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By Scott Lazarowitz, September 30, 2009 4:50 pm

I didn’t know that Roman Polanski was an ACORN associate.

No, but seriously, this whole business with Polanski is really sick.  If this guy drugged and boozed up someone, then that reduces her judgment, and if she is impaired by chemicals then any sexual relations become non-consensual.

Is it any surprise that this perv child molester is being defended by his fellow Hollywood Left sickos? Our culture has been corrupted by them, and it goes with the Left’s constant advocacy of aggression against others and denial of individual rights in public policy making and especially in their view of how to treat children, such as with the perverted crap we see in the government-run schools.

While I am personally opposed to spanking, the Hollywood Left and Polanski are nevertheless in need of a big collective spanking (but wait, they would probably enjoy that, so as Emily Litella used to say–”Never mind.”)

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By Scott Lazarowitz, September 29, 2009 2:42 pm

If you are not as informed on the Federal Reserve and its purpose (or if it has any legitimate purpose), or if you do not fully understand the concept of money, then, besides getting Ron Paul’s book, End the Fed, then here is a great article by Gary North, What Is Money?, well worth your time.

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By Scott Lazarowitz, September 29, 2009 2:06 pm

In Soviet Amerika, besides the massive Big Government programs that have been ruining our country for decades, we have a lot of incidents now involving police and National Guard as “quasi police,” in which innocent citizens are being harassed and actual criminals are not being apprehended.

I can’t believe all the things I’ve been reading recently. For example, the protests in Pittsburgh with the G20 meeting involved this one occasion where police (and probably National Guardsmen mistakenly referred to as the “military”) rushed a guy into an unmarked vehicle and drove him away. Witnesses said the guy was doing nothing.

In Chicago, if you heard about this one teen who was beaten to death by a gang of brutes, did you also hear that the armed police officers first to arrive on the scene did nothing to save the kid from his death as they “waited for backup?” Excuse me, Mr. or Ms. Police Officer, when you come upon a gang of marauding brutes beating up on someone, especially with the use of weapons, then your appropriate immediate response is to get out your gun and blow out the brains of the brutish marauders. If this is true that these officers did not intervene right away to save that kid’s life, then they need to be charged with aiding and abetting this murder.

And now we have President Obama going off to secure the Olympics for his hometown of Chicago, even though the people of Chicago don’t want it there. What a big surprise that this president is going to do something that is against the will of the people, just like his desire for government medicine that the people don’t want, and cap and trade that the people don’t want, which is typical of authoritarians and fascists.

This president’s need for control over everything is also typical of his ilk on the Left. There is this love for government that they have, this worship of authoritarian government power that never seems to be enough for them, like a drug addiction. Of course this president is no stranger to addiction with his former chain smoking nicotine addiction, and his self-admitted past drug use. These politicians lust for power, more power, and more and more power like it can never be enough for them, just like actual drugs. Psychologically speaking, this personality trait goes with Obama’s obvious need for attention and adoration, which also is never enough. His childhood needs for parental approval and attention were never met at the time that it really mattered, because of a father who abandoned him and a mother who moved him from place to place. He is desperately in need of years of intensive psychoanalysis.

So now Obama’s emotional needs are falsely met by the adoration and outright worship that he gets from the masses. Or got from them at campaign rallies. But now he gets that worship from the sickeningly biased news media, who propagandize for their Leader, but who don’t realize that the very leftist government fascism they are helping to promote is the same leftist fascist government that will shut them up and remove their First Amendment Rights the minute any of them gets “out of line.”

These are the Big Government Leftists who are supportive of (and dependent on) the kind of police-military behavior mentioned above, because they are the ones who favor literally a police state. What we have now is a police mentality in which they aren’t protecting innocent citizens from the deliberately harmful actions of others, and instead are harassing innocent citizens for irrelevant and unnecessary reasons.

We have Cabinet secretaries like Napolitano, Holder and Sebelius who wouldn’t know the Constitution if they fell over it. We have pit bull teachers unions more concerned with getting higher pay than they’re worth, and less concerned with kids’ education, as well as who give failing kids passing grades because they don’t want them to feel bad, only to make the kids drop out of college because they weren’t taught the things colleges demand. And the retarded ignoramuses of the Massachusetts state legislature vote for swine flu martial law out of panic and ignorance. Only in Soviet Amerika.

