6,125 Proposed Regulations and Notifications Posted in Last 90 Days--Average 68 per Day.....

 It’s Friday morning, and so far today, the Obama administration has posted 165 new regulations and notifications on its reguations.gov website.

In the past 90 days, it has posted 6,125 regulations and notices – an average of 68 a day.

Where is John Galt?

"Who is John Galt?"

That question, of course, is the opening sentence of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, arguably the first major novel written with a sledgehammer and the first (but, thankfully, not last) to drive generations of liberals crazy and in the most delicious and poetically justified way: by simply depicting a society in which liberals get everything they want.

After 55 years and total sales of well over half a billion, I hope I can be forgiven if I "give away the shock ending" by explaining to those who have not read the book who John Galt, in fact, is.

EPA planning major post-election anti-coal regulation.....

Let's see how many jobs and industries we can destroy on our way out the door?

President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA.

Obama Suggests ‘Secretary of Business’ in a 2nd Term ....

JUST what we need...ANOTHER level of bureaucracy....Good Lord!

“We should have one Secretary of Business, instead of nine different departments that are dealing with things like giving loans to SBA or helping companies with exports,” Mr. Obama said in an interview that aired Monday on MSNBC. “There should be a one-stop shop.”

ObamaCare: Employees Working 30 Hours per Week Considered 'Full-Time'....

Just another GREAT Job Creator hidden within the Obamacare bill....ya know, once we read it...

 This somewhat obscure stipulation came to light in September as the IRS issued new regulations for employers to determine whether employees are part-time or full-time. According to the new rules, employers are given a “look-back” period of between three and twelve months to calculate employees’ average work hours per week to determine if they are “full-time,” i.e., average 30 hours weekly. Those employees who work the average 30 hours per week will count as “full-time” for the next six months, regardless of how much they work, thus precluding an employer decision to cut workers’ hours to avoid the mandate.

Crony capitalism hits Uber small business...

The scale of cronyism at the federal level dwarfs that of the states. Sometimes Uncle Sam plays favorites with individual businesses, such as the $433 million no-bid contract given to a politically connected company last year for an unnecessary smallpox vaccine. Often it benefits entire industries, such as the protection of the sugar industry through quotas and tariffs — policies that increase the price of sugar for all Americans. Always, it’s the ordinary taxpayer who ends up picking up the tab.

Health Premiums Up $3,000 Under Obama; He Had Vowed $2,500 Cut.....

During his first run for president, Barack Obama made one very specific promise to voters: He would cut health insurance premiums for families by $2,500, and do so in his first term.

But it turns out that family premiums have increased by more than $3,000 since Obama's vow, according to the latest annual Kaiser Family Foundation employee health benefits survey.

Obama’s Sneaky, Deadly, Costly Car Tax.....

These lethal regulations should be wrapped in yellow police “CAUTION” tape. The tradeoffs are stark and simple: CAFE fuel standards clamp down on the production of larger, more crashworthy cars. Analysts from Harvard to the Brookings Institution to the federal government itself have arrived at the same conclusion: CAFE kills. Welcome to the bloody intersection between the Obama jobs death toll and the Obama green death toll.

Whole Foods CEO: Capitalism is amazing .....

His remark touches on the growing problem in this country – people are being told not to trust corporations because they are painted as large, scary, greedy, selfish, exploitative, sociopaths that care about nothing but turning a profit. This is simply not true, and Mackey continued his defense of the free markets by talking about the ‘good’ corporations do.

Agencies tamp down speculation over hollow-point ammo purchases....

But the agencies, most recently the Social Security Administration, are trying to put a damper on the speculation -- noting the ammunition is "standard issue" and simply used for mandatory federal training sessions.

Jamie Dimon Critisizes Gov’t Regs: ‘It’s a Free. F**king. Country!’ ....

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon during a recent interview with New York magazine decried overbearing government regulations, at one point practically shouting, “It’s a free. F**king. Country!”

Dimon also made the case for deregulation (or at least a general “loosening up”) because, he says, fear of retribution has many small bank owners terrified to make a move.

Energy Dept. e-mails on Solyndra provide new details on White House involvement .....

President Obama’s staff arranged for him to be personally briefed last summer on a loan program to help clean-energy companies, two months before the program was thrust into headlines by the collapse of its flagship, the solar company Solyndra, records show.

Gazillions -- that's the number of times our government has spied on Americans since 9/11.....

Gazillions. That’s the number of times the federal government has spied on Americans since 9/11 through the use of drones, legal search warrants, illegal search warrants, federal agent-written search warrants and just plain government spying. This is according to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who, when he asked the government to tell him what it was doing to violate our privacy, was given a classified briefing. The senator -- one of just a few in the U.S. Senate who believes that the Constitution means what it says -- was required by federal law to agree not to reveal what spies and bureaucrats told him during the briefing.

Obama Considering Executive-Branch Action on Cybersecurity....

Remember, if we allow Obama to get re-elected....the word "Constitution" will fade into history and "Executive - Branch Action" will be the new normal.

Senate Republicans last week blocked a bill backed by Obama that would have set up voluntary cybersecurity standards for operators of infrastructure such as power grids and water- treatment plants that are considered essential to national security.

Republicans, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups said the voluntary standards would be a back door to government regulation of companies. The bill was sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, and Susan Collins, a Maine Republican.

Slow path to progress for U.S. immigrants .....

And we're welcoming them with no strings attached....

Immigrants lag behind native-born Americans on most measures of economic well-being — even those who have been in the U.S. the longest, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies, which argues that full assimilation is a more complex task than overcoming language or cultural differences.

She calls herself “Top Gun Tori” .....

Sharp shooter Tori Nonaka already spent fourteen years on the range—and she is only seventeen. As a toddler crawling up on a bucket at the range, Tori’s father, a gulf war vet, would hold the gun while she shot. Since 2011 Tori has competed on the international level and has become a representative for team GLOCK, the famous Austrian hand gun manufacturer.