February 2012
Gun control kills jobs →
weaponsystems:
There may come a point when long established firearms manufacturers have no choice but to flee anti gun states like Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maryland. Since 1526, Beretta has remained family owned and loyal to its workers, so for now its leaders aren’t eager to accept the solicitations they’ve received from gun friendly governors to move to another state. “It’s not fair to...
Subtle Fleecing of the U.S. Currency
from Ounce of Silver
The changes have been subtle and even span generations, which accounts for few people even noticing. Yet, looking back over the history of the US currency, one immediately sees that the citizens have been fleeced!
In 1929, all newly issued US currency was standardized in size and general appearance. For example, the $10 bill would now always be printed with Alexander...
Why 308,127,404 Americans are going to get hosed
by Simon Black
The US government’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), an agency of the US Treasury Department, published its 2011 annual report. There are a few numbers that are pretty startling. We’ve discussed before that FinCEN is the executive agency tasked with ensuring that every US banker is an unpaid government spy through Suspicious Activity Reports. A...
The Real Price of Gasoline Might Surprise You
Pssst: It’s Still About a Buck a Gallon
by Eric Peters
I was researching some Now vs. Then costs for a story I did recently on car prices when I stumbled onto something interesting – and revealing.
And so, worth sharing.
Find an inflation calculator; for example the federal government’s Bureau of Labor statistics CPI (Consumer Price Index) calculator (click here) . Select 1980 as your...
If you thought Obama's Solyndra boondoggle was...
Tax dollars backing some “risky” energy projects
by Sharyl Attkisson
Solar panel maker Solyndra received a $528 million Energy Department loan in 2009 - and went bankrupt last year. The government’s risky investment strategy didn’t stop there, as a CBS News investigation has uncovered a pattern of cases of the government pouring your tax dollars into clean energy.
...
“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one...”
– Cesare Beccaria, as quoted by Thomas Jefferson’s Commonplace book
Slip-Sliding Into Tyranny: The New American Way
by Charles Goyette
Pay close attention. This is how it happens…
President Obama found a moment of reduced visibility, in an unwatched hour on New Year’s Eve, to sign the latest assault on the Fifth Amendment. In signing the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 on New Year’s Eve, Obama knew the...
It’s Official: U.S. Government Debt Equals GDP
lost-and-searching-in-america:
“The soaring national debt has reached a symbolic tipping point: It’s now as big as the entire U.S. economy. The amount of money the federal government owes to its creditors, combined with IOUs to government retirement and other programs, now tops $15.23 trillion.” (USA Today)
Onward and upward!
The obama administration knew before the 2010... →
The Obama administration knew before the 2010 election that Solyndra LLC, a solar-panel maker that received a $535 million U.S. loan guarantee, planned to fire workers, according to e-mails released today.
The messages don’t indicate that anyone from the White House directed Solyndra to delay announcing the layoffs until after the vote. Previously released e-mails, indicating the Energy...
Fla. Vote Winners Are Latino Dignity &...
By Roy Beck
Offered a stark choice on the illegal immigration issue, Florida Latino Republicans today broke nearly 2-1 for the candidate with the firmest opposition to amnesty and the strongest support for enforcement.
It was a strong rebuke of the majority of media commentators who insist that Latino-Americans can only be won by promising rewards for lawbreaking. It added a sign of much...
January 2012
So long, and thanks for all the stress
by Tim Price
“Helmut Schlesinger, the Bundesbank president in 1992, was asked why he disliked the precursor of the Euro, which was called the Ecu. He replied, “I have nothing against the Ecu apart from its name - I think it should be called the Deutschemark.”
- Anatole Kaletsky, “The Euro Debate Gets Philosophical?” November 29, 2011. So the UK doesn’t get...
I Love a Good Conspiracy
received from Bill
The following is from Kent R….a great American.
I hadn’t thought about this - but where are Obama’s past girlfriends - surely he had at least one? No past girl friends popping up anywhere? Strange - strange to the point of being downright weird!
Honestly, and this is a personal thing … but it’s bugged me for years that no one who ever dated...
Another consequence of economic decline
by Simon Black
10-years ago, the government of Argentina collapsed. Beset by weighty deficit spending and a completely unrealistic currency peg to the US dollar, Argentina became the poster child for the golden rule of economics: ‘that which is unsustainable will not be sustained.’ It’s reversion to the mean. Within a matter of days, the country had burned through several...
Correlation between budget cuts and social unrest
Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2009, by Jacopo Ponticelli and Hans-Joachim Voth, Discussion Paper No. 8513, August 2011, Centre for Economic Policy Research:
Abstract: Does fiscal consolidation lead to social unrest? From the end of the Weimar Republic in Germany in the 1930s to anti-government demonstrations in Greece in 2010-11, austerity has...
