*** May 2012 low content thread ***

From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader
Senators To Unveil the ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ To Respond To Facebook’s Saverin
India’s Proposal For Government Control of Internet To Be Discussed In Geneva
Americans Happy To Pay More For Clean Energy, But Only a Little More

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/2012/0120/Are-you-a-true-Ron-Paul-supporter-Take-our-quiz/Now-that-Atlas-Shrugged-has-been-made-into-a-film-what-should-be-the-next-political-book-to-be-adapted-to-the-big-screen

Ludwig von Mises’s “Human Action: A Treatise on Economics,” starring John Stossel as the principle of praxeology.

Utah Phillips-I Will Not Obey

http://youtu.be/bGxjp2E0B4g

Warren Buffett’s Father Tried to Teach Warren About Austrian Business Cycle Theory

I wonder what went wrong.

And here is Howard Buffet on the gold standard:

http://www.fame.org/pdf/buffet3.pdf

What Is the Cult of the Omnipotent State?

Researcher apologizes for study of gay therapy

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg weds on day after IPO

Government Asks for Another Delay in Targeted Killing FOIA Lawsuit

I think her answer to the question starting at 4:59 is very perceptive and quite well stated.

The Swing Vote: Why Independents Will Decide the 2012 Election

You know the funny thing about the “Democratic party” is that it’s not…

As Lew Rockwell said: Insurgencies Are Not Allowed by the Democrats either.

Dems Disenfranchise Voters After Polls Show Obama in Close Primary Race

“Is this some kind of North Korea thing?”

Gotta love Joe Rogan..

Related to that video/book on swing voters: The Presidential Election Game

He talks about how appealing to the “middle” or “independent voter” is so important in presidential elections because neither party has historically had a strong enough majority to win just on party line voting.

War Causes Misery, Not Prosperity | by Robert Higgs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGoH3D1IhI8

Man who had 30 kids with 11 women wants child-support break

“…Also in a TV interview, Hatchett tried to explain – in a PG-rated way – how he managed to end up with so many kids: “I had four kids in the same year. Twice.”…”

“Some of the mothers of Hatchett’s children get only $1.49 a month, reported WREG in Memphis.”

LOL this cracked me up.

@z: Nice. This is the obvious consequence of welfare programs. I suspect the problem is more widespread than most people realize. Some men will eventually figure out that their potential girlfriends expect to live on public assistance no matter who they’re with, so the woman figures she might as well sleep with the most handsome, alpha-male they can find - by trolling for such women, such a man can be very, very “fruitful”.

Clayton -

Another 2008-style collapse is on the horizon

North Korea executes people for cannibalism

Outraged Fullerton citizens react to Kelly Thomas beating tape