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SOCIALISM:

This series of articles about Hong Kong make it appear that economic freedom there is fading fast.

ECONOMY:

This question of which president created more jobs, Bush or Obama, misses the point in so many ways. First, presidents don't create jobs. Hardworking people in the private sector create jobs. Second, the seeming prosperity in the middle of the Bush years was an illusion fueled by Greenspan's inflationary monetary policy. We saw the consequences of that during the 2008 crash, and we're still suffering under it. Third, Obama is running against Bush. Forth, both Bush and Obama were powerful enemies of free markets and capitalism in their own ways. Bush was a covert enemy working behind our lines, pretending to support free markets with his rhetoric while attacking them with policy after policy and regulation after regulation. Obama is the most overtly anti-business president I can think of.

Obama's stimulus boondoggle temporarily saved bureaucrat jobs in state governments, slowing our recovery.

TAX AND SPEND:

Democrat spending:

"Try this on for size: A 21.4% spending increase over the last two years."

This is an important reminder that no matter how bad Republicans are, and they're terrible, taking us down the road to serfdom almost as fast as Democrats, Democrats are always worse. But that's no excuse to vote for the lesser of two evils. It's reason to replace all of them.

Although this makes no sense politically, you don't see any Republicans trying to end welfare, this is a great story:

"I recently asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President of the United States . Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there. So I asked her, "If you were President, what would be the first thing you would do?" She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people." Her parents beamed.

"Wow...what a worthy goal," I told her. "But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my driveway, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house."

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?"

I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party." Her parents still aren't speaking to me."

I hope this is true.

The government of California is selling off buildings, returning those resources to the productive private sector. Too bad every government isn't doing this.

HEALTH CARE:

Boehner's strategy on Obamacare assuming Republicans take back the House? Force Democrats to vote against fixing it and force Obama to veto fixes, if the Senate passes any. The idea is to use Obamacare to build momentum for 2012.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Obama finally lifts drilling moratorium after adding new regulations. I guess he figured he did all the damage he could do without suffering too much political blowback.

American miner was the one who drilled the first relief hole to save the Chilean miners. Funny how I haven't heard that in any of the news coverage.

The internal battle between honest scientists and those corrupted by the government money funding the global warming fraud is going public and turning ugly.

POLICE STATE:

FBI puts GPS tracker on car, which requires no warrant, of college student because of a comment he made on an obscure blog.

WAR:

After 15 or so years as policy, judge orders end to "don't ask, don't tell" by judicial fiat. I can't help but wonder if this was done to give the Democrats an election issue to excite their base.

Ron Paul on blowback.

Eight important facts most Americans don't know about Iraq.

POLITICS:

Boortz is right that Obama has successfully distracted the talking heads with his baseless attacks on the US Chamber of Commerce. I doubt Americans care.

Four out of ten 2008 Obama supporters have lost hope. These people were stupid. The other six of ten are even stupider or evil.

Democrat brags he voted with Republicans a lot. I guess it's too late for him to switch parties.

The federal government discovers it has twice as many data centers as previously estimated. And the guys who can't even count how many data centers they have want to run every aspect of our lives. And why would consolidating these centers be more efficient? Maybe it will and maybe it won't. Just because the central planners who didn't know about half of the data centers say so doesn't mean anything. Central planners can only think in terms of centralizing power.