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16, 2009 This week I again heard person after person more and more depressed about the state of the nation, as the Congress sought to "fix" the "mess" we are in - even though government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. Even liberals and those who voted for Mr. Obama are showing up among the panicked and the fearful. I've touched more on this in the various commentaries. Monday: Mr. Hoekman is a perfect example of the modern Tranzi, who actually seems to welcome the collapse of society, and has such a warped view of human rights that he thinks this is an advance for humanity. You can almost NEVER cooperate and reconcile with such people - they can only be fought. (Read the rest here)
What's
America's Backup Plan? Barney Frank needs to go back to running a whore house and Chris Dodd needs an economic ejumacation to name a few. Nancy Peeelosi needs a math lesson at the very least with her oft repeated 500,000,000 job loss per month (it's on tape more than once). Hey, Nanc, the population of the entire US is only 300,000,000. Or were you using Democratic voter math? Ok, my bad. Oh, and get back on your meds. The whole bunch has a bad case of hubris and at that can't seem to find a direction or logical path. Oops I forgot, they are emotion based decision makers. The stock market is still waiting on what the government will do, not because they think it will help, but so that they know where to invest with the least likelihood of getting burnt. On the bright side, at least the House Republicans showed a little spine in voting against the Porkulus Bill. The Senate mostly caved (Republicans there are mostly Geldings, I suspect) and now the two committees will 'battle' the detail differences between the bills and post it for a vote in both houses. Nobama will gleefully sign it. I don't know if anyone really knows all the crap that's in it... ACORN funding, Healthcare Czar/database, STD funding and ??? (Read the rest here)
FairTax
or No Tax? I believe the FairTaxers are inadvertently focusing on the wrong problem when it comes to federal taxation. In their zeal to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment and devise a "more efficient" tax system, they have lost sight of the fact that the Constitution, as written by the Founders, strictly limits the federal government's power to tax and spend. The power to tax and spend is not the problem; it is the usurpation of power concerning the power to tax and spend that is the problem. The FairTax, if implemented, will only make this problem worse because, if the plan is successful and generates additional tax revenue, Congress will simply devise new ways to unconstitutionally spend the money and drive the nation further into debt. From a strict Constitutional standpoint, what the FairTaxers are actually saying is: we have devised a more efficient system for the federal government to extract money from the American people to fund programs not authorized by the Constitution. Sorry but I would rather spend my time and resources attempting to right the wrong rather than advancing it. (Read the rest here)
Chicago
False Flag? Analysis and Hypothesis An
alarming report reached me on Thursday, Feb. 12. It stated that Homeland
Security and FEMA are now preparing for a disaster and martial law in
Chicago: "Inside
source reveals FEMA & DHS preparing for mass graves and martial law
near Chicago"
Liberty
Bookself - Review You've got to read this book! I read this one through twice in about three weeks. Outside of Heinlein and Asimov, that's something I don't indulge in. So much to read -- so little time. But I reread this one with pleasure. Not because the story was too complex, or the plot hard to follow the first time - far from it. I read it again because it is GOOD and because it stirred my tired old blood to hope, renewing my old dream of actually finding liberty in my lifetime. The whole story is based on that dream, and a vision of a future where the Spirit of 1776 lives again in the hearts of ordinary people. Inspired by a charismatic leader, as always, the drive to restore justice and liberty is once again upfront and personal instead of a glimmer from the distant past. (Read the rest here)
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Gun Rights Examiner The Chi-Town Political Machine is flexing its gunhating muscles once more. The latest in your face harassment of Illinois' "law-abiding" gun owners comes from Representative Kenneth Dunkin: House Bill 687...would force all of those individuals to obtain a $1 million liability insurance policy. This policy would cover any damages that take place from the use of a firearm owned by the individual. So he's got you! If you abide by the state's restrictive firearms laws and this passes, you'll either need to be able to pony up for coverage, or lose the means to defend yourself and your loved ones in your own home. If you can't afford it, too bad. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) Check out the latest from other Gun Rights Examiners * Austin
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New
Abuse Bill will have Employers Paying through the Nose Frustrated over the endless haggling over the stimulus package, Roybal-Allard and Poe decided to introduce their own bill: H.R. 739, the Security and Financial Empowerment Act – SAFE for short.
