Compare what you read in Big Media, with what caught my eye today:

Despite coming in 2nd place in Nevada and Louisiana (although the latter caucus was rigged), and setting aside Dr. Paul's potential victory this weekend in Maine, "true" Republicans can't convince themselves to support the candidate of the Constitution. By the way, I can't wait to preorder Paul's new book, "The Revolution: a Manifesto"!

So are the Republicans right, that Dr. Paul is outside the party's mainstream? Journalist Mike Wallace's writer thinks so. As for those 1848 German commies, was my Frohman ancestor one of them (since then's when they immigrated to New York from Darmstadt)? If so, guess I'll have to apologize to them, since I'm a libertarian - the opposite of a Communist.

Speaking of rotten Republicans, the President (who just did his first good thing in a year, by proposing a budget that freezes spending) has the authority to declare Martial Law for any "condition," which should be limited to terrorism or pandemic (such as the avian flu that just infected lots of Indians), but which could include any number of scenarios. But Cato says no domestic terrorism has happened since 9/11, so is our fear unjustified? (Yes). West Virginia is training its kids to use guns to defend themselves, a skill that could be useful if the Government tries to implement its Top-Down controlled quarantine on such kids in the event of terrorism or pandemic.

Doesn't it make you sad for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese, crammed at train stations awaiting their rare vacations, and then to hear the psychopathic Government claim such calamities prove the superiority of Top-Down socialism?

In addition to our growing Police State (which, sadly, is affecting my home area with this arrest of a homeowner invaded by a Drug Warrior), the government is threatening us in other ways, including an extra-sovereign takeover of our country, via a highway from Mexico to Canada. Now I'm all for superhighways, and all other goods and services, if manifested voluntarily. But the NAFTA Superhighway comes with nasty friends: a European-like Union and an EU-like currency. Congressman Paul has a bill to withhold funding for this bad idea.

To protect the currency each of us has, we rely on advice from experts like Investment Biker author Jim Rogers, who agrees with Dr. Paul on blaming the Fed for Recession, and gives advice on protecting ones assets (invest in China?). Another great investor just garnered the ire of Big Media, in this critique of the great Peter Schiff (who manages some of my money, and who advises Dr. Paul). I usually like anyone criticized by the Mainstream. Peter's dad's in jail for refusing to pay income taxes, since the law on taxes is so vague and controversial. Let's simplify the law by eliminating it.

When you combine recession and Police State, you get tragedy. And if Society collapses, even a Morgan Stanley alum is recommending defensive, survivalist preparations. Is it time for us to listen?

So, did you benefit more from today's Mainstream news report, or from what I blogged today?

Those pathetic bureauthugs - turns out the President's domestic spying database easily could be hacked by terrorists. Exposed in 2006, the Natl Security Agency unconstitutionally collects all our email, phone and web traffic, to find Al Quaeda threats. But all this amassed data could be exploited by criminals, and used against all of us. We libertarians told you so.

Speaking of unwarrented spying and such conspiracies, an eminent libertarian lawyers' forum explores why most people believe in conspiracies. Believers are regular people, properly skeptical of the Big Business-Big Government-Big Media Axis. Some of these normal folks gave Dr. Paul a 3rd place finish in Maine's Caucus. For the 9/11 conspiracy, Reason takes a closer look.

And while some think Obama will "change" things away from the Security State, it turns out Obama is just as big a Warmonger as Hillary, McCain and all the other politicians, except Dr. Paul of course. Check out this Paul endorsement:

"The reason the mainstream can't handle him is because he doesn't fit the stereotypes. And therein lies his strength. As a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist, Ron Paul embodies the reasonable approach to thorny issues. He would rein in the globalists by unleashing grass roots entrepreneurs. That's true free marketing, not pseudo free marketing via corporate welfarism and criminalizing small business. He thinks we should be able to choose what to eat and how to educate rather than big brother government being the only credible approval source." As libertarian yogi, I love the highlighted words. And here's Pat Buchanan's "American Conservative" endorsement.

And more security is in store from the President's Budget, which for the 1st time in history proposes $3 trillion in spending. Thankfully, Vermont is having none of it, and my try to pull their National Guard troops back from Iraq.