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m...”
– Ronald Reagan
Quote this to your favorite liberal
Lady Gaga Could Soon Be On Postage
by Sam Rolley
The United States Postal Service (USPS) waived a rule that required stamp honorees to be at least five years deceased, the result: The likes of Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, Steve Jobs, Lady Gaga and others may soon adorn your postage stamps.
The decision was made in an effort to boost interest and sagging sales, postal officials asked customers to...
Small Steps Toward Liberty
by Michael Boldin
Concordia res parvae crescunt.
It’s a Latin phrase made popular during the Revolutionary Period that means “small things grow great by concord.” And in a time when politicians claim the power to control nearly every aspect of your life, it’s a phrase that not only packs wisdom, but gives insight on a possible road map to liberty.
A Quick History Lesson
In 1765, the...
Pres. Obama's Jobs & Immigration Disconnect in...
by Roy Beck
What really galled me was Pres. Obama bragging about more than 3 million U.S. jobs created during the last 22 months. That could have been good news for unemployed Americans. But during that same period, the Obama Administration issued more than 3 million work visas to new immigrants and other foreign workers (more than half of them permanent). What is the point of...
How to tell if you're living in the wrong country
by Simon Black
Kentucky senator Rand Paul was detained by the TSA in Nashville after refusing to be fondled by the airport agents. Paul has been a vocal enemy of the TSA, blasting the agency last year after agents conducted an invasive search of a 6-year old girl despite her parents’ objections. TSA Director John Pistole suggested that, because a young child in Afghanistan is capable of...
TSA Creator Says Dismantle, Privatize the Agency
by Audrey Hudson
They’ve been accused of rampant thievery, spending billions of dollars like drunken sailors, groping children and little old ladies, and making everyone take off their shoes. But the real job of the tens of thousands of screeners at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is to protect Americans from a terrorist attack. Yet a decade after the TSA was created...
Prison Nation
by Bob Livingston
America has come to be more like North Korea than the America our fathers grew up in. The United States is not a country descending into totalitarianism. Totalitarianism, the police state, is here.
According to a recent study in the journal Pediatrics and reported in USAToday, one in three Americans will be arrested by the time they are 23. That’s up from 22 percent of youths...
GOP Sen. Rand Paul ‘Detained’ at Nashville Airport...
from The Blaze
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was detained at the Nashville airport, according to his Facebook page. Reports say he was in a “standoff” over an incident involving a full body scanner and a subsequent request for a patdown. Paul reportedly refused the latter, and now TSA denies he was officially detained, but rather stopped.
ABC News has more:
@moirabagley, the Twitter account...
Latest Obama controversy: Who's ID'd as organ...
By Bob Unruh
Officials running a federal program that is considering redefining death are going to be seeking further public comment after members of the Christian Medical Association raised alarms about several problems, including what they believe would be an open door to pressure families to donate organs before their loved one has died.
The proposal could move the federal government...
Medicare Data For Doctors To Be Made Public
by Personal Liberty News Desk
The government announced that Medicare will finally allow its extensive claims database to be accessed by employers, insurance companies and consumer groups, The Associated Press reported.
According to the news outlet, this will allow these groups to produce report cards and supply the public with information on local doctors and hospitals. A more transparent...
SOPA Alternative Introduced
by Sam Rolley
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has proposed an alternative to controversial online piracy bills currently pending in both chambers of Congress.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would enable the government and copyright holders to demand third parties delete links to foreign websites deemed rogue or dedicated to copyright infringement, has been labeled by critics as an...
Vocabulary Word for the Day
” LIQUIDITY” Definition: Liquidity is when you look at your retirement funds and wet your pants!
Social Security Scam
contributed by Bill S.
Not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only $30K over your working life, that’s close to $220,500. If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer’s contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it...
Fairy Tale 101
A beautiful fairy appeared one day to a destitute refugee outside an American immigration office. “Good man,” the fairy said, “I’ve been sent here by President Obama and told to grant you three wishes, since you just arrived in the United States with your wife and children.” The man told the fairy, ”Well, where I come from we don’t have good teeth, so...
Ayers' pet project funded by Obama 'stimulus' plan...
Think ‘Obama money’ can’t get any worse?
Taxpayer money also channeled to school founded by top White House adviser’s mom
from WND
President Obama’s “stimulus” legislation helped to fund an education initiative associated with Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, according to a recently released book.
“Red Army: The...
