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TAX AND SPEND:

Here's an example of how scientists team up with government to loot us:

"The scientific community has shifted its earlier view of Mars dramatically. Instead of stories about the cold desert planet, the popular press now prints headlines such as: “Flood Carves Instant Grand Canyon.” The situation is ripe for seeing only what is already believed. This bias shows in the language when channels are identified unequivocally as fluvial (carved by flowing water) and of late Noachian age (between 3.5 and 3.7 billion years old), the very name invoking images of a universal flood."

The people won't tolerate looting for probes to a lifeless, frigid desert planet, so they pretend Mars is something different.

LOCAL:

Local entrepreneurs fear Obamacare.

MISC:

I just opened a can of worms with a search about when our ancestors almost went extinct. 70,000 years ago. 150,000 years ago. 1.2 million years ago. Apparently life was tough for our ancestors.

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RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

Ann Coulter cuts through the crap and gets to the point about Fast and Furious.

"Administration officials intentionally put guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, so that when the guns taken from Mexican crime scenes turned out to be American guns, Democrats would have a reason to crack down on gun sellers in the United States."

They wanted people to die so they could blame the right to keep and bear arms in the US. This is the behavior sociopaths, and it's why the NRA made a big deal out of the Holder contempt vote. In an important flashback explaining to us who AG Holder is, here's a video of him proclaiming the government must brainwash people against guns. You can't make this stuff up.

SOCIALISM:

Author exposes the fraud inherent in union pension programs. Union bosses profit. Politicians profit. Union workers get screwed. Union thugs will murder this author soon.

Union pensions bankrupt Stockton, California. Shhh. Don't tell anybody.

TAX AND SPEND:

German Chancellor Merkel continues to destroy her legacy by caving to demands from Spain and Italy. In other words, she just agreed to help the Spaniards and Italians to rob the Germans. Needless to say, this will only make things worse. She's going to be despised by Germans before this is over.

REGULATION:

What kind of stupidity is this? Immigrants file most patents at government schools. Why do we allow government employees to file patents? That's just stupid. Inventions should work for everybody, and, hahaha, government is supposed to work for everybody. Government patents? Give me a break.

EDUCATION:

Since government took over schools, the cost of education has skyrocketed. The same will happen with health care.

HEALTH CARE:

Here's how Roberts justified his Obamacare ruling:

"Chief Justice Roberts suggested that even he did not find the tax argument especially plausible. But he quoted Justice Holmes to explain why it was good enough. “As between two possible interpretations of a statute, by one of which it would be unconstitutional and by the other valid,” Justice Holmes wrote, “our plain duty is to adopt that which will save the act.”"

This is a surprisingly candid admission that the job of the Supreme Court is to provide legal cover for power grabs by Congress and the President. This philosophy explains why he voted against the Arizona illegal immigration bill because it usurped federal powers. The White House disagreed with Roberts.

"Sorry, Roberts, Obamacare mandate is a penalty, not a tax."

You say tomato. I say tomato. I can understand this point of view from a statist. The Constitution gives Congress virtually unlimited powers to tax. The words used don't matter. Just like Congress doesn't have to use the word war in a declaration of war, it doesn't have to use the word tax when laying a tax. It certainly doesn't use the word theft when laying a tax, but all taxes are theft. Before we can transform America into a free country, we have to admit the Constitution is a problem because it grants Congress an unlimited power to tax in addition to its other coercive powers. If Congress has the power to tax the purchase of an item, it has the power to tax the failure to purchase an item. And it can tax that item at any rate it choses. Congress doesn't have to ban drugs. It can just tax them at $1 trillion per ounce. If this ruling galvanizes conservatives to trounce Democrats like they did in 2010, Roberts may end up having his cake and eating it too. If these donations for Romney are any indications, this decision finally galvanized conservatives around Romney, the architect for the Obamacare model. We're the stupidest people on earth. Creepy Mitt Romney says that in order to repeal Obamacare, we have to defeat Obama and empower him even though he's the prime architect of Obamacare. We're the stupidest people on earth redux.

This headline says Americans split on health care decision but it shows that a pretty strong plurality oppose it. If Obama had this much of a lead over Romney, the article would claim that Americans overwhelmingly support Obama.

Why Obamacare will fail. It won't fail. It will do exactly what it's designed to do: wipe out private insurance. But by then government will have no money, so maybe we can return to free market health care, albeit at a more primitive level than we have today.

Blowback from Roberts's decision:

"And some liberals were making a 24-hour pivot from praising Roberts’s statesmanship to wondering whether the victory for Obama and congressional Democrats was delivered in a Trojan horse."

That's a good description. If Robert's gambit empowers a Republican wave, he gets his technical legacy of supporting the explosive growth of government while at the same time being credited with empowering a Republican victory. He had everything to gain and nothing to lose by voting this way. This is another perfect example that people advance their own interests, and when they have the power of coercion to do so, they do so at the expense of everybody else.

"In the opinion that stirred this week’s controversy, Roberts wrote that it was the duty of the court to avoid rejecting an act of Congress if there is a plausible reason for saving it. “It is well established that if a statute has two possible meanings, one of which violates the Constitution, courts should adopt the meaning that does not do so,” Roberts wrote."

It's probably also a well-established principle that if the government begins exterminating people, the Court is responsible for justifying that extermination. What a beautiful, self-inforcing, escape from personal responsibility.

It saddens me that Republicans know, not think, know, that Americans are so stupid they will support them for making a futile gesture to repeal Obamacare. As if the Senate would agree. As if Obama would sign it. Please don't fall for this charade. Republicans don't want to abolish Obamacare. They're just using it to promote themselves to they can write their own socialized medicine program.

Republicans want us to believe this election just became about Obamacare because Obamacare was a huge factor in the 2010 decimation of Democrats. While Obamacare will play an important, galvanizing issue in 2012, this election is about the economy. Therefore Mitt Romney will win.

After Bush nominee Roberts gave away his statist position, the Las Angeles Times scares us by proclaiming conservatives control the Court. Despite the latest outrageously progressive decision, be very, very afraid of conservatives. I progressives or conservatives equally because I can't find any meaningful difference.

Senate passes $1 trillion farm bill, 80 percent of which is food stamps.

Latest farm bill?

"It's not that the emperor has no clothes, it's that the taxpayers are paying for the emperor's Armani suit. This is the case with the current legislative action with the farm bill."

Meet the new farm bill. Same as the old farm bill.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Excellent data shows that warming in Texas cities far outstrips warming in Texas in general because of the Urban Heat Island effect

The recipient of another Obama handout to go bankrupt.

Thai government goons threaten farmers at gunpoint to stop global warming.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

Federal Judge rejects Obama and Holder, allowing Florida officials to clean their voter rolls of illegal voters.

