Freedom of Speech

Game of Thrones is HBO's top show despite, or maybe because, being the most pirated show.

"The show’s second season was recently released to record-setting DVD sales for the network. But in December, Thrones topped another chart that is far more dubious — Thrones ranked as the most illegally downloaded TV series for 2012. “I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but it is a compliment of sorts,” Lombardo said. “The demand is there. And it certainly didn’t negatively impact the DVD sales. [Piracy is] something that comes along with having a wildly successful show on a subscription network.”
The show is currently, on a per-season basis, the network’s top money-earner despite widespread piracy of the show, the executive confirmed. “If you look at aggregate of international and DVD sales — which are the two revenue streams we look at since we’re not selling it domestically on another platform — yes, absolutely, in terms of shows we have on now,” Lombardo said."

That healthy attitude is what has made it the most popular show.

Regulation

Obama's threat to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.00 per hour is already causing business owners to plan to lay off workers. This is Obama's goal.

Police State

Alabama brings back eminent domain for cronies.

Global Warming and Energy

The global warming frauds fight back, claiming that predictions are accurate. This is funny. They point to one prediction, unusual for how little warming it predicted, and the reason that prediction is close was the starting year, 1996, was an unusually cool year compared to the norm for the last 20. Temperatures have been flat for nearly 20 years, and that falsifies the theory.

War on Drugs

Analysis shows that OVI laws have nothing to do with safety. They're all about looting and oppression.

Local

Breakdown of local tax rates and the burden of compliance.

Education

Schools are still brainwashing children into eating unhealthy food. On family fought back against the government MyPlate propaganda.

"So…in response to the My Plate we came up with the Kid Friendly Primal Plate!"

"His teacher let him share his Plate with the class at the end of the day!! He even got into an argument with a friend who insisted that Fat is not good for you and Michael held his ground and defended his beloved butter and bacon!!"

Good for him and good for the teacher.

Tax and Spend

NPR noticed that disability cases are sky-rocketing.

"The federal government spends more money each year on cash payments for disabled former workers than it spends on food stamps and welfare combined. Yet people relying on disability payments are often overlooked in discussions of the social safety net. The vast majority of people on federal disability do not work.[1] Yet because they are not technically part of the labor force, they are not counted among the unemployed."

Lots of corruption here.

Illegal Immigration

This headline exposes what goes on behind the scenes in politics in Washington.

"Business, labor reach deal on low-skilled worker visas"

Representatives don't write laws. Lobbyists do.

Health Care

Here's how a government worker justifies long waits at government's emergency rooms:

As government continues to destroy our health care system, the first people who will lose their health care will be old prisoners.

Misc

Given the rampant corruption in science, I doubt scientific literacy makes people more moral.

War on Drugs

How making drugs - and anything else - illegal produces violence.

"Illegal markets are doubly and probably triply affected by theft pressures. First of all, they are affected by normal theft that tries to find its way into all industry. Secondly, they are affected by a reduced ability to track who the thieves are versus the real market actors, since state pressures make market participants anonymize themselves. This increases the efficacy of normal theft pressures. Then, finally, there is the government sponsored theft. The government wants to deprive the "illegal" industry of its inventory, profits, infrastructure, and capital for reinvestment. These three theft pressures cause a turn in the industry towards a concern for security. Security expenditures increase, even though entrepreneurs would prefer that they didn’t. Sometimes the pressures are slight and the security expenditures are small. Sometimes the pressures are immense and the security expenditures are large. "

And all this security attracts people who believe the ends justifies the means, just like with government, creating more violence on both sides.

"Prior to alcohol prohibition, consumers preferred the lower alcohol content in such products as beer and wine. During and after alcohol prohibition, which encouraged concentration for concealment purposes, consumer preferences shifted towards more concentrated products which had become standard fare during prohibition. Whiskey and white lightning moonshine came into common usage along with other more potent products like gin and vodka. If an alcohol importer was going to incur the risk of bringing a truck across the border from Canada into the U.S., the importer could get more of the valuable commodity imported for his buck if the product was nearer to 100 percent alcohol than 6 percent or 12 percent. "

That's another danger created by government.

"This brings us to a seldom seen grand use of force against illegal markets that appears to be exclusively in the realm of U.S. funding and influence. The enforcers may bring to bear military style mechanized warfare against the market using such things as military equipped troops using explosives, belt-fed machine guns, mortars, and helicopter mounted gatling guns to conduct search and destroy missions. Wholesale death and destruction against the market may be rained down from the skies and sprayed across the land by air, ground, and naval forces. Producers may have entire crops taken from them via eradication by chemical spraying, mechanical cutting, and burning. Sometimes, as has happened in Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, Thailand, and Afghanistan, the militarized government anti-drug operations, which exert a theft pressure on the industry, become so huge that they produce a similar large security response by the illegal enterprise. Market prices go up causing more entrepreneurs with lower visibility and lower security expense to enter the market to reap the higher profits which brings prices back down. This befuddles the government which sees many new market participants after a particularly bloody series of scorched-earth raids which were supposed to send shockwaves of fear through the illegal market, discouraging participants. Taking merchandise from the market and removing people from the market by killing or imprisoning them, if it does anything, only makes prices go up temporarily which encourages the entrance of more participants in the market to reap the rewards."

"The other never chosen option would be for participants to abandon the market in a wholesale fashion, due to fear caused by state terror, with no further involvement by any participants. As long as demand exists, potential profits would escalate if supply is reduced by any participants choosing to exit. The remaining participants, and new participants, would be willing to continue to develop methods to keep merchandise flowing around and past thieving influences due to the huge profits to be made. "

I think everybody in government understands this. They just pretend they don't.

"Market responses continually apply themselves to mitigate force, i.e. thievery, and to move towards peaceful trade where low prices and good quality allow producers to preserve and increase market share. The government’s participation aggravates against this and pushes the participants toward security actions. In cases where illegality is not enforced, as is the case in many third world open air markets where no one pays taxes or obtains state licenses for their activities, quality improves and prices diminish. This is due to the ability of individual producers and vendors to identify themselves and to associate themselves with a solid reputation due to their continued presence in the market. In this case, the government has given up on enforcing regulations and prohibitions that remain on the books. Widespread peaceful economically viable trade ensues. The activity may remain illegal officially but, the lack of enforcement effort reduces security expenditures in the industry and allows market participants to come out of the shadows and to serve the public with a closer connection between the entrepreneurs and their reputations. This can occur even in the United States when large ethnic districts develop that have customs and language barriers that the regime does not want to deal with. The lack of enforcement in these markets can cause a great increase in product quality and value for the money. This is due to a diminished need to pay layers of parasites in the government or to focus on security expenditures to dodge the thieving actions of the state. "

This article explains more about the market than just the war on drugs.

