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Date Sent: 2008-05-31
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Saturday, May 31, 2008 |
TX Judge defies Supreme Court over returning kidnapped children -- McCain & subprime crisis
Ernest Hancock’s view of the National Libertarian Party,… ‘An Outsider’s view from the Inside’ -- 'Legal Weed' is just beer, but Feds want to cap sales -- Food prices to rise 9 percent a year -- NV Republicans to Resume State Convention -- Save the LP by changing its name - by Scott Bieser -- Updating Yassin Aref's Struggle for Justice - by Stephen Lendman
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News Link • Drug War
'Legal Weed' is just beer, but Feds want to cap sales
5-30-2008
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LA Times
[thanks for all the publicity] The bottle-top slogan of a brewer with a head for business in Weed, Calif., draws a warning from U.S. drug watchdogs. All he's pushing is a respectable local enterprise, backers say.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Food prices to rise 9 percent a year
5-30-2008
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Reuters
U.S. food prices will rise a stiff 9 percent a year through 2012, the largest increase since 1979 and the result of record-high crop prices, the head of an economic consulting company said on Thursday.
The projections by Bill Lapp of Advanced Econ
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Corporate
Farmers’ Harvest a Bumper Crop of Subsidies
5-30-2008
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Independent Institute
Farming is a good example of the textbook model of perfect competition"or at least that is what ECON 101 students often are taught. Even economists, evidently, are enthralled by Jeffersonian nostalgia for the yeoman farmer, the rugged individualist t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
McCain's Short List for VP Leaked to Press
5-30-2008
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With the decision just around the corner, there has been much speculation as to who John McCain will pick for a running mate. Here's his own personal list recently leaked to the press. [handwritten note]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Scotty McClellan: Everyman
5-30-2008
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Mondoweiss
One of the pleasures of watching Scott McClellan is his sheer ordinariness. In the era of West Wing, the meritocracy, and the "overclass," McClellan is an ordinary Joe. He's pudgy and not all that smart. He's also genuine and honest
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Marriage
Judge in Texas defies Supreme Court over returning kidnapped children
5-30-2008
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AP
Parents' hopes of quick reunions with more than 400 children removed from a polygamist sect's ranch were dashed after their attorneys and a judge clashed over proposed restrictions. To regain custody, the mothers must sign an agreement state
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Save the LP by changing its name
by Scott Bieser
5-30-2008
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The Time Sink
The good news from the Libertarian Party National Convention in Denver this past weekend was, Big Head Press sold a big pile of books. Also, my friend L. Neil Smith got to meet up with a dozen or so friends he hasn’t seen in years, and I got to hang
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News Link • Eugenics
McCain linked to sub prime crisis
05-30-2008
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RONPAULFORUM
Who's to blame for the biggest financial catastrophe of our time? There are plenty of culprits, but one candidate for lead perp is former Sen. Phil Gramm. Eight years ago, as part of a decades-long anti-regulatory crusade, Gramm pulled a sly legi
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