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REGULATION:

Apple the patent troll. Patents and copyright are two powerful yet relatively unknown tools plutocrats use to loot us.

HEALTH CARE:

Mammograms cause breast cancer.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Solar cycle 24 sunspot count is down again.

More evidence supporting cosmic rays as seeders of clouds.

Graphic breaks down how much different government bureaucracies spend promoting the AGW fraud.

POLICE STATE:

The UK is considering privatizing police. That would be cheaper and more effective than government police, but the problem is government's power of coercion and the aggressive laws themselves. I don't want more effective policing of government's laws of aggression. That just means more people arrested and prosecuted for non-crimes.

WAR:

US aggression created the Cold War, and politicians are scaring us with phony threats about the Soviet Union and Islam to promote their own power.

Wikileaks leaked emails of private defense contractor that claim Osama bin Laden's body was flown to Dover on a CIA plane, not buried at sea as Obama claimed. This is why Wikileaks is a valuable, heroic organization.

Pentagon admits US troops operating in Yemen contrary to its previous claims and the claims of President Obama.

POLITICS:

Romney wins Washington by double-digits over Paul and Santorum.

The Republican establishment created a system that allowed them to manipulate the delegates so they could get their candidate elected even if the people voted for a different one in the primary. Now they're upset because Paul is using that system to amass more influence at the convention than his vote totals would otherwise allow.

"Each state selects its delegates to the Republican National Convention differently, and as has often been reported, the process of a candidate “winning a state” is not as simple as a plurality on primary day. An obscure process of country, district, and state conventions exists to appoint these delegates to the national convention. A candidate who can successfully manipulate these lesser known “behind-the-scenes” processes can put himself in an advantageous position should the Convention begin in August with some doubt about the identity of the nominee."

The idea was that the Republican establishment could buy delegates for their candidate even if he didn't win the popular vote. But Paul supporters are becoming delegates and controlling the process in many states despite him not winning a single primary so far. Paul is beating the establishment at their own game, and they don't like it.

It looks like this Cato Institute lawsuit might end up putting shares of the Institute in Lew Rockwell's hands. Summary of Koch versus Cato. Possible motive for the Koch suit against Cato.

MEDIA:

The first thing I said when I read the headline that Andrew Breitbart died was, "I wonder if liberals killed him." Apparently I wasn't the only one.

"Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., last month, Breitbart claimed he had damning videos of Barack Obama, and planned to release them before the general election.
"[We] are going to vet [Obama] from his college days to show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008," Breitbart told the CPAC crowd."

I wouldn't dismiss the idea he was murdered.

"Conservative blogger Lawrence Sinclair referenced a conversation he had with Breitbart in Washington D.C. three weeks before. "Andrew said, 'Wait til they see what happens March first,'" Lawrence Sinclair wrote."

Stunning coincidence my butt.

Limbaugh apologizes to the law student demanding taxpayers pay for her contraceptives. I agree he shouldn't have used the words. He should have made the point without using the words. But he's right, and I think the vast majority of Americans would agree.

"He also asked the 30-year-old Fluke: "Who bought your condoms in junior high?""

That's uncalled for. It's too bad he screwed this up with the way he handled it. He made his words the issue instead of her policy recommendation.

"Republican Newt Gingrich said reporters were more excited to talk about Limbaugh's language than Obama's record."

Of course they are. If Limbaugh had made his point using different words, and Democrats would be on the defensive instead.

""I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities," he said. "What happened to personal responsibility and accountability? Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow? Will we be debating if taxpayers should pay for new sneakers for all students that are interested in running to keep fit?""

Yes.