Today a bunch of sheep in a bunch of states will vote with machines that offer no "paper trail," denying evidence for whom one voted. All the candidates support Big Government, Perpetual War and despise constitutional freedoms, except Dr. Paul, who received this endorsement from Christian Businessmen. (McCain certainly dosn't deserve any endorsements after reading this. And progressives seem too blind with "change" to realize what Warmongers Obama and Hillary are.)

Dr. Paul's best chance is in Alaska, and maybe in Washington, Arkansas, Tennessee, California, Colorado, North Dakota, Montana, Hawaii and Minnesota too. Thus far he's come in second in Nevada and Maine, and won Louisiana.

And a Ron Paul victory couldn't come too soon, as in previous blogs I've reported that the President has the authority to quarantine Americans in concentration camps for any domestic terrorism, health emergency, or other "condition," with condition undefinded and unlimited. Turns out our Troops are being trained to wage war on us in case of such emergency. And our Clergy are being brainwashed to get us to give up our Freedoms for the greater good. (Anyone got an offshore haven?) Speaking of waging war on ones people, Professor DiLorenzo clarifies for Statists that libertarians' critique of Lincoln does not imply a support for the statist Confederacy.

Even if a Police State forces us to escape to an offshore haven, that may not stop the International Cabal from cutting off our communications, as just happened to Iran's internet. Isolating an enemy by cutting communication cables is standard fare, going back to WWI. The Military-Industrial Complex, against which President Eisenhower warned in his 1960 farewell address, sees Iran as the next Iraq. Here comes the Draft.

Maybe the government should fear us if 9/11 Truth gets traction, which is happening as more people go public, such as country rock star Willie Nelson, who also fears Bush will use terrorism to cancel the elections. Even Seattle's main newspaper wants a new 9/11 investigation. Once we repeal government to allow for an entrepreneurial utopia, then we can spend time on actually interesting endeavors, such as investigating true mysteries, like the "Seven Fortean Wonders of the World".

Speaking of conspiracies, today on Ron Paul Radio I interviewed the great Alan Stang, who was a writer for Mike Wallace. Mr. Stang's 1980s radio show beat Larry King's, and he attended 1960s Ayn Rand seminars with Alan Greenspan and Ludwig von Mises. One of our discussions included how the building of an international highway - to be built over a memorial at the site of the Government's Massacre of the Waco commune - is a disguised first step towards submerging the U.S. in a North American Union, if this Oklahoma Senator fails to stop it.

Moving from government attacks on our sovereignty to its efforts on behalf of the common good, look what happens when govt tries to help users of taxicabs, or force us to recycle. In fact, CEI's Wayne Crews (a former colleague at Cato) reminds us of the hidden cost of regulations, as one of the untold stories of Bush's horrible, final budget (the 1st to ever propose $3 trillion in spending). This spending comes on top of the Fed's subsidy of spending, creating inflation and Recession. The great investor Peter Schiff properly says the Central Bankers are nuts!

And it turns out these Regulators can't even do their advertised job; with bridges falling down, like in Minneapolis, this DoT inspector exposed all of us to death with his lies. Dr. Paul wants to slash our $1 trillion overseas budget and spend part of it instead on infrastructure. Bush's inaction on a Privacy Protection Oversight body has led to the body's disolution. And all of us need to act to protect natural therapies such as compounding and bio-identical hormones. (Again, only Ron Paul supports health freedom).

And the Courts don't get off without criticism. One of the most powerful tools for protecting our Rights, since the Founding, has been the Petition Right, called the "capstone" of our rights. But the Supreme Court is refusing to define this Right, removing any power from this final clause of the First Amendment, thus exposing us to Government atrocity.

So, go out and vote, Sheep! See if your favored Candidates can save us from all these unconstitutional monstrosities.

Today the Beatles' Maharishi passed away. Many of my older fellow teachers of kundalini yoga got their start in TM with this sage from South Asia back in the 1960s. Namaste.

Also today (in history), in 1782 South Carolina banned currency that lacks gold backing. Only Presidential Candidate Ron Paul (who, despite winning only 42 delegates thus far, still can win, fears the infamous David Rockefeller) promises the same for Federal Reserve notes, and only with constitutional money can the middle class regain purchasing power (which has plummeted 30% in just seven years). Sadly, given the pathetic results of Super Tuesday, it appears the Oligarchs have successfully dumbed down the population in government schools and via the brainwashing Media. And it turns out part of the subprime collapse stems from govt coercion to lend in higher risk areas.

