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LIBERTY:

New law enables president to declare martial law nationwide. Before 9/11, Americans deluded themselves into think terrorists couldn't strike here. Today Americans delude themselves into thinking they're free and nobody can take away that freedom. They also delude themselves into thinking economic collapse can't happen here. Government is going to wash those delusions away.

How nullification was used to help slaves escape the south.

TAX AND SPEND:

I've been telling people including Boortz for years that they're foolish to be concerned about overseas wars, even if they were making us safer. The federal government is on the verge of conquering America, and when that happens, we won't be able to fight any wars. We'll be destitute. The bread lines of the Great Depression will seem like the good old days. What's really scary is, Boortz seems to get that part, but he doesn't call for ending the war.

"Taking that $12.3 trillion into consideration ... add up the interest paid on that debt, plus the cost of entitlement benefits like Social Security and Medicare ... and by the year 2020, that spending alone will consume 80% of all federal revenues. That does not include any spending for military or homeland security."

We won't be able to defend ourselves, let alone anybody else. We have to focus on keeping America from becoming a failed state, not Iraq or Afghanistan. And we're losing fast. Ron Paul was the only candidate in 2008 who had an agenda that would have prevented our collapse. If Ron Paul runs in 2012, he will be the only candidate who might be able to prevent our collapse, but it's not guaranteed. We might not make it to 2012, let alone 2016. We screwed up by not electing Paul in 2008. America as we know it won't survive a repeat of that screw-up in 2012.

The entitlement/welfare mentality drips from this quote like blood from a not-so-fresh corpse:

"Greece's Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou wants other eurozone nations to release a detailed plan of how they will bail-out his country."

Other European countries would be fools to bail out Greece, this entitlement/welfare mentality is going to kill millions more, but they'll probably do it anyway.

"Mr Papaconstantinou's comments also came after the European Union (EU) statistics agency Eurostat said on Monday that Greece falsified data last year to hide the extent of its debts."

Government is organized crime. Let's hope the Europeans enjoy a great bout of sanity and let Greece suffer the consequences of its actions. As for the EU, it's damned if it does and damned if it doesn't. If it bails out Greece, it will have to bail out all the PIGS over and over until the entire EU defaults. It it doesn't, the EU will go defunct. French bank head says the same thing.

New Jersey raised taxes on the rich, and the rich left and took their money with them. Atlas shrugging.

Crony capitalism is only a means to an end for Obama. The end is Cloward and Piven economic collapse and Marxist revolution - he thinks.

HEALTH CARE:

UN agency determines US has best health care in the world. This is true, but I'm amazed the UN says so. Also, that doesn't mean our system is good. Government has made it far too expensive and made care lower quality than it would be in a system of voluntary exchange.

Republican Senator claims Democrats have decided to use reconciliation to pass Obama's health care oppression bill with only 51 votes. Then the House will pass it as is. Democrats know they're going down in flames, so they might as well screw the American people as badly as possible on the way out the door. I bet this is why Evan Bayh is retiring. This is scary. Time to fire off more emails.

Health insurance company caves to Obama administration and puts off rate hikes.

GLOBAL WARMING:

Another mainstream paper has noticed that lack of sunspots lead to global cooling and solar cycle 24 is still for all intents and purposes a no-show.

Disgraced CRU director Phil Jones can't seem to find the data he used for his hockey stick graph. He may have "lost" it. How convenient. He wants us to think he's absent-minded, not a criminal. His emails didn't seem that absent-minded. He admits the planet hasn't warmed in 15 years. Nice of him to finally admit that. And he concedes the possibility that it was warmer in the Medieval Warm Period. Concedes my ass. That's the period he and his cohorts tried so hard to cover up with fraudulent data. He knows it was warmer then. Jones is singing like a canary, trying to make his case to the public through anybody who will give him a forum, and he might just be the canary in the global warming fraud's coal mine. This guy would sell his mother right now to avoid prosecution. I hope he gets dragged through the courts and held accountable for all the money he defrauded taxpayers. Please hold this fraud accountable for his actions.

"Discussing the interview, the BBC’s environmental analyst Roger Harrabin said he had spoken to colleagues of Professor Jones who had told him that his strengths included integrity and doggedness but not record-keeping and office tidying.

Mr Harrabin, who conducted the interview for the BBC’s website, said the professor had been collating tens of thousands of pieces of data from around the world to produce a coherent record of temperature change.

That material has been used to produce the ‘hockey stick graph’ which is relatively flat for centuries before rising steeply in recent decades.

According to Mr Harrabin, colleagues of Professor Jones said ‘his office is piled high with paper, fragments from over the years, tens of thousands of pieces of paper, and they suspect what happened was he took in the raw data to a central database and then let the pieces of paper go because he never realised that 20 years later he would be held to account over them’."

That's a global sized load of horse manure. Scientists always keep their raw data so that other scientists can replicate or find errors in their work.

