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ECONOMY:

The M3 money supply is plunging, leading monetarist economists to predict a nasty secondary recession. Even though the Austrians dispute M3 is a valid measurement of the money supply, they agree another dip is coming, but they disagree on how to address it.

HEALTH CARE:

Canadians have discovered that when the price of health care is hidden from the public, they use more of it, driving up the costs. Duh. I'll give them a clue - let the market set the price.

GLOBAL WARMING:

James Hansen's GISS busted for deleting arctic temperature data to make it look warmer than it is.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

Part of the solution to the illegal immigration problem is to make it easy for those who really want to work to come here. Another part is to restore the rancher's property rights so they can evict trespassers. Another part is to return immigration control to the states as the Constitution demands.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Israeli commandos storm the lead ship in an aid convoy for Gaza, and nine people end up dead. What a disaster.

"Israel's deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said his country "regrets any loss of life and did everything to avoid this outcome"."

This is another example of an aristocrat lying without conscious. Avoiding loss of life was easy - don't storm the ship. While I agree the motive for the convoy was to create a confrontation and an incident, the Israelis are clearly the aggressors and at fault for these deaths. They stormed the ship, not vice-versa.

The Commerce Department enforces an anti-Isreali boycott policy against Israel. I will penalize any company that boycotts Israel. That's crazy and unconstitutional.

POLITICS:

Cato calls Rand Paul's stumble on the Civil Rights Act principled, but they then admit he caved to political correctness.

"Despite how his comments have played, Paul has said he is glad that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed. He accepts the Civil Rights Act as settled U.S. law — not to be revisited by the courts despite possible constitutional infirmities. "

You can't have it both ways. Paul supports using the government's gun to dictate to the states, centralizing authority in the federal government, interfering in private property rights of business owners and institutionalizing bigotry that society was previously overcoming. Paul's position is cowardly and politically correct.

MISC:

Robert Murphy shows that Herbert Hoover, contrary to everything you've heard, did not cut federal spending. He grew it, then Roosevelt grew it even faster.

China to become world's leading producer of supercomputers. Remember a few years back when the Bush administration blocked sales of supercomputers to China? That's how fast China is overtaking us economically because of the burden of government in the US. We're throwing away the greatest birthright any people on earth ever received because we're the stupidest people on earth.

Apple surpasses Microsoft in market-cap.

Study shows that cell phones disrupt bee hives which may explain the decline in bees.