Free kibbles

LIBERTY:

Why would anybody want to live in a city where you can't buy the food you want?

RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

Cato takes Justice Scalia to task for failing to uphold his originalist pretensions during the McDonald case.

TAX AND SPEND:

Democrats want another $100 billion we don't have to bail out union city workers. The last thing we want is to save government jobs with more debt.

Optimistically the official debt will hit $18.6 trillion by 2020. I don't think our government will last that long. There's nobody to bail our government out, and investors know that.

House committee bans earmarks for for-profit companies. Republicans want to ban them all. They should have done that in 2001.

I hadn't heard of a national broadband plan, but I know a tax and spend boondoggle when I see one.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Great analogy:
"it's as though a bunch of friends without any real money started exchanging IOUs for money, and then after a while forgot that the IOUs were supposed to represent, and be redeemed in, real money."
Exactly.

EDUCATION:

It looks like the bulk of the stimulus money so far went to teachers unions. The net result will be more failing students and schools.

School board fires all teachers and administrators at school which failed over half its students. Sounds good to me.

HEALTH CARE:

Recipients of much federal aid, Catholic bishops endorse Obamacare.

Democrat Senator Durbin highlights one of Obama's lies about health care oppression. You know it's bad when his own party leaders are pointing out his lies (though he doesn't mention Obama by name).

House Democrats are trying gimmicks to avoid voting on the Senate bill but still use reconciliation. That shows how badly Obama has split his party.

Obama implements Republicans suggestion to use bounty hunters to root out Medicare fraud. If this is a good idea, why didn't Bush do it? Why are Republicans just pushing it now?

Cato asks probing questions of thoughtful supporters of Obamacare. Nobody will answer.

POLICE STATE:

Pittsburgh cops angry judge threw out charges against innocent kid they attacked. This story is still all wrong. The three cops that beat this kid should be on trial, not him.

WAR:

Supporting the troops is not an excuse for supporting a bad policy.

McCain and Lieberman want to treat domestic terrorists like enemy combatants. This is the inevitable next step that results from blurring the line between criminal and enemy combatant by Presidents Bush and Obama. We need get back to the basics. Congress declared war on al Qaeda and its affiliates. Anybody in al Qaeda or its affiliates is an enemy combatant and should held as one until the war is over or tried in military court for war crimes or as spies during wartime. Americans can never be enemy combatants. According to the Constitution, they can only be traitors, which is a civilian crime.

POLITICS:

Having Romney's book debut at #1 is a bad sign.

Harry Reid promises to reform the filibuster next congress. Is this guy living in a dream world? First of all, he had a filibuster-proof majority for a year, and Democrats wasted it by dividing their own party. Second, it looks like Reid won't win re-election (but with these corrupt aristocrats, anything's possible). Third, there's no way Democrats will hold a filibuster proof majority necessary to reform the filibuster next session. They'll barely have a majority, if that.

Case in point about the divisiveness - Nancy Pelosi tells Rahm Emanuel to stop assigning deadlines to Congress. Obama thinks he's the boss. Obama wants be the boss. He's a tyrant wannabe. This is a good sign Obamacare may not get done before Easter recess.

You can take corrupt politicians out of Chicago and put them in the White House, but you can't take the corruption out of Chicago.

More Americans trust Republicans than Democrats. That's like saying more Americans trust the Mafia than the Yakuza.

MISC:

Which professions cheat the most? Here's the list. Doctors for men and teachers for women.