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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

UK politicians threaten Google if it doesn't self-censor search results. We live in very scary times. This is a good reminder that government has all the power. Corporations are its agents.

British student jailed for racist comments, but the New Panther Party can put a $10,000 bounty on an American with impunity.

ECONOMY:

The forgotten man is now the working chump.

TAX AND SPEND:

A bunch of Democrats labeling themselves the Congressional Progressive Caucus have made their pitch to buy votes by dramatically increasing government.

"Liberal House Democrats on Monday unveiled a 2013 budget that increases taxes by $4.7 trillion more than President Obama proposed in his own budget last month.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus said the taxes are necessary to fund $2.9 trillion in new stimulus spending to “put Americans back to work” and “rebuild the middle classes” while reducing the deficit. This new spending includes canceling the cuts in last August’s debt-ceiling deal between Congress and the White House."

Both parties are being split right now. Democrats are being split by radical leftists. Republicans are being split by big-government Republicans like Boehner, Cantor and Ryan. The American people made themselves crystal clear in 2006, 2008, and 2010: they rejected big-government Republicans twice in 2006 and 2008, then they rejected big-government Democrats in 2010. The criminals in Congress know this, but they don't care because they're using money stolen from us to insure they get re-elected. No matter how many times voters reject the big-government party in power, the other party will respond by continuing to grow government because that's in the best interest of the individuals who use the money government steals from us to by re-election votes.

The push seize your private retirement accounts continues.

Here comes another big tax hike.

"Unless Congress takes action, the top tax rate for the highest earners on most dividends, currently 15%, is set to jump to a whopping 43.4% next year. That is a maximum income-tax rate of 39.6% -- since dividends will once again be taxed as regular income -- plus a 3.8% tax on investment income as part of the health-care overhaul passed in 2009."

That'll produce less savings and therefore less economic growth.

Who do you think is profiting from Obama's high speed rail boondoggle?

"Harry Reid’s Pet Bullet Train Project on Verge of Securing $4.9 Billion Government Loan"

Cronyism at its most obvious.

REGULATION:

Many Americans think it makes sense for the government to make it illegal for politicians to trade on insider knowledge. But they're wrong. That costs money and makes market more inefficient. But the same is true for all insider trading. Anybody should be free to trade on any information they have. That reduces the burden of government and makes markets more efficient.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Every now and then, a picture comes along...

But he has to have government as an ally.

HEALTH CARE:

As promising as this story sounds, I don't trust the media to present an accurate prediction of what the Supreme Court might decide.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Even the mainstream media is recognizing the study showing the Medieval Warm period was global. This is another nail in the coffin on the global warming fraud movement, but don't give up. Like the zombie apocalypse, that movement refuses to die because the frauds will lose billions of taxpayer funds if they lose.

Remember during the campaign when Obama claimed he was going to bankrupt the coal industry by making it too expensive? The EPA is carrying out his dictates.

POLICE STATE:

Police and a witness claim that Martin attacked Zimmerman, after Zimmerman had stopped following Martin. This doesn't pass the sniff test. If Zimmerman had stopped following Martin, why would Martin have turned on him then? It's certainly possible, but it doesn't seem likely. It also doesn't jive with the information Martin's girlfriend, who was on the phone with him at the time, told the press. Frankly, I like that the police haven't arrested Zimmerman. I hate that police always knee-jerk arrest people who shoot others before taking the time to investigate whether or not it was self-defense. And they're often prosecuted despite evidence of self-defense. But still, what the police are doing in this case, while admirable, goes against SOP. Martin's mother is filing for trademarks on phrasing using her dead son's name.

"Trademark attorney Kimra Major-Morris told the Associated Press in an email that Fulton wants to protect intellectual property rights for “projects that will assist other families who experience similar tragedies.”

Fulton has no desire to profit from the trademarks, Major-Morris said."

We'll see. While police are blaming the young man who got killed, I don't think it's to help Zimmerman. They're doing it to help themselves by justifying not arresting Zimmerman. The New Black Panther party has offered $10,000 for the capture of Zimmerman. That has to be illegal. If you try to pay somebody to kill another, that's a crime. If you try to pay someone to kidnap another, that has to be a crime too. Why aren't they arresting these criminals either? First police leaked info about Martin's marijuana use as if that had any bearing on this case. Now they're leaking information about jewelry that also has no bearing on the case.

