Park police order visitors to the Lincoln Memorial to stop singing the national anthem.
"An NBC news report informs us that a group of young conservatives, standing before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, spontaneously began singing the national anthem. They were immediately confronted by the Park Police and told to stop singing. (To their credit, the group ignored the order and kept singing!) What was of greater interest, however, was the statement by the Park Police that such a spontaneous performance amounted to a demonstration in a setting that was required to be “completely content neutral.”"
Our government is getting more insanely oppressive by the day.
Skepticism regarding China's growth miracle.
A job is not a right. You have to provide a service that's valuable enough for an employer to pay for to get a job.
Somebody in the mainstream media writes about "The Conspiracy Against Economic Growth". Exactly. They're harming us on purpose. They don't want economic growth. They want to punish us for perceived slights and make us all poorer.
The Wall Street Journal is concerned we might suffer another stock market crash. One reason:
"The jobs picture is much worse than they’re telling you. Forget the “official” unemployment rate of 9.5%. Alternative measures? Try this: Just 61% of the adult population, age 20 or over, has any kind of job right now. That’s the lowest since the early 1980s — when many women stayed at home through choice, driving the numbers down. Among men today, it’s 66.9%. Back in the ’50s, incidentally, that figure was around 85%, though allowances should be made for the higher number of elderly people alive today. And many of those still working right now can only find part-time work, so just 59% of men age 20 or over currently have a full-time job. This is bullish?"Government lies.
TAX AND SPEND:
I know I just linked this the other day, but it bears repeating. Parasitic government jobs pay nearly twice as much as the productive private sector jobs that pay for them. We're the stupidest people in the world.
Fantastic chart shows how Obama is targeting America's most productive people with taxes to bring down our economy.
Real or fake government programs funded by Obama's stimulus program. You know the answers before you even watch the video.
FEDERAL RESERVE:
Michael Barone writes an essay on how "smart people" got so much wrong based on the Fed downgrading economic growth, but his essay completely misses the real points. It fails to mention that central planning is always doomed to fail. It fails to mention that Keynesian economics is a sham. It fails mention that government exists for the promotion of government aristocrats and bureaucrats, not the people, and therefore government lies constantly. It fails to mention that Obama doesn't want the economy to recover. He wants to keep us trapped in an extended state of economic crisis so he can continue stealing power from us and amassing it to himself. He told us he wanted to model his presidency on FDR's and Lincoln's, the two presidents who inflicted more damage on America than any others in history.
Stossel rips Alan Greenspan for his government-loving ways. Greenspan has called for letting the Bush tax cuts expire.
EDUCATION:
In another shining example of the failure of government schools, new study finds that 70 percent of middle school children don't understand the equal sign. I'm not making that up.
HEALTH CARE:
Because government dominates our health care industry, it costs $16,000 to have a baby in America.
GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:
British companies suffering from green taxes and fines.
In the everything the government tells you can't be a lie department, the FDA reports two articles today. The first reports record yields for corn, soybeans and wheat and the second claiming that global warming is devastating crops.
Governments are severely underestimating the future market for energy, leading to foolish policy decisions.
"Inadequate projections of latent demand for energy are leading to poor decisions now and are muddying the debate about both climate change and energy policy for the rest of the century.
The U.S. Department of Energy and the United Nations both project global consumption of energy at 680 and 703 quads respectively by the period 2030-2035 (a ‘quad’ is one quadrillion btus, roughly the energy you could liberate from 36 million tons of coal).
However, consumption trends, if extended, are far higher–they could reach 2,100 quads by 2030, if adequate energy was available consistently and at decent prices. This is because of the confluence of several important demographic trends."Government should have no role in these decisions. A free market is far and away the best allocator of scare resources including resources to produce energy. This is why Arab countries are developing nuclear power. They're smarter than our government.
Typical alarmism from the media about the normal calving of a huge glacier.
