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The view of French philosopher Radu Stoenesc presented in the middle of this short clip is worth consideration. The problem with all of this is that most people are unwilling to face confrontation, even when it is the right thing to do. Little has changed since the American revolution, where most people were not willing to take a stand.

Yes, the citizenry at large succumbs to fear first.]]> General http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1602 Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:05:07 -0400 http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1600
The architecture of the ballot itself complicates Fiorina’s task. Unlike in some other states, U.S. Senate candidates in California are at the bottom, not the top, of the statewide ballot — trailing all seven partisan statewide constitutional offices and even the lowly Board of Equalization, the state’s tax board. [Read]

So, according to the in-depth analysis provided by Politico, the (D)emocrat will win because the only voters that can get to the end of the ballot in California are (D)emocratic supporters? This is what Politico considers high-minded political analysis? We have a better description: What a joke.]]> The Cause http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1600 Thu, 2 Sep 2010 10:44:12 -0400 http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1598
Read Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson says she'll repay scholarship funds by week's end

Odds are the imbeciles who put her in office for 18 years will do it again, but we can hope...

"While I am not ashamed of helping, I did not intentionally mean to violate any rules in the process." Believable? Her defense is ignorance? For what kind of voter is this acceptable?]]> Obviously http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1598 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:57:11 -0400 http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1595
When you cede your liberties to the government because you are not strong enough for the responsibility of freedom, the totalitarian state will dress you appropriately.

A Times article states:
It is a dangerous decision — one that, as the dissenting judges warned, could turn America into the sort of totalitarian state imagined by George Orwell. It is particularly offensive because the judges added insult to injury with some shocking class bias: the little personal privacy that still exists, the court suggested, should belong mainly to the rich. [Read The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves]

Read the judge's dissent:
Having previously decimated the protections the Fourth Amendment accords to the home itself, United States v. Lemus, 596 F.3d 512 (9th Cir. 2010) (Kozinski, C.J., dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc); United States v. Black, 482 F.3d 1044 (9th Cir. 2007) (Kozinski, J., dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc), our court now proceeds to dismantle the zone of privacy we enjoy in the home’s curtilage and in public. The needs of law enforcement, to which my colleagues seem inclined to refuse nothing, are quickly making personal privacy a distant memory. 1984 may have come a bit later than predicted, but it’s here at last.

The facts are disturbingly simple: Police snuck onto Pineda-Moreno’s property in the dead of night and attached a GPS tracking device to the underside of his car. The device continuously recorded the car’s location, allowing police to monitor all of Pineda-Moreno’s movements without the need for visual surveillance. The panel holds that none of this implicates the Fourth Amendment, even though the government concedes that the car was in the curtilage of Pineda-Moreno’s home at the time the police attached the tracking device.. [Read Full Opinion]

Another opinion of his worth a read is the aforementioned UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JUAN HERMAN LEMUS

People do not seem to understand that those who have usurped the term liberal are nothing of the sort, though you must admit it sounds so much nicer than the truth.

Do you have a gate on the front of your property? No? Sorry, you only get partial Constitutional protection.]]> Freedom http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1595 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:41:48 -0400 http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1593 Katrina a tale of SBA failure, it is not what you think. (It is not about how the government was not there in a time of need, it is how your government was there and screwed over its citizens, with malice of forethought.)

You cannot blame Bush anymore than the people in the article can blame their supervisors. You do not go bad and screw over your fellow citizen for a secure government paycheck because your boss said to, unless that is who you are already. And what are the consequences for government ineptitude and immorality? The usual; no consequences and continued paychecks and benefits for the government's loyal soldiers of fortune.

If you do not see what is in store for government run healthcare, you have chosen to be blind, or are incredibly stupid.]]> The Cause http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1593 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:11:47 -0400 http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1591
> Many homeowners are NOT paying their mortgage so can sustain a standard of living above what they should be able to afford. If you do not know someone doing this, you are, or you do not know enough people, or someone is lying, or you are living in a nice little bubble of happy unreality (Washington DC).
> Many people have borrowed from their 401(k) under the hardship provision. This borrowing is at a 10 year high at Fidelity Investments, and, unfortunately, many of these people will not recover because of the state and direction of the economy. [Read: 401(k) hardship withdrawals, loans up]

When are things really going to get better? When we realize freedom is more valuable than government control and citizen management, and that the engine that runs our economy is opportunity for the individual.]]> Economics http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1591 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:07:48 -0400 http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1589
Read Banks to benefit most from White House effort to fight foreclosures

The only way for the people to get a government to treat them honestly, is for the people to want nothing more than their government to treat them honestly. As soon as you ask for your special handout, the negotiation has begun and you lose.

Bored with being bent yet?]]> Economics http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1589 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:12:40 -0400 http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1587
Read Obama closes curtain on transparency


Change? Right. He's soooooo different than every other power hungry politician...at least that's what the party ideologues tell us.

You people, you stupid little people.]]> Freedom http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1587 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:12:45 -0400 http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1585
With the advent of this great communications platform, it took little time to research the history of the government official, and to the surprise of no one, the history showed not a day of employment in the private sector. College was attended due to a special government program, and from there it was an assistant to an official, to holding one office after another until their current appointment in this administration. After discovering this information, it was understandable that the village idiot discussing policy did not understand the economic situation they were discussing.

Economics is about inputs and outputs, understanding how inputs and outputs equate. When someone works in business, they are aware of the full of the equation, knowing what happens when the equation is not balanced. Businesses must balance the equation, or they will go under. Only government can run with the equation out of balance, demanding money without having to earn and/or spending far more than they take in, but only for a period of time, as eventually even government collapses--but this is rare and when it does happen it is bad and necessary, though along the way government largess gets in the way of business success, but that is for another conversation. The point is, how can you can you expect someone to understand and discuss something when they have only seen half of the equation?

Halfers,that is what we have in our governments, and we have put them there. We have placed people in charge with NO business experience who have appointed like minded people with NO business experience. (BTW: Theory cannot replace experience.) You cannot place people who only understand half of the equation in economics (or war, biology, rocket science, etc.) in charge and expect them to not only understand what is going on and why there is a problem but how to find a solution. They only know half of the equation. We are putting halfers in office.

Halfers, our creation and our problem, because too many of us do not understand the full of equations; like them, we prefer nice sounding theory to truth. Halfers are not the answer, halfers are the problem. Don't be a halfer, and don't support halfers. In fact, if you have the opportunity, educate a halfer--easier said than done, because so many are half-witted.]]> Economics http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1585 Fri, 6 Aug 2010 13:15:19 -0400 http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1583
Further increases in federal debt relative to the nation’s output (gross domestic product, or GDP) almost certainly lie ahead if current policies remain in place. The aging of the population and rising costs for health care will push federal spending, measured as a percentage of GDP, well above the levels experienced in recent decades. Unless policymakers restrain the growth of spending, increase revenues significantly as a share of GDP, or adopt some combination of those two approaches, growing budget deficits will cause debt to rise to unsupportable levels. [Read]

Do not worry, Washington is speeding up the process of resolution...as failure will bring about resolution.]]> Economics http://www.clearpolitics.com/index.php?itemid=1583 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:06:35 -0400