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THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

Guns save lives. Of course they do. Nobody would buy a self-defense weapon if they didn't. They aren't called the great equalizer for nothing. More guns equals less crime. Duh. Criminals aren't suicidal.

ECONOMY:

Yes, if we stay on the path we're on right now, the path of government crushing our economy under its boot, Americans are going to starve to death.

"Since September 11, 2001 this country has faced numerous disasters both man-made and natural. It is evident after these disasters the majority of the population is unable to fend for themselves without government assistance. In only a matter of days, people run out of food and water, no longer able to take care of their families. They then expect the some level of government to open up centers which will provide the necessary sustenance to support their families during these emergencies. Basic needs cannot be met without outside assistance. In less than 60 years Americans have lost the knowledge and will to be self-sufficient."

It's true. Everybody used to have a garden when I was a kid.

"Controlling the food supply has been the plan of the federal government for an extremely long time. The creation of the FDA was fundamental to the execution of this plan. Working in conjunction with large agribusiness and complicit media they now control the destiny of the majority of the population of the United States. They are attempting to eliminate all small farming operations through overbearing regulations and a wink and a nod in the courtroom to patent regulations for the agribusiness lobby. Part of the agenda is to force all small operations to microchip every animal and provide tracking information to the federal government. The large agribusiness operators will not be subject to the same regulations as small farmers. They will be exempt from providing the same information because of the political power they wield through the purchase of politicians."

Again, it's true.

"It is historical fact that whoever controls the food controls the people. History is replete with examples of what happens when a corrupt and ruthless government controls the food supply. In the 1930’s, Russia starved 10 million Ukrainians to death by stealing all the food produced in their country because they would not support Stalin's farm collectivization program. Hitler used starvation in Poland for the mass murder of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. America is now poised for the same fate since they are unable to feed their families in the face of a disaster or corrupt government."

How could he leave out Mao?

"No longer are we capable of going to our seed supply and planting a survival garden. If a family does have seed, it is imperative to ask a question. Is the seed the heirloom variety or the genetically altered large agribusiness strain? If it is the genetically altered variety then it is part of the trap and that family will starve. Genetically altered seeds render them viable for one season with no ability to harvest seed for future planting. The unprepared with no stockpile of heirloom seeds will be at the mercy of the government or whoever holds the power."

Another piece of the puzzle falls into place.

Because people in Pittsburgh didn't ride the housing boom up, it didn't experience a bust, and as a result it shows no signs of recession.

Sales of new homes as a percentage of all home sales hit an all-time low last month. The bubble Obama and Bernanke were blowing in housing, leading to the construction of so many new houses, is over. Look for it to pop a second time soon.

TAX AND SPEND:

Obama has figured out how to lie about raising taxes on the middle class - Congress Democrats will take responsibility.

The US debt grew by $1.7 billion during the Isner-Mahut match.

Senate Republicans kill latest stimulus bill that would have continued to pay people not to work. Good for them.

REGULATION:

Business leaders are starting to speak out against the Obamazation of America. They're finally waking up and realizing that even though Democrat legislation promises the perks, the effect will be to collapse our economy and nobody will prosper.

The EPA classifies milk as oil.

"Also, the International Dairy Foods Association said it has learned the EPA will exempt the industry from the rule. But state lawmakers say they won’t let up until that is official."

Why write the rule then exempt the dairy industry from it? That might be stupider than writing the rule in the first place.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Legal tender laws are unconstitutional and must be nullified. The Constitution grants government the power to coin money and set standards, e.g. for the dollar, but it doesn't not grant the government power to ban competing forms of money.

ENERGY:

I would have voted against giving subpoena powers to President Obama's kangaroo oil spill commission too. This is just another power grab by Obama. We know what went wrong. Government regulations wiped out nearly all the competition in the oil market, enabling BP, Exxon and a couple of other companies to become gigantic corporations with deep pockets. Those corporations paid tribute to the politicians and the regulators so they could take big risks for big rewards while suffering few consequences for failure. Then the regulators forced BP to drill in deep water where it was unprepared to do so, it cut corners because it was protected by the government, and the rest is history. Obama's commission is an attempt to whitewash the government's driving role in creating this catastrophe and provide a phony mask of legitimacy for its scapegoating process.

Is Obama an anglophobe? Is that why he keeps attacking BP's British roots? Is that why the British are so mad at him? It's part of a pattern of treating Britain bad. Weird.

Walter Williams is the first person I've read, other than myself, who has claimed Obama is intentionally making the Gulf oil spill worse. Williams thinks Obama is protecting unionized shipping interests.

"James Carafano, researcher at the Heritage Foundation, said, "The unions see it as … protecting jobs. They hate when the Jones Act gets waived, and they pound on politicians when they do that." Carafano asks, "So are we giving in to unions and not doing everything we can, or is there some kind of impediment that we don't know about?" President Obama has the power to waive the Jones Act to allow foreign vessels and crews to bring their expertise to the Gulf cleanup, but he fears angering American labor unions."

I think that's just a happy side-effect of his real reason - collapsing the US economy under the burden of government.

Ron Paul gets it right again.

"It should be noted that BP is not exactly a bastion of free market capitalism. Rather, they are very vested in acquiring government subsidies, favorably slanted policies, and competition-hobbling regulation. BP has even been a major lobbying proponent of cap-and-trade because of certain provisions in the legislation it could profit from. Considering who lobbies for them and what they lobby for, my concern is that attempts to hold them strictly and fully accountable could end up being nothing more than a shell game, with taxpayers ultimately holding the bag.

