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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

The UK government's authoritarian approach to social media sounds pretty just like China's, Iran's and every other's. The supposed free world is a myth.

SOCIALISM:

More bad news for Obama:

"...unions have begun shifting money and resources out of Democratic congressional campaigns and back to the states in a furious effort to reverse or limit GOP measures that could wipe out union rolls."

This bodes ill for his reelection.

REGULATION:

Job-killer-in-Chief.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Anatomy of the modern bank run.

The real scoop on inflation: it's in double digits.

WAR:

Documents discovered in Tripoli show that the CIA renditioned prisoners to Libya for torture.

Neocon smear campaign against Ron Paul and conservatives willing to cut military spending.

POLITICS:

No matter how many times Chris Christie says he won't run for president, the rumors persist. I think Christie is the number choice of conservatives.

LOCAL:

Another storm. Another power outage. Our electrical grid is degrading fast.

MISC:

It wasn't too long ago that scientists believe that modern humans shared no DNA with Neanderthals. Now they have identified specific genes in modern humans that promote the immune system that came from Neanderthals and another extinct cousin.

"The specific gene HLA-A, for example, is present in the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes. It contributed this much to the following modern human populations: Up to 95.3 percent for Papua New Guineans, 80.7 percent for Japanese people, 72.2 percent for Chinese people, 51.7 percent for Europeans, and 6.7 percent for Africans."

Another interesting finding:

""Well established is that modern Africans have greater genetic diversity, overall, than the modern populations of other continents," Parham said. "This greater diversity is likely due to what was inherited from earlier forms of Homo, combined with interbreeding between different forms of Homo.""

Interbreeding produces more robust gene sets. That's why people are so drawn to the exotic.

Now Ron Paul says he doesn't want to abolish FEMA. That sucks. This is another example of how he doesn't speak clearly and that hurts him politically. Now he sounds like a typical Republican, complaining about bureaucracy and how he'd fix it instead of abolishing it. What's the principle behind this? We need a candidate who will make it clear that on every issue, government is the problem, not the solution, and who can clearly articulate why that is true.

Pat Buchanan explains that the belief that Adolf Hitler was out to rule the world is a myth.