"But Dr Benny Pieser, director of the sceptical Global Warming Policy Foundation, said Professor Jones’s ‘excuses’ for his failure to share data were hollow as he had shared it with colleagues and ‘mates’."

This fraud is pathetically transparent. It would be funny if it wasn't so dangerous and hadn't impoverished so many people. The US spends about $2 billion of poisoned federal funds a year promoting this fraud. At $50,000 a year for an average private sector job, that's 20,000 jobs lost to this propaganda operation.

WAR ON DRUGS:

New book exposes "evidence that U.S. government protects and supports, as unstated policy through its clandestine intelligence agency, the CIA, some of the world’s most powerful drug cartels."

WAR:

US troops dodging snipers in Marjah.

"The massive offensive in the Marjah area of southern Helmand province pits about 15,000 U.S., Afghan and British troops against hundreds of Taliban fighters in the biggest joint operation since a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban leadership in 2001."

It takes 15,000 troops to oust several hundred Taliban fighters. In the mean time the US killed five more civilians. This strategy is doomed to fail.

Bush tried fewer than a dozen real terrorists in civilian court. So what? If we're at war with al Qaeda, and we are, he should have tried zero. If we weren't, he should have tried all of them in civilian court. This blurring of the line between criminal and enemy combatant, the same blurring Obama is doing is dangerous to us all. Presidents don't decide whether or not we're at war. Congress does. And Congress declared war. The president has to follow the law, but they never do.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Hillary Clinton warns that Iran is becoming a military dictatorship as Obama plans to use federal security forces to force his health care oppression plan down our throats.

POLITICS:

I think all these attacks on the institution of the presidency are misplaced. Presidents do oppressive things, but the president didn't create leviathan he uses against us. Congress did. The president didn't create the Dept. of Education, Dept. of Agriculture, Homeland Security, the Fed, HUD, the FCC, the FTC or anything else. Congress did. The president had no power to create them. The president didn't pass an $787 billion stimulus bill, try to seize control of our health care system or try to force cap and trade down our throats, Congress did. The president has no power to make that happen. Other than being Congress's enforcer, the president has virtually no power in domestic policy. He administers the oppressive organizations created by Congress. If Congress fails to exercise oversight over the bureaucracies they created, that's Congress's fault too.

As Rockwell hinted in his speech, the president is the distractor-in-chief, constantly focusing the attention of Americans on imaginary threats from China, Russia and Iraq. His distractions enable Congress to pass the oppressive laws we suffer under. The president is on the stage distracting us but Congress is stealing our wallets. Focusing on the president as the source of our oppression is counterproductive because helps distract from Congress. That's his role in our government, and president after president has played it spectacularly.

Further, the president doesn't have the power to reduce leviathan, Congress does. Congress would have to repeal the Dept. of Education, Dept. of Agriculture, Homeland Security, end the Fed, abolish HUD, the FCC, the FTC, etc. The president has no power to do that. It's easy to focus on the enforcer, and it's easy to call out the individual at the top of leviathan - especially when he commits such spectacular acts of oppression as killing the Branch Davidians or Vicki Weaver - because we can put a face to the oppressor unlike the 535 headed monster in Congress which spawns this oppression. And it's conceivable to elect a decent president, but not a decent Congress. I like to dream of a president who obeys the law and refuses to fund unconstitutional organizations - most of government - but even if that happened, once he was out of office, some other president would staff them again because Congress would never repeal the laws that created them.

Indiana Democrat Senator Bayh to retire from Senate. Democrats are dropping like flies.

Big-government McCain faces re-election challenge. I would love to see McCain go down.

LOCAL:

Dayton man revealed as spy who passed nuclear secrets to Russia during the Manhattan project. Thanks for helping the Russians threaten my life, jerk.

Local businesswoman Rene Oberer to challenge Congressman Turner in Republican primary. Excellent.

MISC:

British think tank recommends cutting the work week to 21 hours. They neglect to mention this would produce unimaginable poverty, mass starvation, etc.

The not so wild west. This is the question I keep asking and not finding an answer to:

"The essential question facing this school is how can law and order, which do require some coercion, be supplied without ultimately resulting in one provider of those services holding a monopoly on coercion, i.e., government."

I give them credit for identifying the exact issue that keeps prompting me to say anarchy is a fantasy. Maybe they read my blog. I hope they have an answer.

"The profit motive will then see to it that the most efficient providers of high-quality arbitration rise to the top and that inefficient and graft-oriented police lose their jobs."

But what stops that group from using coercion to stay on top? And how does one organization enforce itself on another without it being a battle between warlords?

"Also, one has to be careful in always describing private agencies as "nongovernment" because, to the extent that they develop and become the agency of legitimized coercion they also qualify as "government.""

This is what I keep saying is inevitable.

"There are not significant enough economies of scale in crime so that major "mafia" organizations evolve and dominate society."

It'll be interesting to see what stops that.