Enough with the holiday cheer.  Here’s a list of ten things that I’m getting paranoid about for the coming year.

  1. The Obama administration has modified a long-standing executive order so now agents of Interpol have full diplomatic immunity.  i.e. We have now a class of law enforcement in this country beyond any rules of search and seizure, Miranda, or any of those annoying due-process concerns.
  2. The head of the IPCC (the agency responsible for UN climate change policy) has a cosmically massive conflict of interest, as he stands to make a few billion on carbon trading schemes.
  3. If the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement doesn’t scare you, the fact that it’s being negotiated in secret should.
  4. Not only are we hemorrhaging money, it’s not even going where it’s supposedly needed.
  5. Then there’s the fact we’re giving a blank check to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac because they did such a good job before.
  6. Apparently the only lessons we learned from 9/11 were the wrong ones.
  7. If they slipped this in, what other incompetence awaits us?
  8. History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
  9. Apparently, Predator drones are hackable.
  10. This guy is still in control of the economy.