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"Never allow a crisis to go to waste" ... With the Gulf oil spill providing an easy excuse for more Hegelian Big Government crisis management, the Ruling Class is plotting an end around so they can subsidize foreign oil.

What? You say "plotting" is too strong? "Unintended consequences" is more like it?

Well, unfortunately, I believe they're too smart to be doing some of the stupid things they do. So it's gotta be intentional.

Bailing Out Foreign Oil

The Obama administration is looking to change existing, long-standing existing tax laws, which let American companies who generate income in foreign countries to use credits to offset their U.S. income tax on their ...

The following is an outstanding explanation of the world financial crisis the Ruling Class has put us in.

Yes. The government created the mess and they're making it worse. No. Neither Democrats or Republicans will save you. They can only make it worse. These child-like notions about "good government" must come to a stop.
The Continuing Crisis in the New World Order
by Jacob Steelman

The crisis continues in the new world financial order with no end in sight and no real solution being put forth. Ben Bernanke, the head of America’s central bank, admitted as much in comments before Congressional committees last week. Austrian economists, investors and analysts have been saying this since before and after ...

About 20 years ago or so, a friend of mine told me about a new conservative talk show host that I decided to check out. The host was Rush Limbaugh.

Finding that I enjoyed his show, I decided to check out the rest of Detroit's AM-1270 WXYZ line-up, and was introduced to the brilliant, radical, pro-liberty talk radio pioneer Mark Scott. One of his common refrains, has stuck with me through the years. It describes so accurately my own feelings.

I love my country, but I fear my government.

Our American heritage wrapped into one sentence. Think about it ...

In most parts of the world (that we aren't bombing), the Declaration of Independence is understood as a ...

Want to Create Jobs & Transform Communities In This Jobless Recovery?

Jim Rogers Calls CNBC a PR Agency...on CNBC

A Central Planner's Wet Dream ...

The illusion of a Republic

Obama’s Real Problem

If The Socialism Fits…

The Year America Dissolved

Destablization - Power Struggle

What difference is it to me if a decision is forced upon me by a dictator or by half of my neighbors? Either way my right to free, peaceful action has been nullified. -- Stephen H. Foerster

A Rumble of Distant Thunder, Growing Closer….

Doomsday shelters making a comeback

Why Hope can ...

The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, as well as the SEC, are considering forcing money market funds off their stable $1.00 value method of maintaining share prices. In other words, the government wants to eliminate your stable value money market. But the million dollar question is ... WHY?

Obviously this would create huge problems in the markets, as investors seek safe haven alternatives. It could potentially put the money market industry out of business altogether. So, are they hoping more people will buy Treasuries? Are they trying to get more money into the "bailed-out but still insolvent" bank coffers?

I don't know. But either way, this fishy regulation attempt stinks on ice!

The following is Paul Schott Stevens, ...

In "Glenn Beck, Gold, and Stupid Politicians," I mentioned that Section 9006 of Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act "puts gold coin buyers and sellers under closer government scrutiny." Well, Robert Wenzel's got more information.
Dodd-Frank Bill Contains Provision that May Lead to Tracking of All Gold Coins

The Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Bill contains a provision that requires companies buying gold and other minerals to submit an annual report outlining what they are doing to ensure their minerals are "conflict-free."

The concept of conflict-free began with diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, invading army's war efforts, or a warlord's activity. The idea being that the purchase of diamonds from such

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A little more than a week ago, I drew your attention to the superbly written essay, "America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution," by retired Boston University professor Angelo Codevilla. If you haven't haven't had an opportunity to read it yet, please do. Because it provides one of the most important analytical frameworks of our time.

Because we've been beaten over the head with Marxist "class conflict" for so long, most of us simply ignore the idea of class altogether. But it was in fact the classical liberals who pioneered class theory, not the Marxists (twisted version). Codevilla' essay ...

I'm trying to take a break from blogging for a few days, and so far this is my second post while trying to do so. Rule 5 is very labor intensive however, so I'm skipping it this weekend. Sorry. Please enjoy this year's Top 5 (so far)!

The Anne Hathaway Offensive (NSFW)
Carrie Prejean Exposed and Topless!
Denise Milani Inflating Away Our Rights
War on the Poor with Kate Beckinsale
Michigan Girls and State Agitation

Next week ... Back to our regular scheduled programming.