How Obama admin is skewing data, creating illusion of falling jobless numbers

What We Need Is More People on Food Stamps

Bank of America to Customer: Your Cash Is No Good Here

Is the goose tapped out?

The surreal world of fascialism

The Boss Versus the Laws of Economics

Free Google Maps unfair to paid competitors, France rules

Where the World Bank Dishes Out Your Money

Corruption in Fascist Business Model

Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to age, by the most ignorant and vicious of the human race. Need we any other proof of their wretched management, than the excess of debts and taxes with which every nation groans, and the quarrels into which they have precipitated the world? -- Thomas Paine

Newt Gingrich: Moon President

Gingrich's Glass Jaw

The Eagle Has Crashed

The Truth of US

Mitt Romney Looks to FDR for Inspiration of His Patriotism: A Salute to Strong Central Federal Government

History of the Pledge of Allegiance

Did FDR Provoke Pearl Harbor?

How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America

Newt: FDR the 'Greatest President of the 20th Century'

Newt Gingrich Praised SEIU Head Andy Stern's Forward-Looking Vision

Was Reagan Conservative?

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren't infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free. -- Ron Paul

How drones, Special Operations forces, and the U.S. Navy plan to end national sovereignty as we know it

"All I knew for sure is they were there to rob and kill me."

The Growing Iranian Military Behemoth?

Homeland Security: You're All 'Militia Extremists' Now

Is your underwear spying on you?

Michael Bloomberg: 'You'd Think That if a Congresswoman Got Shot in the Head' it Would Change Congress' Views on Gun Control

In Federal Suit, Man Claims DPD Stormed His House For No Reason, Beat the Hell Out of Him

Some Reasons the Government Would Want Your Neighbors to Report You

Modern War and Being Only "Kinda" Pro-life

What Is a Just War?

The glory of the human race is the uniqueness of each individual, the fact that every person, though similar in many ways to others, possesses a completely individuated personality of his own. It is the fact of each person's uniqueness ... that makes us care whether he lives or dies, whether he is happy or oppressed ... It is the fact that these unique personalities need freedom for their full development that constitutes one of the major arguments for a free society. -- Murray N. Rothbard

Majestic Monday Melodies, The Day After The Super Bowl Edition

My favorite Super Bowl Commercial

2012 Super Bowl Halftime Show: Madonna Showcases Old Age, Irrelevance

Henry David Thoreau's 7 choices to live deliberately

Greedy geezers don't want Ron Paul to end the welfare state

The Push Toward a Snitch Culture: New App Enables "fast, discrete, and intelligent" Anonymous Crime Reporting

Police Device Can See Through Clothing

Police State Alabama: Mississippi Grandmother Diane Avera Faces Prison for Sudafed Purchase

The Libya Secret: How West Cooked Up "People's Uprising"

Republicans ARE Discouraging Voter Turnout

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to be adapted to different men, instead of indiscriminately subjecting all men to the same rule. -- Alexis de Tocqueville

theCL Report (February 06, 2012) is a post from: The Classic Liberal Blog

"Food Stamps: An Economic Stimulus!"

Suze Orman is an Idiot, example #412,375

Bill Gross Explains Why Gold Is Becoming The Default "Store Of Value"

Military Keynesianism and America's Decline

Fraudulent debt = counterfeit money

Why We Are Totally Finished: Corporatocracy Has Replaced Capitalism

Commentary: Jim Grant says gold, not paper currency, is the future

The Revolution of 1913

What If We Only THINK We're Free?

If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy... But the American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country. -- Michael Parenti

Study reveals almost complete Ron Paul media blackout in Florida

Romney = President Goldman Sachs 2.0

Friedrich Nietzsche was right about Mitt Romney

Totalitarian feminism and the smearing of Susan G. Komen

Mitt Romney and Saul Alinsky

John Boehner running cover for Holder; puts brakes on 'Gunwalker' investigation

Abortion and the law.

Enough With "Family Values"

Gary Johnson Debates Romney and Obama Over Marijuana

Just when you thought the presidential election follies couldn't get any weirder

Trusting government nowadays means dividing humanity into two classes: those who can be trusted with power to run other people's lives, and those who cannot even be trusted to run their own lives. -- James Bovard

Homeland Security Is Big Business And Growing

Never Call the Police: Single Mother in Milwaukee Raped by Cop – Then Arrested for "Assaulting an Officer"

Drone Swarms are Here: 1 Minute to Midnight?

