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Fox News Toadies Silence Judge Andrew Napolitano For Speaking Truth To Power

Judge Napolitano reminds us of Thomas Jefferson's admonition to America: "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." The government toadies at Fox News responded by taking him off the air. Cowards! Read More...

Behold Bureaucracy

Government monopolies are always focused on pivotal control points that render populations helpless and dependent upon the state for survival. The intent of these bureaucracies is to control very specific aspects of our lives, which is why the government insists that they are the only ones able to provide these services. This is a strategic maneuver which is targeted at specific trade sectors that are absolutely vital to the lives of individuals in order to enslave people by keeping them so sheltered that they forget how to take care of themselves, or even forget that they have the ability to take care of themselves. Read More...

ObamaCare Or The Constitution: One Must Fall

Upholding ObamaCare's individual mandate would leave no principled limit on the federal government’s powers. It would demolish two of the most fundamental doctrines of the Constitution: 1) The federal government is limited to delegated, enumerated powers; and 2) All powers not delegated to it are reserved to the states respectively or the people. Upholding the individual mandate would require tearing down these two fundamental pillars of the entire constitutional architecture, like blind Sampson pushing over the pillars of the temple, causing it to collapse on the heads of everyone inside. Read More...

SSI Submits Second Amicus Brief On ObamaCare

The Commerce Clause grants Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce; it does not grant Congress the power to compel individuals to enter into interstate commerce. The Congress itself has recognized this fact for 220 years, as it never before has enacted a law compelling individuals to purchase particular products and services. Upholding ObamaCare's individual mandate would leave no principled limit on the federal government’s powers. As a result, the individual mandate would demolish the most fundamental doctrine of the Constitution, that the federal government is limited to delegated, enumerated powers. Read More...

What Kind Of Gold Standard?

There are a lot of different options as to how to set up and operate a gold standard but they all have the same goal: Maintain the value of the currency at a certain gold-price parity. Read More...

Repulsive Progressive Hypocrisy

President Obama has adopted the Bush/Cheney Police-State, Empire America agenda, in fact greatly expanding what they did in many areas. From the Bush assault on civil liberties under the notion that the President could do whatever he wants, in secret and with no checks, to anyone he accuses without trial of being a Terrorist – even including eavesdropping on their communications or detaining them without due process. President Obama not only has done the same thing; he has gone much farther than mere eavesdropping or detention: he has asserted the power even to kill citizens without due process. Read More...

SSI Submits First Amicus Curiae Brief On ObamaCare

The Supreme Court has long recognized under the Coercion Doctrine that just as Congress has no enumerated power to order states to implement federal policies, it may not use its Spending Power to achieve the same result indirectly. The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion effectively forces states to implement federal Medicaid policies and thereby unconstitutionally violates the Coercion Doctrine, transgressing state sovereignty and demolishing the Constitutional framework of federalism. Read More...

Truth, lies and Afghanistan - A Soldier Speaks

During my year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners, my duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. I witnessed the absence of success on virtually every level. How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding and behind an array of more than seven years of optimistic statements by U.S. senior leaders in Afghanistan? No one expects our leaders to always have a successful plan. But we do expect — and the men who do the living, fighting and dying deserve — to have our leaders tell us the truth about what’s going on. Read More...

The Cleaving of America

America is coming apart at the seams. Once the deterioration was under way, a self-reinforcing loop took hold as traditionally powerful social norms broke down. Because the process has become self-reinforcing, repealing the reforms of the 1960s (something that's not going to happen) would change the trends slowly at best. Read More...

President Obama's Animus Toward Success

If every taxpayer earning more than $1 million was put under Obama’s 30-percent, minimum-tax rule, it would generate a maximum of only about $39 billion new revenues a year on a purely static basis, which requires assuming unrealistically that they all take no action to mitigate their increased tax liability. This is chump change for the federal government (3.0 percent of the annual deficit) and a clear indication that Mr. Obama’s proposal to increase the progressivity of the already highly progressive federal income tax is motivated more by animus toward those at the top of the economic ladder than by the deficit, concern for the economy or compassion for those at the bottom trying to get a leg up the ladder. Read More...

The Class Divide In White America

Francis Grund observed as early as 1837 that the U.S Constitution was a simple document, yet it proved sufficient because of the unique qualities of those early Americans: "[The Constitution] can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions," Grund wrote. "Change the domestic habits of the Americans," he added, and you would wind up with a different country in spite of our Constitution. By the 1970s Tom Wolfe could describe an emerging ‘me' generation whose pursuit of self-fulfillment one could see reflected in everything from declining worker productivity to rising numbers of divorces and children born to unmarried parents. Now comes Charles Murray arguing convincingly that the nightmare has spread far beyond the lowest economic rungs of America. Whither goest America? Read More...

Get Out Of The Way Doc: Let The Economy Heal Itself

The Federal Reserve announced last week, just months after promising a near zero percent rate of interest until 2013, that weak economic aggregates ensure a zero rate until 2014. The two aren't unrelated. If we ignore the utter arrogance of any governmental body presuming to know the infinite decisions of lenders and borrowers such that it could divine the proper cost of credit, the simple truth is that the Fed's continued attempts to make credit artificially cheap are related to the ongoing economic weakness that causes those at our central bank to promise low rates as far as the eye can see. Read More...

Iranian Sanctions & Oil Embargo May Be Downfall Of U.S. Dollar

Economic sanctions and the EU's oil embargo against Iran may backfire and decrease the value of or even destroy the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency. Efforts by India and China to circumvent the EU's oil embrago against Iran by trading oil in U.S. dollars appear to be spreading. Read More...

