Here’s a quick rundown of some of the week’s newsworthy items:

The more time passes, the more I respect Jimmy Carter.  I met the man once, about a decade ago.  He was charming.  He’s also very bright and very honest.  The other day, in light of the Snowden/NSA affair and the complete breakdown of law in the U.S.A., President Carter admitted the painfully obvious, “America has no functioning democracy at this moment.”  Read on: http://rt.com/usa/carter-comment-nsa-snowden-261/.

In related news there was a glimmer of freedom from behind the old Iron Curtain.  Russia, now a haven for the politically oppressed, has granted residency to Mr. Snowden: http://rt.com/news/snowden-russia-kucherena-mills-914/.  President Putin has refused to bow down to the illegal demands of the communist killers in Washington.  You may recall earlier this summer that Hong Kong refused to go along with D.C.’s blatantly illegal scheme to arrest Snowden.  All this adherence to the law must chaff Mordor horribly.

(Sauron’s a little hot under the collar right now…)

The news gets worse for the Empire.  This week a military judge found Private Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy when he did his job, followed the law, and exposed various of Washington’s war crimes.  See:  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57596093/bradley-manning-acquitted-of-aiding-the-enemy-for-giving-secrets-to-wikileaks/.  Manning will spend (more) time in prison for some trumped-up charge but the ultimate truth has come out – the only people he aided were Americans who still believe in America.

The Empire strikes back!  All this attention to freedom has the criminal class in D.C. steaming mad.  In order to mitigate damages President Sotoro announced a new scheme which will lower taxes on large corporations to 28%.  Not that giant corporations (Big Club members) pay taxes anyway…  All of you with small (politically insignificant) businesses will pay 40%.  Equality makes Amerika great: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-top-tax-rate-should-be-28-corporations-40-small-business_742312.html.

Last year, I kicked this blog off with a piece on the Obamacare “tax.”  It’s just a tax, nothing else to see, folks.  The savings from the most affordable of care acts will soon manifest.  Georgia’s insurance commissioner just announced that, thanks to the tax-murderers in D.C., insurance premiums in Georgia will rise by up to nearly 200%.  See: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/ga-insurance-commissioner-obamacare-force-massive-rate-increases-198-percent_742311.html.  Don’t worry about Little Barry and Congress – they’re exempt!

Lastly – not to be out corrupted by the fools in D.C., the ticks in merry old England made the news too!  Do you remember the Lockerbie, Scotland bombing?  It was December, 1988, just before Christmas.  I was on a family vacation at Williamsburg, Virginia when the news came in.  A Pan-Am 747 en route to New York was destroyed over Scotland by a bomb.  The bomb was planted by Libyan terrorists.  The plane was carrying a large number of students from Syracuse University.

The lead terrorist was convicted and imprisoned for life in the U.K.  Several years ago the convict came down with terminal cancer or something.  He supposedly only had weeks to live.  In an act of “compassion” and at the behest of Col. Qaddafi, the British released the bomber back to Libya.  He was greeted as a hero at home.  He also lived on for years, not weeks.

This week the truth came out to little or no fanfare.  Compassion had nothing to do with the release.  The killer was freed in exchange for a 400 Million Pound arms deal with Qaddafi, arranged by the corrupt Tony Blair and Co.  Read on: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10206659/Lockerbie-bomber-release-linked-to-arms-deal-according-to-secret-letter.html.  Did you catch the 80 BILLION Pound banking deal??  Part of the deal involved 80 Billion pounds of Qaddafi’s being managed by banksters in London.  This is why we have war – to make money for arms dealers and criminal bankers.  What a way to honor the 270 Lockerbie dead.  By the way, with Qaddafi dead now, I wonder how much of that money has been returned to the people of Libya?  I’m guessing $0…

I have a special duo of non-news stories planned for the weekend.  One involves my favorite cigar shop, the other an old Doctor Who episode.  Here’s a little video teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5cC__bBM1A.  Prepare yourselves…