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The Great Privatizing Ploy
2008-03-19 23:07:00 The public planning oppressors are at it again. In a Fort Worth Star-Telegram article ("Is the time ripe to privatize our urban mass transit systems? read more More About: Business , Transportation , Great
The Great Privatizing Ploy
2008-03-19 23:07:00 The public planning oppressors are at it again. In a Fort Worth Star-Telegram article ("Is the time ripe to privatize our urban mass transit systems? read more More About: Business , Transportation , Great
Quote 1413
2008-03-19 16:51:00 Every full-time U.S. worker owes a staggering $440,000, courtesy of government excess. — DownsizeDC.org More About: Quote
Earth Day No. 38 - The Summer of Love, Two.
2008-03-18 22:12:00 You most likely think that Earth Day is in April. Surprise! You have been celebrating Pour Oil on the Earth Day all of these years. Now, you need to wake up and climb off the grids. read more More About: Love , Summer , Ron Paul
Keep Government Out of Mortgages
2008-03-18 19:11:00 Regarding mortgages, the government has already done quite enough, intervening in the market. Act after act, pushing banks to lend in riskier areas, creating excess housing demand. Then another act, messing things up, then another act to fix that, only to find it made it worse, then yet another fix. Now there is talk of government buying all the bad loans. This has to stop! read more More About: Economics , Government , Mortgages
Making a Recession Great, by US Rep. Ron Paul
2008-03-16 06:00:00 House Democrats recently adopted a budget with massive tax hikes, many of which are directed at those Americans who can least afford them. By allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2010, this budget will raise income taxes not only on those in the highest income brackets, but raises the lowest bracket from 10% to 15% as well. Estates would again be taxed at 55%. The child tax credit would drop from $1000 to $500. Senior citizens relying on investment income would be hurt by increases in dividend and capital gains taxes. It's not just that the Democrats want to raises taxes on the rich. They want to raises taxes on everybody. The problem is, policing the world is expensive, and if elected officials insist upon continuing to fund our current foreign policy, the money has to come from somewhere. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already cost us over $1 trillion. The Democrats' budget gives the President all the funding he needs for his foreign policy, so one wonders how... More About: George Bush , Ron Paul , Great , Foreign Policy
The criminalization of parents
2008-03-16 01:27:00 "As a result, government now has so many ways to incarcerate parents that hardly a family in America has not been touched. The criminalization of parents is highly bureaucratic, effected through a bureaucratic judiciary and supported by a vast "social services" machinery that few understand until it strikes them. They then find themselves against a faceless government behemoth from which they are powerless to protect their children or defend themselves. read more More About: Parents , Child Abuse
The Dollar is Dead, Long Live Gold!
2008-03-15 00:42:00 A grade school kid will quickly tell you that by injecting this much credit into the market, the Fed could be broke in four months. To survive, it must start the presses, increase real liquidity, the M1 money supply. Checks will be presented, they must clear, and ?real money? must be handed off. Where does it come from? Paper, ink, the word (fiat) of the government. The people's trust in fiat might vanish at any time. The dollar could be dead. They could try to switch to the Amero. People might not trust it either. Gold rules!read more More About: Finance , Dollar , Live , Dead
H.R. 3773 - FISA Amendments Act of 2008, by US Rep. Ron Paul
2008-03-14 06:00:00 Mr Speaker, I rise in opposition to this latest attempt to undermine our personal liberties and violate the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution . This bill will allow the federal government to engage in the bulk collection of American citizens? communications. In effect, it means that any American may have his electronic communications monitored without a search warrant. As such, the bill clearly violates the Fourth Amendment read more More About: Ron Paul , Privacy , Paul , Bill of Rights
Are you smarter than an illegal immigrant?
