GOVERNMENT RUN AMOK

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Posted here for 9-6-10

"A new federal law mandates the tracking of all purchases and sales of the precious metal [gold]."
-- "Washington Takes Aim at Gold Ownership," by David A Patten, NewsMax magazine, September 2010, page 10. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"The effort to stifle competition and require that unionized government employees perform work that private companies did previously began just after Obama took office. It is a new phenomenon called 'in-sourcing.' What that means is they are actually canceling contracts with private companies, including small businesses, and moving the work back in-house and having government employees do the work. [. . .] Typically, that raises costs to taxpayers by as much as 30 percent."
-- "Out with Outsourcing," by Ronald Kessler, NewsMax magazine, September 2010, page 31. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

Membership in the European Union means following endless nonsensical rules. Among them are specifications for the allowable curvature of bananas and cucumbers. Now, The [UK] Daily Mail reports that grocery stores are forbidden to sell food by quantity -- only by weight. A dozen eggs, six hot-dog buns, a dozen oranges -- no more. Labeling must indicate weight only. Naturally, the costs of such labeling are expected to be massive -- millions of pounds.
-- Source: "Egged On," The Limbaugh Letter, August 2010, page 5. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

Great Britain's Sentencing Advisory Panel has a new recommendation for those who invade your home to steal your possessions. The [UK] Daily Mail reports "Burglars should not be jailed unless they cause damage or hurt someone when committing their crime." I guess we can expect a dramatic rise in burglaries in the U.K.
-- Source: "Crime and Non-Punishment," The Limbaugh Letter, May 2010, page 4. Address: 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10020. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-445-3963. E-mail. Website.

QUICKIES

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Posted here for 9-6-10

"It's hard to make sense out of the fascination that liberals have with Mao, who is known to history as the champion murderer of all time. Barack Obama's Communications Czar, Anita Dunn, called him one of her two 'favorite political philosophers.' We thought Anita was thrown under the bus after that embarrassment became public, but now she's back with an assignment from the Obama Administration to convince the American people that we really like Obamacare after all. The celebrity heads of this taxpayer-funded propaganda project are former Senator Tom Daschle and Ted Kennedy's widow Victoria."
-- "The NEA's Latest Shenanigans," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, August 2010, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.

"Instead of improving America's image in the minds of Muslims, Obama has made things worse. Since Obama became president, the popularity of the United States in Muslim countries has declined, according to the Pew Global Attitudes Survey. In Egypt, only 17 percent of those surveyed said they had a favorable view of the United States. That is the lowest rating in the five years Egyptians have been polled. Last year, 27 percent said they had a favorable view."
-- "Obama and the Muslim World: the Divide Is Worse Than Ever," by Ronald Kessler, NewsMax magazine, September 2010, page 30. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"Guess it's too much to ask Hollywood to make its big-budget treatment of Captain America, oh, you know -- pro-American! At the massive Comic-Con convention recently, Joe Johnston, director of the film Captain America: The First Avenger, was reassuring people that the movie wouldn't be cluttered with needless junk about American exceptionalism. [. . .] [T]he movie [. . .] was shot on location in England."
-- "'Captain America' Really Not That Pro-American," NewsMax magazine, September 2010, page 56. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.

"It's one of the oldest drugs in the world -- and one of the most potent. In fact, if it were introduced today, acetylsalicylic acid (more commonly known as aspirin) probably wouldn't be approved for over-the-counter sales. [. . .] The Institute of Safe Medication Practice lists aspirin as the No. 4 drug that causes serious adverse event[s], such as birth defects, hospitalization, even death. (Insulin in No. 1.)"
-- "Aspirin," NewsMax magazine, September 2010, page 94. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.