First the feds outlaw chemicals that are taken voluntarily, inspiring a black market in the US, imprsoning people who haven't hurt anyone, seizing private property, and increasing crime. Then they make deals with the Mexican gubment to "wage war" on drug suppliers in that nation, causing untold tragedy and death. THEN then "inspect" homes where they suspect the owners have bought "too many guns" and might be selling them to the very criminals in Mexico that THE FEDERAL DRUG "WAR" has created!

Incredible.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6505651.html

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They're everywhere. In New England, the talk radio stations that often broadcast "conservative" talk hosts have been playing the spots that tell people that they can get "free" cell phones, paid by the federal government. From whence might this "free" money come?

From a tax applied to YOUR phone bills.

But WHDH TV of Boston, and Hank Phillipi Ryan (who is now writing romance-crime novels) are telling people that it's a GOOD program, one that should have MORE people using it. In fact, they imply that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is doing something WRONG by not getting more people on phone socialism. Hank usually reports on rip-offs, but clearly her instincts stop at the government door on this, don't they?

Gard has the audio, will put it in a pod next!

In preparation for our extensive conversation with Glenn Jacobs on the Congressional "Cap N' Trade" nonsense, we want to draw you to take a listen to this piece Gard produced in response to a conversation he had with a supposed "free market guy" who was trying to argue that Cap N' Trade is a "free market" solution to a supposed problem.

Neither the problem, nor the claim that this Cap N' Trade is a market idea are justified by looking at facts.

Here is the linknola to the free market economic analysis of "The Tragedy of the Commons".

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http://libertyconspiracy.podomatic.com/entry/2009-01-09T13_13_05-08_00

Yep, the regulations regarding 'energy eficiency" for light bulbs are back, this time coming to you from the Democrats in the White House and EPA, rather than the Republicans, as they did before. Funny, the people on the left so often talk of "freedom" and "privacy", but they don't want you to be free to have the dang privacy to get the kinds of light bulbs you want.

The Lakota Sioux should open an incandescant light blulb manufacturing plant and serve the market demands for them. They would see great wealth come their way!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/29/AR200906...

Here are some of the points that Glenn Jacobs, of www.adventuresofcitizenx.com offered to Gard, upon Glenn loking deeper into the already economicall, constitutionally and scientifically backwards bill that passed Congress Friday night.

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72 544x376 -- Congress unconstitutionally delegates it legislative authority to the EPA. (And in this case, as in so many others, it doesn't even have the authority in the first place!)

Thanks, Wayne!

http://www.lebed.biz/hyperinflationnation.html

Here's the argument:

"I'm a firefighter in New Haven, and I worked hard to pass this test so I can get a promotion in the government firefighting system!"

"Yeah, but we here in the rest of the New Haven government see that blacks and hispanics didn't do as well as you guys did, so we're tossing the results."

"But! But! We passed that test fair and square! We should be promoted in the tax-funded firefighting ranks!"

"Too bad. We're arguing that there is a compelling government interest to re-do the test."

"Heck! You government people are only fair when you do a test the way we think it's fair!"

"Yep. This is government, so we can do whatever we want."

Tyranny. Simply put.

Unconstitutional? You bet. Immoral? Yeah. Based on faulty pseudo-science? Yes!

Expensive? Yeah. Will it harm business and peoples' lives? Si!

Is it an unethical re-working of the idea of tort law, where, in order to bring suit for damages, you are supposed to be an AGGRIEVED PARTY and be able to show DAMAGES? Yep!

Since government is an abstract creation, not a man, no government can be an aggrieved party making a claim for damages, and, by extension, no government should have any authority to pre-emptively stop an activity like this. It's bad stuff, baby.

Check out his slick position. No one "at the fed was directed"... Of course, he was working with Hank Paulsen in the Treasury Deparment on this, so did anyone ask him if the message was relayed through Paulsen, if he was aware of any such message, or why the actual NOTES written at the time by the head of BoA indicated that both Paulsen and Bernanke were pushing for the purchase?

What we really wanna know is this: Instead of MERRILL Lynch, why couldn't Bernanke and his buddy Paulsen have pressured Ken Lewis of BoA to buy up NH Governor JOHN Lynch? Then we'd be rid of him here!

Nothing like a politician who smiles at your neighbor while he picks the man's pocket.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20090625/ts_ynews/ynews_ts408

If only Douglass Adams were here.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/24/AR200906...

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Nice.

http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Housing/idUSTRE55L39120090622

Hey, jussss a crazy question: Where in the US Constitution is there a sanction for something called the Securities and Exchange Commission? Just wonderin'.

Oh, and... Well, sorry if we're troubling anyone, but why should the government, which fails to stop the supposed "problems of the market" be trusted with MORE power to stifle competition and investment?

In a free market, only those who CHOOSE to become involved with risk take on that risk. Even secondary investors know what they're getting into, and guess what? Even those who are reckless and invest WITHOUT checking, then fail... Well they serve as examples so that others will avoid their mistakes.

Funny, SOME companies actually build fuel-efficient cars in order to respond to consumer demand!

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/22/npr/index.html

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The Wall Street Journal just offered this report. If the suspicions are confirmed, it's a cute reminder of the funky dealing that can be done by politicians.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124545642440632999.html#mod=djemEditorialPage

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The story behind how a Campaign for Liberty employee was hassled by the TSA is very revealing, and remember, the entire TSA paradigm is unconstitutional and anti-free market, so you can go ahead and feel royally angry at their existence!!! :-)

http://libertymaven.com/2009/06/20/cnn-reports-aclu-files-suit-against-tsa-on-behalf-of-campaign-for-libertys-bierfeldt/6179/

Also, we have a new MUSIC poll on the site! Take a look, and cast yer vote!

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Tom Di Lorenzo is one of the best.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo173.html

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Great work, Mr. North.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north721.html

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Interesting material from the PLF:

http://plf.typepad.com/esa/2009/06/the-danger-of-climate-change-regulati...

No kidding.

By the way, it was a deft, and insidious, move to announce their financial regulatory scheme at the same time as the socialized medical plan. Keep the enemy dancing, they must think.

http://www.cnbc.com//id/31409745

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