One can never put a lot of faith in a bunch of government employees to rul on whether the GOVERNMENT is going too far, has overstepped its written bounds (which haven't been much like bounds, have they?)... But this challenge to the constitutionality of the individual mandate is at least entertaining.

The justices are only interested in whether is is Constitutional for Congress to force individual citizens to have to buy health insurance. Sadly, they never challenge the spurious notion that the Congress can FORCE insurance companies to cover certain people at rates that are untenable. They accept that nonsense and no pop media pundit will bother expanding the analysis to include it.

Just remember, don't ever question why US military forces might be fighting unconstitutionnally, and don't mention anything like blow-back, 'cause that might prevent you from doing all sorts of things in the "Land of the Free". ;)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/us/even-those-cleared-of-crimes-can-st...

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This shell game keeps getting bigger and bigger, more convoluted and more dangerous, by the week!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8788223/Christine-Lag...

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This is where the environmental fascists have taken us. While disregarding science that shows the Earth began a cooling trend in 1998, the politicians want to force people with asthma to no longer buy cheaper over-the-counter inhalers but to have to see DOCTORS AGAIN for PRESCRIPTIONS TO BUY MORE EXPENSIVE PRODUCTS.

No choice needed.

Ahh yes, the land of the "free".

And soon, these politicians will be dictating more medical decisions. Enjoy the future before it really arrives.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-administration-ban-asthma-inha...

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This is an amazing story, first brought to our attention by Sophia. The Travellers are a nomadic group who travel in mobile homes. Years ago, they purchased this land, but the local "Council" claims that the Travellers do not have permission to park their mobile homes on the land. They sought an order to evict the people, and won in a High Court case.

Here is the latest:

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=220&sid=2548012

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There are thousands of scientists, from meterologists, to climatologists, to chemists and more who agree with this man.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/14/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-...

Politics has been influencing science for years. The scientific method is no longer the standard for certain lines of inquiry. In fact, inquiry isn't even the correct term any more. It's propaganda in the guise of science.

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This should have happened a long time ago. Home prices were artifically pumped up by government policies like the Community Reinvestment Act, the Clinton Justice Department's strong-arming of banks to hand out loans, low fed rates, and the existence of Fanny Mae to buy up the shaky mortgage securities. The entire price structure for houses needs to be re-aligned, seeing prices drop to move closely reflect their value (too many were built, thanks to those policies mentioned earlier). Only THEn will they be priced at a level that might see investors buy them and find some use for them.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Mortgage-default-warnings-apf-157937671.ht...

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In the Glaringly Obvious Department, the federal gubment has come out with their artifically low numbers on what they call "inflation", and guess what? Yeah, it's rising rapidly. In other words, the inflation of the money supply that has already happened and continues to happen is now seeing its bitter fruits: HIGHER PRICES. And note, the CPI and core "inflation" index have been changed TWICE to remove certain things like food and gas prices, thus keeping the numbers lower than they would be if real.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Consumers-paid-more-on-wide-apf-87741826.h...

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If anyone thinks that the 'just-following-the-law/orders' mentality ended with the end of the German SS, he or she is wrong.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/13/us-kentucky-amish-jailed-idUST...

Good to see the victims of the state abuse standing on principle.

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Rep Mica has FINALY learned a tiny lesson that is part of a greater understanding: DON'T CREATE THESE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES BECAUSE THEY NEVER STAY SMALL OR DO WHAT THEY WERE DESIGNED TO DO. DUUUUUUUUH!

Next, he might try to read the Constitution (you know, the document he swore to defend?) and he'd discover that the power to control airline security isn't in the thing. DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH!

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Here is the piece:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46114

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Of course, those "tax cuts" are really expansions of the EITC, the "Earned Income Tax Credit", which is the way they shovel money out to people who don't pay income taxes. It's a bit of a strange animal, since payroll taxes are the way the feds steal money for the bogus Social Security "Insurance" program, and you're supposed to be able to "get it back" when you get old and rusty. The trouble is that the EITC gives back MORE than what many recipients of the "credit" put into it, thus making it a redistribution of wealth scheme perpetrated through the tax code and tax "refunds" via the EITC.

Mr. Obama would like to increase the amount of redistribution, while INCREASING taxes on others to pay for it and for the other spending in his $300 Billion plan.

With the "official" unemployment numbers over 9% (the real number of unemployed is closer to 17-18%), and NEW job growth at 0%, the Obama Administration has shut down proposed EPA smog standards that would shut down 40% of the coal-burning power plants in the US and cost power companies up to $90 billion.

But, but... We were told by the brilliantine statists that these kinds of impositions would CREATE GREEN JOBS, right?

So why not impose these costs and MORE?

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-halts-controversial-epa-regulation-143731156...

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Very good reporting from Tim Carney.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/barack-buddy-buffett-...

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A good piece. Check it out!

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/27/3102999/911-gave-rise-to-new-sacred...

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Yeah, you know how dangerous making a purchase for yourself can be. Gotta have the cops stop that.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/25/massachusetts-state-poli...

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Did you know this happened before, in 2009? Not only is the EPA an unconstitutional agency, this raid ought to show any left-winger-statist that giving government the power to stop peaceful transactions in order to block what they don't like will also give government the power to block peacefl transactions that THEY DO LIKE.

Take a listen to our "1984" episode (found in our audio library) for an exploration of how the gubment continually pups up bogus numbers and then, a few months later, releases numbers that are lower for GDP. They always try to ake things look better than they are...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/44285105

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And isnt it interesting to see how the numbers are so vulnerable to manipulation by politicians so they don't look as bad?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/44274402

The prices of those things have to FALL so that they more closely reflect their value to REAL PEOPLE, not politicians and mercantilist corporate interests.

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First, we know that nothing is ever really dead in gubment. A change in executive branch policy could revive this unconstitutional rule and have it enforced by the unconstitutional FCC (very Soviet of them, isn't it?)...

But this is a good move as it stands. The so-called "fairness doctrine" never had anything to do with fairness. It promoted the false idea that the federal gubment has a place in regulating the content of ideas broadcast over the airwaves. It was used to shake-down broadcasters and limit opposing points of view, and it hurt market incentives to provide for the audience what they wanted to hear.

A couple things to note as you read this piece. First, as we have pointed out, the Fed claims that it has gotten all the loaned money back, plus a profit. What the Fed propagandists DON'T mention is that the money that their borrower-bank-cronies gave back came from, yeah, you got it, the US government (in the form of the TARP, and five other federal programs).