The one-day increase for June 30 totaled $165,931,038,264.30 – bigger than the entire annual deficit for fiscal year 2007 and larger than the $140 billion in savings the new health care bill will produce over its first 10 years. The figure works out to nearly $1,500 for every U.S. household, or more than 10 times the median daily household income.

Daily debt calculations jump and fall, and big shifts are common. But all three of the biggest one-day debt increases have occurred under the tenure of President Obama, and all of the top six have been in the past two years – an indication of just how quickly the pace of deficit spending has risen under Mr. Obama and President George W. Bush.

This sort of spending would not be possible without a central bank that can create money out of thin air and loan it to Congress and charge interest on it.  And the more money Congress and the Fed create, the more inflation there is, and the less the dollar is worth.

This is exactly what we do not need in the middle of an extreme recession. But until some congressmen get a spine or some voters learn a little more about proper government, it’s an inevitable spiral downward until the next crash.

Returning to the Constitutionally mandated gold standard would quickly put an end to all this irresponsible spending.

via U.S. marks 3rd-largest, single-day debt increase – Washington Times.

The Obama administration’s top science advisor, John Holdren, was caught on tape advocating for global wealth redistribution back in 2008. In this clip, unearthed by Eyeblast.tv, Holdren says that we should use tax revenue from a cap and trade type bill to pay other countries in the global south.

via [Video] Obama Advisor: Lets Use Cap-and-Trade Taxes to Give Money to Other Countries | NewsBusters.org.

But why must we support this with taxpayer dollars?

In the video below, Charles Bolden, head of NASA, tells Al Jazeera that the “foremost” task President Obama has given him is “to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.” Thus, NASA’s primary mission is no longer to enhance American science and engineering or to explore space, but to boost the self-esteem of “predominantly Muslim nations.”

via Power Line – Obama tasks NASA with building Muslim self-esteem.

It is well past time to disband all unconstitutional branches of the federal government, put those people back into the private sector, and shrink the government down to the minimum size necessary.

If the agreement with BP was an isolated event, perhaps we might hope that it would not be a precedent. But there is nothing isolated about it.

The man appointed by President Obama to dispense BP’s money as the administration sees fit, to whomever it sees fit, is only the latest in a long line of presidentially appointed “czars” controlling different parts of the economy, without even having to be confirmed by the Senate, as Cabinet members are.

Those who cannot see beyond the immediate events to the issues of arbitrary power — vs. the rule of law and the preservation of freedom — are the “useful idiots” of our time. But useful to whom?

via Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny? – IBD – Investors.com.

Few things are more illustrative of the need for an informed electorate than a timely episode of Jaywalking.

YouTube – Jaywalking – 4th of July (Embarrassing!).

In recent days and weeks, for reasons that BP has never explained, many fishing boats hired for the cleanup mostly have been waiting around. At the same time, there is mounting frustration over the time that the government has taken to approve offers of help from foreign countries and international organizations.

The Coast Guard said that there have been 107 offers of help from 44 nations, ranging from technical advice to skimmer boats and booms. But many of those offers are weeks old, and only a small number have been accepted, with the vast majority still under review, according to a list kept by the State Department.

via BP, U.S. blasted for ignoring aid offers.

About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the U.S. public has expired — meaning that a whopping 40 million doses worth about $260 million is being written off as trash.

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About 30 million more doses will expire later and may go unused, according to one government estimate. If all that vaccine expires, more than 43 percent of the supply for the U.S. public will have gone to waste.

Federal officials defended the huge purchase as a necessary risk in the face of a never-before-seen virus. Many health experts had feared the new flu could be the deadly global epidemic they had long warned about, but it ended up killing fewer people than seasonal flu.

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The new H1N1 swine flu emerged in April last year, hitting children and young adults particularly hard. It was difficult to predict how deadly it might be or how easily it might spread. Federal health officials pushed five vaccine manufacturers to produce a vaccine as quickly as possible. What’s more, they wanted a lot of it — many experts thought most people would need two doses for it to work.

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In Europe, where nations also found themselves with millions of unused doses, some commentators have attacked the World Health Organization, which declared swine flu a global epidemic, or pandemic.

The critics have questioned the motivation of some WHO advisers who had links to the pharmaceutical industry.

