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SOCIALISM:

Taxpayers get to pay another $5 billion, taken from us by force, to government owned Freddie Mac.

TAX AND SPEND:

I'm sure politicians know that higher income taxes don't translate into lower budget deficits.

HEALTH CARE:

Health insurance and drug companies are the big losers in the House health care oppression bill. No wonder the leftists like it. NRO is heartened by how long it took the House to pass this bill and how close the vote was. I'm not. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Health care oppression won. Freedom lost. We lost round one, and now we have two more chances to kill it, in the Senate and if we lose there, in the conference vote in both houses, or health care oppression will become law.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE:

Did Obama guarantee the Fort Hood shooter will never find an unbiased jury? File this under Obama is stupid. Lawyers, of all people, should know better. But far more people watched that disaster on the news than listen to Obama's radio address.

WAR:

Mark Steyn tries to point out a fatal flaw in our terrorism strategy - turning a blind eye to radical Muslims in our midst, which is a real problem - but he fails to identify the real fatal flaw: waging war against entire countries, against people who are not terrorists, and doing so for years moving into decades at a time, radicalizing Muslims overseas and at home who would not otherwise be radical and turning them into enemies. Our mission in Afghanistan has nothing to do with terrorism. We ousted al Qaeda from Afghanistan seven years ago. We're trying to nation-build, force our will, style of government and way of life on the Afghans, not fight terrorists. We're waging war on the Taliban, a group who never harmed us. The invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism, though it morphed into a fight against al Qaeda after we toppled Saddam, but we defeated al Qaeda in Iraq a year ago but we're still there. Our fatal flaw is not limiting this war to the terrorists who are trying to kill us and instead setting fire to half the Middle East while trying to force our values on those people. I'm not in any way apologizing for the shooter, but if we had left Afghanistan in 2002 after we accomplished the mission of wiping out the people who had attacked us on 9/11, if we had never invaded Iraq, the Fort Hood shooter wouldn't have become a terrorist. Policy matters. Blowback happens.

Intelligence agencies didn't inform the army of the Fort Hood shooter's emails to terrorist imam.

"A top defense official said federal investigators didn't tell the Pentagon they were looking into months of contacts between Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki. The imam knew three of the Sept. 11 hijackers and hailed Maj. Hasan as a "hero" after the shooting last week at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead."

Just like on 9/11, our intelligence agencies had the information necessary to prevent this attack, they just failed to act on it. They don't need more power, and they didn't need more power after 9/11. They need replaced. They should consider themselves lucky the army doesn't wipe them out. Our intelligence agencies are unaccountable Cold War dinosaurs which don't work for us. They're monstrous bureaucracies that only care about feeding and growing themselves. Dinosaurs have brains smaller than a walnut. We can't train them. We can't change their culture. All we can do is kill them and replace them with small, nimble, accountable organizations that address our current intelligence needs then die a generation from now. The next generation needs to replace them with different intelligence agencies to meet the needs of that generation so the new agencies don't become dinosaurs. Jefferson said every generation should reinvent government. He was right.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Russian President Medvedev again threatens tougher sanctions against Iran. Nothing came of it last time, so there's no way to know if he means it this time. And the Chinese remain silent. The IAEA challenges Iran on evidence it has already tested a key component of linking a nuclear warhead to a missile. Are you telling me that after the mullahs have worked for a nuclear missile capability for over 20 years, they're still working toward the same goal? But they say they're not. Could they possibly be lying? Could their actions actually show their goals better than their words? Who would've thought. Here I was under the impression that every politician in every country was an angel who never lied. I'm scandalized. At least all American politicians are all perfect angels who never lie and work only in the interest of the American people, never themselves. Thank the Lord. Just like the old joke says:

"How can you tell when a politician is telling the truth? His lips are moving."

Amen.


MISC:

The press ignores hundreds of thousands or millions of mainstream Americans marching on Washington but publicizes a couple hundred blacks claiming President Obama supports white power.

Where does this federal judge think he gets the power to create new, cumulative voting system in this village? That's what we have elected representatives for.

I love this idea to put cameras (and I hope microphones) in every room on capital hill. Of course this will never pass, and if it did pass, the aristocrats would just move their business into other offices to hide their actions that take advantage of the people for their own benefit, which is all their actions.

Did you know there are 237 millionaires in Congress? It makes sense to me to elect successful businessmen to Congress, but that's not what's going on here. These people are using our tax money to enrich themselves. They aren't providing high quality goods and services to Americans at a low price to enrich themselves. They're doing it by theft.

Take the Berlin Wall quiz. A pretty honest quiz.

If you're rich and powerful, you can get your congressman to write a specific law to bail you out. If you're a normal person like you and me, you get to pay for the bailout of that rich and powerful person. Don't you feel special? Thanks government.

The origins of WWIII. Part II. I don't buy it. This may be the goal of some freaks in Washington, but the American people are already fed up with the endless war in Afghanistan and are only accepting of the war in Iraq because we have an agreement to withdraw all US troops in a couple years. We don't live in the WWI and WWII era when aristocrats can just take us to war over the will of the people. Americans are not going to accept an expansion of the Middle East wars unless some terrorists from other countries successfully attack us, and I doubt that's going to happen.

D.C. sniper executed. Good. His actions should have been classified as an act of terror too.