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SOCIALISM:

The failure of FDR's socialist utopia Arthurdale.

TAX AND SPEND:

Ireland's tax on pension plans won't apply to public sector pensions. How convenient for the bureaucrats. I bet the Irish people revolt. Reminder that Clinton proposed stealing 15 percent of pension plans in 1993.

EDUCATION:

Thomas Sowell on the state of education in the US.

"Too many of the people coming out of even our most prestigious academic institutions graduate with neither the skills to be economically productive nor the intellectual development to make them discerning citizens and voters."

Sowell fails to point out that this is by design, but he hints at it:

"Many Third World countries have turned out so many people with diplomas, but without meaningful skills, that "the educated unemployed" became a cliche among people who study such countries. This has not only become a personal problem for those individuals who have been educated, or half-educated, without acquiring any ability to fulfill their rising expectations, it has become a major economic and political problem for these countries.Such people have proven to be ideal targets for demagogues promoting polarization and strife. We in the United States are still in the early stages of that process. But you need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus."

Government schools are brainwashing centers. Their primary purpose is to produce adults who won't challenge authority, who think there's nothing they can do to resist government's power. The second priority is to make them easily manipulatable by demagogues.

HEALTH CARE:

After the government bans hot water, forcing hot water heaters down to 130 degrees, and effective detergents, next they ban restaurants from using washable towels and aprons because they might not get clean in the laundry. Imagine that. And we wonder why business is so expensive and our health costs keep rising.

Thanks to government, the bedbug menace is growing.

Isn't it funny to watch government-lover Mitt Romney pretend he hates socialized medicine after he implemented in Massachusetts? You know, if you had done something really bad that hurt a lot of people, unless you were a selfish freak, you would beg for forgiveness. You are not Mitt Romney. That freak wants us believe that his version of Obamacare is different than the real thing.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

NASA scientist James Hansen helps kids sue the federal government to implement draconian anti-carbon policies. We pay that fraud's salary. Only government would allow a wacko like to keep his job.

Government utilities - they're all owned outright or so heavily regulated that they're effectively owned by the government - using smart meters to spy on households. Of course government is proposing a non-solution to this government-created problem.

WAR ON DRUGS:

Iraqi veteran killed by police in drug raid.

POLICE STATE:

Cops taser another man to death.

Looking to the past for lessons about today.

"Defying Hitler is a mesmerizing memoir written by the German journalist Sebastian Haffner (a pseudonym for Raimund Pretzel) shortly after he emigrated from Germany to England with his Jewish wife in 1938. In it, Haffner explores a question similar to one that has haunted me since 9/11. He examines how a highly cultured and civilized nation could slip so quickly into the barbaric totalitarianism of Nazi rule. My version of this question is, how could America, a nation with deep roots in individual freedom, so quickly slide into a police state?"

It starts with government control of schools. The corruption of other institutions plays a role, but the most important factor enabling government to make this transformation is the corruption of schools.

WAR:

Fifty-nine percent of Americans believe we should bring troops home from Afghanistan. Heck yeah.

Military adopting "green" ammo that it claims is higher performance. There's something missing from this article. I bet that the military couldn't get the funds to improve this ammo based solely on performance, so they had to sell it to Congress or some bureaucrats as "green" in order to get the money. On the other hand, maybe they're just lying about the performance.

""I can't say that it's more lethal than the M855. That depends on how the round hits a target," Woods said, emphasizing that accuracy is paramount. "But what I can say is that you'll see the same effects every time with this round. And we can confirm that it is superior to the [M80] 7.62 on soft targets.""

This is fishy. I have a better solution for the environment. Stop shooting at people. That'll save the environment and lives. Only government would care more about saving the environment than saving people's lives.

POLITICS:

Every Obama policy drags the country deeper into depression. That's going to make him easy to beat. He's making Carter look good by comparison. And it's too late for him to fix it. If he removed all the government interventions he could right now, the economy would suffer a correction that wouldn't end before the election. He already blew it.

MISC:

Insect repellent 1000 times more powerful than DEET.

Salon calls the market vicious. Apparently the writers miss the irony of supporting a system based on violence instead.