"Women's jewelry and a watch found in Trayvon Martin's school backpack last fall could not be tied to any reported thefts, the Miami-Dade Police Department said Tuesday."

Suppose it did relate to a threat. That would have no bearing on the situation at hand. Shut up. Quit sliming this young man. Let's investigate the facts of the case and leave everything else alone. I don't care whether or not Zimmerman was a bigot or not. All I want to know is who initiated the conflict, and as of now we have conflicting stories between Zimmerman and Martin's girlfriend. This case is not about public opinion. It's not about what the principles did before the incident. It's about the facts of their conflict. Period. The press is trying to distract us with this hoody crap. I love my hoodies, I've been wearing hoodies since I was a kid, nobody ever stalked me because of a hoody, nobody ever told me to take my hoody off, and nobody ever shot at me because of my hoody.

What happens when commercial jet pilot goes nuts on a plane? Who can you count on for security? The passengers. This is more evidence that government cannot protect you. The only way the people can protect themselves is to work together cooperatively. Government is not a god. It's not all-seeing, all-knowing or perfect. Government is made up with human beings who are as limited and fallible as any other and as vulnerable to the corruption as power as any other. Government, because every action it takes is coercive, prevents people from working together. Surrendering power to government and police makes us more vulnerable to criminals and nut cases. Fortunately, since 9/11, the American people are realizing this and stepping up to protect themselves.

Back in March and April of 2010, I commented on an entrapment case by the FBI of a bunch of Michigan yahoos in a militia. The FBI agent provocateur agitated them into making threats against local cops, threats they weren't serious about, would never have made on their own, and were incapable of following up on their own. The the FBI swooped down on them and pretended they were protecting us from terrorists. It was a bunch of crap. Now a judge has agreed and thrown out most charges against the defendants, than goodness. But this is not a unique event. Pretty every time the FBI trumpets how it saves us from a terrorist attack, it turns out the supposed attacker was actually entrapped into the event by an FBI agent provocateur who goaded them and provided all material support. It's a fraud. Few people in the US have the desire and means to attack us. The FBI is the organization that is radicalizing, planning and providing the material for the vast majority of terrorist plots in America. I put a Google alert on this judge to see if the FBI and prosecutors set this judge up.

Cops can crack your smartphone in seconds.

Boston City government pays man $170,000 because police arrested him for videoing them. This is the third positive story I've posted in a row about the police state. And while this is certainly cause for celebration in the short term, nobody should mistake it for a trend. While judges occasionally side with the people, as in the last two items, they almost always side with government. Of course there's also a downside to this story. Who do you think will pay the $170,000? Boston taxpayers.

Congressmen are seeking to use the killing of Trayvon Martin as an excuse to grab more power.

FOREIGN POLICY:

I'm underwhelmed by this supposedly telling hot mike comment with Russian President Medvedev about the nuclear missile shield. Obama is a consummate liar. He lies to us. He lies to Medvedev. He lies to everybody. And why is the US required to provide a nuclear shield over Europe? That's welfare that brings hostility on the American people. If Europeans want a missile shield, they can build their own.

POLITICS:

Great review of The Hunger Games which excoriates the tyrannical US government.

A new iPhone app claims to show the real(TM) Republican delegate count, and according to it Ron Paul is doing very well, but not as well as the Ron Paul campaign is hinting.

Funny video of an alien trying to understand human government.

LOCAL:

Greene County native becomes Air Force's first four star general.

MISC:

It's popular to blame the current president for killing Constitution, but that's been going on for centuries. I think it died the day it was ratified. Alexander Hamilton and others began subverting it immediately, and they had planned to subvert it while it was being negotiated. To its credit, the Constitution slowed the growth of government for a long time, helping the American people create the greatest country the world has ever known. Even after the Civil War, government growth stayed relatively slow. It wasn't until the progressives took over both parties in the twentieth century that government growth really took off. The income tax, the Fed and the popular election of senators doomed us.

Contrasting Jefferson's vision of a liberal republic and Lincoln's vision of an empire enforced by violence.

Apparently there is a star in the Milky Way that is 13 billion years old and has planets equally as old. I like how the article in passing claims the star was probably captured by the Milky Way when it gobbled up some smaller, older galaxy. Where's the evidence?