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SOCIALISM:

Unions training 100,000 Occupy protesters for mass protests this spring. Teamster's resolution.

People in Michigan, supposedly a bastion of unionism, loath unions.

ECONOMY:

Germany has low youth unemployment because it has no minimum wage.

TAX AND SPEND:

Bill would suspend passport rights for delinquent taxpayers. I thought this was already the law.

REGULATION:

I'm skeptical of this bipartisan JOBS bill. It seems like just another opportunity for Obama to lie.

""I've always said that the true engine of job creation in this country is the private sector, not the government," Obama said during a signing ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. "Our job is to help our companies grow and hire."

Obama said that's why he pushed for the bipartisan Jump-start Our Business Start-ups (JOBS) Act that he signed Thursday.

"That's why I've cut taxes for small businesses over 17 times," Obama said. "That's why every day I'm fighting to make sure America is the best place on Earth to do business.""

Right. Here's what the law does:

"For the tech field, the single biggest change is that it legalizes crowdfunding for business ventures. Previously, entrepreneurs couldn't sell shares in privately held companies to the general public. Now, with some restrictions, small firms will be able to raise up to $1 million from small-time investors."

Why was that outlawed before?

HEALTH CARE:

Gingrich's former health care think tank declares bankruptcy. Apparently he was bringing in the bucks.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

You know how the global warming frauds keep saying that polar bears are endangered because of global warming? The only problem is that's not true.

"The debate about climate change and its impact on polar bears has intensified with the release of a survey that shows the bear population in a key part of northern Canada is far larger than many scientists thought, and might be growing."

More lies exposed.

WAR:

Claim that our government's Afghan allies support child sex slavery, but our government and media are covering it up.

Where do you think these nuclear powered drones will be operating?

POLITICS:

Romney the flip-flopper attacks Obama for flip-flopping. This campaign is a travesty. It's the bankster's Democrat puppet versus the bankster's Republican puppet. It's the Harvard grad versus the other Harvard grad. These guys might as well be clones, neither has any respect for the American people, yet the American people think they have a choice and continue to vote in this charade.

Ron Paul draws 7,800 at UCLA.

Insightful comment about the exploitation of Trayvon Martin.

"The absurdity of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton is that they want to make a movement out of an anomaly. Black teenagers today are afraid of other black teenagers, not whites."

Ouch.

Thomas Sowell busts Obama for political word games. Here's the first and list quotes:

"One of the highly developed talents of President Barack Obama is the ability to say things that are demonstrably false, and make them sound not only plausible but inspiring.

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It would be hard to become nostalgic about Richard Nixon, who was forced to resign in disgrace. But at least you could tell when he was lying. Obama's lies are just as big but not as visible, and the media that exposed Nixon is covering for Obama."

Great essay.

MEDIA:

Obama scolds the media for being too balanced in its reporting on the two radical leftist budget proposals.

MISC:

Will this bacteria killing plasma flashlight replace toothpaste, toothbrush and floss?

I still don't understand why people are against the Supreme Court's power of judicial review. The judicial branch has to obey the Constitution just like the the legislative branch and the executive branch, in theory anyway. If a federal judge hears a case in which the relevant law violates the Constitution, that law is null and void, and the judge must treat it so. That means judges are required to test the constitutionality of every law before them with the Supreme Court being the ultimate judge for the judicial branch. If the Supreme Court nullifies a law, as a practical matter most of the time, the rest of the government should follow suit because if it doesn't people will continue to sue and the law will be nullified in the courts. For those few cases when the court has little power over the execution of a law, the executive branch might not follow the court's decision as when Lincoln asked how many divisions the Supreme Court had.