Written ahead of the weekend, so weekend news will be included in next weeks post.
The biggest news this week is that the TSA and Department of Justice managed the bully the Texas legislature into withdrawing its bill to make groping genitalia without probable cause illegal. In related news Rand Paul managed to single handedly delay the extension of the 'Patriot' Act and its surveillance without court orders to the last minute but not past expiration. Does this mean Rand Paul has bigger balls than the entire Texas legislature?
Note that there are dozens of stories of how Obama is going to reduce regulation and streamline agencies. Frankly I think its a big lie and I won't link to those stories here until something good actually comes of it. So far their main accomplishment seems to have been figuring out that spilled milk is not the same as an oil spill.
Following Bill Clinton's lead, White House adds Minister of TRUTH to monitor internet criticism
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Good article on Obama's defiance of the law, misses drilling ban and Obamacare ruling defiance though
Alabama: Cordova tornado victims can't use FEMA trailers because regulations forbid single-wides
ATF: GOP McConnell turns against Rand Paul on exempting gun records from 'Patriot' surveillance
ATF: Unions lied about Obama's gun control ambitions, Obama pledged to do it 'under the radar'
California: NYT tries to put a good face on CA cap&trade ruling
California: Authorities save Californians from the menace of good homemade yogurt
California: Surfers are for the environment, unless it means losing a nice wave
DHS: Because they've done such a bangup job with airport security, Lieberman backs White House proposal for expanded DHS role in cybersecurity
Energy: Rising costs intentional result of government action (Issa report, pdf)
Energy: increased regulatory costs for coal industry
Energy: $737 million loan guarantee to solar energy project
Energy: T. Boone Pickens on rent seeking, then and now. Big Business rent-seekers threat to freedom
EPA: halts industrial boiler rules
FBI: Kill the Un-American Patriot Act
FBI: Rand Paul stalls 'Patriot' Act extension, solo, gets votes on amendments, but act passes
FBI: U.S. Senator hints at massive secret Patriot act surveillance and data collection
FBI: Patriotism requires we repeal the 'Patriot' Act
FBI: (video) Rand Paul's excellent speech on Patriot act
FCC: lobbying Congress for a takeover of broadband
FCC: trying to convince us to nationalize broadband, but missing the point
FCC: what a mess. broadcasters, distributors debate retransmission rules
FDA: process hampers medical device innovation
FDA: couple fights FDA over removing Avastin's approval
Fed: What regulation of currency leads to and what currency collapse looks like - Belarus
France: Sarkozy 'You can't escape' internet regulation
France: Sarkozy calls for internet regulation, internet fights back
HHS: Obamacare appeal semantics and Hamilton
IRS: wants small businesses' electronic tax records, quickbooks etc.
Justice: notifies Arizona they can't use execution drug because it was obtained 'illegally'
Labor: businesses not hiring because of regulation uncertainty
Labor: How much did the department spend on its broken iPhone app?
Labor: Conservative group hits dept. with FOIA request over cost of app
NHTSA: to propose a requirement for 'black box' tracking devices on all vehicles
NLRB: Unionization by regulation
NLRB: to workers, drop dead
NLRB: requires a list of home addresses given to the union when they vote to decertify, what could go wrong?
SEC: Dodd-Frank rules pay whistle-blowers $1 million, what could go wrong?
SEC: congress exempt from SEC, not illegal to do insider trading, but frowned upon
Texas: (Video) El Paso abolishes food vending trucks, vendors and IJ fight back
Treasury: and IRS propose new regulation to require reporting names of foreign account holders to their governments
TSA: pats down sisters at prom dance
TSA: Fed Bullying halts groping bill
TSA: Touching Texas' Junk (IBD)
TSA: Texans lack testicles
TSA: Napolitano lies, 'very, very, very few' pat downs = 10+ million per year
TSA: patted down child, little old lady, ignored man in arab garb
TSA: deprives us of freedom and places innocent Americans in constant fear
TSA: United States for Travel Freedom Caucus plans to stop TSA abuses
TSA: I guess that's something: House Republicans oppose more airport scanners
USDA: Big Government crushes small business. rabbits, chickens and yogurt
So this is a tacit admission by our government that TSA must grope and fondle our genitalia and orifices in order to do its job.
ReplyDeleteActions like this, and those of Arizona are just the opening shots. I pray we see an avalanche of pushback from states. That is what will end up saving this nation.
And I don't get the surveillance and search without a court order. Isn't that what the FISA court is for? To approve highly sensitive operations in secret so the cover isn't blown?
Another great post. It is depressing that here in the "Land of the Free," such a long list can be fairly easily amassed.
ReplyDeleteAlso, like you, I don't believe Obama at all about his regulation reform. My first thought was, "what's he really up to?"
It's got to be a smoke screen for something.
Thanks Silver. I think its just incompetent electioneering. Noone believes him.
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