Depressing stuff below the fold

Mainly bookmarked for BNN essays if I get around to it later today.
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Belmont Club quotes Friedman saying the big shots at Davos think the US is unstable...Friedman himself merely thinks the US needs to get "unstuck" and move "forward"...
ah, but what if we are at the edge of a cliff, and it's only the tire "stuck" in the mud that keeps us from falling off?

and Epochtimes's Barbarian notes that Friedman knows little about China, and seems unaware that the largest source of US oil is....
altogether now:



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NYTimes review of books essay discusses scientific consensus and health care "guidelines"...
this ignores that most of what we do is treat the patient, not cure the disease....
and will the health police continue to tell us how to live healthy lives, making unhealthy habits a crime instead of a sin?

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Circle of money: EU gives money to WWF to "study" problems, then EU uses study to hype global warming, which leads to multinational treaties that give the one world philosophy more power? Where's Art Bell when we need him?

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Quote of the day: People don't like to be meddled with...