McDonald's Tells Employees To Consider Returning Holiday Gifts To Get Out Of Debt - This ranks right up there with Walmart asking their employees to contribute to a fund to help out other employees who can't afford Thanksgiving dinner.
One Lawmaker Is Literally Smashing The Belongings Of The Homeless With A Sledgehammer - "There is a war on compassion in America today."
Over 3,000 US prisoners serving life without parole for non-violent crimes - ACLU report chronicles thousands of lives ruined by life sentences for crimes such as shoplifting or possession of a crack pipe
Born Libertarian: Doug Casey on Ron Paul and the Price of Freedom
2.3 Million Americans Rot in Prison -- Meet the Corporations Exploiting Them for Profit - The prison industry is more lucrative than you think.
Top 10 Questions Ron Paul Answered During an Online Q&A - "...I appreciate it when people compliment me on sticking to my principles."
Is the FISA Court Constitutional? - By Andrew P. Napolitano - "By altering the constitutionally mandated requirement of the existence of a case or controversy before the jurisdiction of the federal courts may be invoked, Congress has lessened the protection of the right to be left alone that the Framers intentionally sought to enshrine."
US Egypt Policies Don't Pass the Laugh Test - by Ron Paul - "The hypocrisy of the US administration on these events in Egypt is stunning."
If You Like the Surveillance State, You’ll Love E-Verify - by Ron Paul - "Creation of a federal database with photos and possibly other “biometric” information about American citizens is a great leap forward for the surveillance state. All Americans who still care about limited government and individual liberty should strongly oppose E-Verify. "
33 Shocking Facts Which Show How Badly The Economy Has Tanked Since Obama Became President - "It is getting very tiring listening to Obama supporters try to claim that Obama has improved the economy.  That is a false claim that is not even remotely close to reality.  The following are 33 shocking facts which show how badly the U.S. economy has tanked since Obama became president..."
Ten Reasons the U.S. Is No Longer the Land of the Free - by Jonathan Turley - "While each new national-security power Washington has embraced was controversial when enacted, they are often discussed in isolation. But they don’t operate in isolation. They form a mosaic of powers under which our country could be considered, at least in part, authoritarian."
Oh Help. Oh Help. Oh Help. - Disordered Ramblings on Martial Prowess by Fred Reed - "The days when the US could afford high wages and fun wars and a vast military all at once, them days is over. Oh. Ver."
Domestic Spying Is Dangerous to Freedom - By Andrew P. Napolitano - "What will the NSA spies seek next? Our passwords? We already know the answer to that one. They asked for them last week."
No Military Coups for America? What About November 1963? - “Oh, Jacob, don’t be silly. President Kennedy’s assassination couldn’t have been orchestrated by the U.S. national-security state, notwithstanding the overwhelming amount of evidence pointing in that direction, because it’s just inconceivable that such a thing could happen here in our country. That’s just a conspiracy theory."
Nevada cops sued over forced occupation of private homes - "It’s been a few hundred years since the Third Amendment was written to keep King George from quartering British troops in American homes, but a lawsuit just filed in Nevada suggests it’s as relevant as ever."
The Age of Authoritarianism: Government of the Politicians, by the Military, for the Corporations - "President Obama’s declaration that “America is at a crossroads” in the fight against terror, a fight that is increasingly turning inwards, setting its sights on homegrown extremists, should give every American pause."
The Biggest Ponzi Scheme In The History Of The World - "All of this could have been avoided if Uncle Sam had never agreed to Fred's crazy scheme.  And once Uncle Sam made the decision to stop backing his notes with gold, it was only a matter of time before the scheme was going to collapse."
Liberty in Shambles - by Andrew P. Napolitano - "The modern-day British soldiers – our federal agents – are not going from house to house; they are going from phone to phone and from computer to computer, enabling them to penetrate every aspect of our lives. If anything violates the lessons of our history, the essence of our values and the letter of the Constitution, it is this."
US Suspends Constitution in Permanent World War on Terror - "By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries."
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It Is Official: The US Is a Police State - article by Paul Craig Roberts
Why do Americans get the Constitution so wrong? - There’s no excuse for misquoting and misunderstanding the US Constitution. But public figures ranging from Nancy Pelosi to Rush Limbaugh do it all the time.
The Declaration, the Constitution, and Liberty in Our Time - Ever since the dawn of recorded history, people’s minds have been inculcated with the notion that government is the master and the people are the servants.
Tyrants, Torturers, and Taxmen: Pillars of 'Civilization' - we'd better take a good look at our society
Obama and the Patriot Act: “Yes We Can” Kill the Bill of Rights
Thoughts on an Interview with General Stanley McChrystal - Fred Reed on the insanity of the war in Afghanistan

What we've got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach...
So, you get what we had here last week,
Which is the way he wants it !
Well, he gets it !
N' I don't like it any more than you men