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ECONOMY:

Atlanta Fed Chief reports the real unemployment rate is 16 percent. Sometimes we hear truth from power. But where does this claim that Obama is resisting calls for more stimulus come from? He was leading the charge.

HEALTH CARE:

Here we go again. Americans have to sacrifice for the good of the aristocrats. That's bass ackwards. It's about time we make the aristocrats sacrifice their power so we can live better lives.

Charles Krauthammer advises Democrats on how to pass Obamacare-lite. He's advising outright fascism (as opposed to the fascism-lite we have now). Thanks Charles. Krauthammer shows once again that he's another big-government conservative who would lead America to destruction just slightly slower than Democrats. We need to kill all versions of health care oppression and embrace health care reform by extracting government from our health care system.

So ABC turns itself into an infomercial for Obamacare a couple months back, but now, along with NBC, it refuses to run an ad critical of Obamacare. I'm sure liberals will see no bias here.

John Stossel explains how third party payer systems make it hard to control costs because nobody knows the prices.

Using social justice as an excuse to support Obama's health care plan illustrates that it's really a health care oppression plan.

I don't see why this is some kind of revelation. We know trial lawyers are big supporters of Democrats and therefore Democrats don't support tort reform.

Michael Tanner explains how the regulations in both the House and Senate health care oppression bills will force over 100 million Americans off of their current health care plans, contrary to what the Liar-in-Chief keeps telling us.

Reason highlights Obama's cynical manipulation of religion to sell health care. The left brutalized George Bush for less.

Explaining why US infant mortality rates are higher than in some other countries.

Now Democrats are going to want to mandate circumcision.

Obama is teaming up with special interests like the AMA and using Bush's divisive tactics to push health care oppression.

Ann Coulter takes on Democrats' health care lies and calls for more real, market competition. About time. Ann Coulter is a meticulous researcher.

"Tiny little France and Germany have more competition among health insurers than the U.S. does right now. Amazingly, both of these socialist countries have less state regulation of health insurance than we do, and you can buy health insurance across regional lines -- unlike in the U.S., where a federal law allows states to ban interstate commerce in health insurance.
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It's the famous liberal two-step: First screw something up, then claim that it's screwed up because there's not enough government oversight (it's the free market run wild!), and then step in and really screw it up in the name of "reform.""

That's funny and accurate, but conservatives do the same thing when they interfere in the economy. They just do it slightly less than Democrats. Part 2.

"These are Trojan Horse bills. Of course, they don't include the words "abortion," "death panels" or "three-year waits for hip-replacement surgery."
That proves nothing -- the bills set up unaccountable, unelected federal commissions to fill in the horrible details. Notably, the Democrats rejected an amendment to the bill that would specifically deny coverage for abortions."

Pretty good.

WAR:

US troops are going to be more likely to kill the enemy than capture him thanks to Obama releasing them.

LIBERTY:

Australian criminologist calls for Australian government to force Australians to obtain a license before buying first computer. For their own safety, of course.

Congressman demands a constituent show ID before allowing him to speak at a town hall. That sounds like abrogation of rights to me, not that Obama's Justice Dept. would ever prosecute a Democrat.

POLITICS:

More corruption from Obama's Justice Department. Somebody please tell me how our government is different from a banana republic.

Charlie Rangel finds at least half a million dollars he previously didn't know he had. This guy is as corrupt as they come.

Here comes the pension plan bailout and seizure of 401Ks and IRAs.

You can't make stuff like this up, so I'm just going to quote it:

"A budget review released by the White House on Tuesday says that President Obama has “reoriented the Nation back to a path toward fiscal discipline” and then reveals that the administration is planning for the federal government to run cumulative deficits over the next decade of $9.05 trillion, meaning the average annual federal deficit will be $905 billion."

That's the audacity of the world's most successful liar. Only the world's most successful liar would say something like that and expect to get away with it.