I am not as optimistic towards the 2010 elections as some are. Will a 1994-like outcome really be effective? After 1994, the country went right back to more government, more police state, and less freedom, and more ignorance. And in 2012, if the GOP nominates a mealy-mouthed weasel like Willard Mitt Romney, we are doomed.

The talk of secession is getting more and more interesting. It may be necessary to do that, for the people who want their freedom back to cut off ties with the oppressive Washington. Let the knuckle-dragging neanderthals of the Left have their co-dependence with the police state fascism that they want, and let the rest of us have our freedom back.

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By Scott Lazarowitz, September 28, 2009 1:53 pm

Iain Murray Fisks Paul Krugman

More Mandates By Massachusetts State Bureaucrats to Make Life Even More Difficult and Miserable For Child Day Care Workers

Meanwhile, the Child Care Police in England

Glenn Greenwald: A Glossary Of Terms In Foreign Affairs

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By Scott Lazarowitz, September 26, 2009 5:48 am

Here is US Rep. Ron Paul’s statement to the US House of Representatives this week on the proposals for ObamaCare. Dr. Paul is himself an MD.

More Government Won’t Help, by Ron Paul

Government has been mismanaging medical care for more than 45 years; for every problem it has created it has responded by exponentially expanding the role of government.
Points to consider:
1.)  No one has a right to medical care.  If one assumes such a right, it endorses the notion that some individuals have a right to someone else’s life and property.  This totally contradicts the principles of liberty.
2.)  If medical care is provided by government, this can only be achieved by an authoritarian government unconcerned about the rights of the individual.
3.)  Economic fallacies accepted for more than 100 years in the United States has deceived policy makers into believing that quality medical care can only be achieved by government force, taxation, regulations, and bowing to a system of special interests that creates a system  of corporatism.
4.)  More dollars into any monopoly run by government never increases quality but it always results in higher costs and prices.
5.)  Government does have an important role to play in facilitating the delivery of all goods and services in an ethical and efficient manner.
6.)  First, government should do no harm.  It should get out of the way and repeal all the laws that have contributed to the mess we have.
7.)  The costs are obviously too high but in solving this problem one cannot ignore the debasement of the currency as a major factor.
8.)  Bureaucrats and other third parties must never be allowed to interfere in the doctor/patient relationship.
9.)  The tax code, including the ERISA laws, must be changed to give everyone equal treatment by allowing a 100% tax credit for all medical expenses.
Laws dealing with bad outcomes and prohibiting doctors from entering into voluntary agreements with their patients must be repealed.  Tort laws play a significant role in pushing costs higher, prompting unnecessary treatment and excessive testing.  Patients deserve the compensation; the attorneys do not.
10.)  Insurance sales should be legalized nationally across state lines to increase competition among the insurance companies.
11.)  Long-term insurance policies should be available to young people similar to term-life insurances that offer fixed prices for long periods of time.
12.)  The principle of insurance should be remembered.  Its purpose in a free market is to measure risk, not to be used synonymously with social welfare programs.  Any program that provides for first-dollar payment is no longer insurance.  This would be similar to giving coverage for gasoline and repair bills to those who buy car insurance or providing food insurance for people to go to the grocery store.  Obviously, that could not work.
13.)  The cozy relationship between organized medicine and government must be reversed.
Early on medical insurance was promoted by the medical community in order to boost re-imbursements to doctors and hospitals.  That partnership has morphed into the government/insurance industry still being promoted by the current administration.
14.)  Threatening individuals with huge fines by forcing them to buy insurance is a boon to the insurance companies.
15.)  There must be more competition for individuals entering into the medical field.  Licensing strictly limits the number of individuals who can provide patient care.  A lot of problems were created in 20th century as a consequence the Flexner Report (1910), which was financed by the Carnegie Foundation and strongly supported by the AMA.  Many medical schools were closed and the number of doctors was drastically reduced.  The motivation was to close down medical schools that catered to women, minorities and especially homeopathy.  We continue to suffer from these changes which were designed to protect physician’s income and promote allopathic medicine over the more natural cures and prevention of homeopathic medicine.
16.)  We must remove any obstacles for people seeking holistic and nutritional alternatives to current medical care.  We must remove the threat of further regulations pushed by the drug companies now working worldwide to limit these alternatives.
True competition in the delivery of medical care is what is needed, not more government meddling.

