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"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents…" –James Madison
Technorati [...]People who work hard to support themselves and despise government programs that reward sloth are facing further penalties for being responsible. The Senate Finance Committee has announced that passage of a costly health care reform bill is likely.
"We’re coming to closure," Baucus told reporters. "It’s clear to me we’re going [...]
Private property rights do not conflict with human rights. They are human rights. Private property rights are the rights of humans to use specified goods and to exchange them. Any restraint on private property rights shifts the balance of power from impersonal attributes toward personal attributes and toward behavior that [...]
John Stossel will be leaving ABC and appearing regularly on the Fox News Network in October.
I’m still considering what I will do with my own show, one hour each week. Economics certainly. Exercises in understanding libertarianism. My “take” on the issues of the day. Kind [...]
Sorting Fact From Fiction on Health Care sets the record straight on many of the myths supporting the current government health care bill before Congress.
Technorati Tags: health care,universal,Obamacare,freedom [...]Zak Maymin has identified Six simple steps to fix our healthcare. I would add two more simple steps to maximize the benefits to Americans.
Transition away from 3rd party payer programs to restore cost accountability. This will apply tremendous downward pressure on medical costs. Remove health insurance from the realm [...]
When a country is not on a gold standard, when its citizens are not even permitted to own gold, when they are told that irredeemable paper money is just as good, when they are compelled to accept payment in such paper of debts or pensions that are [...]
Responsibility, not to a superior, but to one’s conscience, the awareness of a duty not exacted by compulsion, the necessity to decide which of the things one values are to be sacrificed to others, and to bear the consequences of one’s own decision, are the very essence of any morals [...]
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View from the 13th floor of Buffalo General. Taken with my [...]
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On Thursday the process of giving vast, new, dictatorial powers over the economy to the Federal Reserve Bank begins in the House of Representatives.
We must prevent this move from gaining any traction!
On Wednesday, we must CALL THE COMMITTEE and let them know that the [...]
When you are out barbecuing, picnicing, or whatever it is you do today, please take a moment to reflect and propose a toast to celebrate the true meaning of the Fourth of July — Here’s to a "a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from [...]
To minimize conflicts in the future we should aim to create a world in which people are free to buy what they want, live and work where they choose, and invest and produce where conditions seem most propitious. There should be unlimited freedom for individuals to trade within and across [...]
“Two simple observations are key to explaining both the high level of spending on medical care and the dissatisfaction with that spending. The first is that most payments to physicians or hospitals or other caregivers for medical care are made not by the patient but by a third party—an insurance [...]
Dear Friend,
Last week, I announced United We Serve – a nationwide call to service challenging you and all Americans to volunteer this summer and be part of building a new foundation for America.
And when I say “all,” I mean everyone – young [...]
The recently passed “cash for clunkers” bill is analogous with what is wrong with American today. Under this bill, it is possible to get a $4,500 subsidy to purchase a new car. This is an insidious plan to create faux-demand for the newly created Government Motors of Obama.
The economy [...]
Are you scared yet? You should be, this is real fear, not the manufactured kind Obama uses to justify his socio-economic policies. Technorati Tags: Obama,fear,socialism,health care [...]
WASHINGTON – The Senate struck a historic blow against smoking in America Thursday, voting overwhelmingly to give regulators new power to limit nicotine in the cigarettes that kill nearly a half-million people a year, to drastically curtail ads that glorify tobacco and to ban flavored products [...]
Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." And, it was Albert Einstein who explained, "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." So which is it — stupidity, ignorance or insanity — [...]
"The American government will be soundly defeated if a civil war ever erupts in the continental US. Not only will a single incident have a ripple effect that will spark the awakening of thousands of insurgencies but the violent over-reaction and clumsy attempts at propaganda by the [...]
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I decided to take a ride today and head to wherever my [...]
With the unabated deficit spending from Washington, people who are legitimately concerned about the fate of our economy have not had any good news during the past 100 days.
On that note, I would like to share this good news with you.
Dear Friends,
As we reflect on President Obama’s first 100 [...]
Several hundred people showed up today for the Tea Party held at Club W on Delaware Avenue. We marched to Niagara Square and rallied for about 1 hour then returned to the Club for more activities. Below is a slideshow of today’s event. Follow this link for a full-size [...]
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Right now in front of city hall them back to club w
Warning: If you are receiving this email, the government may already consider you a "right-wing extremist!"
Personally, I think it makes no sense that the government is now considering millions of Americans extremists. Perhaps a look in the mirror is in order for the blokes that subscribe to this nonsense.
What exactly [...]
