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REGULATION:

The patent merry-go-round continues with Facebook buying 650 AOL patents from Microsoft. The money and the interest in these patents show just how significant government coercion is to the profits of tech companies.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

The high costs of escaping the euro make it unlikely any country will withdraw.

HEALTH CARE:

Farmers in Michigan file suit to protect their pig stock from state extermination.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

I'm sure somebody will blame the snow storm in the east on global warming, but what would they blame the similar storm in 1928 on? Weather happens.

A prominent climate alarmist changes his tune.

"“The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened,” Lovelock said.

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“The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time… it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising — carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.”"

There is still hope for humanity. More:

"In 2010, Lovelock advised that "The great climate science centers around the world are more than well aware how weak their science is.""

Weak is a euphemism for fraudulent, so maybe this guy is a reformed fraud, not just an enlightened alarmist.

Germans are overcoming the great global warming fraud too.

"Germany Building 17 New Coal, 29 New Gas-Fired Power Stations"

Good for them.

You know all the alarmist baloney spouted by the frauds and their misguided disciples? Here's ten real, wonderful consequences of increasing CO2 levels.

The leading exposer of the great great global warming fraud, Steve McIntyre, comments on hockey stick fraud Michael Mann's new book:

"I had also spent some time considering a response to Mann’s book. It amazes me that a reputable scientific community would take this sort of diatribe seriously."

I'm sure McIntyre knows this and intended his comments tongue in cheek: the global warming frauds are not a reputable scientific community. They're a clique of pseudo-scientists empowered by practically unlimited government money because they promote the government agenda of the great global warming fraud.

Praise for the oil speculator for helping insulate the needy from the ravages of government.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

For the first time since the Great Depression, more Mexicans are fleeing the US than entering.

WAR:

It sounds like Obama plans to expand his illegal war in Uganda using Kony as his excuse.

FOREIGN POLICY:

The launch of a medium range ballistic missile sets up India as a major military power.

POLITICS:

Military personnel in the Columbian prostitute scandal have their security clearances suspended.

Americans don't trust anybody. Why should they? Every aspect of our society is dominated the most successful criminal organization in the history of the world.

In a wonderful reminder that Mitt Romney is a liberal, Marco Rubio is giving a VP audition with a speech at the liberal Brookings Institute.

The Gingrich campaign goes deeper in debt. What is Gingrich's angle? My guess is he's working for Romney, taking votes from Ron Paul as a pretend anti-Romney candidate, and in return for his delegates, Romney will pay off his debts.

Why the Obama campaign should be panicking.

"Three out of the five major polls released this week (CNN, Pew, and NBC/Wall Street Journal) had the president leading former Gov. Mitt Romney, but only by single digits. The fourth (CBS/New York Times) was a tie, and the fifth (Gallup) had Romney ahead by five points. And that was after the bruising Republican primary season. You'd think the president would heading into the summer with a double-digit lead, based on his "likability" numbers."

I think plenty of Democrats are already running away from the president.

POLITICS:

Criticism of Cato's Ed Crane is going through the roof. Apparently everybody in the press has known he was a horrible person, but nobody bothered to report it, much like the press covers up for politicians. I don't know how Crane managed such protected coverage.

LOCAL:

This article claims that since sales tax revenue is up, our economy is improving. That's not true. Sales taxes are up because of stead price inflation. That's bad for our economy because government is confiscating more money though both overt taxes and the covert inflation tax. The economy may be improving, but we can't tell it from this.