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Date Sent: 2008-12-08
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Monday, December 8, 2008 |
Mystery phone call put Pakistan and India at brink of war -- Chinese property hunters to raid US
Detroit Bailout May Bring On U.S. Oversight -- Gov't Pulls Witness in Gitmo Case Against Canadian -- Militants in Pakistan destroy NATO Trucks -- Who will be America's next president? -- British ISPs filtering Wikipedia -- Return to $1 gas? -- Federal Inflationary Policies Mask Real Problem - by John Stossel -- Gen. Shinseki named Secretary of Veterans' Affairs -- How the Government plans to record intimate information on every child -- A million layoffs a month in corporate America -- Obama Plans Largest Building Program Since 1950s -- Obama: "We can’t worry, short term, about the budget deficit" -- COPS TASER DROWNED DAD'S DISTRAUGHT SON -- Secret Report Links State Gun Laws To Rates of Slayings, Trafficking -- In Iraq, 'a Prison Full of Innocent Men' -- Lawmakers and White House agree on auto aid plan -- Bush drinking heavily -- National Parks to Allow Right-to-Carry -- Hand-Build an Earth Sheltered House For $5,000 -- Fred Thompson on the Economy
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Detroit Bailout May Bring On U.S. Oversight
12-7-2008
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NY Times
Congressional Democrats were drafting legislation for tight government control of the crippled American auto industry, including the possible creation of an oversight board made up of the head of the EPA and led by an "car czar."
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Peter Schiff Takes The Mayor Of Lansing, Michigan to the Woodshed On CNN Over The Auto Bailouts
12/7/08
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www.ronpaulforpresident2008.com
Got to love it when our paid, bribed and in bed crooked politicians get the rear ends handed to them. Even the CNN anchor open up a can of whop ass on the mayor!
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Reported by:
Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • WAR: About that War
McCain: Afghanistan Situation Will Get Harder
12-7-2008
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AP
Sen. John McCain said the situation in Afghanistan will get more difficult before it gets easier " "just like the surge in Iraq was" " as the US prepares to pour thousands more troops into the country, including on the doorsteps of Kabul.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Mystery phone call put Pakistan and India on the brink of war
12-7-2008
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McClatchy News
A mysterious night-time telephone call last week brought nuclear-armed India and Pakistan close to the brink of war at the height of the crisis over the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistani officials said Sunday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Gov't Pulls Witness in Gitmo Case Against Canadian
12-07-2008
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New York Times
Military prosecutors have withdrawn a government witness in an upcoming Guantanamo war-crimes trial to conceal evidence of "abuse and mistreatment" of the defendant, his Pentagon-appointed lawyer alleged Sunday.
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Militants in Pakistan destroy NATO Trucks
12-07-2008
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New York Times
More than 100 trucks loaded with supplies for American and allied forces in Afghanistan were destroyed Sunday by militants in Peshawar, a Pakistani city that serves an an important transit point for the Afghan war effort. It was the THIRD major atta
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Jean Carbonneau
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News Link • Food
Swat Team conducts food raid in rural Ohio
12-07-2008
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www.crossroad.to
December 1, a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, Ohio, herded the family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on parents, children, infants and toddlers
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Constitution
Who will be America's next president?
