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TAX AND SPEND:

Taxpayer money is used to lobby government for more taxpayer money.

It's sad that most people don't understand the reason government exists is to loot us. Here's an example.

"I was reminded of this once again this morning when I glanced at the front page of USA Today and read an article on property taxes that included this sentence:

"Cities, counties and school districts today collect about 20% more in property taxes than they did in 2006, when home values were one-third higher than now . . ."

The rest of the article was a bunch of whining and hand-wringing by the leftists at USA Today about how the rate of increase in property tax revenue might possibly be slowing down.

I wonder if there will be congressional hearings on "price gouging" by local governments to go along with the upcoming hearings on gasoline pricing?"

No hearings will follow.

REGULATION:

Hobbit bar threatened.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

The Fed is quietly inflating a new bubble economy, and that means your dollar is buying less.

"If it were to speak the name of this growing threat, it might be called on to stop it. But Chairman Bernanke knows that any policy designed to restrain inflation will also derail the phony recovery that the Fed has labored so hard to engineer. The higher rates needed to bring inflation under control, and knock down the price of oil for instance, would trigger a greater financial crisis than the one seen in 2008."

How are those gas prices working out for you? This is a product of the Obama re-election effort.

EDUCATION:

School choice increases student safety.

Thomas Sowell calls out Obama, Holder and Education Secretary Duncan for pandering to blacks in an election year. Obama is doing a great job of exploiting divisive issues to distract Americans from the economy in November. But I don't think it will work. If the American people think the economy is still bad, he'll lose. If they think it's getting better, he'll win.

HEALTH CARE:

Great analysis exposes the myth that the US has a free market health care system. Government in the US spends more per person than any western country other than Norway.

"The thing to remember in America is that we have single-payer health care for the elderly and for the poor: the two costliest groups. In addition, the relatively healthy middle class has heavily-subsidized private health insurance, in which few individuals have the freedom to choose the insurance plan they receive. Neither of these facts commend the American health-care system to devotees of the free market."

These are problems with the system that should be fixed.

How the FDA infringes on freedom of speech by restricting what supplement manufacturers can say about their products in order to boost Big Pharma.

In another example showing the bogusness of patents, the Indian government forces a drug company to license a cancer drug, reducing the price by 97 percent. That's how much money government steal from consumers and transfer to the recipients of patents.

God bless Walter Williams for explaining how the propaganda and regulation against tobacco helped propagate the police state.

"Last month, at a Raeford, N.C., elementary school, a teacher confiscated the lunch of a 5-year-old girl because it didn't meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines and therefore was deemed nonnutritious. She replaced it with school cafeteria chicken nuggets. The girl's home-prepared lunch was nutritious; it consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, potato chips, a banana and apple juice. But whether her lunch was nutritious or not is not the issue. The issue is governmental usurpation of parental authority."

That paragraph makes me weep for the death of liberty. I'm going to smoke a cigar... That cigar was awesome. Thanks to Williams for pointing out the widespread tyranny government is waging under the pretense of keeping us healthy.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Some loon suggests genetically engineering humans to reduce our impact on climate.

Obama's restrictions on off-shore drilling hurt businesses.

POLICE STATE:

Speed camera company astroturfing in support of speed cameras.

Here's the business opportunity of a lifetime: set up general aviation routes that parallel government oppression airline routes.

WAR:

I hadn't heard that the alleged mass murderer in Afghanistan was US special ops. I know it shouldn't matter, but those guys go through fantastic training to make sure they don't do this stuff. If this guy was special ops, it calls into question the training of every special ops fighter in the military. As bad as war sucks, for Americans and the people they kill overseas, this is a new level of bad. This sucks.

"In the early morning hours of March 11, a US soldier assigned to “special ops” in Afghanistan, stationed near Kandahar, went into a local village and gunned down 16 people – including nine women and three children. At least three others were wounded. He went from house to house, in the predawn darkness, systematically murdering people while they slept in their beds: he then doused them with a flammable liquid and set them ablaze."

Call me naive, but I'm going hold on to the phrase, " assigned to “special ops” ". This sounds like a loaded phrase. Maybe I'm splitting hairs, but I want to believe that the people our military has trained for special ops are more stable than this. If they're not, then how can we ever trust another soldier to go kill in our names, ever? I'm against the wars. I want our troops to come home. But I understand that sometimes we must send troops to defend us. But if we can't count on the most elite troops in the military to act with discipline in our defense, who can we count on? This is the exact wrong lesson to learn from this event:

"What it tells me is that America is a depraved nation, a country where the very worst-of-the-worst flock to join the military, free to kill and maim and rape to their heart’s content."

That's a crock. The American people believe they are under siege. True or not, that's what they believe because that's what the government and its propaganda machine have told them. There's nothing depraved about fighting back when you believe you are besieged, and peace lovers don't get anywhere by attacking the American people for this. We are not under siege. Our government is besieging people all over the world. Our government is the aggressor. But we can't make that case while calling the American people depraved. As great a reporter as Raimondo is - he's provided information I've never seen anywhere else - he goes completely overboard in this commentary:

"To begin with, American culture is more violent and sadistic than ever. When it comes to mass entertainment and the level of acceptable violence, there appears to be no limit: how else could a movie like Kill Bill or Natural Born Killers even get made, let alone generate millions in profits? In a healthy society, such films would be marginal: in America, they are hailed as great “art” and go on to become box office hits. Rome had its gladiatorial contests; we have Hollywood to excite our bloodlust."

Go tell it to the Hong Kong kung fu movie makers. As if nobody makes ultra-violent movies but Americans and as if ultra-violent movies are some sort of cultural barometer in a America in a different way than they are anywhere else. That's another complete crock. Raimondo is trying to attribute the evils of the US government to the American people, and he's wrong. The American people are the victims of their government. Terrorists aren't trying to kill me or my family. They're trying to stop the aggression and violence our government is inflicting on them and their neighbors. Our government has been the aggressor for 70 years or more. Our government is the problem, but the politicians and they propagandists in the press have been hiding that info from them forever.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

Here's a case where libertarians differ. Should government be forced to provide documents in the language of everybody who comes here? The author says yes. I say no. Forcing government, or anybody else, to provide documents in any language is an act of coercion. It should not be allowed. Since our government is an English language government, and our society is an English language society, nobody should be able to force others to provide documents in any language but English. Private operators should provide documents in whatever language or languages that benefit them.

POLITICS:

All kinds of things about Obama that the mainstream press won't tell you.

When asked about his big government voting record, Rich Santorum tells a critic he should support Ron Paul. I accept.

