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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.