Breaking News: Infrastructure Spending Ignored in the Bold New City

Car was driving down State Street until a Yazoo clay monster, similar to the monster made famous by the movie Tremors, engulfed it.

http://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2010/08/north-state-street-is-falling-down.html

We’ll Just Run Our Cars on Corn.

Except that it blows up our engines.  EPA delayed a decision on a  plan to institute E15, a 15% ethanol blended gasoline.

"We are disappointed," warned food giant Archer Daniels Midland. "We find this further delay unacceptable" and a "dereliction of duty," harrumphed ethanol lobbying group Growth Energy. 

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/08/27/corny-capitalism

Opposing Big Government, But Not

A Tea Party Foreign Policy

Why the growing grassroots movement can't fight big government at home while supporting it abroad.

BY RON PAUL | AUGUST 27, 2010

As one who is opposed to centralization, I am wary of attempts to turn a grassroots movement against big government like the Tea Party into an adjunct of the Republican Party. I find it even more worrisome when I see those who willingly participated in the most egregious excesses of the most recent Republican Congress push their way into leadership roles of this movement without batting an eye -- or changing their policies!

As many frustrated Americans who have joined the Tea Party realize, we cannot stand against big government at home while supporting it abroad. We cannot talk about fiscal responsibility while spending trillions on occupying and bullying the rest of the world. We cannot talk about the budget deficit and spiraling domestic spending without looking at the costs of maintaining an American empire of more than 700 military bases in more than 120 foreign countries. We cannot pat ourselves on the back for cutting a few thousand dollars from a nature preserve or an inner-city swimming pool at home while turning a blind eye to a Pentagon budget that nearly equals those of the rest of the world combined.

Our foreign policy is based on an illusion: that we are actually paying for it. What we are doing is borrowing and printing money to maintain our presence overseas. Americans are seeing the cost of this irresponsible approach as their own communities crumble and our economic decline continues.

I see tremendous opportunities for movements like the Tea Party to prosper by capitalizing on the Democrats' broken promises to overturn the George W. Bush administration's civil liberties abuses and end the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A return to the traditional U.S. foreign policy of active private engagement but government noninterventionism is the only alternative that can restore our moral and fiscal health. I am optimistic, and our numbers are increasing!

 

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/27/a_tea_party_foreign_policy

Philosophy of Liberty

Town Gets Rid of Traffic Lights and Traffic Improves

Pete Stark, United States Representative

Pete Stark