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Milton Friedman’s classic series, Free to Choose, is now available on Google Video for free. See this blog for links to this post and other Milton Friedman videos:

http://miltonfriedman.blogspot.com/

A new site has been launched by opponents of “Obama in Boots” – Bill White for Taxes. See why “Harvard Bill” is not the choice for the great state of Texas.

Once again, Dems are in it for the “Little Guy,” until the Little Guy starts his own business.

For decades small business owners have been telling anyone who would listen that they need health-care reforms that lower costs. But President Obama and his allies in Congress pushed through a law that will dramatically raise health-care costs and increase the overall cost of doing business. What’s more, the federal mandate requiring that nearly all U.S. residents carry health insurance by 2014 seriously threatens our basic constitutional rights and individual freedoms.

WSJ: Obamacare vs. Small Business

P.S. @jaketapper is now telling us that calling Obamacare “Obamacare” is now considered pejorative. I can’t imagine that being said if either Obama or HCR had more than 50% approval. Mr. O. is clinging to the HCR stone as it sinks, so getting dainty over semantics won’t improve things IMHO.

Did I stumble upon this in the Onion? On the People’s Cube? Nyet, comrades, the plans of our present-day existential enemy to bury us have been exposed by newscientist.com. His excellency, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has designs to arrest the ascendancy of the West: Launching animals into space!

Iran has launched a rocket containing a rodent, turtles and worms to 500 kilometres above the Earth.

Iranian TV reports that the Kavoshgar-3 rocket carries an “experimental capsule” holding the creatures and other experiments, which will send data back to Earth. It is the first Iranian rocket to carry animals.

Such scientific experiments will help Iran break the “global domineering system” of Western nations, Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejadis reported to have said on state TV. “The scientific arena is where we could defeat the [West's] domination.”

Rest assured, comrades, this experiment is in no way intended to develop long-range warhead delivery capability, any more than acquisition of nuclear material and centrifuges is meant for anything other than peaceful energy development.

NewScientist: Iran Launches Animals Into Orbit

I discovered this nice little piece by Jim Treacher today, but in all fairness to our messianic leader’s astute attribution of responsibility in spending, I felt it necessary to add the following edits to the budget graph:

UPDATE: More charities added, and I have added links to Charity Navigator after each one (CN Link). Charity Navigator is a group that evaluates the transparency and financial health of thousands of charities in the US. Another accountability service is Servant Match

The death toll for the massive earthquake in Haiti is estimated to be over 100,000. In the face of such an overwhelming tragedy, you may feel there isn’t much you can do to help, but many small donations put to use by a capable organization can help greatly. In addition to your prayers, please consider giving to help the relief efforts – here are a few links to legitimate organizations that will be there to help:

American Red Cross

Compassion International CN Link

World Vision CN Link

Samaritan’s Purse CN Link

Food for the Hungry CN Link

BeyondBorders.net CN Link

World Concern CN Link (As Crista)

News Links:
WSJ: Governments, Relief Groups Ready Haiti Aid

Links courtesy of Hugh Hewitt and Hope in the City

From Michelle Malkin, filed under Tea Party Sign of the Times.
Hat Tip to Ed Driscoll.

Tiger Woods. 14 Mistresses, porn stars included.

Imagine your life for a minute. Add all the success you’ve ever dreamed of. People admire you like you’ve always thought you deserved. Throw in money – money beyond your wildest imagining. Every material possession you could keep in the place where you live, and money to build more houses just to store it all. Cars, houses, and people on the street corner with binoculars trying to get a glimpse of you.

A beautiful spouse, and if things aren’t working out quite the way you like, take on a mistress or two.

Tell you what, make it a baker’s dozen.

And guess what…
You’re not happy.

The stuff of genius, from @graphicdave:

Today marks the 45th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s magnificent address at the 1964 Republican National Convention.

These are words that would not win him a Nobel Peace Prize – they did not then and they would not now. Reagan’s revolution was a revolt against the policies of appeasement that had us in a state of perpetual stalemate in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. It was a stalemate in which the Soviets had gradually and consistently gained ground through subversion and deception, and used our own agreements and treaties against us.

In his Presidency, he reversed our course, from belief in a peaceful coexistence between superpowers, from “getting over our inordinate fear of Communism” as Jimmy Carter whimpered, to recognizing the Soviet Union for what it was – an ‘Evil Empire,’ a cancerous regime that could only devour more liberty as it rotted away from its own corruption. The strategy became not to contain, but to work actively to accelerate the collapse of Soviet Communism.

His ideal of ‘Freedom wins, tyranny loses’ was ridiculed for its lack of nuance. He was despised by Academia, the media, and Hollywood. Pundits spun neverending tales of the woe his “Cowboy” stance would bring upon us. And then he won.

On October 15, Barack Obama came to San Francisco to lend the favor of his glorious presence to a private fundraising event. He was unexpectedly greeted by a spontaneous Tea Party. Zombietime was there, musing about the ‘extremism,’ or lack thereof, of Tea Partiers. Among many signs photographed, ZT came upon this rare, beautiful gem:

Which Beverage Were You Drinking?

And so, dear readers, I ask you: Will you choose the deadly red Kool-Aid of Socialism, or turn once again to bold, rich Capitalist Coffee? The choice is yours.

Hat tip to The People’s Cube

Steve Wynn Continues criticism toward Obama

Steve Wynn made his views on the Obama Administration’s handling of the economy devastatingly clear on Fox News Sunday, as I posted last week.

Now, from ReviewJournal.com:

Wynn Resorts Ltd. Chairman Steve Wynn said Monday he plans to continue speaking out on what he calls the Obama administration’s mishandling of the economy.

And he believes others in the business community should be taking a similar approach.

“I feel very strongly about this, and it needs to be discussed,” said Wynn, founder and chief executive officer of the company that operates Wynn Las Vegas, Encore and a casino in Macau. “I plan on speaking up every chance I get. Every businessperson ought to speak up or things are going to get much worse.”

But he plans to do more than talk. Wynn said he may establish a political action organization within Wynn Resorts that will empower his Strip casino’s 14,000 employees.

Read the entire story…