If the government’s idea of action in crisis is to punish the innocent, bail out the guilty, and raise prices at the pump on everybody, we should want them to do less, not more. Recent polls show sharply waning support for offshore drilling. We still need oil, and a lot of good jobs depend on oil production. It is crucial to the functioning of our economy. But if accidents continue to be handled this way, it is easy to understand why so many see more cost than benefit to off-shore drilling, and that is also a tragedy."

That's Obama's goal. To make offshore drilling look so bad that fools will ask government to ban it. He started down that path by shutting down drilling.

Unnamed government sources say that the Pentagon pushed for regulators to OK Deepwater Horizon despite its regulatory failures because that oil in the Gulf would give the US an eight month supply if war with Iran cut off supplies of oil from the Middle East. That doesn't make any sense to me since we get almost all our oil from Canada, Mexico and other non-Middle Eastern sources, but like the criminals they are, aristocrats aren't known for making sense. That may have been a consideration, but I think BP's huge donations to Obama are the primary reason the regulations were waived.

POLICE STATE:

Supreme Court unanimously strikes down common practice of expanding the law in corporate corruption cases by federal prosecutors, opening the door to many appeals.

WAR:

Truth is the first casualty of war because it is the enemy of the war effort. McChrystal was fired for publicizing the truth. Gates wanted to keep McChrystal. This article says Gates agrees with Obama. Of course he does. He doesn't want fired too. Reason says Obama made a mistake firing McChrystal, but how much weight do you give the opinion of a person who says this:

"It turns out Obama is not as much like Lincoln as he aspires to be. The 16th president, who had his own war to run, had many opportunities to take umbrage at disrespectful conduct by his highest Army officers. And he repeatedly put the nation's needs first.

Once, when Lincoln paid an evening visit to his top commander, George McClellan, the famously arrogant general came home and went to bed without so much as acknowledging the president. Lincoln shrugged it off, saying he would hold McClellan's horse if it would produce a victory.

Eventually, he replaced the battle-shy McClellan with Joseph Hooker, who had said the country needed a dictator. Lincoln wrote Hooker, "Only those generals who gain successes, can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." He was not about to let pride or other non-essential concerns get in the way of defeating the enemy."?

So a self-proclaimed libertarian claims Lincoln becoming a dictator was for the good of the country. I give that opinion no weight at all. What's missing from this analysis is that by publicly criticizing the policy-makers, McChrystal journeyed into the realm of public policy-making, and we can't allow that in the US.

Our Afghan strategy is failing, and it is doomed to fail.

"After the allied forces cleared the Marjah region of the Taliban, the Afghan government was unable to provide the security required to keep the Taliban from returning. General McChrystal, during a visit in late May, called Marjah a bleeding ulcer."

Is that the real reason he was fired?

"The Canadians and Dutch have already conceded this and announced their withdrawal."

I hadn't heard that.

The media can't seem to tell the difference between a no-brainer decision and a brilliant one. This was a no-brainer.

Lots of people are wondering if the announcement of larger than expected mineral riches in Afghanistan is a publicity stunt.

"The main news is that the deposits are significantly greater than had been thought to date. [Afghan Mining Minister] Shahrani last Thursday exceeded the Americans' claims, saying he thought their estimates were too conservative and trippling the value of the mineral deposits to $3 trillion."

Of course he did. Why stop there? Make it $10 trillion. Maybe he knows how much money the Fed is printing.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

Is Obama planning to grant amnesty to illegal aliens by executive fiat? He'd be lucky if Americans didn't burn down the White House if he did that. Obama might do it in hopes of sparking violence so he and his allies can begin his Marxist revolution in response.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Foreign leaders are realizing Obama is a fool. What took them so long?

"But whatever generosities we afforded the inexperienced junior senator from Illinois, smooth and charming he is not, it turns out. And these rookie mistakes are getting downright embarrassing.

The latest came last week, when the President sent the G-20 a pointed but pleading letter imploring Europe to quit it already with all the sensible spending cuts. He apparently believes that if we are going to spend our way into oblivion, then Europe should have the good manners to join us. Misery loves company, after all, and so does bankruptcy.

It's unlikely Europe was moved. In fact, Germany and Britain, which just announced major spending cuts, are probably laughing at us, with a sharp view of Greece in their rearview mirror. Obama's letter wasn't only myopic but terribly arrogant - the kind of thing that would have earned his predecessor another colorful "cowboy" descriptor from the oft-offended liberal press."

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"In Britain, where our once-special relationship is growing increasingly ordinary, Tory Lord Tebbit called Obama's ineffective response to the BP oil spill "a crude, bigoted, xenophobic display of partisan political presidential petulance." The staggering alliteration aside, those are some harsh words. And Maureen Dowd, The New York Times' usually fawning Obamafan, called him "bloodless" and "self-destructive.""

The more interesting aspect of this story is how slow people have been to realize who Obama is. Many, like in this article, are just starting to figure it out. Many haven't even started yet. Few have actually gone all the way to realize Obama wants to be America's Vladimir Lenin but not smart enough and too much of an ideologue.

MEDIA:

The mainstream media labels conservatives "controversial" 30 times more often than liberals.

MISC:

About George Orwell.

Viacom versus Google case shows how phony IP rights are.