C-SPAN: 'BookTV In Depth: Senator Tom Coburn'

Source:C-SPAN- U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (Republican, Oklahoma) on C-SPAN's BookTV.

"Senator Coburn is the author of "Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders into Insiders" (2003); and "The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting America" (2012).

The Senator has also authored many reports that can be read on his website, including "Back in Black" (2011); "Oklahoma Waste Report: Exposing Washington's Wasteful Spending Habits in our Own Backyard" (2011); "Subsidies of the Rich and Famous" (2011); and "Money for Nothing" (2012)." 

From BookTV

The Washington Times: Kyle Scott: 'No New Taxes Without Spending Limits'

Source:The Washington Times- cover photo.

"Between servicing the debt and funding entitlement programs, our government is overburdened by its financial obligations. In the current negotiations over how we can avoid falling off the fiscal cliff, some Republicans have indicated willingness to give in to the Democrats’ demands that taxes be raised in order to meet these obligations. Unless limits are placed on spending levels, however, increasing government revenue will not solve the problem in the long term. Any increase in revenue must be accompanied by a limit on spending.

The growth in government is reflected in its spending, which has steadily increased as a percentage of the nation’s GDP. Whenever the government increases its spending obligations, the taxpayers are asked to give “just a little bit more.” Over time, this “little bit more” ends up being quite a bit more. Unless we put a limit on how much the government can spend, it will keep spending, and taxpayers will continually be asked to give more.

Placing a cap on government spending as a percentage of GDP would accomplish several important goals. First, it would ensure that the growth of government is directly tied to the growth of the private sector. It makes little sense for government services and spending to grow at a time when the private sector is struggling to find its economic footing. When the government seeks to help the economy by spending taxpayer money, the spending guarantees the growth of government and nothing else. Taking money from some and giving it to others in hopes of spurring economic growth is like taking water from one end of the bathtub and dumping it in the other in an effort to raise the overall water level in the tub." 

From The Washington Times

Washington Times: 'EDITORIAL: Obamacare’s Medicaid Time Bomb'

Source:The Washington Times- cartoon about ObamaCare.

"States already struggling to get by will face even tighter fiscal constraints thanks to yet another costly Obamacare mandate. A study last week from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured revealed President Obama’s health care takeover would dump $1 trillion in new costs on federal and state taxpayers over the next decade.

By Kaiser’s calculation, following Obamacare’s loosened eligibility conditions for Medicaid could add an additional 10 million people to the rolls of the insured. The tab for this will exceed $1 trillion by 2022 with Uncle Sam picking up $952 billion, leaving states on the hook for $76 billion. That represents a 26 percent increase in federal outlays, but the state share represents modest 3 percent increase — for now. The real crunch will come after 2022, when Uncle Sam is no longer required to foot the bill for the Medicaid expansion.

States have a way out of this budget-busting dilemma. The Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling earlier this year left it up to the states to decide whether to expand Medicaid under the Obamacare guidelines or not — in return for the federal cash. Governors would be wise to decline Uncle Sam’s white elephant, as they will hard pressed to find enough money in their coffers to cover costs once the federal largesse begins to taper off in 2022. 

From The Washington Times

Senator Rand Paul: 'Floor Speech in Defense of The Sixth Amendment'

Source:U.S. Senator Rand Paul (Republican, Kentucky) speaking in favor of the 6th Amendment.

"Sen. Rand Paul floor speech in defense of the Sixth Amendment" 

From Senator Rand Paul

This is what a real Conservative and someone whose really against Big Government sounds like. Speaking up in defense of the U.S. Constitution and speaking out against indefinite detention. And that government in the United States doesn't have the constitutional authority to hold people, especially Americans, without a hearing or trial or access to a lawyer. As well as that every American has a constitutional right to a trial by jury.

TBS: WCW 1989- Ric Flair vs Terry Funk: I Quit Match (1989)

Source:TBS- Ric Flair vs Terry Funk in 1989.

Source:The Daily Post 

“Clash of the Champions IX 11 15 1989 Ric Flair vs Terry Funk I Quit match xvid”  

From TBS

I don’t know if you can find four better pro wrestlers for a cage I Quit match than Ric Flair, Sting, Terry Funk and Mr. Muta. The amount of pain and even torture these four men were able to put themselves through because of their conditioning, physical strength and just character and courage was simply unmatched by almost anyone else who has ever been a pro wrestler. Two other guys I would thrown into this group would be Hulk Hogan and The Undertaker for the same reasons as these four men.

Ric Flair was seen as a classical if not classy pure wrestler who made most of his living just wrestling in the ring and not getting into street fights like this and most of that is true. But he beat the great Harley Race for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, a match where he may of lost on points, but beat Race in it. He was in a lot of cage matches, including with The Horseman against The Road Warriors and The Koloff’s and did very well in those matches. Sting could wrestle or fight anyone anywhere. It didn’t matter to him and Terry Funk was a street fighter who could wrestle. Similar to Mr. Muta.  

Austin Peterson: Libertarianism VS Socialism

Source:Austin Peterson- debating Connor Kilpatrick on socialism and libertarianism.

"Libertarian Austin Petersen and Socialist Connor Kilpatrick of Jacobin Magazine debate

Austin Petersen, libertarian video producer, free market activist and entrepreneur takes on Connor Fitzpatrick over whether libertarians are just "Puppets of the corporate elite" or whether Americans are finally embracing both civil liberties and economic liberties. Sam Sacks on the Thom Hartmann show "The Big Picture" hosts." 

From Austin Peterson

This is a real debate to have, instead of debating socialism vs capitalism, which is not a real debate, because one is a political philosophy and one is an economic system with many versions, including a socialist model, thats common in Europe, including in Sweden and Greece two of the most socialist democracies in the World. Debating socialism vs capitalism is like debating what's a better car: an orange or an apple.

Having a debate between socialism and libertarianism is a real philosophical debate because it's a debate between two real political philosophies. Rather than a debate between an economic system and a political philosophy. 

Socialism vs libertarianism is a debate between basically having much more government than would be common in a liberal democracy like America, or having a lot less government thats common in a liberal democracy.

Guy John: 'Frank Chodorov On Political Change (1953)'

Source:Guy John- Frank Chodorov, talking about progressivism, in 1953. 

"Various excerpts combined from the 1953 lecture "Rotarian Socialism", which can be found at ISI.org

"Everybody has opinions on international subjects, because the newspapers have opinions on them, and the readers like to be 'in the swim."' - Frank Chodorov

"All this concern about people who don't vote, for instance. Well, in Communist countries they get 98% or 99.4% of the eligible voters out to the polls, to vote for a single slate of candidates. Why so much concern with voting? I think it's because in Communist countries, politics is their religion." - Ron Paul, 1976"

Source:Guy John