The Tiny Dot

Why does the throng (us) need the permission of the Dot (a tiny little gang of control freaks) to do anything? Read More...

Obama’s Slam Dunk Off A Pick Set By Mitch Daniels

The fix is in. Two parties, one Establishment determined to raise taxes and cut Social Security and Medicare without reforming any of them. It looks like just a matter of time and subterfuge (unless Paul stages an upset) before this president or his successor rolls up the lane and drives the bucket off a screen set by the congressional GOP for an easy redistribution slam-dunk, jammed right down America’s throat once again. Read More...

"L'Italia in rivolta"

This week saw the launch of a popular uprising in Sicily, by a group known as the ‘Movimento dei Forconi’ or ‘Pitchfork Movement’. This is not an uprising of self absorbed youth who want more government handouts; but of producers who are being pushed into poverty by government taxes and regulation. The organizers are middle aged and older; this is significant, as most power and wealth is held by this generation and they have now drawn a line in the sand. Read More...

Who Commissioned Us To Remake The World?

If America wishes to lead the world, let us do it by example, as we once did, not by hectoring every nation on earth to adopt the American way, which as of now, does not seem to be working all that well for Americans. Read More...

Relocating Original Sin: The State Is Not Your Friend

The sometimes euphoric commentary about SOPA, and concerning the allegedly significant "victory" of the legislation being set aside for now is wildly out of touch with the realities of State power -- and with the nature of the State itself. The essence of the State is domination, oppression, brutalization and exploitation. We appear to possess some small remaining slivers of liberty only because the State has not chosen to utilize and consistently apply the powers it already has -- at least, not yet. Read More...

Patent Nonsense

Staunch advocates of private property might be expected to support “intellectual property rights”—patents and copyrights—but these days that expectation is more than likely to be wrong. IP has come in for a thrashing from libertarians, among others, in the last few years, and it may be all over but the funeral. Read More...

The Wall Street-Washington Axis Of Corruption

Bush and Cheney’s cronies in big business helped walk us right into the blast furnace of financial meltdown. Then they rushed to save the banks with taxpayer money. Now, it’s startling the number of high-ranking Obama officials who also have spun through the revolving door between the White House and the sacred halls of investment banking. President Obama may call them "fat cats" and stir the rabble against them with populist rhetoric when it serves his purpose, but after the fiscal fiasco, he allowed the culprits to escape virtually scot-free. And when he’s here in New York, he dines with them frequently and eagerly accepts their big contributions. Read More...

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UK Raises Tax Rates and Revenues Decline

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Source: The Telegraph

After the UK raised the top income tax rate to 50 percent, the amount of income tax paid fell sharply last month in the first formal indication that the new 50 percent higher rate is not raising the expected amount of revenue but in fact is losing revenue.
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Doc pay fixes snowball, making Medicare all the harder to reform

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Source: Awesome Capital

The 1997 scheme to make supposedly automatic cuts in Medicare doctor fees based on what looked like a reasonable index has totally failed. Sooner or later, Congress will have to try something different if it doesn't want to bankrupt Medicare or jack up taxes to keep the program afloat. A real alternative to top-down cost control is a system giving consumers influence over costs and rewards for keeping costs low.
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Cancer drug reverses Alzheimer’s in mice

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Source: Raw Story

A widely available cancer drug has shown remarkable success in reversing Alzheimer’s disease in mice, raising hope of a breakthrough against incurable dementia in humans, US researchers said Thursday.
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Rep. Bachus faces insider-trading investigation

Friday, February 10, 2012

Source: The Washington Post

The Office of Congressional Ethics is investigating the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee over possible violations of insider-trading laws.
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UK says elderly are “wasting" too many bedrooms

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Source: Canada Free Press

In yet another outrageous piece of social engineering from the British government, pensioners will be encouraged to downsize to smaller properties allowing local government councils to rent their homes out as public housing and manage the tenancy.
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Federal Employee Gravy Train

Monday, January 30, 2012

Source: The Washington Times

Federal workers earn 16 percent more in total compensation — including wages and benefits — than comparable private-sector employees, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The key difference is in benefits, where federal workers average more than $20 per hour in compensation — 48 percent higher than the $13.60 in prorated hourly benefits in the private sector.
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Ind. Lawmakers: "Pee Test For Thee But Not For Me"

Friday, January 27, 2012

Source: Huffington Post

A member of the Indiana General Assembly withdrew his bill to create a pilot program for drug testing welfare applicants Friday after one of his colleagues amended the measure to require drug testing for lawmakers.
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America, arms-dealer to the world

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Source: Salon.com

Retired lieutenant colonel's take on the military-industrial complex: As a country, we seem to have a teenager’s fascination with military hardware, an addiction that’s driving us to bust our own national budgetary allowance. At the same time, we sell weapons the way teenage punks sell fireworks to younger kids: for profit and with little regard for how they might be used.
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Still Convinced Tax Increases Work?

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Source: CBSChicago.com

After largest tax increase in Illinois' history, the state still can't pay its bills. Only solution is to cut government spending says state comptroller.
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GOP Voters Split On Interventionism

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Source: The Washington Times

Nearly half of all Republican primary voters say it’s time the U.S. stops intervening in world affairs and focuses on domestic priorities instead, signaling a persistent rift that is playing out in the party’s presidential nomination battle.
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