Category: Rick's Prep
Two headlines from Reuters:
Obama backs letting tax cuts on rich expire: W.House
Obama pushes Congress to pass small business plan
So, the American Idol wants to increase the tax burden on the rich. And, at the same time, he wants small businesses to follow some "plan" to create more jobs. Do you see what's wrong with this plan? If you don't, and would like a clue, ask yourself who owns the small businesses.
...has exposed several cover-ups over the war in Afghanistan, including the deaths of hundreds of civilians.
Summary
The following statistical report is based on information gathered during the first half of 2010. The data used to create this statistical report is available for public viewing in the database section of this site. From January 2010 through June 2010 there were:
* 2,541 Unique reports of police misconduct cited.
* 3,240 Law enforcement officers cited in recorded police misconduct reports.
* 178 Of the law enforcement officers reported were departmental leaders, police chiefs, and sheriffs.
* 4,199 Alleged victims of police misconduct associated with these reports.
* 124 Fatalities associated with these reports.
* 17.9 Law enforcement officers cited in the news for misconduct each day on average.
* $148,512,000 in approximated police misconduct related settlements and judgments paid out in this period.
The smell was unlike anything I've smelled before, a mixture of feces, urine, blood, smoke, and something else indescribable.
Elmhurst (Illinois) officials self-important, sanctimonious, thin-skinned petty tyrants are considering creating a "disturbance and disorderly conduct" violation after a resident accused of rolling her eyes and sighing was ejected from a public meeting.
When historians look back on the period between 2001 and 2011, they will be amazed that a nation that professed to hate bureaucracy produced so much of it.
The only thing Americans hate more than big government is the absence of government protection.
Nick Schulz weighs in on the liberaltarianism debate:
The original fusionist project of Frank Meyer and others was predicated on a belief that libertarians and conservatives (social/religious/paleo) actually agreed on some basic philosophical principles, not just shared goals such as opposing Soviet communism (as important as that was). Two of these have always been paramount: The importance of protecting individual liberty, and an appreciation for the vital role played by civil society and traditional mediating institutions that made American culture and ordered liberty possible.
Thanks to Jonah’s exchange with Cato’s Brink Lindsey in print and in person, there’s lots of chatter in libertarian circles once again about the future of “liberaltarianism,” Brink’s project to fuse libertarians and liberals into a viable political coalition (in contrast with the old fusionist alliance of conservatives and libertarians). Tim Lee weighs in here and says:
Political alliances are built by concrete actions toward shared goals, not by abstract statements of philosophical agreement.
This assertion misses something fundamentally important and helps get to the heart of what’s flawed about liberaltarianism.
Over at Reason, there’s a debate about the future of libertarianism. Brink Lindsey argues that the American right has become increasingly inhospitable to libertarian ideas, and that it’s time for the dissolution of the historic “fusionist” alliance between conservatives and libertarians. Ilya Somin offers a thoughtful rebuttal.