Under the SAFE bill, employees will have an iron-clad guarantee of lifelong job security, health insurance, as well as 30 days emergency leave each year. Former workers are of course entitled to unemployment bennies.
And the only requirement is the employee has to be a victim of abuse. That’s a small hurdle to overcome, though, because the bill generously defines abuse to include physical violence, psychological trauma, and that wonderful catch-all category, “emotional distress.” (Read the rest here)
External
Articles Thus the essay trips into comedy with its suggestions on the matter of containment and restraint. It is true, had Bob Higgs been able to explain the nature of the "ratchet effect" to these two military-minded men, their faces would have paled, hands trembling and chests heaving. Hauser and Slater propose that – and I quote in its entirety: First, Congress should use its constitutionally mandated role in decisions to go to war. Second, Congress should employ its appropriations powers – "the power of the purse" – to prohibit, limit, or end U.S. participation in unwise wars or military interventions by refusing to fund them. Third, to reduce political opposition to a revived draft as well as to provide another constraint against presidential unilateralism, a law establishing conscription should include a provision that draftees cannot be sent into combat without specific congressional authorization. Now, isn’t that special! Sounds almost like the existing Constitution, if it had spirit and an appetite. What a hilarious concept! Henny Youngman couldn’t have done better! Take my Constitution…. Please! (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Dallas
Libertarian Examiner In case you own a gun, or might someday want to own a gun, you should know that congressman Bobby L. Rush of the Obama State introduced HR 45 on the first day of the 111th Congress. Make no mistake; what this bill seeks to impose are Jim Crow laws for gun owners. Since the Supreme Court's Heller decision doesn't allow gun haters to ban guns, they plan to ban gun owners instead. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Independent Institute Last Jan. 9, President Obama declared that “there is no disagreement that we need action by our government, [for example,] a recovery plan that will help to jump-start the economy.” He was wrong. A few days later, polled by the Cato Institute, some 200 economists from the best American universities answered him in a full-page ad published in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal: “With all due respect, Mr. President, that is not true.” And then they briefly expressed their reasons: an increase in government spending in the 1930s did not liquidate the Great Depression or contribute to solving the crisis in Japan in the 1990s. To reprise that strategy was a triumph of hope over experience. What was the correct road to emerge from the crisis? No doubt, they opined, the best fiscal policy to revitalize the growth of the economy consisted of reducing taxes and the burden of government and initiating reforms that would eliminate impediments to work, savings, investment and production. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation Alas, a “stimulus” bill will pass because politics is perverse. At Barack Obama’s town meeting in Fort Myers, Florida, people in the audience stood up and directly told the president of the United States they were hurting because of the recession. He listened sympathetically and eloquently explained how he will help them. It was all captured on television. It takes some understanding of economics — which most people lack — to comprehend what’s wrong with that picture. Those people are victims of the state’s misguided interventionist economic policies — after all, the central government has been the steward of the U.S. economy for generations. Yet Obama, the latest chief executive of this economy-wrecking organization, stood before them as their salvation. The news media reinforced that narrative at every step. This is why it is so difficult for economic sense to make headway. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute With the federal government ladling out billions in bailout money to the financial and auto industries, a number of businesses now have their hands out. Home builders, retailers and commercial real-estate developers all want a piece of the bailout pie. Not like there is an existing warm pie cooling on the window sill waiting to be cut and served. No, this money pie is created out of nowhere, to be paid for in higher prices as the inflation is forced upon the unwitting public. Nobody could imagine that pornographers would be brazen enough to line up at the government trough. But sure enough, Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt and Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild fame have asked their local Congressman, Henry Waxman, for $5 billion because, "People are too depressed to be sexually active," according to Flynt. Ever the patriot, Flynt says an unsexed nation is an "unhealthy" nation. "Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without sex." (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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