The State, that is.

Boy, I can tell already, I'm going to end up using that title often. In this case, what's got my blood all polluted with stress chemicals is the fact that the sub-human criminals who make up the US Senate have caved to the president, who, by the way, has no power over them whatsoever, and reauthorized the PATRIOT Act for another 6 months. The Wilsonian progressives and their 17th amendment have screwed us again.

In the weeks after 9/11, while America and the world were grieving, President Bush built a legal rationale for a dictatorship. Then he started using it to avoid the law.

Gary North on the joys and pains of being addicted to LRC:"Oh, yes, it started out innocently enough. Just click a few links. Read a few free articles. Nothing to it. It's free. Then, the next day, I did it again. And the next day. It got worse, of course. It always does. A free search engine at the bottom of the page. Looking for something? You can find it here fast. Then click another link. Nothing to it. Then I spotted Top 10. In America, few readers can resist Top 10 articles. I clicked....

According to a report last night on ABC News about the government employee unions striking the transit system in New York City: First of all the strike is over the fact that the Gubmint wants them to pay 6% toward their pension instead of the 2% they're paying now. And better, and what makes me feel like blogging is that the transit workers are already making an average of $23,000, which is above the government average of $20,000, which itself is far above the salary of the average private...

"No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to sound a moderate alarm...but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present... I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch--AND I WILL BE HEARD."-William Lloyd Garrison hat tip: Chance

When I first heard that socialist Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia (with a reported 51% majority in a crowded first round vote, I thought, "Oh crap, here comes the coup." It was just 2002 when the US nearly got him elected by threatening to cut off all aid if he won. Hubris, it would seem, breeds defiance. Morales ran on a platform based on ending Bolivian involvment in the US government's eradication program. According to his Wikipedia entry:Morales is the left-wing leader of...

Well, if it ain't one darn thing then it's another. My friend and radio partner Gabriel Delaguera has gone and got himself suspended from the local co-op station for a few weeks. He says the guy filling in for him is a Red and we wouldn't get along. So... we're down to just the KAOS Report until at least a couple of weeks into the new year... Maybe I'll have more time to write.

To try to stop the Times from printing the story about the military National Security Agency spying on Americans, literally summoning the paper's editors to the oval office to plead with them. But why? Jonathan Alter has the answer. Via Laura Rozen.

The KAOS Report with me and Shauna Kay will be live today from 5-7pm Texas time. Listen Live

I started doing the Philip Dru interviews on Radio KAOS in April 2003, just as the war against Iraq was getting started. From there I moved the Weekend Interview Show to the local patriot kook network where somehow I lasted since August of 2004. When they asked me to start paying to do my show, that was the end of that. Feel free to take the opportunity to catch up on the archives, now all 214 on my new home page. There is a new project in the works, but for now there's the KAOS Report every...

Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show I'll be talking with Christopher Deliso of Balkanalysis.com about events in the Balkans and the neocon crime ring. In the second hour, I'll be talking with Congressman Ron Paul about empire and gold money. Update: Show's over, archives here.

To have to root for a Rockefeller. In the article about NSA spying that Scott posted, I see that it says thatthe program's ramifications also prompted concerns from some quarters, including Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (W.Va.), the ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee, and the presiding judge of the surveillance court, which oversees lawful domestic spying, according to the Times.