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Latest From Chip Wood	May 18, 2012

Barack Obama's Really Bad Day » When there's something to celebrate, it's called a red-letter day. A black-letter day, on the other hand, is "a day on which a great incident of misfortune happened or has happened." Well, Barack Obama had a black-letter day last week.  More »

Freedom Watch

The Collapsing Eurozone » The European Union is collapsing financially. It may also be collapsing politically. The Germans (the only EU country with a growing gross domestic product) are preaching austerity. Both Greek and French citizens have rejected calls to turn off their gravy trains. More »

If You Need Evidence Republicans Are Idiots… » Look no further than Republican Congressional aide Benjamin Rothenberg. On his Facebook page, Rothenberg took a gratuitous — and ungrammatical — swipe at an icon of the liberty movement, Lew Rockwell. More »

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Indefinite Detention Barred By Federal Judge » Earlier this week, a Federal judge granted a preliminary injunction to block provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that allowed for the indefinite military detention of American citizens. More »

Minorities Account For More Than Half Of U.S. Births » Racial and ethnic minorities now make up more than half of all of the children born in the United States for the first time in history. According to new Census Bureau estimates, 50.4 percent of U.S. births in the 12-month period ending July 2011 were minority babies.  More »

Change In Policy, Coins Accepted As Payment » The Fort Collins Municipal Court changed one of its policies after Ted Nischan, a 24-year-old college student in Colorado, tried to pay a $160 speeding ticket in change. City officials refused to allow Nischan to use his coins to pay the ticket. More »

Chip Shots

You Just Think You’re Unemployed Where have all the workers gone? If you don't have a job, but you're no longer looking for work, guess what? You're not counted among the unemployed. The Washington Post reports that if the same percentage of adults were in the workforce now as when Barack Obama took office, the unemployment rate would be 11.1 percent. While if you go back to when George W. Bush was sworn in, the unemployment rate would be 13.1 percent. I guess this means that if everyone stopped looking for work, Obama could claim the unemployment rate was 0. More »