This time, the politicians in the Senate (a species known by their scientific title as Conceitus Giganticus) has voted to force credit card companies to reduce their fees for debit charges. Guess what will happen? Yeah, you got it, higher charges elsewhere, fewer options for consumers... It's all been seen before. Last year's "Credit Card holders' Bill of Rights", that passed with numbskull bipartisan support, merely inspired the credit card companies to shift costs and fees, and offer fewer special bonuses to customers.

Why not get the government out of the financial business, and all businesses for that matter...

Just, wow.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/world/14awlaki.html?hp

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This is great! Many people think they'll see these in the US -- which might come to pass. BUT, you can bet that the federal gubment will get on them fast, and ban them for some reason or another.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100513/od_afp/uaegoldoffbeat_2010051312010...

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So, we'll all pay even MORE, since much of the tax will be passed on to consumers.

The politicians say it's necessary, in order to shift money over to cleanup and to compensate parties who have been damaged by oil spills.

Wouldn't a much better paradigm be to have a set of well-established and defined property rights in the region, and allow interested parties to sue for damages in private arbitration, rather than pull EVERYONE into this mess?

The Mango Kid does it again! Go to www.dankojones.com for more information! AND BUY THE BAND'S NEW DISC!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN82gSo85O4

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Of COURSE she would think that. To her, rights can be attenuated if there's a "compelling state interest"...

Translated: The individual is always less important than government. You shut up now...

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/65720

This clearly indicates that this person has no clue what the First Amendment actually states, and why.

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In reading this article, how long do you think it will be before federal officials begin REQUIRING doctors to do urine/blood tests on patients as part of the gubment's ALREADY unconstitutional anti-drug agenda?

As we've said before, goodbye Fourth Amendment.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/05/11/general-us-obama-drug-policy_7...

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Good stuff from some of the smartest people with mouths.

http://thinkingliberty.net/

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And now for something completely different -- or not so different!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/election2010/2966900/Tory-and-...

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You've got to see this. Bands like Electric Frankenstein, the New Bomb Turks, and Throwrag are lined up to play! AWESOME!!!!!

The 2001 Shakedown featured such amazing talents as "Demons" (from Sweden), '68 Comeback, The Briefs, Lords of Altamont, Sons of Hercules (!!!), The Gaza Strippers, DMZ (!!), The Short Fuses (!!!), and a little known band at the time called, "The White Stripes"...

If you miss this, you're a turd.

No denying, okay?

Here's the first info, at Myspace. The main website is being built!

http://www.myspace.com/lasvegasshakedown

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Here we go...

http://www.wcvarones.com/2010/05/obama-lied-your-current-health-care.html

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Ahh, that tragedy of the commons meets environmental idiocy. Recylcing uses mroe energy than it takes to make new stuff, but no one reports it except Penn and Teller and a few libertarians. Now, politicians in Alexandria (home to many DC bureaucrats) want to make everyone give up more of their privacy and to pay for a system to track their trash.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/New-recycling-bins-with-tracking-chips-coming-to-Alexandria-92880219.html

Smells of tyranny, doesn't it?

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I am disgusted... what can I say but this is pure FASCISM!!!! I sensed a bad vibe when Scott Brown was being promoted by conservatives as the one to elect to the government to "save" Americans from the government. How quickly they have been betrayed. Or, do they even know what this means??? This will soon expand into any criticism of the government just as the use of the EVIL and inhuman tactics of torture and assasination have expanded from non-US citizens to US citizens. 

Watch out conservatives- you will be the first victims of these tactics that you advocate!

Why are we not surprised? Why is it we in the free market sphere predicted this would happen? Why is it we know it's going to GET WORSE?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/business/06freddie.html?ref=todayspape...

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But don't forget, the "Know Your Customer" Law applied to banks starting under GW Bush already requires bankers to report "unusual" transactions, more than three online transfers between savings and checking accounts,  and those deposits or withdrawls over $5,000... Sooo, this is all juuuust fine, right?

All of it. Right?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/05/bank-bill-could-help-fed...

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But remember, this is a free nation; it's a "capitalist" country... Not fascist in any way... Nope.

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/05/965-of-mortgages-backed-by-gov...

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And as you read the article, notice how the blissfully ignorant AP author mentions how this kind of thing could have helped save Michael Jackson.

It's all good! See?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100503/ap_on_hi_te/us_drug_databases

See?

Hmm. Maybe not.

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Anyone want to be a Prydonian, like the Doctor, and see around that next corner?

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14992766

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But, of course, once the Bushies are out, no pop media group can be bothered to look at favoritism in government any more. Consistency... Ahh...

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/more-global-warming-profiteering-by-obama-energy-official/?singlepage=true

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Check out the video embedded in this Sun article! Amazing. Gordon Brown looks so tranquil and friendly as he talks with a life-long Labor supporter. Yet, after having to answer some tough (and contradictory) questions from her, he walks away, enters his limo, and doesn't realize his microphone is still on.

That's when he talks like most politicians do when they're alone with their staff members. Check it out!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/election2010/2951137/Brown-blu...

Goodbye, Mr. Brown. Hello to the next two-faced PM.

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