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LIBERTY:

Great quote from Ludwig von Mises:

""The propensity of our contemporaries to demand authoritarian prohibition as soon as something does not please them, and their readiness to submit to such prohibitions even when what is prohibited is quite agreeable to them shows how deeply ingrained the spirit of servility still remains within them. . . . A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.""

Americans are far too eager to apply government force to others and far to tolerant when government force is used against them.

It's nice to read somebody else make the argument that drunk drivers should not be singled out. All bad drivers should face equal penalties. By making that, we can make our roads safer and put and end to the draconian punishments of people who drink and drive. I still think a video game type test measuring both reflexes and judgment is the best way to objectively measure whether a person who made a mistake in traffic is too dangerous to drive. I disagree with this guy that a cop should let a person dangerously weaving down a road in traffic alone until he crashes.

ECONOMY:

Our credit problems are just beginning.

"Moody's Investors Service cut its ratings on a raft of Dubai government-controlled companies, citing a lack of government support over the emirate's debt obligations. Fitch Ratings downgraded its credit rating on Greece to triple-B-minus from single-A-minus, highlighting "concerns over the medium-term outlook for public finances given the weak credibility of fiscal institutions and the policy framework in Greece."

Adding to the worries, Moody's said the U.S. and Great Britain may test the boundaries of their triple-A sovereign ratings due to deteriorating public finances, although Moody's said it doesn't see an immediate threat to the ratings of any of the 17 nations for which it has a triple-A rating."

Our government has turned us into a beggar nation.

This graph shows that commercial loans are still falling and the rate of decrease hasn't slowed a bit even though government claims we're out of the recession.

Consumer loans have crowded out business loans for 35 years, helping create our consumption driven economy.

TAX AND SPEND:

Instead of using remaining TARP funds for deficit reduction, Obama intends to use it it buy more votes under the guise of stimulating the economy a second time. Apparently the first stimulus didn't do enough damage. I think Obama is finding the most powerful and advanced economy in the world is harder to collapse than he thought.

This number is probably optimistic, but it claims that each job created by Obama's first stimulus boondoogle cost Americans $246,436. Assuming an average job pays $50,000, that means Obama's stimulus boondoggle destroyed about five jobs for every job created.

Nancy Pelosi calls for global tax on financial transactions because companies would move overseas to avoid a US only tax.

"The tax idea, the brainchild of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, would mean that all major financial centers – Asia, the EU, U.S., and U.K. – would all have to pass a similar transaction tax to avoid disadvantaging one country’s stock exchange. This would ensure that no matter where a person wanted to buy stock, they would have to pay the new tax."

This is another step in an ongoing movement by our aristocrats to stop Americans from voting with their feet by leaving the country and taking their money with them. The aristocrats of both parties are turning America into a slave state, and we keep re-electing them to do it. And it's not just America. Western civilization is committing suicide.

Thanks to the government trashing our economy, Social Security will go in the red next year. The tricks government uses to hide this is are pretty amazing.

Funny stimulus boondoggle cartoon.

HEALTH CARE:

Harry Reid compares Republicans to the Democrats who supported slavery, but he doesn't mention that it was Democrats who supported slavery.

Both the Republicans and Democrats want to keep the third party payer system that drives up our health care prices and reduces quality of services.

Comparison of House and Senate bills.

Senate bill includes trigger for public option controlled by government. That's quite the charade. I hope Lieberman and Snowe don't fall for it.

GLOBAL WARMING:

The EPA's declaration that CO2 is a dangerous pollutant threatens to harm business in America. Everything government does harms business in America, and we wonder why jobs are flowing overseas.

"An "endangerment" finding by the Environmental Protection Agency could pave the way for the government to require businesses that emit carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases to make costly changes in machinery to reduce emissions -- even if Congress doesn't pass pending climate-change legislation. EPA action to regulate emissions could affect the U.S. economy more directly, and more quickly, than any global deal inked in the Danish capital, where no binding agreement is expected."

Pharoah Obama doesn't need to wait for that pesky legislation process to work to harm us. Thanks to previous Congresses, he can do it all by himself.

"An EPA endangerment finding "could result in a top-down command-and-control regime that will choke off growth by adding new mandates to virtually every major construction and renovation project," U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue said in a statement. "The devil will be in the details, and we look forward to working with the government to ensure we don't stifle our economic recovery," he said, noting that the group supports federal legislation."

Choking off growth is Obama's goal, but with supposed friends like the US Chamber of Commerce supporting tax and trade legislation, who needs enemies? According to the second article:

"This reckless "endangerment finding" is a political ultimatum: The many Democrats wary of levelling huge new costs on their constituents must surrender, or else the EPA's carbon police will inflict even worse consequences.

