On April 26, Gardner Goldsmith welcomed Myron Ebell, evironmental policy and energy expert of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Together, they investigated the claims of leftists in both major parties that the government should get further involved in regulating gas prices and taxing oil companies.

This is part one of two.

Neeeeeew Jerrrrrseyyy.. Where the trees grow tall, the grass grows green, and laws prevent people from pumping their own gas.

NJ has spawned a real winner. Congressman Robet Menendez.

Here he is on the morality of supply and demand -- Congress style.

Listen to this short bite, it's something on which to chew...

And read about Mr. Menendez's home state right here! It's FUN!

http://ask.yahoo.com/20040715.html

Chuck Schumer, the senior Senator from New York (makes one wish we could disown that state) does George Bush one better in the hypocrasy department as he questions the morals of gas suppliers and oil companies.

This, of course, coming from a guy who gets an AUTOMATIC pay increase in the Senate unless he votes against it. This coming from the guy who never mentioned trying to cut the 69 Cents per gallon that the federal and state governments impose on us at the pump, or the regulations that have virtually stopped all off-shore drilling near the US, or the regulations that make it so expensive to refine oil here in the US that it has become more economically efficient to refine it in other countries. We haven't built a new refinery in the US since 1976, but Chuck Schumer doesn't mention this in his harangue.

Listen to President Bush as he accepts and promotes the idea that the federal government should have a role in "investigating" the price of gasoline.

As you do, see if you can find any Constitutional rationale for the existence of the federal organizations he mentions, and see if he mentions the 54 Cent per gallon tariff the US imposes on foreign ethanol, which the government FORCES us to put in our gastanks, but which ADM and the "Renewable Fuel Association" (where he spoke today to announce his new energy plan) NEVER want revoked.

This is a short bite, for your entertainment...

With El G Grande and Greg Gorman of Talk Radio News.

More on the economics of gas prices, from "Against the Grain".

Savor the pleasure of knowing that hypocrites like Dennis Hastert and Bill Frist deride oil companie and their executives for their supposedly unconscionable profits.

This coming from guys who get automatic pay raises UNLESS they vote against them, pay raises that are taken from us against our will.

There is much to discuss on the supposed "gouging" by oil companies. This audio file begins the discussion.

For more on the intellectually dishonest, read this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/21/AR200604...

Comments on the "Downeaster" train in Maine, NH, and Mass. The politicians will try any ploy they can to pilfer your money, and that of your neighbor. This segment of "Against the Grain" exposes the fallacies underlying government train systems, and looks at the misapprehensions that prompt even respected economists like Milton Friedman to view higher gas prises as a causitive factor behind inflation.

Gardner Goldsmith explains why this is not the case.

Not only does this abrogate the original intent of the Founders when writing the "interstate commerce clause" of the Constitution, it breaks the proscription against Congress delegating its powers (even if it had them to regulate commerce in this way) to any other body.

Read on, MacDuff!

An excellent piece on the next stage in government manipulation of the market has appeared on MSN.

Please read this piece, and consider spreading the word about the trend. Most of us are already aware of it, but "eternal vigilance" is important!

Here is the link: http://www.slate.com/id/2139941/nav/tap1/?GT1=8019

Two years ago, Gard Goldsmith wrote this piece for the Ludwig von Mises Institute. You may want to read it:

http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=1573

With John Berthoud, President of the National Taxpayer's Union.

This is the second part of our coverage of McCain and Jeanne Diamond. The mindset she displays is pernicious, deadly to a free society.

When John McCain visited NH over the weekend of April 8 and 9, 2006, he was featured at a "Town Meeting" in Keene.

Hosted by Congressaman Charlie "Three Terms" Bass, the meeting was attended by people who had many questions for the Arizona Senator.

One of those people was Keene resident Jeanne Diamond. This is her story -- or part of it. It is the story of a peson who has no idea why government is created.

As Public Enemy said:

"There's a five letter word to describe her character."

Exposing the fallacies of Ms. Hillary's rhetoric on the US economy, trade, and health care.

We need Ian in New Hampshire!

www.freetalklive.com

As mentioned in Business Week, NV Senator Harry Reid has not only proposed, but has thusfar secured 54 million Dollars for funding a high-speed Mag-Lev train to shuttle people between Las Vegas Nevada (STRANGE, IT'S IN HIS HOME STATE!), and Disney Land, in California.

The link doth be here: http://www.businessweek.com/@@LmY22mcQhBtV0xYA/premium/content/06_16/c39...

Read about Reid, and keep smiling!

The Massachusetts legislature passed on April 4 a bill to force all businesses in the state to provide health insurance for their employees.

They will also soon pass a law to make French the official language.

Tres bien!

On Friday, March 31, El G welcomed Alice DeSouza, Director of the NH Division of Travel and Tourism, and Stewart Arnett, Director of the Division of Economic Development. They appeared in order to provide a recap of the recent meeting between state bureaucrats and "businesses effected by the warm winter".

Since it was only November that the NH Legislature voted to spend nearly 18 million Dollars on "fuel assistance" for cold families over the winter, one wonders when state "assistance" (AKA, resitribution of other peoples' wealth for purposes the politicians deem "charitable") will ever end.

His favorite Red Sox player is still Manny OrTEZ.