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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

The Supreme Court previously slapped down Kagan's argument about a cost-benefit trade off to speech in an 8-1 decision, so Obama wants to put her on the Supreme Court so that won't happen again.

SOCIALISM:

Both Republicans and Democrats are fed up with public employee unions. Of course they waited until those unions bankrupted governments to get fed up. Too little. Too late.

ECONOMY:

In a reminder of how predictable our current circumstances were, Mises student predicted riots in Greece back in February. The US is headed down the same path.

REGULATION:

Turkey bans Google?

GLOBAL WARMING:

The senate is voting on a plan to reclaim some of the power grabbed from it by the EPA when it declared CO2 a pollutant.

Statistical analysis comparing Earth's natural climate cycles to temperature changes in the first half of the 20th century enables scientist to retroactively predict the rising temperatures in the second have of the 20th century. This is strong evidence that the warming we've experienced over the last 40 years is driven by natural climate cycles, not man-made greenhouse gases.

WAR:

Wistleblowing soldier arrested for leaking videos of soldiers killing civilians.

"Manning was turned in late last month by a former computer hacker with whom he spoke online. In the course of their chats, Manning took credit for leaking a headline-making video of a helicopter attack that Wikileaks posted online in April. The video showed a deadly 2007 U.S. helicopter air strike in Baghdad that claimed the lives of several innocent civilians.

He said he also leaked three other items to Wikileaks: a separate video showing the notorious 2009 Garani air strike in Afghanistan that Wikileaks has previously acknowledged is in its possession; a classified Army document evaluating Wikileaks as a security threat, which the site posted in March; and a previously unreported breach consisting of 260,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables that Manning described as exposing “almost criminal political back dealings.”"

The cover-up will not be televised.

10 NATO troops killed in Afghanistan.

FOREIGN POLICY:


Israelis kill three Palestinian divers and wound fourth engaged in apparent terrorist attack. It seems odd they would try to swim a couple of kilometers carrying a bunch of weapons to carry out their attack.

POLITICS:

Obama to "quickly" in shallow waters. Let's hope so, but I'll believe it when I see it. This is how Obama thinks of things:

"President Barack Obama bluntly defended his administration's response to the undersea gusher fouling the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, telling an interviewer he has met with experts to learn "whose ass to kick.""

He isn't trying to help. He isn't trying to get out of the way so the actors in the private sector can fix this problem faster. He's trying to do more harm, and he's losing it by exposing that. And he can't stop lying:

"I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf," Obama told NBC's "Today" show in an interview scheduled to air Tuesday. "A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there, standing in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be."

Nobody was covering it? That's just a bald faced lie.

MEDIA:

Helen Thomas finally stuck her foot in her mouth so deeply, she had to resign. Good riddance. She was the epitome of a commentator grinding axes while pretending to be a reporter.

MISC:

Use of weed-killer has >made weeds harder to kill. Duh. That's how evolution works.
Tar balls wash up on Florida coast. This model shows most of the oil will be dispersed into the Atlantic where it will do little damage before it breaks down.