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STATES RIGHTS:

If San Francisco seceded, it would quickly become a basket case because San Francisco survives by looting the people of California and the US.

ECONOMY:

Foreclosures on the rise.

TAX AND SPEND:

A few months ago, California was Greece. Now Illinois is Greece. Make up your mind. Not every state can be Greece. Or can't they?

REGULATION:

Almost four out of five Americans think the financial oppression bill will fail to stop future financial crises. Americans aren't dumb but, we keep voting for the same people and parties who are robbing us blind and destroying our country. I think we're schizophrenic. Financial oppression passes Congress.

As I predicted when the SEC filed suit against Goldman, this suit would amount to nothing. Goldman settled, and there is no doubt they penalties they settled for are a tiny fraction of the profits they have made from the government's bailouts and regulations favoring them. Both sides get to claim victory to their audiences. Both sides walk away winners. It's a charade. This is a big show to fool the American people into thinking the government is on their side, not Goldman's. You can bet Goldman is the single biggest winner in the financial oppression bill too. This WaPo blogger has it right:

"The SEC’s $550 million settlement with Goldman Sachs is naturally being touted by the feds as a major victory, “the largest penalty ever assessed against a financial services firm in the history of the SEC.” Maybe. But there’s another way to look at it.

Goldman’s net income was more than $13 billion in 2009. So $550 million is about two weeks’ worth of earnings. Looks like Goldman figured a two-week furlough was a pretty modest price to pay to give the SEC its headline, without admitting wrongdoing, and move on.

Did anyone at the SEC think about the public benefits of a trial, in terms of sustained media scrutiny of Wall Street’s unsavory practices, whatever the outcome? Did anyone tote up the two weeks of earnings figure? Looks at first blush like another pretty smart Goldman trade."

It was always just a show to make it look like Obama was tough on Wall Street. It's a charade. $550 million is chump change to Goldman - the price of doing business under Pharaoh Obama. It screams banana republic.

John Stossel says we've become a nation of a million rules. I think he's underestimating. The only rule we need is that one person is not allowed to harm another or his or her property. Any other rule is anti-freedom.

Senator Schumer pressures Apple regarding the iPhone4 antenna problem. There's votes to be bought here.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

The Fed stands ready to drastically inflate the money supply again to keep this masquerade of a recovery from falling apart. I feel better.

"Economists predict the Fed will keep the key interest rate at a record low well into next year and possibly into 2012. The Fed has leeway to hold it at a record low because inflation isn't a threat to the economy."

Really? I've noticed prices all around Dayton on the rise, and shadowstats.com reports inflation at just under six percent. In who's world isn't that a problem?

The relationship between central banking and war.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Polar bears survived past periods with no arctic ice, but they don't have to worry about that now despite the cries of the alarmists.

BP due for a tax refund because of oil spill. This is a good thing. It helps BP apply the resources necessary to clean up the spill, and it means the government will have less money to harm us with.

On America's march toward communism:

"I completely understand, why Christopher Monckton felt a need to make an example of a typical reprehensible representative of modern Academia. People like Christopher Monckton make me hope again that not everything is lost yet under the Moon.

And yet… I spent first half of my life battling liars and cockroaches in the former USSR. I would win against any individual liar or cockroach, no sweat. But year after year after year, I was getting more and more convinced that I didn’t want to die in this battle, overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of my enemies.

So. I live in a quiet valley now, in Colorado Rockies. Grass is green, air is fresh, sky is huge. But what is this constant swish and rustle coming from the East Coast and from the Left Coast? I know this sound well! There is no escape from the battle: cockroaches are coming."

How can anybody not look back on the last 100 years of government expansion and fail to recognize we're nearly at the long march toward communism?

Despite all the burdens and obstacles put on BP by the government, BP has managed to stop the oil leak temporarily. Nice job. The government is forcing BP to do unnecessary stress tests on this cap that may create new leaks or cause the leak to leak again.

POLITICS:

Widespread ownership of private property undermines the progressive agenda. That's why Obama and Democrats work so hard to take our property and our property rights from us.

As I explained all along, this revolution is not going to work out the way Obama wants. Americans are going to demand more freedom, not more oppression. Somebody has noticed that it's backfiring on Obama. It's not rocket science. Like I keep saying, Americans know the dangers of government. We're immersed in that wisdom in a way no other people on earth are. How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving. What are the scariest words you'll ever hear? I'm from the government, and I'm hear to help. Americans instinctively know government is their enemy. I just figured it out why we seem schizophrenic. The two parties have done a fabulous job of capitalizing on fear of government by scaring Americans into thinking the other party is the enemy when each is pretty much just as bad as the other. They've worked together to divide and conquer the American people, expanding the burden of government by leaps and bounds despite the powerful distrust the vast majority of Americans have of government. The people have to wake up to the fact that both parties are the enemy. But Democrats will never give up being the party of big government, socialism and communism first. Conservatives must repudiate Bush and the big-government Republicans and transform the Republican party into a party of small government, or America as we know it will cease to exist.

History tells us that conservatives are not serious about the deficit. It's good to see somebody telling the truth about this. I'm sure Republicans understand this.

Here's the best headline of the Obama administration: "Obama the Socialist Fascist Communist"

"Whether Obama is intentionally implementing a communist America by way of long-planned "stealth," as some people have suggested he is doing, or whether he has a communist agenda by way of his long-time partnership with admitted terrorist bomber and "small-c communist" Bill Ayers, or whether Obama follows the teachings of "radical community organizer" (or "communizer") Saul Alinsky, is actually not as important as Obama’s actual actions as president."

Of course not. But those connections confirm Obama's motivation.

MISC:

Celebrating Thoreau as America's founding libertarian.

Scientists create malaria-proof mosquito. Wouldn't it make more sense to create a cure?

Belly-button location - the center of gravity - is key to athletic performance.