Santorum wins Mississippi and Alabama. How can an uber-establishment white guy win those states? I guess because the only significant alternative is an even more uber-establishment and even more white guy. Is abortion the only issue that matters in the south? I doubt it. My guess is the vast majority of Republicans in the south are as disgusted with all the candidates as I am. This guy thinks everybody in the south is pro-war. I find that hard to believe. Let's hope Gingrich bows out, but I don't expect anything graceful from Gingrich.

Republican establishment releases a highly edited video of a local meeting in which Ron Paul supporters are loud. I've seen the entire video, and this is not representative. The Paul supporters simply want to exercise their privileges under the rules, but the establishment is trying to prevent that.

LOCAL:

Postal worker rally to save jobs. If you were under the impression that government worked to advance the interests of people, this illustrates how wrong you were. People outside of government advance civilization. Government is at best a socialist jobs program for the past.

I'm skeptical of an aquatic center in Huber Heights, especially since government is involved. If Kroger was doing it themselves, it might be profitable, but since government is in charge, it will undoubtedly be inefficient, over-prices and low quality. That means Kroger will lose its investment.

MISC:

Scientists have suddenly discovered that most congealed masses in the universe are probably smaller than stars. Sometimes my mind is boggled at the ignorance of so-called experts. Let's suppose you had a relatively homogeneous universe. Let's supposed you had a lower bound of density that would produce start. Lower than that, you would have a nearly infinite supply of brown dwarfs. This isn't rocket science. It's obvious on its face. Show me why most gaseous masses produces stars instead of brown dwarfs? You cant. Further, show me why brown dwarfs can't also have planets. You can't. Get off your high horses and embrace reality.

"There may be the possibility that these sub-stellar objects may even become more desirable targets for interstellar travellers. After all, there may be dozens of these invisible objects between here and Proxima just waiting to be uncovered by the sophisticated infrared telescopes of the future; they'd certainly make for more accessible scientific curiosities.'""

What a crock of ****. It's expensive to leave Earth gravity. Imagine how expensive it would be enter and leave Jupiter gravity. Imagine how expense it would be to enter and leave the gravity of brown dwarves bigger than Jupiter. This entire article is a farce. If you wanted to mine material around a star, brown dwarf or a planet, you would do by mining the material that didn't suck you into the gravity well.

Wikipedia kills Encyclopedia Britannica.

Pictures of Hitler practicing in front of a mirror. My skin is crawling.

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HEALTH CARE:

Mark Steyn hits another one out of the park.

"No, the most basic issue here is not religious morality, individual liberty or fiscal responsibility. It's that a society in which middle-age children of privilege testify before the most powerful figures in the land to demand state-enforced funding for their sex lives at a time when their government owes more money than anyone has ever owed in the history of the planet is quite simply nuts."

Nuts it is.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Government subsidized light bulb costs $50.00.

POLICE STATE:

Penn State's trustees are still trying to justify firing Joe Paterno. The Paterno family gets it right:

"In a statement issued by its attorney, the Paterno family said it is "surprised and saddened" that the trustees offered another explanation of its reasons for firing the Hall of Fame coach, calling it "yet another attempt ... to deflect criticism of their leadership by trying to focus the blame on Joe Paterno.""

The trustees can never justify making Paterno a scapegoat like that. And all of this happened because of two grandstanding politicians.

Taxpayer funded criminals. I bet the town that abolished its police force becomes the safest in the country.

WAR:

Pentagon's heat ray has only seriously injured two people during testing. It sounds like a microwave oven.

The Onion gets it right again: Could the use of flying death robots be hurting America's reputation worldwide?

First we had Chalibi laying about Iraq to get the US to invade. Then we had some guy lying about casualties in Libya to get NATO to support the rebels. Now we have people lying about casualties in Syria in hopes of getting NATO support.

POLITICS:

Gingrich sends up a trial balloon of a Gingrich-Perry ticket in an attempt to win over evangelicals.

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TAX AND SPEND:

Mass protests in Spain over austerity measures.

REGULATION:

Swiss voters reject law mandating businesses give workers six weeks paid vacation. Too bad American voters aren't that smart. If we had a national referendum like that here, it would pass overwhelmingly.

HEALTH CARE:

Walnuts reduce cancer and cholesterol, reverse brain aging in mice and increase heart health in diabetics, but the FDA won't allow you to hear about it.

Is anybody surprised that government's doctors corrupt the organ transplant process for personal gain? I'm reminded of the Monty Python skit: I'm not dead yet. You think this is bad, but in a few year, when the world economy collapses, government agents will come to people's houses and beat old people in the head, claiming they need their organs for younger people. Call me crazy today, but remember this in a few years.

WAR:

US soldier goes on murder spree in Afghanistan, killing 16 including women and children.

The USS Enterprise is the most famous naval ship in history. It's been in service longer than any other naval ship. Why would they scrap it instead of making it a museum?

POLITICS:

Paul supporters take control of Las Vegas GOP.

Ron Paul wins the Virgin Island caucus, but the media incorrectly reports Romney won. It's a shame the people in the states aren't as smart as the people in the Virgin Islands.

I often talk about how Americans have surrendered freedom. I claim we've surrendered so much freedom that the US is on the verge of becoming the Soviet Union. But language is a euphemism. We haven't surrendered freedom. Subsets of the American people have stolen freedom from the rest, which means we've all lost freedom. It's kind of like the old German saying, First they came for...

"First they came for the communists,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

then they came for the Jews,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me

and there was no one left to speak out for me."

But unlike the Germans, they didn't come for our freedom. Americans stole freedom from themselves with votes. We keep stealing freedom from ourselves with votes. I often absolve American voters because it's convenient rhetorically, but that's because I'm being lazy. Every institutionalized problem in the US is the result of American voters. Every socialist policy in the US is the result of American voters. We have the socialist goverment we deserve because of a century of voters who voted Republican or Democrat, both socialist parties. The government we suffer under today has been empowered by American voters of both parties. If you voted for one or the other, I blame you.

MEDIA:

Apparently the media corporations got together and decided daylight savings time stinks. I love daylight savings time. I think regular time stinks. I hate that it gets dark in the winter around 5pm. That's just nuts.

LOCAL:

I'm skeptical of the economic benefits of events like this. That's not honest. I know there is no economic benefit to consuming. The only economic benefit the local area enjoys from events like these is based on how much revenue comes into the area from outside. Don't be fooled. Consumption doesn't create wealth.

