FAA grounds plane trailing banner ridiculing Tiger Woods over Augusta. If you think this was a random check, I've got some land to sell you in Florida.
If don't believe it can happen here, you're delusional:
"What’s really worrisome?
The President has now arrogated the power to order all the firms serving the Internet to turn it off at his demand. FEMA during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina already demonstrated a predilection for turning off cell phone towers and we know from experience that AT&T, MCI, and all the other phone companies will accede to any demand emanating from the Oval Office.
What happens if you wake up one day and can’t reach your kid who is away at college? You can’t phone your aging parent in the next state. E-mail, cell phones, and land lines are literally turned off by order of the President.
It’s an emergency, the TV tells you. The National Emergency Broadcast System is playing on every channel that does not have one of those "off air" colored bar screens showing, all 999 of them."
That's worrisome all right. If you don't realize that the reason the government is seizing power over speech is to use it to its advantage, you don't understand the nature of government.
To rob a country, own a bank.
FOREIGN POLICY:
Poland's president and many other Polish figures die in plane crash in Russia on way to even remembering Russian slaughter of Poles. Oh, man.
Some in the Republican establishment are waking up and realizing that the way to redemption is rejection of Bush and the big-government Republicans of the last decade. Too bad they didn't think of that in 2000 or at least 2004, but this is a positive sign.
Supreme Court battle may stall Obama agenda.
"In particular, Pilo said he doesn't expect the Senate to take up the climate change legislation that barely passed the House last year."Let's hope so.
"Obama said he will move quickly to name a nominee, as he did with Justice Sonia Sotomayor last year, and that he'll look for someone with similar qualities -- independent mind, fierce dedication to the rule of law."How funny. The whole knock on Sotomayor was that she didn't support the rule of law. Now Obama's trying to rewrite history.
Gary North nails this, showing that if you want to achieve political victory, you must be willing to temporarily defeat the party of your choice.
"In modern American history, we saw this strategy applied by the Eastern Republican Establishment's refusal to support Goldwater in 1964. They ran Governor Scranton as a last-ditch effort to keep Goldwater from getting the nomination. When that failed, they literally walked out of the convention.
Johnson won in 1964. He did not run in 1968. Nixon defeated Humphrey, and the Republican Establishment took over the White House in 1969. They were willing to go down to defeat in 1964 in order to ruin the Goldwater wing of the party. They were wise to do this.
Goldwater sold out the conservatives in 1968. The Rockefeller wing that had ruined his candidacy in 1964 got him to give his infamous "grow up, conservatives" speech at the 1968 convention. "Grow up" meant "vote for Nixon." He lived to regret this. He was on the side of the pro-impeachment Republicans in 1974. Too late."The tea partiers must be willing to do something similar to gain control of the Republican party. The good news is, they can do it in 2010 and not have to wait for a presidential election.
"The name of the political game in both parties is to ignore your sure voters, since they are sure."
"Any political candidate who runs on a platform of "me, too, but slower" is going to lose the Republican Party's nomination in 2012."
"The Establishment Republicans will wail in despair. "This is keeping the party from winning." Exactly! The goal is to do this for as long as the Republic Party does not publicly pursue the agenda of the Tea Party wing."Like I always say, if you vote for the lesser of two evils, evil wins every time. Great analysis of the political situation with the tea partiers.
Mitt Romney beats Ron Paul by one vote in new straw poll. This shows the conservative divide. Half of them love Obamacare when Mitt Romney does it. The other half are fed up with government and Republicans.
MISC:
Book documenting the hundreds of millions of people murdered by governments. The US government looks good by comparison, and that's what we always hear. I think this is the source of the American exceptionalism feeling.
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