Congress really screwed up this time
by Simon Black
There’s an old playbook that politicians have used for centuries; it contains a handful of tried and true plays to call when they’re completely desperate. History is full of examples of bankrupt nations relying on these tactics, and one of their favorites is capital controls. Capital controls essentially restrict the flow of funds across a nation’s borders. They...
At The (Term) Limit
by Ben Crystal
I never supported mandatory term limits. I am well aware that the vast majority of those who hold elected office could better serve their constituents by taking a long stroll off of an appropriately short pier (unless they’re Kennedys). I am also aware that many of us live with precisely the government we earned at the ballot box. To put a fine point on it: We already have...
Government Coverups
by Simon Black
One of my favorite books is the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant- West Point graduate, Union commander, former President, and failed businessman. It’s a bit long-winded, but brutally honest, and much of the first volume deals with Grant’s personal experiences as a young military officer during the Mexican War. The Mexican War was a turning point in American history;...
Asking For I.D. To Vote Is Racist But You Need... →
talkstraight:
It’s not a joke. It‘s the reality in President Obama’s home state.
Illinois has a new law that took effect on January 1 requiring all people who purchase drain cleaners or any caustic substances to provide a government issued photo ID. And retailers now must ask for identification from those buying drain cleaners and maintain extensive records of which caustic products have been...
Democrats Outpace Republicans In Race For Lobbyist...
by Personal Liberty News
The national political parties took more money from lobbyists in the first half of 2011 than in any other six-month period in recorded history, with the Democrats outpacing their GOP rivals, The Washington Times reported.
According to the newspaper, this outpacing has occurred despite President Barack Obama’s vilification of special-interest giving. Congressional...
50 Facts About The U.S. Economy That Will Shock...
Here are the 50 economic numbers from 2011 that will shock you (via The Economic Collapse):
1. A staggering 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be “low income” or are living in poverty.
2. Approximately 57 percent of all children in the United States are living in homes that are either considered to be “low income” or impoverished.
3. If the number of Americans that “wanted...
No Recovery in Sight
by John Myers
You don’t have to be a news buff to have heard about the deadbeat protesters that are occupying cities in North America and Europe. I have seen lots of coverage but little insight. What I have noticed in big Canadian cities is that the protesters are angry without cause.
Canada is in the midst of an economic recovery. The unemployment rate is slightly above 7 percent, and the...
Go lil'o - Presidential Firsts
First President to initially refuse to show a valid Birth Certificate. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner. First President to have a social security number from a state he’s never lived in. First President to Preside over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government. First President to Violate the War Powers Act. ...
The Daily Fiona: Democrats working to ban #Occupy... →
lmliberty:
Democrats are turning their backs on the people they chose to ally themselves with. Huh, I’ll be darned.
Could it be that they understand the American people don’t like #Occupy? Or is this purely a political move until after the election? Yeah. Probably. Remember, this is who…
Pride Goeth Before The Fall
by Ben Crystal
During his “60 Minutes” interview with a fawning Steve Kroft, President Barack Obama offered one of the better bons mots he has uttered since he won the right to be the President of the “57” States:
I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln — just...
To Barack From Congress: Merry Christmas and a...
by Robert Ringer
The most predictable governing body on the planet, the U.S. Congress, is once again doing some of its sleaziest sleight-of-hand work at year’s end, with the comfort of knowing that we lowly proletarians are focused on holiday festivities. The average American is totally confused about the flurry of year-end legislation and political posturing coming out of the Nation’s...
Is Obama An Agent For OPEC?
by John Myers
We are staring into the face of $180-per-barrel oil. Under President Barack Obama, the Nation is not producing enough oil and is importing far too much of it from potential enemies. This is a reckless game engineered by the President, because oil is America’s economic lifeblood.
It recently become apparent that Obama either does not understand the danger the country is facing...
The Dems Are Left Behind (Holding The Bag)
by Dennis Shibut
The Occupy Wall Street movement has frustrated the media talking-heads by not having any political agenda to dissect. All the same the spirit of this demonstration has started to sweep across major cities of the U.S. and even capital cities around the world. But if you look at the faces of these people and read their placards, it’s easy to discern a number of important facts...
Keystone XL: America Passes The Oil To China?
by David Dittman
Like former University of North Carolina Head Basketball Coach Dean Smith, another famous on-the-sly smoker, President Barack Obama ran out the clock on an important game.
Coach Smith devised the “four corners” offense as a way to maintain possession of the ball late in a game his team led. By stationing players at each of the four corners that define the offensive side of ...
December 2011
“It takes a mind-boggling 2,500 gallons of water to produce a single gallon of...”
– Mike Dillard
This was made in a presentation where Mike pointed out that water resources were becoming scarce around the world and that the use of it to produce alternative fuels was foolish in light of the abundance of natural gas.