MISC:

OMG. Thirty years ago only smart people wrote software, and the software they wrote was excellent. Since then, every decade, smart people have developed programming languages for dumber and dumber people, and as a result, tons more software has been written, but most of it is crap. Now somebody wants to create human language programming system. I think of Star Trek. As disgusted as I am at the race to the bottom driven by past programming so-called advances, this might work. Computing power is becoming so powerful that maybe compilers can create quality code from human language instructions. If this is true, it will revolutionize programming. This could be a paradigm shift. Previously, people wrote software for others, and it generally sucked. If this becomes reality, people will write programs for themselves, improve them for themselves, and, through crowd-sourcing, the best of those programs will rise to the top and be improved by better programmers. This will not happen in the next few years, but if the project begins now, it could happen in a decade.

The three point shot has been terrible for basketball. In this case, though I can't find a static link, Florida State beat a better UNC team by shooting 11 of 22 from three point land while UNC shot 5 of 20. Basketball games should not be decided by who gets luckier at shooting long balls. If you want to try the long ball strategy, you should get 2 points like every other basket.

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LIBERTY:

Freedom improves the welfare of the people, not government.

Liberty and justice go together.

ECONOMICS:

The real reason Warren Buffet hates gold is he profits from government.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Dollar inflation in Panama is forcing the government to coin its own money.

HEALTH CARE:

Monsanto cafeteria bans GM food because it's unhealthy. Oh, the irony.

Farcical bill shows that Democrats are succeeding at getting people to talk about reproductive health to distract from the economy.

POLICE STATE:

The TSA is fooling people into surrendering more information about themselves.

"The scam pretends that serfs who divulge even more information to the Feds than their dossiers already contain will suffer less persecution from the TSA than the rest of us. The agency doesn’t go so far as to claim they’ll completely escape its sexual molestation, nor even that they’ll breeze through checkpoints; rather, these self-snitches will merely "undergo expedited screening [sic for ‘unconstitutional, warrantless searches’]." Our Masters will "no longer" force them to "remov[e] the following items: Shoes; 3-1-1 compliant bag from carry-on; Laptop from bag; Light outerwear/jacket; Belt." However, "TSA will always incorporate random and unpredictable security measures [sic for ‘sexual assault and humiliation’] throughout the airport and no individual will be guaranteed expedited screening.""

I have a better idea: don't fly except for general aviation.

WAR:

Al Qaeda is trying to overthrow Assad in Syria, and US politicians want to do the same, so the US government is allying with al Qaeda. More on the US government-al Qaeda alliance.

Video claims the USS Enterprise is being sent to the Middle East right before it's to be scrapped to be sacrificed in a false flag operation blamed on Iran so the US can go to war. I think that's nuts, but if it gets sunk, I want to have this link. Remember the Maine.

FOREIGN POLICY:

It turns out the Cairo 19 were working for the US government to manipulate elections in Egypt. Why is anybody outraged they've been arrested for it?

"In response to the 9/11 attacks, the US embarked on a military and political campaign to “transform” the “swamp” of the Muslim world, starting in Afghanistan and Iraq, and ending in Iran. On the occasion of the NED’s twentieth anniversary, President George W. Bush proclaimed the US was launching a “global democratic revolution” – and there was no doubt its main target was the Middle East. Gen. Wesley Clark related in an interview with Amy Goodman how, ten days after 9/11, a top General revealed to him how the decision to invade Iraq was made bereft of any link to al-Qaeda. Coming back to his informant a few weeks later, Clark said:

“’Are we still going to war with Iraq?’ And the General said ‘Oh, its worse than that.’ He reached over on his desk and picked up a piece of paper. He said, ‘I just got this … from upstairs from the Secretary of Defense’s office today. This is a memo that describes how we are going to take out 7 countries in 5 years. Starting with Iraq, then Syria and Lebanon. Then Libya, Somalia and Sudan. Then finishing off Iran.’”

It’s taken them more than five years, but clearly they’ve made considerable progress so far: Iraq is in the bag, so is Libya, and Sudan has been successfully split in two. As for Somalia, it’s the latest “front” in our endless “war on terrorism,” and we’re gearing up for the Big One: Iran. Once Tehran falls, can Lebanon be far behind?"

Wow.

POLITICS:

Somebody else points out that Ron Paul is beating the establishment at their own game.

"Based on the feedback I’ve been hearing – the folks at Lemon Global get it right. Based on the states that currently have had primaries and caucuses, Ron Paul is probably number two in the delegate count. At this late point in the game, it’s unlikely that anyone will be successful in trying to stop a coup at the RNC, because Ron Paul supporters are learning and using rules written by the GOP insiders to beat the insiders at their own game. If we remember that, the reason for my great hope for this election becomes so much more clear."

I hope he's second.

Santorum wins Kansas. Romney wins Wyoming.

MEDIA:

The viral video on the African mass murderer illustrates how governments are using social media to push propaganda. This video was produced promote greater US military intervention in Africa.

MISC:

Fantastic images and video of solar activity.

High ranking chimpanzees mediate conflicts with other members of the clan.

It turns out humans are more closely related to gorillas than previously thought.

Advantages of expatriation. Perpetual traveler. Five flag theory. Three flag theory.

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

Last chance for Canadians to speak out against Canadian SOPA.

ECONOMY:

Unemployment held steady at 8.3 percent in February, but the media wants us to believe this is good news. For a long time, the reason unemployment wasn't rising was people were dropping out of the work force. The opposite happened last month as more people began looking for jobs. This is probably the most promising jobs report we've seen since Obama took office. Despite this trend, employment numbers are still near the 2001 level. Ouch.

REGULATION:

Recognizing that autonomous cars will be on the road soon, governments are moving to restrict innovation so only low quality, high priced vehicles produced by companies that pay bazzilions in tribute to politicians can profit.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

I've butted heads with associates at Mises.org over their celebration of corporations many times. Mostly over Apple, which many claimed was a model of innovation while I claimed it was a patent troll, but also over McDonalds and Taco Bell. Now we learn that the Fed bailed out McDonalds. It's a stain on Mises.org that many of their prominent writers defended so many corporate agents. Don't get me wrong. In the last few years, I've learned more about libertarianism and the evil of the Fed at mises.org than I ever would have guessed I had to learn. But in learning those things, I was appalled at how those scholars defended government's corporate agents knowing full well the vast majority of profits they enjoyed came from government coercion. This is why independent thinking, no matter your ideology, is so important.

HEALTH CARE:

The government is buying seven million pounds of scrap beef - the kind of scraps farmers usually reserve for animal or fish feed - and funneling it into student lunches. If you are shocked the government would do this, you are a fool. If you think by changing parties, you will end this, you are a fool. The government, powered by both parties, considers us fodder to fuel them or fight for them. They only allow us to vote because they control the voting process so our votes don't matter. We're nothing but animals to them, and this incident is more evidence.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Fracking blamed for earthquakes in Ohio. State issues new regulations.