"The government routinely proclaims that monopolies, cartels, and cartel heads exist in industry or a sector of an industry even though these are inventions by the government to justify enhanced use of force. In the case of the drug war, it is the crisis within the crisis that the government wants us to swallow. It is the presumed nexus of truth that is, in actuality, total fiction. The assertion of private monopoly tendencies within the illegal industry is one of the deceitful elements of a grand fabricated crisis invented by the court intellectuals that justifies the use of state force against the kingpin target within an illegal industry that everyone can love to hate. If you pull this "kingpin" piece out of the complicated machinery, the whole machine will shut down and fall apart. Yes, without Pablo Escobar and the Medellin cartel, the Colombian cocaine trade was supposed to stop or be severely hampered. Without Osiel Cardenas, the Gulf Cartel was supposed to die and drug trafficking stop in eastern Mexico. Links to the du jour cartel become the reporting mandate within federal law enforcement and funds are not appropriated for investigations if they don’t create a link to a cartel. These links are sent up to Washington where they are consolidated and forwarded to Congress to show how a dastardly violent cartel is dominating the drug trade in a certain broad geographic area. Whole sectors of federal law enforcement are told to link all drug seizures to the appropriate geographic cartel so that funds can be procured. The links are made easily via a box checked on the report. The current federal drug enforcement notion being sold to Congress is that the drugs cannot be stopped except by chopping off the head that controls everything. This worn out theory has been used over and over. It never turns out to be true but, it is still accepted by Congress as a reason for more funding. "

The centralized government wants to fight a centralized enemy, that's what the people in government understand, so it promotes that fiction, the myth of the kingpin.

"The government can’t possibly eliminate an entire sector of the economy that is desired by the public, so it focuses on a few individuals and invents a concept that promises to declare future victory in the drug war when those individuals are captured, killed, or driven into hiding. Government paid informants, witnesses, agent provocateurs, and line agents are instructed to attribute all drug activity to them. Paid informants learn what government interviewers want to hear. When asked if a seized load of drugs pertains to the John Doe cartel, the informants initially respond that they have no idea who John Doe is. But, after a while, they realize that the government interviewers all try to attribute drug loads to John Doe and that they will be paid more money more often if they finagle explanations about how individual loads are or could be tangentially related to the John Doe cartel. The cartel connections become such vague things as the route used, the ethnicity of an arrested smuggler, or the modus operandi, e.g. "he used a tractor trailer through the Brownsville Port of Entry which is the preferred technique of John Doe’s cartel." The cartel names become very prominent because of mandated linkages in government reporting. Soon, every witness learns that the infamous Kingpin John Doe is the donkey that the tail should be pinned on. "

"Of course, you need an organization before you can designate an evil monster "leader" for targeting and prosecution purposes. Al Qaeda was a fictional invention of the FBI created for sentencing purposes since an organization was needed so that "leaders" could be designated for enhanced sentencing purposes. Federal law enforcement hierarchy and Assistant U.S. Attorneys pressure federal agents to come up with organization names when a new case is opened. There is pressure to designate all new cases with special federal organized crime labels such as "Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force" (OCDETF) category cases or "Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization" (RICO) category cases. Meetings are had with the U.S. Attorneys Office kicking around possible organization names. How about the "Westside Boys?" No, wait a minute, the "Westside Connection" sounds better; more like The French Connection. Yeah, let’s go with that. "

That's how they promote the fiction.

"These criminal "organization" cases get a lot more funding. The case agents and prosecutors can receive significant funds from special congressional pots of money if their cases are designated as such. They use the money to pay overtime, travel, fund communications intercepts, and purchase new gadgets like Ipads and spy gear. Most proactive cases are put in the pipeline to receive organized crime designations for funding and sentencing purposes. These designations require an operation name against such-and-such organization. Organizations are drawn up such as Al Qaida, the Cali Cartel, the Medellin Cartel, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the Gulf Cartel. "Kingpins" like Pablo Escobar, Chapo Guzman, the Rodriguez-Orejuela brothers, and Osama Bin Laden are targeted along with associates who are also designated as "kingpins" or "leaders."
The New York Mafia’s "Five Families" that supposedly "controlled most organized crime" in the entire U.S. is another example of this fiction. It fit the FBI’s desire to gain funding for themselves and enhanced sentences for "leaders" under RICO and other statutes but, the claimed scope of criminal influence of the families was laughable. The super exaggerated mafia concept allowed federal agencies to get enhanced funding by creating a crisis that needed to be dealt with by new specially focused law enforcement sections. After all, how could you do telephone intercepts on Martin Luther King, Jr. "looking for mob connections" if you didn’t have mafia organized crime funding to pay for them."

They also get higher profile coverage for promotions. Organization names and leaders make it easier to push propaganda in the press. As always, the motive is personal interest.

Tax and Spend

Bureaucrats are so against cutting spending, they won't even cut waste and fraud.

"Federal agencies bracing for sequestration have for years ignored or failed to implement thousands of suggestions from their own internal auditors on ways to cut waste, fraud or abuse, the Dayton Daily News has found.
The number of unimplemented recommendations from federal inspectors general has reached an all-time high, totaling 16,906 in 2012 with a total possible savings of $67 billion."

How would expect different? It's like asking the mafia to police itself. Actually, the mafia probably does a better job of policing itself because it incurs risk when stealing. The government doesn't. It's a waste of time to ask.

Local

Dayton experiencing a glut of entertainment venues.

"Experts say regional facilities that have been most successful are those that have been subsidized by a government and are able to keep overhead costs low."

People prefer to have money stolen from others subsidize their entertainment expenses. Imagine that. As if that's a good thing.

Global Warming and Energy

Naturally grazing livestock reverses desertification of barren land.

Global warming blamed for increased pollen and increased allergies. The only problem is the planet hasn't warmed in nearly two decades. It's just amazing how they keep up this steady drumbeat of lies.

Misc

The US and Russia host much more malware than China.

