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ECONOMY:

Home prices continue to decline.

"The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price index fell one percent in December. Prices fell in every market except Washington D.C. where the local economy is just humming along wonderfully. Prices in eleven of the twenty markets included in the index sank to post-bust lows: Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas, Miami, New York, Phoenix, Portland, Ore., Seattle and Tampa, Fla."

The more government loots us, the lower home prices fall. What a surprise.

The marketplace overcomes government copyright restrictions to save classic sheet music.

EDUCATION:

Parents are taking the fun out of toys.

"Lenore Skenazy, the original Free-Range Mom, has written a great column published in today’s Wall Street Journal: “Parents Are Taking the Fun Out of Toys.” Lenore is noted for her criticism of modern society’s constant structuring of children’s lives, rather than allowing them to just play, explore, learn, and develop naturally."

Don't forget government schools.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Thomas Jefferson reported on natural climate change (warming), during his lifetime. He was noting the end of the little ice age.

Plankton are responsible for our breathable, oxygen atmosphere. God bless climate change. Without it, we wouldn't exist.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Iranian warships passed through the Suez canal and the world did not end. Imagine that. The US government had threatened to board and search the ships, creating an international incident by initiating an act of war.

"It raised the possibility that the moment they venture to sail into the Suez Canal, the two Iranian warships will be boxed in between the Enterprise and the Kearsarge and called upon the allow their cargoes to be inspected as permitted by the last round of UN sanctions against Iran in the case of suspicious war freights."

Like UN sanction makes such actions OK. Thank goodness they didn't. No wonder the Iranian government hates us. Nobody wants to live under constant threat of attack.

"This pile-up of US naval, air and marine might at strategic points in the Middle East is a warning to meddlers to keep their hands off the revolutions, uprisings and protests sweeping Arab nations. It carries a special message for Tehran that the Obama administration will not permit the Islamic Republic's rulers to make military and political hay from the unrest - in Bahrain or anywhere else."

Like the US government is some altruistic supporter of those people's revolutions. Give me a break.

MISC:

Washington quotes.