Drones: Coming to the Skies Near You, Part II

End the Violence, End the War on Drugs

Obama Targets Catholics

Why You Shouldn't Fear Iran

Who is killing more Americans, Iran or Mexico?

Refuted: Congressional Lies about NDAA Kidnapping

The State of Surveillance Technology

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. -- Murray Rothbard

Communism Documentary Part 2

Progressivism = Totalitarian Socialism

There are no Atheists in the Foxholes...

What a raving, megalomaniacal lunatic!

Bills Passed in Congress: January 2012

Senator Brandegee Suicide or Cold Case?

Stem Cell Lunacy: Your Body is a Drug, According to the FDA – And It's Federal Property

The Decision-Makers-of-Wars & 'You'

According To The FBI, Internet Privacy Is Now Considered To Be Suspicious Activity

John Boehner's 'GobGop' Plan to Sell Out the Tea Party in 2013

Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people of the world. It is the Bill of Rights, and only the Bill of Rights, that keeps us from becoming the world's biggest banana republic. The moment we forget that, the American Dream is over. -- Alexander Hope

theCL Report (February 04, 2012) is a post from: The Classic Liberal Blog

S&P Warns of Cuts; Another US Downgrade Coming?

California to run out of cash in March

Congressional Budget Outlook For 2012-2022 Says Real Unemployment Rate Is 10%

Homeownership rates fall to 66% as downturn nears a bottom

Taxes Will 'Shoot Up by More Than 30 Percent' Over Next 2 Years

By George, I Think They've Got It: 'Far Too Many Laws'

Obama Tells Woman: "Interesting" Unemployed Husband Can't Find Job

About Those US Jobs

How The Bank Lobby Owns Washington

Through the rapid proliferation of laws reaching every corner of human existence, the government is manufacturing more criminals now than ever before. The list of illegal activities includes more minutiae than one would think possible. Beer-makers are barred from listing alcohol content on bottles, and liquor distilleries cannot advertise on TV. Filling one's own prairie pothole can land a property owner in jail, as can protecting private property from unlawful intruders. Placing handbills in neighbors' mailboxes is strictly prohibited, and attempting to sell nectarines of an improper size is a federal offense. Companies are no longer allowed to give salaried professionals partial days off without pay, and in Texas it is a crime to call oneself an interior designer without the government's permission. It is perhaps easier to recount all that remains legal than all that is now prohibited. -- Jonathan H. Adler

Vote for Obama, and he'll pay your mortgage!

Obama Demands Taxpayers Increase Funding For Overpriced Universities

Newt Gingrich's campaign paid him $47,000 for a list of supporters and paid one of his companies another $67,000 for web hosting

'Everyone step on his toes!' Gingrich security harasses Ron Paul supporter

Taxation: Theft Legalized

It All Comes Down to People

Gary Johnson Debates Romney and Obama Over Marijuana

Mark Steyn on Newt Gingrich: Time for Big Dreams and a Time to Wake Up

Mitt Romney's Radical Roots ???

"The only substantive choice is between Mitt Romney and Ron Paul ... people will have been presented a clear choice between debt-laden doom and the only way out of the banking abyss."

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again. -- Ronald Reagan

The TSA's War on Innocent Travelers

Ranger zaps off-leash dog walker with shock weapon

Geriatric Prison Nation

New Jersey Legislators Move to Ban Ammunition

The FBI takes the "isolated incident" into horror-film territory.

She Dialed 911. The Cop Who Came to Help Raped Her.

Leon Panetta defends dictatorship

Ignorance of military history breeds sure destruction..

Oil Corporations & US Gov't to Wield Power in Future Oily Iraq

Accenture Spells Out Next Stage of Manipulated Globalism

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren’t infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free. -- Ron Paul

Dressing Like a Grownup: Dealing with Bad Weather

Goodbye Sliced Bread: Dress Pant Sweatpants Officially The Greatest Thing Now

Say it ain't so, Mean Joe (Super Bowl commercial).

Mind-reading device could become reality

Cut Cost, Not Quality: How to Afford Better Food

Adventures in jury duty

Is Being A Moron A Requirement For A Government Job?

