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Date Sent: 2010-09-15
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, September 15, 2010 AM edition |
Tea party's O'Donnell defeats Castle in Delaware upset -- Are Dems abandoning healthcare?
Feds Spent $800,000 of Economic Stimulus on African Genital-Washing
Program -- EU calls France’s Gypsy expulsions ‘a disgrace’ -- With DNA
of chocolate nearly decoded by scientists, could sweeter treats await?
-- French Senate passes ban of full Muslim veils -- Can Iraq pay for
its own security? Not yet, U.S. says -- Judge unseals court records of
AZ governor's mentally ill son -- Corn Syrup Producers Want Sweeter
Name: Corn Sugar -- Building Blocks for Life on Mars Possibly Seen By
Viking Probes -- Gold Confiscation: Straws in the Wind -- Stephan
Kinsella: The Intellectual Property Racket -- Healthcare taxes on 1099:
The Senate shows it hand -- Daily Paul / Michael Nystrom Sued by
Righthaven LLC in Massive Blogger Copyright Shakedown
AZ: Register for the 2010 Freedom Summit
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Tea party's O'Donnell defeats Castle in Delaware upset
09-14-2010
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McClatchy News
Tea party favorite Christine O'Donnell, a little-known underdog, defeated veteran Delaware congressman Mike Castle for the state's Republican U.S. Senate nomination, the latest in a nationwide series of 2010 upsets by grassroots conservative candidat
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
Are Dems abandoning healthcare? - by Jane Orient, M.D.
09-14-2010
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Reuters OpEd
Nor are any of the left-wing groups that pushed for the passage of the bill doting on their healthcare baby. Its godfather, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), isn’t bragging about his authorship of “historic” legislation. He says he didn’t even “waste time” rea
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Aid
Feds Spent $800,000 of Economic Stimulus on African Genital-Washing Program
09-14-2010
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CNS News
The National Institute of Mental Health, a division of the National Institutes of Health, spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
EU calls France’s Gypsy expulsions ‘a disgrace’
09-14-2010
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AP
France’s deportations of Gypsies are "a disgrace" and probably break EU law, the European Union’s executive body declared Tuesday in a stinging rebuke that set up a showdown with French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative government.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
With DNA of chocolate nearly decoded by scientists, could sweeter treats await?
09-14-2010
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Washington Post
A group of researchers led by McLean candy company Mars is nearly done sequencing the genome of the cacao tree, which produces the seeds used to make cocoa. The information will speed up the process for creating a stronger tree that is more resistant
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • History
"Eleanor Rigby" death reveals British war heroine
09-14-2010
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Reuters
A reclusive old lady who died alone in her flat in southwest England and had no one to pay for her funeral has posthumously shot to fame after it emerged she was an intrepid World War Two secret agent.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
French Senate passes ban of full Muslim veils
09-14-2010
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AP
The French Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil on public streets and other places, a measure that effects less than 2,000 women but that has been widely seen as a symbolic defense of French values.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
Can Iraq pay for its own security? Not yet, U.S. says
09-14-2010
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McClatchy News
Iraq might be running a budget surplus but that doesn't mean it should spend it, U.S. officials said Tuesday, arguing that the Iraqi government's finances are too fragile for it to pay a greater share of its security costs. Iraq has a surplus of $52.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Judge unseals court records of AZ governor's mentally ill son
09-14-2010
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Capitol Media Services
Just days before she was scheduled to be sworn in as governor, her son's lawyer convinced Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Pendleton Gaines to seal the entire criminal record. Such action is relatively unheard of in Maricopa County.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Railway to the Sky? NASA Ponders New Launch System
09-14-2010
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Space
Imagine this: A wedge-shaped aircraft attached to a supersonic jet engine is hurtling along an electrified track, carrying a pod or spacecraft destined for orbit.
Sound farfetched? It may not be.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Corn Syrup Producers Want Sweeter Name: Corn Sugar
09-14-2010
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AP
The makers of high fructose corn syrup want to sweeten its image with a new name: corn sugar. The Corn Refiners Association applied to the federal government for permission to use the name on food labels. The group hopes a new name will ease confusio
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Building Blocks for Life on Mars Possibly Seen By Viking Probes
09-14-2010
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Space
During their missions, the two Viking landers vaporized Martian dirt and scrutinized the samples for signs of carbon-based molecules that could serve as the raw ingredients for life. At the time, all they found were chlorine compounds attributed to c
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News Link • Bioterrorism
Biotechnology " A Basic Overview
09-14-2010
A comprehensive overview of genetic engineering as applied to our food supply. Includes techniques, hazards, consequences, and tips for industry whistleblowers.
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News Link • Internet
Leonard Read
09-14-2010
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Leonard Read - via LewRockwell.com
Leonard E. Read - was the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, which was the first modern libertarian think tank in the United States.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Isaiah's Job
09-14-2010
"I have a mission to the masses. I feel that I am called to get the ear of the people. I shall devote the rest of my life to spreading my doctrine far and wide among the population. What do you think?"
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Stephan Kinsella: The Intellectual Property Racket
09-07-2010
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Stephan Kinsella
..."the IP issue nagged at me. I was never satisfied with Ayn Rand's justification for it."....
..."libertarianism's initial presumption should have been that IP is invalid, not the other way around. After all, we libertarians already realize that
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Healthcare taxes on 1099: The Senate shows it hand
09-15-10
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The PPJ Gazette
By: Lynn Swearingen
As a Wall Street Journal Opinion piece reads today:
The 1099 Insurrection
You might not have seen it reported, but the Senate will vote this morning on whether to repeal part of ObamaCare that it passed only months ago. The
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Internet
Daily Paul / Michael Nystrom Sued by Righthaven LLC in Massive Blogger Copyright Shakedown
09-14-2010
The first I heard that I was being sued came in an email from Las Vegas Sun reporter Steve Green. Green and the Las Vegas Sun have been doing a tremendous job covering the saga of Righthaven LLC, a firm that has filed 107 suits against bloggers and w
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