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Iran enriches uranium
4-11-2006
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Associated Press
Iran's hard-line president said Tuesday that the country "has joined the club of nuclear countries" by successfully enriching uranium for the first time " a key process in what Iran maintains is a peaceful energy program.
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National Archives assists in hiding public documents for Bush
4-11-2006
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Associated Press
The National Archives agreed to seal previously public CIA and Pentagon records and to keep silent about US intelligence's role in the reclassification, according to an agreement released under the Freedom of Information Act. Archivists were conc
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Abramoff's e-mails show Republican Party coordinating bribes
4-11-2006
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Associated Press
A Republican Party official and Jack Abramoff's lobbying team bluntly discussed using large political donations as a way to pressure lawmakers into securing federal money for a client. Abramoff's team worked to leverage assistance from the Wh
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TAXES: Federal
IRS Privacy Nightmare
4-11-2006
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The Nation
The IRS has quietly proposed astounding new rules which would allow tax preparers to sell the contents of their client's tax returns to third-party businesses, as long as a requisite form is signed. Historically, tax returns were a strictly priva
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Economy - Economics USA
Home sales fall and prices expected to slow
4-11-2006
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Associated Press
Existing home sales are expected to fall 6% in 2006. Demand for new homes is expected to fall 10.9%. Prices for new and existing homes are also expected to slow from their previous rate of growth, while still maintaining steady rates of increase over
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Waste and fraud in Katrina recovery government operations
4-11-2006
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Associated Press
3 government auditors"inspectors general with the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense and Army"publicly disclosed figures on government waste in the Katrina recovery effort. The inflated prices were a result of poor planning as wel
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Dow and NASDAQ head down
4-11-2006
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Associated Press
Stocks tumbled Tuesday as strength in the commodities market fed inflation fears and stifled investors' enthusiasm over upbeat first-quarter earnings from Dow Jones industrial Alcoa Inc. "(Commodities prices rising) would certainly seep thro
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Gasoline prices rise
4-11-2006
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Associated Press
Gasoline prices are surging again with summer on the horizon, pushing or even passing $3 a gallon in some places. Meanwhile, drivers aren't expected to ease off on their mileage, sending demand higher than last year " but they are grumbling.
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Oil goes over $69 a barrel
4-11-2006
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Associated Press
Oil prices briefly surpassed $69 a barrel Tuesday, gaining strength from a rally in gasoline futures and declarations from Iran's president that the country had successfully enriched uranium for the first time.
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Copper, Gold and Silver hit record highs as dollar sinks
4-11-2006
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AFP (thanks for the heads up Carl W.)
The price of copper chalked up a historic high owing to supply concerns, while gold and silver hit multi-year highs on soaring investor interest. With high crude prices raising fears about inflation, investors are rushing to invest in gold, which is
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THIS TAX DAY, LET'S END THE BIGGEST BOONDOGGLE - By Rob Kampia
Ernest Hancock
Americans' annual day of reckoning with the IRS on April 15 is a good time to consider where our money is going -- and where it's being wasted.
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Immigration "solutions" -
By Thomas Sowell
Ernest Hancock
The releasing of children from schools to take part in these marches and the support of the marchers' goals by some religious leaders demonstrate that this contempt for the laws of the land has spread well beyond immigrant communities.
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Science, Medicine and Technology
Discovery of anti-freeze gene in plant makes freeze resistant crops
4-11-2006
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Reuters
Australian scientists have discovered an "anti-freeze gene" that allows Antarctic grass to survive at minus 30 Celsius (minus 22 Fahrenheit), saying it could prevent multi-million-dollar crop losses from frost. "We identified a novel c
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World's strongest glue
4-11-2006
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LiveScience.com
The bacterium Caulobacter crescentus uses the toughest glue on Earth to stick to river rocks, and now scientists are trying to figure out how to produce the stuff.The adhesive can withstand an enormous amount of stress, equal to the force felt by a q
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Phone jamming election fraud scheme came from Whitehouse
4-11-2006
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Associated press
Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.