Ohio's tax revenue from gambling to treat gambling addiction is less than predicted.

War

33 killed and 165 wounded in Iraq.

Misc

The US and Russia host much more malware than China.

Police State

Drone industry worries about privacy backlash. Gosh, ya think?

Education

Obama plans to deport German family who came here because Germany makes homeschooling illegal.

How government schools, shrinks and government's drugs ruin children's lives.

"She was, while in elementary school, diagnosed as being ‘hyperactive’ , the syndrome that preceded A.D.D., I suppose. Children for thousands of years have been more prone to run around and play rather than sit still and be quiet, but once someone came up with a name for it, it became a disease."

Isn't that the truth. The first and most important lesson taught by government schools is to still still and silent in obedience to authority. It's also the worst lesson taught. Children who don't learn it are declared diseased and drugged into submission.

"I remember her being sent to psychiatrists and counselors and specialists. I remember her being put on Ritalin or ‘speed’ as it was called. It was explained to us that the ‘speed’ would slow her down and help her to focus. If that logic doesn’t qualify as witch-doctorism masquerading as science, I don’t know what does."

It would be funny if it didn't do so much damage.

Global Warming and Energy

Global warming fraud James Hansen says the reason CO2 from fossil fuels haven't warmed the planet in the last 20 years is much of the CO2 came from coal. You can't make this stuff up.

Education

Chicago to close 54 schools because the population doesn't support the current number of schools.

War

The war in Syria has reached ludicrous proportions with the charging of former US soldier with aiding al Qaeda.

"A former U.S. soldier was charged Thursday with taking up arms with an al-Qaeda group in attacks against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Eric Harroun, a 30-year-old Phoenix Army veteran, was charged with conspiring to use a rocket-propelled grenade while fighting with the al-Nusrah Front, which has claimed responsibility for nearly 600 attacks in Syria since November 2011, according to federal court documents filed by the Justice Department."

The US government has been arming and funding this organization for over a year, but they're charging some poor guy with doing the same? You can't make this stuff up.

"In one of the videos, dated Jan. 26, the documents state that Harroun "speaks directly to the camera and states: 'Bashar al-Assad, your days are numbered. … Where you go we will find you and kill you.'''"

This man is carrying out US policy, and the US plans to lock him in prison for it. Here's another powerful reminder that the law applies to serfs, not rulers.

Eric Margolis believes we should take North Korean threats of war seriously. I'm skeptical. I find it hard to believe that any sane head of state would attack another state with 40 times its GDP and which is also protected by the incomparable power of the US military. Still, he's right about the most important factor:

"No sooner was the new young North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in power than the US, South Korea and Japan began testing him."

Once again the US and its allies are proven the aggressors. Nothing good can come of this.

Local

Hamilton's supreme thieves want to shut down internet cafes after the stole $50 grand from them.

Global Warming and Energy

Another piece of evidence supporting the claim that global warming is a good thing: colder cities use more energy than warmer cities.

Another fraudulent paper de-linked.

The EPA to propose a new rule to make gasoline more expensive.

Police State

Government releases documents about Newtown shooter, but doesn't release info about what prescription drugs he was on.

Every prosecutor is self-serving and immune from legal ramifications for misconduct. That makes our justice system even more of a joke than the rest of the institutionalized corruption. But it's nice to see the one in a million slapped down for what the all do.

Misc

This quote applies to all models, not just astronomy.

"Astronomical research in the virtual realm instigates foregone conclusions."

That's what models do. You encode your ideas in a virtual model, and the model produces what you expect. Otherwise you wrote a poor model. But if the theory is wrong, the model has no relationship to reality. We see it in cosmology and global warming. I'm sure it happens elsewhere.

"Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak and willing followers of some tyrant. Variety of opinion is necessary for objective knowledge. And a method that encourages variety is also the only method that is comparable with a humanitarian outlook."

Great observation.

I have great respect for Judge Napolitano, but even he promotes collectivism.

"When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated at governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in speeches and pamphlets and letters was not safety or taxes or peace; it was freedom."

America was never struggling to find a culture. That's a collectivist - therefore impossible - viewpoint. There is no collective culture in the US or anywhere else.

Auto maintenance issues often overlooked.

Federal Reserve

Here's more evidence that the law is for serfs, not our thieving rulers.

"Under European Union treaties, restricting the free movement of capital is normally forbidden. But the European Commission issued a statement Thursday morning that the unprecedented imposition of capital controls in the euro area in Cyprus was legal. "

This is pseudo-legalized corruption. I hope this opens people's eyes. Government exists for the sole purpose of stealing our money.

"Meanwhile, in the halls of power, Parliament was scheduled to vote later Thursday on a resolution demanding the resignation of Cyprus’s central bank chief, Panicos Demetriades.

The Cypriot president, Nicos Anastasiades, has sought to blame Mr. Demetriades for implementing measures required by Cyprus’s lenders that will lead to the closure of Laiki Bank, the nation’s most troubled. The move raised questions about maintaining the independence of the central bank."

The independence of all central banks is an illusion. The government creates them, the government appoints bank officers, and the government ultimately controls them.

"One of the customers lined up at a Bank of Cyprus branch, a 27-year-old businessman who would give only his first name, Miltos, shook the stack of papers in his hand. It represented nearly €40,000 of bills he owed the suppliers of his small telecommunications company.

The long bank closure had damaged his business “terribly,” said Miltos, standing under a warm sun. Unless he could persuade Bank of Cyprus to let him transfer more than the €5,000 limit for the month that the government has decreed, he said he feared he might soon go out of business. “I'm trying to hold on by tooth and nail,” he said."

They don't care about any business but the fraudulent fractional reserve banks.

"When the European Commission issued its statement Thursday stating that the imposition of capital controls by Cyprus was legal, if unprecedented, it stressed that the measures should be rescinded as soon as possible."

They lie. I doubt they'll be rescinded any time soon. More on the lies.

"The rich pol who runs Cyprus, in cahoots with the banksters and the EU, had promised that capital controls would be lifted in a few days, then a week, now about a month. But that is all eyewash. The controls will last for years. Why? Because the Cypriot banks, like all fractiona;-reserve banks, are bankrupt, and it takes only a relatively small number of people withdrawing their money to put them out of business."

Picture of a business' bank account balance in Cyprus. Nearly all of its funds are blocked.

