Archive for December 27th, 2010

By Stephen Dinan The Washington Times The Constitution frequently gets lip service in Congress, but House Republicans next year will make sure it gets a lot more than that – the new rules the incoming majority party proposed this week call for a full reading of the country’s founding document on the floor of... »

by Mike Shedlock GlobalEconomicAnalysis.com Sunday, December 26, 2010 The Wall Street Journal reports 98 shaky TARP recipients are on the verge of failure as bad loans pile up. Please consider Bailed-Out Banks Slip Toward Failure Nearly 100 U.S. banks that got bailout funds from the federal government show signs they are in jeopardy of... »

By ALAN MURRAY WSJ.com DECEMBER 26, 2010 Santa Claus arrived just in time this year, his bag filled to the brim with bipartisan goodies from the politicians in Washington. There was a new payroll tax cut for the employed, extended benefits for the unemployed, an estate-tax cut for the rich and an extension of... »

By Joseph Weber The Washington Times Sunday, December 26, 2010 Sen. Tom Coburn repeated his warning Sunday that the United States will experience “apocalyptic pain” if the country fails to immediately address its economic problems, and he called upon President Obama to lead the way. “If we don’t experience some pain now, we’re going... »

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. LewRockwell.com For almost 12 years now, LRC has been on the hate parade of the plutocrats, the neocons, the fascists. All those who glorify war, redistribution, empire, corporatism, and state security, who seek to live – and very well indeed – off their depredations, chew the rug when they... »

by Bill Rounds LewRockwell.com Surveillance Society. We already know that the government and private entities collect a vast amount of personal data about our everyday activities. Previously I commented about the dangers and intrusion of private entities maintaining transactional databases and having access to this wealth of personal information. It is also dangerous and... »

How to Defend the Free Market Gold Coin Standard: Stop Defending the Government Counterfeits by Gary North LewRockwell.com This was posted on one of my site’s discussion forums on the night before Christmas: Gold based economies more volatile than central bank fiat based money economies?? Roubini: On a return to the Gold standard “When... »

By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D. December 27, 2010 NewsWithViews.com [Note: A friend of mine quit her job as an EMS worker because she kept having to pick up injured derelicts that shared needles, and she figured it was only a matter of time before she came in contact with one that had AIDS. Relevant... »

By Investigating Journalist Jon Rappoport December 27, 2010 NewsWithViews.com There is a hidden reason, among many other reasons, why American schools no longer teach the detailed meaning of the Declaration and the Constitution and the Republic for which they stand. And that hidden reason is: schools in this country are no longer American. They... »