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Date Sent: 2009-08-18
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, August 18, 2009 PM edition |
Americans Had to Work from January 1 to August 12 This Year Just to Cover Cost of Government
The Free Market as Regulator - by Ron Paul -- Robert Novak Dead; Charles Goyette Tribute -- Secret Service Informant Charged With 130 Million Credit Card Breaches -- DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show -- Canadian health care is no model -- A Non-State Gun at Obama Event - by Butler Shaffer -- Goldman Sachs: We Are Teflon -- Obama Joker artist unmasked: A fellow Chicagoan -- Unemployment Spike Compounds Foreclosure Crisis -- ObamaCare is Dead, RINOcare is the Real Danger -- Auto Dealer Suckers Reimbursed for Only 2% of Clunkers -- FBI to probe Minneapolis Police Beatdown -- Las Vegas Businessman Kahre's Conviction is a Sad Day - by Jacob Hornberger -- 4409 video: Brother carries AR-15 Rifle at Obamabot Rally
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Americans Had to Work from January 1 to August 12 This Year Just to Cover Cost of Government
08-13-2009
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CNS
Americans had to work from January 1 until August 12 this year just to cover the cost of government. That is 26 days more than they had to work last year to cover the cost of government.
“Cost of Government Day” this year fell on Wednesday, August 12, according to Americans for Tax Reform, the conservative group that calculates when the day occurs. Cost of Government Day is the day in the year when the American people have earned enough income to pay the total cost of the spending and regulatory burden imposed by government at the federal, state, and local level.
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News Link • Death
Robert Novak Dead; Charles Goyette Tribute
08-18-2009
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Charles Goyette blog
On September 11, 2003, I was introduced to Robert Novak at a Goldwater Institute luncheon.
I had been discussing Novak's Valerie Plame column in which he had
described her as a "CIA operative," on The Charles Goyette Show since
its first appearance in July. I felt that the implications of Novak's
column were serious - that it had the fingerprints of the Bush
administration attempting to discredit Joe Wilson, a critic of the Iraq
war - and that it was not getting the kind of media attention it
deserved -- not unlike the Downing Street memos.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Linux Mint: Your Best Choice for a Desktop Linux OS
08-18-2009
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MakeUseOf
Linux Mint, a distribution based on Ubuntu, has won a significant share of users, and represents a better Linux experience for both advanced and first time users.
The Linux Mint Menu works pretty much like its Windows Vista and 7
counterparts, providing quick access to system locations, applications
or configuration panels.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Maricopa Co. Seeks Jail Fund Audit
08-18-2009
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KPHO TV5
How the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spends money meant for jail improvements could become a matter for state auditors. The sheriff's office spent hundreds of thousands of those dollars on parties and fine hotel accommodations during out-of-state travel, according to a newspaper investigation. The
state collects and distributes millions of dollars every year from
court fees so the 15 county sheriffs can improve their jails.County
Manager David Smith said officials are concerned that sheriff's
officials are not following proper procurement rules and other business
practices.
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News Link • Energy
TVA To Raise Base Rates In October To Make Up For Losses Due To Spill
08-18-09
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timesfreepress.com
The nation's biggest government utility plans to boost its base rates again in October. At the same time, the TVA board will consider a proposal to change its quarterly fuel cost adjustment to one that changes rates according to fuel costs every month.
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News Link • Government
Secret Service Informant Charged With Heartland, Hannaford Breaches
08-18-2009
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Wired
Albert “Segvec” Gonzalez has been indicted by a federal grand jury in
New Jersey " along with 2 unnamed Russian conspirators " on charges
of hacking into Heartland Payment Systems, the New Jersey-based card
processing company, as well as Hannaford Brothers, 7-Eleven and two
unnamed national retailers. Gonzalez, a former Secret Service informant, is already
awaiting trial over his involvement in the TJX hack.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show
08-18-2009
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NY Times
Scientists demonstrate it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold standard of proof in criminal cases.
If they had access to a DNA profile in a database, they could construct
a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from
that person.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
A Non-State Gun at Obama Event - by Butler Shaffer
08-18-2009
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Lew Rockwell
Those who are getting their diapers in a knot over the appearance of a
man with an assault rifle at an Obama event need a little perspective.
They might recall when a
contingent of Black Panthers walked into the California State
Legislative chambers with rifles and shotguns " while the legislature
was in session " to make a political statement. No shots were fired; no
one was injured; but the incident was intended to remind government
officials of the purpose of the Second Amendment. Ordinary people " not
the state’s police and military " are to have the ultimate power in a
free society.
