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TAX AND SPEND:

Great cartoon in article explaining you can forget about retiring.

HEALTH CARE:

Forbes recognizes Republicans don't really want to repeal Obamacare.

"Still, there have been a few proposals put forth by our Republican friends—either legislatively or via GOP sound bites and talking points. Many of these suggestions, while certainly representing nothing that would approach a coherent plan, do often bear one common feature – they all adopt much of the very legislation that has been the target of their deepest displeasure.

Put another way, it appears that the GOP strategy for solving our healthcare crisis is, in no small measure, going to involve using Obamacare to replace Obamacare."

As I said from the beginning, they don't want to abolish it. They want to modify it so they can share in the looting.

The FDA shut down a private testing facility for mad cow disease because it was far more thorough than the FDA.

"It should go without saying that large U.S. meatpackers opposed Creekstone's effort to pioneer new and improved testing protocols. A meat industry spokesman insisted that any testing should only take place under government oversight. In 2006, Creekstone was forced to sue the USDA for refusing it permission to test all of its cattle. In 2008, a U.S. Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that would have allowed Creekstone to proceed. "We owe the USDA a considerable degree of deference," wrote a judge in the case."

This is how government insures our food supply is unhealthy. That creates crises that government can use to grab more power.

"Economist George Stigler, a Nobel laureate, has made the case that state regulation is designed to provide special privileges to regulated industries, protect them, and raise prices on their behalf. Of course this "regulatory capture" in which the regulators actually serve their industries is exactly the opposite of what the governing classes promise the public. Instead, regulating agencies restrict competition in ways that actually victimize the public. Stigler has suggested that "every industry or occupation that has enough political power to utilize the state will seek to control entry.""

Lots of people have made that case.

GLOBAL WARMING:

Lighting system based on algae is fueled by CO2, producing O2 as a by-product. Environmentalists will hate this because they want to end CO2 production in order to stunt human advancement, not scrub the air.

Contrary to alarmist prediction, Tuvalu didn't flood during the super-moon.

POLICE STATE:

This is an excellent rant about the totalitarian government we suffer under.

A good cop tries to defend civilians from other cops, and now she's suspended and likely to lose her job. That's how the system works.

WAR:

DARPA wants to chip soldiers, then everybody else.

Another Afghan soldier kills a NATO soldier and wounds a second. It looks like a US soldier was assassinated in Afghanistan while Skyping with his wife.

I long claimed that Russia and China were waging a new cold war against the US, but now I believe the US is waging one against China. As the article points out, once again the US government is the aggressor.

POLITICS:

Socialist wins in France. This is good reminder that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.

Greeks punish the two main parties, and no party got more than 20 percent meaning it will take a coalition of at least three parties, if not more, to form a government.

Governments are collapsing all over Europe, and the new governments can't solve the debt problems they created over decades.

Pirate party gains in Germany.

Ron Paul takes 22 Nevada delegates while Romney wins only three.

Andrew Breitbart's coroner was poisoned on the same day that Breitbart's cause of death was announced. Wow.

Obama has a 12 point advantage over Romney in swing states. His campaign to divide the country over women's issues is working for him.

LOCAL:

In another sign of the higher education bubble, local universities play to spend $461 million on new construction. Imagine what locals could do if they had that $461 million, plus the additional millions that were skimmed off the top by the politicians and bureaucrats, in their pockets.