http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/20/chinese-people-power-a-primer
Chinese People Power: A Primer
Jesse Walker | February 20, 2011
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While our eyes are glued on the collapsing Qaddafi regime, the authorities in China are getting jittery about a Jasmine Revolution of their own:
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How about an American Jasmine Revolution?
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http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/02/free_speech_for.html
FEBRUARY 18, 2011
Free Speech for Them but Not for Us
David Henderson
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Does Hillary Clinton Understand Irony?
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech at George Washington University in which she criticized foreign governments for cracking down on freedom of speech.
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Right while Clinton was touting free speech and look at the back of the small room and could, presumably, see McGovern, goons roughed up McGovern and hauled him away. Did Hillary Clinton protest? No. She didn’t even miss a beat.
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Interesting. And, no media attention at all.
Hillary is making a lot of missteps if she’s trying to become President?
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Hillary Clinton: Israeli Settlements ‘Illegitimate’ – ABC News.
Wonder how this will impact the liberal Jewish vote and it’s “love affair” with the Democratic Party?
I’d feel like I got <synonym for the act of procreation, past tense>
Argh!
Think Hillary is bolstering her foreign policy credentials for a POTUS2012 run? Not with this blunder. And, not by associating with this blundering naive administration.
Hope we survive to 2012.
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Commenting on:
http://libertyslifeline.com/2011/02/17/let%E2%80%99s-get-serious-about-k-12-education/
Let’s Get Serious About K-12 Education
by Bill O’Connell on February 17, 20112012
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Does anyone see any mention about students or learning in that quote? It focuses on teachers. How to pay them and how to evaluate them; it is about the unions, not the students. The delicate negations about pay (unions favor) and evaluation (unions oppose) has nothing to do with our children learning. The unions can run all the TV and radio ads they want about “the children” but when you hear the tag line about who paid for the ad, it is not about the children.
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Despite having no children of my own, I fought about this during the NJ Tax Revolt of the 80’s. This is a multi-part problem. And, it’s not ALL the fault of the Teachers’ Union. The politicians and bureaucrats have created a mess and “We, The People” have allowed it to happen.
First problem is the Parents. Yup, they are part of the problem; probably the most important part. They tolerate this “barbara streisand”. No one has children and wants to see them ruined. Yet, that very decision they make to procreate, I am expected to pay for. Education is the parent’s responsibility. First and foremost. No one else’s. To assume that the Gooferment has a role, any role, in “education” is to cede the very ground that the battle must be fought on.
So now let’s deal with the situation at hand. We can’t wave a magic wand and make it “magically delicious”. People have been trained, like dogs doing tricks, into thinking that this is the best or only way. We have to reverse that over time and allow people to adapt.
Right now, “we” have Gooferment Skrules. The Gooferment “pays” and “operates”. So I would suggest we have to adapt out of it in two steps. Two twenty year plans! (Yeah, I know it sounds like the USSR and its always failing Five Year Plans.) Focus first on operation. Create vouchers equal to 20k and give them to 5% more students each year. At the end of 20 years, parents will have been trained to “buy” their children’s education. Then, for the next 20 years, reduce the voucher by 5%. This will push the bill more and more to the parents. (They decided to have them and they will have to pay to educate them.) Churches, businesses, and a civil society will create new forms of schooling for new subjects and the poor. (Remember Catholic schools were created for the poor.)
I think this would solve the problem. Not quickly but eventually it would. Permanently!
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http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=9213
Nuns denied opportunity to vote in Ontario election
February 10, 2011
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Four nuns were denied their right to vote in the Cambridge (Ontario) municipal election for Catholic school board candidates last fall.
Sister Michael Daniel Dumais, 39, said that a poll worker told her that “because I had taken a vow of poverty, I don’t pay taxes, so I’m not contributing to any school board, and therefore I don’t have a choice in voting for the separate school.” Instead, she and the other nuns were handed an incomplete ballot.
City Clerk Alex Mitchell downplayed the nuns’ complaints, saying that “there’s an onus on the voter to make sure you’re casting the right ballot.”
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I pay school taxes on three houses in two jurisdictions!
Never have had any children.
So why am I pay to educate children I never had? I had no vote in the decision to have them.
Why do I have to pay for other people’s choices?
Argh!
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http://reason.com/blog/2011/02/07/hillary-clinton-we-cant-legali
Hillary Clinton: We Can’t Legalize Drugs Because ‘There Is Just Too Much Money in It’
Jacob Sullum | February 7, 2011
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Last week, while visiting Mexico, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was interviewed by Denise Maerker of Televisa, who asked her opinion of proposals to address black-market violence by repealing drug prohibition. Clinton’s response illustrates not only the intellectual bankruptcy of the prohibitionist position but the economic ignorance of a woman who would be president (emphasis added):
Maerker: In Mexico, there are those who propose not keeping going with this battle and legalize drug trafficking and consumption. What is your opinion?
Clinton: I don’t think that will work. I mean, I hear the same debate. I hear it in my country. It is not likely to work. There is just too much money in it, and I don’t think that—you can legalize small amounts for possession, but those who are making so much money selling, they have to be stopped.
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Many a true word comes through in an unguarded moment.
Think of all the politicians and bureaucrats that would be out of job. At the very least, ¼ of the federal prisons could be closed.
Money being spent on the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” could be returned to the taxpayers.
Drugs were once available in a true free market. We had addicts. We will ALWAYS have addicts. Time after time, we see that there’s about a 10% addiction rate. No matter what the law is.
