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The immorality of taxes – Joseph Farrah Let's face it. Taxation is a form of legalized theft. Legalizing stealing doesn't make it any more moral. It just makes it legal. .. I just can't get excited about a party that accepts theft – even if it advocates cutting back the theft by 5 percent or 10 percent. Theft is wrong. It needs to be stopped. And precious few in either party are stating that obvious fact.http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37269

BLM Officer detains family 5 hrs for allowing children to pick up rocks – may be liable for hefty fines and jail time as well - we had small children with us, they wouldn’t let my kids or me go to the bathroom, my kids were hungry dirty and tired from the long hike and then we had to wait there for five hours,” recalled an exasperated and emotional Rachel Howard. … “I think I realize that not knowing the law basically makes us all a criminal. There were no signs, no warnings, nothing to alert people they were committing a serious crime,” explained Jim Brown. http://www.libertymatters.org/newsservice/2004/faxback/2647_Rocks.htm

Why do companies move jobs overseas? While admittedly some companies may indeed be relocating overseas simply and solely for cheaper labor, it's more than that. It's to protect their companies from two lethal business-killers: unions and government….If the unions and FASB (faz-bee) are successful in forcing this accounting scheme on businesses, what they will actually succeed in doing is driving even more companies out of America and into other countries which will be only too happy to allow employee stock options in return for all the jobs these companies create. American high-tech jobs will go the way of textile jobs….But not to worry. The union leaders will still get their fat salaries, generous expense accounts and fancy cars while proclaiming yet another "victory" against corporate America for the working stiff. And, of course, no government employee or agency ever goes the way of the dinosaur, so they're safe as well….In fact, the only folks at risk here are...the people who actually create jobs...and the people who actually fill them.  http://www.gopusa.com/opinion/2004/cm_0223.shtml

VET Slayer Seum remains a maverick - State Sen. David Karem, D-Louisville, said, "Danny appeals to the get-out-of-my-way-and-leave-me-alone crowd." …Seum, 64, a former restaurant owner who is now a property manager, said, "I am for something — less government." …I haven't milked the system for a nickel in 20 years. I have no contracts with city, county or state government and no family members working in government." He said that has given him freedom. …"Nobody has a hook in me," he said. …In 1990, he voted against the landmark Kentucky Education Reform Act — and the $1.3 billion tax package to support it — saying it was a rip-off for Jefferson County residents who already paid higher taxes to support their schools. That and other votes earned him the distrust of House and Senate Democratic leaders, who never gave him a committee chairmanship and drew a new district for him in 1992 that took away 90 percent of his turf. …Seum said he still believes in unions. He said he isn't opposed to government — "just to government protecting us from us." http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2004/02/23ky/wir-front-seum0223-15500.html

Big Lie – Intelligence failure in Iraq  Why is the failure, if any, something wrong with American intelligence, when exactly the same conclusions were reached by the intelligence "communities" in England, Russia, Israel, and France? …What is the evidence for any failure? …If there was some failure in intelligence--so what?... Was it a closely guarded secret that Saddam was a dictator, a madman, a hater of America, near to the heart of terrorism? …Three thousand Americans died in the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the wake of that, the only intelligent question was: which lousy Middle East pesthole-dictatorship are we going to crush first?  http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3536

Big Lie of the Year  - “The Working Poor”– Thomas Sowell  Only a fraction of the people who are in the bottom 20 percent in income at any given time will be there for more than a few years. Of those whose pay is at or near the minimum wage, for example, most are young people or part-time workers, or both. …By focussing on those who work hard all their lives and still remain poor -- no more than 3 percent of the population -- and telling their personal stories endlessly, liberals can present the Big Lie with a human face. …Those who pose as the biggest champions of the poor are almost invariably the biggest opponents of means tests. They want bigger government and the poor are just a means to that end. …Bait and switch advertising is illegal when unscrupulous businesses engage in it. But it is standard operating procedure in politics. especially during election years.  http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3542

Three Cheers for Wal-Mart - How would you like to be penalized because you do your work too well--for example, for running your business so effectively that it attracts hoards of happy customers? Well, this is what is happening more and more frequently to Wal-Mart. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3534

Postal insurance “scam” http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/postal/postalinsurance.pdf

Moving troops out of Iraq Defying countless predictions of disaster, our soldiers have accomplished more in Iraq than we had any right to expect. And they did it not because of some brilliant master plan - there was none - but because they took a look at the bloody mess they inherited, rolled up their sleeves and went to work to fix it.

They're the best we've got.

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/18812.htm

A Veteran Questions Kerry’s Military Service http://frontpagemagazine.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12272

Pricey government prize – Stephen Moore The government's share of everything we produce and earn has about doubled since the end of World War II. Or here's another way to think about it: If you took all the spending by government and just evenly divided it among all families of four in America, each family would be more than $50,000 richer. This is double the level of spending in 1960 and 14 times the amount government spent in 1900, even after adjusting for inflation.

So the question American taxpayers should ask is: Does my family really get anywhere near $50,000 worth of services every year from city hall, state governments and Uncle Sam Inc.? …Traditionally, about one-third to one-quarter of all federal expenditures were for national security. Now that percentage is down to less than one-fifth….In 1940, 4 million Americans worked for government and 11 million worked in manufacturing. Today, there are 7 million more Americans working for government (21.5 million) than in all manufacturing industries (14.5 million). We have shifted from an economy of people who make things, to an economy of people who tax, regulate, subsidize and outlaw things.

…When government grows, as Thomas Jefferson once famously put it, "liberty yields." Dollar by trillions of dollars, we are voluntarily giving up our liberties for a government that promises us in return a blanket of protection from cradle to coffin. Republicans are steering us in the direction of the "workers' paradise" of a European socialist welfare state, and the reply from the Democrats is faster, faster.

 http://www.liberty-news.com/showNewsletter.php?id=200402221&src=t2292

Render Unto Caesar – Partisan Christianity http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=183

Cardinal Pell reviews Mel Gibson’s The Passion http://zenit.org/english/

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