U.S. Set to Reach Another Debt Milestone Under Obama – by Jim Geraghty

On Tuesday, according to the Department of the Treasury, it was $15,499,023,629,682.44, to be precise.
That figure was $10.6 trillion the day Barack Obama took office.
US: Derrick Bell: The Jeremiah Wright Of Harvard – Investors.com

It turns out his favorite law professor was the late Derrick Bell, a black radical who taught classes trashing the Constitution as racist.
US: Race-baiting Democrats do nothing for undocumented citizens – by Deroy Murdock

US: Iran and Obama – by Thomas Sowell

What are we to make of President Barack Obama’s latest pronouncements about Iran’s movement toward nuclear bombs? His tough talk might have had some influence on Iran a couple of years ago, when he was instead being kinder and gentler with the world’s leading terrorist-sponsoring nation. Now his tough talk may only influence this year’s election — which may be enough for Obama.
Syria: What Prevents U.S. Military Involvement

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U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. James Mattis
The United States is not eager to launch an air campaign against the Syrian regime that would be similar to the NATO campaign in Libya even though numerous U.S. lawmakers have called for such a campaign. Not only did Libya not have the formidable air defense systems that Russia has provided to Syria, but Syria's rebels have not been able to control large areas of territory. These factors would complicate any air campaign against the al Assad regime, but Washington's reluctance to get involved militarily is based on the fear that it could slip into a much messier conflict than it did in Libya.
Spring Break in Mexico: Travel and Security Risks
Spring Break in Mexico: Travel and Security Risks

Russia: Putin To Appoint Medvedev Prime Minister

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) and President Dmitri Medvedev in Moscow on Feb. 23
The premiership's responsibilities and power have shifted over the years. Russia's prime minister oversees the organization of the teams that will address political, economic and security issues and is meant to balance the competing agendas of the Kremlin's political clans.
15 Potentially Massive Threats to the U.S. Economy Over the Next 12 Months. Economic Collapse Blog
We live in
a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and the potential
for an event that could cause "sudden change" to the U.S. economy
is greater than ever. There are dozens of potentially massive threats
that could easily push the U.S. economy over the edge during the
next 12 months. A war in the Middle East, a financial collapse in
Europe, a major derivatives crisis or a horrific natural disaster
could all change our economic situation very rapidly. Most of the
time I write about the long-term
economic trends that are slowly but surely ripping the U.S.
economy to pieces, but the truth is that just a single really bad
"black
swan event" over the next 12 months could accelerate our economic
problems dramatically. If oil was cut off from the Middle East or
a really bad natural disaster suddenly destroyed a major U.S. city,
the U.S. economy would be thrown into a state of chaos. Considering
how bad the U.S. economy is
currently performing, it would be easy to see how a major "shock
to the system" could push us into the "next Great Depression" very
easily. Let us hope that none of these things actually happen over
the next 12 months, but let us also understand that we live in a
world that has become extremely chaotic and extremely unstable.
How to Ruin Your Economy and Influence People. by Bill Bonner
We can learn
a lot from the Argentines. When it comes to messing up an economy,
they’re Numero Uno. They’re Olympians of financial legerdemain
and masters of the old false shuffle.
In 2001, the
country was deeply in debt. The government was out of money. And
the currency was losing value fast. What did the Argentines do?
First, they
broke their promise to investors and savers, cutting the peso loose
from the dollar. Then, they seized control of banks and bank accounts.
People had been saving money in US dollar accounts in order to avoid
problems with the peso. But the Argentine feds forcibly converted
their accounts to pesos, just as the peso was losing 2/3rds of its
value.
The next thing
was to take the reserves in the central bank and use them to pay
current expenses – which caused the head of the bank to resign
in protest.
Will Ron Paul Invite Mitt Romney To Be His Vice President?. by Allan Stevo
Conservative
Americans DO NOT WANT Mitt Romney. That’s pretty darn obvious. He
spends a fortune trying to convince voters, gets a generous amount
of media time to express his message, and still can’t seem to inspire
the Republican base, even when he’s running against the likes of
crooked party hacks Santorum and Gingrich, or against that other
guy – the Congressman from Texas who seldom gets mentioned in the
media. Against opponents like that, the out-of-touch punditry have
long expected that Super Tuesday 2012 would be the coronation of
Mitt Romney.
How Ron Paul Carried My County … and the man whose selfless work made it possible. by Christopher Manion
Four years
ago and more, I met a neighbor at our farm gate. He was an LRC
regular and wanted to say hello – and to post a big 3’x6’ "Ron
Paul Revolution" sign on our farm fence.
As he drove
up, I smiled at his license plate – "Wrench 1." He got
out the sign, unrolled it, and we talked while we put it up.
"How
long have you been interested in politics," I asked.
"About
two months."
"What
got you hooked?"
"I was
driving to work one morning and saw a sign at the side of the
highway, ‘Google Ron Paul.’ I went home that night and looked
him up."
"I haven’t
sat down since."
That’s how
I met Richard Conrow, a living tribute to the passion for liberty
that God has planted in every man, woman, and child ever born.
While Rockefeller Romney has placed paid campaign staff in virtually
every county in the country – and there are some 3,300 of them
– for the past five years, Ron Paul’s simple appeal to "life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" has inspired countless
lovers of liberty to devote millions of unpaid hours to spread
the word that freedom isn’t dead, and it need not die.
Richard came
back last spring and we went to work again at the farm gate. I
asked him if he’d be so kind as to write down his story – why
a guy who had seldom been interested in politics had suddenly
become an engine of inspiration out here in the Shenandoah Valley.
With his permission, I am quoting here his reply.

