Rather obscure, but as someone recently introduced to anarcho-capitalism, I found this very interesting.
Cannabis far less dangerous than tobacco
Audit the Fed Defeated
The following 114 representatives who co-sponsored the bill voted against including it in the recently-passed banking legislation.
Alabama
Bobby Bright – AL-2
Arizona
Ed Pastor – AZ-4
Raul Grijalva – AZ-7
Arkansas
Marion Berry – AR-1
Vic Snyder – AR-2
California
Jackie Speier – CA-12
Pete Stark – CA-13
Zoe Lofgren – CA-16
Sam Farr – CA-17
Brad Sherman – CA-27
Adam Schiff – CA-29
Judy Chu – CA-32
Jane Harman – CA-36
Laura Richardson – CA-37
Bob Filner – CA-51
Colorado
Jared Polis – CO-2
John Salazar – CO-3
Ed Perlmutter – CO-7
Connecticut
Joe Courtney – CT-2
Christopher Murphy – CT-5
Florida
Allen Boyd – FL-2
Corrine Brown – FL-3
Suzanne Kosmas – FL-24
Georgia
Sanford Bishop – GA-2
Hank Johnson – GA-4
John Lewis – GA-5
John Barrow – GA-12
David Scott – GA-13
Hawaii
Mazie Hirono – HI-2
Illinois
Jesse Jackson, Jr. – IL-2
Mike Quigley – IL-5
Danny Davis – IL-7
Janice Schakowsky – IL-9
Deborah Halvorson – IL-11
Phil Hare – IL-17
Indiana
Peter Visclosky – IN-1
Baron Hill – IN-9
Iowa
Bruce Braley – IA-1
David Loebsack – IA-2
Leonard Boswell – IA-3
Kentucky
John Yarmuth – KY-3
Ben Chandler – KY-6
Louisiana
Charlie Melancon – LA-3
Maine
Chellie Pingree – ME-1
Michael Michaud – ME-2
Maryland
C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger – MD-2
John Sarbanes – MD-3
Donna Edwards – MD-4
Massachusetts
James McGovern – MA-3
John Tierney – MA-6
Bill Delahunt – MA-10
Michigan
Dale Kildee – MI-5
Mark Schauer – MI-7
Carolyn Kilpatrick – MI-13
John Conyers – MI-14
Minnesota
Timothy Walz – MN-1
Collin Peterson – MN-7
James Oberstar – MN-8
Mississippi
Bennie Thompson – MS-2
Missouri
William Lacy Clay – MO-1
Nevada
Shelley Berkley – NV-1
New Hampshire
Carol Shea-Porter – NH-1
New Jersey
John Adler – NJ-3
Bill Pascrell – NJ-8
Steven Rothman – NJ-9
Donald Payne – NJ-10
New Mexico
Martin Heinrich – NM-1
Ben Ray Lujan – NM-3
New York
Timothy Bishop – NY-1
Jerrold Nadler – NY-8
Anthony Weiner – NY-9
Scott Murphy – NY-20
Paul Tonko – NY-21
Maurice Hinchey – NY-22
Michael Arcuri – NY-24
Daniel Maffei – NY-25
Brian Higgins – NY-27
Louise Slaughter – NY-28
North Carolina
Larry Kissell – NC-8
Heath Shuler – NC-11
Brad Miller – NC-13
Ohio
Steve Driehaus – OH-1
Marcy Kaptur – OH-8
Dennis Kucinich – OH-10
Marcia Fudge – OH-11
Betty Sutton – OH-13
John Boccieri – OH-16
Tim Ryan – OH-17
Oklahoma
Dan Boren – OK-2
Oregon
David Wu – OR-1
Peter DeFazio – OR-4
Kurt Schrader – OR-5
Pennsylvania
Kathleen Dahlkemper – PA-3
Jason Altmire – PA-4
Patrick Murphy – PA-8
Michael Doyle – PA-14
Tim Holden – PA-17
Rhode Island
James Langevin – RI-2
South Carolina
John Spratt – SC-5
South Dakota
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin – SD
Tennessee
Lincoln Davis – TN-4
Bart Gordon – TN-6
Steve Cohen – TN-9
Texas
Ruben Hinojosa – TX-15
Silvestre Reyes – TX-16
Ciro Rodriguez – TX-23
Lloyd Doggett – TX-25
Solomon Ortiz – TX-27
Henry Cuellar – TX-28
Eddie Bernice Johnson – TX-30
Vermont
Peter Welch – VT
Washington
Jay Inslee – WA-1
Brian Baird – WA-3
Jim McDermott – WA-7
Adam Smith – WA-9
Wisconsin
Tammy Baldwin – WI-2
Steve Kagen – WI-8
For the complete vote results, click here.
Ron Paul: Iran Sanctions = Act of War
Ron Paul: Most Powerful Army Fighting War Against People Who Have NO Tanks! NO Planes! NO Ships!
US to cut $4bn in Afghan aid over corruption fears
US lawmakers have voted to cut almost $4bn (£2.7bn) in aid to the government of Afghanistan, after allegations of corruption.
(Read more from news.bbc.co.uk)
Harvard Study finds Big Media flipped on Torture to accommodate waterboarding
Harvard Study: From 1930s-2004,
NY Times called waterboarding torture in 81.5% of articles,
LA Times in 96.3%.
Yet from 2002â€2008,
NYT did so in only 1.4%
and LA Times in 4.8%.
