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SSI sends Supreme Court Justices zip drive with thousands of petitions signers urging the Court to strike down ObamaCare as unconstitutional. Read Dr. Lawrence Hunter's letter to Supreme Court Justices. Read More...
 Our labor force is shrinking, the number of dependent U.S. adults is growing, our social programs are failing, and our best educated and most productive generation is retiring. To borrow from Merle Haggard, "Are the good times really over for good?" Read More...
 Risk is the very thing that makes human progress possible. To refuse to act – or to limit action – until and unless all risk is removed is to negate the possibility of acting. It is to embrace stasis – and even that amount to a false sense of security, since failing to act out of fear of risk can itself be lethally paralyzing. There isn’t a problem with being risk adverse or risk taking, the problem is the imposition of both the nannying and the charity by the state. This country if it is to survive and thrive needs to get back to people being responsible for their own risk and reward without artifical outside forces. Read More...
 Government clogs the arteries and gums up the works. Stress builds up in the system; potential energy accumulates seeking release. Politics makes continuous adjustment impossible to achieve. Markets are prevented from adjusting but the system must adjust to relieve the pressure. Zugzwang! Inflation! It’s coming. Prepare for it. Read More...
 Can a retired couple live on $1,000-$1,200 per month in Latin America? Sure. In fact a complete budget is available including actual recipes of North American meals to show just how simple this is. Send an e-mail to Budgets@ecidevelopment.com to receive a copy of the budget if you’d like to see the reality of living a better life for less. If you have $2,000, $3,000, $4,000 or more per month for retirement, the quality of life you can enjoy in Latin America is tremendously enhanced. The Gringo Life stories written about our family’s eight years in Latin America hold a rich treasure of lifestyle observations and anecdotes for people considering a move overseas. You can find them at www.MikesGringoLife.com Read More...
  The United States is no longer a free country. When almost everything people do is either illegal or "regulated," there is an overabundance of so-called "crimes" being committed at every moment of the day. The police are no longer in the business of protecting people from rare and costly events, and thus have nothing whatsoever in common with firemen. They are in the business of cracking skulls and enforcing the political class’s dictates on the people. Firemen, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly volunteers who simply wait to respond to accidents. Firemen are a form of voluntary social insurance against accidents, while the police are merely thuggish tools of the political class. Read More...
The one world government types continue their plans for even more control over European finances with all-powerful central bank.
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 For over five thousand years, gold has represented a reliable store of value. Which is why many wise men own gold. If I asked you to leave something for your great grandkids in a package to be opened one hundred years from now, would you leave them a wad of hundred dollar bills or one hundred gold coins? If you had any brains you would pick the gold coins. Read More...
 A leaked U.S. Army document prepared for the Department of Defense contains shocking plans for “political activists” to be pacified by “PSYOP officers” into developing an “appreciation of U.S. policies” while detained in prison camps inside the United States. Read More...
 ObamaCare raids Medicare to reduce the unfunded liability of the seniors' medical program by $50 trillion. How? ObamaCare uses cuts in Medicare to pay for more than half the cost of expanding health insurance for young people. So even if the Medicare cuts take place, they won’t reduce the government’s overall obligations. They just cut medical care for seniors to increase middleclass welfare for young people. In addition, the health reform bill contains no serious plan for making Medicare more efficient. Read More...
 The increasing number of US expats remains concentrated among Baby Boomers but a good bet is Generation Xers also may soon be looking south for their offshore havens as well. Life in the US is becoming forbiddingly expensive for many retirees – and they feel compelled to start looking for a better quality of life at a far lower cost of living in Latin America. This sense appears to be growing among the kids of the Baby Boomers as well, and they can be expected to cast their eyes south of the border well before retirement is nigh – while property is still at bargain prices – rather than waiting until the out-migration trickle turns into a torrent, and prices skyrocket as demand soars. Read More...
 Paul Ryan's budget, which has passed the House and soon could be voted on in the Senate, creates an unprecedented new fast-track procedure -- a so-called "expedited parliamentary process" -- to ram through Social Security benefit cuts, including cutting cost of living allowances (COLAs) by adopting the Chained CPI, reducing benefits by at least $108 billion over 10 years. Read More...
