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Date Sent: 2009-04-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, April 1, 2009 AM edition |
American Health Security Act of 2009: Sanders Puts Single-Payer On the Agenda
AG Overrode Ruling That D.C. Vote Bill Is Unconstitutional -- Obama's HHS nominee rushes to pay her back taxes -- House Democrats unveil sweeping plan to reshape energy in America -- House votes to limit Internet sales of cough-medicine drug -- Boats Too Costly to Keep Are Littering Coastlines -- Depression II: The Horror - by Bill Bonner -- Obama Orders Chevrolet and Dodge Out Of NASCAR -- The Suicide of American Sovereignty -- So Much for the Social Security Surplus -- So what is Twitter? - by Drew Phillips -- WHY TAXATION IS SLAVERY - by Bob Podolsky -- Congresswoman Bachmann Questions Geithner & Bernanke About A Global Currency -- US 'war on terror' spending hits $1 trillion -- Nicolas Sarkozy’s threat to walk out of global summit -- Bill Would Limit 'Overboard' Patriot Act Subpoena Power -- Campus Censorship
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
American Health Security Act of 2009: Sanders Puts Single-Payer On the Agenda
03/30/2009
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by John Nichols, State Of Change, The Nation
While the one reform that could cure what ails America's health care system has attracted plenty of adherents in the House -- 72 members have signed on as backers of House Judiciary Committee chair John Conyers' single-payer proposal and othe
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Reported by:
Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Constitution
Holder Overrode Ruling That D.C. Vote Bill Is Unconstitutional
03-31-2009
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Washington Post
Justice Dept. lawyers concluded the historic D.C. voting rights bill pending in Congress is unconstitutional. But Attorney General Holder who supports the measure, ordered up a second opinion and determined that the legislation would pass muster.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Al Franken Wins Ruling in Minnesota Senate Race
03-31-2009
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NY Times
Al Franken, the comedian turned politician, won a potentially decisive court ruling on Tuesday in his bid to replace Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican trying to hold on to his Senate seat.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's HHS nominee rushes to pay her back taxes
03-31-2009
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NY Times
Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding "unintentional errors" _ the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Chinese Inmates at Guantánamo Pose a Dilemma
03-31-2009
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NY Times
The men ended up in American hands in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2001 and 2002, in some cases after the payment of bounties. Their life stories are inexact: hat maker, shoe repairman, typist in the Uighurs’ Turkic language. The evidence against them
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Militants Show New Boldness in Cities of Iraq
03-31-2009
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NY Times
As the American military prepares to withdraw from Iraqi cities, Iraqi and American security officials say that jihadi and Baath militants are rejoining the fight in areas that are largely quiet now, regrouping as a smaller but still lethal insurgenc
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Coffee Lessens the Pain of Exercise
03-31-2009
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LiveScience
That cup of coffee that many gym rats, bikers and runners swill before a workout does more than energize them. It kills some of the pain of athletic exertion, a new study suggests. And it works regardless of whether a person already had a coffee habi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
House Democrats unveil sweeping plan to reshape energy in America
03-31-2009
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McClatchy News
Democrats in the House of Representatives announced a sweeping plan to change how the nation produces and uses energy in order to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change. No environmental legislation in America has ever attempted such wide-reachi
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Upstate New York House Race Is Too Close to Call
03-31-2009
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NY Times
A mere 65 votes separated the two candidates late Tuesday in a Congressional contest in upstate New York that received national attention and was widely seen as a referendum on the Obama administration’s economic recovery efforts.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
House votes to limit Internet sales of cough-medicine drug
03-31-2009
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McClatchy News
The House of Representatives passed a bill that would tighten bulk Internet sales of a drug known to teenagers as DXM or Dex, an ingredient found in many over-the-counter cough medicines. Though millions of Americans use
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Boats Too Costly to Keep Are Littering Coastlines
03-31-2009
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NY Times
They often sandpaper over the names and file off the registry numbers, doing their best to render the boats, and themselves, untraceable. Then they casually ditch the vessels in the middle of busy harbors, beach them at low tide on the banks of creek
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Patriot Alert The O-Bots are coming
04-01-2009
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Freedom Fighter Radio.net
ACORN groups are “gate crashing” Tea Parties pretending to be anti Obama and asking people to sign petitions so they can get your names and addresses.
