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The great find of the day from the 2008 Republican Party Platform:

We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself.

Via: Ben Smith’s Blog: McCain and the platform - Politico.com

Flickr has added another incredible collection of photographs to their commons site, this time from the George Eastman House collection.  There are some amazing shots to check out . . .

This is certainly true this week . . .

No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Judge Gideon J. Tucker

Via: Judge Gideon J. Tucker Quotes - The Quotations Page

“It’s a complete disaster,” said Yaron Brook, the executive director of the center. “Its a form of national socialism of the financial markets…This is socialism 101.”

Via: What Would Ayn Rand Have Done? - TIME

Welcome to the United Socialist Republic of American States . . .

I’m not a big fan of the inclusion of Bob Barr into the ranks of Libertarians, but it will be refreshing to see some limited government responses to the upcoming debate questions. As usual, the two major political parties are shutting out all third-party candidates from this season’s presidential debates, while trying to out-compete one another for how many government goodies they can promise to voters. Only this time, we have the technology to do something about it. [Read More]

My Life Sucks.

Wrigley has such a terrible view.

Less Poverty but More Inequality in New York

Via: City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog

Only the New York Times could come up with that headline and keep a straight face. The poverty rate declined in New York, but because the rich got richer, things are getting worse . . .

For all six readers I’ve got out there, some of you may have noticed that my site has been down for the last few days. My long neglected Tom Waits blog got hit by a massive number of spam bots to the point that my hosting provider was forced to bring my site down for an overabundance of CPU usage. I was forced to bring down the Tom Waits blog in order to get my service restored, which was not too much of a hurt since I haven’t found any time to really start that site back up. [Read More]

Since, I’ve no longer got a seperate Tom Waits blog, I guess I can post stuff here. NPR’s All Songs Considered has published a recording of the Atlanta show available for a free download. You can grab the whole thing here (130MB, MP3).

I finally got a chance to post a few shots from Brandon and Amanda’s wedding back in May:

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