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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Obama expresses his fear of free speech.

The Democrats' attempt to stifle free speech by corporations includes forcing the business leaders to appear on camera and take up a bunch of time on required speech. The idea is that business leaders won't want to make themselves targets of politicians, and if they do, the ads will be expensive because of the required speech and they won't have much air time to say anything. The additional requirements may also prompt boycotts, hurting business. This is just another evil attempt to stifle free speech. I don't like the idea that government contractors could run ads promoting more government spending. That's kind of like government bureaucracies running ads to make themselves look good (oh wait, they do that all the time). And unfortunately, pretty much every major company in the country does business with the government. It's so big, they have to. Another problem created by big-government.

As we steadily loose our right to freedom of speech, the Chinese are gaining more freedom of speech. We're going the wrong way. China is going the right way.

RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

New York Times supports a bill that would take away a citizens right to keep and bear arms if government puts him or her on a watch list. They call it a right, not a privilege, for a reason. New York City takes away its citizens' and visitors' right to keep and bear arms just for being there.

TAX AND SPEND:

EU officials develop new plan to spend more money and amass more debt to fight debt problems. You can't make this stuff up. These people are either insane or consummate evil.

The USA Today explains that our federal debt problem is just like Greece's. Nice.

US corporate tax rate is uncompetitive. Duh.

"U.S. effective corporate rate is 35.0 percent, which is much higher than the 80-nation average of just 18.2 percent."

But politicians pretend they don't understand why jobs are fleeing overseas.

REGULATION:

Another reminder that government is a hotbed of hedonism funded by taking money from us by force.

"Back during the Bush administration the MMS had a series of big scandals tied to rampant drug use, orgies, lax or non-existent auditing and oversight. Sex for oil. When you think about it, who's got time for auditing when there's so much drugs and so many orgies going on at the office?"

Taxes are theft, and everything that follows from them is corrupt.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Ben Bernanke is preparing the next generation to be poorer than this generation by telling them they can be more happy with less money.

""Having a larger income is exciting at first, but as you get used to your new standard of living and as you associate with other people in your new income bracket, the thrill quickly wears off," he said."

We live in Bizzaro World.

HEALTH CARE:

I can't help but think these gross misrepresentations of what a free market is by George Bush and Republicans as well as Obama and Democrats including their economists is an intentional attempt to destroy support for free markets. If Obamacare is a free market, no wonder people don't like free markets. We have never had a free market in the US, though the private sector was much closer to a free market in the past. The closest thing we have to a free market today is the internet, and everybody loves the internet except for the politicians and activists who want government to control it.

It's impossible to understate just how damaging this requirement for all businesses - all - to file 1099s on every expense over $600. This is going to put thousands or tens of thousands of small businesses out of business. It's going to prompt the rise of the underground cash economy for businesses - creating a new black market. Corruption is going to skyrocket. It's nuts.

POLICE STATE:

It's already legal to strip the citizenship from an American convicted of a serious crime like treason. Lieberman-Brown wants to strip the citizenship from an American before trial in order to take away his constitutional protections at trial. Hell no.

Janet Napolitano won't be fired for incompetence. Government doesn't care about competence. It cares about power. The only way Napolitano will be fired is if Obama decides she's costing him votes.

While Cato is right about the surveillance cameras being a bad investment for crime fighting, it's wrong about the effectiveness of cops.

"When it comes to deterring crime and terrorism, police on the beat are still the sharpest tool we have."

A well-regulated militia would be the best crime fighting tool anybody ever had. There's too much government-loving going on at Cato.

WAR:

AG Holder says the Pakistan Taliban were behind the Time Square attempted bombing. Congratulations to both parties. They managed to create more enemies who are now attacking Americans on American soil.

How could the Times Square bombing be a sign of desperation? They've reached out and touched us from half a world away. That's a sign of growing power.

Pentagon unhappy with how much Congress spends on the troops. What? Gates complains about how much the Navy spends on ships when Army and Marine Corp need more money for troops. Do you ever get the feeling that everything you read in the mainstream media, because it just parrots what government tells it, is bull****? I'm happy to see Gates questioning the need for so many horrendously expensive aircraft carrier battle groups, but get your story straight.

Fast strike weapon is not nuclear but develops near-nuclear energies. Why wouldn't we develop this?

POLITICS:

Quick reminder that the two parties and their government are cesspools of hedonism:

"Staffers often covered the expenses of others. For example, party staff member Melanie Phister charged more than $12,000 in airline tickets for former House Speaker Ray Sansom and his wife and three daughters so they could join Crist's trade mission to Europe. She also charged a trip to New York for the family, $16,000 in Tampa Bay Rays playoff tickets and $20,000 for yacht rentals.

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Greer and Johnson were obviously big spenders. Johnson charged more than $1 million on his card and converted his AmEx points into airline miles just before being fired from the party in January. Greer charged about $500,000 and also cashed in points for miles. He once charged $9,468 for hotel and limousine service on a two-day Washington trip."

If this was private sector money, that would be fine. But this is money is sucked out of the private sector into the political economy to influence how government loots the rest of us.


Democrats could push an even more radical leftist agenda if Harry Reid was defeated. In whose dreams? In Reid gets defeated, Democrats will likely lose the House at seats more seats in the Senate at the same time.


Book quotes Obama using the word tea-bagger to describe critics. He probably thinks Olbermann is his useful idiot. I couldn't care less what he calls critics. It's his agenda that I have a problem with.


Barack Obama is the single biggest recipient of campaign contributions from BP over the last 20 years.


MISC:

Obama's leading Supreme Court nominee candidate used to work for Goldman-Sachs. I wonder if he'd invite that scrutiny.

The stupidity of over-reacting.

The deranged mind of a government lover.

"Ever heard the one about the guy who hated government until a deregulated Wall Street crashed, an oil spill devastated the Gulf of Mexico, a coal mine collapsed, and some good police work stopped a terrorist attack?

Rarely has the news of the day run so counter to the spin on the news of the day. It's hard to argue that the difficulties we confront were caused by an excessively powerful "big" government. Rather, most of them arose from the government's failure to do its job in the first place."

You have to be amazingly, willingly blind to be this wrong.