Big Brother gets bigger in the new banking bill. In particular:
The bill sets up two new supersnooping federal agencies to collect data on ordinary Americans:
•The Office of Financial Research. This supposedly would predict risk in the system by collecting massive amounts of new financial data, such as patterns of credit card use.
•The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It would collect data, especially on consumer transactions.
Kagan “redistribution of speech” is not “itself an illegitimate end”, 1996 University of Chicago Law Review,“Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine.”
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. 1st Amendment, United States Constitution
My only question is, what part of “no law” doesn’t Kagan understand?
McCain has the courage of no convictions. It looks like McCain is working on the expediency of the moment plan for his re-election campaign in 2010:
Rick Santelli Rips Democrat for not reigning in Fannie and Freddie. Rick, give us more:
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Seattle Police Officer Apologies for kicking and using racial epithet:
Disrespect for the law by the police only undermines their authority:
Augusta deputy arrest for beating someone in handcuffs. Looks like the law got one right here:
Socialism and freedom do not mix. Fascism and freedom do not mix. Communism and freedom do not mix. Freedom can not exist in a state that is socialist, fascist, or communist. Anyone concerned about liberty must be a foe of any totalitarian ideology.
A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.
…to update what has has been attributed to Everett McKinley Dirksen. When governments are spending your money, it just must not seem real to them.
“With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation,” Barack Obama, May 9, 2010.
“Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn’t. He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t send an e-mail.” – Barack Obama, September 12, 2008 on John McCain suggesting he is out of touch.