POLITICS:

Sometimes the stupidest things make the biggest impact. Obama uses Indian and Chinese companies to schedule his travel. From a financial point of view, he's probably saving taxpayers a couple of bucks. From a political point of view, this could be explosive. Watch Obama screw this up by proclaiming he's saving taxpayers money. He's that stupid.

Obama reacognizes that, since the Bilderbergers have anointed Romney, he might be outspent. Here's another example showing Obama realizes the money is behind Romney:

"DNC Chief Wasserman Schultz Hyperventilates To Dem Supporters: “If We Don’t Raise $1.4 Million We Hand Everything Over To Karl Rove’s GOP Extremists”…"

Obama realizes the Bilderbergers made him president, and he's unhappy they've decide to replace him with Romney.

Dick Morris thinks Obama will lose by a landslide. With the economy tanking, his job approval falling the Bilderbergers kicking him to the curb, he should lose by a landslide. In much the same way, he should have won 2008 by a landslide. But he didn't. Never discount the power of the corrupt, phony front-runner to blow it. Romney will win. But not by much because there's so little differnce between him and our Marxist-in-chief.

I've got no problem with old, straight white men.They made this country the greatest country the world has every know. But something tells me Obama won't allow honesty about this to prevail.

MEDIA:

It's hard to surprise me regarding politics. I understand that every individual is out to advance his own interests. That's true of the most ideological, pragmatic, philanthropic and whatever else people. So I'm rarely surprise. In that regard, I know Chris Matthews is a self-serving Marxist ideologue. But I don't think he's stupid. I think he's very intelligent, so he doesn't give himself away in public. But even intelligent people can be stupid at times.

"Matthews spewed, "Let's get to this GOP leader in the Keystone state and other states, this plan to kill off the older voters and others who might be planning, how dare they, to vote for Obama.""

Can you see Chris Matthews hunting down people in Oklahoma? Not past the first shot, you can't. I guarantee you that. What a disaster for Matthews. I understand he's promoting his own self-interest, but while it might seem attractive to alienate a huge portion of Americans for moment, how's that effecting ratings?

"Whoa: Chris Matthews' Ratings Fall Below Level of Largest Bloggers"

I'm sure I'm not one of those bloggers, but at least I'm rising.

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RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

Republicans compare fast and furious to Watergate. Who got killed in Watergate?  House finds Holder in contempt in a meaningless gesture.

"Although the GOP-led House was widely expected to sanction Holder, it’s not clear whether the vote will get Republicans the documents they had requested. In the coming days, lawmakers will press to have criminal charges filed against the attorney general. But the decision of whether to do so will be made by the U.S. attorney for the District, Ronald C. Machen Jr., who ultimately reports to Holder."

Our rulers have created a system that protects them, and we've empowered them to do so. Many Democrats walked out in a not-so-meaningless gesture.

"Led by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), about 100 members exited through the main center door of the House floor and then walked solemnly and silently down the front steps of the U.S. Capitol with television cameras rolling and tourists looking on."

This abstention gives the Democrats wiggle room if Holder goes down. Seventeen Democrats votes for contempt, so while critics are trying to paint this as a partisan action, the voting record says otherwise. So they're blaming the NRA. This bill had more Democrats voting for it than Obamacare had Republicans. Holder's minions won't prosecute him mini-me wouldn't prosecute Dr. Evil. I'm shocked.

TAX AND SPEND:

Here's a quote about NASA and Mars from 2002:

"The story of water on Mars has been heard too many times, even though there was some new information. It “only served to strengthen the cynical view of NASA as an agency obsessed with spin and devoid of new ideas and goals.”"

Even ten years ago, sharp observers realized that NASA had become all about looting. Talk about water on Mars, get new funding.

HEALTH CARE:

Supreme Court upholds Obamacare including the mandate. So the ruling basically claims the fine for not buying insurance is a tax. Therefore government can order us to buy anything, say Chevy Volts, and if we don't, it can fine us $25 grand. Bush nominee Roberts joined the four liberals. This is a good reminder there's no difference worth mentioning between the parties. Swing vote Kennedy wrote the dissent, saying the other justices wanted to strike down the entire law. So much for Sotomayor being against the individual mandate.

"Even as it upheld that central component of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, however, the court modified another key provision of the law, ruling that the federal government cannot withdraw existing Medicaid funding from states that decide not to participate in a broad expansion of Medicaid eligibility."

This provision might seem at odds with upholding the law, but it's not. The Court is saying that every advance in the growth of government is constitutional, but it's unconstitutional to cut spending.

"The court’s historic compromise, which will affect the health-care choices of millions of Americans, amounts to a major victory for the White House less than five months before the November elections, although the Medicaid decision sets new limits on the power of the national government."

It is a major victory for Obama's first term, but I predict it will damage his chances of re-election. We saw how Obamacare motived conservatives to destroy Democrats in 2010. This decision will probably do the same thing in 2012. In fact, that might be why the Court upheld it. Here's the sad truth about constitutional government:

"Any constitution merely prolongs the pretense that political government can be limited by laws that it will interpret. Eventually every constitutional government will embrace Lenin's ruling formula: "Power without limit, resting directly on force." How exquisitely appropriate that in the case of the socialist monstrosity called Obamacare this was done by a Bush-appointed Republican conservative."

Exactly. Blatant hypocrisy about the meaning of tax and penalty in the ruling. =

Great picture shows the organization of food and consumer products and the few corporations which produce them.

POLICE STATE:

New Zealand high court rules that search warrants for Kim Dotcom's home were illegal. Good for him.

MEDIA:

CNN and Foxnews mistakenly report the Court struck down the individual mandate. Along with the story the other day pressuring Roberts to support the law for his legacy, this tells us that the media get plenty of leaks out of the Supreme Court. I wonder if Roberts changed his vote at the last minute.

MISC:

This is probably the best single article I've seen destroying the theory of the big bang, cosmology and stars.

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RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

Holy crap, this young man is my hero. A cop stopped him on the street and confiscated his firearm, but he never backed down and eventually he talked the cop into giving him his firearm back and letting him go. Of course, as wonderful as this is, I'm sure the police followed him then broke into his apartment, planted some drugs then busted him on phony drug charges. But still, he had giant balls of steel.

SOCIALISM:

Boortz points to a great story to remind us that unions exist to loot their workers and the people:

"A government school union in Michigan has asked for its members to hand over their bank account and credit card information in order to guarantee their union dues payments."

If you are surprised by this, maybe you don't understand socialism.

ECONOMY:

One of the rarely mentioned consequences of government's destruction of the economy is how it empowers frauds because people are being wiped out and forced to look for easy money to survive.