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Reported by:
Jim Stachowiak
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Depression II: The Horror
03-31-2009
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Bill Bonner
"DEPRESSION II …The Horror…coming soon to theatres near you! “It’s gone deep. It’s gotten worse,” said the President. We’ve seen so many shock and horror movies over the years. We recognize the dialog. But this is no Hollywood thriller. This is
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Reported by:
Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Orders Chevrolet and Dodge Out Of NASCAR
04-01-2009
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Car and Driver.com
With their racing budgets deemed “unnecessary expenditures,” GM and Chrysler are ordered to cease racing operations at the end of the season.
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Reported by:
Kenneth Rineer
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News Link • United Nations
The Suicide of American Sovereignty
03-31-200
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Melanie Phillips, The Spectator
The underlying rationale for Obama’s foreign policy; transnational progressivism’. Based on the belief that the nation state is in and of itself the cause of all the ills of the world, abolish nations and you abolish conflict and usher in the broth
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Veritas Vincit
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
So Much for the Social Security Surplus
03-31-2009
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The Mess That Greenspan Made
Among the plethora of new ills plaguing the U.S. economy as it goes stumbling toward its uncertain future is a problem that, until very recently (meaning two days ago), was believed to be one reserved for the latter half of the next decade - the dwin
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Glenn Jacobs
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News Link • Art
CT Scan Reveals Hidden Face Under Nefertiti Bust
03-31-2009
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AP
Researchers in Germany have used a modern medical procedure to uncover a secret within one of ancient Egypt's most treasured artworks " the bust of Nefertiti has two faces.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Ryan Moats Kept in Line by Dallas and Plano Police
03/31/09
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Youtube
OTN's unique perspective on this example of government abuse is sure to provide new insights and perspectives on police, society, and the world in general.
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Reported by:
Ken Demyen
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Feature Article • Technology: Software
So what is Twitter?
Drew
In Short Twitter is a social networking site that lets people stay up to date with each other by posting short 140 character messages from there computer or other mobile internet device.
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Opinion • Corruption
WHY TAXATION IS SLAVERY
03-31-2009
Bob Podolsky
I have maintained for some time that taxation is government’s most criminal enterprise and that it is, in fact, a form of slavery. Yet it continues to baffle me that so many people cannot or will not see the obvious truth in these statements and ins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Congresswoman Bachmann Questions Geithner & Bernanke About A Global Currency
03-30-2009
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http://www.womensgroup.org/
I'll have to say this woman has guts, and we sure could use more in Congress like her!!
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Reported by:
Renee Houlihan
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
ABC: US 'war on terror' spending hits $1 trillion
03-31-2009
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ABC News
Pentagon spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to fight terrorism elsewhere has reached $US 685.7 billion ($1 trillion) since 2001, a US Government watchdog agency said.
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Renee Houlihan
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News Link • Economy - International
Nicolas Sarkozy’s threat to walk out of global summit
03/30/2009
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TIMESONLINE
President Sarkozy yesterday threatened to wreck the London summit if France’s demands for tougher financial regulation are not met.
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Renee Houlihan
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Bill Would Limit 'Overboard' Patriot Act Subpoena Power
03-31-2009
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rawstory.com
Congressmen Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said in a release that National Security Letters... have led to "rampant abuse" and must be curbed.
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Reported by:
Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - International
Campus Censorship
03-31-2009
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YouTube
filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney investigates political censorship at colleges and universities in the United States. Watch how "free speech" Liberals censor speech at US Colleges.
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Reported by:
Renee Houlihan
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