Obama's new approach to the war on terror: release terrorists; attack interrogators. That'll be effective. Dick Morris says Obama is throwing his radical leftist base a bone. Holder's prosecutor is a special prosecutor. That means the genie is out of the bottle. Nobody has any control over him. This is going to dominate our politics for a decade, and the distraction will enable both our government and the terrorists to do far more damage than they otherwise would.

INFLATION:

The rise and fall of the US dollar. This makes it so clear.

MISC:

If replacing roads with solar panels was a good idea, private investors would voluntarily invest their own money in the project. Instead, the government is taking money from people by force to invest in it.

Brit wants to use taxes to destroy what he deems socially useless.

Of course it's absurd that the government could take a child from a mother because the mother doesn't speak English, but that's not an argument for legalizing illegal aliens. That's an argument against allowing birthright citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.

The US Constitution does not prevent a state from establishing a religion. The first amendment specifically restricts Congress for doing so. The fourteenth amendment doesn't change that.

David Boaz suggests subject for a new book: Tax Tips for Democrats. How funny.

Robert Murdoch's son criticizes BBC for offering free news. Now I refuse to pay for news, and I enjoy reading the BBC, but Murdoch has a point: government subsidized entities offering free news can't be matched by the private sector and will kill the market for independent news producers.

Headline says Kennedy had to overcome own curses. Can you imagine mainstream paper writing a headline like that about George Bush? And George Bush didn't drown anybody. Or drop his pants in front of women (at least not while he was an elected official). But he won the presidency twice. That headline about Kennedy is just an apologist's view for a deadly creep who should never have been privileged with support from the Massachusetts people. Ted Kennedy was a disgrace to Massachusetts and America.

Cato calls to privatize the Postal Service.

The left's ugly history of racial violence. We're on the verge of seeing a repeat.

Manipulation of evidence in one case to support the Lockerbie case.

Reason pours cold water on fears of racism.

I strongly disagree with this sentence regarding interrogations from Reason,

"It seems clear that waterboarding, which involves both "severe physical or mental pain or suffering" and "the threat of imminent death," violates the federal ban on torture."

It makes me wonder if the author watched any of the same videos of waterboarding I've watched. No subject in any video I saw showed any signs of physical or mental pain or suffering and every one of them knew they were not going to die. If they hadn't known that, they wouldn't have volunteered. They jump right afterwards and rationally discuss the experience, obviously no worse off for it. Terrorists also know they won't drown from a little water dripping in their mouth. The technique takes advantage of the body's instinctual fear of drowning, nobody rationally thinks they're going to drown. Interrogators wouldn't be able to get info from dead terrorists. From what I've seen, there's nothing about waterboarding that meets the definition of torture.

The threat of imminent death part of the law seems stupid to me too, but it is the law, and it must be followed. According to this article, it's also illegal threaten the life of another. That's just ridiculous. Obviously those things shouldn't be allowed for criminal prisoners or enemy combatants following the Geneva Convention, but they are not torture and should be available for interrogators of terrorists. That law should be changed. But that's the future. No legal justification can circumvent the current law. I was just following orders is no defense.

Reason says we need a security warning system to warn us of threats from our government. No kidding.

Praise for Glenn Beck. Beck is doing impressive work. I only wish somebody had done the same for to Bush, but I think Beck has created a new genre. It just goes to show what I've always said - the people are crave in depth analysis, not superficial bull that the typical accomplice press gives us. He's doing the kind of stuff I've been saying needed to be done for 10 years. To all those people who claimed Americans didn't have the attention span for in-depth, meaningful news, Beck has proved you wrong.

Thomas Sowell warns of the consequences of externalizing every issue and advocates personal responsibility.

More on Obama's plans to seize control of the internet. Free speech in America is on the verge of being quashed forever. Naturally Rino Olympia Snow is a cosponsor.

"[S]ome wags have begun to wonder why a government that receives failing marks on cybersecurity should be trusted to instruct the private sector what to do."

Duh.