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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Nothing good can come from a new US government cyber-strategy. They'll act like it's all about keeping the internet free, but in fact it will be about controlling it and stifling speech. The only way to keep it free is keep government away from it.

STATES RIGHTS:

I once proposed the idea that 1/3 of states could force the repeal of a federal law. I picked 1/3 because it takes 75 percent of the states to change the Constitution. Two-thirds couldn't do it. Somebody else has proposed 2/3 of the states could repeal a federal law. That would be better than nothing, but it would almost never happen even in the unlikely case the amendment passed.

TAX AND SPEND:

Mark Steyn is back in form with this attack on government spending.

"So under the 2011 budget, every hour of every day, the United States government spends $188 million it doesn't have, $130 million of which is "borrowed" from itself. There's nobody else out there."

"Sure, Congress can vote to raise the debt ceiling — just as you and your spouse can reach a bipartisan agreement on raising your own debt ceiling. Go on, try it: Hold a vote in your rec room, come up with a number and then let MasterCard know what you've decided on."

And it gets worse.

"In the real world, debt ceilings are determined by the lenders, not the borrowers. In March, Pimco (which manages the world's largest mutual fund) calculated that 70% of U.S. Treasury debt is being bought by the Federal Reserve."

That would be the end of most essays, but that's only the introduction. This is a full-throated attack on Romney and Romney care.

"It suggests that our institutions are incapable of course correction. It reminds us that Republicans are either easily suckered or too eager to be bipartisan figleafs in embarrassing kindergarten kabuki. It confirms that "technocracy" in politics is a synonym for "more" — more government, more spending, more laws, more bureaucrats, more regulations, more paperwork, more of what's killing this once great republic every hour of every day."

Buzzzz. Wrong answer. It reminds us that Republicans are sociopathic, or psychopathic, thieves and murders just like Democrats. Sorry. Thanks for playing.

High taxes chasing young people out of New York City. And Ohio especially Dayton. Want to take bets on whether government will voluntarily cut taxes to stop this problem?

FEDERAL RESERVE:

The establishment is scared of bitcoin. They're scared of money they can't control.

EDUCATION:

Teacher claims that education reform is as bad or worse than the holocaust. You can't make this stuff up. We're paying for this teacher to teach that insanity to our children. This is what happens when you allow the most successful criminal gang in history to take over the schools. What would have been normally reasonable people are corrupted into imbeciles.

HEALTH CARE:

Gingrich supports his own version of Obamacare and the individual mandate. Has this guy been on another planet for the last year and half? He must be looking for an excuse to lose.

Boortz reports:

"The Obama administration approved 204 new waivers to ObamaCare over the past month, bringing the total to 1,372."

Odds are you didn't get one because you don't have the political clout to escape this oppression.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

A former global warming true believer, a scientist who worked for the government, saw the models and promoted the fraud, has realized the whole thing is a scam.

"We are now at an extraordinary juncture. Official climate science, which is funded and directed entirely by government, promotes a theory that is based on a guess about moist air that is now a known falsehood. Governments gleefully accept their advice, because the only ways to curb emissions are to impose taxes and extend government control over all energy use. And to curb emissions on a world scale might even lead to world government — how exciting for the political class!"

We're seeing more and more of these converts all the time.

Only a fraud would say something like this:

"People underestimate the power of models. Observational evidence is not very useful."

If I write a model showing I'm rich, observations to the contrary need not apply. You can't make this stuff up.

WAR ON DRUGS:

Kentucky Supreme Court piles on Indiana Supreme Court in destroying the Fourth Amendment. Government's assault on the freedom that enabled Americans to create the greatest nation in history continues.

POLITICS:

Just a few weeks ago the head of the IMF, previously expected to run against Sarkozy to be president of France, said he was vulnerable to a honey-pot scheme. Wow.

I'm disappointed in Ron Paul's desire to "work with" the psychopathic arch-criminals in Congress and to prioritize cutting the empire before the welfare state as if the Constitution prioritizes one over the other. The president takes an oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic, and that means like Jefferson he should nullify illegal wars and illegal domestic programs both immediately, Congress and the Courts be damned. Maybe this is a political decision, but if so, I think it's a mistake. I think the American people would overwhelming elect a president who would do his constitutional duty to nullify the unconstitutional wars, welfare state, and regulatory state without regard to Congress or the Courts. I think this position would win an unprecedented majority, and I wish Paul would adopt it. But this won't keep me from voting for Paul because every vote helps increase the audience for his ideas.

MEDIA:

For the first two years of his presidency, Obama enjoyed a massive majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. The only reason any program he advocated failed was because his programs divided is own party. Yet the press never reported how divisive he was of his own party. But now that Republicans control the House and only the House, you read about the divisions in the Republican party every day. It's a crock.