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FEDERAL RESERVE:

Newt Gingrich has gained a lot of press and poll support for copying Ron Paul on his criticism of the Fed. But his real convictions are pro-Fed.

HEALTH CARE:

To highlight the unprecedented in modern times lawlessness of the Obama administration, Obama won't implement a provision of his own health care law. If he believes it constitutional, the law demands he implement it. But since he's declared himself a dictator, he just ignores the law including his own.

POLICE STATE:

A former NYPD detective admits we all know:

"NYPD narcotics officers routinely trump up drug charges against innocent people so they can meet their arrest quotas."

It's not just NYPD. This is commonplace around the country.

POLITICS:

After decades or years or months of being vague, Ron Paul will present specific cuts he will make to government. I imagine this isn't too little, too late. He's almost been bounced from the election by now. Why wait so long? Why not present a principled position from the beginning? Why not tell the American people he would abolish the income tax from the beginning? I'm sure his advisors tell him to wait, don't actually take a stand, and that works great for a typical crook. It doesn't work well for a man of principle. He still misses the main point Americans are concerned about: taxes. He should have launched his campaign declaring he would abolish the income tax and forced every Republican to respond. This isn't rocket science. I've always said that libertarianism is the ultimate populist philosophy. Ron Paul has failed to grasp that and because of it, for decades, he's failed to be successful at winning national prominence. I'm a supporter of Paul. We have many beliefs in common. But he continues to run a misguided campaign. You talk about cutting taxes first and cutting spending second.

MISC:

How the free market transformed Steve Jobs from petty tyrant into a social giant. I'm unimpressed. Jobs had a knack for imparting style to technology. And he was a fantastic marketer of that style. I understand that bazillions of iZombies love to pay more Jobs's style than for more functionality. But that says more about the intellectual bankruptcy of iZombies that Jobs. Granted, he made technology easy to use. In other words, he dumbed it down for iZombies. Much like people revere software designers today, those people are stupid. Most software designers suck. If you were to compare the majority of software in the world to the majority of airplane or clothes or sewers or haircuts, you would realize that today's software designers are the absolute worst people in the world at their jobs. Garbage collectors are way better at collecting garbage that software writers are at writing software. No offense to garbage collectors. If you come up with the a profession which you think is the worst at accomplishing its task in the world, I think software designers are even worse. Hardware rocks. Hardware, computer chips, are so fast and execute their tasks so perfectly, they're arguably the best product every created man. But every piece of software I use fails constantly. It's absurd how bad software is. And that's by design. Decades ago we had quality software languages like C to write in. Only smart people could program in C, and therefore software was excellent. But over time, misguided professionals dumbed down programming languages so idiots could program. As a result, most software sucks. Maybe somebody will make programming languages to simple that babies can program, and make computers completely worthless as a result.