Bank failure? WHAT? NO WAY!

Treasury Secretary Paulsen said that the "housing bust" is sector specific! And he's in gubment, how could he POSSIBLY BE WRONG?

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_...

Okay, so John "The Constitutional Scholar" McCain was hangin' out with that cool dude Rick Warren, talking about how strongly he believes that "life begins at conception". Well, El G Grande has some information for you that might make you wonder about Mr. McCain's sincerity. Huh?! NEVER! NO!

Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection: A New Study of the Authorship Question

Fans of Judas Priest might remember the great song "Electric Eye"... Devotees of Ziggy Marley might have asked, like Ziggy, "What is that all-seeing eye doing on our Dollar bill?"

Well there are more eyes watching you now than ever before, thanks to a new Justice Department "rules change", as the verbally challenged like to call it.

Jon Basil Utley has written a very good piece on why the feds should open ANWR. He doesn't go into the federalism of it, but that's pretty manifest anyway. Check it out!

http://www.reason.com/news/show/128096.html

Remember Gardner Goldsmith mentioning a recent FCC ruling that fined Comcast for cutting out certain items from a subscriber's website? The people at Comcast had found them objectionable, and took measures to protect their business. The FCC did not recognize the virtue of private contract, and intervened.

Well, the FCC Chair did not approve of that move, and in expressing his disapproval, he recently revealed that, as Gard has warned, the ruling could jeopardize all free speech on the net. Here is the article:

http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080812160747.aspx

When will people begin to admit that United States citizens are living under the rule of a lawless government that makes the rules up as it goes along?

Check it out, and tune in or call on Friday to talk to Gardner Goldsmith about this incredible manipulation of the law, and President Bush's dereliction of duty to protect and defend the United States Constitution.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_bin_lad...

As Conspirators know, the only constitutional action for Congress to take if its members want the President to lead the troops as Commander-in-Chief, is to declare War. Without a declared War, the US government has been scrambling to find ways to hold and try members of al Queda and other so-called "enemy combatants". Now, the situation has reached a boiling point in the bogus "military tribunals" set up by Congress in 2006.

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In a poisonous attack on the Fourth Amendment, the Department of Homeland Security has given permission to the US Border Patrol to seize the laptops of people crossing the border into the US. They can take them to undisclosed locations, read any material on the computers, and COPY anything they desire -- without a warrant or just cause. This is unbelievable! Welcome to the USSA.

Here is the story. Please pass this along.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/content/article/2008/08/01/laptops....

http://www.reason.com/news/show/127845.html

Big thanks to fellow Conspirator, Ziggy, of the UK, for contributing this piece from the BBC. Spread the word: Government prohibitions don't work to stop the behavior, and produce unintended consequences that are much worse than the behavior. They are unethical and paternalistic, and should be opposed in all measures.

Take a look at the British experience: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7531860.stm

As members of the Radio Think Tank know, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has done yeoman's work putting together a report that will blow you away -- not in a good way, sadly.

Take a look at this report, with big thanks to www.CEI.org !

http://cei.org/cei_files/fm/active/0/10KC_2008_FINAL_WEB.pdf

Get ready for another Bear-Stearns-like bailout. In this case, two more banks fail, the feds move in, "take over" and prepare to re-sell them to other private interests after the gubment pays off bad debt with YOUR money. Question: If these banks are good to sell, and good to buy, why get the government involved? The buys would just go through if the banks were good investments. The reason they aren't good sale prospects is shown to us, BECAUSE the gubment stepped in. Here is the piece:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080726/ap_on_bi_ge/bank_takeover

Fans of the writer F. Paul Wilson will recall his short story, "Lipidleggin'", republished in the great anthology, "Soft". Well, Paul's speculative fears about government-run health care (fears penned in the early 1970's) are coming true. California has just banned trans-fats.

Here's the news report. http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5393222 Can anyone still remember individual responsibility, the good neighbor policy, the contract clause of the US Constitution, reason?

Here is a link to a very good audio version of Paul's short story!

Soft and Others: 16 Stories of Wonder and Dread