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Sex sells, as media finally delves into Libya scandal

The murder of our Ambassador to Libya and 3 other Americans at the Benghazi consulate was relegated to a few blurbs on the news and back page status in the New York Times.

Texas NDAA Nullification Bill Includes Criminal Charges for Federal Agents

At the close of 2011, Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for the year 2012. In it are what some constitutional experts consider to be some of the greatest constitutional violations in American history. At issue are sections 1021 and 1022 which, in essence, create a new power for the federal government to “indefinitely detain” – without due process – any person. Indefinitely. That’s little different than kidnapping.

Will Obama Now Tax the Internet?

President Barack Obama pulled it off - he won reelection. He did this despite the fake unemployment rate being above 8% nearly throughout his first term. And the real unemployment rate was 14.7% when people went to the polls.  And it was oh so much universally worse than just that.

All of this added up to a fairly terrible Obama Economy - and somehow a squeaker Obama election win. Can the President now take all this terrible-ness - and make it worse?  Yes He Can.

The Tech sector is 1/6th of the economy - and a serious President Obama First Term victim.  He illegally imposed price controls on the wireless Internet. Before that, he illegally imposed Network Neutrality.  The result?

Tech (sector) layoffs hit 3-year high in first half of 2012; 260% more than first half 2011.

The Net Neutrality power grab will most likely be thrown out early next year by the DC Circuit Court. Will this chasten President Obama?  No - there’s an even worse way for him to skin the Internet cat.

The President’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has zero authority to regulate the Internet - because the Internet exists in law at the FCC under Title I.  Meaning the Commission can’t touch it. 

So what does President Obama have waiting in the wings for when his Net Neutrality power grab is thrown out? 

FCC Boss...May Push for Title II ISP Reclassification if Rules Overturned

Meaning - again, without any legal authority whatsoever - President Obama will move the Internet from Title I to Title II.  Title II is how the FCC over-regulates landline telephone lines - you know, that bastion of innovation lo these last seventy-plus years. Title II opens up the Pandora’s Box of uber-regulation of the Internet.  But wait - there’s more. 

Under Title II, President Obama can also begin to tax the Internet - just as the Feds tax landlines.  Just as they already tax the living daylights out of your wireless Internet - checked your cell phone bill lately? It's 17.4% - and climbing.  An $8 billion total take in 2010 - and hurtling ever upward. 

And President Obama is looking to open yet another vein.

Is all of this even worse for the Web and the Tech sector than was President Obama’s first term?  Yes, it is.

Seton Motley is the founder and president of Less Government.  He is a writer, television and radio commentator, political and policy strategist, lecturer, debater, and activist.  Please feel free to follow him on Twitter and Facebook - it’s his kind of stalking.

A Nation of Takers: Explaining Entitlements to an 8-Year-Old

Twenty States Now Have Petitions to Peacefully Secede From Union

Jim Hoft -- Twenty states have now started petitions on the White House website to peacefully secede from the United States. In less than one week Texas and Louisiana are already close to having the 24,000 signatures needed before the Obama Administration will respond to their request.

Exploring A New Beginning... It's Time

Take the time to listen to this post-election rant by Bill Whittle in its entirety. He meanders on a bit here and there but it is worth listening through to the end. Bill may be on to something, a seed of an idea worth exploring, disseminating and discussing. The bottom line is, government has moved beyond repair, we can't fix what's broken. We must look to alternatives using our heads, without resorting to raising arms. It's time to think about what is outside the box government takers have built. Government rife with predators and takers are beyond redemption; an intellectually dishonest, self-serving, uncompromising, morally corrupt impediment to a naturally balanced free-thinking, self-reliant, self-regulating, inclusive, just and 'virtuous' society. An excerpt: