America In Danger – The Blog

Conservative blogger heavyweight Andrew Sullivan endorses Ron Paul for the GOP nomination.

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For years, the idea of taxing soda to beat back obesity has been tossed around in medical circles. But now, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is proposing a tax on caffeine. I can hear those in Silicon Valley in an uproar (or at least who are left)!

Taxes have long been synonymous with death as a certainty in life. Here we have another example of politicians trying to “do good” for their citizens by generating revenue…er, taxing an item in order to keep people healthy.

As we know from the Prohibition era, overtaxation and/or outright bans, NEVER work and only serve a means to an end for more government regulation over what you consume.

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‘to prevent him protesting against government’. A Russian opposition activist has been sent to a psychiatric hospital by authorities a day before a planned demonstration. Artem Basyrov’s detention is the latest in a series of incidents suggesting a punitive Soviet-era practice is being revived under president Vladimir Putin.

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Called a “Money Bomb,” the goal was to raise as much money as possible on the Internet in one day. The campaign’s previous fundraiser brought in $4.2 million. At midnight EST, donations were over $6 million, according to the campaign Web site. Those donations are processed credit card receipts, said Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton.

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In a dramatic finish to a U.N. climate conference, world leaders adopted a plan Saturday for negotiating a new global warming pact by 2009, after the United States backed down in a battle over wording supported by developing nations and Europe. This will clear the way for the global carbon tax, something globalists have been wanting for some time.

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On Wednesday, December 12, members of the John Birch Society visited Congress and hand delivered 435 copies of The New American magazine’s special issue on the North American Union to all of the members of the House of Representatives.

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The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard arguments on December 3 in the appeal by U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. At the same time let’s write President Bush and ask for a pardon.

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A few hundred Triangle drivers will be recruited next year to road test a satellite technology system that might be used one day to replace the gas tax with a tax on every mile we drive. If States wouldn’t misspend the money already taxed, they would have enough to fund the highways.

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For all the NAU deniers out there… There are currently around fourteen or more states with one form or another of anti-NAU legislation – either pending or passed; Vincent Fox has proudly proclaimed that the three amigos met about merger in 2005; and Robert Pastor has clearly stated that this union and a common currency are in the works (although he calls it a community rather than a union). The government denies it, the blindered dupes deny it, and the special interest sitting at the negotiating table deny it. Like so many other agendas, this one is being implemented piece-meal with numerous initiatives being simply pieces of a large puzzle. There is no lack of credible information out there that is easily accessible. With the passage of NAFTA in 1994, a new arrangement was rolled out by then President Bill Clinton. The new scheme was called the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas). Currently that grand scam has been scaled back in implementation to the DR-CAFTA, the PFTA, the SPP and numerous other so-called agreements. The NAFTA super highways fit into this plan as does unchecked illegal immigration and loose border security. Hugo Chavez and now Stephen Harper are balking at being drawn in to this spider web of regional governance.

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Wholesale prices shot up 3.2 percent, the biggest jump in 34 years. No mention of the fact the Federal Reserve was behind inflation….they blame gas prices as the only cause, pretty much.

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