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SOCIALISM:

Congress calling Toyota execs on carpet to boost socialized GM and auto labor unions.

STATES RIGHTS:

County in Idaho nullifies state mandate. This is how it's supposed to work. The local government is supposed to be the most important in our lives, and the further away government gets, the less important it's supposed to be. Our system of government is exactly backwards from how was created and intended.

ECONOMY:

Buy farmland and gold. Absolutely.

Super long essay on debt dominoes - from investment banks to governments all the way to the US government.

"In October 2008, the mainstream media and politicians of the Western world were warning of an impending depression if actions were not taken to quickly prevent this. The problem was that this crisis had been a long-time coming, and what’s worse, is that the actions governments took did not address any of the core, systemic issues and problems with the global economy; they merely set out to save the banking industry from collapse. To do this, governments around the world implemented massive “stimulus” and “bailout” packages, plunging their countries deeper into debt to save the banks from themselves, while charging it to people of the world.

Then an uproar of stock market speculation followed, as money was pumped into the stocks, but not the real economy. This recovery has been nothing but a complete and utter illusion, and within the next two years, the illusion will likely come to a complete collapse.

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When the crisis is over, the middle classes of the western world will have been liquidated of their economic, political and social status. The global economy will have gone through the greatest consolidation of industry and banking in world history leading to a system in which only a few corporations and banks control the global economy and its resources; governments will have lost that right. "

Goldman Sachs uber alles. Yikes. I hope I get a chance to read all of this.

The average health insurance profit margin in under 4 percent. That won't stop Democrats from demonizing them.

TAX AND SPEND:

This list of services Michigan wants to tax is amazingly long. Government is never happy until it taxes the people into oblivion.

If we repeal the sixteenth amendment as required by the FairTax legislation, we'll have the FairTax with no income tax.

Greece running into problems as promised bailout yet to show up. Don't bail Greece out. The people of Greece must suffer the consequences of their actions to put an end to this destructive spending.

The birthplace of Keynesian economics, Britain, will be its deathbed. Let's hope so. Better there than here.

The top earmarkers in the House and Senate are Republicans.

Both these budget deficit analyses are too low. The economy is not going to bounce back. It's going to get worse because of government spending.

New taxes to pay for Obama's version of health care oppression. New taxes to pay for everything else. Raising payroll taxes on those earning above $109,000 won't save Social Security. What happened to the (phony) $250,000 limit?

The CBO claims that Obama's stimulus boondoggle created 2.1 million jobs in Q4 '09 and it lowered the unemployment rate by 2.1 percent. What a crock. I wonder who Obama threatened to kill if they didn't lie in this report.

Because of the Bush tax cuts, our top marginal income tax rate is around average for other developed nations. Average. We're an also-ran right now. If the Bush tax cuts expire, we'll be well below average. If Obama hikes rates more like he's talking about, we'll be among the worst if not the worst. And they wonder why jobs are fleeing overseas.

REGULATION:

Bankruptcy is one of the most powerful regulation tools of any market, and our government keeps weakening and avoiding bankruptcies.

New regulations for health care.

Standards imposed from the top never work because the people at the bottom have the power to get around them while still sucking down our tax dollars.

HEALTH CARE:

Democrats still planning to use reconciliation to pass health care oppression if Republicans filibuster. Don't blink Republicans.

Obamacare III has higher implicit taxes and a faster death spiral. And that's what this is really all about. Failing quickly so the feds can implement full socialized medicine.

Cato lampoons Obama's Orwellian health care headline:

"Putting Americans in control of their health care."

How funny.

GLOBAL WARMING:

Texas challenges EPA's ruling calling an essential ingredient for live a pollutant. Take the next step and nullify the ruling.

Obama created a global warming office in the Commerce Dept? Why is this the first I heard of it? We know why he put a guy in charge who tried to suppress contradictory evidence.

Global warming frauds withdraw study claiming oceans will rise.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Latin American countries want to create a block that excludes the US and Canada. OK.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

Counties pushing illegal immigrants to respond to census so they can control more federal money. Our government is sick.

POLITICS:

Full results of CPAC straw poll.

Great interview with Ron Paul on Morning Joe.

Ron Paul and Judge Napolitano in Columbus on March. 8.

Krugman is a Manchurian columnist. He's a big-government propagandist masquerading as an economist.

Pat Buchanan is on the Ron Paul bandwagon wanting to bring all US troops home.

"Author Lawrence Vance has inventoried America's warfare state.

We spend more on defense than the next 10 nations combined.

Our Navy exceeds in firepower the next 13 navies combined. We have 100,000 troops in Iraq, 100,000 in Afghanistan or headed there, 28,000 in Korea, over 35,000 in Japan and 50,000 in Germany. By the Department of Defense's "Base Structure Report," there are 716 U.S. bases in 38 countries.

Chalmers Johnson, who has written books on this subject, claims DOD is minimizing the empire. He discovered some 1,000 U.S. facilities, many of them secret and sensitive. And according to DOD's "Active Duty Military Personnel Strengths by Regional Area and by Country," U.S. troops are now stationed in 148 countries and 11 territories.

Estimated combined budgets for the Pentagon, two wars, foreign aid to allies, 16 intelligence agencies, scores of thousands of contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, and our new castle-embassies: $1 trillion a year.

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Ron Paul's victory at CPAC may be a sign the prodigal sons of the right are casting off the heresy of neoconservatism and coming home to first principles."

The freedom agenda is expanding like gangbusters.

86 percent of Americans have realized that government in the US is broken. The other 14 percent work for the government.

Every now and then you read something in the press that is stunning for its accuracy and honesty.

"There's a major political fraud underway: the GOP is once again donning their libertarian, limited-government masks in order to re-invent itself and, more important, to co-opt the energy and passion of the Ron-Paul-faction that spawned and sustains the "tea party" movement. "

This sentence is one of those things.

"Credit to Mike Huckabee for acknowledging this core incompatibility by saying he would not attend CPAC because of its "increasing libertarianism.""

At least Huckabee admits he's an enemy of freedom unlike every other Republican.

"The very idea that a political party dominated by neocons, warmongers, surveillance fetishists, and privacy-hating social conservatives will be a party of "limited government" is absurd on its face. There literally is no myth more transparent than the Republican Party's claim to believe in restrained government power."

Another nugget of pure truth.

Birthers to march on Washington and demand Obama's birth certificate. It won't work. It probably won't be many people either. I hope it gets covered though. I want to know what Obama is hiding.

LOCAL:

Big Ohio government has driven three corporations to Georgia in the last eight months. One of them is NCR. Way to go Ohio! We're trying to win the race to the bottom.

MISC:

This is the first I heard that the IRS suicide pilot killed two. That sucks.

I'm not giving up my shampoo, but I use an all natural shampoo from Trader Joes, not a department store brand. My hair does just fine.