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“Each time the so-called experts told us that millions of people would be killed worldwide by the respective viruses. We have learned that the experts were utterly wrong,” said Dr. Ulrich Keil, a professor at Germany’s prestigious University of Muenster and a WHO adviser.

via 40 Million Doses of H1N1 Vaccine Will Be Burned – H1N1 – FOXNews.com.

Yesterday, the House passed the DISCLOSE Act, making good on the President’s promise to ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling and pass laws that abridge the freedom of speech. In Citizens United, the Supremes ruled that laws banning any group of citizens from engaging in political speech is unconstitutional. That includes unions, corporations, and interest groups both big and small.

Instead of passing new restrictions on the political speech of all those groups, Democrats chose to ram through a bill that only burdens some, with special exemptions for labor unions and big well-connected lobbyists, like the NRA.

Fear not, my good citizens, for unlike the freedom-hating imposter now sitting in the White House, I promise to veto this and any other unconstitutional legislation passed to me by the inept, corrupt congressmen you people keep putting into office.

via Free Speech Watch « John Stossel.

What exactly is behavior health modification and where is the Constitutional authority for the Federal government to try and modify or control the behavior of the American people when it comes to things like what we eat and the amount of exercise we must have? What will the government be looking at when it comes to our “mental health” and “behavioral health?” In the former Soviet Union people who opposed the Communist form of government were regularly committed to mental institutions and in Communist China those who exhibited behavior contrary to that mandated by the State were sent to “re-education camps” in order to modify their behavior.

And then, he returns to the fundamentals:

Moreover, at the beginning of the Executive order Obama says this: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 4001 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Public Law 111-148, it is hereby ordered as follows:”

I beg to disagree Mr. President. While Section 4001 of the Health Care Bill may claim to give you this authority, the Constitution of the United States, that you took an oath to defend and uphold, does not give you any such authority. Unless I am violating an existing Federal or State criminal law, nothing I say or do as an American citizen is subject to your control.

The Constitution is the supreme law of the land.  It cannot be modified except by the specified amendment process.  Thus, Congress cannot simply pass a lawgiving the president authority to make law — that power is specifically enumerated as belonging to Congress, and the process for passing a law is not the same as the process for amending the Constitution.

Thus, the president still does not have the authority to make law, but only the authority to enforce that law that is constitutional.

via LEGISLATIVE ALERT! – Connelly.

Congress has no authority under the Constitution to control what health insurance your purchase, and these mandates should be vigorously ignored and fought.

Therefore, effective March 23:

• Individuals seeking new or alternative coverage can only buy policies that “comply with Affordable Care Act provisions from which grandfathered health plans are exempted.”
• Groups seeking new or alternative coverage (obviously including new groups) are in the same boat.
• As shown earlier this morning, any changes beyond trivial to existing group or individual policies will cause those policies to lose their grandfathered status, forcing those plans to “comply with Affordable Care Act provisions.”

Thus, those looking to purchase new policies or who make even minor changes to existing policies that lead to de-grandfathering will have three choices:

• ObamaCare's specified minimum coverage levels, which are far higher and far more expensive than typical private plans.
• Coverage that is more generous and therefore even more expensive than ObamaCare's specified minimum — but not too generous. As commenter Gary Hall at the previous NewsBusters post noted, if one has coverage that is considered overly generous, it will run the risk of being considered a “Cadillac” plan subject to a 60% excise tax. By 2018, when that tax takes effect, the distance between ObamaCare's high-threshold minimum coverage and where the “Cadillac tax” kicks in may not be very great. A majority of large-employer plans and plans at many small professional enterprises may end up being subject to the tax.
• Paying penalties as individuals for not buying insurance or as employers for not covering employees.

via Draft ObamaCare Regs Vindicate IBD’s 2009 ‘Individual Private Medical Insurance Is Illegal’ Claim | NewsBusters.org.

And to those who say we must reform our immigration laws – I reply that we don’t need to reform them – we need to enforce them. Just as every other government does. Just as Mexico does.

Above all, this is a debate of, by and for the American people. If President Calderon wishes to participate in that debate, I invite him to obey our immigration laws, apply for citizenship, do what 600,000 LEGAL immigrants to our nation are doing right now, learn our history and our customs, and become an American. And then he will have every right to participate in that debate.

via Calif. Congressman Blasts Calderon’s Ariz. Comments and Dems for Applauding | NewsBusters.org.