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SOCIALISM:

Texas Governor Rick Perry doesn't mince words when he tells a crowd in Midland, "This is an administration hell-bent on taking America towards a socialist country." Sounds like he's gearing up for a run at the presidency in 2012.

ECONOMY:

Zimbabwe abandons its destroyed currency, abolishes its central bank, adopts a free market money system and its economy turns around in mere months.

"In February 2009 Zimbabwe was the only country in the world without debt. Nobody owed anyone anything. Following the abandonment of the Zimbabwe Dollar as the local currency all local debt was wiped out and the country started with a clean slate.

It is now a country without a functioning Central Bank and without a local currency that can be produced at will at the behest of politicians. Since February 2009 there has been no lender of last resort in Zimbabwe, causing banks to be ultra cautious in their lending policies. The US Dollar is the de facto currency in use although the Euro, GB Pound and South African Rand are accepted in local transactions.

Price controls and foreign exchange regulations have been abandoned. Zimbabwe literally joined the real world at the stroke of a pen. Money now flows in and out of the country without restriction. Super market shelves, bare in January, are now bursting with products."

Do you think the American people will learn from this and force our government to similar policies? Hell no.

Here's a review of the role ACORN and government policies played in creating the financial crisis. Unfortunately it doesn't mention the main culprit - the Fed.

TAX AND SPEND:

ACORN claims it has a constitutional right to federal money in law suit.

October budget deficit sets new record.

Besides California and New York, nine other states face fiscal disaster. I'm not surprised that nine of the eleven are blue states, and the other two are purple. No reds states in the list.

HEALTH CARE:

Economic burden of House Obamacare bill, a tremendous tax on labor and wage controls, will put less productive people out of work, further harming the poor.

"The effect of Obamacare on the prices of produced goods is obviously inflationary. Increasing the cost of employing every single laborer by $300 a piece is certain to increase the price of all produced goods. Combining price increases with rising unemployment is hardly a laudable strategy for improving the lives of poor citizens."

No kidding.

We need more sites like this dedicated to ending health care oppression.

Then-candidate Obama rips Hillary Clinton for supporting a health insurance mandate.

With the Bush tax cuts expiring and Pelosi's surtax on high incomes, the capital gains tax rate will jump to 69 percent in 2011. No wonder nobody is investing in America.

EDUCATION:

Obama has an unprecedented amount of money with which to further harm our schools, and that's exactly what's going to happen.

WAR:

Fort Hood shooter had business cards printed saying "Solder of Allah", and common term among jihadists, and he accessed multiple jihadi websites under different screen names. How stupid are we to trust our security to the FBI and CIA? This guy might as well have been running around with a bright, flashing neon sign over his head saying "Death to America" and our intelligence agencies and the army would have ignored it.

Muslim leaders call for maximum sentence against shooter. So do I, and I want treason to be one of the charges he's convicted of. Is this going to be a military trial? I sure hope so.

Obama and AG Holder decide to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in civilian court. Can you imagine if we had to try every Nazi and Japanese soldier in WWII in civilian court. Or even just the Nuremberg 24? I'm never shocked by government stupidity, but this is a new level of stupidity. I hate to say this, but the best thing that could happen given this circumstance is for the judge to through the case out and let him go free. That way we would never have to repeat this incredible stupidity. If the trial occurs and Mohammad is convicted, every soldier in any war in the future will have access to lawyers and the US criminal justice system. It's beyond insane.

And how could a judge allow Mohammad to stand trial. He was held without trial for seven years or so. He was waterboarded. He was subjected to other harsh interrogation techniques. If that happened to you or me, a judge would have to let us go and bring charges against our captors. The law's the same for Mohammad, and a judge should do the same. Let's hope whatever judge they get follows the law and releases this war criminal so we can put an end to this disastrous policy.

"What matters is that they will be afforded the panoply of rights enjoyed by defendants in U.S. courts, including a prohibition on the use of illegally obtained evidence."

That's exactly what we don't want. We do not want to pretend that enemy combatants get the protection of our constitution. They surrendered all rights up to and including their right to life when they declared war on the US. If we allow this precedent to be set, we'll never win another war. Our country will collapse under the weight of the justice system the next time.

MISC:

The number of smokers is on the rise. Apparently the war on smokers is backfiring. Smoking must be becoming cool again.

Obama had documents shredded related to the firing of that inspector general.