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ECONOMY:

Car sales up. Not for long.

REGULATION:

How air bags make cars and car insurance more expensive.

EDUCATION:

Another school shooting exposes the fantastic failure of government schools.

Obama's spending on government prison schools is like Bush the Younger on steroids.

Walter Williams talks about dupes for the state, which is exactly what government trains students to be for the rest of their lives.

Government schools do exactly what the elites want them to do: make students easy for government to control for life.

HEALTH CARE:

The struggling Post Office wants to opt out of government health insurance and adopt private health insurance. You can't make this stuff up.

The link between vaccines and autism. Here's how one parent cured her child of autism:

"He lost it all..all speech and all skills with constant seizures... Yet he is now back with us, recovered from the hugest nightmare.

What we did: Low carb, very low carb paleo diet, and unprocessed cod liver oil."

Autism is clearly one of the many diseases of civilization. It makes sense that natural diet and exercise would cure it.

Low cholesterol linked to increased cancer risk.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Another boondoggle green company Obama wasted our tax dollars on goes bankrupt.

Roundup of stories shows the damage Europe's global warming policies have wrought. Here's one that shows the desperation of the frauds:

"A new postgraduate course at the University of East Anglia hopes to bring together “researchers in the environmental sciences, philosophy, history and literature to develop new ways of thinking about environmental change and social transitions”. And put that thermometer down. If you have experience writing “eco-poetry”, then the UEA wants to hear from you. UEA, the heart of the Climategate emails, already runs a project in “eco poetry” aimed at primary school children, intended to “stimulate and strengthen children’s environmental awareness”. It isn’t cheap, though. The course costs £5,000 for UK students and £11,900 for overseas students."

Eco-poetry.

POLICE STATE:

Former CIA agent goes rogue and exposes the CIA.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Study estimates the number of deaths from US government interventions around the world since WWII.

"The overall conclusion reached is that the United States most likely has been responsible since WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30 million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world."

This is why people all around the world hate us and many want to kill us.

POLITICS:

AG Holder on affirmative action:

"Attorney General Holder recently addressed the question of affirmative action, and for how long it would be required. He answered, stunningly, that reverse discrimination has only just begun: "Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices," Holder said. "The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin[.] ... When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?""

Hasn't affirmative action done enough damage?

Republicans have much better taste in cars than Democrats.

Romney wins Wisconsin, Maryland and D.C.

MEDIA:

Politicians absolutely should be mocked more often.

MISC:

Beer goggles have more effect on women than men. We don't talk about it that way, but why do you think men buy women drinks?

"The men and women given the vodka and tonic found it more difficult to work out if a face was symmetrical than those on soft drinks."

They must have drank a lot of vodka.

More evidence that the most powerful politicians tend to be sadists, psychopaths and sociopaths.

"A scholarly book reviewer uses the word [monster] of Mao Zedong, whose doctor’s memoir has exposed the chairman’s personal tyranny over his court as well as his utter callousness toward the hundreds of millions of people in whose name he ruled. A case in point, as shocking as poignant, is the story of a circus Mao attended in which a child acrobat took a terrible fall. The crowd was horrified as attendants rushed to care for the child; but Mao himself kept chatting and laughing with his entourage as if nothing had happened. And he never inquired about the child afterward.

One anecdote after another reveals Mao as cruel, isolated, self-centered, and indifferent to the suffering of others – as when he refused to accept treatment for the venereal disease with which he was infecting the hundreds of young women he took to bed. “What difference does it make?” he asked. “It isn’t bothering me.”

The review uses other words besides monster – psychotic, for example. But the language of psychology merely supplies us with technical-sounding words for the same thing: the shocking absence of ordinary human feeling.

Now it is remarkable how often we are driven to use such words of twentieth-century rulers: Mao, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Idi Amin stand out, but the list could be lengthened. All of which raises a question: Do such unnatural “monsters” have a natural tendency to rise to the top? Or does being on top tend to release the latent monster in everyone?"

Power corrupts, so great power would tend to make anybody more of a monster, but as Hayek explained, the act of governing through central planning requires putting in power who already believe the ends justifies the means. In other words, the most amoral individuals, the ones who are predisposed to violence, rise to the top.

"Dr. Thomas Szasz, author of the seminal book The Myth of Mental Illness, points out that it has become our habit to see “mental illness” in every shocking act. The habit of referring to all severe cruelty to “psychosis” and the like has the ironic effect of making evil self-exculpating. No “normal” person, we like to think, could do such things. We mean to imply that we could never do them."

I couldn't ever do some of those things. Some people have different psychology than others. You can see them in every day life. Don't bunch us all in one basket.