If you are fed-up with out of control taxes and spending by government, tomorrow is your day. The Western New York Tea Party will be held tomorrow at 1 pm at Club W, 199 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, New York. Details here.
[...]What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it [...]
Wegmans is the best supermarket chain in America, while Tops is among the 10 worst, according to a new national report.
The May issue of Consumer Reports includes ratings of 59 chains, including Western New York’s two dominant supermarkets, based on surveys of 32,599 shoppers across the country.
Wegmans ranked No. 1, [...]
If these guys were running the country, it would be as close to Utopia as one can get. Freedom Watch, hosted by Judge Napolitano has a premier guest lineup – Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, John Stossel, Gerald Celente and Tom Woods.
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+ Contact your State Senate and Assembly members now to oppose the budget. The vote could be as early as tonight. Call, fax and email. Let them know that a vote for any tax increases and any budget that doesn’t reduce spending compared to 2008 will [...]
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I still think a surgical strike, with a bunker-buster bomb or two, [...]
First, I would like to thank Rus Thompson for organizing a great event and say a thanks to all of the people who helped. Also, a HUGE THANKS to everyone who attended and supports this vital cause. Thank you!
You can click on any photo for a larger version.
Francisco and Elizabeth Guzman are great believers in Catholic education, but they wouldn’t be able to keep their three school-age children in Catholic schools without the help of three separate scholarship funds.
“With this economy, no, I don’t think we could,” said Francisco Guzman, an architect for the Buffalo Urban [...]
My sample of Starbucks instant coffee arrived this morning. I’m drinking the Italian Roast as I write. I have never been a fan of Starbucks’ Coffee. It always has a bitter, burnt taste. The instant is no different except for a slight “instant” taste. I will give them credit for [...]
Some federal judges are opening the door to the press reporting directly from their courtrooms in the interest of bringing more transparency to the judicial process.
Judge Tom Marten of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas this month is letting a reporter for the Wichita Eagle send "Twitter" [...]
Obama will most likely increase the deaths due to the FDA.
President Barack Obama has designated overhauling American health care as a priority of his administration, and he has indicated that whomever he appoints to head the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must implement “a stricter regulatory structure” and redouble [...]
That no free government, or the blessing of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
— George Mason, Virginia Declaration of Rights [1776]
In other words, for the conceptually challenged, liberty and [...]
It is time for New York State to wake up and allow wine sales in supermarkets. 35 other states already do so. It will save consumers time and money to be able to purchase wines to complement meals while they are doing their grocery shopping. It will [...]
"[C]reating jobs is not difficult for government. What is difficult for government is creating jobs that produce wealth. Pyramids, holes in the ground and war do not produce wealth. They destroy wealth. They take valuable resources and convert them into something less valuable. Instead of iPods, great art, cures for [...]
Besides rewarding irresponsibility by stealing money from taxpayers, Obama’s housing plan is a recipe for disaster.
Another cost often attributed to foreclosure is ‘neighbourhood blight’, that is, negative externalities associated with foreclosures and the associated repossessions and evictions. The value of neighbours’ properties goes down and pretty soon the weeds are [...]
The Keynesians are wrong and this is why.
The primary fallacy of the tooth-fairy economics at the heart of the stimulus is the very idea that economic health is the product of government spending, which is financed either by borrowing (which leaves private businesses with a smaller share of the pool [...]
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I think a nap might be in order.
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I know my answer and it doesn’t contain an “o”.
[...]Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is man’s deadliest enemy. It is not as protection against private actions, but against governmental [...]
You heard that right - $10 trillion dollars.
Think about that number for a moment, because it’s a lot larger than the $700 billion financial services bailout George Bush signed on October 3, which effectively marked the end of capitalism as we know it in this country.
That so-called “Emergency Economic Stabilization” [...]
A “right” is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man’s freedom of action in a social context. There is only one fundamental right (all others are its consequences or corollaries): a man’s right to his own life. Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action; the right to [...]
HT to Derek for posting the video of our PC car of the future. It will fulfill all the needs of the Koolaid crowd.
This quote fits Obama to a “T”!
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but [...]
This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the “hidden” confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one [...]
* “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.
There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” John Adams (1814)
* “If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they
will be best attained when all [...]
. . . All of it!
Paterson and the rest of the NYS government is hell-bent on getting more money, any possible way. Paterson’s latest proposal is to expand “legal” gambling in the State.
There is only one road to economic recovery in NYS, cut spending and cut [...]
Indie is amazed by her first real snow.
As usual, i went all out preparing Thanksgiving Dinner. Dinner was for 14 people this year. I took care of the main meal and a mince meat pie. My relatives provided 4 other pies and homemade eggnog, laced liberally with gold rum.
The menu consisted of an Herbed/Salted Roast Turkey with [...]