Tea Party Knocks off Another GOP Incumbent
by Mike Flynn

For the past several months, the media and the left have continually heralded the "death" of the tea party movement. With a sparkle in their eye and a barely concealed hint of glee, they've reassured themselves that the organic grass-roots movement, which had delivered historic Democrat losses across the country, was fading and would no longer pose a threat to their progressive agenda. Apparently, though, nobody bothered to tell the tea party.
Bell, Farrakhan BFFs
by Ben Shapiro
Derrick Bell’s Faces at the Bottom of the Well is a fascinating take on racial politics. But he saves his most flattering words for an anti-Semite who called Judaism a “gutter religion,” believes that H1N1 flu vaccine was created to depopulate the earth, supported racist monster Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and received backing from Moammar Gadhafi: Louis Farrakhan.
Derrick Bell Visited White House Twice In 2010
by Dan Riehl

Via Lachlan Markay at Heritage, we learn a Derrick A. Bell visited the Obama White House twice in 2010. The White House did not return a request for comment. The visits were on 1/29/2010, a Friday, and 1/31/2010, a Sunday. For now, a web search of news reports did not turn up why Bell may have been in Washington that particular weekend.
Obama Assigned Reading: Bell Says Whites Might Enslave Blacks
by Ben Shapiro
Back when Barack Obama was a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, he assigned Derrick Bell’s readings in class. In particular, he assigned the introduction to Bell’s book, Faces at the Bottom of the Well. Bell’s book was highly controversial, and for good reason: it contains some of the most inflammatory racial material in the critical race theory canon. And the introduction is chock-full of it. Open your hearts and minds to the words of Derrick Bell:
Piers Morgan Mocks Davis Guggenheim for Obama Documentary
By DANIEL HALPER
CNN's Piers Morgan mocked
filmmaker Davis Guggenheim last night for not including a single
criticism of President Obama in his campaign documentary.
Michael Tomasky on the Right’s Delusions About the Derrick Bell Video
The radical right hopes that a two-decade-old videotape of Barack Obama embracing radical professor Derrick Bell will sink the president. Don’t bet on it.
Are they kidding? Barack Obama hugged Derrick Bell? Wow! This just proves everything, doesn’t it? It’s “the smoking gun,” according to some Breitbartian
lickspittle, “showing that Barack Obama not only associated with
radicals but believed deeply in their principles—and wanted the rest of
us to believe in them, too.” It’s almost sad, watching them try to turn
this unremarkable minute-and-a-half into a scandal. But the main point
here is that the Bell video affair shows yet again that this “movement”
that is constantly invoking the flag and patriotism and saying it
represents America is far, far removed from mainstream American reality.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
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

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