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Tom Woods Appearing On Fox

Prof. Tom Woods appearing on the Fox show, Glenn Beck, hosted this day by Judge Andrew Napolitano.

Cap and Trade would hit Ohio’s Pocketbook

This letter to the editor appeared in The Columbus Dispatch:

It’s been a remarkably contentious few months in our nation’s capital. But one thing is clear from the flurry of bills, amendments and stump speeches on climate change: Cap and trade will fail Americans, especially in the lower and middle classes, and bring higher fuel costs across the board.

The fuels that individuals and businesses use every day — gasoline, diesel and jet fuel — will increase dramatically in price under this legislation. Despite the number of bells and whistles attached, from green-power subsidies or weak nuclear-power amendments to minor offshore-drilling concessions, cap and trade is a toxin that will spread to every corner of our economy.

According to a study by the Heritage Foundation, Ohioans would be looking at almost $4 billion less in disposable income, 46,000 jobs lost and $10.6 billion in lost state revenue. Though the White House and its allies in Congress have relentlessly marketed cap and trade as the ticket for a “green economy” and “green jobs,” many Americans are catching on that these do not exist without massive taxpayers’ subsidies and exponentially higher energy rates.

Ohioans must stay on guard; this issue is far from dead. Urge Ohio Sens. Sherrod Brown and George V. Voinovich to stop cap-and-trade legislation and keep America moving on the transportation fuels it needs.
PETE SEPP
Vice president Policy and Communications National Taxpayers Union Alexandria, Va.

Do you think any of our political class even care?

Plenty of H1N1 Vaccine; But Is There?

Rest easy people, the Ohio Department of Health has announced that there is enough H1N1 vaccine to protect the “priority” groups in Ohio, even though there is absolutely, positively, no pandemic.

Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Alvin Jackson, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Thomas Frieden gave an update on flu activity and vaccine distribution today.

Thanks Sherrod, we couldn’t have done it without your guiding leadership.

As things stand, Ohio health departments, hospitals and doctors’ offices have received enough vaccine to cover those people the CDC considered highest priority in the event of a shortage, Jackson said.

In the event of shortage, what; but I thought there was plenty? Oh, that’s right, the Council for Foreign Relations (who’s in the business of medical care among making war and pushing a global government) says that it’s okay to lie and create panic using an artificial shortage to get the proles to take the shots. Glad to see you got the talking point Dr. Jackson.

Big Brother wants into your hard drive

Conservative and Libertarian Support Moving Gitmo Detainees To Illinois

There is an interesting article posted on the Huffington Post featuring a joint statement from David Keene, founder of American Conservative Union, Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and former representative and Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr, who head a new initiative called the Constitution Project, who advocate closing down the prison at Guantanamo Bay Cube and to moving the facility to Illinois. It is very interesting perspective in light of President Obama’s similar call.

Here is the entire statement from Norquist, Keene and Barr:

As it moves to close Guantanamo and develop policies for handling terrorism suspects going forward, the government should rely upon our established, traditional system of justice. This includes our system of federal prisons, which have repeatedly proven they can safely hold persons convicted of terrorism offenses.

We are confident that the government can preserve national security without resorting to sweeping and radical departures from an American constitutional tradition that has served us effectively for over two centuries.

Civilian federal courts are the proper forum for terrorism cases. Civilian prisons are the safe, cost effective and appropriate venue to hold persons convicted in federal courts. Over the last two decades, federal courts constituted under Article III of the U.S. Constitution have proven capable of trying a wide array of terrorism cases, without sacrificing either national security or fair trial standards.

Likewise the federal prison system has proven itself fully capable of safely holding literally hundreds of convicted terrorists with no threat or danger to the surrounding community.

The scaremongering about these issues should stop.

Using a state of the art but little used prison facility like the one at Thomson, Illinois – with any appropriate security upgrades our law enforcement professionals deem necessary – makes good sense for the tax payers who invested $145 million in the facility and who are seeing millions wasted every month at the costly, inefficient Guantanamo facility. It makes sense for the community which will benefit from the related employment and has absolutely no reason to fear that prisoners will escape or be released into their communities.

But most of all it makes sense for America because it is a critical link in the process of closing Guantanamo and getting this country back to using its tried and true, constitutionally sound institutions.

SIGNATORIES:

Bob Barr, Member of U.S. Congress (R-GA), 1995-2003; CEO, Liberty Strategies, LLC; the 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy, the American Conservative Union, 2003- 2008; Chairman, Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances; Practicing Attorney

David Keene, Chairman, American Conservative Union; Member, Board of Directors, National Rifle Association

Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform

*Affiliations are listed for identification purposes and do not imply the endorsement of the organizations with which the signatories are affiliated.

Liberal Can’t Get Beyond Left-Right Paradigm

I read an article today, via BlogNetNews, “Why We Can’t and Shouldn’t Send More Troops to Afghanistan,” from the Ohio blogger Stubborn Liberal, calling attention to a clear fact that if Obama sends in additional troops to Afghanistan, levels between 30,000 to 40,000 troops, our country will be without a reserve needed to defend us from another threat.

So while this is very true, the writer has a great opportunity to highlight Obama’s obvious lie committed in contrast to his supporters beliefs, instead the writer takes a swing at Republicans. Stubborn Liberal writes that no matter what Obama does “Republicans will complain” (wah my diapers wet). Yet in the concluding statement, and what can only be called weak dribble, the writer concludes “[t]he President needs to bring everyone home.” Well no kidding.

If people can’t get beyond all of this left verses right democrat verses republican bull crap, we are going to be led further down this road of misery by the single party of oligarchs who inhabit Washington City. It’s all a lie, it’s really one party! Your Obama is looking much like their Bush.

Let me clue you in Stubborn Liberal, there are a lot of people out here, republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and democrats who want the endless war to end! Stop being divisive and start trying to call attention to the issues-to the problems. Stop causing divisiveness. Stop the promoting the left-right paradigm.

Government Rate of Taxation Verses Rate of Return

We pay 7.65 percent of our earnings (6.2 percent on the Social Security portion and 1.45 percent on Medicare) for our FICA tax, and from that money paid we only receive a rate of return of less than 2 percent.

Considering those figures, how much medical care do you think you’ll get after paying a new medical tax of say 25 percent of your earnings?

Paying for Medical From Your Wallet or From Taxes?

I have a question for you, it may be one of those questions that you could ask the folks in your family, at church or at your place work because of the significance to future. So, would you prefer pay for your medical care from your wallet, pocketbook, checkbook, cash or debit card, or from your taxes?

I know if I had my choice I would prefer to pay from my own wallet. What about you?

The Militarization of the Police Force in USA