Archive for July 2nd, 2010

The Folly of Blindly Trusting the Government By James Bovard FFF.org Democracy breeds gullibility. Lord Bryce observed in 1921, “State action became less distrusted the more the State itself was seen to be passing under popular control.” The rise of democracy made it much easier for politicians to convince people that government posed no... »

By Claude Sandroff AmericanThinker.com Obama’s poorly coded message to investors is to take your money out of America and keep it out. Whether through excessive taxation, suffocating over-regulation, or thuggish confiscation, the lesson to be drawn by anyone with excess capital is to look for friendlier places to put it to work. The list... »

BigSkyBusiness.com Business owners across the nation will be encountering a mammoth new bookkeeping requirement – the reporting of every transaction of more than $600 to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The National Association for the Self-employed reports that the new requirement – thanks to the new health care legislation – will increase paper work... »

by Chris Edwards CatoAtLiberty.org Most people know about the individual mandate in the new health care bill, but the bill contained another mandate that could be far more costly. A few wording changes to the tax code’s section 6041 regarding 1099 reporting were slipped into the 2000-page health legislation. The changes will force millions... »

LewRockwell.com Ron Paul explains why sanctions on Iran might not be that good. The idea of sanctions means war against another country. Ron Paul explains that they can’t afford to be at so many places at once. The US spends $1 trillion a year to operate. He explains that the US is flatout broke... »

by Laurence M. Vance LewRockwell.com “The Czar can send any of his officials to Siberia, but he cannot rule without them, or against their will.” ~ John Stuart Mill What kind of a man would kill someone he didn’t know for someone else he didn’t know? I suppose our opinion of such an individual... »

by William Norman Grigg LewRockwell.com “Who the hell are these people?” “I don’t know. I used to say they were the same ones we’ve always had to deal with. Same ones my granddaddy had to deal with. Back then they was russlin’ cattle. Now they’re running dope. I ain’t sure we’ve seen these people... »

by Tom DeWeese July 2, 2010 NewsWithViews.com The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is planning an assault on salt. The government intends to set regulations to limit the use of salt intake by Americans. The regulations would set “legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in food products.” Of course, the excuse is... »

By Dr. Laurie Roth July 2, 2010 NewsWithViews.com As usual, as the UN creates mythology and pulls moral codes from a sea of soiled international play books, we see them pushing for New Human Rights for Maternal Health so they can ‘empathetically’ slaughter more babies worldwide. Just this week I talked with a Representative... »

by Claudia R. Williamson Post-doctoral Fellow at NYU’s Development Research Institute and is part of Secession Week 2010: Culture and Secession. AThousandNations.com The boundary of nations can be the result of a naturally emergent process where individuals on the ground choose to align themselves together or borders can artificially be drawn from the top-down... »