It’s the roughest, toughest gang of outlaws you’ve ever seen — a band of bearded renegades so dangerous that a federal agency needed help from TWO law enforcement departments during a recent raid.

Airports are not required to have TSA screeners checking passengers at security checkpoints and can instead opt to hire private security screeners.

The next Congress should enact a moratorium on land nationalization. The feds should stop fleecing exhausted taxpayers for fresh billions to purchase new acreage for Uncle Sam to mismanage.

Blog sites have been buzzing about the National Medical Device Registry, a new office in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that was created in the Obamacare reconciliation package. Concern centers on the registry’s authority to conduct “postmarket device surveillance activities on implantable medical devices,” including those that feature radio-frequency identification. The word “surveillance” conjures ominous images of government tracking and reporting. Some have suggested the law lays the groundwork for compulsory microchip implantation so the state can keep tabs on everyone - for their own good, naturally.

The Federal Communications Commission is considering aggressive moves to stake out its authority to oversee consumer access to the Internet, as a recent court hearing and industry opposition have cast doubt on its power over Web service providers.

The Dallas Blog has recently obtained an official e-mail from Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications’ Commission, dated Jan. 12 at 6:26 p.m. The FCC czar responded to an email from a person who retired from a very successful career in the public relations industry in the Dallas area.

Washington Fat Cats Excused from Scrutiny - Washington, DC, January 13, 2010 – Today marks the first-ever meeting of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which is charged with investigating the causes of the mortgage meltdown.  The next two days of meetings feature big names in banking, along with Obama administration officials.  But, there’s a glaring omission, as a CEI financial policy expert explains in the following statement.

WASHINGTON--Last night John Stossel aired a one-hour special on Ayn Rand’s classic novel “Atlas Shrugged.” In it, referring to one of the novel’s greatest villains, Stossel asked the question, “Who is today’s Wesley Mouch?”

Almost no one who has not studied psychology knows the deep workings of the mind, much less understands it, and even less on how to use it. And because most of us don’t know, it makes it easy for individuals of subversive intent who do know, to invade our brains and control our thoughts, our beliefs, our attitudes, and our decisions.

The Federal bureaucracy is operated and staffed by Demercrats.  With socialized medicine they will be deciding who gets what medicines and treatments.

With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. ... All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over 30 to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak – “child hero” was the phrase generally used – had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police.

It’s socialized medicine vs. the private sector. How does the former match-up to the latter? Well, by way of an ill-advised postal services analogy, our inspired physician-in-chief has gaffed upon the answer: “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine,” he observed, “It’s the post office that’s always having problems.”

The real victim of the run in between Harvard malcontent Henry Louis Gates and officer James Crowley may actually be the poor woman making the call to police.  For her efforts at being a good citizen, she has been labeled a racist and received various threats.  At least the policeman is permitted to carry a gun and pepper spray.  At her press conference, she should have made it clear that this would be the last time she ever lifts a finger for anyone in her COMMUNITY.

Talking about exactly what the liberals in our government are going to get away with when it comes down to seizing control over the health care industry in America is difficult because one liberal says they want one thing, another wants something different and others want yet other things.  However there have been some universal themes that seem to be popular enough among the left that they are almost certain to be included in any final, bad and unconstitutional plan they put forth.  One of these things is the concept of mandatory coverage inasmuch that if you do not have health insurance you will be forced to buy in.  You might even be fined or thrown in jail if you refuse.  The details are kind of murky but some sort of punishment must accompany this sort of authoritarian demand otherwise there is no incentive to obey the commands emanating from the right hand of Congress Almighty.

One of the things that those of us against government run healthcare systems are wary of most is the probability that government will begin to mandate how we are to live our lives. This assumption of power by government would mean a loss of our individual liberty and a corresponding theft of that liberty by government. Naturally, advocates of a single payer, socialistic healthcare system laugh off such worries and say “it’ll never happen here”—famous last words, of course.