12/07/2008
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Mark Yannone
When the Supreme Court justices honor their oaths of office and obey the Constitution, who will become the next president? If the Supreme Court fails to uphold the supreme law of the land, as written and as intended by our founders, who will be elec
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News Link • Obama Administration
It's All in the Works
12-07-2008
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Slate.com
The Washington Post leads with the first look into Barack Obama's "massive public works program," the most expansive and ambitious since Dwight Eisenhower instigated the federal interstate highway project in the 1950s.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Internet
British ISPs filtering Wikipedia
12-7-2008
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CNET News
Internet service providers in the U.K. have begun filtering access to Wikipedia after the site was added to the Internet Watch Foundation's blacklist.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Students Find Planet Outside Our Solar System
12-7-2008
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Space
Three undergraduate students have discovered a large planet orbiting a fast-rotating star. Extrasolar planet discoveries like this have become common, but this one is unusual both for who found it and the type of star it orbits.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Chinese property hunters to raid US
12-7-2008
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Financial Times
Chinese bargain hunters are preparing to descend on American cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, where homeowners have suffered some of the steepest price falls in the US. SouFun, the biggest real estate website in China, is organising a tr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Montana third state to legalize assisted suicide
12-7-2008
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MSNBC
A Montana judge has issued a ruling saying residents of the state have the right to doctor-assisted suicide. Mentally competent, terminally ill Montanans have a right to obtain medications that can be self-administered to bring about a peaceful death
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Former drug officer launches 'KopBusters' TV show
12-7-2008
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Rawstory
[First reported on FP by Lorber!] "The trap was set and less than 24 hours later, the Odessa narcotics unit raided the house only to find KopBuster's attorney waiting under a system of complex gadgetry and spy cameras that streamed online to
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Energy
Return to $1 gas? Energy prices evaporate
12-7-2008
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AP
Oil prices hit four-year lows Friday. The continuing decline in prices is so dramatic and so sudden that it is raising the prospect that gas prices could soon fall below $1 a gallon. [Will you be able to afford it?]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Federal Inflationary Policies Mask Real Problem
by John Stossel
12-7-2008
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ABC News
The inflationary policies now pursued by Washington may temporarily "stimulate the economy," but they also disguise and aggravate the underlying problems. We will all pay a serious price.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Krugman: US Auto Industry Will Likely Disappear
12-07-08
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CNBC.com/
The Nobel Prize ceremony, Krugman said plans by U.S. lawmakers to bail out the Big Three automakers were a short-term solution, resulting from a "lack of willingness to accept the failure of a large industry in the midst of an economic crisis.**
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Gen. Eric Shinseki to be named Secretary of Veterans' Affairs
12-7-2008
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Politico
Retired Army Gen. Eric Shinseki will be named as Barack Obama's Secretary of Veterans' Affairs. The surprise pick takes a not-so-subtle slap at President Bush's original national security team.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Croats stage anti-government "Facebook rally"
12-7-2008
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Reuters
The rally, staged in several towns, went ahead after police apologized for detaining a Web activist who had put up posters calling for the protest. He was in a 60,000 member Facebook group. Several Internet activists have been held and interrogated b
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Precious Metals
Red Alert: Gold Backwardation!!!
12-05-2008
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news.goldseek.com via END THE FED newsletter
...the jig in Washington is up. The music has stopped on the players of ‘musical chairs’. Those who have no gold in hand are out of luck.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Media: Internet
A Sign of Things To Come: Rense.com Blocked In Dubai
12-07-08
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Rense.com
What is going on? Have you been critical of their property boom and they don't like it?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Deflation virus is moving the policy test beyond the 1930s extremes
12-07-08
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telegraph.co.uk/finance/
We are beyond the extremes of the 1930s. The frontiers of monetary policy are being pushed to limits that may now test viability of paper currencies and modern central banking.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
How the Government plans to record intimate information on every child in Britain
12-07-08
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dailymail.co.uk/news/
CAF includes eyewateringly intimate questions about children’s sexual behaviour, their family’s structure, culture and religion, their views on ‘discrimination’, their friends, secret fears, feelings and family income, plus ‘any serious difficulties
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Fears of a million layoffs a month in corporate America
12-07-08
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Guardian.co.uk
As many as a million American jobs could be lost every month by next spring as businesses struggle to raise capital in financial markets consumed by fear, according to a new analysis.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Knowledge for a Revolution: From Fear to Truth
12-07-08
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prisonplanet.com
As Thomas Jefferson once said, “Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day”.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Plans Largest Building Program Since 1950s
12-07-08
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Bloomberg.com
In addition to investing in infrastructure, requiring energy standards on public buildings and updating health-care practices, Obama said that he will start a “sweeping effort to modernize and upgrade school buildings” and will boost broadband access
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama: “We can’t worry, short term, about the budget deficit.”