While government destroys our currency, they're also destroying many citizens. Since the Katrina Hurricane, FEMA has been poisoning 40,000 homeless citizens in formaldehyde-infected trailors, and now is studying them, just like Tusceegee. Speaking of government atrocities, today is the anniversary of the Government's 1983 murder of Gordon Kahl, a believer in the Founding Father's Constitution. With pending passage of the Homegrown Terrorism Act, every dissident better think twice before fighting for their God-given Rights to life, liberty and property. And this threat to dissidents is an insult to bloggers, who were just honored for their role in democratizing information in Third World tyrannies. Back to government killing, another way it's killing us is after we're injured or diseased: if pain becomes chronic and we seek natural, poppy plant-based opioid medicine, we'll suffer in pain because doctors are too afraid of being arrested to follow their Hippocratic Oath - seriously! And now a Homeland Security thug has proposed denying over-the-counter drugs without REAL ID.

To help the government train the next generation of security Thugs, colleges are getting Homeland Security curricula, with the most diabolic list of anti-dissident programs you can imagine. At some point, we just have to ask, "how is a Patriot supposed to act"?
When government isn't defrauding our currency or poisoning us, they're stealing our opportunities via regulations. Yesterday I blogged on CEI's report on regulatory costs. Another regulatory cost is the ignoring by the bureaucracies of their own Inspectors General (IGs). House Oversight Chairman Waxman is trying to help the IGs, which should help all of us with more efficient government.

The President declared a form of emergency government - called "continuity in government" - after the September, 2001 terrorism. Apparently, constitutional government has not returned.

Indeed, a few months ago - in summer 2007 - Congressman Peter DeFazio, on the Homeland Security Committee (and so with proper security access to be briefed on COG issues), inquired about continuity of government plans, and was refused access. DeFazio concluded: "Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right". By conspiracy is Congressman DeFazio referring to these Internationalists? It's nice for DeFazio the Democrat to protect us from unconstitutional government, but the Democrat Congress as a whole has failed to protect our Rights - maybe that's because both parties - including both its leaders, Hillary and McCain - have expressed support for World Government.

And now this government is deputizing Fortune 500 companies into "InfraGard," to help the FBI in a domestic emergency - including killing troublemakers. One commenter at this link says this happened in Nazi Germany. Not only are businesses ready to help, but NORTHCOM has announced its readiness for Martial Law.

Another way government endangers us is collusion with Big Media, resulting, in this case, in endangerment of our health via contaminated milk: Fox news reporters blow the whistle on Monsanto's poisoning the food supply, with bovine growth hormone, nutrasweet, aspartame, and complicity of FDA, and as a result of doing so, lose their jobs. And don't forget the conspiracy to poison us via mercury in the water.

The only politician willing to shrink all government, not just the FDA, is Dr. Paul, whose classical liberal philosophy mirrors in part Objectivism. Objectivists, however, are opposing Mr. Paul because of his unwillingness to declare Jihad against "militant" Islam. But this Objectivist urges his fellow travellers to remember that the core of Objectivism is the non-aggression axiom: that to invade a country like Iraq that has not threatened us is a gross violation of that axiom. And given Dr. Paul's constitutional positions, he obviously is the only candidate an Objectivist could support. And here, lo and behold, is a major newspaper's positive article on Mr. Paul.

And with yet another expert worried that Recession could turn to Depression, isn't the real emergency the fact that we let our Emergency Government continue without radical reform?

George Mason's Don Boudreaux says voting's a waste of time. But today I voted for Dr. Paul in D.C.'s primary. Because my precinct ran out of Republican ballots (I registered Republican in order to vote for Congressman Paul), I had to use their lone electronic voting machine. Their machine had no paper evidence of my vote, though, so I can't be sure that my vote will be counted. Evidence abounds on the hackability of Diebold's eVotingMachines. Speaking of Ron Paul and Washington, he wants to organize a massive march in D.C., perhaps on July 4th! Even without my vote, Ron Paul has already won.

Dr. Paul would stop the War on Terror nonsense, which this week has brought indictments on the perpetrators of the September, 2001 terrorism:

"...The fact that KSM's confession included a plan to target the Plaza Bank building in Washington state, which was not founded until 2006, four years after the alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind's arrest, should provide a clue as to the reliability of the "terror mastermind's" culpability for 9/11..."

