The Price Of Gas Is Outrageous – And It Is Going To Go Even Higher

America 1950 vs. America 2012

Not So Fast On That Whole Economic Recovery Thing

Coup D’etat: Pentagon & Obama Declare Congress Ceremonial
Congressman Jones introduces bill that would subject Panetta & Obama to impeachment
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s testimony asserting that the United Nations and NATO have supreme authority over the actions of the United States military, words which effectively declare Congress a ceremonial relic, have prompted Congressman Walter Jones to introduce a resolution that re-affirms such behavior as an “impeachable high crime and misdemeanor” under the Constitution.
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s testimony asserting that the United Nations and NATO have supreme authority over the actions of the United States military, words which effectively declare Congress a ceremonial relic, have prompted Congressman Walter Jones to introduce a resolution that re-affirms such behavior as an “impeachable high crime and misdemeanor” under the Constitution.
White House pushes back on report of deal with Israelis over Iran strike
White House pushes back on report of deal with Israelis over Iran strike
The White House artfully pushed back
Thursday on a report in an Israeli newspaper that claimed the U.S.
offered Israel high-tech weaponry like bunker-busting bombs and
refueling planes in exchange for a pledge to hold off on attacking Iran
until 2013.
The Nuclear Double Standard on Israel is the Main Obstacle to Peace
John Glaser
While widely recognized in antiwar circles and on the left, the issue of a nuclear weapons double standard in the Middle East is one of the least appreciated when it comes to the Iran nuclear debate. As President Obama curries favor with Israel and AIPAC, he is heaping punitive sanctions on the Iranian people and continuously issuing public threats of preventive war.
Iran’s crime? Well, it hasn’t committed one, even according to the leadership in both the U.S. and Israel. But they allege Iran is being intentionally opaque regarding the true intentions of its currently civilian nuclear program. This is what people see as a double standard: While Iran is a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has publicly pledged its opposition to nuclear weapons development, has subjected itself to thorough international inspections, and in fact has exactly zero nuclear weapons, Israel has done none of the above and has approximately 200 nuclear warheads. Iran is being severely punished and threatened with attack, Israel is supported with unparalleled economic, military, and diplomatic support.
The MEK’s Useful Idiots
If you are a Muslim American who is appalled by U.S. foreign policy, most specifically its penchant for invading Islamic countries in a bid to change their regimes, and you make the mistake of saying something to that effect on the phone or writing about your concerns in an email, there is a good chance that the FBI will come after you. You will in short order find yourself with a new friend who is a Muslim just like you and who shares your frustration with American foreign policy. At a certain point he will reveal his affiliation with a certain overseas group that is interested in obtaining revenge for all the Muslims who have been killed or injured by the United States. He will suggest that doing something about the problem would be neither sinful nor really wrong, and he will hint that he has access to the weapons or bombs that could be used for a revenge attack. You take the bait. The bomb or gun is a dud and the new friend turns out to be an FBI informant. Another “terrorist” is arrested and sent to jail for 20 years. End of story.
Revealed: Derrick Bell's HBO Sci-Fi Blaxploitation Flick

Derrick Bell, the man whose scholarship inspired Barack Obama, was the Jeremiah Wright of academia.
And a Hollywood cult hero.Bell was one of the chief proponents of Critical Race Theory, a radical doctrine that holds that American legal institutions—including our civil rights laws—perpetuate white supremacy.
Bell’s ideas were not only radical, but bizarre. After leaving Harvard (he resigned in 1992), he wrote a racialist, antisemitic fictional essay titled “The Space Traders,” which Ninth Circuit judge Alex Kozinski described in the New York Times with disgust:
Obama's Beloved Law Professor: Derrick Bell
Breitbart.com has revealed that while at Harvard Law School, Barack Obama embraced the racially charged cause of professor Derrick Bell.
Both Obama and Bell demanded that Harvard hire professors on the basis of race. Obama
and other students rallied to Bell’s side after Bell quit teaching in
an attempt to force Harvard to implement race-based hiring policies.
OBAMA: 'Open up your hearts and your minds' to racialist prof
by Ben Shapiro
Below is footage of Barack Obama praising and hugging Professor Derrick Bell. It was spliced and diced by the media to avoid showing just how close Obama was to Bell. More than that, a close associate of the Obama campaign, Harvard Law School’s Professor Charles Ogletree, admitted on our exclusive tape, “We hid this throughout the 2008 campaign. I don’t care if they find it now.”
Well, we found it. And it is damaging, because Barack Obama was as close or closer to Derrick Bell than he ever was to Jeremiah Wright. Obama didn’t merely sit in the pews – or not -- for Derrick Bell. He didn’t just hang out with Derrick Bell for prayers. He said:Russia's presidential election
It brings a tear to the eye
by A.O. | MOSCOW

