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SOCIALISM:

Port Authority cops in New York City collect overtime while not working.

ECONOMY:

As sovereign debt collapse nears, gold is returning to its traditional role as money and a store of wealth.

In everyday life we often interchange the terms money and wealth, but Robert Murphy reminds of the huge differences.

TAX AND SPEND:

Democrats concoct a scheme to get around voting on a budget with a trillion dollar deficit before the election.

REGULATION:

This headline is a good reminder that every government interference in the market divides us into winners and losers:

"Auto dealers win while banks lose in Wall Street bill"

This has union influence written all over it.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Greenspan is at it again.

"[T]hese words of Greenspan’s are profoundly safe things to say right now, and probably stem from Greenspan’s desperate bid to remain relevant while covering up his 19 years of profligacy and horrendously bad forecasting while at the Fed. Now after almost two decades of enabling deficit spending through Federal Reserve policy, Greenspan has decided to lecture the feds on the dangers of deficit spending."

Hypocrite.

The Fed has released a comic book to inform Americans of the evils of inflation, but they obviously forgot to include the fact that the Fed is the source of inflation. Chutzpah indeed. "The Fed has always been at war with inflation." Orwell is laughing at us from the grave.

US governments will issue nearly as much debt this year as all other countries combined.

EDUCATION:

Politicians refuse to either understand or acknowledge that the reason education costs keep rising is government subsidies keep rising. If you want to lower the price of college, cut off the government funds. That will make college affordable for every student is prepared to profit from attending college.

HEALTH CARE:

Record number of doctors refusing to treat Medicare patients because payments are too low. Government drives up costs and reduces quality of care. That's all it can do.

Page 10 of the Primal Blueprint tells us what's really wrong with our health care system:

"Of the one million dollars America spends annually on healhth care, the Centers for Disease contrel and prevention (CDC) estimates that 70 percent of that is spent on lifestyle-related diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease."

So the way to cut health care costs is to embrace paleo-style eating habits. (Don't call it diet - people immediately stop listening when you call it that.) Government propaganda about how to eat is responsible for our health care costs.

GLOBAL WARMING:

Climate fraud publishes climate skeptic blacklist as peer reviewed paper. No need to be concerned about the peer review process.

Sea surface temperatures continue to plunge as la Nina takes hold.

500 penguins die of cold. You won't read about that in any alarmist news outlet.

Nancy Pelosi really pushing for tax and trade in wake of Gulf oil spill. Obama couldn't get Obamacare passed, but Pelosi did, so this is very dangerous. I think Pelosi is in charge in Washington.

Green subsidies wreak havoc on German economy.


ENERGY:

Do the long-term effects of oil spills include health problems? I wouldn't be surprised.

Between the summer driving season, the Gulf oil spill and Obama's ban on drilling, gasoline prices are going up. Obama likes that. He wants make us all poorer.

Calling Obama's Gulf drilling ban arbitrary, a judge strikes it down. But Obama will not allow any opportunity to harm Americans pass, so he's appealing. Not only is he appealing, he's going to issue a new ban that will have to be challenged again. Obama refuses to let a little thing like the law keep him from putting Americans out of work and collapsing our economy.

This is a fine time to remember Carter's energy fascism.

WAR:

Afghanistan General McChrystal and his staff harshly criticize Obama appointees for their handling of Afghanistan war. Of course they're infighting. They're fighting a no-win war, and nobody wants to take the blame. Rolling Stone article on McChrystal. You know McChrystal is in big trouble when his strongest ally is Karzai.

"Gen. McChrystal also failed to get direct support from the man who recommended him for command, Defense Secretary Robert Gates. "I believe that Gen. McChrystal made a significant mistake and exercised poor judgment in this case," Mr. Gates said in a statement.

On Capitol Hill, three of the war's biggest supporters in the Senate also declined to offer any backing in a joint statement. Sens. John McCain (R., Ariz.), Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) called comments in the article "inappropriate and inconsistent with the traditional relationship between commander-in-chief and the military."

Gen. McChrystal's strongest show of support came from Kabul, where President Hamid Karzai called him the "best commander" of the war. A spokesman said Mr. Karzai hopes Gen. McChrystal will stay on."

Ouch.

Afghanistan's $900 billion in natural resources will most likely condemn it to a future of constant wars of conquest, empire and civil wars as country after country and faction after faction attempt to plunder those resources for their own gain.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

I didn't need Chuck Coburn to tell me that Obama was playing politics with border security, but I'm glad he did. The problem is the border security conservatives want is impossible as long as the war on drugs goes on. The economic incentive is so great that drug dealers and the illegal alien coyotes who piggyback off of them will defeat any border security. The greater the security, the higher the price of drugs and the richer, more violent and more capable to defeat the security the drug dealers become.

POLITICS:

The American people are really beginning to get it. They realize that government always wants more of our power and more of our money, and a majority of Americans want to keep more of their power and more of their money. This is a good thing.

Liberals have had enough of Barack Obama.

"They doubted him during the health care debate. They second-guessed his Afghanistan policy. They’ve fretted over his coziness with Wall Street and his comfort with executive power.

But now is the summer of their discontent. From MSNBC to “The Daily Show,” from The Huffington Post to the halls of Congress, movement liberals have had just about enough of Barack Obama."

But all Obama has to do is run over a church with a tank and liberals will once again proclaim he's a god.

"The catalyst was last week’s lackluster Oval Office address, but the real complaints run deeper. Many liberals look at this White House and see a presidency adrift — unable to respond effectively to the crisis in the gulf, incapable of rallying the country to great tasks like the quest for clean energy, and unwilling to do what it takes to jump-start the economy."

There you go. They're complaint is he hasn't been tyrannical enough.

Then Congressman Emanuel tried to trade favors with then Governor Blagojevich. Yawn. They all do it. That's what politics is. Wake me up if you find an honest politician. The press has known this for years. They know Obama traded favors with Blago. Why print it now? I have a feeling this story is leaked by Obama to lay the groundwork for ousting Emanuel.

Dogmatic feminists explode, fearing strong conservative women. They're basically calling leading women conservatives Uncle Toms.

MEDIA:

US military would like to talk to wikileaks founder about video of the Apache massacre he posted. He's smart to stay away from them while building his image.

MISC:

The downside of GPS: Apple wants to sell your location to other companies, and if users don't agree, Apple is blocking their ability to downloads apps from the Apple store. This is going to spark alternative app stores for iPhones.

Old man scam at Home Depot.

Thomas Sowell just noticed the US is headed toward tyranny. Too bad he didn't notice it while Bush was in office or anytime during the decades before. Sure, Obama is taking us that direction at a faster rate, and that's got people scared, but because they don't have principles, it's only the rate that scares them.

Backyard homesteading: how to grow all the food by turning your backyard into a mini-farm.

Apple has already sold 3 million iPads. That's crazy.