[Editor’s Note: The following post is by TDV Managing Editor, Redmond Weissenberger]

“It was a commercial that got me when I was a kid, the one where the guy is jumping through spinning razor blades and then he fights a monster with a sword.” — Brandon Raub, political prisoner, explaining why he wanted to join the Marines.

[Editor’s Note: The following post is by TDV legal correspondent, Jim Karger]

After graduating law school, I began my practice with a firm in New Orleans in the late 1970s, and was soon sent to Puerto Rico, a hotbed of union activity. I got my first taste of fighting unions there, and learned they played for keeps when another labor lawyer was shot outside his hotel.

Rest easy, Canadians, for your bank accounts are going to be made as safe as those bank accounts in Cyprus. Just take a look at the Canadian government's budget plan for 2013, particularly pages 144 and 145 of Economic Action Plan 2013. There the Canadian government promises to use Canadian deposits to save "systematicaly important" banks (emphasis ours).

Need a tax expert? I ask because National Stockholm Syndrome Day is almost upon us. All across the nation the American people are paying their federal masters not only with money but with time and worry. Meanwhile the tax reporting preparation pimps are hawking their wares like toy merchants in November. They know the time is coming for their wallets to grow fat upon the desperation of the quietly fearful tax cows.

Hello from Sunny Santiago de Chile,

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It's Friday again, and unless you're a tax paying, God fearing, red blooded American who has been executed by a drone by the President's order, you're celebrating another week in the USSA wondering, "How the hell do I get out of here?" Have no fear, that's why TDV is here. To answer all your questions.

On to the feedback...

[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV contributor Fabian de Silva]

[Editor’s Note: The following post is by TDV contributor, Wendy McElroy]

First it was a secret “kill list” on which Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama names those he wishes to be assassinated. The names included American citizens Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan who died in a drone strike in Yemen on September 30th, 2011. Neither was indicted or charged with a crime. They were killed as 'terrorists' at the discretion of one man whose signature now constitutes due process.

[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV Editor, Gary Gibson]

Elizabeth Warren just realized that the minimum wage should be $22 if it had kept up with economic growth. She suspects in her tender, socially conscious heart that greedy employers have been shafting the lowest level employees. But she's laying her suspicions on the wrong bunch of people. She might want to read up on the currency debasement of the central bank, the command economy vampire that sits at the center of America's supposedly free market economy.

Follow (The Debasement Of) The Money

[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Berwick]

While European politicos negotiate in Brussels, deciding the fate of other people's money in Cyprus, the free market has already moved in to help Cypriots get access to their money via other means...

Banks have been closed for the last week in Cyprus and if they do re-open on Tuesday, it has now been announced that daily withdrawal limits at ATMs will be 100 euros per day.