People are finally standing up for their own civil rights.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/us/01nsa.html?ref=us

In a 45-page opinion, Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that the government had violated a 1978 federal statute requiring court approval for domestic surveillance when it intercepted phone calls of Al Haramain, a now-defunct Islamic charity in Oregon.

Hells yeah. It's about damn time people started exercising their fourth amendment rights, and about time judges started saying that in America, your business is none of Obama's.

Maybe read the bill next time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/us/politics/13health.html?ref=politics


Apparently, our US Senators and Representatives were so oblivious to what was actually going through on the health bill that they didn't realize to what extend they would lose out. It's fairly common knowledge that congress is incompetent, but these people are now failing to even act in their OWN self interest. If they can't even look out for themselves, how can we possibly expect them to look out for us.

Milton on Racist government, free markets, and defeating poverty

After two labor economics classes, I have to agree with good ol' Milton.