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LIBERTY:

How anti-discrimination laws have been used to undermine our rights.

FASCISM:

Pharoah Obama orders banks to make loans.

ECONOMY:

The difference between Obama's rhetoric and his policies on the economy.

"The Obama Administration desperately wants a strong economic recovery, or so it says, but does it have any idea how to encourage one?

It says it wants job growth, but its policies keep raising the cost of creating new jobs. It says it wants small business to take risks, but it keeps reducing the rewards if those risks succeed. And it says it wants banks to lend more money, even as it keeps threatening to punish bankers if they make too many bad loans or make too much money."

This isn't an accident. He's harming our economy on purpose while fooling people into thinking he wants to improve it.

"Mr. Dennis reports that small-business owners are much more concerned about other Washington issues [than loans], namely the uncertainty created by the Obama policy agenda: When will the taxes arrive to pay for Washington's spending binge? How much will health-care reform cost? What will be the impact of cap-and-trade legislation to address climate change?"

These policies will be devastating and Obama knows it.

TAX AND SPEND:

Between Obama's stimulus boondoggle and the new omnibus spending bill, Democrats have increased spending for federal agencies by 70 percent over two years. And Obama talks about cutting the deficit, and the press never calls him on it.

Even the New York Times recognizes that tax cuts would stimulate the economy while more spending won't. The problem with tax cuts is the deficit and debt balloon before revenues bounce back from a stronger economy, and funding our debt is already taking huge amounts of money out of the private sector. Too bad the author doesn't recommend spending cuts too.

People making over 200,000 a year don't have enough money to fund Democrats' agenda no matter how much you tax them.

Problems caused by government debt. I don't think a bipartisan commission of aristocrats on debt reduction is a good idea at all. Anytime the government does something bipartisanly, the people get screwed double. It's a foregone conclusion that any such panel would recommend new taxes and at best token spending cuts.

Any tax hike, including a VAT tax, won't work because the aristocrats will just keep spending.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Analysis predicting future inflation.

It's not possible for the Fed to make good policy because anything it does to alter the economy from its voluntary state is bad policy. The only thing the Fed could do in our interest is cease to interfere in the economy and then cease to exist. Manipulating interest rates is price fixing, and price fixing is always damaging. Being the lender of last resort protects banks and financial firms from the discipline of the marketplace and rewards them for taking risks they wouldn't take in a voluntary economy.

HEALTH CARE:

Obama, health care and the new road to serfdom. This quote explains why the more intrusive a government becomes domestically, the more wars if fights:

"These paternalists presume to know what is good for us, better than we know ourselves. They are determined to make the world over in their own ideological image – and, of course, all for our own good, whether we want it or not.

They are also willing to use force against their fellow human beings to attain their ends. They believe that it is morally right for the state to use its coercive powers to take the income and wealth of some to give to others."

The more aristocrats are willing to use force on their own people - for our own good, of course - the more they're willing to use force on the people of other countries - for their own good, of course. Isn't that why Bush invaded Iraq? For the good of the Iraqis? Isn't that why we're still in Afghanistan? It's certainly not to fight al Qaeda. They're not in Afghanistan. The more paternalistic a government becomes, the more aggressive it becomes. For those who think Europe or Canada are exceptions, their history says otherwise, and if the US wasn't fighting in wars all around the world, more European countries would be.

"This tendency toward political plunder is due to what is called a “concentration of benefits and a diffusion of burdens.” Suppose that in a country of 30 million people, the government taxes each citizen $1, and then redistributes that $30 million among a special interest group of 30 individuals. The 30 recipients have a strong incentive to lobby, influence, and even corruptly “buy” the votes of the politicians able to pass this redistributive legislation. Each individual taxpayer, on the other hand, has little incentive to counterlobby legislators merely to save $1 in taxes.

Thus, modern democracy has degenerated into a system of political plunder and special privilege at the expense of consumers, taxpayers, and competing producers in society."

And they pretend taking a dollar from ever person doesn't effect the economy or the lives of the people plundered. It makes the entire country $30 million poorer because it causes resources and workers to be shifted from where they would naturally go to where the $30 million in unnatural spending draws them.

Obama tries to use his gift on Democrats to pass health care. Another case of aristocrats trying to make our future much worse.

Harry Reid keeping his health care compromise bill so secret that his senate whip doesn't know what's in it. Obviously Reid doesn't want the public to know what's in it. Why do we elect aristocrats who behave like this?

The individual mandate is more dangerous than the public option.

"As I argue in this Cato study, an individual mandate gives government more (and more immediate) control over Americans’ health care than even the so-called “public option” would. As it has in Massachusetts, an individual mandate will allow government to control what kind of insurance you buy, how much you pay, how insurers pay doctors, where doctors report to work, how doctors practice medicine, and what kind of medical care you get."

But Republicans didn't say a thing about the mandate.

Senate refuses to allow the import of cheap, foreign prescription medicines. So much for wanting to lower health care costs.

States considering constitutional amendments to nullify Obamacare.

GLOBAL WARMING:

The reason this global warming conference is so scary is the aristocrats only differ on the details of an agreement, not on the substance of the fraudulent issue. I hope that's enough to kill any deal. They could change history all right. They could make it much the future much worse.

Reporter shut down by UN security in Copenhagen because he asked a question about climategate. When people have no basis for their positions, they silence debate with force.

The forecast in Copenhagen is 14 degrees and snow.

Violence and Soviet flags in Copenhagen.

Sunshine melted glaciers faster in the 40s than they're melting today.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE:

Photographer arrested for taking pictures of Santa and kids then police at mall.

WAR:

Obama to transfer Guantanamo detainees to Illinois, where it intends to hold some indefinitely without trial. In what fantasy land does Obama live? I agree that we should be able hold prisoners of war for as long as the war lasts. That's the way it's always been. But that isn't how it's going to work out in this never-ending war. The best solution is to end these wars and turn the detainees who aren't going to be tried for war crimes over to the governments of either their native countries or the countries where they were captured. Funny how this article calls them terrorist suspects as if they were criminals and not prisoners of war. That's the bias of the media at work.

Congressman says Obama is stalling in proving info on Fort Hood shooter.

MISC:

Talking about peak gold makes no sense.

States continue to ignore the Real ID law.