The Urban Heat Island effect means the growing season is longer near cities.

If you ever wondered about the totalitarian agenda behind the global warming fraud, maybe this headline will convince you:

"Deny Deniers their Right to Deny!"

You can't make this stuff up.

POLICE STATE:

Here's a nice example of the ubiquitous corruption in police agencies.

"According to CBS, 'Hundreds, or even thousands, of drunk driving convictions could be overturned because the San Francisco Police Department has not tested its breathalyzers, officials said Monday. For at least six years, the police officers in charge of testing the 20 breathalyzers used by the Police Department did not carry out any tests on the equipment. Officers instead filled the test forms with numbers that matched the control sample, said Public Defender Jeff Adachi, throwing countless DUI convictions into doubt.' Apparently this has happened before."

Why should they bother? The convictions are guaranteed by our (in)justice system. Calibrating is just a waste of their time. I guarantee you this happens all over the country.

In another example of the only effective security system in the world, flight passengers subdue flight attendant. TSA was too busy porno-scanning people to help.

"Two flight attendants were injured in the incident and were taken to a local hospital. No passengers were hurt, and they were never in danger, an airline spokeswoman said.

The flight attendant who caused the commotion shrieked as she was handcuffed by police and placed into a police car, passengers on the flight told the Tribune after their flight arrived at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport."

They were never in danger because they took the initiative and put and end to the danger. I'd like to thank the government agents for not screwing this up. So far.

WAR:

Pat Buchanan warns us that the Republican party is becoming the war party. This is ironic because Buchanan has called the Republican party the war party since 2001 when Bush invaded Afghanistan. It's even more ironic since Buchanan has called all Republican canidates war party candidates since. But the most ironic point is the point Buchanan doesn't address: the Democrats are as much warmongers as Republicans.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Several top government officials in Syria join the rebels. This is sounding more and more like the Libyan debacle. God forbid NATO begin killing people by the tens of thousands like they did in Libya.

FOREIGN POLICY:

Reality behind the race to attack Iran.

POLITICS:

I hope Ron Paul's strategy produces enough delegates to make a difference in Tampa, but as poorly as he's done in popular votes, all I see is the Paul campaign living on a prayer. I don't understand why so many prominent libertarians are hopeful. That's like gladiators being hopeful because a couple of bread and circuses recipient root for them before the government gladiators kill them.

MISC:

Humans are nicer than we think. It's only the government, because it's a predatory institution, the most powerful institution in society, the only institution with the power of coercion, it institutionalizes violence, it attracts the worst predators in society, it initiates the vast majority of aggression and violence, and it promotes aggression and violence in others, that it seems people are more violent than they really are.

I saw an ad for the rack for 99.99, but I can't get it back. I found it.

Cinci beat Syracuse! Maybe Mick Cronin will finally break through and bring the Cincinnati program back to prominence.

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

With all the talk about SOPA and PIPA, there's been little reported about ACTA which is a backdoor way to implement something much like SOPA through treaty instead of legislation.

Because the government has created a cartel of publishers through copyright aggression, the cartel raised ebook prices.

ECONOMY:

We finally have a believable reason why China isn't experiencing crazy inflation:

"Gordon Chang, a writer and commentator on Chinese affairs, wrote a largely overlooked article (just 3 posted comments on it) that was published online at Forbes.com in June of 2011. Chang’s report, entitled "Chinese Entrepreneurs Are Leaving China," said wealthy Chinese are leaving the country in droves and taking their money with them. How much money? (Are you sitting down?) An estimated $2.18 trillion exited China in hidden cash transfers between 2000 and 2008."

And they're still experiencing inflation and an artificial boom. It also explains why the US economy continues to limp along instead of collapse.

"The US has benefited immensely from the entry of Chinese money into its economy. According to Chang, in the last five years there has been a 73% increase in Chinese investment to the United States. Chinese people are seen on bus tours in California, visiting real estate properties and paying the full purchase price in cash money. But just exactly how do the Chinese funnel their money out of the country?"

But this can't last forever.

"Xi Jinping is expected to become the next Party general secretary at the end of 2012 and it is rumored that the hemorrhage of money from China will be put to a halt with economic reforms. That will be a game-changing event."

Game changing for us for sure.

"China knows it is holding a diminishing asset in US T-bills. So does the rest of the world. The US economy keeps getting propped by its lenders. A US default on its debt would result in an implosion of the world’s economies. At some point the US will not be able to pay interest on its debt and be forced to default and the dollar will collapse. That day may come sooner than predicted. John Williams of ShadowStats.com says the outside date for that event is 2014 (ShadowStats report #414)."

Yikes.

TAX AND SPEND:

I have no problem with Romney's tax plan. It's his statist spending plan that is going to keep this country in decline if he wins. Even the Tax Foundation doesn't seem to understand that every dollar government spends is a tax.

REGULATIONS:

The overwhelming regulations to open a lemonade stand in NYC.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

It appears the bankers have abandoned Obama in favor of Romney. The bankers are agents of the Fed. This is like the Fed buying elections the same way the Bank of the US did before Jackson abolished it.

HEALTH CARE:

Ten terrible features of Obamacare.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Contrary to claims, climate change is having negligible impact in the US.

Study shows what rational people already knew: coerced green energy programs make energy more expensive and hurt the economy.

Another Hansen prediction that failed to come through. And taxpayers paid for it.

The Department of Defense is the world's biggest consumer of oil. The numbers are staggering. It's also the world's biggest creator of enemies who want to kill Americans. It's just crazy that the government steals our money and gives it to the misnamed Department of Defense which turns around and uses our money to deprive us of oil, dramatically driving up the price, and making enemies who keep trying to kill us.

WAR ON DRUGS:

Even Pat Robertson recognizes the destruction cause by criminalizing marijuana.

POLICE STATE:

Engineer proves TSA's nude scanners are easily defeated and worthless by carrying metal objects through the scanners undetected multiple times. This is just another tool for oppression that creates a false sense of security, leaving us more vulnerable to attack. The TSA is trying to intimidate reporters out of covering the story.

Another of those we give a license to kill to convicted of murder.

WAR:

Report claims bin Laden received a kidney transplant in 2002. The incompetence of US intelligence, which took 10 years to find bin Laden despite using harsh interrogation techniques, is astounding.

POLITICS:

Everybody is acknowledging what I said a day or two ago: we're hoping for a brokered convention.

The term crony capitalism is baloney. There's no capitalism in cronyism.

