{"id":676196,"date":"2010-02-25T22:01:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T03:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/?p=11382"},"modified":"2010-02-25T22:01:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T03:01:44","slug":"justice-obama-uup-is-down-the-euro-and-the-cfr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/676196","title":{"rendered":"Justice Obama, UUp is Down, the Euro and the CFR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>*A really scary  thought.<\/strong> <em>Washington Post<\/em> columnist Jeffrey  Rosen has come up with the most frightening solution I&rsquo;ve seen to Barack  Obama&rsquo;s increasing unpopularity. He suggests that our Teleprompter-in-Chief use  the first opening on the Supreme Court to appoint (I guarantee you aren&rsquo;t ready  for this) himself to fill the vacancy. Think of it: In one awful move, we&rsquo;d be  faced with Joe Biden as president and Barack Obama making law for the rest of  his life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*What&rsquo;s UUP with  this?<\/strong> Want to see a frightening financial chart? Look up the one that tracks futures contracts  on the U.S. dollar. It&rsquo;s called UUP and, except for the last couple of weeks,  it pretty much looks like the &ldquo;down&rdquo; part of the scariest roller-coaster ride  you&rsquo;ve ever been on. It sometimes seems as though the only thing helping the  U.S. dollar is that most other currencies are worse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*And speaking of  other currencies.<\/strong> A friend of mine had a great comment about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/chip-wood\/let-the-pigs-get-slaughtered\/\" >my column last week<\/a> on the havoc  that&rsquo;s occurring in Europe, thanks to the  financial problems facing the PIGS. &ldquo;The Euro isn&rsquo;t a currency,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s  an experiment.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*The CFR sounds an  alarm. <\/strong>Here&rsquo;s  yet another warning about our own out-of-control spending. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve reached a  point now where there&rsquo;s an intimate link between our solvency and our national  security. What&rsquo;s so discouraging is that our domestic politics don&rsquo;t seem to be  up to the challenge.&rdquo; Who&rsquo;s the Cassandra who issued this dire summary? None  other than Richard Haass, president of the insiders&rsquo; ultimate power club, the  Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). When the CFR speaks, you know official Washington had better  listen.<\/p>\n<p><em>&mdash;Chip Wood <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*A really scary thought. Washington Post columnist Jeffrey Rosen has come up with the most frightening solution I&rsquo;ve seen to Barack Obama&rsquo;s increasing unpopularity. He suggests that our Teleprompter-in-Chief use the first opening on the Supreme Court to appoint (I guarantee you aren&rsquo;t ready for this) himself to fill the vacancy. Think of it: In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PUo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}