Graph looks back at Jim Hansen's, climate fraud leader, prediction of warming based on CO2. Needless to say, we've produced more CO2 than his worst-case scenario, yet temperatures are far lower than his best case scenario. That should be enough evidence to have him convicted of fraud.
FOREIGN POLICY:
Iran set to activate first civilian power plant.
Sanctions like those against the people of Iran create poverty and weaken the people the people who resist the regime, effectively strengthening the regime they were ostensibly meant to weaken.
"Despite a multitude of poor political decisions — including price-fixing schemes that have created shortages in the targeted markets — Ahmadinejad's regime maintains popularity through social-spending programs. As such, in a country where people's accumulated wealth is threatened by trade restrictions, government aid may be the only recourse left. Ahmadinejad's government is likely more than happy to win people over by aiding those harmed by American trade sanctions. Furthermore, the Tehran government is probably thrilled to use American-led trade sanctions to vilify the West and legitimize its own power."History bears this out. Never in modern history have trade sanctions succeeded in producing the results intended. Think Cuba. Think North Korea.
POLICE STATE:
This is an amazing video. A fan runs onto a soccer field and security guards tackle him. Four security guards sitting on him, controlling him, but they continue to beat him including beating him with a nightstick. Other fans in the stands get fed up with the beating and jump on the field and defend the guy from the abuse of the security guards. I don't want to see anybody hurt, but it's promising to see the people respond against the violence of government.
Police officer brutally attacks man who is simply talking on phone. This video is amazing. I've complained about the security cameras all over the place, but they are performing a valuable service. They're showing that most violent crimes, the only real crimes, in America are committed by police.
POLITICS:
British press lists 10 reasons for President Obama's stunning decline. I'm not stunned. I predicted it.
Codevilla follows up ruling class versus political class essay with book on the same subject and claims he modeled the essay after Thomas Paine.
MEDIA:
D.C. reporter suspended for reporting the facts about BP's contributions to Barack Obama. The Obama propaganda machine will not tolerate facts about Obama.
MISC:
Rupert Murdoch claims to own the Sky in Skype. Only government, through phony intellectual property laws, could make such a ridiculous claim possible.
Here's another beautiful example of how government is the enemy of progress - Oracle sues Google claiming violation of Java patents in Android.
How ignoring the IP system has enabled Alzheimer's researchers to make tremendous progress. Every human endeavor could see that same kind of progress if not for IP laws.
Obama planning to seize large tracts of western land and remove them from potential development. If you haven't recognized that Obama entire agenda is about dragging America into poverty and destitution, you're willingly blind. Every action he takes is consistent with that goal.
I doubt we're very close to the end of the line for chip miniaturization, but the size of atoms creates a hard lower limit. It'll be interesting as that limit approaches. Right now, far and away the easiest solution for better performance is to shrink the chip, so differentiation by architectural performance is a relatively minor issue. That's why the low-performance x86 architecture is a standard. But soon it will become pretty much the only way to increase performance, and different architectures designed for different applications will proliferate.
Roads are safer without all the signs. That's because without them, people take care of themselves, but with them, the signs distract and lead people into a false sense of security.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is an attempt to push the US IP fascism all over the world.
As much as I love Tori Amos, Kate Bush blows her away, as she blows everybody away, in this duet. I can't believe I never heard this before.
I doubt we're very close to the end of the line for chip miniaturization, but the size of atoms creates a hard lower limit. It'll be interesting as that limit approaches. Right now, far and away the easiest solution for better performance is to shrink the chip, so differentiation by architectural performance is a relatively minor issue. That's why the low-performance x86 architecture is a standard. But soon it will become pretty much the only way to increase performance, and different architectures designed for different applications will proliferate.
Roads are safer without all the signs. That's because without them, people take care of themselves, but with them, the signs distract and lead people into a false sense of security.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is an attempt to push the US IP fascism all over the world.
As much as I love Tori Amos, Kate Bush blows her away, as she blows everybody away, in this duet. I can't believe I never heard this before.
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