Speaking of torture to get ridiculous confessions, it appears Russia is bringing back the Gulag Archipelago.

And it appears that patients in pain are striking back, finally, at the government which is torturing them with its War on Pain Doctors and Pain Patients.

For more good news, it appears some immigrants will be allowed easier entry into the U.S. Immigration control, let us not forget, is just another unconstitutional, harmful, expensive and counterproductive Statist boondoggle. And this American on the border with Mexico says the Border Wall is "tearing a hole in Texas' soul".

Today on Ron Paul Radio I interviewed Shane Cory, exec dir of the Libertarian Party. I met him Friday at the annual Conservative conference (CPAC), where he was escorting former Congressman Bob Barr, who may take up the mantle of the rEVOLution if Ron Paul loses his GOP Presidential bid. How did Drug Warrior Bob become such a libertarian? The Government's War on the Constitution since 9/11 made him a new man. Speaking of Dr. Paul, despite having already won (for all of us), he needs help for congressional reelection.

As the GOP looks certain to pick Senator McCain as its nominee, the LP delivered to RNC headquarters a funeral wreath, for the death of small government in the Republican Party. Clever.

Whether government is small or large, it's always incompetent, so calls for a reexamination of the September, 2001 terrorism shouldn't offend anyone, least of all Comedy Central's Jon Stewart.

Not only is government incompetnt, but also it's evil. Border thugs in Hawaii just killed this toddler awaiting heart surgery. Our Founders wanted unhindered entry. This law enforcement thuggery is becoming an epidemic, as this wheelchair-bound victim of cops found out. And freedom lovers will gather Feb 23 in Chesapeake, to defend an incarcerated man's right to defend his castle from government invaders.

And we all know the tragedy from aggressive government posturing overseas, from deaths and, in a new analysis, a cost per person of $8,000. Instead of War or Sanctions, trade is what the Founders recommended as the best foreign policy. So the establishment by Iran of investment banks should be welcomed for peace and prosperity. If such banks earn millions for Persians, they may want to seek a tax haven. But before such new millionaires join other rich people who have been invited to London, that country is pulling a "bate and switch," reminding us that advocacy is needed to maintain Tax Haven status.

With Iran, Iraq and the OPEC nations, a worry on a lot of peoples' minds is depletion of the scare resources of oil. The ultimate resource, though, is the human and his creativity, as we're reminded by George Mason's Don Boudreax, in an allusion to the late Julian Simon. So, promote human freedom and growth, and we'll solve "resource" problems like oil depletion.

But the human faces sickness, if Big Agra successfully uses the USDA to dumb down the definitions such as "natural." People think "natural" meat means cows raised drug-free, in open pastures, feeding on wholesome grass. And Big Pharma is pushing FDA to threaten healthy tea companies that use the stevia natural sweetener, since the latter is "unapproved". Coca-Cola has filed patents for stevia and is seeking FDA approval, the lack of which is surely protecting the market for the dangerous aspertame artificial sweetener. With fewer flu patients seeking care from the Sickness Industry, Big Medica needs to keep healthy products off the market. And while Genetically-Modified Organisms increase their dominance in crops, don't expect crops to provide healing veggies or grains in the future. Finally, don't look up, but Germany has admitted what many have suspected, that the Government is polluting the air with "chemtrails". Don't get me started on the poisoning of our water by government (fluoride, anyone)?

P.S. For the majority Christians who could get us out of this Big Business-Big Government mess, Pastor Baldwin has a message.

While Earth's greatest basketball players meet mid-season for some competition, Earth's greatest criminals - bureaucrats, politicians, and Big Businessmen - meet like any other day to wreak havoc on our opportunities for liberty, peace and prosperity. Example one is this obnoxious effort in a certain state to hide police misconduct - in the midst of an epidemic of dangerous behavior by cops as blogged previously. If you ask how basketball applies to a political blog-site, here's Charles Barkley calling conservatives "fake Christians". Barkely's hinted at an Alabama gubernatorial run in the past, as a Republican.

