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SOCIALISM:

One of Obama's appointments to the NLRB will continuing receiving payments from unions while on the board. I'm sure happens all the time, under the table, but Obama's lawlessness is more blatant. He doesn't even care.

The world's power-elite are meeting to plan how to stamp out the last remnants of capitalism. Note all the big corporations in support. They want government to stamp out the last of their competition. Note Bain & Company is on that list.

ECONOMY:

Movie based on Austrian Economics, Margin Call, is nominated for an Academy Award.

TAX AND SPEND:

Obama's economists consulted only like-minded economists before launching their stimulus boondoggle. But what else would you expect?

While Boehner pretends he wants to cut spending, he and Republicans have increased debt by $1 trillion.

"But as CNSNews.com previously reported, federal spending bills approved by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives have increased the national debt by more than $1 trillion dollars in just 10 months."

Don't you love those fiscally responsible Republicans?

REGULATION:

Apple has spent more than $100 million suing Android manufacturers. That's $100 million that wasn't used to create new products or anything else in the productive private economy but was instead squandered in the parasitic political economy.

The environmentalists are butting heads with the safety nazis when it comes to car regulations.

EDUCATION:

Apple claims sole rights to distribute electronic ebooks published on iBooks. Competitors will appear soon.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

A list and explanation of the many falsehoods in Obama's green energy political ad.

Out of 22 issues, Americans concern for global warming is last.

Remember when Obama was trying to spend our tax dollars drilling for oil in Brazil? The Brazilian government chose the Chinese.

POLICE STATE:

New Jersey police to remotely shine lights on pre-criminals. How can they tell? You know this will be abused.

Drones over New York and join police-military exercises in Los Angeles.

Great comment on TSA:

"When someone is empowered by the Government to look at you naked and feel you up at will, it's clear who is in control in that relationship. Why do people think they will get any ‘respect?’"

No kidding.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Western rulers have embargoed Iranian oil and are waging war on Iran's central bank. India responds by buying Iranian oil with real money.

"India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dollar, DEBKAfile's intelligence and Iranian sources report exclusively.  Those sources expect China to follow suit. India and China take about one million barrels per day, or 40 percent of Iran's total exports of 2.5 million bpd. Both are superpowers in terms of gold assets.By trading in gold, New Delhi and Beijing enable Tehran to bypass the upcoming freeze on its central bank's assets and the oil embargo which the European Union's foreign ministers agreed to impose Monday, Jan. 23. The EU currently buys around 20 percent of Iran's oil exports."

This might end the dollars reign as the world's reserve currency and bring back an international gold standard.

POLITICS:

Gingrich exposes his campaign strategy - throw popular sound bites at debate crowds - by threatening to pull out of debates if crowds can't cheer. That's how absurd our nomination process has become.

"“I wish in retrospect I’d protested when Brian Williams took them out of it because I think it’s wrong,” Mr. Gingrich said. “And I think he took them out of it because the media is terrified that the audience is going to side with the candidates against the media, which is what they’ve done in every debate.”"

He's right about that, but we'd be better off having no debates instead of choosing candidates and the president based on these shallow events that are designed to subordinate candidates to the media. American Idol has more substance.

Paul may not be spending campaign money in Florida, but a new super PAC will spend $1.4 million on his behalf in Florida.

Editor of Atlanta Jewish magazine suggests Israeli agents should consider assassinating President Obama. Calling this guy a fool is an understatement. What this shows is, as oppressive as the US government has become, there aren't too many countries where a person could get away with this. His employer should fire him now.

David Stockman on crony capitalism.

MEDIA:

The post election coverage in SC from Ron Paul's super PAC draws over 20,000 viewers. Paul is finding his way around the media and hastening the death of the mainstream media. The mainstream media would be smart to embrace Paul in order to keep viewers.

Rush Limbaugh says Ron Paul sounds almost like an Islamic terrorist for his comments in response to the detainment of his son, Senator Rand Paul, by the TSA. Rush sided with Obama and Janet Napolitano on this and will probably lose more listeners over it. Paul's comments were consistent with his positions, but they were also the comments of a father concerned about his son. Sure, Rand's a big boy and a senator, but I don't think parents ever see things that way. Paul's response was as much the healthy response of a concerned father as a champion of liberty, and any person who claims to support family values should respect that.