TAX AND SPEND:

Welfare spending, because it steals money from productive people, destroys wealth. Destroying wealth creates poverty. So welfare spending creates poverty. How hard is that to understand? And that isn't even counting the effect of paying people not to work.

Congress is pretending to care about student loans and highway funds. Both will pass. This is not in doubt. The delay is just theater. They're deciding which Republicans can support which and still get re-elected. I'll give them a hint: all of them.

Senate refuses to cut food stamps or anything else.

REGULATION:

The ADA is using threats of violence to force Netflix to provide closed captioning. This is like a deaf person attacking me on the street and demanding I use sign language. It's crap. I sympathize with the deaf people who want to be able to understand the dialog in these movies, but we can never condone threats of violence for any reason. If the ADA wants to provide a movie-TV service with closed captioning, it's free to start its own business and do so.

The government bars Samsung tablets from being sold in the US at the request of Apple. Every day patents give us an abomination like this. Do you want a Samsung tablet? The US government says **** you.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Speaking of insider trading...

"Boehner is one of 34 members of Congress who took steps to recast their financial portfolios during the financial crisis after phone calls or meetings with Paulson; his successor, Timothy F. Geithner; or Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, according to a Washington Post examination of appointment calendars and congressional disclosure forms."

What do you think they're in government for? Do you think they joined the government to get poor? Are you stupid? They joined the government to use government's power of coercion to get rich at our expense. And they did. That's because they're evil.

Amazing charts of the Fed's assets and liabilities since 1915. Try not to soil your pants.
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We've been robbed.

HEALTH CARE:

Is government really pushing this food stamp pyramid?

Canadian health care waits cost $1 billion a year in productivity. Baloney. This is a gross underestimate because it's a bogus study.

Remember when liberals claimed that Obamacare wouldn't usher in death panels? A whistle-blower in Britain claims that the British socialized medicine system...

"kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year."

Of course it does. The laws of economics cannot be denied. The same will happen in the US. This is inevitable under socialized medicine. And Republicans won't change a material thing about Obamacare. They don't want to. All they want to do is share in the looting.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

If you wanted to scare people about sea level rise due to global warming, who would you target? This article wants us to believe that global warming is driving sea level rise along the US east coast, the richest region on the planet and the most populated region in the US, faster than anywhere else on the world. How convenient that the sea level rise is fastest right where the political and financial implications are the greatest. I suspect this is either baloney or cyclical.

Because of my interest in the great global warming fraud and now the cosmology scientific crisis, I'm really interested in the Younger Dryas. What does it mean? The graph in this article explodes the great global warming fraud in a huge way.

So we're at about the coolest climate temperature in the last 10 thousand years, but man is supposedly warming the planet. Baloney.

Antarctica used to be warm and covered with plants.

POLICE STATE:

It just struck me that because the establishment has all the money, they can afford to challenge and resist actions in court, and because everybody else has little money, they can rarely afford to either challenge or resist actions in court. Call me slow for just noticing this. But the point is, this is another big reason for the establishment to resist cutting spending. Additionally, this means that our wealth stolen from the people funds pretty much all legal cases.

TSA agent spills ashes of remains then laughs while relative struggles to retrieve them. This is a good reminder that government attracts the worst people in the world to work for it because only government employees can get away with this kind of crap.

One of the worst aspects of our government is they make foreign dictators look legitimate.

"Embattled President Bashar Assad warned the Syrian public Tuesday that the nation was going through a state of “real war” and that emerging victorious was all important.

“We live in a state of real war,” Assad said while presiding over the first session of the new government, the state-run news service reported. “And when we live in a state of war, all our policies, directives and all sectors will be directed in order to gain victory in this war.”

It is the second time in recent weeks that Assad has addressed the nation warning that Syria is at war. He has blamed the rebellion against his rule on a “foreign conspiracy” that is using Islamic militants to overthrow his secular leadership."

Assad is perfectly accurate. Unlike our rulers, he's being honest. We empower lying, murdering crooks, and they make far less evil foreign leaders look good by comparison.

God bless this man whose daughter was sexually abused and condemn any who would harm him for his response.

Why was Roger Clemens prosecuted for lying to Congress but not AG Holder? Because, no matter how rich one is like Roger Clemens, he's still a serf. AG Holder is a ruler. Don't get confused by people who claim the rich are our rulers. It's not true. The politicians, bureaucrats and agents are our rulers. They partner with the ultra-rich, like the CEOs of big banks, the biggest corporations, union bosses and old money like the Rockefellers and the Rothchilds. But our rulers are the politicians, bureaucrats and government agents only. If you don't believe me, look at the CEO of Bear Stearns. The day before Bear Stearns went bankrupt, misguided Americans thought that CEO was one of our rulers. But he wasn't. He was in the ruling class, but he was ejected that quickly. So those people who are in the ruling class but not part of government are always subject to instant rejection from the ruling class. The bigwigs of government are not. Their power cannot be taken away until they lose an election. That makes them our ultimate rulers.

WAR:

Here's a nice summary of the NATO-Turkey trap for Syria.

"Turkey, which by providing safe harbor and facilitating the transfer of weapons to those who are at war with the Syrian government has technically de facto declared a state of war against Syria, has nevertheless acted as the proverbial kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar: "it's not my fault, mommy, and by the way you were not supposed to be in the kitchen anyway!" Or: "Yes we were on a spying mission in Syrian airspace, testing your air defenses in advance of a possible attack on your country, but still it was totally outrageous of you to respond in such an unneighborly fashion.""

This was a setup. The poor Turkish pilot was sacrificed like a fish flushed down the toilet.

FOREIGN POLICY:

It sounds like the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) should go down in flames like flight 815. It sounds like another one world government boondoggle.

Government stooges try to explain away Muslim hatred for the US based on rival politicians, not the decades of murder and oppression carried out by the US government against them. They've misrepresented cause and effect.

File this under the heading, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is: the Honduran government is planning to empower two libertarian city-states, one on the Atlantic and one on the Pacific, and build a high-speed train between them. I wish. I hope. But most likely this is a bait and switch. That government is trying to attract wealth and investment only to seize control of it later.

POLITICS:

Obama's approval rating drops to 43 percent. This should be renamed the fools who love government rating.

Is Obama a pathological liar? Of course. Just like every other president in my lifetime. And Romney. And their challengers. If I've said it once, I've said it a million times: the primary qualification of every politician is to be able to lie without conscience. That's because every politician can only represent one person with each vote. It's impossible to represent a person who wants one thing and person wants another at the same time. Since every individual is different, over the course of several votes, the politician can only represent one person. But in order to get elected, the politician must fool over half of voters into believing he or she will support them, not one individual. So of course Obama is a pathological liar. Like Romney. Like McCain. Like Bush. Like Kerry. Like Gore. And so on.

