Saturday, November 28:

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: New push in Venezuela's agrarian reform arouses violent verbal PR reaction A recent push by the Agriculture & Lands (MAT) Ministry and the National Lands Institute (INTI) to recover more land for peasants in Guarico State and Lake Maracaibo South Bank has aroused a violent verbal and PR reaction by ranchers and opposition media, accusing the government of imitating Richard Mugabe's land grab of farms belonging to white farmers in Zimbabwe.

Friday, November 27:

Arthur Shaw: Venezuelan revolutionaries in 2008 have given a dazzling performance "Administration" is a kind of takeover on entities that doesn't necessarily entail expropriation with payment of fair compensation or confiscation without such compensation ... many options are available in an administration ...

Robert Davidson: Are Big Pharma and the PDUFA to Blame for Healthcare Mess? (8 comments) Recent $2.3 billion Pfizer settlement indicates an underlying systemic malady within the FDA. Since the passage of PDUFA, user fees have played an important role in expediting the drug approval process. The implicit underlying assumption, that expediting the drug approval process is good for public health, is seriously flawed.

Thursday, November 26:

Don Williams: Go ahead, hug that tree and give thanks (2 comments) It may be impossible to say anything truer about happiness than this: Giving thanks is the key to happiness.

Charles Brown: FDA, mercury not affected by Obama's 'change' (1 comments) Obama promised change, such as higher ethical standards and a reduction in human mercury exposure. But at FDA, coziness with industry has resulted in the sabotaging of Obama's plans. Contrary to the President's campaign promises, FDA's new Commissioner, a product of the revolving door, and her deputy approve the continued use of mercury amalgam -- even for children and pregnant women --despite the risks of neurological harm.

Wednesday, November 25:

Steven Leser: Video of Steve Leser's debate with Stuart Varney on Fox News' Your World Regarding Cap & Trade and Climate gate (12 comments) We discuss the hacked emails of climate gate as well as the costs and proposals of Cap & Trade and Copenhagen

David Model: A Tax Increase for What? (2 comments) Two powerful members of Congress called for a war tax to pay for new troops to be deployed in Afghanistan. It is interesting that these two members of Congress are suggesting the unthinkable, a tax increase. When was the last time you heard a member of Congress call for a tax increase for healthcare, poverty, homelessness, veterans? Washington's priorities are defined by the urgency of this tax increase to support a war.

Sunday, November 29:

Obamacare Is Unconstitutional | Gene Healy As Harry Reid's health care bill moves to the Senate floor, the debate over Obamacare finally begins in earnest. Shouldn't the Constitution be part of that debate? By what authority, after all, could Congress force all Americans to buy health insurance?

Can Obama force you to buy health insurance? Nothing in the Constitution allows the individual mandate he proposes.

Monday, November 30:

High Court To Take Up Case Involving Part of Patriot Act By William Fisher The Public Record Nov 30th, 2009 The case is known as Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, and is the first case to challenge a portion of the Patriot Act before the Supreme Court. The case, originally brought in 1998, challenges the constitutionality of the law that makes it a crime to provide “material support” to groups the administration has designated as “terrorist.”

Wall Street's a casino, so maybe state gambling laws apply Sen. Maria Cantwell wants to use state gambling laws to regulate parts of Wall Street, saying someone needs to police financial markets where "casino capitalism" involving highly speculative trades she likens to sophisticated betting continue unabated and threaten to create yet another financial crisis.

Lawmakers Raise Concerns over an Expanded Afghan War Sen. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, appeared to embrace a proposal gaining momentum among some Democrats for a war "surtax" to help defray the costs of expanding the Afghanistan campaign.

Sunday, November 29:

They're getting tired of being taken for granted Supporters of marriage equality have decided the enemy isn't those who oppose it but the politicians who string them along with empty promises of consideration.

Monsanto's control over seed market prompts antitrust inquiry (3 comments) the Monsanto investigation might have the highest stakes, dealing as it does with the food supply and one of the nation's largest agricultural firms.Monsanto says it has done nothing wrong.

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