Legendary investor Jim Rogers is taking his money out of banks and advocates everybody else do the same. Bank runs and the collapse of the fractional reserve banks was always inevitable, but the hard part is figuring out when. It seems when is sooner instead of later.

Peter Schiff wonders why anybody leaves money in the bank.

"Schiff predicts, “There’s no question . . . banks will fail. The question is will government do the right thing and allow depositors to lose money. Or, do the wrong thing and bailout depositors by printing a bunch of money which, in the long run, means deposits will lose even more value.” The FDIC has just $33 billion to insure more than $10.8 trillion in deposits. Schiff is not expecting bank runs anytime soon. “Don’t expect an immediate stampede on the banks because I don’t think most people are smart enough to realize what the danger is,” says Schiff. What’s the best way to protect yourself? Schiff says, “Why would you leave any extra money in a bank to get zero percent interest. . . . I think pull your money out, put it into some kind of investment. . . . anything other than a piece of paper that’s going to lose value.”"

Even though there's a bubble in treasuries, the government won't raid them.

But the best bet is gold.

Article claims the actions in Cyprus are lawless and exceptional for an outpost of great empire like the US. I'm skeptical. Government as we know it is always about stealing money. Furthermore, I've always claimed that laws are for serfs, never rulers. It's been that way since before human history began. The theft perpetrated by Cyprus and EU officials regarding Cyprus is perfectly in line with that observation. Maybe the details are new, but the principle behind the actions - theft - is universal.

Accounting example of fractional reserve banking.

Politics

The Republican party was born for war and plunder.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Program offers free firearm training and shotguns to residents in high crime areas.

Misc

Spamhaus suffers most massive DDoS attack in history.

Praise for bank runs because they limit the damage done by banks.

War

US propaganda outlets acknowledge US aid to Syrian rebels helps al Qaeda affiliated groups.

"According to Reuters and A.P. field reports and the New York Times, the United States support of rebels in Syria is directly benefitting the Al Nusra Front, which is allied with Al-Qaeda."

Others have been reporting this for a year or more.

"In fact, Al Nusra has become the de facto leaders of the entire rebel movement, international news media accounts indicate. Moaaz Al-Khateeb, the US designated leader of the Syrian opposition groups has said the US made a “grave mistake” listing Al-Nusra as a terrorist group. He called the jihadis the backbone of the rebellion."

So this guy believes just because they are allied with al Qaeda doesn't make them a terrorist group.

"Social media updates streaming in from Syrian youth reporters, confirm the atrocities being perpetrated against the Syrian civilian population by jihadis. The American situation in Syria and indeed the entire region has turned into a dangerous conundrum, or worse."

Our government is funding arming those atrocities. We're the stupidest people in the world for empowering the most violent government in the world.

"According to White House correspondent, Neil Munroe;   ”[It’s] a risky policy, because the administration has inadvertently helped jihadi-allied Islamist groups gain weapons and power in Libya, Egypt and Mali.”"

It was by design, not inadvertent. US central planners knew who they were funding and arming.

"White House Spokesman Jay Carney has tried to back away from the Al-Nusra group after news reports made public their Al-Qaeda affiliations, but the blowback from the other groups was less than helpful."

That shows they knew what they were doing. They just hoped their propagandists wouldn't report it, but they were finally forced to because everybody else was reporting it.

"Ruth Sherlock, reporting for the British Daily Telegraph reports; “Syrian rebels defy US  and pledge allegiance to Jihadi group.”"

Nice job, government.

Tax and Spend

How in the world can the vice-president and his entourage run up a $585,000.50 bill in one night in a hotel?

"The costs "are in line with high-level travel across multiple administrations," explained an unnamed State Department official to ABC News. "

I'm sure it is, but that doesn't make it OK.

Local

Casino owners are using government to delay the Warren Country racino for too few racetrack seats, just like they're doing to the Dayton racino project.

"Warren County Economic Development Director Martin Russell said track operators will build the racino and then convey it to the port authority to realize significant sales tax savings. The racino will in effect be the port authority’s tenant. In exchange, Miami Valley paid the port $800,000, which Russell said far exceeds what the county might have earned in sales tax on the project."

Cozy, cozy.

Another fake threat leads to a school lockdown making government look like fools.

Another power outage.

Global Warming and Energy

Another attempt to blame cold, stormy winters on global warming. The problem is global warming stopped more than 16 years ago.

Mann torpedoes his own defamation lawsuits. Like most political activists, this guy is a narcissist, and he doesn't know when to shut up. Monckton mocks Mann.

Federal Reserve

Cyprus banks to reopen tomorrow with severe capital controls.

"The measures, which are supposed to be in effect for only a week but could be extended, will bar electronic transfers of funds from Cyprus to other countries. And individuals will not be allowed to take more than 3,000 euros cash outside the country, well below the current restriction of 10,000 euros, or $13,000.

Credit and debit card charges will be capped at 5,000 euros per person per month. And checks cannot be cashed, although they can be deposited."

Cyprus banks are like roach motels. Checks go in, but they don't come out.

"Despite those strictures, Cypriot authorities are bracing for as much as 10 percent of the 64 billion euros in deposits in the country’s banks to be pulled out on Thursday. The cap on cash machine withdrawals will rise to 300 euros from 100 euros.

And some experts predict a much bigger bank run whenever the controls are eventually lifted."

I bet. It's surreal that people allow government to ban them from accessing their own money.

Police State

Canadian Supreme Court rules police must get a warrant to obtain text messages.

Donors withdrawing reward for LA cop killer Dorner because the cops killed him. But that was always the plan. The reward was a fake.

TSA agent accidentally sprays five of his comrades with pepper spray. All six went to the hospital. TSA attempted to cover up the blunder.

On the right to resist unlawful arrest.

"In other words: If a cop seeks to abduct you without legal justification, you should submit in the serene confidence that your deprivation of liberty will be temporary and trivial. I have referred to this as the "Rapist Doctrine," since rapists and police officers are the only assailants whose victims are encouraged to submit. "

Good comparison.

Local

The local price of heroin has gone up. That means the supply will go up to respond to the demand.

Nan Whaley says safety and services are key to better neighborhoods.  As if a politician has any influence on either. And up is the opposite of down. How more vapid can she be? Of course everybody wants safety and security. The question is how best to supply. Clearly Whaley believes that millions in government dollars doesn't work. Of course not. The police state is about stealing money and protecting politicians, bureaucrats and plutocrats. Is Whaley was serious about safety and services, she'd advocate a private market in them.

