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ECONOMY:

States which elected Republican governors are doing much better than those which didn't. The twisted part of this these Republican governors are the reason Obama can claim responsibility for this weak recovery.

TAX AND SPEND:

Obama planning huge tax hike on dividends.

"Unless Congress takes action, the top tax rate for the highest earners on most dividends, currently 15%, is set to jump to a whopping 43.4% next year. That is a maximum income-tax rate of 39.6% -- since dividends will once again be taxed as regular income -- plus a 3.8% tax on investment income as part of the health-care overhaul passed in 2009."

Ouch!

The repercussions of Obama's stimulus boondoggle are still reverberating.

"This continues to be the longest streak — 41 months — of unemployment of 8% or higher since the Great Depression. And recall that back in 2009, Team Obama predicted that if Congress passed its $800 billion stimulus plan, the unemployment rate would be around 5.6% today."

Unemployment is higher than Obama claimed it would ever get if his boondoggle passed.

REGULATION:

The US wields intellectual property non-rights against other countries like China to try and keep a technological edge them. But like a fence, as China catches up, those laws will keep innovation out instead of in. For example, a Chinese company has sued Apple over Siri.

HEALTH CARE:

The ruling class uses serial flu hoaxes to loot us.

Hypocrisy over insurance.

More on Roberts's Supreme farce:

"The other morning it was the intriguing tidbit that Chief Justice John Roberts had written both the majority opinion in the Obamacare decision and the dissent. He is literally his own worst enemy. He’s apparently the Mike Myers of the Supreme Court, able to play both Austin Powers and Dr. Evil, although it has to be said that he seems rather more at home as the bumbling swinger. If I understand correctly, the chief justice wrote the dissent back when it was the 5–4 majority opinion, and then, after switching sides, wrote the new majority opinion, and the four guys left holding the old majority opinion decided to leave it as is, presumably as a way of not so subtly underlining their total contempt for their squishy chief."

The ruling class wins again. Mark Steyn is slaughtering many sacred cows with this piece.

"But suburban Maryland is inside the Green Zone, and still the power goes out. America’s dysfunctional utility companies have a zillion explanations for this, but years ago I rode through the outskirts of D.C. with a Dutch tourist who marveled at the men digging up the sidewalk in densely populated neighborhoods to bury the new cable-TV wires while the sagging electric lines overhead continued to string their way from pole to pole dodging tree branches across town. It’s a very American sight: “Telegraph cables sing down the highway, and travel each bend in the road . . . ” (“Moonlight in Vermont”). “I hear you singin’ in the wire, I can hear you through the whine . . . ” (“Wichita Lineman”). In the rural hinterlands, power lines are a sign of civilization. A stone’s throw from the imperial metropolis, they’re an emblem of civilizational decay."

No kidding.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

The eastern US heatwave is well within the norms for the last century. This graph highlights the warmest period of the last hundred years: the 1930s.

This article credits global warming for increases in lobster harvests, but while it might be caused by warm weather, it's not global warming. On the other hand, we know that increased CO2 in the atmosphere causes the biosphere to grow and diversify, and that could effect lobster production. I didn't notice lower lobster prices at a local restaurant a couple of weeks ago.

More thorough, long-term tree ring analysis shows a long-term global cooling trend.

POLITICS:

Obama's chief political goon David Axelrod has ties to the Communist Party.

Obama raises $35 million less than Romney in June thanks to the Bilderbergers.

Obama lies. And lies.

The fake morality of Republicans. This is an awesome introductory paragraph concerning the birth of the party.

"For the past century and a half the Republican Party has gratuitously labeled itself as "The Party of Great Moral Ideas." The Party of Great Moral Frauds is more like it. The party began as the party of mercantilism, corporate welfare, protectionist tariffs, constitutional subterfuge, central banking, and imperialism. Its 1860 presidential platform promised not to disturb Southern slavery; its first president supported the Fugitive Slave Act and the proposed "Corwin Amendment" to the Constitution that would have prohibited the federal government from ever interfering with Southern slavery; the party committed treason by "levying war upon the states" (the precise definition of treason in the Constitution) and murdering hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens in order to destroy the voluntary union of the states that was established by the founding fathers. It refused to do what Britain, Spain, France, the Dutch, Denmark, Sweden, and the Northern states in the U.S. had done about slavery and end it peacefully. Instead, it used the slaves as pawns in a war that was about consolidating all political power in Washington, D.C. in general, and in the hands of the Republican Party in particular."

Isn't it funny how this story conforms with history, unlike the one the establishment promotes?

MISC:

Does grammar matter any more? It does to many. People who don't know grammar will find their opportunities limited.