The gambit is also meant to coerce businesses, on the theory that they'll beg for cap and trade once the command-and-control regulatory pain grows too acute—not to mention the extra bribes in the form of valuable carbon permits that Democrats, since you ask, are happy to dispense. Ms. Jackson appealed to "the science" and waved off any political implications, yet the formal finding was not coincidentally announced at the start of the U.N.'s Copenhagen climate conference (see above)."

It sounds like it worked on the Chamber of Commerce.

Copenhagen stories focus on taking wealth from the people of wealthy nations by force and giving to the governments of poor nations.

I can tell you how much I hope the last sentence of this opening paragraph is true:

"For months, the U.N. climate change summit that began yesterday in Copenhagen has been billed as the world's last best hope to match the scientific consensus on global warming with a policy consensus. But now it turns out there is little of either, and Copenhagen looks like it will go down as one of the more remarkable cases of political hubris in recent memory."

But every time we underestimate the ability of the political crooks around the world to use government force to steal from us, we pay for it.

15,000 year graph of temperature reconstructed from Greenland ice core shows that the current temperature of the earth is well below average for the last 10,000 years. Article also shows that alternating warming and cooling trends since 1490 last on average 27 years, just as we've seen during the last century. This time frame coincides with the duration of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

"Global warming (i.e, the warming since 1977) is over. The minute increase of anthropogenic CO₂ in the atmosphere (0.008%) was not the cause of the warming—it was a continuation of natural cycles that occurred over the past 500 years."

Don't tell the global warming frauds.

Here's what the global warming frauds in Copenhagen were hoping for:

"A November 20 report from a U.N. working group outlines what many nations would like to see in a final treaty. Wealthier nations including the United States will make "mandatory contributions" to a "multilateral climate change fund" paid for by the requirement that "developed country parties shall restructure their taxation regime." The report warns: "Delay by developed country parties in implementing their commitments to reduce emissions will increase their climate debt to the developing country parties.""

It's all about stealing from people who created wealth in western countries and giving it to the governments of countries that keep their people from creating wealth. It looks like Mann has corrupted the climate department at Penn State. Since he produce the original fraudulent hockey stick graph, and he's one of the inner circle with the CRU guys and Jim Hansen, I'm not surprised. The IPCC is packed with frauds.

"No less than 59 percent of Americans believe that scientists have faked climate change research and only 22 percent view the U.N. as a reliable source of global warming information, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll."

Physicists are calling this the greatest scientific fraud in their careers.

It looks like Al Gore has flip-flopped again and will speak in Copenhagen. As will Obama. And the Vatican. Everybody is pulling out all the stops to create this one world government of wealth distribution. That's because global warming is too big to fail.

Climategate is the tip of the iceberg.

"U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, has urged members of Congress to consider the joint opinion of nearly 32,000 scientists, including more than 9,000 Ph.D.s, who believe humans likely have little or nothing to do with any "global warming." "

I hadn't heard that before.

WAR:

Great analysis of the situation in Afghanistan. I think Obama will bring the troops home before 2012 in hopes of winning a second term.

POLITICS:

Hypothetical Tea Party party more popular than Republicans. But then again, Republicans probably rank below the swine flu in popularity. They deserve it.

LOCAL:

Caterpillar bringing 600 jobs to Clayton because of tax breaks and free land. So why not give everybody the same tax break? What is the city of Clayton doing barring the people from developing this 163 acres of land before now? As always, reducing the burden of government leads to job and wealth creation. This isn't rocket science.

MEDIA:

John Stossel's new show starts Thursday at 8pm on Fox Business Channel.

MISC:

Another great quote:

"If it's true that millions of adult American citizens are incapable of caring for and supporting and educating their own children, incapable of providing their own housing and their own medical care, incapable of paying the full costs of their bus and train and plane fares or the costs of highways and parking spaces for their own cars, incapable of meeting the expenses for light and heat and water and recreational facilities, incapable of operating their own farms or businesses without price support or tariff protection or "urban renewal" or other subsidy, incapable of looking after their own interests in job negotiations without a special grant of monopoly power from government, incapable of providing for themselves in periods of temporary unemployment or in their years of retirement — if it is true that so many American citizens are improvident and irresponsible, incapable of earning their own living and unable to survive except as wards of society — is there any reason why they should be permitted a vote or have any part whatsoever in governing society?

Isn't that the logical next step in the regression from citizenship to serfdom? Or, as one of the "liberal" professors has revealed, "Ours is not a government by the people, but government by government.""

We're near the end of that natural progression.

Boortz lists a number of bizarre beliefs people hold.

Boortz wonders why people are so much more fired up about his comments on Tim Tebow's religious script on his face than health care oppression, the global warming fraud and other minor issues impacting our lives. I wonder too.

Wireless electricity is on the way.

John Stossel on the folly of government interference in the mortgage market.

Feminists hoping Tiger Woods's wife beat him with a golf club. You have to love the peaceful leftists.