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• Why austerity kills

  
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  How radical cuts destroy economies and lives. Bookmark It
  4 days ago

• The Liberal Faith In the Perfectibility of Politics

  
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  Perhaps it all starts with a childish whine “It isn’t fair.” Some mothers respond that life isn’t fair, and set their offspring on the path of conservatism, and others ignore the whiny brat or give the kid a hug and a cookie (rewarding the child for the whine) and tell him yes, that’s really too […]
  4 days ago

• Up with Steve Kornacki 5/19/2013 -- Statism revealed

  
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  Steve Kornacki is more partisan than Chris Hayes, which I didnt think was possible. Thats fine, but it really limits what can be accomplished on his shows. This show is like all MSNBC shows -- its predictable, intentionally and unintentionally ignorant, and politically stunted. The Up panel this morning pushed the ...
  5 days ago

• Oh, no. This won’t set off conservative and libertarian alarm bells at all.

  
  Sister Toldjah — Authority: 608
  **Posted by Phineas “The State watches over you” I mean, what’s so threatening about  a biometric database of all adult Americans  being in the immigration bill, citizen? The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every ...
  1 week ago

• We hope this guy would have approved of the following message

  
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  . We were doing some quality control of our blog post archives when we ran across the post below from over two years ago. It concerned the increase in scope and breadth of our entitlement society and the deleterious effects it has on the individual which then is passed along to our society as a whole. Look at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gay marriage and state tyranny

  
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  English theologian John Milbank gives a different argument against gay marriage.  He says it will give the state direct control over reproduction, removing the mediating effect of the family in favor of purely legalistic, arbitrary, and commodified state regulations. Milbank’s whole essay is worth reading.  Here ...
  2 weeks ago

• 3D printed guns scare progressives, so of course they want to ban them

  
  Sister Toldjah — Authority: 608
  **Posted by Phineas Because the future is frightening. First, a BBC news video to show you what the fuss is all about: The Telegraph describes it thus: Instructions for making The Liberator, a plastic handgun that could escape detection by conventional airport security, were today made freely available to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Banks still allowed to steal houses

  
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  David Dayen continues to document the atrocities: The absolute least Americans can hope for from a major government settlement with a large industry over well-documented crimes is that the industry wouldn’t, after signing the settlement, just continue to commit the same crimes day after day. After all, following ...
  2 weeks ago

• voices that incessantly warn of government

  
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  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/05/obama-to-college-students-reject-these-voices-that-warn-of-big-government-tyranny/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=Share%20Buttons Around 2007 I started beating the drum in earnest warning about the coming battle between statists and anti-statists. ...
  2 weeks ago

• “The Golden Apple” — A Socialist Fairy Tale

  
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  Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog  Once upon a time there was a street fair. It had striped awnings and bright colors and from far and near, farmers came with wagons full of produce to sell at the street fair. The produce was plentiful and cheap and the crowds it drew were [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Technologys pros and cons regarding statist control

  
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  Our statist, interventionist government will shortly find itself between a problem and a dream. The problem is that technology is reaching proportions many steps ahead of government controllers. The dream is that now statists have many justificiations to expand power and control -- for the welfare of the people, of ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Obama Administration Continues To Destroy Jobs.

  
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  The preliminary April jobs number has come in at +165,000, on expectations of +140,000. March numbers were revised upward from 88,000 to 138,000. This brought the unemployment rate down from 7.6% to 7.5%. The number of unemployed — 11.7 million — didn’t change over the month, and the labor participation rate ...
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• Illinois’ Mythological Transportation Scheme

  
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  If these deadbeat states are expecting the rest of the nation’s taxpayers to bail our the stupidity of their governments, they are going to be out of luck. California, dead broke and utterly unable to stop themselves from digging their hole even more deeply, cannot release its grip on the fantasy of a high speed ...
  3 weeks ago

• Corker: Watt heading Federal Housing Finance Agency = “fox guarding the hen house”

  
  Sister Toldjah — Authority: 608
  As you’ve probably already heard, in the latest example of this administration’s naked cronyism (THIS WEEK), President Obama has nominated my Congressman in Name Only – Mel Watt – to oversee the Federal Housing Finance Agency.   The nomination has already sparked controversy, and for  good reasons : ...
  3 weeks ago

• Give Me Security or Give Me Death

  
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  Human history is full of stories of people making remarkable choices that have altered the future course. In the realm of public affairs, the most basic choice – if you distill it down… Read More →
  3 weeks ago

• Senator Claire McCaskill said What?!?!?

  
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  This also comes via HotAir.com and yes, via Ed Morrissey : (I only link to this one, because like Ed, My jaw went “ CLANK!” when I saw this…) Transcript: BOB SCHIEFFER, “FACE THE NATION”: Do either of you at this point think there’s a chance that we would have to put U.S. troops in there or that we ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pigeons vs Humaniacs

  
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  Chris Landauer of Border Wars sent me a note a couple of weeks ago on the ARistas war on pigeon racing. Since then I have been roaming the Internet, too busy and too pissed off to to write a calm essay on the kind of people who would persecute old men, some of them who have made real connections to youngsters of ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Public School System is going to hell and a handbasket, as always.

  
  The Thinking Americanist — Authority: 144
  I have no words for this one folks, not one: Video: The Story: Parents of children attending a Red Hook, New York, middle school are outraged after a recent anti-bullying presentation at Linden Avenue Middle School. The workshop for 13 and 14-year-old girls focused on homosexuality and gender identity. They ...
  4 weeks ago

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