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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

The excuse and the real reason the government is regulating the internet:

"The Federal Trade Commission’s campaign to abolish the internet in its present form and replace it with a Depression-era model of government cartels protecting politically connected incumbent firms is predicated on a single word — privacy. Internet privacy is a “mess,” according to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, and it’s his job to clean it up."

When's the last time the government ever cared about our privacy? The goal is control, not privacy. Privacy is just a convenient excuse.

"Privacy is just another word for “piracy” in this context. The FTC’s crusade is joined at the hip to intellectual property firms that desire greater internet cartelization so they can strip the web of “proprietary ideas” that, in their minds, should only be distributed through more traditional, top-down channels. Decentralization is the enemy of both government regulators and companies that depend on a lack of innovation to maintain the status quo."

IP laws, monopolies granted by government and enforced at the point of the government's gun against the best interests of the people, provide another convenient excuse.

RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

Now the goofy aristocrats have set up a toy gun destruction program. You can't make this stuff up.

ECONOMY:

There's no mystery why African countries are poor. It's lack of economic freedom.

MSNBC notices what Jeffrey Tucker predicted two years ago: a return to fashion in the workplace. Tucker is very reluctant to toot his own horn, but he deserves it because he nailed this one. There's a difference between phony self-promotion and pointing out facts.

Showing once again that we have the stupidest government in the world, the Cuban government is freeing some of its economy because it recognizes socialism doesn't work.

REGULATION:

This Supreme Court ruling regarding minimum prices is causing confusion and problems. This wouldn't be a problem in a free society. In the free society, it would be managed by contracts. If selling at a minimum price was part of the contract when the retailer purchased the merchandise, then retailers would have to honor it. If it wasn't part of the contract, then they could sell at any price they chose. This is an example of how legislation and courts create chaos and undermine the rule of law.

EDUCATION:

Sad, scary insight into the consequences of the government monopoly on education for blacks.

HEALTH CARE:

US Today gets it right again, suggesting people forgo the sweets and eat nuts instead.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Remember when the frauds used to claim that warmer winters were the result of global warming? They said that snow would be a thing of the past? At least that was internally consistent. But now that we're having such cold, snowy winters, the frauds are claiming that cold, snowy winters are the result of global warming. Heads they win. Tails reason, science and all of us lose. Maybe they don't know the definition of warming. Note to global warming frauds: warm is the opposite of cold. Nice refutation.

POLICE STATE:

How come al Qaeda hasn't attacked us in nine years? Do you remember the Washington D.C. sniper? Al Qaeda could do that all over the country. They could blow up a mall or elementary school any time they wanted. Why don't they? Maybe they don't want Americans to realize our government cannot protect us. Maybe they're using our government as a lever against us. They know that just the threat of terrorism after 9/11, without any additional attacks, led to government stealing trillions from us and massively oppressing us all in the name of preventing terrorism. No terrorist attack could possibly have been nearly as destructive to our society as government's response has been. They're using our government as a tool to destroy our country because they have no power to do it, and we're helping them.


The CIA launches an anti-WikiLeaks task force.


WAR:


How the US war machine keeps us locked in perpetual war. This quote shows how seemingly rational people can completely lose their minds too.

"When voters elected Barack Obama in 2008, his supporters acclaimed him higher than a prophet; he was messianic. As one fine and intelligent person—an expert in high tech as well as a farmer—wrote to me in immediate post-election euphoria, “Brad, why are you so upset, don’t you realize that we finally have a chance to end war and poverty, permanently?”"

How in the world do people become like that? That's literally insane. Here's the sad truth not understood by most.

"“Because the United States does not look like a militarized country, it’s hard for Americans to grasp that Washington is a war capital, that the United States is a war state, that it garrisons much of the planet, and that the norm for us is to be at war somewhere (usually, in fact, many places) at any moment.”"

I had this knowledge previously, but it's only recently that I came to understand why it is. It's not to make us safer. It's just another mechanism for aristocrats to loot and control others. That's the goal of all government policy: domestic, foreign or war.

"As further evidence of our degeneration into a martial empire, the U.S. sells 70 percent of the weapons in the international arms trade. In almost every way, Engelhardt contends, the United States precipitates the militarization of the globe."

Meanwhile the aristocrats condemn others for selling weapons.

I'm all for the US government using railguns to protect Americans, and apparently the USS Gerald R. Ford will use railguns to launch jets.


FOREIGN POLICY:

South Korea hasn't managed to provoke North Korea into a military response it can use as an excuse to attack the North so far, so they're staging yet another massive live-fire military exercise on the North Korean border. This is nuts, and American troops are in the line of fire. Get our troops out of there.

It looks like things are heating up in and around Israel too. Palestinians increase rocket attacks on Israel. Israeli government strikes back. Palestinians have an anti-tank weapon. Settlement building booming despite the supposed freeze. The US government has no business dragging the US people into the middle of this mess.

Senate approves nuclear reduction treaty with Russia. Good deal.

POLITICS:

Republicans keep laying the groundwork to discredit Ron Paul in 2012. This time Jonah Goldberg claims he's too old. That's the mildest attack he's likely to suffer.