In more evidence the Bilderbergers have chosen Romney, Jimmy Carter blasts Obama. Meanwhile Romney enjoys a fund-raising bonanza at a retreat with the who's who of the ruling class.

"Many of those same attendees said the star speaker of the weekend was former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who received and a standing ovation. Ambassador Charles Cobb, who served as ambassador to Iceland from 1989 to 1992, said Rice was "spectacular" and described her as a "very bright, sophisticated, articulate lady."

 Husband-and-wife donors from Los Angeles who did not want to be identified said Rice's message was one of "America needing to take charge."

"We can't stand by and let things happen," the wife said. "If we do, someone else will take that leadership role.

They both described her address as an "impassioned plea" for the country to "stand up and take charge.""

Apparently the US government hasn't pushed people around enough or killed enough of them yet.

I'm not surprised that another Obama family story has turned out to be a lie. Are you?

"Courtesy of David Maraniss' new book, we now know that yet another key prop of Barack Obama's identity is false: His Kenyan grandfather was not brutally tortured or even non-brutally detained by his British colonial masters. The composite gram'pa joins an ever-swelling cast of characters from Barack's "memoir" who, to put it discreetly, differ somewhat in reality from their bit parts in the grand Obama narrative."

The more we find out about him, the more he sounds like a fiction created by his CIA controllers.

"The best friend at school portrayed in Obama's autobiography as "a symbol of young blackness" was, in fact, half Japanese, and not a close friend. The white girlfriend he took to an off-Broadway play that prompted an angry post-show exchange about race never saw the play, dated Obama in an entirely different time zone, and had no such world-historically significant conversation with him. His Indonesian step-grandfather, supposedly killed by Dutch soldiers during his people's valiant struggle against colonialism, met his actual demise when he "fell off a chair at his home while trying to hang drapes.""

It would be funny if it wasn't so deadly serious.

Without realizing the implications, Boortz reports,

"The Obama administration can’t seem to catch a break."

That's because the Bilderbergers picked Romney. So Obama is being blasted by both parties and the press on national security leaks, fast and furious and Jimmy Carter blasted him on war. Now the UN has attacked Obama for his murderous ways too. Stick a fork in Obama. He's done.

Obama and his plutocrat partners are paying stooges to heckle Romney.

The tea party ousts another fat-cat Republican in Oklahoma. I know these candidates aren't perfect. I know they fail to oust some powerful incumbents like Hatch. But they are ousting some. But it's too little, too late.

MEDIA:

You know things are bad for Obama when the Washington Post blasts his latest anti-Romney ad for lying.

LOCAL:

Police chase kills teen girl. In an attempt to absolve themselves, the police claim they ended the chase a minute before their target killed the girl, and maybe they did, but that doesn't absolve them.

"According to Springfield police’s pursuit policy, any officer has the right to terminate a chase. The officer made the right call by not chasing Thomson, Moody said, and was also correct to keep following him."

This report makes it sound like the officer did the best he could, terminating the chase very quickly, but you never know if the reports are accurate or not. The article doesn't tell us how far it is from North to Warder.

MISC:

CIA tool Facebook secretly changing user's default email to @facebook.

Astronomers photoshop famous picture so hide features that contradict the Big Bang theory. This tells me they know their theory is bankrupt. This isn't done out of ignorance. It's an act of fraud. Even Hubble, who is credited with discovering that redshift equals distance, in fact argued against the theory. This is a great quote:

""If astronomy were [sic] a science," a famous astronomer has said, the Big Bang would have been discarded decades ago instead of having become the touchstone of faith and funding."

Funding is the key because scientists, like everybody else, want to advance their own interests. So here's another example of how government money has thoroughly corrupted science, transforming it into pseudo-science. Galaxy observed emitting quasars.

Blogger decided not to support Opera any more. It suggested I use Google Chrome. That sounds like typical Microsoft.

Brits rename Big Ben after Queen Elizabeth.

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FEDERAL RESERVE:

How Bernanke's zero interest rate policy hinders economic recovery.

Former Vatican banker fears for his life because he discovered money laundering going on there. Apparently bankers and central banks have a long history of illegal operations.

HEALTH CARE:

Italian court awards damages based on link between vaccines and autism.

WAR ON DRUGS:

You know how drugs are bad for us, and that's why angelic police protect us from them?

"Steroid use — including the attendant psychological syndrome called “Roid Rage” — is quite commonplace among cops. “Officer Jimmy,” an anonymous active-duty police officer, told Men's Health magazine that “Steroid use is very pervasive in law enforcement. I'd say, of the cops I know, 20 percent to 25 percent of them are using” steroids. “Jimmy,” who became a police officer in 2000, is a good representative of the “dominate-intimidate” mindset that defines contemporary law enforcement. He believes — or at least believed at one time — that police are under-utilizing an important tool: “What law enforcement needs is a little testosterone. Every cop should do a [steroid] cycle a year.”"

Another reminder that laws only apply to us serfs, not our lords and masters.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

Supreme Court strikes down significant parts of Arizona immigration law.

WAR:

The militarization of the internet.

Syria shoots at second Turkish plane. It looks like this is the preferred method of drawing Syria into a war so NATO can invade like they did in Libya. Surely the Syrian government knows this. Why would it fall for this trap?

Anonymous officials admit the NSA, CIA and Israeli intelligence developed the flame malware to attack Iran. Now flame is endangering your computer.

FOREIGN POLICY:

While the government tries to paint the Muslim Brotherhood as bogeymen to scare us, in fact the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt is an associate of Hillary Clinton.

Romney calls Russia America's number one foe. That's true from a nuclear missile point of view, but I don't think it's true in a broad sense. In fact, the US has no foes. Neither Russia, China, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Somalia or any other country is going to attack us.

POLITICS:

This is what government is all about:

"A billionaire Chicago family that donated and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for President Obama got a $3.5 million discount last year for paying off early a $460 million settlement deal it agreed to in the 2001 failure of a Chicago-area bank it owned.

And while the wealthy Pritzker family got a multimillion-dollar break, 1,400 former depositors were not so lucky — they are still owed more than $10 million in savings they lost when the bank’s doors were shuttered, and there is little chance they will ever get those funds back."

It's all about making politicians and their cronies richer at the expense of the people.

Power elite analysis exposes who really rules America.