Here's a nice example of how the system protects government crooks in a double standard compared to people who make an honest living:

"State prison officials have disciplined a guard at Lebanon Correctional Institution for failing to maintain proper rounds on the night an inmate committed suicide, then falsifying records to make it appear she acted properly."

Imagine if you did the same. Sorry. You would never do the same. In the non-government world, people do their jobs.

Mug shot of local politician recently sent to prison.

Politics

Obama names first female to head Secret Service. He was probably tired of hearing how other ridiculed him and his wife for stealing the American people's money to fund their global gallivanting. Let's hope this doesn't backfire on him.

Disgraced former General Petraeus apologizes and sets stage for political career. There is no disgrace low enough that people won't vote you into power. I want to throw up.

Freedon of Speech

Those of us who use gmail have enjoyed relative freedom from government surveillance, but the FBI plans to change that this year.

Education

School vouchers will lead to government control and corruption of private schools.

School officials fail to protect girl from bullies, but they threaten her mother when she takes her child out of school.

Economy

Evidence the Fed has created another bubble in tech too.

Health Care

Doctors vaccinate newborns against diseases that don't threaten them like hepatitis b.

"But hepatitis B is a primarily blood-transmitted adult disease associated with risky lifestyle choices such as unprotected sex with multiple partners and intravenous drug use involving sharing needles — it is NOT primarily a "children's disease" or one that is a common threat to newborn babies.
In fact, according to the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC):¹

“The primary reason that the CDC recommended hepatitis B vaccination for all newborns in the United States in 1991 is because public health officials and doctors could not persuade adults in high risk groups (primarily IV drug abusers and persons with multiple sexual partners) to get the vaccine.”

But now new research has shown that by the time a child reaches his or her teenage years – the time when acquiring a hepatitis B infection may be more likely – the protection from the childhood vaccine may have long since waned…"

"The recommendation to vaccinate newborns against a disease they have little to no risk of catching becomes all the more ludicrous when you consider the serious side effects the vaccine may cause. As NVIC reported:³

“As of March 2012, there was a total of 66,654 hepatitis B vaccine-related adverse events reported to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), including reports of headache, irritability, extreme fatigue, brain inflammation, convulsions, rheumatoid arthritis, optic neuritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) and neuropathy.

There have been more than 1,500 hepatitis B vaccine-related deaths reported, including deaths classified as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).”

Keep in mind that this is likely an underestimation because only a fraction of the serious health problems, including deaths, following vaccination are ever acknowledged due to a lack of public awareness about how to recognize signs and symptoms of vaccine reactions."

But they get paid big bucks for doing it.

Misc

Our Walmart has seemed mismanaged lately, but apparently it's a problem for Walmarts everywhere.

War on Drugs

Supreme Court upholds drug sniffing dogs for cars, but not for homes.

Tax and Spend

Company has plan to replace US weather satellites with private satellites because the government is too inept to keep its flying.

"PlanetIQ's solution includes launching a constellation of 12 small satellites in low-Earth orbit to collect weather data, which PlanetIQ says the federal government could access at less cost and risk than current government-funded efforts. ... [PlanetIQ Anne Hale] Miglarese added that within 28 to 34 months from the beginning of their manufacture, all 12 satellites could be in orbit. As for the cost, she says, "We estimate that for all U.S. civilian and defense needs globally for both terrestrial and space weather applications, the cost to government agencies in the U.S. will be less than $70 million per year. As the satellites collect data, PlanetIQ would sell the data to government weather services around the world as well as the U.S. Air Force."

Only government wouldn't love this idea.

Police State

A grass roots rebellion is growing against drones.

Foreign Policy

The famous Russian dissident recently found dead was found hanged, but there was no sign of struggle. That doesn't mean he wasn't killed. What's wrong with this picture?

"A post-mortem examination found that self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky died by hanging, and there was nothing pointing to a violent struggle, British police said.
Thames Valley Police said Monday that further tests, including toxicology examinations, will be carried out. The force did not specify whether the 67-year-old businessman hanged himself.
Once one of Russia's richest men and a Kremlin powerbroker, Berezovsky fled to Britain in 2001 and claimed political asylum after a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He became a vocal critic of the Kremlin.
Berezovsky had survived several assassination attempts in Britain and Russia, including a car bomb in 1994 that killed his driver.
Berezovsky's body was found by an employee on the bathroom floor at his upscale England home on Saturday. The employee called an ambulance after he forced open the bathroom door, which was locked from the inside. Police said the employee was the only person in the house when Berezovsky's body was discovered. They have said there was no evidence to suggest anyone else was involved in the death."

Apparently he cut himself down after he hanged himself. Maybe I'm giving the police too hard a time. They didn't say he hanged himself, but why all the pretence after days?

Freedom of Speech

Simple suggestions to improve privacy and security while using the internet.

War

Removing Assad may not bring peace in Syria. How about will not? There was peace in Syria before the US started funding rebels, but now, there's unlikely to be peace in Syria for years if not decades.

Hunger strike at Guantanamo.

""Nothing is worse than being forgotten in an offshore prison camp with no hope for freedom," said Lt. Col Barry Wingard, a Judge Advocate General for the Office of Defense Council, U.S Military Commissions. He represents a Kuwaiti prisoner named Fayiz al-Kandari, now 35, whose charges for material support of terrorism were dropped last year. He also advocates for another Kuwaiti, Fawzi al Odah, also 35, who has never been charged. Both men were brought to Gitmo 11 years ago after they were sold to U.S forces for a bounty in Pakistan, Wingard told Antiwar.com on Thursday."

Wow.

Global Warming and Energy

Models still can't predict the past.

Regulation

Ohio country to enforce septic and well regulations against Amish. As if the Amish are creating unhealthy environment.

Illegal Immigration

Since both parties have tentatively agreed on an amnesty deal for illegal aliens, Obama is coming from behind and trying to take credit.

Tax and Spend

State tax credits are expected to create 500 jobs. This shows even politicians really know how to create jobs: cut taxes.

Senate Republicans join with Democrats to pass a new tax on the internet. Why not? The internet doesn't vote.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Video games have nothing to do with mass shootings. They play the same games in Canada. The tyrants are attacking two rights with this one attack.