In an email, Ron Paul tells a different story from super Tuesday.

"The fact is, just like in many of the earlier contests, very few delegates to the Republican National Convention were decided on Tuesday. Most will be decided several weeks, or even months, from now at District and State conventions - conventions where our local delegates will have a big say in who goes to Tampa.

In fact, while I didn't win any state's straw polls, my team expects me to win a plurality of delegates in at least three states, as well as outright majorities in two more of the states that have already started their process."

It'll be interesting to see how the people take this. The Republican establishment has controlled the nominating process for seemingly forever. The only modern times the people overcame the establishment was with Goldwater and Reagan. It'll be interesting to see how they feel if Paul surges in delegates despite his poor showing in the popular votes. How Did Obama, Clinton and Carter - the last three Democrat presidents - overcome their establishments? Is it easier in the Democrat party?

This is a great commentary. How stupid were the Koch's that they now have to sue to gain control of their own organization? George Soros, and plenty of others, are laughing at them.

Obama's approval rating drops among nearly every demographic. The lone demographic where he went up? Republicans. Of course they rated him pretty darn low to begin with.

Mark Steyn has a great quote about the perversion of rights in the US:

"“Rights” are now gifts that a benign king graciously showers upon his subjects"

No kidding. Here's a more complete quote:

"When it comes to human rights, I go back to 1215 and Magna Carta — or, to give it its full name, Magna Carta Libertatum. My italics: I don’t think they had them back in 1215. But they understood that “libertatum” is the word that matters. Back then, “human rights” were rights of humans, of individuals — and restraints upon the king: They’re the rights that matter: limitations upon kingly power. Eight centuries later, we have entirely inverted the principle: “Rights” are now gifts that a benign king graciously showers upon his subjects — the right to “free” health care, to affordable housing, the “right of access to a free placement service” (to quote the European Constitution’s “rights” for workers)."

Well said again by Steyn. He's exactly right in how the definition of right has been perverted completely upside down.

Thomas Sowell on the progressive ideology of Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt and Obama.

MEDIA:

So HBO did a movie about how unprepared Sarah Palin was to be vice-president. Do you think they'll do one about how unprepared Barack Obama was to be president?

Solar storm is a dud. Imagine that. I guess the government and the press tried to scare everybody for no good reason. Again. But wait. There's more to come, so just because they tried to manipulate you this time shouldn't stop you from allowing them to manipulate you again.

And while we're scaring people, let's scare them about the possibility that China will knock out government's infrastructure - the power grid, air traffic control and more - by cyber-attack. Why would they do that? In response to US government aggression, but we're supposed to be scared about the response instead of the aggression. Maybe our government shouldn't be committing aggression against the Chinese. And notice how all the targets are controlled by government, meaning they're old, out-dated, decrepit and easy targets. Maybe we should take control of critical infrastructure back from government so we can make it state of the art and resistant to cyber or any other kinds of attack. There's no mention in this story that the US government is doing the exact same to China that the Chinese government is doing here. Naturally people scared by this are calling for more government. Terrorists might hack us too. How do we summon the courage to get out of bed every day? Maybe if our government quit making enemies, we wouldn't have to worry about this.

Recommended primer on expatriation - Getting Out - was updated.

If this tape is all Breitbart had, then the hype was worthless. Obama's supporters already know he's a  bigot and a Marxist and are happy about it. Obama's opponents already know he's a bigot and a Marxist and want to oust him for it. The revelation that Obama has another such connection is no revelation at all.

LOCAL:

Joint federal and county sting seizes 500 lbs of other people property. I like how these stories always try to portray these seizures as victories but what they really show is that drugs, including bulky marijuana, are flowing freely throughout the US despite government's massive program of aggression and violence.

MISC:

How government created slavery and piracy in the colonies.

How can an LED be over 100 percent efficient? This would mean infinite power.

David Cameron will dive in a submersible to the Mariana Trench.

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TAX AND SPEND:

Because of high tax rates and double taxation, the government receives nearly twice as much money from corporate profits than owners.

"When received by shareholders, the $260,000 in dividends are taxed again at a rate of 15 percent (according to current law). As a result, shareholders receive just $221,000 of the million dollar profit. The $39,000 in dividend taxes are added to the $350,000 "off the top" corporate tax to bring the government's total take of the company's profits to just a shade under $390,000. In other words the government gets about 75% more cash flow from the company than the actual owners. Looked at in a slightly different way, the government gets about 65% of the non-retained earnings while shareholders, who put up the money and take all the risk, get 35%. Does this seem fair?

This level of taxation puts American corporations at a noticeable disadvantage vis-à-vis companies in the countries against which we are most keenly competing. In China, the slicing of the pie is much more favorable to owners. There, corporations are taxed at a rate of 25% and dividends at 10%. Using these numbers (and the same payout ratio used for the US corporation), the Chinese government gets 51% of distributed corporate profits and shareholders get 49%. In Hong Kong (which is part of Communist China), the situation is even better. There, the corporate tax rate is 16% and the personal dividend rate is zero. If you do the math there, the government gets 33% and the shareholders get 67%.

This comparison raises an interesting point. If shareholders in communist China are allowed to keep more of their earnings than shareholders in capitalist America, which nation is more communist and which more capitalist?"

That's why I keep saying the US is very nearly the new Soviet Union. I knew there was a catch when Obama proposed cutting the corporate tax rate. Here it is.

"Although the President proposes lowering the corporate tax rate to 28% he also wants to scrap the dividend tax and instead tax the distributions as ordinary income. In practice, the vast majority of individual recipients of dividends fall into the higher end of the income spectrum. Which means a very large chunk of these dividends will be taxed at the highest personal rate of 39%. But Obama also wants to subject these high earners to a surtax to pay for his health care initiative, which means that many of the recipients will be taxed at a rate of 44% (this also accounts for the phase out of personal deductions for higher earners!) So for these high-income earners, using our current example, the new distribution split with the government under Obama's proposals will be about 70/30 in favor of the government. This is actually worse than the status quo."

Nice analysis.

Million dollar lottery winner continues to receive food stamps.

REGULATION:

It sounds like this Amazon patent puts Diigo out of business. Patents are out of control.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

How the Fed's inflation is making our economic problems worse while hiding the damage in the short term.

HEALTH CARE:

Guess what happens when we allow politicians to control our water supply? They cut off water from farmers.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Analysis shows wind power is ten times more expensive than traditional power.

I've read more warnings about space weather events in the last year than I've seen all my life previously. I think this is just tool government is using to scare us.

POLICE STATE:

Man barred from seeing his own daughter alone because he asked police to investigate child abuse porn on his computer.

