the Center for Responsive Politics does a tremendous public service. Unfortunately, no one even bats an eye at what they actually report.

Give this list a look and tell me exactly why gasoline costs so much and why no one can afford health insurance.

Take your time...

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No one who spends time reading Republican/Conservative blogs doesn't know that Tony Snow passed away early Saturday morning, at a just-becoming-statesmanlike 53 years old.

His was one of the best voices Silvers ever had: committed to the Party and the President, while engaging the overpowering MSM in both peer and official capacities, all while maintaining a personal and professional demeanor worthy of any position he held, both private and public.

That Rush Limbaugh tapped him (WAY back, mid-nineties) as one of his alternate hosts speaks enough to Mr. Snow's passion, intelligence, and media savvy. He was Dubya's best appointment, IMHO, and I cried seeing him succumb to cancer, publically, leaving a wife and three children. Snow gave Dubya rightful legitimacy to the cause of Conservatism, and, hoo-boy, he leaves an unbelievable vacuum behind him, not to disparage Dana Perino, of course.

Tony was one of us. Remember him that way, Silvers. We cannot do the man justice here.

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Since it is nigh upon the weekend, it is a bit compulsory to share Nothing Less Than Economic Comedy with Silvers.

Where to start?

Leaving the contorted, government-style math aside for the moment, yes, let's take up Recycling again.

At present, I live in a very large metropolitan area where the practice is not yet compulsory (and isn't likely to be anytime soon). My office discards many volumes of processed paper (key to things like cardboard, etc.), and, in a moment of Culture Shock, I questioned why it wasn't recycled. After all, isn't the resource finite and aren't 'greater goods' to be gained by entrusting my shredded fixed asset schedules to someone who promises to make them into boxes, toilet paper, etc.?

After a bit of subsuming guilt (and, even worse, shame for even mentioning it to my local coworkers), I decided I can embrace recycling if THE MARKET DEMANDS IT. In other words, If Someone Benefits From It. Does bare, fertile soil grant one a profitable farm? Not without ownership, which is what the Public Sector is supposed to enforce.

Many formerly-poor nations, such as Brazil, have embraced forestry as a sustainable, PROFITABLE economic practice. That I've used the word "sustainable" is a mere testament to my cultural conditioning, despite being a conservative.

We're just scratching the surface of both cognitive dissonance and public foolishness. Enjoy the article, while trying to resist the temptation to dig out your old trusty bong and "Question Authority" tee-shirt that doesn't fit you any more.

Have a great weekend, while you're at it.

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Boils down to, essentially, who has the brass. While the USA, as Senator Gramm remarked, has become a Nation of Whiners, capitalism and liberty is spreading madly throughout the rest of the world.

Of course, you'll never passively hear about such things. One must seek his own news.

[Damn. That sounds Zen.]

[Big Hat-tip, David Williams of Mesa, on Digg.com]

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Sure finding it difficult to not read LvMI submissions - I get them by e-mail every day, and it's a blissful mixture of original Austrian School essays and modern equivalents, thoroughly-researched.

Every viscissitude in life seems to be "unfair" to "the Poor". Funny how these terms never reach objectivication or even anything resembling an empirical construct.

That Life's Denominator is smaller for some is something that will never change.

Mark Pribonic pretty much nails it here.

I gag every time I hear the word "fair", for one.

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