1. The world is a dangerous place to live — not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it. — Albert Einstein

2. The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. — George Orwell

3. History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. — Ronald Reagan

4. The terror most people are concerned with is the IRS. — Malcolm Forbes

5. There is nothing so incompetent, ineffective, arrogant, expensive, and wasteful as an unreasonable, unaccountable, and unrepentant government monopoly. — A Patriot

6. Visualize World Peace — Through Firepower!

7. Nothing says sincerity like a Carrier Strike Group and a U.S. Marine Air-Ground Task Force.

8. One cannot be reasoned out of a position that he has not first been reasoned into.

2008-02-01

Obama: From Bad to Worse



The following describes the end of the U.S. as we know it in the event of an Obama election.


Edwards (!) As AG?

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
January 31, 2008


Politics: Trial lawyer John Edwards as attorney general in a Barack Obama administration? That possibility alone should disqualify the young senator as a presidential candidate — now and forever.

Related Topics: Election 2008 | Judges & Courts

Columnist Robert Novak reported last week that Illinois Democrats close to the senator "are quietly passing the word" that Edwards would be Obama's pick to head the Justice Department. We imagine horrified business owners and leaders are thinking that he could not possibly make a worse choice.

The Point Of Law blog operated by the Manhattan Institute brilliantly summarized the nightmare, saying: "It is difficult to overstate how much harm the suit-happy Edwards could inflict on the nation in a position that would allow him to initiate, for example, antitrust proceedings against oil companies."

Under an Edwards regime, Target would not be the only business in the country to have a red bull's-eye on its shingle. Today's frenzy of litigation would be calm in comparison.

The former North Carolina senator is the prince, if not the king, of torts. He owes his $30 million net worth to his willingness to resort to emotion to persuade juries to hand his clients massive awards, more than $175 million over his career, according to FindLaw.com.

Because he is one of them, trial lawyers have heavily funded Edwards' two presidential campaigns. With nothing so far to show for their contributions, they'd certainly expect him to return the favor if he became attorney general.

Doubling the trouble is the fact that a career of lawsuits — many of them abusive because they were based on junk science — has left Edwards looking at the world through a trial lawyer's lens.

While a good salesman sees everyone as a customer, a trial lawyer sees everyone as a defendant. It would be Edwards' pleasure, not a mere payoff to donors, to rig the system so that trial lawyers would be running downhill in every courtroom in America.

The tort tax caused by trial lawyers — jury awards, defense expenses and administrative charges — already costs the U.S. economy roughly 2% of GDP each year, more than any other developed nation and large jump from the 0.6% of 1950.

If that were doubled, quite possible with a personal injury attorney heading Justice, how much strain would it put on an economy already choked by the leftist policies of a Democratic president?

Not every lawsuit is abusive nor is every trial lawyer a villain. Some do good and necessary work. But too many have turned the profession into a shakedown operation. They should be brought under control through reasonable tort reform, not given free rein by one of their own.

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