Power-hungry bureaucrats at the United Nations are working behind the scenes to create new Internet taxes and regulations. Dick Morris warns that the Obama administration has lent support to these moves, as well as a dangerous initiative to identify the IP address behind every E-name, making it easier for despotic countries to track down dissidents.
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Presidential Perks Gone Royal, a new book by Robert Keith Gray, shows how Americans are spending a staggering $1.4 billion housing, transporting, entertaining and otherwise pampering our First Family, far beyond the $57.8 million in perks enjoyed by Great Britain’s Royal Family. President Obama’s retinue includes a dog handler, paid $102,000 a year to walk Bo. H/T Granny Jan Jihad Kitty
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Many of you have already seen this video that went viral this week, capturing one of the incumbent president’s supporters from Cleveland, Ohio, bragging about her free Obama cellphone.
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But you probably have not seen US Rep Tim Griffin’s video explaining how you’re paying directly — every month, like clockwork — for this government-mandated boondoogle that has grown by leaps and bounds under President Obama. Griffin is a Republican from Arkansas.
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Next up, the FCC will be tacking a surcharge on your monthly satellite or cable TV bill to provide free Netflix subscriptions for every citizen. Of course, that will only happen after Netflix agrees to air the appropriate patriotic message in front of all of its programming.
Remember the good, old days when gasoline costs less than a buck and you’d still get full-service, red-carpet treatment from your Texaco man?
Well, now the national average gasoline price is $3.87 — more than double what it was when President Obama took office in 2009. And to add insult to injury, his bureaucratic goons in the Environmental Protection Agency have issued a new mandate requiring consumers to buy at least four gallons when purchasing from stations with hoses containing 10 percent and 15 percent ethanol-blended fuel.
WTF? What purpose does that mandate serve? What if you only need a gallon or two for your lawnmower or scooter? What if you’ve broken down on the highway and are down to your last $10, enough money to buy enough gas to get you started but less than the EPA mandate? And what if you’re Jack Benny, exercising your constitutional right to frugality, by only purchasing one gallon at a time?
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Can America’s problems be solved by equipping US senators and representatives with pain collars and then tightening the nooses anytime they feel the urge to overspend? What about deploying giant killer robots to patrol the streets, rounding up crooks and terrorists? These are but a few of the many “creative” solutions offered by Frank J. Fleming in his new book How to Fix Everything in America Forever: The Plan to Keep America Awesome. Fleming, a longtime contributor to the political humor blog IMAO, discusses the book with InstaVision’s Glenn Reynolds. H/T PJTV
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Are you tired of the government picking favorites in business? Then take a tip from Willy Bays, and order Crony Clean — the spray that breaks down cronyism by breaking down government bureaucracy.
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Reason.TV reveals its “Nanny of the Month” award-winner for July — the state of New Jersey, where busybodies can now fine dog owners up to $1,000 for failure to use seat belts on their pets. Errant dog owners can also be arrested and jailed for up to six months, with citations issued by either police or SPCA officers. Wonder if you’ll be banished to a doghouse if you also happen to be sexting on your cell phone at the same time.
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Many men are into breasts, but New York’s Nanny Mayor Michael Bloomberg has carried his fascination with breast milk to an illogical extreme — so much so that he’s now not only upset civil libertarians, but also earned the scorn of the liberal women on The View, and even been subjected to ridicule on RT, the global Russian TV network. When even the Russians are pouncing on Bloomberg’s penchant for “regulation rather than promoting policy through education,” you’d think His Highness might see the arrogance of his ways. But after waging war on cigarettes, sodas, trans-fat and now baby formula, somehow it won’t be surprising if he refuses to back off his pious pedestal.
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Channeling New York’s Nanny Mayor Michael Bloomberg, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Connecticut, has now called for imposing a national sales tax on sodas and 10-percent fruit drinks, supposedly as a means to force poor people to improve their dietary habits. How long before DeLauro wages war on Little Debbie Nutty Bars? Can she resist slapping a surcharge on Ruffles? Or breaking off a piece of every Kit Kat for the federal bureaucracy?
Back in 2009, Jackie and Dunlap from http://www.redstateupdate.com/ warned us to beware of what lie ahead as Washington stepped up its war on soda, booze, cigarettes, junk food and, yes, poor, underage Little Debbie.
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One pictures Ayn Rand promoting her principles of Objectivism at intellectual salons. But one of her most stimulating conversations occurred in a truly popular forum — The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. VHS tapes capturing excerpts of the 1967 appearance resurfaced this week and while the quality is hit-or-miss, the occasion was certainly momentous.
Carson was duly impressed. So much so that he canceled a scheduled appearance by Buster Crabbe that evening, and devoted his entire show to the Russian-born thinker with the thick accent and deep philosophy. TV viewers responded in kind. Rand generated more mail than any other Tonight Show guest, nearly all of it positive, although she touched upon several controversial positions — opposing the Vietnam War and a conscripted army, for instance, and discussing her atheism. H/T The Lonely Conservative
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