So, if we “legalize drugs”, then we will put the Columbian Drug Kingpins on welfare. And, think of all the children and young adults that we will save from bad drugs and from addiction. (Addiction, because when drugs are no longer illegal, they won’t be “kool”.)
We will also remove the corrupting effect of drug dealers bribing cops and repeal the whole civil forfeiture laws.
Or we can continue doing it “Hillary’s way”!
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http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=172669
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Govt asked to explain failure to stop fatwa
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The reports said Hena was raped by her 40-year-old relative Mahbub on Sunday. Next day, a fatwa was announced at a village arbitration that she must be given 100 lashes. She fell unconscious after nearly 80 lashes. Fatally injured Hena was rushed to Naria health complex where she succumbed to her injuries.
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Let’s keep this story in mind when we think of what we are dealing with.
Pray for that unfortunate girl who was born into a disaster.
Beck, on a recent TV show, posed the question that “democracy” asks: “Can men rule themselves?”
In this case, in this country, in this religion, I’d say the answer is “no”.
Tonight, I’ll be thinking about that child.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Honorable Republican Representatives,
On behalf of roughly 45 million Americans who voted for you in the November 2nd Elections,
On behalf of the more than 10 million Tea Party Supporters and Sympathizers among them…whose votes gave you victory,
For the purposes of federal government and state government fiscal responsibility, solvency, and financial common sense,
We request that all 242 Republican Members of the U.S. House of Representatives pledge to actively oppose and vote against all federal government bailouts for state governments or local governments.
No Funding bailouts for state or local governments.
No Loans for state or local governments.
No Loan Guarantees for state or local governments.
No cash. No loans. No loan guarantees. No co-signing.
Not for California. Not for Massachusetts. Not for Illinois. Not for New York. Not for any state or local government.
They must live within their own means. They must reduce and remove fat and non-essential spending from their budgets. They must seek and find ways to accomplish their essential duties – with lower overhead and less money.
Just like private sector businesses.
You must not enable them to continue their reckless and irresponsible spending.
You must not enable state and local governments to postpone the day of financial reckoning.
They have behaved like spending junkies, like money drunks. Now they face detox. Some are begging for ‘just one more’ drink, ‘just one last dose’ of narcotics. Tomorrow they’ll get clean and sober…
That’s the addiction talking. Ignore it.
Once state and local officials realize that you will not bail them out, they will solve their own spending problems.
Once they come to terms with economic reality, they will seek and find cheaper, better, smarter ways to do their government’s essential tasks.
They will become more responsible and accountable stewards of government.
Because almost all of you 242 Republican Members of the U.S. House of Representatives ran campaigns promising to roll back federal overspending, to exercise fiscal restraint, and to end federal bailouts, we ask you to notify state governments and local governments that you will vote against bailing them out.
Together, your 242 Republican U.S. House votes against bailing out state and local governments give you a “Veto.”
Promising to exercise this Republican “Veto” – and using it, if the Senate or White House demands bailouts for state or local governments – will show Tea Party supporters, fiscal conservatives, libertarians, and independents that you keep your campaign pledges.
This may create momentum for your proposed federal spending cuts.
It may create momentum for 2012 Republican candidates for the U.S. House and Senate who promise to substantially cut federal government spending, borrowing, and taxing.
Perhaps even a like-minded Republican candidate for President.
It starts with you. Now.
Will you make this pledge?
We eagerly await hearing about and publicizing your No Bailouts Pledge. It will be a beacon of hope during these crucial months of budget negotiations.
Small government is beautiful,
Carla Howell & Michael Cloud
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http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/white-house-backs-off-of-obama-earmarks-pledge
White House Backs Off of Obama Earmarks Pledge
Posted by Jim Harper
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In the state of the union speech last night, President Obama said with great force:
“If a bill comes to my desk with earmarks inside, I will veto it.”
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Wow, it this his version of: “read my lips; no new taxes” or “i did not have sex with that woman”?
Earmark is really easy.
Anything that doesn’t say “ALL AMERICANS” or “NO AMERICAN” is an earmark.
Some one should start a countdown clock!
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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=255325#ixzz1C9GPMNFb
And the debt bomb ticks on
Posted: January 25, 2011
Pat Buchanan
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Undeniably. Yet, consider.
The federal deficit for the fiscal year 2011, which ends Sept. 30, is projected at between $1,200 billion and $1,500 billion.
Thus, the $100 billion in cuts the firebrands are pushing, and few think they will get, add up at best to 8 percent of the deficit and 2.5 percent of the $3.87 trillion budget Obama proposed.
Thus, at best, this Congress will only slightly reduce the rate of speed at which we are heading toward a debt default.
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I heard a lot of “investment”, “infrastructure”, and other pie in the sky.
Even the Tea Party “firebrands” aren’t cutting big enough.
And, they insist on using the Federal Reserve Bank Notes, mislabeled “dollars”.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar
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In 1792 the U.S. Congress adopted legislation titled An act establishing a mint, and regulating the Coins of the United States. Section 9 of that act authorized the production of various coins, including “DOLLARS OR UNITS—each to be of the value of a Spanish milled dollar as the same is now current, and to contain three hundred and seventy-one grains and four sixteenth parts of a grain of pure, or four hundred and sixteen grains of standard silver”.
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I’d suggest that the Debt Limit NOT be raised. Close the “credit card”.
I’d suggest that we need to go back to 30 year Treasury bonds.
I’d suggest that we issue special 50 or 100 year debt reduction bonds to amortize the debt.
I’d suggest that we go back to “Constitutional money” and end the FED.
But what do I know!
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