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By Scott Lazarowitz, September 25, 2009 1:57 pm

Here is Jack Hunter from the Charleston, S.C. City Paper on Glenn Beck’s recent comments regarding Libertarianism, Ron Paul and “neoconservatism,” and here’s Paul Mulshine (via Lew Rockwell) of the NJ Star Ledger stating that Mark Levin owes Ron Paul an apology as Glenn Beck sort of did.

As I read the commentators and hear them on the radio, it seems that some of them are going through some sort of metamorphoses in their public policy views. Good.

Only in the last year I have heard Glenn Beck on the radio, and gotten to know some of his views. The local station has his show Saturday evenings. I haven’t seen his TV show for various reasons. Mark Levin, however, I’ve heard over the last 2 or 3 years now, mostly between October and April, when WABC comes in on my radio.

I really appreciated Levin’s extensive history lessons over the last year, especially to do with the country’s economic problems and bailouts and stimuli, etc., as he reviewed much of the years leading up to the Crash of 1929 and during the Great Depression. He did some very informative, thought-provoking shows. Thanks to Levin and my further reading, I now have a much better understanding of those issues.

Unfortunately, there have been those occasions when Levin loses his temper and starts yelling and screaming, and I am forced to change the station, only to hear Michael Savage losing his temper and start yelling and screaming, and I then start yelling at the radio, “Stop losing your temper and yelling and screaming!”

I really appreciate Glenn Beck’s realizing that maybe, just maybe these foreign military conflicts and occupations are not helpful to our country in the long term. Even NRO’s Andy McCarthy had a lengthy article showing support for a war of defense, but maybe not for “nation-building,” and Levin had a noteworthy response to that, “Not So Fast.”

I hope that one day the people of our country will realize that wars and occupations for non-retaliatory purpose can’t be morally justified. You can euphemize and rationalize those policies all you want, but they are really policies of expansionism, period.

When US forces are “officially” no longer occupants of Iraq, it will return to its self-favored state of anarchy, religious-based intolerance and violence, and not the democracy that we supposedly started, whether it be because of Iran or for whatever situations, because that’s the way their culture is, being dominated by people who refuse to evolve to at least the 11th Century. Those Iraqis fortunate enough to get out will do so.

Afghanistan is a different story. The incompetent President Bush intended to respond to 9/11 appropriately, but within only a few months, while our forces took down the Taliban, they didn’t get Al Qaeda and their hide-outs and training camps and top leaders including Bid Laden himself, although they could’ve done so with more decisive and thorough strategies, which we were well capable of implementing. Instead, our forces’ energies and resources were diverted to “nation-building,” or whatever euphemism you have for that. When it becomes a campaign of anything but retaliation (and defeating and destroying your enemy), it then becomes what it became–expansionist, and thus immoral.

The American Founders knew of the importance of independence, and George Washington (who?) warned us against “foreign entanglements.”

If President Bush were really serious about protecting our country from terrorists, he would’ve secured and protected our borders, and thus prevented God knows how many terrorists and would-be terrorists, islamic or otherwise, from sneaking through the borders and coasts, and who knows how many people there are now, how many “sleeper cells” there are in the US.

Thanks to George W. Bush. And his father the elder President Bush. We went to Iraq in 1991 to “protect the people of Kuwait,” from Saddam Hussein (but really to protect the oil industry–don’t tell anyone I said that). Had the Elder Bush not started that, there wouldn’t have been a 2003- Iraq war. And had Pat Buchanan taken that Republican nomination away from the Elder Bush in 1992, we may not have had a President Clinton, and maybe not even had a 9/11. I know, woulda shoulda coulda is not very helpful.

Our National Debt is exploding because of expansionist foreign policies, as well as bailouts and Obommunism.

It will be very interesting to see which presidential candidates Glenn Beck and Mark Levin might support in 2012. Please let it not be Willard Mitt Romney (His finger must be soooo tired being held in the air like that for so many years now!). I like Sarah Palin (whom Michael Graham described as a “smokin’ hot Babe Lincoln”). Yes, she’s a little flaky, and, at times, a goofball. But she actually has a record of “reforming” government, which we can’t say about even Ronald Reagan (who promised to cut several whole Cabinet departments which he didn’t, he added 2 or 3, etc.), and certainly not about Willard Mitt Romney (Anyone who’s lived in Massachusetts during his term as governor knows he is a stranger to “reform”).