Speaking of hiding, when GAO Comptroller Walker resigned, we libertarians saw this for what it is - the Powerful forcing the outspoken budget hawk to resign for refusing to hide our deplorable fiscal straits. A curious thing with spending watchdogs is the hyper focus on miniscule programs, like earmarks. 18 politicians avoid them, while Dr. Paul says they're like tax deductions - it's better to help your constituents avail themselves of all possible tax breaks and bring back as much of their taxpayer money back to their district, and then to vote against spending bills and oppose taxation.

Another example of hiding comes from vote counters in New York, who, as has happened in most of the primaries thus far, are hiding truthful voting results. While most states' elections are rigged to some degee, some states are smart when it comes to stealing opportunity from other states - simply put, by refusing to tax income. God bless tax havens.

And while pain patients writhe as the government scares pain doctors into not treating such patients - as blogged previously - politicians, instead of repealing the Drug War so patients can seek medicine, are making fools of themselves going after drug-using athletes, and threatening innocent supplements in the process. Meanwhile, the pain experts urge an acknowledgment of the pain undertreatment epidemic, without the courage of calling for an end to the Drug War which exacerbates that epidemic, and while yet another raided pain clinic leaves thousands of patients writhing in pain and nowhere to go.

Take a minute to witness the betrayal of our land-grant colleges, praying at the teat of Big Agra & Big Chemica, while the life-saving Organic researchers risk bankruptcy and scorn to protect our health with poison-free crops.

God bless the intent of the "privacy" advocates, but we all lose when privacy trumps the much more protective system of "property rights." And privacy in health can be overrated. But whatever privacy we have left needs to be protected, including from the unwarranted anti-terrorism spying of the Security State, says the ACLU. FBI's endless compromising of personal privacy gives us reason to oppose government powers to maintain databases on taxpayers. In this age of fear of terrorism, people forget what Rights the Constitution guarantees. Not only is the FBI corrupt and not to be trusted, but if Sibel Edmonds is right, the Security Apparatus is completely treasonous. Why is no one covering that story?

Too often scary programs get funding, even if lacking congressional authorization. Here's hoping the unratified Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) doesn't get this specious assistance.

Under all these discreet examples of government evil, our Recession turns into Depression. And, as usual, only Dr. Paul discusses solutions, including this critical one - allowing competing currencies, to protect us from a continually depreciating fiat Federal Reserve note. Cato suggests the gold standard does better than the Fed in avoiding the boom-bust cycle. Peter Schiff, financial advisor of Dr. Paul's, tells how to protect ones assets in the inevitable Depression. Speaking of the Fed, it was created by a furious political effort by international bankers like Paul Warburg, who on this day in 1950 testified in Congress that "We will have World Government, by consent or conquest". And when Mainstreamers criticize attacks on Intl Govt advocates as conspiratorial, the great Murray Rothbard says how to respond to these attacks.

When folks consider the Recession, they're told that unscrupulous lenders are to blame, for offering subprime loans. As Congress considers piling on the mortgage brokers, their response is to tighten licensing requirements, a proven failure that just protects incumbent businesses from competition and hurts consumers, who get fewer choices and higher prices.

Congressman Paul is a savvy guy who doesn't need advice, says Ivan Eland, in humbly thanking the Presidential candidate for naming him a foreign policy advisor, while decrying the Mainstream's purposeful blackout on any coverage of this modern day Founding Father. A foreign issue needing resolution is taxpayer subsidies for and interference with Israel, and the Volokh law bloggers here try to be helpful.

Ending on a more humane note, witness the movies that make men cry. And I can't wait to see these Oscar nominees, especially the foreign films.

Foreigners, especially immigrants, suffer a lot of pain when entering new countries; that's why I love the traditional libertarian position of being pro-immigrant. Border control advocates, on the other hand, are really worked up over this Texas TransCorridor and a possibe raplacement currency called the "Amero". While I like to support international cultural events, even if strange, Lithuania's anti-Jewish celebration is a little hard to stomach.

In addition to the films, I can't wait to see this Orchid display at the Botanical Gardens - D.C.'s unknown treasure. As I repeatedly say, once we give up our addiction to government, we can spend time on important things. I can't wait to read this lady's reaction once she reads the book she was given. One can't read Sitchin's translations of the 4,000 B.C. Sumerian tablets and expect life to appear the same ever again.