And so it was. Manezh Square, in front of the Kremlin, and a good portion of Tverskaya, the city’s main shopping street, were taken by a crowd of some 100,000 grim-looking people dressed mostly in black, who were brought in to celebrate the victory of Vladimir Putin. Russia's outgoing prime minister officially won more than 64% of the vote in yesterday's presidential election.
The view from Tehran
Lexington
What might Ayatollah Ali Khamenei be making of America’s noisy Iran talk this week?

Let Romney be Romney
The Republicans
The Republican front-runner should be talking about jobs above all

The dream that failed
Nuclear power
A year after Fukushima, the future for nuclear power is not bright—for reasons of cost as much as safety

Wealthy Colombian businessman is a drug-trafficker, CIA operative alleges
Posted by Bill Conroy -
Another source, a past employee, also claims narco-entrepreneur is connected to rightwing paramilitary forces
Narco News won an historic legal battle in
2001 when the New York Supreme Court dismissed a libel suit filed
against the online publication by a giant Mexican bank. In the process,
the court also extended critical free-press protections for the first
time to Internet news sites and reporters.
Narco News publisher Al Giordano, and his
longtime ally, Mexican journalist Mario Menendez, publisher of the
Mexican daily Por Esto!, stood as defendants in that litigation against
the powerful lender Banco Nacional de Mexico S.A.(Banamex), led and
controlled at the time by banker Roberto Hernandez Ramirez.
At the heart of the litigation was the following claim:
Fast and Furious Is One Among Many Similar Drug-War Warts
Posted by Bill Conroy -
Turf Wars, Agency Budgets and Case Stats Trump Lives in the Era of ProhibitionEver since ATF’s Fast and Furious gun-running operation was catapulted into the national spotlight in early 2011, the focus has been on the politics influencing the police work and the manipulations behind intelligence operations, with little to no attention paid to the dysfunction of the drug-war bureaucracy.
A report released by the US Government Accountability Office in June 2009, some three months before Operation Fast and Furious was even launched, underscores that dysfunction in succinct detail. Advance copies of that report were provided at the time to “the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and State and to the Office of National Drug Control Policy,” GAO documents state.

In that now two-and-a-half-year-old report is a blistering indictment of operations, obviously already in existence prior to June 2009 and Fast and Furious, that utilized a strategy similar to that employed in Fast and Furious — which allowed criminals to “walk” thousands of guns into Mexico under the watch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (better known as ATF). The supposed goal: identify and bring to justice the higher-ups in Mexico’s arms trafficking organizations.
Here are the money graphs from the GAO report:
US Troops May Now Be Coping with Fast and Furious Fallout
Posted by Bill Conroy -
Reported US Military Ramp-up on the Border Follows Years of ATF-Sanctioned Gun Running
U.S. troops deployed to the US/Mexican border last week may well be there, in part, to deal with the blowback from ATF's botched Fast and Furious gambit.
Veteran border reporter Diana Washington Valdez of The El Paso Times reported late last week that “active-duty soldiers” from Fort Bliss, just north of El Paso, Texas, have been deployed to support the US Border Patrol in the Arizona and New Mexico border region.
Tosh Plumlee, a longtime CIA operative, who has been actively monitoring the New Mexico border region for years, also confirms that at least a half dozen “government vans” packed with US soldiers were spotted in recent days on a highway leading into Columbus, N.M., which is just across the border (some 3 miles) from Palomas, Mexico — a hotbed of narco- and weapons- trafficking activity in recent years.
Plumlee says the deployment is likely part of an ongoing joint Mexican and US military task-force operation that has been active since at least 2009. Narco News reported on some of the activities of that joint op in mid-2010, including the fact that small teams of US special operations soldiers were active on the Mexican side of the border, imbedded with the Mexican military.
However, neither Plumlee, nor The El Paso Times report, shed any definitive light on the precise nature of the recent US troop deployment along the border, specifically in the Columbus area. Plumlee has told Narco News previously, though, that there have been numerous reports of suspected weapons stashes concealed in the desolate moon-like landscape surrounding Columbus and Palomas — near landmarks such as Guzman Lookout Mountain and Coyote Hill to the east of Columbus.
In fact, several days ago, on the evening of Feb. 16, Plumlee says he was traveling along the border near Columbus when he came across the echoes of a firefight playing out just across the border. It’s not clear, Plumlee adds, who was engaged in that shootout, but it is certain, he says, that there were live rounds ripping through the air. He tape-recorded his experience that evening, providing the play-by-play of the action — a recording that can be found at this link.
U.S. troops deployed to the US/Mexican border last week may well be there, in part, to deal with the blowback from ATF's botched Fast and Furious gambit.
Veteran border reporter Diana Washington Valdez of The El Paso Times reported late last week that “active-duty soldiers” from Fort Bliss, just north of El Paso, Texas, have been deployed to support the US Border Patrol in the Arizona and New Mexico border region.
Tosh Plumlee, a longtime CIA operative, who has been actively monitoring the New Mexico border region for years, also confirms that at least a half dozen “government vans” packed with US soldiers were spotted in recent days on a highway leading into Columbus, N.M., which is just across the border (some 3 miles) from Palomas, Mexico — a hotbed of narco- and weapons- trafficking activity in recent years.
Plumlee says the deployment is likely part of an ongoing joint Mexican and US military task-force operation that has been active since at least 2009. Narco News reported on some of the activities of that joint op in mid-2010, including the fact that small teams of US special operations soldiers were active on the Mexican side of the border, imbedded with the Mexican military.

