How Do You Feel About Self-Funded Law Enforcement?

Forfeiture laws ripe for reform - Commentary | The Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, Missouri
If you're not sure, then imagine the police having the authority to seize your property once they've accused you of a crime - accused, not convicted you - selling it on the open market and keeping the profits.
Welcome to "Funding the Police, Missouri Style".

Visualizing Obama

Here's a killer video helping us to understand how utterly irrelevant the President and his team of budget-cutters really are.

(Old but cool.)

Are we truly one nation, indivisible? Secession essay in July 4 Arizona Republic

Are we truly one nation, indivisible? Secession essay in July 4 Arizona Republic

The Best Resistance is Meticulous Compliance

Gary North explains that the very best way to deal with an out-of-control government is to drown them in the very paperwork they have demanded from us.

Brilliant!

Why Greece Matters to You - The American Taxpayer

New post at my personal blog, jackheald.com.

Should You Walk Away?

Here's the money quote from a scholarly article by University of Arizona professor Brent T White. regarding the economic impact of walking away from your mortgage:

Norms governing homeowner behavior stand in sharp contrast to norms governing lenders, who seek to maximize profits or minimize losses irrespective of concerns of morality or social responsibility. This norm asymmetry leads to distributional inequalities in which individual homeowners shoulder a disproportionate burden from the housing collapse. (My emphasis)

Friends, the big banks are utterly immoral. Walking away from a mortgage that is no longer a good deal for you is NOT immoral. If you're having trouble with your mortgage, you need to read this.

"The Big Bankers Never Lose"

Ron Paul made this cogent observation - not in 2008 but in 1988.

"No matter which party is in power, they will appoint to the major offices members of these two committees, (Trilateral Commission and Council of Foreign Relations), so that Wall Streeters and the Big Bankers always have inside information as to what is going on."

See the entire video here.