The parents of a teen killed by a homeowner when he entered that man's home want us to believe the problem is gun owners. No. The problem is lack of personal responsibility and respect for the property of others.

"Investigators believe that Caleb was intoxicated and attempting to sneak back into his own house when he scaled a backyard fence and crawled into an unlocked window at the stranger’s home. Even his friend who walked him home thought the teen had made it inside safely, Shawn Gordley said."

The key to not getting shot is not invading somebody else's home. Blaming poor training and lack of neighborliness for this is nuts.

Federal Reserve

Cyprus deal fuels fears of bank runs.

"Wall Street initially opened higher but retreated in morning trade, helping pull European equity markets lower, after Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers, told Reuters and the Financial Times hours after the Cyprus deal was struck that forcing depositors and bank bond holders to bear losses could become a template for future bank restructurings."

The message to big depositers is mattresses are safer than banks. Capital controls in Cyprus. Government thugs search luggage for cash.

Education

Notice the autism ages correspond exactly with government school age.

Police State

Cop are strongarming nightclubs to install cameras for them, and one cop installed one in the boy's bathroom of a school.

War on Drugs

If you thought that marijuana legalization in Colorado was about doing the right thing, you're wrong. It was about taxing it to raise revenue.

Federal Reserve

EU and Cyprus president strike new bailout deal.

"Reports suggest the deal will include a levy on deposits of more than 100,000 euros in Cyprus' two biggest banks.
The levy on accounts in Laiki Bank - the country's second-biggest - could be as high as 40%, correspondents say.
Cyprus needs to raise 5.8bn euros (£5bn) to qualify for a 10bn-euro EU bailout and avoid bankruptcy.
An EU official told the BBC that under the draft agreement, Laiki Bank will be wound down with "a significant levy" affecting those with deposits of over 100,000 euros.
Large deposits in the country's biggest bank, Bank of Cyprus, could also be hit by the levy, reports say."

This is naked theft of the money of Russian billionaires and mobsters. Putin won't like it. He'll punish the EU for this. This Cyprus deal might start a war. I've heard a lot of people who don't usually call taxes theft call this theft. I want them to explain why this tax is different.

War

Despite all the aid provided by the US through its proxies to the Syrian rebels, despite all the atrocities they've committed, and despite all the biased media coverage favoring them, they are still in a stalemate with the Syrian government. So it seems the rebels and Israelis have committed a series of actions intended to pull foreign powers into fighting. As for that chemical weapon attack:

"All welcomed the rapid decision by Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, to investigate an alleged chemical attack that reportedly killed 26, including Syrian soldiers.

Unusually, the request for that investigation came from the Syrian regime, which claimed that Islamic jihadist rebels launched a chemical weapons attack. Since then, precious little evidence in any way has come from the area despite an awful lot of diplomatic noise around the world.

However a senior source close to the Syrian Army has given Channel 4 News the first clear account of what he claims is believed to have occurred on Tuesday. He is a trusted and hitherto reliable source who does not wish to be identified.

The Syrian military is said to believe that a home-made locally-manufactured rocket was fired, containing a form of chlorine known as CL17, easily available as a swimming pool cleaner. They claim that the warhead contained a quantity of the gas, dissolved in saline solution."

As many feared.

Health Care

Wall Street Journal article advocates eating more healthy fat. Even establishment individuals are peeling away from the establishment's damaging advice.

Widespread seafood fraud throughout US.

Avoid hospitals if at all possible.

"According to the 2011 Health Grades report,¹ the incidence rate of medical harm occurring in the United States is estimated to be over 40,000 harmful and/or lethal errors DAILY!"

That's nuts.

Education

Family time like family meals mitigates the damage done by government schools. A better solution is to abolish government schools.

Economy

Fear the bubble in farm land prices will pop. Why be afraid of that? Popping is good.

Police State

DHS retrofits 2717 tanks to kill Americans. What else are they going to do?

Tax and Spend

This is the most important question of our lives: Will the elites steal everything and declare national bankruptcy, or will they race away with their stolen money before that happens?

The Whiskey Rebellion was a success.

"The most hated tax imposed by the British had been the Stamp Tax of 1765, on all internal documents and transactions; if the British had kept this detested tax, the American Revolution would have occurred a decade earlier, and enjoyed far greater support than it eventually received.

Americans, furthermore, had inherited hatred of the excise tax from the British opposition; for two centuries, excise taxes in Britain, in particular the hated tax on cider, had provoked riots and demonstrations upholding the slogan, "liberty, property, and no excise!" To the average American, the federal government's assumption of the power to impose excise taxes did not look very different from the levies of the British crown.

The main distortion of the Official View of the Whiskey Rebellion was its alleged confinement to four counties of western Pennsylvania. From recent research, we now know that no one paid the tax on whiskey throughout the American "back-country": that is, the frontier areas of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and the entire state of Kentucky."

"Western Pennsylvania, then, was only the tip of the iceberg. The point is that, in all the other back-country areas, the whiskey tax was never paid. Opposition to the federal excise tax program was one of the causes of the emerging Democrat-Republican Party, and of the Jeffersonian "Revolution" of 1800. Indeed, one of the accomplishments of the first Jefferson term as president was to repeal the entire Federalist excise tax program. In Kentucky, whiskey tax delinquents only paid up when it was clear that the tax itself was going to be repealed.

Rather than the whiskey tax rebellion being localized and swiftly put down, the true story turns out to be very different. The entire American back-country was gripped by a non-violent, civil disobedient refusal to pay the hated tax on whiskey. No local juries could be found to convict tax delinquents. The Whiskey Rebellion was actually widespread and successful, for it eventually forced the federal government to repeal the excise tax."

It's unbelievable what we put up with today.

"Washington, Hamilton, and the Cabinet covered up the extent of the revolution because they didn't want to advertise the extent of their failure. They knew very well that if they tried to enforce, or send an army into, the rest of the back-country, they would have failed. Kentucky and perhaps the other areas would have seceded from the Union then and there. Both contemporary sides were happy to cover up the truth, and historians fell for the deception."

Historians, like scientists, are motivated by individual goals.

Sports

Secret letters expose Modell and Lewis. Maybe killing three people should be all we need to know. If ESPN hires Lewis, it will be complicit in the deaths of those three people.

Global Warming and Energy

NOAA rainfall trends report found 'wildly' wrong.

The British Daily News admits the whole AGW story was a scam.