2008-03-13 22:09:00 The folks at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services have devised a new citizenship test for those few illegal immigrants who, for some unknown reason, are actually trying to become lawful citizens. The new questions, the USCIS claims, are calculated to better measure how well newbies understand what it means to be an American rather than how well they can memorize answers. Of course, most libertarians are convinced that most natural born citizens don't know what it really means to be an American either. As a service to all, here are some actual USCIS test questions followed not by the politically correct answers but by the actual realpolitik answers that have been certified as being true based on real-life experience. read more More About: Illegal , Immigrant
Better Living Through Chemical Warfare
2008-03-13 22:03:00 Keen-eyed observers of the Mad Scientist wing of the American military research complex have noted that the Pentagon is at it again. With so many billions of taxbucks tied up in building last century's mega-weaponry, such as fighters and bombers and aircraft carriers and space-based surveillance and assault platforms, one would think there would be nothing left over for dabbling in the development of "non-lethal" esoteric futuristic Weapons of Mass Derision. One would be wrong. read more More About: Humor , Living , Chemical , Warfare
Living by the Sword, by US Rep. Ron Paul
2008-03-13 06:00:00 It has been said that ?he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword.? And in the case of Eliot Spitzer this couldn?t be more true. In his case it?s the political sword, as his enemies rejoice in his downfall. Most people, it seems, believe he got exactly what he deserved. The illegal tools of the state brought Spitzer down, but think of all the harm done by Spitzer in using the same tools against so many other innocent people. He practiced what could be termed ?economic McCarthyism,? using illegitimate government power to build his political career on the ruined lives of others. read more More About: Living , Ron Paul , Constitution , Paul , Bill of Rights
Talus 2005 Pinot Noir California
2008-03-13 01:48:00 The wine has some positive points, but it?s tannins at the end give this wine a lesser grade. I guess for $7 you really can?t expect too much. Some better wine choices, if more expensive, are Dynamite 2004, Cline 2005, Zinfatuation 2005 (only available at World Market.) read more More About: California , Pinot Noir , Noir , Wines
Sure-fire 2nd Amendment stance
2008-03-12 22:16:00 "That is the all-important context in which the Bill of Rights was created. The Anti-Federalists, men filled to varying degrees with fear, mistrust, and loathing of the new federal government, insisted on a bill of rights as additional shackles imposed on that new government. Knowing that alone, knowing that the famous Bill came into existence only to please those most apprehensive of the new government, definitively ends any confusion or debate surrounding the meaning of the Second Amendment . read more More About: Fire
Saying No to the Liberty-Loathing State
2008-03-12 22:07:00 "Wisconsin v. Yoder, a 1972 Supreme Court case dealing with an Amish family who wanted to withdraw their children from public school after the eighth grade. [Citation] from the majority opinion written by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger: read more More About: Liberty , State
Tormaresca 2006 Chardonnay Italy
2008-03-12 21:49:00 This one tasted better in the store than at home. Not a bad wine by any stretch of the imagination, just not what I remembered tasting in the store. Did I somehow get the wrong bottle? read more More About: Italy , Chardonnay , Wines
Spitzer Resigns, Trying to Avoid Indictment
2008-03-12 19:11:00 Spitzer should be indicted and prosecuted. He should not be allowed to dodge the full consequences of his misdeeds. Prostitution should not be a crime. However, being involved in some way with prostitutes makes one liable to extortion and blackmail. A man on the way to running for President in a few years would be vulnerable. He would fear revelation of dark deeds of even a non-criminal sort to his family, to his enemies, and others. He could then be ?forced? to use his high office's power to end government action against someone or to generate large favors to someoneread more More About: Corruption , Avoid , Spitzer , Indictment
Statement on Coinage, by US Rep. Ron Paul
2008-03-11 06:00:00 I oppose HR 5512 because it is unconstitutional to delegate the determination of the metal content of our coinage to the Secretary of the Treasury. Under Article I Section 8 of the Constitution, the Congress is given the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof. It is a shame that Congress has already unconstitutionally delegated its coinage authority to the Treasury Department, but that is no reason to further delegate our power and essentially abdicate Congressional oversight as the passing of HR 5512 would do. Oversight by members of Congress, who have an incentive to listen to their constituents, ensures openness and transparency. This bill would eliminate that process and delegate it to unelected bureaucrats. The Secretary of the Treasury would be given sole discretion to alter the metal content of coins, or even to create non-metal coins. Given the history of Congressional delegation and subsequent lax oversight on issues as important as the conflict in Iraq, it... More About: Finance , Ron Paul , Currency , Paul , Statement
Can Foreign Aid Save Africa?, by US Rep. Ron Paul
2008-03-10 21:22:00 Congress is poised to pass the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) authorizing up to $50 million in unconstitutional foreign aid. The bill passed out of the Foreign Affairs Committee with a bipartisan agreement to nearly double the President's requested amount. It is always distressing to see officials in our government reach across the aisle to disregard Constitutional limitations. Much of this aid will run through government-to-government channels and will be vulnerable to corruption. Some of the aid will be sent to faith-based organizations who, along with accepting government largess, will now be subject to governmental controls and will soon become more dependent on taxpayer funding than private funds. If they accept the aid, they must be careful of the vague language regarding what types of programs they can run. For example, the requirement that 33% of any funding received must go toward abstinence-only programs has been dropped and replaced with a 50%... More About: Africa , Ron Paul , Paul , Foreign Aid
High Schools Add Classes Scripted by Corporations
2008-03-09 20:35:00 'In a recent class at Abraham Clark High School in Roselle, N.J., business teacher Barbara Govahn distributed glossy classroom materials that invited students to think about what they want to be when they grow up. Eighteen career paths were profiled, including a writer, a magician, a town mayor -- and five employees from accounting giant Deloitte LLP. '"Consider a career you may never have imagined," the book suggests. "Working as a professional auditor." read more More About: Education , Schools , Classes , Corporations
Carro Tinto 2006 Red Wine Yelca Spain
2008-03-09 02:10:00 Overall it?s a pleasant sipping wine and ok with a lighter dinner. I?m partial to lighter reds, and this one fits the bill! read more More About: Wine , Spain , Carro , Blend , Red Wine
The Ron Paul Revolution Goes Home to America
2008-03-08 08:22:00 The Ron Paul Revolution is the acorn that will become the means by which the people will govern themselves. It is a good thing. read more More About: America , Home
Educate, Amend, Rewrite or Let it Crash?
