Today's Recommended Reading

This article on Human Events gives the top 10 reasons the Dark Lord of the Sith, George Soros, is the most dangerous liberal demagogue in America today. Particularly of interest was the section on his get out the vote group, America Coming Together, being fined $775,000.00 for violations of federal election laws.

Best Campaign Ad Ever

The National Republican Senate Committee put out this President Obama "re-election" commercial on April Fool's Day. Good stuff.

And Yet More Health Care Law Idiocy

Because you're too stupid to properly feed yourself, Obamacare has allowed the FDA to pass regulations (they're like laws only without the Constitution getting in the way) requiring restaurants and even vending machines to show calorie information. By the way, the proposal has come from no less than Mike Taylor, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods, and former lobbyist for the Monsanto corporation. Luckily, alcohol is exempted, so your stupid fat ass can get drunk and not worry about the government telling you how to feed yourself.

And One More Thing Slipped Under Your Nose

FOX News is reporting a provision of the health care bill and a spokesman has confirmed there is a $5 billion (bribe) bailout of unions and corporations which guaranteed health insurance for early retirees. Shockingly enough (sarcasm) it is alreay on pace to overspend the $5 billion set aside for the campaign. Don't forget, large numbers of unions and corporations have already received waivers from obligations under the health care law.

Anyone who ever believed this was really about health care is dead wrong. It's about an eventual single payor system for the purpose of creating dependency on Democrats and benefits flowing to existing constituents.

And the Award for Unintenional Irony Goes To...

...University of Wyoming student Haley Barton. Haley, a future Rhodes Scholar, no doubt, commented on a visit by Ann Coulter meant to serve as a rebuttal to a prior visit by domestic terrorist, Weather Underground founder and Obama pal, Bill Ayers, by saying: "Personally, I think bringing Ann Coulter to campus as a counter to Bill Ayers is kind of inappropriate." At the time, she was holding a sign saying "We don't want your hate." I can only assume that means she wants liberal hate such as Mr. Ayers.

Last I checked, Ann Coulter (who I have never heard say anything more hateful than simple sarcasm) has yet to incite people to bomb government buildings, declared an open state of war against the federal government nor has she requested or incited anyone to murder policemen. Yet this subversive jackass who would be in jail if not for prosecutorial misconduct who had been on the run from police for years is encouraged to give speeches about his ideas on education and is respected within the university community.

Keep on keepin' on Haley! Someday you can get a government job and if you're lucky, maybe you'll have the privilege of being bombed by one of Bill Ayers' disciples. Moron.

Damn Those Violent Tea Parties!

Much like everything else liberals purport to be fact, allegations from the left of Tea Party violence and racism remain unsubstantiated. The left assumes the Tea Party would be violent because that is how they react. For example, 26 year old Katherine Windels has been arrested in connection with e-mail death threats sent to Wisconsin Republicans for their support of restrictions on public sector union collective bargaining. Strangely, the local district attorney, a Democrat, had not filed charges against the woman. I wonder if the fact that he was a Democrat had anything to do with that? Or the fact that he filed a lawsuit alleging the bill passed by the Republicans is improper? Or if Snuffulufagus is real? It took the State Attorney General giving a friendly call to ask why for charges to be filed.

As Ann Coulter often says and I have often repeated, you can tell what liberals are doing by what they accuse you of.

Time to Abolish the Federal Reserve System as it Exists

Bloomberg reports that, pursuant to a FOIA request, the Fed has released documents showing that money was lent to foreign sources to prop up banks lending money to local governments in Belgium, a financer of cooperative fisheries in Japan and a company part owned by Libya. I guess we really did have vital interests over there. During a record week in October 2008 when the Fed lent out $110.7 billion, 70% went to foreign sources. The Federal Reserve chairman, Benjamin Bernanke, had sought to block access to this information (gee, I wonder why). In fact, during the peak of the financial crisis, Wachovia was the only U.S. bank to be amongst the top five borrowers under the discount rate program. The second largest borrower, Bank of China.

What if those loans had been to the Greek banks and Grece had fully collapsed? It would cause a liquidity crisis which would have had severe effects in the United States. Meanwhile, Bernanke is trying to keep this from the American people. Since the Fed prints money and thereby directly controls the value of the dollar, I would say the American people should probably be able to know what's going on at the Fed. However, the Fed is not accountable to anyone, it's books closed to public inspection. Only in theory is it accountable through Congressional oversight. Further, the banks which make up the Fed are privately held companies.

Abolishing the Fed entirely is probably not a practical option politically, however, making the public funds open to review and bringing in stiff penalties and possible criminal sanctions would go a long way to bringing accountability to the system.