Palin could also be considered a “citizen candidate” going to Washington. But she needs to let go of this view of dependence on military-industrial-complex-corporate warfare/welfare statism-bureaucracy, or more accurately, co-dependence, that so many people have been fooled into believing is a good idea. (You don’t think that the Bushes “fooled” people? That so many millions of Americans could be fooled by a politician? Then just look at how the current president got elected.) I wish to hear Mark Levin let go of that co-dependence, too.

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By Scott Lazarowitz, September 24, 2009 12:08 pm

Investor Jim Rogers says to invest in China, and drop the US dollar, but that doesn’t seem sensible to me, notwithstanding my limited knowledge of these issues. According to CBS Noose, China wants to have a bigger role with the IMF.  Meanwhile, Rep. Ron Paul says that foreign aid to the IMF amounts to an international bailout. (Dr. Paul also wrote “The IMF Con” in 2004.) Here is a very useful report on China’s Economic Freedom Index from Heritage.org. As much as China in recent years seems to have increased freedom of markets, there is still very little, if any, political freedom. As Dr. Sanity very well noted, you really need political freedom to have actual economic freedom and prosperity.

I wouldn’t move to China, but given such a reduction in both political and economic freedom in the US, and getting worse, perhaps it really is time to start learning Mandarin, as Mr. Rogers has done, and is teaching his daughter. I think we started calling the city of “Peking” “Beijing” in the 1980s because it was becoming obvious how their government is “Peking” into their people’s private lives, although I think that’s increasing over here as well. (Peking, D.C.)

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By Scott Lazarowitz, September 23, 2009 1:51 pm

This globalism looniness of the President Bushes and President Obama is like fingernails against the chalkboard! Obama seems to want to “spread the wealth” from America to other countries. Unfortunately, while he really wants to tax Americans with the purpose of our Federal government to redistribute the wealth to people in other countries, history has shown that: a.) our government can’t be trusted and is too incompetent to do those tasks that private American citizens and groups should do, and b.) it is the other governments of the other countries who even more can’t be trusted, and whose officials and politicians will make sure that such wealth stays mostly in their pockets, and won’t actually get to the people abroad who are the most needy.

Worse than that, if we get in some kind of  “global economic system,” such as with a single “global currency” and a “global central bank,” no longer will there be any right of an individual to one’s own life, liberty and property, because all wealth and means of production will be publicly and collectively owned, which includes people which consists of individuals. There will be no such thing as individual rights and individual liberty, and it will be acceptable for groups and collectives to use and enslave any individual whose life or abilities are deemed useful to the collective.

That is the situation we have in most countries now (and in many ways in the US), and we shouldn’t join any such “global union.”

I hear conservatives preaching the gospel for “free enterprise” and “free market capitalism,” but not enough do I hear about the importance of freedom.

Leftists and collectivists want us to regress back to the Triassic Period of 200 million years ago, when the Earth's continents were all fused together in one big mess. (Image from Wikimedia Commons by Retama)

You can’t have free markets without individual freedom and a system that protects our individual rights. We have a Bill of Rights, without which we could not have “free market capitalism,” because the Bill of Rights protects our rights to  life, liberty and property, and the “fruits of our labor,” and our prosperity, from government.  In other words, freedom creates prosperity–government kills it.

After President Obama speaks to the nitwits, numbskulls, nudniks and nincompoops, and the tyrants, sleazebags and dictators of the United Nations, fresh after his visit with Late Night host David Letterman, perhaps he’ll be invited over to Iran to talk to their late night talk show host, Rafsanjani Carson.

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By Scott Lazarowitz, September 22, 2009 1:53 pm

Lew Rockwell brings some reality to the discussion on our country’s occupation in Afghanistan.

And Michael Rozeff asks the government for a prospectus for Americans forced to “invest” in this Afghanistan war.

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By Scott Lazarowitz, September 22, 2009 1:20 pm

Is there really that much of a difference,  if any, between “unpaid internships” and “volunteer work?” Am I the only one who doesn’t see any difference? Well, this situation tells me that the control freak government might as well make volunteer work illegal, to be consistent. Am I all wet on this?