12-07-08
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Bloomberg.com
While calling the federal budget deficit he will inherit “enormous,” Obama said economic recovery is more important, “and that means that we can’t worry, short term, about the budget deficit.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tempe, Arizona: Twin Ghost Towers a Sign of a Sinking Economy
12-07-08
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azcentral.com
Those problems are believed to have prompted the suicide of Mortgages Ltd.'s then-chairman and chief executive officer, Scott Coles, and forced the hard-money lender into bankruptcy in June.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
$7 TRILLION!" What Hank and Ben Are Up to and How They Plan to Pay for It All
12-07-08
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opednews.com/
In a revealing booklet called "Modern Money Mechanics," the Chicago Federal Reserve detailed how fractional reserve lending allows money to "expand." The booklet is now out of print, perhaps because it revealed too much...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
More than 160 US, NATO vehicles burned in Pakistan
12-07-2008
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Yahoo! News
Militants torched 160 vehicles including dozens of Humvees destined for U.S. and allied forces fighting in Afghanistan, in the boldest attack so far on the critical military supply line through Pakistan, official said.
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Drug War
23 Seconds of the Mexican Drug War
12-7-2008
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LA Times
The victims' stories intersected in that jewelry store, but the slaughter recorded on the videotape that day looks to have been rooted in a nearby town that believed itself immune from Mexico's drug war.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Obama on meet the press
12/7/08
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www.swamppolitics.com/
President-elect Barack Obama, confronting the question of the beleaguered economy and tense international challenges that he is facing, explained his approaches to both fronts in an interview aired by NBC's Meet the Press this morning. The world
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Media: Internet
Best Of the Week Recommendations (with my comments)
12-07-2008
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Christine Smith Blog
On Iraq, welfare, being a Christian and a libertarian, troops used domestically, and more on the death of immigrant detainee Hiu Lui Ng in a immigrant detention center.
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Christine -
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News Link • Gun Rights
Report Links State Gun Laws To Rates of Slayings, Trafficking
12-6-2008
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Washinton Post / Cheryl Thompson
States with [supposed] lax gun laws had higher rates of handgun killings, fatal police officer shootings, and sales of weapons used in crimes in other states, according to a mayor-funded study [that we won't let you read].
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
COPS TASER DROWNED DAD'S DISTRAUGHT SON
12-6-2008
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Prison Planet video
Imagine your dad gets swept out to sea, and when the "rescue" people arrive they don't do anything...so you complain. You get tasered and arrested. Oh, your dad drowns too. Call 911 & Die. Someone should write a book.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Defense Support of Civil Authorities
04 Dec. 2008
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access
Regulations regarding military
support for civilian law enforcement, and sets forth policy guidance
for the execution and oversight of DSCA when requested by civil
authorities and approved by the appropriate DoD authority, or as
directed by t
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Brian Holder
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News Link • Torture
In Iraq, 'a Prison Full of Innocent Men'
12-6-2008
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Washington Post
Recently approved U.S.-Iraqi security agreement will soon require the American military to release the 16,000 Iraqi detainees -- the vast majority of them held in this southern desert prison -- or refer them to the nation's courts. As the U.S. mi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Lawmakers and White House agree on auto aid plan
12-6-2008
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Reuters
Congressional Democrats and the White House have reached agreement on emergency aid for U.S. automakers of between $15 billion and $17 billion, two senior congressional aides said on Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush reported to be drinking heavily
12-5-2008
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Online Journal
With less than two months remaining in office, George W. Bush, witnessing a devastating defeat for the Republican Party, worse favorability ratings than those of Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal, and the most devastating economic
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Non-Believers - Atheists
Missing atheist sign found in Washington state
12-5-2008
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CNN
An atheist sign criticizing Christianity that was erected alongside a Nativity scene was taken from the Legislative Building in Olympia, Washington, on Friday and later found in a ditch. "I thought it would be safe," Freedom From Religion F
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
In rush-hour labor, ticket delivered
12-5-2008
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Boston Globe
Jennifer Davis was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, her contractions just 3 minutes apart. Her husband was trying to appear calm for his wife's sake, driving in the breakdown lane of Route 2. They pulled up behind a state trooper to ask whether
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
National Parks to Allow Right-to-Carry
12-5-2008
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NRAILA
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), through the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has announced the final amended version of its changes to rules on carrying of firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. DOI’s mov
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Hand-Build an Earth Sheltered House For $5,000
12-5-2008
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Green Building Elements
Cash, that most basic element of our economy, can be in abysmally short supply for new young families scraping by on marginal jobs.
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Powell Gammill
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