(Post-)Weekend Update, No. 28

OK, maybe we've yet to resume our stride.  Still cleaning out the backlog.  Articles may be less than timely, but still resonate.

Stasi-Style Doctors on the Way, by Karl Deninger
The state of Massachusetts descends further into liberal hell.

Doug Casey Revisits the Greater Depression and Explains the Realities of Investing in the 21st Century, by The Daily Bell
The anachronistic nation-state is on the way out.

The Story of Two Buses, by Gary North
Public school is prison for our children.

Residents get six votes each in NY election, by Jim Fitzgerald
Make that "Hispanic residents."  Yeah, really.  The elites are breaking new ground here in ensuring that elections are "fair," i.e. produce the desired results.

The Vast Left-Wing Media Conspiracy, by Fred Barnes
Proof that it actually is a conspiracy.

Monetary Dictatorship, by Jacob Hornberger
How US citizens are bailing out European welfare states, including Greece.

Texas doctors opting out of Medicare at alarming rate, by Todd Ackerman
Honestly, why wouldn't they?  Some are so government-controlled that they don't even have the choice.

Health reform threatens to cram already overwhelmed emergency rooms, by Jay Heflin
Meanwhile, ERs around the country are shutting down due to federally mandated no payment or low payment.

A slow burn bonfire of liberties, by Mark Steyn
"...in today’s advanced Western society, there are no absolute rights—for all individual freedoms must be “balanced” against the state’s commitment to “multiculturalism” or “equality” or whatever other modish conceit tickles its fancy."

Free-Market Health Care and the Poor, by Jacob Hornberger
How welfare destroys charity, creates entitlement, and ruins society.

The Real Public Service, by Thomas Sowell
Is for public servants to quit.  How a career in public service only screws the public.

Dr. Andrew Wakefield on the Autism/Vaccine Controversy and His Ongoing Professional Persecution, interview with The Daily Bell
See for yourself if he is as insane as routinely portrayed in popular media.

At what point does the camel collapse? by Edwin Leap
The straws: Medicare, Medicaid, EMTALA, Obamacare, entitlement mentality, disability-seekers, drug-seekers, liars, frauds.  Highly recommended commentary from my partner and friend.

Axe falls on NHS services, by Laura Donnelly
No, we'd never ration.  Riiiiight.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on the 'War Logs,' by Spiegel
Does he simply "enjoy crushing bastards," or is he funded by said bastards?  How convenient the (previously) leaked material implicates Pakistan and notes bin Laden may be in Iran.