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TAX AND SPEND:

Worrying that state highway projects lack federal oversight is like worrying that street gang activity lacks mafia oversight.

REGULATION:

German company issues injunction against iPhone and iPad. As always, consumers are the big losers.

HEALTH CARE:

The calorie counting rat race is a scam as this information that calorie absorption changes depending on whether foods are cooked or not shows.

Sometimes stupidity if the gift that keeps on giving. Ezra Klein states:

"To bring this across the Atlantic, you could argue that the United States’s debt burden is the product of an insufficiently large welfare state — at least with regard to health care."

Right. Because welfare of any sort is what makes us all wealthier.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Yesterday I stated I was skeptical of the press' joy that nations had agreed to some destructive agreement in Durbin. Today the head of Greenpeace offers support for my skepticism:

"On the closing of the latest round of UN climate talks in Durban Greenpeace today declared that it was clear that our Governments this past two weeks listened to the carbon-intensive polluting corporations instead of listening to the people who want an end to our dependence on fossil fuels and real and immediate action on climate change."

This is good news for every person in the world other than the frauds who want to profit from government coercion in the name of global warming.

Every governmental program is wrapped in rhetoric claiming it transfers wealth from the rich to the poor, but the truth is every governmental program is designed to transfer wealth from everybody to the rich. This so-called climate deal is no different.

"WUWT commenter Cal65 from Hawaii burns away all of the irrelevancy of posturing and pronouncements and gets to the core truth of what the Durban climate deal is really all about. He writes:The UN plan will shift wealth from the first world’s poor to the third world’s rich without making any difference in climate control.Don’t believe that? All one has to do is look at the whiny grifters known as the Maldives, who are building airports like crazy to handle the increased tourist trade…
11 new airports to be constructed in Maldives"

I have personally noticed zero ocean level rise in Florida over 40 years.

POLICE STATE:

One of the most popular phrases Americans uses is, "It can never happen here." If I had a dime for every person who told me that in the 1990s when I was explaining the US was going to be attacked by terrorists, I'd be a millionaire. Americans use the same phrase every day when they deny that the American police state is destroying Americans at a rate unprecedented in the history of civilization. For example no American thinks they will suffer under perpetual surveillance from mounted and aerial cameras, but...

"During a conflict arising over stray cattle last June, Sheriff Kelly Janke of North Dakota’s Nelson County organized a multi-agency task force, including elements “from the state Highway Patrol, a regional SWAT team, a bomb squad, ambulances, and deputy sheriffs from three other counties,” reports the Los Angeles Times. “He also called in a Predator B drone.”"

Predator drone? The same predator drone that the CIA uses to kill women and children, I mean terrorists, in Pakistan? Does that make you feel that you and your family are more secure? I wonder why my condo has been buzzed by helicopters the last two nights.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

On a raft trip through Big Bend, an absolutely beautiful experience I would recommend to every human being, we crossed from the US to Mexico and back a couple of times. It was no big deal. And it's not like illegal immigrants can just march across the river and the Chisos mountains to invade America because such a trip will require interaction with Americans on the American side. On the other hand, US border agents can't monitor all this desolate land either. So I have no problem with this. This is more an acknowledgement of reality than anything else.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Another reason to vote against Newt Gingrich: The man who wants to declare WWIII would name John Bolton, the man who wants to prosecute WWIII, as Secretary of State. He might as well eliminate the Secretary of Offense, I mean Defense.

POLITICS:

The Russian mob is angry that the Putin mob might have stolen the election in Russia. Has there ever been a more poignant example that governments are nothing more than super-mafias which have been so successful they've even stolen the law-making and electioneering process?

Newt busted by real historians for his absurd comment about Palestinians not existing until the end of the Ottoman empire.

Mainstream media blogger shows that simple Google searches expose Romney and Newt as liars.

I did not watch last night's debate because they make my blood boil, but read transcripts and watch Ron Paul's segments after the fact. IMO, even though he has the right principles and the knowledge of those principles, he rarely communicates them effectively. I explained this to a Paul supporter Friday night, and he agreed. So I'm happy to read this...

"Ron was indomitable tonight.  Last time I wrote about his debate performance I said it was his best night.  I couldn't have known then that those words would prove anachronistic.Why was Ron so stunning?  Well, he slowed down his rate of speech and allowed his mouth to catch up with his brilliant mind.  He's never been so polished. If I had been on stage opposing him, I'd have felt more than a little nervous as the good doctor swaggered into the limelight with the all the confidence of THE front runner.  Tonight more than ever his presentation convinced the people and the puppets that he's in it to win it and he is indeed running for president, not just for philosophy."

I'm always skeptical of Paul supporters. They tend to hyperbole. I haven't seen Paul's segments yet, and I haven't read any transcripts, but I'm looking forward to them like never before. Man, I hope I'm not disappointed. Here's an interesting comment:

""Why was Ron so charming?  Because he turned the acknowledgment of Perry and Romney on its head and bolstered that into a back door compliment to his viability and consistency.  Even Santorum was smiling and laughing!  SANTORUM!!!""

Republicans publicly treating Paul with respect? What's up with that? Maybe this:

""Just maybe, Ron Paul [will win the $10,000 bet]," says AnaMarie Cox. (Thanks to Murray Sabrin, who notes, "They are preparing for Ron's victory.")"

I don't know about preparing for a victory, but they're probably sucking up to Paul in expectation he'll have a tremendous number of delegates, possibly enough to be a kingmaker, at the Republican convention. And what do you think would happen to you if you offered somebody a $10,000 bet on national TV? Gambling is illegal for you and me, but not for the ruling class. Laws don't apply to them.

Here's the video of Ron Paul's highlights. I agree with the comments above: this is his best, most polished performance. He's peaking at the right time.


I completely agree with Boortz on this: "If you take the time to watch this interview with Newt Gingrich, you will understand why voters are flocking to him."

"I think we all have to recognize that the president is a student of Saul Alinsky. He represents a hard left radicalism. He is opposed to free enterprise. He is opposed to capitalism, he is opposed to virtually everything which made America great, and he keeps using wild rhetoric that is simply false."

I've been advising Obama's competitors to expose him for the Marxist he is since the summer of 2008. I've been exposing him since the summer of 2008. McCain didn't take my advice, and he lost. None of the Republicans has taken my advice until Gingrich, and he has rocketed to the top. But the tea partiers understand who Obama is. The American people understand who Obama is. They want to know that the Republican nominee knows it and is willing to say it. This politics stuff is easy once you understand the nature of government and the people.

You may think the liberty versus equality debate is new, but here's an ebook explaining how this debate formed in the 18th century.