LOCAL:

Suddenly our local rulers realize that rivers and riverfront property is valuable.  It's like these people have never noticed the tremendous benefit of river development in other cities. But forget the central plans. Just free the property for people to buy and develop as they wish. Stupid Miamisburg is going with $17 million park which is about the least valuable use of the land possible Dayton is going to allow boating and tubing that it's killed decades ago with that stupid dam. At least Troy recognizes the value of dining on the river.

People don't build covered bridges with their own money. They only do it with money stolen from others. This squandering of wealth is nothing to celebrate.

MISC:

History book claims that Lincoln's cronies allowed 1 million freed slaves to die of disease.

"Sick from Freedom shows that as many as 1 million of the freed slaves died from cholera or smallpox while the federal government, controlled by The Party of Lincoln for half a century after the war, did essentially nothing at all about it. Thousands of ex-slaves returned to work on the plantations where they were previously enslaved because the alternative was starvation and death from disease."

So much for them caring about the slaves.

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REGULATION:

Report claims IP stimulates innovation in biotech, but it seems they've discovered a correlation, not causation.

"Over the past decade, increases in patents have been matched by growth in the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors in India, Brazil, Singapore and other countries with emerging economies."

I think they have it backwards.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Electrical theory of climate cycles and earthquakes.

"The possibility that something internal to the Earth affects climate was raised by Daniel Walker first in 1988 and then again in 1995 and 1999. He pointed out that increased tectonic activity (seismicity, magma upwelling and hydrothermal venting) along portions of the East Pacific Rise (EPR), precede (by up to six months) each El Niño event studied since 1964. The association was so significant that Walker called the increased seismicity along the EPR “Predictors of El Niño.”"

"“The missing link between the sunspots and earthquakes is the fact that the electric discharges to the Sun that cause sunspots can also affect the Earth’s ionosphere. The ionosphere forms one “plate” of a capacitor, while the Earth forms the other. Changes of voltage on one plate will induce movement of charge on the other. But unlike a capacitor, the Earth also has charge distributed in rock beneath the surface. And if the subsurface rock has become semi-conducting because of stress, there is an opportunity for sudden electrical breakdown to occur through that rock.

We should expect similar processes to occur underground as are found in atmospheric lightning. …in a large earthquake, the entire circuit may be involved, from below the Earth, through the atmosphere to the ionosphere.

This would explain the massive disturbance of the ionosphere over a large area accompanying a major earthquake. Subterranean lightning causes earthquakes! Seismic waves are the rumble of underground thunder.”"

Electrical phenomena in the atmosphere are frequently documented before and during earthquakes. This makes too much sense. More on the link between electricity in the solar system and earthquakes.

"The missing link between the sunspots and earthquakes is the fact that the electric discharges to the Sun that cause sunspots can also affect the Earth’s ionosphere."

But right now, solar cycle 24 continues to produce very few sunspots. However, earthquake activity is picking up, and El Nino is predicted to follow.

Eating meat has virtually no impact on global CO2 levels.

"In other words the difference between the high-meat future and the low-meat one is just 12 parts per million."

This is another example of fear-mongering to control us.

Less and less of our food comes from America thanks to government control of farms through regulation and farm "aid".

"There is one bright spot here: most of the food Americans consume is still produced here.

On the other hand, we are seeing a marked increase in imports over time. According to USDA data, from 1999 to 2010, there was a 43.25% increase in import volume (111% increase on a dollar basis). Population growth is a partial contributor, but in that same time period, the US population only increased about 10%. Obviously we’re off-loading more of our food purchases to other countries."

This is going to be a problem when the collapse hits.

EPA fines fuel producers for not putting cellulosic ethanol into fuel even though cellulosic ethanol does not exist. I don't want it in my fuel anyway.

WAR ON DRUGS:

The war on drugs is just another excuse to loot us.

"There is no question that the war on drugs is a failure. In spite of decades of prohibition laws, threats of fines and/or imprisonments, and massive propaganda campaigns, drugs are available and affordable. The Mental Health Services Administration — a government agency — has reported that marijuana, ecstasy, and methamphetamine use has recently increased. The government’s GAO has even said that the D.A.R.E. program has had “no statistically significant long-term effect on preventing youth illicit drug use.” 

There are, however, some things that the war on drugs has accomplished. It has drained $40 billion a year from the federal treasury."

In other words, it's been a smashing success for the looters.

WAR:

I'm confused by this legality of war stuff. The US Constitution says that only Congress can declare war, so if the president invades a country without approval from Congress, the war is illegal. But war is always illegal from the point of view of the country invaded, and Congressional declaration of war doesn't change that. It seems me this boils down to national self-defense. That's legal. Aggression is not.

The army is training its personnel to drive tanks through US neighborhoods, getting people used to seeing tanks on the streets. The people of St. Louis should make this stop immediately.

"Reporting that he was told by the Army not to disclose the location of where the exercise was operating out of for “security reasons,” KSDK reporter Casey Nolan downplayed the exercise as “not such a big deal.”"

But the accomplice press is there to help the government out.

You know how the media and Obama keep saying the US isn't involved in Syria? They leaked otherwise to the New York Times.

"A small number of C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers."

And those weapons are coming from the US too, even if they're funneled through an Arab government first. Obama must have leaked this because Republicans are criticizing him for being soft on Syria.

FOREIGN POLICY:

After the US instigated a revolution in Egypt, Egyptians elected the Muslim Brotherhood candidate.

POLITICS:

Establishment Republicans pull shenanigans on Ron Paul delegates in Massachusetts.

"But earlier this month, Kenney was one of 17 delegates and alternates disqualified by a Republican committee deciding who gets to represent Massachusetts Republicans at the national convention in Tampa. Kenney and others had failed to deliver in time an affidavit swearing, under the penalty of perjury, that they would support Mitt Romney’s nomination for president.An affidavit is never mentioned in the Republican Party’s rules for selecting delegates and has never been required of delegates in the past, GOP critics say."

If nothing else, Ron Paul has exposed the awesome corruption of our political process.

Kochs oust Crane from Cato.

LOCAL:

There's optimism in Dayton because prices have supposedly bit rock bottom. They're wrong. As soon as the base funding is cut, this area is going to crash hard. It's a terrible sign of how much damage government has done to this city that they had to build a school on what should be fantastically valuable real estate along the river. It's another terrible sign that they have to spend $4 million to take out a worthless dam so people can use the river.

MISC:

Apple employee refuses to sell iPad to American girl because she spoke Farsi. The salesmen claimed selling it would violate US trade restrictions. The stupidest part of this story is that the US is restricting sales of iPads to Iranians.

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ECONOMY:

Falling gas prices are a sign of a slumping economy.

Apple's employees aren't being exploited. They voluntarily work for the wage Apple pays them.

