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SOCIALISM:

The lunacy of Soviet communism central planning.

FASCISM:

A definition of fascism that shows the US is a fascist government.

TAX AND SPEND:

Pat Buchanan points to David Cameron's rejection of the German sponsored Eurozone treaty as the first step in the breakup of the Eurozone.

The PIIGS are manipulating the people into buying bonds that the governments will default on. This is another way to steal the people's money and impoverish them.

REGULATION:

The government has officially killed the AT&T-T-Mobile merger.

""AT&T has officially announced that it no longer plans to purchase T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom. In a press release, the company said, 'The actions by the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice to block this transaction do not change the realities of the U.S. wireless industry. It is one of the most fiercely competitive industries in the world, with a mounting need for more spectrum that has not diminished and must be addressed immediately. The AT&T and T-Mobile USA combination would have offered an interim solution to this spectrum shortage. In the absence of such steps, customers will be harmed and needed investment will be stifled.'""

Well said.

Apple, heralded as a paragon of the free market by many libertarians, teams up with the government to ban the import of HTC phones.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Obama's CAFE standards have effectively banned small pickups in America.

WAR ON DRUGS:

The violence caused by the war on drugs in Mexico is spreading south and scaring off American ex-patriots.

"Mexico is being wrecked in what amounts to an out-sourced American civil war. Huge numbers of Americans use drugs, most assuredly including people on Capitol Hill. Moralists and the Feds don't want them to use drugs. Putting many millions of white users in Leavenworth would be politically awkward. So: Export the war to Mexico, which never had a drug problem. This solution is acceptable for white users, who continue to have ample supplies at high convenience and low cost. It is acceptable to the anti-drug industry, the cops and prison guards and so on, who get fat salaries, and to the narcos. It is a splendid situation all around, except for poor blacks and Mexico. About neither of which anyone gives a damn."

I'm always impressed by the holier than thou attitude of the prohibitionists who are destroying so many lives.

"Now, it must be obvious to a mentally retarded marmoset that nothing can stop the flow of drugs to the United States. Any drug anyone might want is available at reasonable cost to anyone who wants it. When peasants in the Sierra Madre Occidental can suddenly have high-end pickup trucks and cable television by selling drugs, they are going to sell drugs. And why not? After all, if the gringos don't want drugs, they don't have to buy them, do they? When the cartels make $40 billion a year (a common figure, however arrived at) there will always be those wanting to work in the trade. The money is sufficient to buy military-grade weapons from the US, including from the US government, and it is enough to bribe officials in both countries."

I seriously wonder about people who don't understand this.

POLICE STATE:

I love that businesses are now crowd-sourcing charter flights so people can avoid the TSA. The government will quickly stop this. It can't let anybody escape from its totalitarian policies.

If only we were as free as Mexicans. Ron Paul is right about the border fence being used to keep Americans in.

Story of the first publicized use of a drone on US soil. It's another story of awesome government overreaction - a paramilitary assault employing a drone - to a minor dispute over a half dozen stray cows.

I've long argued the US was on the verge of becoming the Soviet Union. This author argues that, with the new law allowing US troops to capture Americans on US soil and imprison them indefinitely, the transformation is complete.

It's long been rumored that FEMA has been setting up camps like concentration camps around the country. Now it looks like FEMA is finally doing that.

WAR:

Pat Buchanan on the disastrous consequences of the Iraq War.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Rand Paul stopped Marco Rubio and the Senate from forcing Obama to fast-track Georgia into NATO. Nice job.

Analysis of the situation in Egypt.

POLITICS:

Remember when the Tea Party pretended to support small government? Tea Party Patriots endorse Newt Gingrich in straw poll. It was all baloney. Gingrich has dropped back into a tie with Romney.

Claim that Republicans leaders are afraid the Iowa caucuses will be hacked. This sounds like they're laying the groundwork to delegitimize a victory by Ron Paul. Gingrich falls back in Iowa as Ron Paul surges into the lead. Paul number two in New Hampshire. The tea party people claim they want small government. There's only one small government candidate in the race. The primary will be a test of the honesty of the Tea Party.

Mark Steyn is in top form taking on Newt Gingrich.

"A year ago, we were still talking about Palin and Daniels and Christie and Jindal and Ryan, an embarrassment of riches. Barely a month ago, Cain and 9-9-9 were riding high, an embarrassment of a different kind, and Gingrich was still a single-digit asterisk. But, like Gussie Fink-Nottle, we are all Newt-fanciers now. On the eve of Iowa it seems the Republican base’s dream candidate is a Clinton-era retread who proclaims himself a third Roosevelt, with Taft’s waistline and twice as many ex-wives as the first 44 presidents combined; a lead zeppelin with more baggage than the Hindenburg; a self-help guru crossed with a K Street lobbyist, which means he’s helped himself on a scale few of us could dream of. For this the Tea Party spent three years organizing and agitating?"

When Steyn is on, he's great. Here's another great line:

"Newt, says former New Hampshire governor John H. Sununu, is “inconsistent, erratic, untrustworthy, and unprincipled.” But, up against an untrustworthy, unprincipled opponent of consistently non-erratic soporific caution, that’s more than enough. Mitt Romney flutters no hearts."

That sums up the pygmies at the top of the race. Where have we heard this before?

"Both leading conservative candidates have supported government mandates on health care. Both leading conservative candidates have supported massive expansion of entitlements. But they differ on the critical issue of whether we should use large numbers of welfare claimants to mine unpasteurized green cheese from the dark side of the moon."

Oh. It was on this blog.

"Newt is said to be “unpredictable.” This is true in the narrow sense that one would not have predicted that a social faux pas in placement on state transportation to the Yitzhak Rabin funeral would lead him to shut down the federal government. But, aside from such offenses to his amour-propre, Newt is actually extremely predictable. The surest way to bet is that the big-government stuff will happen and the rest won’t. It was Newt who gave us S-CHIP, the biggest expansion of Medicaid since the program was created. On the other hand, when it came to holding the line on “tax credits” for people who don’t pay any taxes, Gingrich looked into Clinton’s eyes and melted."

Oh my goodness. This is great.

"I’d prefer to formulate it this way: Gingrich is a pushover for progressivism who’s succeeded in passing himself off as a hard-line right-wing bastard"

That's a fact.

Condoleezza Rice would be a great VP pick for one of the establishment candidates.

A great graphic showing the overlap of personnel between government and seven giant corporations or corporate sectors.

MISC:

I'm equally disgusted by the electronics in cars. I hope to never buy a new car again.

The ultimate hangover cure.

Video of unbelievable model train setup.

Recently released Herbert Hoover book shows how FDR maneuvered Japan into attacking the US.