Just like the FBI is funding terrorist wannabes, it's funding hackers too.

Private company offers to run prisons as long as states guarantee 90 percent occupancy. As terrible as this sounds, that's exactly what's happening now. People are being arrested, prosecuted and jailed just to keep cops, prosecutors, judges and prison employees in their jobs. Our (in)justice system is a socialist jobs program for these people. If this guy had his way, the system would be a fascist jobs program for his company. It won't make any difference to all the people the (in)justice system preys on.

Policeman monitoring neighborhood has undercover cop chase himself for 20 minutes.

WAR:

The US government is openly funding the rebels in Syria. We can expect more terrorist attacks for that.

POLITICS:

Republican gerrymandering results in Kunich defeat.

The Republican primary in Ohio as finally called for Romney. Romney had a very successful super Tuesday. I hope he doesn't win an outright victory because that would take away Ron Paul's leverage.

"Despite pushing Romney to the limit across the state, Santorum will be ineligible for some of those delegates because he failed to qualify for the ballot in some Ohio congressional districts — including the one where his victory party was held Tuesday night.

Santorum strategist John Brabender said, "You have a candidate like Rick Santorum where we didn't have the money, didn't have the infrastructure, didn't have anything. Mitt Romney had the entire establishment, yet he's having trouble beating us.""

That's true. This shows that few want either Romney or Santorum. Conservatives are holding their noses and voting.

Brit makes the case against Romney. The same case would work against Santorum and Gingrich since they love government much like Romney.

MEDIA:

Thirty advertisers have dropped Rush. They'll be back. Limbaugh downplays the losses.

Claim that Breitbart's company will release the Obama Harvard tapes by March 12.

MISC:

Asian resist imminent domain while Americans roll over.

More evidence that Roosevelt manipulated Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor and that he knew about the attack in advance, but didn't inform anybody at Pearl Harbor. I get the first part. Presidents manipulate events to get enemies to start wars. But I don't get the second part. Why not catch the Japanese fleet in a trap? I understand how it's politically advantageous to get Japan to start the war, but how is it politically advantageous to badly loose the battle instead of winning the battle or at least saving US lives and ships while taking out some Japanese troops and ships.

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TAX AND SPEND:

Report that Greece will officially default after close of business March 23, and that insiders have been informed so they can protect their wealth. It's only a matter of time.

HEALTH CARE:

Why not taxpayer funded beer?

Even though 90 percent of indigestion problems come from too little stomach acid, not too much, doctors prescribe those antacids and acid blockers like crazy, aggravating the problem for most people.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

A view from the perspective of an illegal immigrant.

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH:

A laundry list of the predatory demands of the Canadian music industry.

""The incredible demands of the Canadian music industry as it seeks a massive overhaul of Canadian copyright law continues. It is seeking increased liability for social networking sites, search engines, blogging platforms, video sites, and many other websites featuring third party contributions, plus a new iPod tax, and an extension in the term of copyright. Last week, it went further, demanding a requirement for Internet providers to disclose customer name and address information to copyright owners without court oversight as well as takedowns with no due process and unlimited statutory damages.""

This is a picture of ugly copyright police state.

SOCIALISM:

Obama and unions are preparing to launch their next astroturf movement to advance their class warfare agenda.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

People are fleeing banks for credit unions. This doesn't bode well for banks.

EDUCATION:

The hypocrisy of academia.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Offshore wind farms are much more expensive to build and maintain, just like you would expect.

Another company Obama handed taxpayer money to is laying off workers.

POLICE STATE:

Mozilla creates Firefox add-on that allows browser users to see what companies are tracking them in real time.

What I used to call the all-seeing eye is here.

85 actions that might put you on a terrorist watch list.

POLITICS:

Scientists completely miss the point about politics in a democracy. The problem is people don't realize that the nature of government is to steal from them, and free people can provide every service provided by government more cheaply and effectively than coercive government.

Romney extended family members endorse Ron Paul.

The Democrats have made a lot of hay with this contraception issue so that I wonder if Obama picked this fight with the Catholic church with this in mind. Republicans screwed up by not focusing on the immorality of taking people's money by force to fund the contraception of others.

"Now am I including Rush Limbaugh in this? Limbaugh has made it clear since he’s been on the air that he likes to respond to absurdities with absurdities. If someone says something absurd you just respond with another absurdity … it’s actually a pretty good way to get a point across. The point here is that when Limbaugh called Fluke a “slut” he was following the absurdities-with-absurdities format. But what about when Ed Schultz called Laura Ingraham a “slut?” Was it a headline on broadcast news channels and CNN. You already know the answer to that one."

I had never heard that Schultz called Ingraham a slut. Funny how that works. Why didn't talk radio make that a big deal and pressure Schultz to apologize?

George Will is making plans for a Republican defeat.

Ron Paul has the lowest negatives of all the Republicans.

Murray Rothbard on the corruption at the Cato Institute that has recently become news.

MEDIA:

Limbaugh has lost eight advertisers over his mishandling of the college girl's contraception testimony. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.


Where is Andrew Breitbart's mystery video? I'm sure it's not in his stomach. If he had the video he advertised, it would be on a computer somewhere. Somebody he knows would know where it was. So where is it now? Why hasn't his ally published it online? Talk is cheap. Conspiracy theories are cheap. Data is forever. Show me the data.

MISC:

Four thousand year old European mummies discovered in China.

I'm skeptical of this report.

"A Swedish man has been pulled barely alive from his snow-covered car having survived on nothing but snow for two months in sub-zero temperatures."

Who documented the date besides the frozen man? Wouldn't it be wonderful if people could freeze to death for months without actually dying? If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

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RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS:

Unable to ban guns, politicians are trying to ban ammunition.

SOCIALISM:

Government motors suspends production of Obama's Chevy Volt for lack of demand.

""Even with sales up in February over January, we are still seeking to align our production with demand," GM spokesman Chris Lee said. The car company had hoped to sell 45,000 Chevy Volts in America this year, according to the Detrot News, but has only sold about 1,626 over the first two months of 2012."

Even socialists realize that producers must adapt to meet demand. Obama wants to increase Volt subsidies.

TAX AND SPEND:

Guess what happens when the government gets involved in foreclosures.

"For example, the federal government is about to dump millions of the foreclosed homes at fire-sale prices to hedge funds and private-equity firms with government connections. If you’re an individual investor who might like to get in on the action, forget it! You’re shut out of this deal.Homeowners who might be interested in buying the foreclosure property next door? Out of luck. And retirees hoping for a return on their money more than 1.8% on a five-year CD find another avenue closed off."