TAX AND SPEND:

Here's an interesting point I had never considered before:

"Of course, NASA is quick to exploit any suggestion of subsurface liquid water on another body in the solar system as a reason for further missions to look for signs of life."

Of course. NASA scientists have a powerful incentive to present cases for liquid water: they get rich off of it. No wonder they talk about possible liquid water all the time, but they never find any. They're using that idea to loot us.

POLITICS:

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson poised to take significant votes from Romney, especially out west. Excellent. Republicans better wake up and embrace libertarians fast.

LOCAL:

We don't need a new central plan for the river. We need the city surrender control of it so people can use it for the benefit of everybody.

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FEDERAL RESERVE:

This article claims that faulty software has frozen bank accounts and messed up balances.

""'RBS and Natwest have failed to register inbound payments for up to three days, customers have reported, leaving people unable to pay for bills, travel and even food. The banks — both owned by RBS Group — have confirmed that technical glitches have left bank accounts displaying the wrong balances and certain services unavailable. There is no fix date available.' Customers of NatWest subsidiary Ulster Bank in Ireland have also been left without banking services. RTE reports that 'the problem had arisen within the systems of parent bank RBOS when an incorrect patch was applied.'""

Another possibility is the software wasn't faulty at all. This bank could be in trouble, and this could be a way to hide the trouble until the government can print more money for the bank. Or it could be a dry run for when all bank accounts are frozen shortly.

POLICE STATE:

Ex-Penn State coach Sandusky found guilty on most charges. It's a shame this process and conviction were grotesquely tainted by a grand-standing AG and sheriff. This should have been a cathartic event for the victims, and hopefully it still is, but it's sickening how the self-interest of evil people drawn to government's power of coercion can taint such a proceeding. Frankly, despite all the propaganda, or maybe because of it, promoted in the media by the prosecutors and their political allies, I'm skeptical of the decision. In a free society, very little doubt would last past a conviction. It's only our grossly unjust and abusive conviction system that can produce such doubt when the evidence seems so clear.

WAR:

One problem of war is enemies always cross borders to hide. The aggressor is forced to either allow them to operate across the border or it must invade another country. We remember how this worked out for us in Vietnam. The same thing is happening along the Afganistan-Pakistan border. The solution is not to invade Pakistan. The solution is to end US government aggression in Afghanistan.

Roosevelt used to send PT boats to harass Japanese ships, hoping the Japanese would attack them so he could declare war. Today, Syria shot down a Turkish, a member of NATO, plane. A simple analysis would conclude western powers used this plane to start a war.

"The official Syrian Arab News Agency, known as SANA, said the aircraft, flying low and fast, violated Syrian airspace over the Mediterranean Sea and was shot down by ground fire. It said the plane was hit about half a mile from the Syrian coast and crashed into the sea."

How many times will we allow our rulers to kill people to advance their interests?

LOCAL:

In another good reminder that the government owns your property, not you, government is telling Yellow Springs residents where they may and may not garden on the property they thought they owned. It's funny to see the leftists in Yellow Springs standing up for property rights against the socialist government. The glove is on the other foot for them.

VP Biden forced to cancel trip to my hometown of Hamilton. Hurray for Hamilton.

MISC:

AMD video chip top of the line. It's unfortunate their CPUs no longer compete for that title.

For decades or more ICAAN has held a monopoly on DNS names. This shows that in the free market monopolies are still restrained by the market, unlike government.

God bless Alyson Hannigan.

Are Christmas trees a representation of our solar system's chaotic past? This seems even further out there than the Venus as recently born planet from Saturn turned comet turned planet seems.

Apparent strings of Birkeland currents creating stars in the Southern Cross nebula. This picture is beautiful and enlightening (no pun intended).

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RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

I originally thought AG Holder was responsible for Fast and Furious, now it sounds like Obama was behind it.

""He's either part of it or he's not," Rep. Trey Gowdy, a feisty Republican lawmaker from South Carolina, challenged during Wednesday's committee meeting on Holder. "If (Obama's) part of it, then we've had a series of witnesses that have misled this committee. And if he's not part of it, then he's got no business asserting executive privilege.""

Exactly. He can't have it both ways.

"Justice Department officials noted that the assertion does not have to pertain to communications involving the president or White House staff. Any "deliberative communications" among officials in the Executive Branch, they said, could be covered."

So Obama is claiming he can use executive privilege to shield any information in the executive branch from Congress. That's a fantastic claim and would be an awesome power grab if true. But he's lying. He was involved, and he's covering it up.

ECONOMY:

Moody's downgrades 15 major banks.

"The stock market has also priced in any negative impact from the ratings downgrades, according to Bert Ely, a banking consultant in the Washington, D.C. area. "They've been telegraphing this thing for months," Ely said."

Really? Maybe he's talking about the Dow losing 200 points today with banks getting hammered. But this guys blew right past that to try and convince people things are OK.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Syrian fighter pilot granted asylum in Jordan.

LOCAL:

Why is White Castle opening a plant in Vandalia?

"The facility would employ about 120 workers at an average salary of $35,155 by 2017, according to Vandalia’s application for Montgomery County ED/GE (Economic Development/Government Equity) funds earlier this year. The city sought $300,000 county ED/GE funds to go toward the project, code-named Project Foursquare."

Corporate welfare. The government is giving White Castle money it stole from others.

MISC:

If you change the scientific focus of this article from cosmology to climate, it could have been posted at wattsupwiththat.com.

"Just as much of modern science has become self-serving in striving for status and funding, the theory of how science should be done is similarly afflicted. An assessment of a theory based on ‘degrees of belief’ might be useful if scientists didn’t routinely ignore, minimize or dismiss falsifying evidence and twiddle the countless knobs on their models to fit new data. The most glaring modern example of such behavior is the rejection of stark evidence of intrinsic redshift of quasars. Big bang cosmology is already lifeless by this assessment but ‘belief’ keeps the corpse warm. While we allow the few scientists who judge the data according to their beliefs to control publication, funding and press releases, real science is dead."

This is a good reminder that all science is corrupted by the intersection of government-academic-establishment money and self interest. Another sad aspect of this is it seems scientists are using computers to retard the advance of science, not to enhance it. I wonder if proponents of the Ptolemaic model of the universe had had computers, would that model still be preeminent today?

A nice indictment of our cult of non-expert worship.

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REGULATION:

Thanks to our absurd patent system, after a two year case, Google has to pay Oracle $0 - yep, zero - for supposedly infringing Oracle's patents. The lawyers got rich. The judge made a lot of money. But the companies lost, and that means we all lost because that wealth was squandered in the parasitic political economy instead of working in the productive private sector to enrich us all.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Bernanke says he's ready to launch QE3 if necessary, as if QE1 and QE2 worked so well.

