Judge Napolitano: The government consumes wealth; private industry produces wealth. The government and private enterprise are the opposite: If private enterprise fails to produce what consumers want or fails to return a profit to investors, it goes out of business.
Are you worried about who is advising President Obama about health care?
Today is a very special day: It's President Obama's birthday. He turned 48 — only 16 more "czars" to appoint before his age equals total "czars."
What birthday present would you like to get from President Obama?
Beck: "Bullies are nothing but cowards and if you're being bullied you need to stand up for yourself. Only when you stand up, will the bullies respect you and eventually leave you alone."
Beck: "How did we get to a place where Russia is lecturing us on capitalism? Pravda writes: 'First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system... Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas than the drama in D.C. that directly affects their lives.... Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our 'democracy.' Pride, blind the foolish.' America, we must educate ourselves. Be involved. And remember: Pride, blind the foolish!"
Following are some of the missile types known to be in North Korea's arsenal:
> TAEPODONG-2
Taepodong-2 is a two or three stage missile
Taepodong-2 is designed range of 4,160 miles
Taepodong-2 potential range means it could hit Alaska
Taepodong-2 has possible warhead payload of 1,450 to 2,205 lb in its short range configuration
Taepodong-2 suffered a test launch failure in 2006 and destructed approx. 40 seconds into flight
(Source: FACTBOX-North Korea's Taepodong-2 long-range missile, Reuters, March 13, 2009)
Beck: "Remember the movie 'The Matrix'? Nothing was real, the world people lived in was a fabrication — a computer program. Our lives have been like that movie and it is not about Barack Obama. It's about Obama and Bush and Clinton and Bush. It has been going on for years, it is just a play and it goes back to the progressive movement -- on both sides of the aisle."
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In response to the swine flu scare, President Obama is urging Americans to take "the utmost precautions."
But what do "utmost precautions" mean for all of us?
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In response to litigation filed by the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act, the Justice Department released four memos produced by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) that provided the legal framework for the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques.
Click below to read the memos:
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised.