Here is the first episode from Reason.tv of Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey:

You can watch all the episodes here.

As Ariel Goldring said at Free Market Mojo, “Fox News reminds us that libertarians are not conservatives”.

The Paulpocalypse

Freedom Lovers at CPAC

Erasmus on War

Conservatives Should Oppose the War on Terror

Symbolism at the Winter Olympics

Ending Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

Here is a little rant I have been going on today:

I remember well all the supposed “Conservatives” that informed me that by not voting for McDonnell, I was somehow supporting Creigh Deeds. I expect every one of you that told me that to come and apologize. It appears, as I had always expected, that a vote for Bob McDonnell was a vote for Creigh Deeds and a Big Government statist.

According to the Washington Examiner, the charlatan that is Bob McDonnell has requested more Stimulus funds to help pay for Medicaid. While I have already heard some surprise from some of his loyal followers, I can’t say that this is too terribly shocking. Throughout his campaign, his solutions to all the problems he found in Virginia could be solved by Government interference of some sort.

On Tuesday during a visit to Capitol Hill, McDonnell told reporters from the Examiner that “if the federal government is willing to help us for a short period of time, that would be fine.” Just how long is this “short period of time” Bob? Also, what strings will come attached to such aid? And, why should taxpayers from other states bail Virginia out?

It looks like Bob McDonnell is just another politician who says one thing and does another.

Government Stimulus, One Year Later

Another Way To Look at the Stimulus’ Effect on Private Employers

Taxes and Small Business

Did the New Deal and WWII End the Great Depression?

The Austrian Masters’ Wisdom

Conservatism Is a Scam

The Manchurian Columnist

From Dan Mitchell at Cato:

But at some point the government expenditures will continue to rise and our GDP will fall. When? It is hard to predict. But do you really want to find out?

Ron Paul Routs the Neoconned

The New TSA Logo

Man Got Eight Years for Deaths From Accelerating Toyota

Two Cheers for Credit Cards

Demand An Audit In 2010

Wilson’s War

Theft As Economic Policy

Obama to Police Health Care Providers

According to a recent article from Slate, the U.S. Government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition. While it is unlikely that they poisoned this with the intention of killing people, they did intend on deterring people from drinking alcohol. Truthers will probably point to a story like this claiming that Government is in fact seeking to harm it’s citizens in some effort to control them. While I believe that Government cannot coordinate itself well enough to pull off some grand scheme as the Truthers would allege, it is evident that Government does do things to change the behavior of the governed.

It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat.

Before hospital staff realized how sick he was—the alcohol-induced hallucination was just a symptom—the man died. So did another holiday partygoer. And another. As dusk fell on Christmas, the hospital staff tallied up more than 60 people made desperately ill by alcohol and eight dead from it. Within the next two days, yet another 23 people died in the city from celebrating the season.

Doctors were accustomed to alcohol poisoning by then, the routine of life in the Prohibition era. The bootlegged whiskies and so-called gins often made people sick. The liquor produced in hidden stills frequently came tainted with metals and other impurities. But this outbreak was bizarrely different. The deaths, as investigators would shortly realize, came courtesy of the U.S. government.

Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.

Continue reading at Slate.