HEALTH CARE:

Radioactive patch cures skin cancer.

POLICE STATE:

Police chief who failed to hold Zimmerman after he killed Trayvon Martin fired. Even if Zimmerman was justified and he's found not guilty, it was just terribly unusual for him not to be held in jail during the investigation. I don't think people should routinely be held in jail during investigations, but that's the norm in murder investigations.

POLITICS:

Obama spent more than he raised in May.

"Obama, who has been able to accumulate cash as Romney fended off primary challengers, spent three times more in May than he did in April, reflecting new investments in staff — a total of 703 campaign workers in May, up from 631 a month earlier — and the barrage of television commercials in battleground states that have touted his record and slammed presumptive GOP nominee Romney's business career."

He's panicking. His spending isn't working.

MISC:

So lightning may have destroyed Columbia, not a problem with the heat tiles.

I'm glad to see somebody else recognizes this.

"But specialism and specialist jargon is the enemy of communication and the wide-ranging investigation needed to compose the “big picture” we call cosmology."

Specialized jargon is a tool to exclude outsiders.

Time Warner patents method for disabling fast forward on DVRs. So much for fast forwarding past commercials. This is going to piss people off big time. They can only get away with this because they are protected from robust competition by the government.

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GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

OMG: The atmosphere of Mars is full of C02. It must be experiencing runaway global warming, right? But it's not. It's not getting hotter. As far as I've read, Venus isn't experiencing runaway global warming either despite the dominance of CO2 in its atmosphere. It's hot, but it's not getting hotter. I bet minute increases in CO2 from human activity on Earth won't make our planet hotter either. OK, I'm understating it. CO2 has a negligible effect on Earth's climate. Chisel it in stone. I guess I just went from a skeptic to a denier.

POLICE STATE:

Roger Clemens found not guilty.


FOREIGN POLICY:

UK company withdraws insurance on Russian ship bound for Syria, forcing it to return to port. You know somebody in government called that insurance company up and made them an offer they couldn't refuse. This will increase tensions with Russia.

Are you shocked to learn that the US government, along with the Israeli government, produced the Flame malware as many of us predicted? I hope not. I think the most important and disgusting aspect of this story is the yawn factor. People don't care, and they won't care until their computers stop working right.

I'm suspicious that the long-time Egyptian dictator supported financially and otherwise by the US government just happens to be dying of cardiac arrest, but was miraculously revived, on the day that Egyptian elections are being held. This sounds like a fairy tail intended to manipulate voters to support the US backed candidate. I'm sure everybody feels bad the mass-murdering, billionaire, dictator, US government stooge for 30 years or so. I don't mean to be cold. I don't wish pain or death on anybody. But this sounds like Machiavellian manipulation. Government propagandists want us to feel bad for Mubarak. I'm not moved.

LOCAL:

Every year without fail we suffer a few weeks without rain. During that time, it's slighter warmer than average. It happens every year. Maybe it's May. Maybe it's August. Maybe it's June. It's normal. Every day isn't average. Some days, weeks and even months are different that the average. That happens ever year. This year, it's June, but naturally, the government paid fraud want to scare us about it.

MISC:

It turns out geologists are skeptical that the Grand Canyon was carved by the Colorado River. That's the first I've heard of that too.

An electrical universe guy makes the following assertion:

"The Sun is at a more positive electrical potential (voltage) than is the space plasma surrounding it - probably in the order of 10 billion volts."

Prove it. Without proof, this is no different than saying the sun is powered by the Giant Spaghetti Monster. As a natural skeptic, these electrical universe guys have peaked my interest. They've made me skeptical of modern cosmology. But they have completely failed to convince me of their point of view. It's easy to throw bombs and destroy stuff. It's hard to build stuff.

Jeffrey Tucker champions 3d printing, and in doing so crushes capitalists who use government to boost their own profits at the expense of innovation, civilization and the people. The quote of the article is this: Capitalism is not for wimps.

A belief in hell lowers crime rates. Who would have guessed? Once again pseudo-science, funded by a terrible amount of money stolen from others, proves the obvious.

I predict the Google tablet will be lame. Hardware is not Google's strength.

I'm not surprised the gotcha announcement from Cato never happened. If Lew had really had a gotcha, he would have published it himself. Who is he protecting? Certainly neither Crane nor Koch.

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POLICE STATE:

Prosecutors released recordings of six phone calls by George Zimmerman in order to bias the jury pool against him. This is standard operating procedure for prosecutors and nobody questions it, but if a defense attorney did this, a judge would sanction him. This is just another example of the pervasive corruption of our justice system. Note they won't release other phone calls that work to Zimmerman's benefit. They'll probably claim they're protecting his right to privacy.

FOREIGN POLICY:

The corruption of the Egyptian electoral process is impressive.

"Islamist candidate Mohammed Morsi has declared victory in Egypt's first free presidential election since Hosni Mubarak's ouster 16 months ago.

But just as polls were closing, the ruling military council issued constitutional amendments that gave sweeping authority to maintain its grip on power and subordinate the nominal head of state."

"The military decreed that it will have legislative authority after a court dissolved parliament, it will control the drafting of a new constitution and will not allow civilian oversight of its significant economic interests or other affairs."

This is an outright coup by the military that is backed by the US, so we can thank the US government for instigating more hatred and attacks against us.

MISC:

I didn't realize there were skeptics to modern cosmological theory too. In this article, the author criticizes the pseudo-science of global warming, but he does the same in article after article on cosmology.

"Science has become religion! ..although religion may have borrowed some of the jargon of science, science, more importantly, has adopted the methods of religion. This is the worst of both worlds."

Much like democracy is so dangerous because it fools people into believing the government is legitimate and works for them, religion posing as science is similarly, incredibly dangerous for the same reason.

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TAX AND SPEND:

Euro supporters win in Greece, so it looks like the looting will continue for a while longer.

"The result, however, exposed a deeply divided society, and could leave an emboldened SYRIZA leading new protests against a coalition governing with significantly less than 50 percent of the electorate's support."

There's going to be a new crisis in Greece almost immediately. You can't overcome the problems caused by looting with more looting.

HEALTH CARE:

These graphs from NPR tell the story of why we have such health care problems in the US. Americans spend far more on processed foods and sweets than we used to and spend far less on meat than we used to.

The meats in supermarkets are lower quality as well.

A quick, cheap, accurate test for gluten intolerance. I'm skeptical. This is probably designed to cover up gluten intolerance except in very bad cases.

GLOBAL WARMING:

Climate change skeptic fired for exposing fraud.

