It's strange to hear so-called "conservatives" try to overlook the clear provision in the US Constitution that requires all searches MUST be supported by WARRANTS. Thus, a police officer cannot compel you to show ID without first obtaining a warrant.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66R45C20100728

The provision in the AZ law that requires residents to have the "proper ID' to obtain a legal job is also unconstitutional, because it violates the "Contract Clause", which prohibits all states from interfering in private contract.

Combine fears over terrorism with the "drug war" and dislike of "illegal" immigrants, and what do you get?

The United Police States of America.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/25/AR201007...

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Suppose we can never underestimate the capacity of politicians to rig the law so that they can get done what they desire with as few people noticing as possible. In this message from Pro-Gun New Hampshire, the federal health fascism bill is dissected to reveal a new provision that will tax all gun sales over $600, allowing the IRS to be aware of and track virtually all firearm sales (unless we who would like to be free come up with creative ways to skirt the law, such as breaking the transactions into multiple transactions, including "services" like gun-cleaning that would becomje the bulk of the sale, while the actual physical gun becomes the minor part, comprising less than $600). Take a look at what the Pro-Gun NH people found hidden in the "health care" law...

Sickening.

Ostensibly, it's to "better enforce" anti-pay-discrimination laws. But if people believe they are being paid unfairly, they can already bring suit under those unconstitutional laws. (This is not something the Feds are supposed to handle, based on the original writing of the constitution, and it is something no government should handle. The market and the rights of the property owners -- the employer, employee and consumer -- are the only factors that should have any say in these situations.)

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/69746

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Nice, huh?

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/gold-coin-dealers-decry-tax-law/story?id=...

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Ahh, the sweet smell of multi-generational theft.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2010140720100721

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How often we were told that the Obama Administration plan to "keep people in their homes" was going to save the housing industry...

The pop media repeated it, parrotted it. Now, what we have said here is being revealed. The system cannot work. Propping house prices up through artificial government means won't make those homes any more valuable. The prices of the homes MUST DROP, and the only way to do that is to allow the foreclosure system to work. THEY MUST BE LIQUIDATED.

Check it out, cats!

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=11206133

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Brought to you by the people that caused the Dust Bowl (through misguided homesteading acts).

Arrogant, Conceited, brilliantine.

http://www.businessknowhow.com/money/InternetTax.htm

Contact someone in DC to stop this. And then gather some eggs to throw at "Fritz" Hollings.

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Buried in the health care takeover legislation is a mandate that businesses report all payments that total $600 or more per year on Form 1099, even for purchases of goods. Currently, this is required only for things like contractor payments, interest and dividends.

They do except when the spending is for programs they advocate.  Immigration is one such example.  While some Conservatives who oppose illegal immigration put it pretty low on their list of priorities and concentrate first on cutting general spending, I'm suspicious of those who make increased spending and bigger government a focal point of their campaigns.

Rand Paul thinks the federal government should build a fence along America's southern border.

Yeah, just like the Drug War, I'm sure that a prohibition on people crossing the border will solve the problem. Jeez, some Conservative.

There's nothing quite so warm and fuzzy as compulsory state schooling and the compulsion the state uses to extract tax money to pay for it. What a system. The Prussians would be proud.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20009756-504083.html

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Nicely done!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYpF5lizrrQ&feature=player_embedded

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... he says Byrd was "trying to get elected"...

Nice, huh? http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/07/02/clinton_defends_byrds_...

By the way, Billy C, so was Hitler. Ass.

The unemployment rate is actually much higher, since many of the unemployed have stopped filing for benefits.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-jobs-report-20100703,0,3397439.story?track=rss

So, how's that "recovery" going, Geithner?

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As the people who wrote the rules for the operation of the US government would have observed, any government constraints on the ownership of firearms is unconstitutional.

Now, we all know that the Constitution hasn't fared well in holding back the intrusions of government into the lives of individuals, and even though this ruling looks to uphold the tradition of the writers of the document, it's another example of how contemporary figures shave the explicit wording of the Founders to fit their own political/ideological agendas.

... And finds that the US Constitution is a cheap and easy replacement for toilet paper.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-can-shut-down-internet-for-4-months-un...

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Once more (twice in two weeks) we see the centralized bureaucracy not only screwing things up, but NOT responding in a proper or timely fashion (wouldn't those be the same? Yeah.) Something to ponder: In addition to the fact that the US Constitution does not grant the federal gubment the power to regulate air travel, and the fact that a private paradigm -- run on the interests of the consumers, the air carriers, and their insurance companies (without which they would be unable to take to the skies) -- one can consider a simple question...

You gotta read this.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/60261.html

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... And as that oh-so-honest and freedom-oriented guy Chris Dodd says (ya know, Chris one of 'em who said Fannie and Freddie weren't in any trouble), as Chris says, "no one will know how it works" until it's in place.

Classy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR201006...

It's rumored that as he and many others left the Senate chambers, Dodd turned to Barney Frank and said, "Smell that? I love the smell of fascism in the morning!"