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What a surprise. Today we find out that Obama has hidden several new health care bureaucracies in the stimulus bill that will "affect every part of health care, from medical and nursing education, to how patients are treated and how much hospitals get paid. The bill allocates more funding for this bureaucracy than for the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force combined (90-92, 174-177, 181)." The federal government will guide doctors in their treatments and ration care for the elderly. This is what we voted for, so we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.
[The architect of these programs before he withdrew over tax problems - Tom Daschle] praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.

These quotes should send chills down the spine of every American. That's the kind of stuff Mao used to say. It's the kind of talk the useful idiots who apologized for Lenin, Stalin, and Mao used to say.

Israeli election shifts government toward hardliners against Hamas.

Irish bureaucrat bans ad telling people to turn off their lights to prevent global warming as propaganda. How funny. I guess freedom of speech is not really an issue in Ireland. Let the ad run. Just run ads that expose the lies of the global warming crowd.

UK environmentalism czar want to ration air travel to fight global warming. Rationing breathing will be next. It's for our long-term health.

I would like to thank John Kerry for reminding every American that Democrats and liberals hate freedom:

If you put a tax cut into the hands of a business or family, there's no guarantee that they're going to invest that or invest it in America.

They're free to go invest anywhere that they want if they choose to invest.

Liberals can't allow Americans to have that pesky freedom. This is why liberal elites like Kerry must direct every aspect of our lives, and the waste of $100 billion here and there is no problem. It's for our own good.

South Carolina governor says we're moving toward a savior-based economy. Sounds like the Road to Serfdom to me.

“We’re moving precipitously close to what I would call a savior-based economy,” Sanford also said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union.

The South Carolina Republican said such an economy is “what you see in Russia or Venezuela or Zimbabwe or places like that where it matters not how good your product is to the consumer but what your political connection is to those in power.

Mises scholar explains that because jobs in the private sector belong to employers, employers may apply any standards they wish, so Hooters can refuse to hire male or unattractive female servers.

Newsweek has finally noticed that during the last 8 years, Republicans were the socialists. They basically finally admit that Bush, Paulson, Greenspan, and Bernanke were not free-marketers, they're socialists pretending to be free-marketers, and that those individuals, Republicans, Democrats and the press have been lying to us about it for 8 years. Now that they got their socialist elected, they can tell the truth. But since Republicans are socialists, we better all embrace it, and it's OK for Obama to be like Bush the Socialist on steroids.

I hope nothing comes of this lead poisoning law.

Cato provides data showing that so far, this is no crisis at all, but just a recession, not nearly as bad as the recession of 81-82 or 73-75. But when Obama's new New Deal kicks in, the secondary recession will be much worse.

Cato reports that Mexican drug gangs are winning their war against the Mexican government. I'm a little disappointed this guy failed to call for legalizing drugs.

How much does the world need Milton Friedman right now? Where is the leader with who will stand up with such a clear and powerful defense and advocacy of freedom and free markets in the face of this destructive, socialist onslaught? When you compare Friedman in this clip to the Newsweek article advocating that Americans just sit back and take it, you can't help but be struck by the contrast.

Jonah Goldberg highlights examples of the press fawning over Obama. Is this even worth talking about anymore? It'll be news when they stop.

Protectionism is rearing its ugly head. As Obama's programs drive us deeper into recession, protectionism will gain more and more support. Because we gave government a monopoly on schools, few understand that protectionism was one of the key policies that led to the Great Depression, but Pat Buchanan doesn't mention that because it destroys his position. Instead he blames our economic troubles on free trade instead of on the real culprit - oppressive government. Buchanan doesn't seem to be a stupid man, and he's often insightful, so I don't understand why he's so horribly wrong on this issue.

This random thoughts from Thomas Sowell is packed with gems.