A couple nights ago the famous late night radio show, Coast to Coast, interviewed a friend, Stephen Bassett, an advocate who spends all his life's energy on stopping the government's embargo on what it knows about unidentified flying objects (UFOs). All he wants is "disclosure," a very reasonable request, so the People can decide. As I blogged previously, he has the support of former Arizona Republican Governor Fyfe Simington.

People also should get to decide how they maintain health and deal with personal problems. But the FDA won't let the people decide the efficacy of food, drugs and devices. At the Wall Street Journal one commenter says limit the FDA to judging "safety" only.

One of the reasons that Government is the biggest polluter is because bureaucracies in large measure enjoy "sovereign immunity" from liability. DoD and DoEnergy, thus, are Earth's major polluters because their behavior can't be held accountable. An extension of this protection has been given by FDA to its Big Pharma backers under the name "preemption", in case the company is sued over a drug that enjoys FDA approval. I say let the People in a jury adjudicate disputes, not politicized regulation.

The FDA is so awful that the late Nobel-winning economist Milton Friedman said to abolish it. In a guideline published last year, the FDA proposed to prohibit claims made by supplement manufacturers unless such claim had significant scientific agreement. This means if Big Pharma buys off enough scientists to denigrate a nutrient that jeopardizes that drug's market share, the People don't get to decide what goes in their bodies for healthcare.

Chinese people certainly were prevented any control over decisions in 1937 Nanking, thanks to the Japanese Government's slaughter of them. Looks like a documentary not to miss.

Consumers should get to decide if trade is free from government protectionist interference. And the trade deficit is a totally meaningless topic, as George Mason's Boudreaux explains.  The Founders considered free trade a cure-all.

I was too busy hiking in Virginia's mountains to stay indoors and blog yesterday on President's Day. But I did want to share Rothbard's slam on Washington, whose Europeanization almost cost the U.S. its rebellion against Britain. One good thing about our first president was his opposition to the "factions" as represented by "Parties". George Carlin doesn't vote, since to do so legitimates these factions that control the State. (My favorite presidents are Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland; the rest are awful - and President Paul would be the best ever, and he has a chance since delegates could change their minds at the Convention).

And forget President Worship; let's celebrate Secession instead! Kosovo just separated from Serbia. Spain and other nation's oppose it for fear of loss of their ethnic minorities. Hey Vermont, what are you waiting for? Professor Barnett goes further, saying we should be able to choose our government.

Jefferson said in the Kentucky Resolutions that states can withdraw their support for a centralized government, and the First Amendment says the People can withhold support for such government if the latter ignores their "petition for redress of grievances." The Supreme Court will decide soon whether to decide what that phrase means: failure of the government to respect this ancient Right may lead to civil disobediance.

The Government we have is aggravating the Recession, and only Dr. Paul's warnings on fiat currency and Fed-caused inflation can help. Paul just got an endorsement from Koyasaki, author of "Rich Dad Poor Dad," and who coauthored Donald Trump's last book.

Our government also is letting genetically modified food eliminate non-contaminated crops. At the Natural Solutions Foundation, a client, we learn that our own FDA has discouraged the United Nations' Codex (world food trade regulator) from ALLOWING GMO labeling, for fear that people would see such a disclosure and "falsely" believe that GM food is inferior to natural food. Now it may become impossible to avoid cloned food. In Defense of Food explains what and how to eat. And if you think I'm an environmental activist, I'm not - there's some evidence Enviros' tactics differ little from nazis or commies. But I sure like this Virginia town's denial of corporate protections if the businesses pollute.

Turns out the State also doesn't want want whistleblowers to use a Wiki site to disclose corruption. Big Media is discounting JFK Assassination whistleblowing by this DA from Dallas. If a whistleblower's undercover filming of mistreated animals at a factory farm, hurts that farm's profits, filming criminal activity is denied an "affirmative defense" under an Orwellian law called the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. To stop critical articles, the UN pressured Google to delist this investigative journalist. I'm sure Walmart would like to arrest this 9/11 Truther.

Despite a pending Supreme Court decision protecting our 2nd Amendment armed defense Right, Big Government certainly will use the campus killings not to oppose excessive prescribing - or the lack of concealed carry - but rather "unscrupulous" gun stores.

