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Apparently, Obama is back to thinking he’s fucking El Supremo. Robert Gibbs, Press Secretary of the White House, in a NPR interview on using executive strong-arming with BP: Mr. GIBBS: Steve, I’d say we’re working on that with a whole host of entities. The point of this is to create, if need be through the […]
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2010-06-15 ::
madlibertarianguy //
Government
Sounds About Right
Stephen Power of The Wall Street Journal concerning oil company testimony on capitol hill this morning: Republicans who attended the hearing accused Democrats and the Obama administration of inappropriately using the disaster to pass legislation aimed at limiting emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to climate change. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
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Wow. John Tierney of The New York Times on proposed legislation to close the gender gap in the sciences: The gap in science seems due mainly to another difference between the sexes: men are more interested in working with things, while women are more interested in working with people. There’s ample evidence — most recently […]
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And no I’m not talking about ObamaCare this time, but Rand Paul. I was of the mind that he represents a very good chance at getting a consistently pro-liberty senator in the federal government. But with each piece of news I hear since his slaughter of republitard establishment favorite Grayson, I lean more towards the […]
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Roger Alford of the AP via The Lexington Herald-Leader: Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul reached out to gun advocates on Saturday, trying to shore up support from a major voting bloc in Kentucky. . . . Conway, the state’s attorney general, also is vying for the NRA endorsement, said campaign spokeswoman Allison Haley. “Jack […]
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2010-06-14 ::
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Government + Legislation
Nice to Know
It’s nice to know that sometimes people do what they think is ‘right’, not what is expected of them.
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Bill Estep via The Lexington Herald-Leader on recent meetings between Rand Paul and the establishment party hacks Paul ran against in the Kentucky Senatorial primaries: But Paul ran outside the party establishment, against a man endorsed by leaders of that establishment and without the support of many in the party structure. “It happened, and we’ve […]
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Scott Shane of The New York Times concerning the Obama administration’s crackdown on government leaks: The indictment of Mr. Drake was the latest evidence that the Obama administration is proving more aggressive than the Bush administration in seeking to punish unauthorized leaks to the press. In 17 months in office, President Obama has already outdone […]
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F.U.C.K. The federal government. Of all of the people on earth who deserve to be left alone by government, it’s the goddamn Amish. Sindya N. Bhanoo of The New York Times: But farmers like Mr. Stoltzfus are facing growing scrutiny for agricultural practices that the federal government sees as environmentally destructive. Their cows generate heaps […]
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It has been maintained by the terminally libertarded that our current economic crisis in America is because of deregulated “Free Market Failures” which has spurned on legions of Demotards screaming for government regulation of the financial sector. But even as far back as 1999 our current economic woes which started with the housing bubble were […]
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