Warning to All Hopeful and Expectant Mothers

LAX FEMA Concentration Camp and Rendition Site Confirmed

The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of whistleblowers

Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant … At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms? At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain. Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms? What kind of mentality does that? … Those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced by power itself. The hunger for absolute power and, more to the point, the abuse of power, are a part of human nature. -- Clint Eastwood

theCL Report (February 01, 2012) is a post from: The Classic Liberal Blog

Germany Formally Requests That Greece Hand Over Its Fiscal Independence

Default or Deutschland uber alles

The dreamers who gave us the eurozone stand condemned

The solution to the euro crisis? A European credit rating agency!

More Bailouts for Speculators and Delinquent Mortgage Borrowers from Obama Administration; More Taxpayer Money for Certain Banks

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet; Another Trillion (or Two) Euro LTRO Coming Next Month

Failed Fed Policies Prolong the Agony

Economic Freedom and the Leftward Drift

Unattainable Government Goals

What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass. -- Lord Melbourne

Statism Second Nature to Newt

The Choice In Florida: Economic Freedom Or Totalitarian Socialism

So much for keeping the republic our founders gave us.

They Don't Have a Clue

Pre-Election Euphoria

Newt Gingrich? Really?

The Vote Pump [video]

The Ramifications of Gerrymandering

Obamney's Healthcare?

Stirring Video (got the ol' blood pumping)

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. -- G. K. Chesterton

A Prison of Laws, Not Men

Revealed: The FBI Wants to Monitor Social Media

Here's Looking at You, Kid

Gitmo's Prying Eyes

Iran, Gold and Oil - The Next Banksters War

Police Nondisclosure Rises to a New Low

Destroying Palestinian Homes and Driving Tractors Over Their Legs

The two-tiered system of "justice" – one for us and one for them

DC's "Blowback" foreign policy

9/11 Victims vs. US Justice Dept

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. -- T. S. Eliot

Donald Trump wants a fairway to heaven

"You Play To Win the Game"

Prepping? . . . . not really, just a small slice of peace of mind

CBS Deceives Readers on March for Life Event

The Proposed "Buffett Rule" and Justin Bieber Politics

Krugman's Austere Science

The Shadow of Claude Dallas

The Ultimate End of Social-Democratic Labor Policy

Nobody Understands Poverty or Taxes

A New People Born Out of the Old

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness. -- H.L. Mencken

theCL Report (January 31, 2012) is a post from: The Classic Liberal Blog

Today it pays to owe money, while U.S. savers suffer

The New American Divide

Business As Usual at the FDA

Is President Obama Creating A Nation Of Dependents?

"When does everyone realize the jig is up?"

Bernanke says Fed pondering further stimulus

Bernanke Goes All In

The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown

"That's the mistake Karl Marx made."

The United States has been utilizing what may prove to be the most historically inept strategy in the entire history of warfare, in which the enemy nations are occupied while allowing its own territory to be colonized. -- Vox Day

Debate: Fannie, Freddie, and Fakers

Gary Johnson and the Dawning of the Libertarian Age

Conning the Poor

Ronald Reagan's Third State of the Union

Ron Paul on Newt's Plan for Moon Colony and Statehood

Newt Gingrich: "Clearly, the man's insane."

Newt in 1996: Let's build a real Jurassic Park, have sex in space

One trillion, and counting

Would the statist press even boycott a Ron Paul inauguration?

Avoiding Puppet Candidates

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. -- William Proxmire

Public vs. Private Privacy Threats

George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War

First Sicily, then Rome; The Revolt in Italy Intensifies

Michelle Obama's War On Pizza

NDAA: Taking You Back to the 19th Century

The Decline of the American Empire

Torture and a Brewing Civil War in America's Latest Liberated Country

Department of Justice Cooperating with (ACORN's) Project Vote

What are the actual reasons for the actions of the United States and the EU?

IRS Wants to File Your Taxes for You

Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson

Forget the Résumé

Prepper, The New "er" – Deriding Survivalism

Florida Proposes Using Ballparks and Stadiums as Homeless Shelters

When Keynesian Economics 'Fix' Things

"What Can We Get Away With?"

America Falls Behind Namibia and Papua New Guinea

Man Held in Solitary Confinement 2 Years After DWI

Hawaiian Data Retention Bill Would Force Internet Companies to Spy on Users' Browsing Habits

5 Things You Should Know Before the Facebook Timeline Switch Happens

European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The 'Masquerade' Behind ACTA

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. -- Thomas Jefferson

theCL Report (January 27, 2012) is a post from: The Classic Liberal Blog