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ECONOMY:

Bad jobs report shows that the phony economic recovery is revealing itself.

"Unemployment dropped to 9.5 percent — the lowest level since July 2009 — from 9.7 percent. But the reason for the decline was more than 650,000 people gave up on their job searches and left the labor force. People who are no longer looking for work aren't counted as unemployed."

Unemployed people aren't counted as unemployed. If they were, the unemployment rate would be about 22 percent. Only government.

TAX AND SPEND:

In a stark reminder that government creates poverty and traps people in poverty, government dependence increased by 16.3 percent last year.

Oppressive US taxes are pushing businesses and their jobs overseas. Did somebody just figure that out?

Welfare recipients sucking taxpayer money out of ATMs at strip clubs. That's in addition to the taxpayer money they spent at the strip clubs before they hit the ATMs. Feds send taxpayer money to dead people, prisoners and millionaires to pay their heating bills. There's no such thing as good government.

GLOBAL WARMING:

Global temperatures returning to normal as el Nino fades.

Snow fell in New Hampshire Thursday.

Global warming frauds scrambling to cover-up another fraud that was exposed dubbed Amazongate.

ENERGY:

Socialists are pushing Obama to seize BP. You know he wants to. Before this is over, BP as we know it will be gone.

"If the government can take over giant global insurer AIG and the auto giant General Motors and replace their CEOs in order to keep them financially solvent, it should be able to put BP's North American operations into temporary receivership in order to stop one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history."

He trying to use former illegal actions justified by the government to justify further illegal actions.

"The Obama administration keeps saying BP is in charge because BP has the equipment and expertise necessary to do what's necessary. But under temporary receivership, BP would continue to have the equipment and expertise. The only difference: the firm would be unambiguously working in the public's interest. As it is now, BP continues to be responsible primarily to its shareholders, not to the American public. As a result, the public continues to worry that a private for-profit corporation is responsible for stopping a public tragedy."

What a crock. If the government seized BP, it would unambiguously work in the politicians' interest, not the public's. By being responsible to shareholders and liable for damages, BP will do the best it can to limit the damage. Case in point: the Obama administration has been blocking resources from being used in the cleanup for political reasons, not BP.

WAR:

Michael Steele blames Obama for the war in Afghanistan as if Bush wasn't the one who invaded. He's right about not being able to win.

POLITICS:

In a nice reminder that academics are tax feeders, 238 scholars picked FDR as the greatest American president.

MISC:

More examples of how government manipulates statistics to make them look better than they are.

This list of headlines is depressing.

Unmanned Russian supply ship fails to dock with ISS. The more bureaucratic space agencies become, the more mistakes they'll make.