Weekend Update, No. 9

A very light holiday edition.  Even your tireless editor takes a break here and there.  First three articles on the recently passed by the Senate health menace.  Let us pray the feuding liberals implode it during reconciliation, though I'm not holding my breath.

Dropping the Bomb on Health Care, by Peter Schiff
Beautifully breaks down how the horrendous bill will "irradiate" the insurance industry as a stepping stone to a full-on single payer system.

The Underlying Divisions in the Healthcare Debate, by Glenn Greenwald
Even liberals recognize the healthcare bill for what it is, yet more corporatism/fascism that no one except our rulers wants.

Change Nobody Believes In, by the Wall Street Journal
Christmas Eve voting, obscene payoffs to Senators, cost explosions, what's not to like?

What Is a Right? by Andrew Napolitano
Explains the difference between rights and goods.  One of the few to correctly identify our current State-enforced medical system as slavery.

Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
A classic in three parts.  Forget Walden, this is the essential Thoreau.

The Intellectual Incoherence of Conservatism, by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Welfare and social degeneracy go hand in hand.

Serving US Troops Could Face Prison if They Fall Pregnant While Active, by The Daily Mail
Another way our rulers plan our own destruction.  Children are our future, unless they get in the way of killing brown people.

Workers of the World Unite for a Free Market, by Sheldon Richman
The strength of big business is a direct result of government regulation, leading to less beneficial conditions for their employees.

Why I Will Let My Children Drink Alcohol, by Cassandra Jardine
Because, like more and more of us, she realizes State edicts generally do more harm than good.