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News Link • Healthcare
National Post editorial board: Canadian health care is no model
08-18-2009
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National Post
The last two presidents of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) have both been staunch advocates of increased private care. The incoming president, Anne Doig of Saskatoon, who will be installed this week, says our health-care system is "imploding." While not as committed to private options as her predecessors, Dr. Doig acknowledges our current universal public system is "unsustainable." She also argues we should not fear private options, but rather should implement whatever models from around the world -- be they public or private -- that produce the best results for patients. On the other hand, the physician who will replace Dr. Doig next summer, Ottawa's Dr. Jeff Turnbull, promises to be a passionate defender of the government health monopoly during his one-year term.
Overall, then, three of the four most-recent CMA presidents and presidents-elect have argued to varying degrees that private options for patients are inevitable; just one believes our curren
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News Link • Corruption
Goldman Sachs: We Are Teflon
08-18-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
Goldman Sachs told CreditSights analysts that the negative image of the firm portrayed in the press had not damaged its franchise with its institutional clients nor adversely impacted its funding levels, liquidity access or stock valuation
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News Link • Pandemic
A third of nurses will refuse to have the swine flu jab because of concerns over its safety
08-18-2009
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Daily Mail
Up to a third of nurses will say no to the swine flu jab because of concerns over its safety, a poll has found.NHS workers are first in line for the vaccine, but a survey of 1,500 nurses found many will reject it.Up to a third of nurses will say no to the swine flu jab because of concerns over its safety, a poll has found.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Krugman on Bad Actors
08-18-2009
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Mises Institute
In a recent New York Times column, Paul Krugman lamented our society's lavish rewards for bad actors. No, he wasn't criticizing the original cast of Star Trek. Rather, Krugman was bemoaning the hefty earnings that accrue to financial executives. Unfortunately, Krugman's critique is riddled with irrelevant paper citations and internal contradictions. The shocking abuses in today's financial markets would end immediately, if only the government would get out of the sector entirely.
Has Krugman Been Paying Attention?
Krugman conveniently ignores the role played by the Federal Reserve and the federal government in these shenanigans. Whether or not he endorsed the idea, Krugman was certainly aware that the Fed could engineer a housing bubble; is he now claiming that the Fed had nothing to do with it?
And yes, it is outrageous that reckless Wall Street firms have gotten hundreds of billions (and possibly trillions, if there are defaults on the loans guaranteed by the
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Obama Joker artist unmasked: A fellow Chicagoan
08-18-2009
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LA Times (h/t Karen De Coster (LRC))
When cryptic posters portraying President Obama as
the Joker from "Batman" began popping up around Los Angeles and other
cities, the question many asked was, Who is behind the image?
Was it an ultra-conservative grassroots group or a disgruntled street artist going against the grain?
Nope, it turns out, just a 20-year-old college student from Chicago.
Bored during his winter school break, Firas Alkhateeb,
a senior history major at the University of Illinois, crafted the
picture of Obama with the recognizable clown makeup using Adobe's
Photoshop software.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Unemployment Spike Compounds Foreclosure Crisis
08-18-2009
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Washington Post
The country's growing unemployment is overtaking subprime mortgages as the main driver of foreclosures, according to bankers and economists, threatening to send even higher the number of borrowers who will lose their homes and making the foreclosure crisis far more complicated to unwind.
Economists estimate that 1.8 million borrowers will lose their homes this year, up from 1.4 million last year, according to Moody's Economy.com. And the government, which has already committed billions of dollars to foreclosure-prevention efforts, has found it far more difficult to help people who have lost their paychecks than those whose mortgage payments became unaffordable because of an interest-rate increase.
"It's a much harder nut to crack, unemployment," said Mark A. Calabria, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute. "It's much easier to bash lenders than to create jobs."
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ObamaCare is Dead -- RINOcare is the Real Danger; SSI President Larry Hunter Headlines Bus Tour to C
08-18-2009
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PR Web
Today, the Social Security Institute (SSI) joined with Patients First to carry an urgent message to three critical states: ObamaCare as originally conceived is dead, and the real danger now is RINOcare ObamaCare Lite, which the Administration is trying to smuggle into law disguised as a "bipartisan compromise." The purpose of the tour is to convince critical Republican Senators in these states that the time has come to abandon unrealistic and potentially dangerous efforts to negotiate a bipartisan compromise. Instead, the Congress should put consideration of major healthcare reform on hold for at least a year until the economy improves and the supercharged political environment settles down. The only bipartisan agreement Senators should be seeking at this time is to abide by the 60-Vote rule for health reform the Senate TWICE voted (by unanimous consent and 79 yeas respectively) earlier this year to apply to the healthcare debate.
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Obama back in Phoenix 8-17-09 Yes a man had an AR 15... get over it.
08-18-2009
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YouTube
About a dozen people carrying guns, including one with a
military-style rifle, milled among protesters outside the convention
center where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Monday - the
latest incident in which protesters have openly displayed firearms near
the president.
Gun-rights advocates say they're exercising their
constitutional right to bear arms and protest, while those who argue
for more gun control say it could be a disaster waiting to happen.
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