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ECONOMY:

What happens when government uses its power of coercion to set prices artificially low? Shortages and stampedes.

EDUCATION:

School choice works in Sweden in a good reminder that the US is more socialist than Sweden. But the government should not pay.

POLICE STATE:

Thanks to the lynch mob fervor ignited by the prosecution and press against Casey Anthony, a woman in Oklahoma wrecked into and flipped the car of another woman who looked like Casey Anthony.

I've long predicted that TSA would set up a program for the ruling class and others willing to pay to avoid being zapped and groped at airports. Now they have. This is a divide and conquer tactic. Big media people will avoid the persecution so they will stop covering it.

POLITICS:

Obama raised $86 million last quarter. That just shows you how much people are willing to pay to access government's looting powers. Everybody who gave money to Obama received a heck of a lot more from government since he's been in office.

Remember when I said that the supposed law to cut off funds to ACORN was a sham? It was.

MEDIA:

Why do I care if somebody in the White House called Bret Baier a lunatic? Obama doesn't have to like Foxnews. Foxnews doesn't have to like Obama. The White House doesn't even have to give Foxnews access. The problem was that the White House was using the government's power of coercion against Foxnews.

Doing his best to scare the American people, avowed Marxist Chris Matthews claims that failure to raise the debt ceiling would be the worst thing we've ever seen happen in America. Go tell it to the people who died in WWII.

MISC:

SpaceX has plan to deliver with one launch more payload than has been delivered to Mars by all the governments in history, and undoubtedly at much lower cost.

"So as far as I'm concerned, it's not the death of anything. What we're really facing is quite the opposite. I think we're at the dawn of a new era of spaceflight, one which is going to advance much faster than it ever has in the past.The space shuttle was designed in the '70s, and it really didn't improve after almost 40 years. They've upgraded the electronics here and there, but that's about it. That's incredibly static when you consider how other fields of technology have improved."

Static, state, status quo. The enemy of progress and human advancement.

"Q: One of the issues that always comes up when discussing commercial involvement in NASA spaceflight is the safety issue. A lot of the critics of your program have focused on that concern as the sticking point. NASA certainly devotes a lot of attention to safety assurance, and some say that's why it's so expensive to put humans into space. Any attempt to cut corners on that would make the whole enterprise look questionable. How do you respond to that?A: Well, first of all, I suspect that the people saying that wouldn't have a problem flying on Southwest Airlines or driving a car or taking other types of transport that are not government-operated. The government does have a role in safety oversight, and anything we do for NASA goes through an extremely rigorous safety and liability examination. But I think what actually needs to happen is a dramatic improvement in safety. The current state of affairs with the shuttle is not acceptable at all. The shuttle's accident rate is not OK. Who would get on an airplane if you had a 1.5 percent chance of dying?"

Slap! Very nicely said. NASA has a horrific safety record. No business could ever survive with that terrible of a record. The private sector makes us safer, not government.