2008-03-07 02:41:00 The U.S. has major problems, and many of them trace down to the application of the Constitution . The chances that the United States of America can establish again a limited government, in the spirit of the framers of the Constitution, are slim. Ben Franklin said, when asked what the Constitutional convention had come up with, ?A Republic, if you can keep it.? We did not keep it.read more More About: Crash
Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher
2008-03-06 18:00:00 "High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week. Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy. 'As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don't believe, or a legend, which I don't believe read more More About: Religion , Drugs
Let us Hope Hillary Caves in.
2008-03-06 04:27:00 Hillary Clinton ?s chances of becoming the next President of the United States shrank to little or non, as of March 5, 2008. Obama won in several states that she had called her own. By continuing her campaign she is counting on the super-delegates. This could be disasterous. read more More About: Hope , Hillary , Caves
Domaine Calvel 2004 Red Wine Corbieres France
2008-03-06 00:12:00 It?s a pleasant wine, if not a particularly inspiring one. Good with dinner and in a pinch, sipping on its own if needed. read more More About: Wine , France , Blend , Red Wine , Wines
All Threats All the Time
2008-03-06 00:07:00 Now for the Nervous News at Nine. A bomb scare in Piddlyboro, Vermont. Police, sheriff's department, state troopers, SWAT teams, bomb squads, FBI, BATFE, Homeland Security, National Guard units and the town dogcatcher converged on a "suspicious brown paper bag" left unattended in front of Mother McRaggedy's Second Hand Store on Main Street. Following a six-hour standoff, a $190,000 remote-controlled ordinance-disposal robot was sent in. The bag contained an empty Mad Dog 20/20 wine bottle, left there the night before by Elmer Swilling, the town wino and dogcatcher. Grumbly Freehold, the county's only self-professed libertarian, later questioned why a Middle Eastern terrorist would want to blow up Mother McRaggedy's Second Hand Store in the first place. Or how they ever would have heard of Piddlyboro. Or Vermont. read more More About: Time , Threats , The Time
Are you smarter than an illegal immigrant?
2008-03-06 00:02:00 The folks at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services have devised a new citizenship test for those few illegal immigrants who, for some unknown reason, are actually trying to become lawful citizens. The new questions, the USCIS claims, are calculated to better measure how well newbies understand what it means to be an American rather than how well they can memorize answers. Of course, most libertarians are convinced that most natural born citizens don't know what it really means to be an American either. read more More About: Illegal , Immigrant
Statement on Gaza Bill, by US Rep. Ron Paul
2008-03-05 07:00:00 Madam Speaker: I rise in opposition to H. Res. 951. As one who is consistently against war and violence, I obviously do not support the firing of rockets indiscriminately into civilian populations. I believe it is appalling that Palestinians are firing rockets that harm innocent Israel is, just as I believe it is appalling that Israel fires missiles into Palestinian areas where children and other non-combatants are killed and injured. Unfortunately, legislation such as this is more likely to perpetuate violence in the Middle East than contribute to its abatement. It is our continued involvement and intervention ? particularly when it appears to be one-sided ? that reduces the incentive for opposing sides to reach a lasting peace agreement. read more More About: Iraq , Iran , Ron Paul , Syria
Foreign Government Investment in the U.S. Economy and Financial Sector, by
More articles from this author:2008-03-05 07:00:00 many Americans have expressed concern over the growing role played by sovereign wealth funds in the U.S. economy. Such fears are to a large extent misplaced, however, as we should be more concerned with the underlying causes that have allowed sovereign wealth funds to accumulate as much capital as they have. The two major types of sovereign wealth funds are those which are funded by proceeds from natural resources sales, and those funded by accumulation of foreign exchange. The former category includes sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE. Flush with dollars due to the high price of oil, they are looking for opportunities to make that money work for them. The high price of oil is due in large part to our inflationary monetary policy. We have literally exported inflation across the globe, spurring malinvestment and a subsequent commodities boom. read more More About: Economy , Government , Finance , Investment , Inflation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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