Well, maybe these particular thugs don’t break legs, but Wesley Snipes will be imprisoned and held for three years by a group of extortionists he refused to pay protection money to.
If only the depredations of this marauding gang could be resisted.. But they have quite a bit of firepower.

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Being forced to work without compensation equals slavery. Happy freedom from slavery day everyone! Until next year anyway…

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Credit where credit is due, our seat belt challenged New Jersey Governor John Corzine has submitted a budget that, shock of shocks, actually cuts spending!
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine had strong words yesterday for the Big Spenders of taxpayer money in his state: Game over, folks.
And while the reality of the $33 billion budget he […]

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Great news for the financially irresponsible. The givernment is coming to the rescue! (Hilariously, I just fat-fingered and spelled ‘government’ wrong, but if the shoe fits..)
The U.S. Treasury Department has been pushing the mortgage industry to agree to temporarily freeze interest rates for some borrowers who took out loans with low teaser rates […]

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Frederic Bastiat, from Selected Essays on Political Economy, published 1848.
If each man has the right to defend, even by force, his person, his liberty, and his property, several men have the right to get together, come to an understanding, and organize a collective force to provide regularly for this defense.
Collective right, then, has its principle, […]

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Obama gave a nice little lesson for a five year old.
[Obama] also suggested to the first-grader that wealthier people should help those who are less fortunate.
“We’ve got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money,” Obama said. “If you had a whole pizza, and your friend had […]

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Uh oh.. Somebody call the Wahmbulance on this guy:
I am 24, live with my parents, can’t find work and am floundering in a sea of debt five figures high. I think of myself as ambitious, independent and hardworking. Now I’m dependent, unemployed and sleeping under the same Super Mario ceiling fan that I […]

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A group of renowned nuclear physicists, economic experts, and energy policy professionals are saying that despite the problems our oil dependency causes, new nuclear plants are a bad idea.
I had been in favor of increasing nuclear power use, because my understanding was that new technologies (we haven’t built a new nuclear plant in the US […]

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Bjorn Lomborg has an interesting Washington Post piece on global warming and some sensible steps that can be taken to ameliorate its effects.
Proponents of pacts such as Kyoto want us to spend enormous sums of money doing very little good for the planet a hundred years from now. We need to find a smarter way. […]

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 “baby bond” from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home.
Clinton, her party’s front-runner in the 2008 race, made the suggestion during a forum hosted by the Congressional Black […]

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ABC News’ Lindsey Ellerson Reports: To pressure President Bush not to veto Senate-passed legislation that would extend a federal children’s health insurance plan, Senate Democrats have asked 12-year-old Graeme Frost — who benefited from the program while recovering from a severe car accident — to deliver the weekly radio address.
To me, the Democrats usually […]

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In what kind of police state would you find that a purchaser would need governmental permission to buy something from a willing seller?
In this one.
Of course, it’s all about corporations leveraging the power of the state to coerce their rivals. If you are someone who is against corporate power, you should be against government […]

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Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton promised retirees that if elected president she will not cut Social Security benefits, raise the retirement age or privatize the taxpayer-funded system.
Sounds like a promise to raise taxes to me. But what can I expect from the person who said “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of […]

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This raises more than a few questions in my mind:
We met as a teaching staff later that day. We saw the decimation of Lego-town as an opportunity to launch a critical evaluation of Legotown and the inequities of private ownership and hierarchical authority on which it was founded. Our intention was to promote a contrasting […]

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This is an interesting article about another unintended consequence of the welfare state.
In years past various blocks of our citizens would migrate from one corner of the country, where there was less prosperity, to areas offering more plentiful jobs. Certainly alien immigrants supplemented that flow of workers, but it wasn’t the only source of them. […]

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Instapundit linked to a piece on Bjorn Lomberg in Newsweek. I found the following contradiction interesting..
Think of it this way: you spend bushels of R&D money to invent an efficient windmill and use it to cut, say, 100 tons of carbon per year. The cost per ton would be exorbitant. But once the blueprints […]

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There are a few things that people can do that immediately make me question their intelligence. Well, maybe not necessarily their intelligence, but definitely their wisdom. Dungeons and Dragons taught me they are different scales, hehe.. After the fold, a few of them in no particular order.

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This one is simple.
We have an underclass because we pay to have one. I do not mean that to be a glib remark, from which it could be inferred that, if we were to stop paying for one, it would magically disappear. What I mean is that 60 years of welfarism, far from raising people […]

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An interesting article on the living conditions of the American poor.
Overall, the typical American defined as poor by the government has a car, air conditioning, a refrig­erator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave. He has two color televisions, cable or satellite TV reception, a VCR or DVD player, and a stereo. […]

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