January 2012
52 posts
“Stupid people are ruining America.”
– Herman Cain
(When you’re right, you’re right)
December 2011
88 posts
“What do you call it when someone steals someone else’s money secretly? Theft....”
– Thomas Sowell
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Law to Find Tax Evaders Denounced
NY Times Reports:
Legislation meant to help the United States government locate overseas assets of American tax cheats created little stir when it was quietly slipped into a jobs bill last year.
But the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or Fatca, as it is known, is now causing alarm among businesses outside the United States that fear they will have to spend billions of dollars a year to meet...
Montanans Launch Recall of Senators Who Approved...
On Christmas Day the US Senate voted 86 - 14 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 which allows for the indefinite military detention of American citizens without charge or trial. Now, Montanans have announced the launch of recall campaigns against Senators Max Baucus and Jonathan Tester, who voted for the bill. Montana is one of nine states with provisions that say that the...
“PolitiFact doubtless regards its having criticized both Republicans and...”
– What ‘Fact Checkers’ Call Lies, I Call Politics: Ramesh Ponnuru - Bloomberg
This is right, of course.
(via jeffmiller)
Communism Kills: What a "cult of personality"... →
talkstraight:
communismkills:
From Wikipedia:
A cult of personality arises when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.[1] Cults of personality are usually associated with …
Still confused? Look up ‘Election 2008”. That should clear it up for you.
And if you still...
Education is not a right.
speak-friend-and-enter:
You are not entitled to receive an education. You are not entitled to someone else’s property and services, and education necessarily requires someone else’s services or property.
“True liberty cannot exist apart from the full rights of property, for property...”
– Auberon Herbert (via laliberty)
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Richard Branson: Time to End The War on Drugs
After visiting Portugal, Richard Branson was impressed with the country’s success with its decade-old effort to decriminalize drug use, and now says that it’s time to end the worldwide War on Drugs War on Peaceful People Who Voluntarity Choose To Use Intoxicants Not Currently Approved of By Various Governments, Who Will Put Users in Cages if Caught. In his own words,...
Raw footage proves Ron Paul did not storm out of... →
alexholzbach:
Reports that Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul stormed out of a CNN interview earlier this week seem to be dramatically over-exaggerated.
Raw footage of the Thursday interview shows that it lasted nearly ten minutes, which is not unusually brief on the campaign trail.
After discussing foreign policy, the payroll tax, negative advertisements, and super fund PACs, the...
Ron Paul's Support in the Military - NYTimes.com →
This year, Paul has 10 times the individual donations — totaling $113,739 — from the military as does Mitt Romney. And he has a hundred times more than Newt Gingrich, who sat out the Vietnam War with college deferments and now promises he would strike foes at the slightest provocation.
Obama’s Media Flying Monkeys Get Their Marching... →
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Poll: 70% of Americans Are Now Racists According... →
talkstraight:
Attorney General Eric Holder signaled last week that the Justice Department will be closely examining new state laws that require showing a photo ID before voting for potential racial bias, but voters nationwide overwhelmingly favor such a requirement and reject the idea that it is discriminatory.
Seventy percent (70%) of Likely U.S. Voters believe voters should be required to...
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Report: A Career Employee in the Voting Section of... →
talkstraight:
A career employee in the Voting Section of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has confessed to committing perjury, sources say. The employee, Stephanie Celandine Gyamfi, reportedly told investigators from the Inspector General’s Office that she perjured herself during an inquiry into Justice Department leaks during the previous administration. Despite the admission, she has not been...
“During the Age of Obama, the scandals come so thick and fast that you can hardly...”
– John Hinderacker (via nomosshere)
“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is...”
– Daniel Webster (via libertyidaho)
crythias:
If government apologists think that helping the poor would disappear because the government didn’t do it, it’s simply because the government apologists wouldn’t give to the poor if they didn’t have to. Therefore, they think everyone else wouldn’t, either.
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“In a re-elect, all you’re really doing is trying to destroy the other guy.”
– Obama campaign strategist
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Too many expectations
A job, once something that social engineers believed could be “guaranteed” by law or made into a “human right”, turns out to be a hard thing to find. Perhaps because the laws themselves made a job a hard thing to create. But for whatever reason, young people may no longer believe they will automatically find employment. “Cambridge, MA—A new national poll of America’s 18- to 29- year olds by...
“I wish during the years I was in public office I had this firsthand experience...”
– Former Senator George McGovern
