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ECONOMY:

Support for the Hindenburg Omen and fears of an impending market crash.

TAX AND SPEND:

Lord Geithner says our economy, you know the same economy that hasn't recovered after nearly three years and is on the way further down the gutter, can withstand higher taxes on the rich who already pay such and inordinately disproportional amount of taxes. Geithner is a political tool.

China sells off US treasuries in favor of buying debt from Europe and Japan because European and Japanese governments have embraces austerity programs to cut spending and debt but the US government hasn't.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Inflation hits in the UK, and the creator of that inflation, the Bank of England, warns Britons to expect more. Nothing like intentionally destroying the value of the currency and the savings of the people with it.

"Mervyn King, the Bank's Governor, voiced surprise that prices are higher than he had expected in a letter of explanation to the Chancellor George Osborne. While the overall consumer prices edged down to 3.1pc from 3.2pc in June, it remains above the Bank's own 2pc target, and the small decline will do little to ease the fear of some economists that a high cost of living will undermine Britain's fragile recovery."

Yet another government so-called expert is surprised at the consequences of his central planning. When aren't they surprised? Why do we call them experts?

Apparently the BBC posted a headline today claiming that inflation in Britain is down. But only by comparison.

EDUCATION:

Ohio to force government schools students to do a fluoride rinse. The government doesn't care about the dangers, adverse effects or that it's usurping the role of parents and undermining their authority and their right to raise their children as they see fit. That's what you get when you allow the government to lock your children away in military-style prisons 180+ days a year.

HEALTH CARE:

Because the federal government has usurped responsibility for the safety of food from manufacturers, eggs with salmonella are being recalled. Government has made this commonplace. This would happen much less frequently in a free economy.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Changes in the sun's conveyor belt may be responsible for the extended solar cycle 23 and weak solar cycle 24. But don't tell the global warming frauds. Despite all the evidence, they claim that changes in the sun have no effect on earth.

WAR:

Suicide bomber kills 60 outside major military office in Baghdad. The terrorists don't want Americans to leave Iraq. They'll lose a major recruiting tool when we leave.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

This article is a good reminder that the illegal immigration problem is really a welfare problem.

"If Congress pushes through amnesty, hold onto your wallets. Taxpayers will get robbed and illegal aliens rewarded.

The 11 million illegal aliens who get legalized will then qualify for many taxpayer-funded government programs, including health premium subsidies, the Earned Income Tax Credit and Medicaid. This redistribution of wealth will add billions to the government’s red ink—not to mention deprive productive Americans of their own money."

End the welfare programs, and this problem will go away.

POLITICS:

Walter Williams understands that Republicans won't save us. I wish we could get the rest of conservatives to understand that.

"There are numerous blocking tactics that a Republican-controlled House can take against those hell-bent on trampling on our Constitution. The question is whether they will have guts and principle to do it. After all, many Americans, including those who are Republicans, have a stake in big government control, special privileges and handouts."

Isn't that the truth. Republicans will block some things, but mostly they'll just compromise so they and their special interests can share in the looting.

Forget term limits. Remove the aristocrats' perks. I contemplated the idea that government employees get no benefits. No health care. No pension. But on the flip side, if we don't pay them those things, somebody else will and win the benefits of the government's gun in response. So that's no solution. The only solution is to take away their power.

Republican stalwart Dick Armey claims to have written a tea party manifesto declaring the tea parties want to take over the Republican party, not be a junior Republican wing. So a stalwart Republican wants to take over the Republican party? This is a non-sequitur.

MEDIA:

The mainstream media looks the other way while Obama takes more vacations than president in memory, but they slammed George Bush for taking far fewer. That's because the mainstream media is first and foremost a propaganda tool for the Democrat party.

MISC:

Ten signs the US is becoming a third world country.

Best Buy sends cease and desist letter to priest with God Squad sticker on car. The sticker and the car looked similar to the Geek Squad trademark used by Best Buy. Unfortunately, Best Buy was right that the law really gave them no choice. If they allowed the priest to "infringe" on their trademark, it would reduce their ability to protect it from real frauds. The culprit here is the law, not Best Buy nor the priest. Without the stupid laws, both Best Buy and the priest would have gained from allowing the priest to use his God Squad car and stickers, and Best Buy would still have been able to protect itself from frauds. But because the law is mindless, one size fits all, it wouldn't allow that.

Imam of proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero was called on by US agents to calm relations with Muslims in 2003.

Because IP prohibits people from building on the ideas of others, it drags us down toward the level of animals.