Foreign Policy

The complex politics intersecting with the banking crisis in Cyprus. Israel, Turkey and Greece claim rights to a new oil field, but...

"Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria are also advancing claims to the "Aphrodite" gas field off Cyprus -shades of the tense South China Sea. But most likely to clash are the Turks and Israelis.
Turkey is still boiling mad over the Israeli seizure of a Gaza bound relief ship in 2010 and the killing of nine Turks.
Israel has emerged as a major backer of the embattled Greek government, using its influence in Washington and financial clout. 
Russia, increasingly interested in the Greece-Cyprus-Syria region, says it will keep a nine-ship squadron in the eastern Mediterranean as Moscow’s worries over Syria, now under western siege, grow by the day. Moscow is hinting that it mighty bail out Cypriot banks in exchange for the lion’s share of the "Aphrodite" gas fields.
All the elements are in place for a very nasty, dangerous multi-party confrontation in the eastern Mediterranean. The EU could have pre-emptied this danger by using a bank rescue of Cyprus to force Greek Cypriots to make a sensible peace deal with their Turkish neighbors. And by forcing Cyprus to fairly share the offshore gas bonanza with neighboring states. But it probably won’t."

What a mess. Maybe this is why Netanyahu suddenly apologized to Turkey for killing those relief workers in 2010.

War

Pat Buchanan on the likely fabricated report or false flag attack with chemical weapons in Syria.

"It does not require Inspector Clouseau to surmise this may be a fabrication to stampede the ever-gullible Americans into plunging into Syria to win the war for the al-Qaida-saturated Syrian rebels."

Exactly.

"Now we come to the sinister role of the U.S. Senate in setting the table for war. Consider what Senate Joint Resolution 65, crafted at AIPAC, the Israeli Lobby, and now being shopped around for signing by Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. Robert Menendez, does.
SR 65 radically alters U.S. policy by declaring it to be “the policy of the United States … to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability and to take such action as may be necessary to implement this policy.”
Obama’s policy — no nuclear weapons in Iran — is tossed out. Substituted for it in SR 65 is Bibi Netanyahu’s policy — “no nuclear weapons capability” in Iran.
Now, as Iran already has that “capability” — as does Germany, Japan, South Korea and other nations who have forsworn nuclear weapons — what SR 65 does is authorize the United States to attack Iran — to stop her from what she is doing now. Yet, according to all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, Iran does not have a nuclear bomb program."

Nice use of the word sinister.

Education

Cops lock down three schools because of man carrying umbrella.

Nobody in the US can get a job in the mainstream media if they acknowledge "there's no such thing as a free education."

Federal Reserve

Government to regulate bitcoin.

Peter Schiff has a wider understanding of the Cyprus banking crisis.

"And it's not as if depositors at Cypriot banks, many of whom are reported to be Russian citizens seeking tax havens, were not complicit in the risk taking. Bloomberg reports that over the past five years euro deposits at Cyprus banks returned more than 24 percent cumulatively, almost double the returns on comparable German accounts. The banks were able to offer such returns because they were exposed to riskier assets (i.e. Greek government bonds). What's so wrong with asking those who took greater risks to earn higher returns to give something back when their decisions go bad?
Cypriot citizens, as members of the EU, had the choice to put their deposits in any EU bank. Even after paying the taxes that had been proposed in the bailout, long-term depositors would have made more money by keeping their savings in the high yielding Cypriot banks than low yielding German banks. So what kind of sadistic Rubicon are we crossing?"

I hope Peter Schiff is not advocating theft. I believe he's ridiculing the idea that one manifestation of theft is tolerated while another is not. I get that people profited greater than others from circumstances, but that doesn't mean they should have their profits stolen. The banks should be allowed to fail.

"The predominating fear internationally was not that mom and pop Cypriots would have trouble making ends meet, or that Russian mobsters would have lost any of their questionable fortunes, but that a run on banks in Cyprus would lead to similar panics in Greece, Spain, and then the world at large. As a result, the troubles of an insignificant economy are seen to threaten the entire global financial edifice. This is just the latest sign that our current system rests upon nothing but confidence...which in the end can be ephemeral."

There's the rub.

In a normal fit of corruption, the president of Cyprus warned his conies to move their money out of Cyprus. Of course he did. Why wouldn't he?

"Italian media said 4.5 billion euros left the island in the week before the crisis"

It's like politics equals corruption. Oh, wait....

Misc

Evidence contradicts the theory that Antarctica froze over millions of years.

Article asks who will be the first killer to wear Google glasses? Who cares? It's like asking who will be the first killer to use the internet. It's a stupid question.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

New York undercover police arrest a veteran wounded in Iraq for selling a firearm and magazines that would have been legal to do a month ago.

"Cutting himself in for a portion of what he mistakenly believes to be glory, Joseph D’Amico, Commissar of the New York State Police, gloated that “our partnership with the Attorney General’s office has resulted in taking a dangerous criminal off the streets.”
Like most things that dribble down the tax-fattened chins of functionaries like D’Amico, that was a lie. Wassell has no criminal record, and although what he did violates the new gun law, it isn’t legitimately a crime, since it didn’t involve injury or fraud on his part. Indeed, the only fraud involved in that transaction was that perpetrated by officials in Schneiderman’s office and the New York State Police, who arranged the sale on false pretenses. If he had conducted those sales just days earlier, they would have been perfectly legal."

Not a criminal one day. A dangerous criminal the next. It's insanity.

"Wassell has been charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor – yet released on his own recognizance, an implicit acknowledgement of the fact that he is not an actual criminal."

They lie.

"The State of New York has established an anonymous tip line encouraging people to report suspected “illegal gun owners” for a $500 reward."

They're using stolen money to corrupt people into selling out others for this non-crime. This gets more evil by the minute.

"Every totalitarian police state requires the disarmament of its subjects, and encourages them to spy on each other. New York State isn’t North Korea, but it’s on the same trajectory."

And closing fast.

Claims that New York and  California are confiscating guns.

Man peacefully rejects police invasion. It doesn't get much more rare than that.

Politics

Ohio Tea Party leaders unhappy with Republicans.

Global Warming and Energy

Seven states running out of water the fastest. This wouldn't happen if water supplies were privately owned and managed as the scarce resources they are.

War

Now governments, and NATO, want to kill hackers.

US ships weapons to Syrian rebels who then blow up a mosque led by a pro-government cleric.

