No Live Show Today

Sorry folks, but due to illness my voice is gone.  We will have a best-of show today, but here's some stuff worth reading anyway.

 

Today's must-read:  For those of you who have not read Atlas Shrugged, here's a summary of some of the principles of the book.  I still recommend you go read it.

 

Big government spending programs are having the opposite effect that they were intended to have, but the effect that I told you they would have.  The Obama administration is responding by doubling down and pushing to spend more "stimulus" money faster.

 

President Obama is set to take a greater role in the health care debate.  He'll go out across the country trying to sell his socialist medicine scheme.  The bill being worked on by Senator Edward Kennedy is by far the most liberal plan yet, including mandates to all employers to provide health insurance for their employees and a government health care option.  Obama is pushing a tax hike on the rich to pay for whatever comes out of Congress.

 

It's about time somebody else says this:  Judicial activism isn't the issue, the problem is that judges of all ideological stripes show too much deference to Congress and refuse to enforce Constitutional restrictions on their power.

 

The skeptical International Conference on Climate Change, or ICCC, met this weekend.  I especially love the line "how do you control the weather?"  The warmers issued a report last week on the effects of "climate change" that was a lie.  Meanwhile, snow fell in parts of North Dakota Saturday (in June!), warmers are pushing a new international tax on air travel, and nobody in the United States wants to buy a Prius.

 

While the United States continues to move to the left, Europe is actually moving to the right.

 

Here's an interesting analogy:  al Qaeda is like a fast food franchise for terrorism in that there is no central control for them.  It also proves that the real enemy is a radical Islamist agenda, not just certain groups.

 

The navel-gazing media is in full cover mode for the President, with US News and World Report saying that Obama's flip-flops are for the public good, and Newsweek editor Evan Thomas said that Obama's "sort of God."  I wish I was kidding.

 

GE/NBC punished a newspaper for publishing a story about a shareholder meeting in which the company was asked if they were ordering CNBC to back off of criticism of President Obama.

 

The state of Georgia spent $96 million to lure NCR to the state.  This will turn out to be a bargain, and proof that eliminating corporate taxes will bring jobs to the state.