However, neither Plumlee, nor The El Paso Times report, shed any definitive light on the precise nature of the recent US troop deployment along the border, specifically in the Columbus area. Plumlee has told Narco News previously, though, that there have been numerous reports of suspected weapons stashes concealed in the desolate moon-like landscape surrounding Columbus and Palomas — near landmarks such as Guzman Lookout Mountain and Coyote Hill to the east of Columbus.
In fact, several days ago, on the evening of Feb. 16, Plumlee says he was traveling along the border near Columbus when he came across the echoes of a firefight playing out just across the border. It’s not clear, Plumlee adds, who was engaged in that shootout, but it is certain, he says, that there were live rounds ripping through the air. He tape-recorded his experience that evening, providing the play-by-play of the action — a recording that can be found at this link.
Arse Backwards: The Federal Reserve's Approach to the Housing Market
In reaffirming its near 0% interest rate policy for another three years the Federal Reserve averred that this was necessary to revive the housing market, which, in turn, was necessary for the economy to revive. House building and the buying and selling of existing homes are meaningful parts of the economy. More important, from the Fed’s perspective a house is the biggest asset for millions of people; therefore, higher values mean owners will be more likely to spend.
This reasoning is arse backwards.
The Romney Train Rolls On
By Karl Rove
Mitt nearly erased the gap among non-college graduates and once again carried Catholic voters.
Ron Paul didn't finally win a state. But he took 41% of the vote in Virginia—his highest percentage in this primary season—and picked up 22 delegates in the evening's 10 contests.
Newt Gingrich won Georgia—the state that elected him to Congress for nearly two decades—with almost half the vote, a strong performance. He would have lost all credibility had he lost. He had failed to turn in enough signatures to get on the Virginia ballot, and he came in third in the other Southern states up for grabs on Tuesday, behind Rick Santorum (who took the gold medal in Tennessee and Oklahoma) and Mitt Romney (who took the silver in both). The former House speaker must now win Alabama or Mississippi next week even to remain a regional candidate.
Fighting Debt with Debt
By Bob McTeer
My house is under water, for sure
My car is upside down, you bet
But I’m getting me a consolidation loan
And finally getting out of debt
Bob McTeer
Well, it may be
hard to borrow your way out of debt, but sometimes it buys time, and
time is money. One of the few major contributions to the European debt
crisis is the ECB’s lending to European banks. Long-term low-interest
loans help the banks themselves as well as put them in a position to buy
European sovereign debt, an excess of which is the main problem. It
buys debtor countries some time to become less so. It goes a long way
toward making the European debt crisis a condition that doesn’t portend
disaster tomorrow.
Vulture Capitalism. John Stossel
Now that Mitt Romney is likely to be the Republican nominee, we can
expect new attacks on his "vulture capitalism." That's how Rick Perry
characterized his private equity work. Newt Gingrich's supporters ran an
ad about Romney's firm, Bain Capital, that said, "Their greed was only
matched by their willingness to do anything to make millions in
profits."
Give me a break.
"Greed" means you want more for yourself. Fine. If you obtain it legally, without force or privilege — say, by buying a business and making it more efficient, or shifting resources to where consumers prefer them — that is a good thing. "Creative destruction" makes America richer.
Give me a break.
"Greed" means you want more for yourself. Fine. If you obtain it legally, without force or privilege — say, by buying a business and making it more efficient, or shifting resources to where consumers prefer them — that is a good thing. "Creative destruction" makes America richer.
Too Many Laws!
by John Stossel |
