Food Revolution

As a blogger here, I enjoy the regular connection I have with this audience, as well as being able to follow stories as they develop.  I've posted here before about the First Lady's anti-obesity project, and while I'm not a fan of how she's going about this, I found something related which is much more liberty-friendly:

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution is a bottom-up revolutionary act -- he's gone to the most obese areas in America to teach people healthy habits rather than mandating good behavior from the top down, as Mrs. Obama proposes.  Any liberty-lover would enjoy this show, which has so much commentary on how government mandates simply don't work to fix problems like this.  I highly recommend you watch it (and listen for some great quotes about how much red tape he has to deal with).

Iran: A Redundantly Flawed Foreign Policy

If the United States is to learn anything about Iran it is that American foreign policy is substantially flawed and reckless. The US has a long history of a hundred years of brutal occupation, masked liberation, interventionist ideals, and proxy warring ambitions.

The fundamental question is whether United States foreign policy has truly served the national interest. Although sometimes it has, overtly interventionist policies and the meddling in intrastate affairs has often led to more enemies abroad, whether state or organization.

In regards to Iran, American foreign policy is shifting toward interventionism once again. On Wednesday, February 3^rd, the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia held a hearing to discuss the United States’ prospected approach on handling the revolution in Iran. I need not mention the disasters of previous attempts to change governments in Iran on behalf of the US; however, the Subcommittee came to the same conclusion. The United States, in its ‘best interest’, would somehow support the Green Revolution in Iran.

(G)Oh Canada

With spiraling health care costs, increasing dependence on unemployment insurance and other social benefits, as well as their own massive bailout of the Canadian auto industry (Canada now owns 10% of General Motors), Canadians are increasingly unhappy with the imposition of the high taxes necessary to the maintenance of "social democracy" in their country.  In fact, polls in the western provinces show increasing support for secession from Ottawa, reaching 40% in some places.  So it really comes as no surprise that some Canadian companies are now refusing to pay the excessive tax bills being demanded of them. 

One of the most corrosive aspects of socialist systems is the increasing class stratification and tension that is created when government is allowed to pick winners and losers for political reasons.  Canada's productive class seems to be getting tired of being the piggy bank for out of control provincial governments and the State.  Hopefully, the revolutionary zeal to keep the fruits of their labor will infect American business as well.