With nonsense like this going on, it won’t be long before even liberals begin demanding the downsizing of government – that’s the only effective way to limit it’s intrusion into our lives.
Troopers raid popular bars for unlicensed beers | Philadelphia Daily News | 03/08/2010
IT WAS ELIOT NESS and the Untouchables, as played by the [...]

Last week, President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes Interpol, an international police force that functions as an agent of international tribunals and foreign courts, immune from the restraints of American law.  It is outrageous to grant any foreign police force that operates without accountability to any US institution immune from the restraints [...]

From yesterday’s WSJ Opinions, Lawrence Kadish discusses the utter folly of creating more government obligations.
It is the interest on the national debt that makes our future unstable. The exploding size of that burden suggests that, short of devaluing the dollar and taking a large bite out of the middle class through inflation and taxation, there [...]

Newt Gingrich observes the pressure on Chinese leadership to create jobs while discussing his recent trip to China.
The economic pressure the Chinese dictatorship feels to continue creating jobs can be captured by the fact that they need 24 million new jobs this next year just to break even.
Their fear is that without jobs unrest will [...]

Newbusters reports that Charlie Gibson declares no knowledge of the ACORN scandal ignited by the investigative reporting and filmmaking of James Okeefe and Hannah Giles.  And this guy is the lead reporter/newscaster for a “major” network?  Duh!  No wonder the “major” networks are either not ranked or at the bottom of the TV news audience [...]

[Note: This post from Karl Denninger at The Market Ticker so completely captured my state of mind that I felt compelled to re- post it here in its entirety.  I also encourage you to visit his blog for consistently high quality economic analysis and insight.  We do need to jerk these politicians' chains and [...]

Lots of articles commenting on the One and his socialist buddies, but the Michael Ramirez cartoon above sums it up succinctly.  Other commentary on the “coup” that wasn’t (Zelaya arrest by Honduran military) and the coup that almost was (Zelaya illegal referendum) includes:
Investors Business Daily – Banana Democrats
Wall Street Journal – Honduras Defends Its Democracy
The [...]