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SOCIALISM:

How the auto bailout failed.

People are just becoming aware that Mao killed tens of millions with his great leap forward?

""One of the judges, [biographer] Brenda Maddox, simply said 'this book changed my life - I think differently about the 20th century than I did before. Why didn't I know about this?' We feel we know who the villains of the 20th century are – Stalin and Hitler. But here, fully 50 years after the event, is something we did not know about. It's a testament to the power of non-fiction, that it can rock you back on your heels.""

I also want to know how that person could have been unaware of this atrocity.

ECONOMY:

Using gold and silver to barter.

TAX AND SPEND:

Pat Buchanan advises Republicans not to agree to any deal that raises taxes. It sounds like Republican leaders have already caved on increasing revenue up to $200 billion through fees which is just a matter of semantics. If Buchanan really thought they wouldn't, he's deceiving himself.

EDUCATION:

Pretty much all Atlanta schools caught cheating to make test scores of students look better so they can get more federal money. This is undoubtedly true in every school district in America.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Mercury danger of compact florescent bulbs.

POLICE STATE:

In a good reminder that psychiatry is a pseudo-medicine used by government to support its aggression, California's government paid its chief prison shrink over $800,000 last year.

Good for Boortz for standing up for the Casey Anthony jury. What he fails to mention is how exceptional this jury was. Most juries act as rubber stamps for prosecutors. This one didn't, and the jurors should be commended for rejecting the awesome power of the government. Boortz follows up with this:

"Casey Anthony was found guilty of four counts of lying to a law enforcement officer.  Each one of those counts carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail.  The harlot has already been in jail for three years --- so she may well be sentenced to time served.  She could be free and partying by the weekend … and the guys are lining up. Here’s something for you to consider.   You can go to jail for lying to a law enforcement officer.  But it is absolutely legal for a law enforcement officer to lie to you."

Not to mention politicians. Boortz sounds like a bona fide libertarian today.

Men prosecuted for buying foreclosed properties at public auction then reselling them in a private auction.

TSA does not make us safer.

"Many Americans continue to fool themselves into accepting TSA abuse by saying "I don't mind giving up my freedoms for security." In fact, they are giving up their liberties and not receiving security in return. Last week, for example, just days after an elderly cancer victim was forced to submit to a cruel and pointless TSA search, including removal of an adult diaper, a Nigerian immigrant somehow managed stroll through TSA security checks and board a flight from New York to LA – with a stolen, expired boarding pass and an out-of-date student ID as his sole identification! He was detained and questioned, only to be released to do it again 5 days later! We should not be surprised to find government ineptitude and indifference at the TSA."

Abolish it. It's unconstitutional.

WAR:

Remember when NATO was dropping humanitarian bombs in Libya? It's dropped that pretense completely and admitted it's the air force for the rebels.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Mexican law makers push for extradition and prosecution of American officials who funneled illegal guns into Mexico. Selling guns should not be illegal. Now it turns out those weapons were purchased with tax dollars. Prosecute them for that.

POLITICS:

If French voters think DSK was set up, he might become France's next president. Finally somebody else says what I keep pointing out:

"It is unprecedented for prosecutors to discredit their own star witness."

I wonder why nobody else has pointed this out. It seems to me, if this was a political set-up, Sarkozy would have been better served if DSK had flown back to France and the US tried to extradite him.

"Getting the scalp of a famous Frenchman, not justice, was the goal of US prosecutors. Many New Yorkers hate France for its past criticism of Israel and its past insubordination to US political demands, and so were delighted to see this French bigwig humiliated and debased."

That's the first explanation for this rush to judgment I've heard that rings true. Prosecuting this French bigwig would have been a real coup for the New York prosecutor.

"Rape is a horrible crime, but the scales of justice in North America have tilted too far to the accuser who is by now assumed to almost always be speaking the truth."

And you rarely read this in the press.

"More important, the US prosecutors who allowed this circus to occur should be fired and sent to North Dakota. America’s justice system is embarrassing anddesperately needs to be elevated to civilized standards.Arresting and humiliating DSK on trumped up evidence, and as if he was a notorious mass murderer, is outrageous and dim-witted. If cleared of charges, he should launch the mother of all law suits against New York’s publicity-seeking legal vigilantes.The skirt-chasing DSK is an unlikely model, but he may end up teaching the US a lesson that it badly needs in civilized behavior and judicial caution."

Absolutely.

MISC:

Microsoft's products are so bad that the company is paying people to use them. I don't think that'll be a successful business model.

In defense of so-called tomb robbing which brings newly discovered wealth to the people of the modern world.

IBM programs Watson, the computer which kicked ass on Jeopardy, to perform sales and support. All those Indian and Russian support people can't be too happy.