News to Know - Obama and Bloomberg

Mr. Obama is courting radical Islamic groups. (Yes, again.) Story HERE.

Mayor Bloomberg publicly stated that he can buy votes. Story HERE.

News to Know - Facebook Interrogations

A 13-year old boy is questioned by the Secret Service over a Facebook status. Does that concern you? Me too.

News to Know - Illegal entry, Pakistan, Unions

Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home - "INDIANAPOLIS | Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes."

Horrifying? Check. Totalitarian? Check. All hail U.S.S.A.?

Pakistan's 'Blasphemy' Laws pose growing threat - "ISTANBUL, May 13 (CDN) — Pakistan’s notorious “blasphemy” laws can put even children at risk, and Christians say the days when they could teach their offspring pat answers to protect them from accusations of disparaging Islam or its prophet seem to have passed."

In case you hadn't noticed, Pakistan is no friend to freedom. They have declared themselves brutal enemies of Christianity.

White House budget staffers seek to join union -"WASHINGTON - Staffers at the White House budget office filed a petition Monday to join a labor union, seeking to gain more input over their working conditions."

Sounds innocuous, right? The trouble is that unionized government workers will press for higher wages (rather than seeking higher paying non-government jobs) which means that more tax money must be spent to keep the government running.

And while it's true that unions arose to protest unfair treatment, today unions exist, not to protest worker abuse, but to pressure companies into artificially raising wages and benefits (that is, raising wages beyond the value of the workers' labor), and to keep companies from firing employees (despite performance). In other words, unions have become parasitic institutions which drain their host companies of profit and productivity, requiring them to artificially increase prices, and rendering them unable to compete in the global market, which leads to bankruptcy. Or, in the case of government (and ours is already bankrupt), unions tend toward higher costs and even greater incompetency. And everybody wants that, right?

National Geographic - The Berlin Wall

Never forget how communism in action looks.