My last Fox News special "Illegal Everything" showed how government's mountain of rules stifle entrepreneurs and make criminals out of everyday people. I tried to open my own lemonade stand but New York City made it difficult. The government said I had to pass a 15-hour food protection class, which included questions about barracuda and puffer fish.
My last Fox News special "Illegal Everything" showed how government's mountain of rules stifle entrepreneurs and make criminals out of everyday people. I tried to open my own lemonade stand but New York City made it difficult. The government said I had to pass a 15-hour food protection class, which included questions about barracuda and puffer fish.
60 Second Refutation of Socialism, While Sitting at the Beach
Last week, there were several comments in Carnival of the Capitalists that people would like to see more articles highlighting the benefits of capitalism. This got me thinking about a conversation I had years ago at the beach:
Hanging out at the beach one day with a distant family member, we got into a discussion about capitalism and socialism. In particular, we were arguing about whether brute labor, as socialism teaches, is the source of all wealth (which, socialism further argues, is in turn stolen by the capitalist masters). The young woman, as were most people her age, was taught mainly by the socialists who dominate college academia nowadays. I was trying to find a way to connect with her, to get her to question her assumptions, but was struggling because she really had not been taught many of the fundamental building blocks of either philosophy or economics, but rather a mish-mash of politically correct points of view that seem to substitute nowadays for both.
As Far as Thought Goes, Scienter Should Suffice
by
Hayley Gorenberg and others who support “hate-crime” legislation (“Even Nonviolent Crime Needs to Be Fought,” March 8th) endorse – no doubt unawares – a source of tyranny that dates back ages, namely, ruling-elites’ attempts to govern people’s thoughts.
In the past, thought-policing was aimed at controlling individuals’ notions about sacred texts and other theocratic matters. Today, thought-policing is aimed at controlling individuals’ notions about sexual practices, racial and gender differences, and lifestyles. But today as yesterday – and regardless of the ungodliness or shamefulness of the targeted thoughts – no institution is to be trusted that empowers some men and women to peer into the minds of other men and women for the purpose of forcing people’s thoughts to conform to an official standard.
The great early 17th-century English jurist, Sir Edward Coke – whose writings greatly influenced America’s founding generation – famously challenged King James I’s effort to deploy the power of the English crown to punish people merely for what they thought. Coke proclaimed that “No man ecclesiastical or temporal shall be examined upon secret thoughts of his heart…. Cogitationis poenam nemo emeret – no man may be punished for his thoughts –’For it hath been said in the Proverb, Thought is free.’”*
That maxim is today as important a bulwark against tyranny as it was 400 years ago.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Professor of Economics
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
“Rattle The Turbans” – Defeating Iran in Syria
“What are the range of options open to the United States, and
other powers, in the face of the large-scale violence that the Assad
regime has unleashed on the Syrian people?”
Reporters covering the Obama Administration’s foreign policy have provided the answer: “the U.S. sees few good options in Syria” (Washington Post, 12 Feb 2012). Those living in a time of revolution, it has been said, often don’t realize it. Washington does not seem to understand that what is going on in the Middle East is a world-historical (not merely regional) event.
Reporters covering the Obama Administration’s foreign policy have provided the answer: “the U.S. sees few good options in Syria” (Washington Post, 12 Feb 2012). Those living in a time of revolution, it has been said, often don’t realize it. Washington does not seem to understand that what is going on in the Middle East is a world-historical (not merely regional) event.
US: Obama is America’s Lenin – by Jeffrey T. Kuhner

World: Chavez Supports Crimes Against Humanity – by Ray Walser

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