The WSJ? 1.6% (1 of 63 articles)
and USA Today never called waterboarding torture or implied it was torture.
Pelosi: Unemployment Checks Fastest Way to Create Jobs
“It injects demand into the economy,” Pelosi said, arguing that when families have money to spend it keeps the economy churning. “It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name.”
Pelosi said the aid has the “double benefit” of helping those who lost their jobs and acting as a “job creator” on the side.
“It’s impossible to think of a situation where we would have a country that would say we’re not going to have unemployment benefits,” Pelosi said. (Read more from foxnews.com)
My reaction:
43% of H1N1 Vaccine supply getting incinerated
The inevitable consequence of central planning.
About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the U.S. public has expired — meaning that a whopping 40 million doses worth about $260 million is being written off as trash.
“It’s a lot, by historical standards,” said Jerry Weir, who oversees vaccine research and review for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The outdated vaccine, some of which expired Wednesday, will be incinerated. The amount, more than twice the usual leftovers, likely sets a record. And that’s not even all of it.
About 30 million more doses will expire later and may go unused, according to one government estimate. If all that vaccine expires, more than 43 percent of the supply for the U.S. public will have gone to waste. (Read more from theintelhub.com)
What if the Fed fixed oil prices the way it does interest rates?
This lectures begins with the illuminating analogy. Fast forward to 3:45 to cut to the chase.
Tom Woods interviewed by a Zombie
Green Government: After an almost half billion dollar gov’t loan, we get $100k cars nobody wants
Re: The New York Times’ With First Share Offering, Tesla Bets on Electric Car’s Future
Patrick Barron wrote:
Dear Sirs:
Your article about the upcoming Tesla Motors IPO illustrates beautifully how our government gambles with the peoples’ money. The government has “loaned” Tesla $465 million. I put the word “loan” in parentheses, because this is not a real loan. Undoubtedly the rate is below market, but there is no way of knowing, because there is no loan market for Tesla Motors. No bank board of directors would ever approve such a loan of its depositors’ money. The article speaks for itself–Tesla has lost $290.2 million since it was founded in 2003. It has produced a grand total of one thousand cars, priced at over $100,000 a piece. Its current car has minimal range and few places where it can be recharged. By the time Tesla rolls out its next model, the big players such as Nissan will be offering all-electric cars at a fraction of Tesla’s price. But how can there be a significant market for an all-electric car when nowhere can one find out its electricity cost per mile? And where will America get the power? The government, via the EPA, is making it almost impossible for America’s utility companies to add electricity production. In fact, some current coal-fired power plants are threatened with closure. Nevertheless, the government is pushing this technology and trying to lure buyers by granting tax credits to purchasers of all-electric cars. But, there’s a sucker born every minute. So, if you loved the DeLorean, you’ll probably buy a Tesla.
G20 Protests in Toronto
@ 1:00 this video suggests that the police car lit on fire at Toronto’s G 20 protests were burned by agents to discredit protesters. It discusses provocateurs at this and other protests.
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@ 3:00 this video discusses police agent provocateurs infiltrating peaceful protests.
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WATCH AT 0:45…..all the plainclothes people running in that pack, and being let behind the line, are cops–including the black-clad ‘anarchist’ !!!! BTW, watch out for the old white-bearded flannel shirt cop and the famous ‘scary lady’ cop:
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Large peaceful protests allegedly ignored by Big Media:
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Woman discusses her detention by police, their threats of rape, strip searches:
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. . . not that I sympathize with the message of most of these protesters.
“the ‘substitution of political for economic power’ now so ofted demanded means necessarily the substitution of power from which there is no escape for a power which is always limited.” ~F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
Critique of Stossel’s Ayn Rand / Atlas Shrugged episode
@ 5:30, the Chairman of BB&T talks about how they refused to participate in eminent domain endeavors, and “pick-a-payment” mortgages, even though such mortgages were sellable on secondary markets. He then offers a fantastic, insider look at TARP. Because the Fed didn’t want to let the public know which banks had gotten into trouble, they forced ALL big banks to accept TARP.
@ 24:30, A libertarian asks a question which points to the divide between Randian Objectivists and libertarians. The guy’s defence of Rand’s war on altruism is rather feeble.
FYI, I favor 95% of Rand’s Objectivism.
@ 27:00, there is a great discussion of fish pedicures, and a psychopathic, parasitic legislator who wants to outlaw the practice (unless you can sterilize the fish).
@ 36:30, I think there’s a good question about the state’s role in preventive legislation, like laws which regulate distracted driving, which poses threats to other people’s liberty. I guy from Reason Magazine who took the question answered well — as well as you can answer if you believe in the state. However, I think the correct response is the anarcho-capitalist line, that roads should be privatized, and regulated by their private owners.
@ 41:30, there is a wonderful chart correlating sales of Atlas Shrugged with expansions of the U.S. government.
Anti-Keynesian views in WSJ!?
Today’s G-20 meeting has been advertised as a showdown between the U.S. and Europe over more spending “stimulus,” and so it is. But the larger story is the end of the neo-Keynesian economic moment, and perhaps the start of a healthier policy turn.
For going on three years, the developed world’s economic policy has been dominated by the revival of the old idea that vast amounts of public spending could prevent deflation, cure a recession, and ignite a new era of government-led prosperity. It hasn’t turned out that way. (Read more from online.wsj.com)