The New York Times concerning the Greek draft austerity budget: The Greek government, which this year has come under the tutelage of its euro-zone partners and the International Monetary Fund after it reached the brink of default, on Monday presented a draft austerity budget for 2011 that promised to raise more tax revenue while ending […]

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I’m having a really fucking hard time imagining why the federal government should have any fucking role whatsoever in deciding what we the people should and should not eat. Especially considering that the means for deciding who is and is not obese is deeply flawed. The issue of obesity in society is no longer about […]

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Because of the recent report showing that the US government purposefully infected hundreds of people with syphilis while testing penicillin, I’m reminded that statist policy has but one goal: to put the needs of “society” above those of its individuals; that the needs of the many are greater than the few. To those who would […]

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Ain’t government grand? Los Times de Nueva York: From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans — prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers — with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin. American tax dollars, through the National Institutes of Health, even […]

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Though his rhetoric is the decisively pro-Republitard bullshit that keeps getting those fuckers elected, this dude kinda has a a point when discussing the Demotarded “blame it on Bush” meme it has hatched and nurtured over the past two years: So in that context, let’s just see what Bush and Republicans are to blame for… […]

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What was it I heard about the abuse of federal power with eavesdropping and such from the terminally libertarded before Obama started doing it?  Many of the comments in the Times article are in support of this action as being necessary for whatever-the-fuck reason, but I ask only this question to those of you who […]

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WaPo: Members of his staff describe Obama as wary of outsiders and reluctant to widen his inner circle. As one of his advisers bluntly put it, the president “doesn’t like new people.” Like it or not, he will soon be surrounded by them as an expected staff shuffle will deprive Obama of two of his […]

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Can we quit with the whole fucking “Bush deregulated and cut spending on education” bullshit?  Reason’s Hit and Run: Between 2001 and 2009 George W. Bush did not “cut back on investments in education,” he increased them by 58 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars. Regulations? “The Bush team has spent more taxpayer money on issuing and […]

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From The American Spectator: While ObamaCare supporters may be on the defensive right now, it’s important to remember that advocates of government-run health care will use any angle to build on their gains — even if it means exploiting the failures of government health care. We should look at Obamacare as the first step towards […]

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A gentlewoman from the Commonwealth of Virginia: The movement to amend the Constitution to better protect rights prevailed because they compromised and worked across the aisle. They didn’t blame Republicans or Democrats — then Federalists and Anti-Federalists — or issue nasty press releases and hold political rallies. They overcame the Federalist resistance in Congress to […]

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