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Space Travel and Exploration
Mars Rover Spirit heads to alternate winter home
4-11-2006
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Associated Press
The Mars rover Spirit, hampered by a broken wheel, has failed to reach its destination and will spend the Martian winter at an alternate site. The solar-powered Spirit was rolling toward the north-facing side of McCool Hill last month to recharge on
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Venus Explorer enters orbit today
4-11-2006
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Christian Science Monitor
The planet Venus moves to astronomy's center stage this week with the arrival of the European Space Agency's spacecraft. The Venus Express orbiter is slated to reach Earth's neighbor early Tuesday morning. Roughly 3 weeks later, it will r
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Immigration
More than 2 million Immigration protestors nationwide
4-11-2006
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Bloomberg
More than 2 million people wearing white T-shirts or armbands and carrying American flags may rally across the US today against an immigration reform bill that would tighten the borders and impose stiffer penalties on illegal immigrants, organizers s
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Immigration Rally in Phoenix - From the Inside
Ernest Hancock
We did our best to provide ‘The Injection of the libertarian infection into the bone marrow of Arizona Hispanic politics, for which there will be no cure’ to as many human beings as we could with our small group of dedicated freedom activists.
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Broward Co. posts residents Social Security numbers online
4-11-2006
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ComputerWorld
The Social Security numbers, driver's license information and bank account details belonging to potentially millions of current and former residents in Florida's Broward County are available to anyone on the Internet because sensitive informa
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Opinion • More about Relaciones entre Mexico y los EUA
Reflexiones Libertarias
¡Para comerte mejor!
04-08-2006
Ricardo Valenzuela
Hacía tiempo no atestiguábamos un fiasco como el de la violenta Cumbre de las Américas, desarrollada en esa Argentina aun más enferma que aquella comandada por Evita en su cruzada salvadora de los millones de miserables en un país el cual, solo trein
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Reflexiones Libertarias
¿NOS QUIEREN O NO? Y ¿ONDE?
04-08-2006
Ricardo Valenzuela
El mismo día en que el departamento de Comercio sorprendía al informar la reciente ronda de creación de empleos lo que, lleva al país a lo que los economistas llaman “pleno empleo,” el Congreso de los EU debatía la controversial reforma migratoria qu
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Immigration - Government & the Individual - by Jim Peron
Ernest Hancock
Dave Gallagher assumes we are putting the immigration cart before the welfare horse. This argument is one that some, especially those who want to cater to the xenophobic Right, use with certain regularity
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Hundreds of thousands rally for Immigration
4-10-2006
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Associated Press
Hundreds of thousands of people banged drums, waved U.S. flags and marched in a protest Sunday urging federal lawmakers to pass immigration reform that would legalize an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants.
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US plays up Zarqawi's role
4-10-2006
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Washington Post
The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.The effort has overstated his importance and helped the Bush administration tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001
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Local boy Mickelson Wins 2nd Masters in 3 Years
4-9-2006
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Associated Press
There was no reason to leap, no reason to look utterly stunned.
Phil Mickelson simply smiled as he fished the ball out the cup, waved to the gallery and made his way to the scoring trailer with his three kids draped around his neck.
There was n
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3 US commanders relieved for spreading the love
4-9-2006
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Knight Ridder
n the middle of methodically recalling the day his brother's family was killed, Yaseen's monotone voice and stream of tears suddenly stopped. He looked up, paused and pleaded: "Please don't let me say anything that will get me killed
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Necessary Evil
The Open Borders Cart Before the Welfare Horse
04-10-2006
Dave Gallagher
When local Philadelphians are talking more about the southern border than Terrell Owens being traded to the Dallas Cowboys, it is a hot issue...this issue is the single greatest perceived negative by many...exploring the LP in their search for a new
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Immigration, Freedom and those Damn Libertarians
Ernest Hancock
It’s common knowledge to those interested in politics that libertarians support “open borders”, and if you asked a non-libertarian, “Why?”, the most common response is a blank stare.
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Fascist Nation
Illegal Aliens and My Money
April 9th
Powell Gammill
Immigration. Illegal aliens. Migrants. We talk about closed borders, fences, military patrols, felony convictions, detainments and expulsion. We never seem to discuss what illegal aliens from around the world mean to us?
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