Ron Paul on bailouts.
"An essential element of a healthy free market, is that both success and failure must be permitted to happen when they are earned," Mr. Paul said. "But instead with a bailout, rewards are reversed – the proceeds from successful entities are given to failing ones. How this [...]
Comptroller: NY may need fed help
The broke state begging the broke federal government. That is a hoot!
There will be a fundraiser for the Mother of All Taxpayer Lawsuits on Tuesday, November 25th from 7-9pm at Brennan’s Bowery Bar & Restaurant at Main and Transit in Clarence.
Donation is $25. Pizza, salad, beer and wine will be served.
The lawsuit was brought against the Three [...]
Madame Speaker, many Americans are hoping the new administration will solve the economic problems we face. That’s not likely to happen, because the economic advisors to the new President have no more understanding of how to get us out of this mess than previous administrations and Congresses understood how the [...]
Government!
Washington imposed a minimum wage higher than the average wage in war-devastated Germany and Japan. The Feds ordered that U.S. plants be made the healthiest and safest worksites in the world, creating OSHA to see to it. It enacted civil rights laws to ensure the labor force reflected our diversity. [...]
However little it may often appear to be true, the social world is governed in the long run by certain moral principles on which the people at large believe. The only moral principle which has ever made the growth of an advanced civilization possible was the principle of individual freedom, [...]
Another retailer is about to bite the dust – Steve and Barry’s.
Steve & Barry’s LLC, the Port Washington-based retailer, filed documents with the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court that indicated it would starting a nationwide liquidation of its 173 stores, including ones in the Walden Galleria and [...]
The citizen is sovereign only when he can retain and enjoy the fruits of his labor. If the government has first claim on his property he must learn to genuflect before it. When the right of property is abrogated, all the other rights of the individual are undermined, and to [...]
For immediate release:
Contact:
James Ostrowski, Atty.
(716) 435-8918
jameso@apollo3.com
[blog.jimostrowski.com]
The Three Men in a Courtroom
December 3rd Albany
Buffalo, New York, November 18, 2008. Many people talk about doing something to cut taxes in New York. Fifty brave New Yorkers actually did something [...]
In the final analysis, the last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, [...]
Politicians continually entice voters — especially as members of identifiable interest groups — to demand ever more government. Politicians do this because increased government activity is something they hope to use to leverage interest groups into supporting their re-election bids. And each increase in government appears as a political “success.” [...]
The portrait Brian Higgins is trying to paint of himself is becoming laughable. He wants us to believe he is Mr. Goodguy in Washington, saving the taxpayers of WNY tons of money.
Now, he has the federal government investigating gasoline prices in WNY. Gasoline is not a Constitutional Right guaranteed [...]
People believe that, when we demand free trade, we are motivated exclusively by the desire to allow labor and capital to take the direction most advantageous to them. Public opinion is mistaken on this point; this is merely a secondary consideration with us. What grieves us, afflicts us, horrifies us [...]
Needless to say, I am not at all happy about the results of the Presidential election. If McCain had won, I would only be slight less unhappy.
It is now up to Obama to prove me wrong – I’m not holding my breath. There has been virtually nothing that has come [...]
Voters in both Arizona and Florida have approved amendments to their state constitutions banning gay marriage. California appears to have defeated a similar measure, but the final results are not in yet.
As much as I personally disagree with the voters of Arizona and Florida, I respect their decisions and laud [...]
Voting, if you understand the intended and unintended consequences of your choice, is patriotic. Don’t vote if you are doing it because you are told it is your civic duty, do it to make an informed choice.
Informed choices require studying economics, psychology and other social sciences.
The following photo illustrates what [...]
With respect to the two words “general welfare,” I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was [...]
Every $100 billion in bailout requires at least $130 billion in taxes, where the $30 billion extra is the cost of getting government involved.
If you don’t believe me, just watch how Congress and Barney Frank run the banks. If you thought they did a bad job running the post office, [...]
With the election just days away, The National Law Journal, as it has in the past, invited the major presidential and vice presidential candidates to write about the legal issues facing the next administration and to offer their views on such topics as the rule of law, the federal court [...]
Our current economic nosedive, combined with the massive bailouts, marks the beginning of the end of the United States’ economic dominance. Soon we will be a second tier economic power at best.
BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States has plundered global wealth by exploiting the dollar’s [...]
I don’t like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of "from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs." That’s socialism. It’s written in the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who [...]
If property ownership was required as a qualification to vote and people who receive government handouts were disqualified, McCain would win by a landslide and we would have a stronger nation in the long run.
The dependency class, created by government, would be reincentivized and more opportunities would exist.
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