to the claim we're entering a new ice age, we have to surrender all our money and power to some world agency to save us.