 In a system of real justice, there would not be "prosecutors" as such, at all. There would be attorneys available to represent the litigants for a fee, and in the Roe v. Doe case, the one representing Roe would have the burden of proving Doe's actions; but he would be paid initially by his client (or his client's insurer) rather than by an uninvolved third party such as government. Justice would right the wrong with restitution, compensaton and reimbursement. That's what justice is for. That's honest, and is the kind of justice system that will exist in the coming free society. You are honest; so can it be right to spend your working days employed by and supporting the dishonest "criminal-justice" system? Read More...
 Interview with Lew Rockwell on the state of affairs in America today: "The American government has become an horrendous tyranny, a prison-military-industrial complex. The people who work in the government love putting people in jail, love starting wars, love killing, they like torturing people, they are not good people, and we don't want them running our lives." Read More...
 The City of Man [government] is the secular order. It is the earthly city ruled by humans for their own gain using their own rules. Above all, says Saint Augustine, it "is itself ruled by the lust of rule." The "lust of rule" is a translation of the Latin libido dominandi. As Richard John Neuhaus puts it, libido dominandi is "the lust for power, advantage, and glory." It shouts, "My way or no way!" Read More...
 I ask you, I plead with you, I beg you all, walk out of here with me, never to come back. It’s the moral and ethical thing to do. Nothing good goes on in this place. Let’s lock the doors and leave the building to the spiders, moths and four-legged rats. Read More...
 The Republican Party should change its moniker from the Grand Old Party (GOP) to FUP, the Fixing-the- Unfixable Party. FUP-Red is distinguished from FUP-Blue, which identifies the Democratic Party as the Fomenting Unrest Party because all it does is incite race resentment and class warfare so the people clamor and vote for destructive political solutions to fix things up. FUP-Red comes along trying to fix up the foul up FUP-Blue creates but alas all it accomplishes is to foul up the foul up even more, fomenting more discontent and inflicting more hurt as its geniuses attempt to convert the sinking ship into a flying ark. Red or Blue, both FUP parties are designed to keep politics in control of our lives and the people under the heel of government. Politics, red or blue, is not the answer to what ails us. Freedom is. Read More...
 Until early in the 20th century, gold played a central role in the world of money. Gold had an incredible run – almost three thousand years. And why not? After all, Professor Roy Jastram convincingly documents in The Golden Constant just how gold maintains its purchasing power over long periods of time. But, since President Richard Nixon closed the gold window in August 1971, gold has not played a formal role in the international monetary regime. Today, the “regime” is a chaotic non-system. It is time to reconnect the world's money to gold. Read More...
 Despite stonewalling by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his cronies in the moneyed institutions of privilege, the recent partial Fed audit and dribbled-out documents sought by news organizations under the Freedom of Information Act are revealing an astounding level of corruption in the institution. Read More...
 The American left is dead, killed off by their support of a candidate who personified their turn to identity politics. The left’s undying allegiance to the President and his policies has sealed their rejection of the old-fashioned liberal anti-imperialist pro-civil libertarian stance, exemplified by The Nation when it was edited by Oswald Garrison Villard and which briefly resurfaced during the Vietnam era. Instead of going forward, American liberalism has retreated back to the era of FDR, when being on the “left” meant supporting not only the Welfare State but also calling for bigger and better ways to buttress the Warfare State. Read More...
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Congressional Republicans are back up to their old shenanigans on ObamaCare. Politico reveals that Republicans would try to replicate popular parts of Obama’s health care law if the Supreme Court overturns the law this summer.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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Friday, May 11, 2012
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Two-thirds of Republicans and nine in 10 Democrats polled support making immediate cuts to the military across the board -- a position at odds with the leaderships of both political parties.
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Monday, May 7, 2012
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Monday, May 7, 2012
The number of people with jobs declined for the second month in a row, falling by 169,000 in April after easing by 31,000 in March. This means that there were 200,000 fewer Americans with jobs in April than there were in February. Additionally, the percentage of working-age adults who either have jobs or are looking for work, fell to 63.6%, which is the lowest level since December 1981.
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