What do you get out of the deal?

"“The US taxpayer will get pennies on the dollar for these homes, and then be allowed to rent them back at market rates.”"

This is a good reminder that government exists to make the plutocrats richer and us poorer.

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Iran to trade in gold and foreign currencies instead of dollars. This might make an attack inevitable. Look what happened to Saddam when he did the same.

"Unlike most of the world's nations, which have privately owned monetary authorities, such as the Fed, that are controlled by banking cartels, Iran has a state-owned central bank. More than a few analysts have suggested the Islamic Republic's relatively unique monetary system is actually one of the reasons Western belligerence toward the nation is growing louder."

Ya think?

"Prior to the NATO-backed overthrow of strongman Moammar Gadhafi, Libya also had a state-owned central bank. The nation had massive reserves and no foreign debt before "regime change" arrived. But in the early days of the Western-backed rebellion, "rebels" promptly established a new central bank to replace Libya's existing monetary authority – sparking serious suspicions among analysts.
Gadhafi, whose government was sitting on huge stockpiles of gold bullion, had been seeking partners to create a gold-backed currency for the oil market that would have marginalized the U.S. dollar. Before the plan could come to fruition, however, Libya was aggressively bombed by international forces. NATO's rebels on the ground – known terror leaders, former Gadhafi officials, Western special forces, and assorted Islamic extremists – finished the job and executed the long-serving dictator.
Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein had also threatened to start selling oil in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. But that scheme was put on ice as well when U.S.-led military forces invaded and occupied the nation in 2003 – first under the guise of "weapons of mass destruction" and supposed links to terror, and later for the supposed purpose of "spreading democracy.""

Can you spot the pattern?

"According to ZeroHedge's take on the situation, the Iranian regime is actually plotting to put the final nail in the dollar's coffin. "We essentially said that Iran, with the complicity of major trading partners like China, India and Russia is preparing to phase out the petrodollar: a move which would be impossible if key bilateral trade partners would not agree to it," it noted."

This is going to hurt.

This quote reminds me of the article I just wrote about schools:

"Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, "See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk." ~ Harry Browne"

It's hard to see the damage government does, but it's easy to see the programs ostensibly designed to combat that damage. The article goes on to explain how the government avoided hyper-inflation in the past, but it will not this time.

"Today, the US GDP is approximately $15.4 trillion (2011). The admitted to federal government debt is also currently at $15.4 trillion, meaning a debt to GDP ratio of 100%. Forgetting for the moment the unfunded liabilities which have already been spent, which would leave the figure at closer to 500%, an interest rate of 18% on the current debt would require $2.7 trillion per year in payments.
The total tax theft "revenue" of the US Government in 2011 was $2.3 trillion. In other words, the only way to end the current state of affairs in the US and "save" the dollar would be to allow interest rates to rise to market rates... and if they rose as high as they did in 1980, when things were much better in general, every penny of money stolen from US tax slaves would be used just to pay the interest on the debt."

I've never seen it explained that simply and clearly.

Inflation is driving up gas prices.

Comparison of the debasement of Roman money to modern currencies. What the Roman government took centuries to debase, modern central banks are doing in decades.

British paper reports that more than a dozen states have introduced bills to make gold and silver legal money.  Try finding that in the US press.

EDUCATION:

Government school workers forcibly vaccinate student despite order from mother.

HEALTH CARE:

Farmers adapt to increased demand for free range eggs by producing more. Who would have thought that the price system could be so powerful and simple at the same time?

Licensed government agents try to silence paleo advocate because he's not licensed. Free speech be damned.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Yet another study shows that climate is strongly influenced by the solar variation. How could anybody think otherwise?

Great quote regarding the climate frauds:

"If the theory of man-made global warming were such a self-obvious truth, the result of scientific consensus, then why do its advocates keep committing fraud to advance it?"

And you wonder why I call them frauds.

I've often made fun of how the global warming frauds have changed their story to claim that manmade CO2 is causing colder winters, but how does anybody publish this headline?

"Global warming is making the world colder"

At some point, you have to say this doesn't make sense and refuse to publish such crap.

WAR:

As bad as things were in Afghanistan, the US war there has made them worse.

"But half the Afghan armed forces and police serve only to support their families. The Afghan economy under NATO’s rule is now so bad that even in Kabul, thousands are starving or dying from intense cold. Half of Afghans are unemployed and must seek work from the US-financed government.
But loyal they are not. While covering the 1980’s jihad against Soviet occupation, I saw everywhere that soldiers and officials supposedly loyal to the Communist Najibullah regime in Kabul kept in constant touch with the anti-Soviet mujahidin and reported all Soviet and government troops movements well in advance. The same thing occurs today in Afghanistan. Taliban knows about most NATO troops operations before they leave their fortified bases. Among Afghans, the strongest bonds of loyalty are family, clan and tribal connections. They cut across all politics and ideology.
Afghans are a proud, prickly people who, as I often saw, take offense all too easily. Pashtuns are infamous for never forgetting an offense, real or imagines, and biding their time to strike back. This is precisely what has been happening in Afghanistan, where arrogant, culturally ignorant US and NATO "advisors" – who are really modern versions of the British Raj’s "white officers leading native troops"- offend and outrage the combustible Afghans."

Our government has created millions of more enemies for generations.

Pat Buchanan uses the Koran burning fiasco to illustrate the folly of our government's war in Afghanistan and more. He asks the crucial question:

"What did it all profit us?"

It didn't profit us at all. We're far poorer for these wars. But it profited the politicians, the bankers, the weapon producers and other big corporations providing support tremendously. War is a racket.

Analysis of Iran's military capabilities shows it is no military threat to anybody.

POLITICS:

Paul edges Santorum for second in Washington.

You know how Cantor and Coburn pretend to support smaller government? They endorsed Romney.

Putin claims election win as observers claim fraud. Sounds like the US.

MISC:

It looks like Europeans first colonized America 26,000 years ago.

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REGULATION:

Apple the patent troll. Patents and copyright are two powerful yet relatively unknown tools plutocrats use to loot us.

HEALTH CARE:

Mammograms cause breast cancer.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Solar cycle 24 sunspot count is down again.

More evidence supporting cosmic rays as seeders of clouds.

Graphic breaks down how much different government bureaucracies spend promoting the AGW fraud.

POLICE STATE:

The UK is considering privatizing police. That would be cheaper and more effective than government police, but the problem is government's power of coercion and the aggressive laws themselves. I don't want more effective policing of government's laws of aggression. That just means more people arrested and prosecuted for non-crimes.