Tax and Spend

Ohio pension board refuses to cancel taxpayer funded trip to Hawaii.

"In a feisty meeting Thursday, the School Employees Retirement System board rejected calls to cancel a trip to Hawaii and dismissed a proposal to limit trustees’ annual out-of-state travel expenses to $6,000 per board member."

There's always more stolen money for more trips. As reading my blog, the DDN follow ups:

"Members of the state pension board that is sending three members to a conference in Hawaii have made 67 other trips over the past four years to New Orleans, San Francisco, New York and other vacation destinations, a Dayton Daily News investigation found."

It' must be fun to spend other people's money like that. The DDN delivers again.

"The most frequent flyer is Barbra Phillips, a bus driver from Ashland city schools who made a dozen out-of-state trips at a cost of $49,553. A review of her travel receipts shows Phillips enjoys medium rare steaks, Starbucks lattes and crème brulee while she is on the road — expenses covered by the public pension system."

I often criticize the DDN, but I have to give them credit here.

Article claims that House Republican would "sharply cut spending". That's a lie. At no time will the government spend less one year than any year previously. The propaganda campaign is in high gear.

Health Care

Parallels between junk food and cigarettes.

I do not believe 1 in 50 school kids has autism. Government schools seriously damage the natural socialization of children.

Sports

Napoleon Goodell defends stadium subsidies. Of course he does. He works for the people who profit from that stolen money. He's also forced through  a new rule that promote the fiction that the NFL had nothing to do with concussions. It blames running backs by making it illegal for them to lower their heads to run over a defender. It had nothing to do with the NFL's battering rams on heads. There's nothing to see in the helmet arena. Move along. If you make a helmet for defense, you make it soft, like a pillow. If you make it for offense, you make it hard like a battering ram. The NFL chose the latter. I guess players should count themselves lucky the NFL didn't put spikes on the helmet.

Education

Teacher misconduct charges triple, but are still orders of magnitude below actual misconduct.

Politics

This headline cracks me up:

"Couples at core of gay marriage case just want normalcy."

You can't make this stuff up.

Foreign Policy

Cyprus exposes bigger issues in the eastern Mediterranean.

"Turks and Greeks, Israelis and their neighbors are all discovering potential reserves along their disputed borders.In Washington and Brussels, there are fears that increasing strains between Cyprus and Turkey could lead to confrontation.
"Cyprus may set the tone for the rest of the eastern Mediterranean," says Eric Thompson, director of strategic studies at the Centre for Naval Analyses, a U.S. government-funded agency that advises the U.S. military.
"It is where the financial crisis and the gas issues come together. And it is also where they become immediately militarized.""

Oh, boy. All these issues are created by government. Without socialism, individuals would risk their own money and develop these resources. Individual banks would fail, and individual investors would lose their savings. Any violence would be between individuals. Instead, we're going to get civilization-wide chaos and violence.

States Rights

South Caroliina and more nullify indefinite detention in NDAA.

War

Israel claims chemical weapons were used in Syria. The US is unsure. That's because Israel wants the US to invade Syria, and Obama, thankfully, is resisting.

The US selects a new leader for Syria.

"And in keeping with the US tradition of supporting the Chalabis of the world, this democratic answer to Syria's problems lives in Dallas, TX, and was educated in Indiana. He has not set foot in the country he now "rules" in more than thirty years. Also, he is, like the other US puppets to emerge from the phony "Arab Spring" an Islamist from the Muslim Brotherhood.
That is what the US government calls "democratic legitimacy.""

What could go wrong?

Obama may be transferring the drone assassination program from the CIA to the Pentagon. I'll believe it when I see it. If this happens, it would be a step in the less bad direction.

Federal Reserve

Cyprus banks to remain shut until Tuesday. If you need your money, tough.

Tax and Spend

How the Feds taxed big bands out of existence with 30 percent tax in 1944.

Misc

Voyager I exits the solar system. NASA may be bad at science, but it's makes impressive space ships.

Global Warming and Energy

Contrary to what the frauds say, polar bear populations are dangerously expanding into communities.

Journalist uses photo technique to make steam look like evil polluting smoke.

Hansen's 1988 predictions were wrong.

National weather service director jumps onto the climate fraud bandwagon.

"In comments to the USA TODAY Editorial Board, Uccellini also cited the "likely" contribution of global warming to the extreme weather."

The only problem is there is no extreme weather.

Health Care

TV ads for statins drive over-diagnosis and over-prescription.

Some list says Montgomery County health is poor compared to other counties in Ohio, but the list isn't provided. What is this crap? This article is worthless without the list. Comparing Montgomery County to Greene and Warren is like comparing the US to Mexico and Guatemala. Geographic proximity is meaningless.

Police State

FAA grants Arlington, Texas police permission to fly drones.

Police arrest man for not opening his door while he's outside talking to them, and they think this is OK. These cops should be prosecuted for kidnapping and abrogation of rights under color of law.

Business owner disarms criminals. Cops shoot business owner and disarmed criminals.

TSA abuses a veteran who lost both legs in combat.

People get murdered in L.A. all the time, but when a family member of a cop on L.A. was targeted, the government went nuts. People in Colorado get murdered all the time, but now that a government bigwig has been murdered in Colorado, government there is going nuts. Why do we allow this double standard? Why do we tolerate this deadly gulf between caring about the people who fund government versus the people who live off the stolen money? Why are the people who live off the stolen money more important?

Health Care

Ten school shooting, all by people taking psychotropic drugs.

Local

Why is Metro Parks investigating child porn?

Tax and Spend

West Virginia refuses FOIA request about Obama stimulus boondoggle funds for broadband because it might embarrass some people. That sounds like corruption to cover up other corruption.

Global Warming and Energy

Further refutation of the new hockey stick fraud.

Police State

CIA may sit in on drugged interrogation of Aurora shooter.

Charlie Rangel introduces bill to make Obama's civilian army a reality.

Education

Increasing the brainwashing of children into acceptance of the police state, local schools puts armed police officers inside.

Student suspended for disarming another student using a gun to threaten a third student.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Assault weapon and large capacity magazine ban dropped from Senate gun control bill.

"These measures include bills to strengthen federal penalties for trafficking and straw purchases, improve school safety and require background checks for nearly every firearm purchase. "

Requiring background checks is a big deal. It would virtually wipe out individual sales of guns.

Gun control laws aways come back.