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Wheat, weed and Obamacare
The Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to…. “regulate commerce . . . .among the several States,” ….and for more than 100 years federal lawmakers invoked it for a very narrow purpose; to prevent states from imposing trade barriers on each other. But today members of Congress act as if it […]
So how was Climate Camp for you?
Don’t know about you lot but this blog had a whole pile of fun…. ….but it was that veteran hogger of the limelight and burster of pompisity’s bubble, Old Holborn, who ran away with the laurels…. ….and managed to get almost an entire piece in The Groan to himself. Honourable mention for services to sanity […]
You know those soap-dodgers who go smashing bank windows?
Like these at the Climate Camp in Edinburgh last weekend…. Well, this blog can think of a lot of names for them but anarchists they are not…. As Old Holborn helpfully pointed out to a Climate Camper yesterday…. Hat tip, Captain Ranty.
Leon Brittan….£500 a day for a failed politician
You couldn’t make it up. Downing Street announced yesterday that Our Prime Minister, who is a “proud member” (it says here) of the eurosceptic wing of the Conservative party, has hired confirmed europhile, Lord Brittan, 24 years after being booted out of the Thatcher cabinet, to work towards “removing trade barriers and stimulating investment” for […]
Nigel Farage and Tony Benn….fighting for democracy in Europe
Strange bedfellows? Not when it comes to the question of democracy and liberty…. Tony Benn, David Owen and Norman Tebbit on democracy…. Tony Benn and David Davis on liberty…. Cottoned on yet?
He's Spartacus 
Comment of the week
Off to France this weekend, here’s hoping it’s the last time I touch a Euro, other than to fix one to my fridge next to the Zimbabwean dollar alrerady (sic) there.
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