WAR:

US aggression created the Cold War, and politicians are scaring us with phony threats about the Soviet Union and Islam to promote their own power.

Wikileaks leaked emails of private defense contractor that claim Osama bin Laden's body was flown to Dover on a CIA plane, not buried at sea as Obama claimed. This is why Wikileaks is a valuable, heroic organization.

Pentagon admits US troops operating in Yemen contrary to its previous claims and the claims of President Obama.

POLITICS:

Romney wins Washington by double-digits over Paul and Santorum.

The Republican establishment created a system that allowed them to manipulate the delegates so they could get their candidate elected even if the people voted for a different one in the primary. Now they're upset because Paul is using that system to amass more influence at the convention than his vote totals would otherwise allow.

"Each state selects its delegates to the Republican National Convention differently, and as has often been reported, the process of a candidate “winning a state” is not as simple as a plurality on primary day. An obscure process of country, district, and state conventions exists to appoint these delegates to the national convention. A candidate who can successfully manipulate these lesser known “behind-the-scenes” processes can put himself in an advantageous position should the Convention begin in August with some doubt about the identity of the nominee."

The idea was that the Republican establishment could buy delegates for their candidate even if he didn't win the popular vote. But Paul supporters are becoming delegates and controlling the process in many states despite him not winning a single primary so far. Paul is beating the establishment at their own game, and they don't like it.

It looks like this Cato Institute lawsuit might end up putting shares of the Institute in Lew Rockwell's hands. Summary of Koch versus Cato. Possible motive for the Koch suit against Cato.

MEDIA:

The first thing I said when I read the headline that Andrew Breitbart died was, "I wonder if liberals killed him." Apparently I wasn't the only one.

"Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., last month, Breitbart claimed he had damning videos of Barack Obama, and planned to release them before the general election.
"[We] are going to vet [Obama] from his college days to show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008," Breitbart told the CPAC crowd."

I wouldn't dismiss the idea he was murdered.

"Conservative blogger Lawrence Sinclair referenced a conversation he had with Breitbart in Washington D.C. three weeks before. "Andrew said, 'Wait til they see what happens March first,'" Lawrence Sinclair wrote."

Stunning coincidence my butt.

Limbaugh apologizes to the law student demanding taxpayers pay for her contraceptives. I agree he shouldn't have used the words. He should have made the point without using the words. But he's right, and I think the vast majority of Americans would agree.

"He also asked the 30-year-old Fluke: "Who bought your condoms in junior high?""

That's uncalled for. It's too bad he screwed this up with the way he handled it. He made his words the issue instead of her policy recommendation.

"Republican Newt Gingrich said reporters were more excited to talk about Limbaugh's language than Obama's record."

Of course they are. If Limbaugh had made his point using different words, and Democrats would be on the defensive instead.

""I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities," he said. "What happened to personal responsibility and accountability? Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow? Will we be debating if taxpayers should pay for new sneakers for all students that are interested in running to keep fit?""

Yes.

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ECONOMY:

Science and engineering workforce in the US has been flat for a decade.

REGULATION:

This headline cracks me up: "FCC Inquires Into Its Own Authority to Regulate Communication Service Shutdowns" That's like saying mafia dons inquire into their own authority to break knees. I bet the author of this headline has been summarily fired. You can't make this stuff up.

HEALTH CARE:

Wow. This is an uplifting story about how a child and a family suffered under the government's food guidelines and finally made themselves healthy by abandoning them and going primal.

No matter how much damage government causes, government agents always calls for more. In this case, government researchers call on government to ban skinny models because they promote anorexic behavior. You can't make this stuff up. Instead of addressing why families are being destroyed, leaving young women vulnerable to eating disorders - government - they focus on the consequences of that destruction. It's like they're doctors licensed by government or something.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

Remember when Obama forced BP to pony up $20 billion after the gulf oil spill non-event? Remember when, in response, I said that government regulations allow government's corporate agents to get avoid the legal consequences of their actions, and this would be a case in point? Now it turns out BP will only have to pay $7.8 billion. This is a perfect example of how government protects its giant, corporate agents at the expense of the people.

POLICE STATE:

Startup wants to look through every online camera in your house to develop marketing data. Marketing data my butt. The government wants this.

POLITICS:

There's a core of truth in this article: if Ron Paul can't beat Romney in Virginia, where there are the only two candidates on the ballot, he can't win the nomination. Win or go home. If he fails to win Virginia, he's fighting only for leverage at the convention, which is a fine thing that I'll support, but it's not victory. Call me naive, but I believe Americans are dying for a libertarian message like Ronald Reagan gave them. But Paul has failed to deliver a message like that. Reagan was perfect at delivering that message. Paul rambles and fails to make the crucial points that Americans can understand. It's a shame that Reagan won as a faux libertarian while Paul will likely lose as a real libertarian, but we'll probably be killed by an asteroid, solar flare, nuclear holocaust and killer bees all at the same time.

As if on queue, Romney criticizes Limbaugh. What a freaking idiot. Did Obama pay him? He should have remained silent, as should have Obama. For the last year, I've presented arguments supporting the case that Romney is the Republican Obama. He keeps proving me right.

 MEDIA:

Obama promotes Limbaugh. This is a bad idea. This might do more to restore momentum to Republicans than Republicans are capable of doing themselves. I think Limbaugh just provided Republicans a huge, strategic gain.

Rush Limbaugh is single-handedly killing Obama and the Democrats. Nancy Pelosi selfishly hauled some college chick into a hearing so she could advocate for subsidized contraception. In other words, she wants us to subsidize her sex life. I understand that his might work for Nancy Pelosi in her district, but nationwide, 90 percent of Americans are going to reject the idea that the government must steal money from them to subsidize her sex life. I understand why Pelosi made this case: it made her richer. I also understand why Rush Limbaugh jumped all over this. He's siding with the 90 percent of Americans who think this is outrageous. His stance will make him a ton of money too. What I don't understand is why Obama injected himself into this orgy of selfishness. Obama can only lose. He's alienating 90 percent of Americans in order to curry favor with a few college sluts who want everybody else to subsidize their sexual activities. I can't believe Obama screwed up this badly. It's important to realize that Limbaugh was carrying water for Santorum on this issue.

Quicken Loans and Domino's Pizza are pulling ads from Limbaugh's program. At first I thought this was a bad business decision. But on second thought, these businesses depend on college students. I understand that businesses that depend on college students might side with promiscuous college students begging for taxpayer handouts. But they do so against the great majority of Americans. I live with normal Americans. I know what they think about this, and I have yet to hear any individual claim they want to have government steal their money to subsidize the sex lives of these establishment law school students.