"“The facts of this case are astounding,” said David French, senior counsel for the ACLJ. “UCLA terminated a professor after 35 years of service simply because he exposed the truth about an activist scientific agenda that was not only based in fraud but violated California law for the sake of imposing expensive new environmental regulations on California businesses.” French said, “UCLA’s actions were so extreme that its own Academic Freedom Committee unanimously expressed its concern about the case.” "

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

POLICE STATE:

Former Navy SEALs team up with protection specialists to offer a service with encryption that can defeat the NSA. I like that former Navy SEALs see the danger of our police state and want to overcome it.

The Supreme Courts support for strip searches legalizes rape by police.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Egyptian military takes control of Egyptian elections. This is what happens when people try to replace one criminal ruling class with another. Just a year ago Egyptians thought the military was their protectors. Not any more.

The return of kings in the Balkans.

POLITICS:

Ron Paul wins Iowa.

LOCAL:

Sure, government pays lip service to cutting spending, and officials symbolically freeze wages, but then they turn around and pay huge bonuses.

MISC:

Failed states. Since the state exists to loot the people and enrich the ruling class, I think they all wildly succeed.

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ECONOMY:

Ohio jobless rate fell dramatically year over year in May, from 8.8 percent to 7.3 percent.

The Greek bank job continues.

TAX AND SPEND:

For a year or more, people have been asking if the US is like Greece. That's like comparing a leaky rowboat to the sinking of the Titanic, but the rowboat is sinking sooner.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Space weather is a serious issue, so the last thing we want is for government to get involved in it.

POLICE STATE:

Seven TSA agents in Philadelphia accused of bribing an instructor to pass them. This is a good reminder of the incredibly low quality of people who will do this disgusting job.

POLITICS:

Obama is the most lawless president I can remember, so I'm happy to see this article point out that his political strategy is to ignore laws.

New establishment shenanigans against Ron Paul delegates in Massachusetts.

MISC:

Everything popular culture tells us about Watergate is wrong.

"At the epicenter of Watergate was a sex scandal involving a Washington, D. C. call-girl ring. This crucial fact is little known to the vast numbers of the American public who think they know the real story of Watergate but only know the myth created and fostered by secret forces at the heart of the mystery."

That would be typical.

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SOCIALISM:

Analysis of the numbers shows that Obama's taxpayer-funded bailout of auto companies went directly into the pockets of UAW workers.

ECONOMY:

I agree with Kudlow we're in a recession, but I don't think we ever got out of the 2008 recession. The phony increases in the GDP statistics and the stock market were created by the Fed printing money, not an increase in production.

More people around the world think China is the world's leading economy than the US. They might be right. We won't know for sure until after the impending crash.

TAX AND SPEND:

US governments, federal, state and local, are projected to add three times more debt than the eurozone over the next five years. And you think the eurozone is dragging down the US economy. The opposite is true.

Our debt is bigger. It's growing faster. Our economy is smaller. What's going on in the eurozone is just the warm-up act for the real economic collapse coming to the US soon. And it's already in the pipeline. The best we can do is mitigate this disaster by dramatically reducing the burden of government in the US. We can't avoid it. The May budget deficit was double what it was last May. It's important to remember than when we talk about US debt and spending, US Treasuries are at their lowest yields in history because investors fleeing Europe are buying them as a temporary safe haven. That won't last. The same is true of the dollar. Our budget and economic problems are war worse than they appear.

Sherrod Brown claims government creates jobs.

Republicans share much blame for food stamps.

Maryland is going the way of California.

REGULATION:

Spain lifts ban on advertising for brothels to stimulate the economy. Clearly they understand that regulation harms the economy, if too late.

Remember when Obama claimed he was a low-spending president? Here's the real story on spending. Now he claims his administration orders fewer regulations than previous administrations. This guy makes Bill Clinton look relatively honest.

EDUCATION:

Socialist ideas are as American as apple pie. Spoiled, poisonous apple pie, but apple pie nonetheless.

HEALTH CARE:

As many of us reported would happen, Obamacare will drastically increase health care spending. How could it not?

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

James Hansen's 1988 climate prediction wrong by 150 percent. That's a firing offense. Can you imagine if a bridge builder was off by 150 percent?

Green policies increase poverty just like many of us have said all along.

POLICE STATE:

US spies have most likely infiltrated Microsoft. Why stop at Microsoft? Why not Google, Apple and Cisco too?

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

Obama panders to illegal immigrants by suspending deportation of some. Clearly he hopes to win the illegal immigrant vote which is also why he's suing Florida to stop them from purging illegal immigrants and dead people from the voter rolls.

WAR:

Pat Buchanan on Obama's security leaks.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Egypts vote-rigging system is in full force, no doubt supported by the US.

Russia is sending Syria defensive air and sea missiles. The US and NATO screwed Russia in Libya, and Putin wants to make sure if they try that again in Syria, it's costly. The US is foolish to instigate a conflict with Russia.

"America’s most vital national security concern is to maintain calm, productive relations with Russia.

The reason is obvious: Russia and the United States have thousands of nuclear warheads targeted on each other. Many are ready to launch in minutes. Compared to this threat, all of America’s other security issues are minor.

Avoiding confrontations with a major nuclear power is obvious. Yet the United States and Russia are ignoring such common sense in their increasingly heated war of words over Syria’s civil war.

The US and its allies have been actively trying to overthrow the Assad regime in Syria for over a year. They have been pouring arms, money, communications gear and fighters into Syria to take advantage of a popular Sunni uprising against the Alawite-dominated regime."

Hubris.

"Now, the US is back playing the Great Game in the Caucasus while the Georgia feud still simmers. This time it’s in oil-rich Azerbaijan, which has become a key American and Israeli ally. The Baku regime just bought $1.6 billion worth of Israeli arms.

Azerbaijan and Armenia, a close Russian ally, have been warring for a decade over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh. This obscure conflict is heating up again as Russia and the US back opposite sides.

CIA has been busy for some time trying to stir up Azeri separatists in northern Iran. The US and Israel might use Azerbaijan as a base to attack Iran."

More Hubris. Pat Buchanan compares the war in Syria with the Spanish Civil War which ended up being a precursor to WWII.

Iranian says Islamic countries must have a nuclear bomb to deter aggression from the US and Israel. He's undoubtedly right, but that doesn't mean the Iranian government is pursing a bomb right now.

POLITICS:

Another story about Obama's family history seems like a lie.

Apparently people in Muslim countries are disillusioned with Obama too.

Democrats strategists tell Obama to stop talking about the economy because nobody believes it's getting better.

Lobbying correlated with bad business. Of course. Think TARP.

MEDIA:

NBC does first story on Fast and Furious, dismissing it as a Republican political gotcha.

Joy Behar wants to see one of Romney's houses burn down. I guess that would be a stimulus program for firefighters.