While we whip up on government, let's support one of the few good things Democrats are doing - helping immigrants. To attack immigrants is to support Big Government interference in the Right of human travel and the Right to work. (Of course get rid of welfare, the boom/bust-causing Fed, and terrorist-aggravating War, and immigration will disappear as an issue). Not only do I want free movement of people, but also I want free movement of goods, including with Cuba, now that Fidel Castro has abdicated.

Enforceacrats want to require REAL ID for immigrants, drivers and prescription users, but a new report says "mass fingerprinting, biometric passports, identity cards and international identity databases will not protect ... countries from terrorists or criminals."

Another anti-terrorism and -criminal tool is bank targeting of corrupt deposits, but Iran's banks aren't complying with U.S. pressure in money laundering. Good for Iran - libertarians and entrepreneurs need Tax Havens to survive Big Brothers' rapacious control of most nations.

Despite the failure of anti-terrorist measures, Amtrak, a holdout on excessive security measures, will give in, subjecting train riders to dogs and other screening. If you have the amount of time one gets while riding a train, you may want to read 1930s libertarian Garet Garrett.

And on the subject of history, here's something comparing our awful WWI president (Wilson), with the last of the classically liberal Hapsburgs. And going much farther back into ancient history, Tim Case provokes us on how much smarter the Ancients were, looking at the Pyramids as an expression of "Pi" and remarking how prudent Mesopotamians were to understand "exchange" value.

Ending on a fun note, here's the greatest film soundtracks of all time.

We yogis are able to apply astrological symbolism to heavenly bodies, and use ancient numerology to interpret events. Wednesday is attached to the planet Mercury, the ancient "God" for business communication. So, it's on this day each week that it's good to have business meetings. And when you add the numbers of today's date, you get two 2's, and a 8,9 and 4. These have to do with, respectively, "getting along with others," "energizing for good works," "experiencing the enlightenment," and "serving as a lighthouse to the lost". So today's post will build off these themes.

Let the chemists sell their science, but don't stymie research on the effect of chemicals on the environment and in our bodies. Reason gives the other side on GMO crops, saying farmers like them. Turns out parental fears about pedophiles hunting their kids online, are without basis.

But what is not exaggerated are the real child predators from county social welfare agencies and their cronies in family courts - this Russian immigrant family lost their autistic son to incarceration, because the govt doesn't approve of non-drug therapy. The enforcement thugs are out of control: witness this poor, handcuffed woman being beaten by the cops. And now a study proves that more guns means less crime: to protect us from insane cops or mad criminals, we need our 2nd Amendment Right affirmed! But this Right may become meaningless if this law professor convinces world bureaucracy that we have no Human Right to Self-Defense. And my pain client is fighting back in Kansas, with a lawsuit and lots of media coverage: here's PRN's press conference.

Not only is the government protecting Big Chemica from Endocrine Disruptor studies (see above), but also the government in England wants to subject every rambunctious-behaving adolescent to spying by doctors and social workers, and being fed by them into a database. Isn't this the plot of Philip Dick's "Minority Report", made into a movie starring Tom Cruise, and haven't we read stories recently about database corruption (see previous blogs)?

The untrustworthy nature of government is so established that the European Union should face no argument in its new desire for a new 9/11 investigation.

While it's sad that the Supreme Court has rebuffed ACLU's effort to protect us from warrantless spying, ACLU's inconsistency and hyperfocus on "privacy" over property rights or contracts is dangerous to constitutional Rights.

With the new Energy law subjecting fuel alternatives to WTO elimination, do we still want to support "free trade" agreements that rely on a non-American governing body to interfere in our political decisions? And in the meat recall, all that will happen is more funding for USDA inspections, adding to the meat price that subsidized ethanol already has aggravated.

Regulations are never pro-consumer; rather, as Friedman said, they are pro-business, because they are advocated by larger businesses to bankrupt their smaller competitors. As Walmart and other retailers start offering general health care services, watch the American Medical Association (Big Medica) try to shut them down.

The dollar and economy are collapsing, and Hayek talked about the gold standard solution as far back as 1977.

Going even further into history, I'm anxious to see the Folger exhibit exploring the savage politics of the Shakespeare era. Having read Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, the intrigue of mainstream history versus what researchers now are finding, makes this a more fascinating topic every year.

And as we started today's blog with ancient yoga, we end with ancient Greek astronomy, and the solving of the device found in the sunken shipwreck: it's a solstice, planet and star tracker from Hipparchus' 2nd Century.