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Date Sent: 2013-02-25
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, February 25, 2013 AM edition |
Karzai orders US out of Afghan province -- Is Detroit a Self-Defense Haven?
Fed's Big Ag Policy is Anything But "Green" -- Are Suspects Just Too Tough? -- Maryland Cop Arrests Man for Recording Despite Previous Case Law Allowing it -- 13,753 Gov’t Requests for Google E-Mail Data in 2012, Most Without a Warrant -- Senators near a deal on background checks for most private gun sales --
Miami-Dade Prosecutor who tried Convicting me, Fired for Abusing Badge
at Strip Club -- The Most Dangerous Prevalent Virus -- Fear of U.S. Cuts Grows in States Where Aid Flows -- 11 states with more people on welfare than employed -- Libor scandal no threat to Deutsche Bank co-chief Jain -- A Bust Too Far -- United Airlines Kicks Travel Writer Off Flight for Photographing Video Monitor in Front of Him -- Fed Officials Debate Bank’s Losses Once Economy Mends -- Regulators examine if big banks evade payday loan laws: NYT -- Connecticut Cop Assaults Woman for Video Recording him -- The Myths and Realities of "The Marketplace Fairness Act" -- Purim Guide for the Perplexed 2013 -- Need Bitcoins? This ATM takes dollars and funds your account
AZ: "No Dinosaurs in Heaven" Screening (The Objectivists
host) Thurs. 28th; Arizona Breakfast Club Sat., March 2nd.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Karzai orders US out of Afghan province
02-24-2013
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BBC News
The Afghan president ordered US special forces to leave Wardak province within 2 weeks. The decision was taken due to allegations of disappearances and torture by Afghans considered to be part of US special forces
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Is Detroit a Self-Defense Haven?
02-24-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Detroit has been getting a lot of attention for its recent shootings. Not the usual criminal stuff, but the step-up in self-defense shootings as people have come to realize that the police only exist to mark the outlines of bodies with chalk.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Corporate
Fed's Big Ag Policy is Anything But "Green"
02-24-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
So why would farmers plow up such risky land? Simple: Federal policy has made it a high-reward, tiny-risk proposition. Prices for corn and soy doubled in real terms, driven up by federal corn-ethanol mandates and relentless Wall Street speculation.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Are Suspects Just Too Tough?
02-24-2013
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Simple Justice
No clue what happened or why this individual became the focus of police attention, but the visuals are pretty clear. It raises a question, however. Are all perps so darn tough that they require so many police officers to beat them at once?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Maryland Cop Arrests Man for Recording Despite Previous Case Law Allowing it
02-24-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
As we’ve seen so many times before, the Montgomery County police officer whose last name is Johnson wasn’t interested in hearing about the actual law once he announced that recording police in public was illegal.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
13,753 Gov’t Requests for Google E-Mail Data in 2012, Most Without a Warrant
02-24-2013
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CNS News
American government agencies " state, local, and federal -- made a record 13,753 requests to read emails or gather other information sent through Google’s Gmail and other services in 2012, more than half without warrants,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Gun Rights
Senators near a deal on background checks for most private gun sales
02-24-2013
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Washington Post
A bipartisan group of senators is on the verge of a deal that would expand background checks to all private firearms sales with limited exemptions, but significant disagreements remain on the issue of keeping records of private gun sales,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama's Washington Monument Syndrome
02-24-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Faced with the threat of federal government spending increasing by "only" 7% instead of some higher, pie-in-the-sky amount, the Obammunists are busy crying "BUDGET CUTS!!!!!" knowing that no one has proposed "cutting" a red cent from the federal budg
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Miami-Dade Prosecutor who tried Convicting me, Fired for Abusing Badge at Strip Club
02-24-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
Prosecutor Ari Pregen, who tried to convict me explaining to the jury that I had not acted like a real journalist when I was arrested covering the Occupy Miami eviction, was fired for repeatedly abusing the power of his badge at a local strip club.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Self-Help: Rational Living
The Most Dangerous Prevalent Virus
02-24-2013
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Christine Smith's Blog
There is a virus far more prevalent than any of the biological viruses often discussed present in society today, one that has withstood thousands of years of some men’s fight against it, and is passed from generation to generation.
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News Link • Welfare: Social
Fear of U.S. Cuts Grows in States Where Aid Flows
02-24-2013
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New York Times
States are increasingly alarmed at Washington’s latest fiscal battle, fearing that the impasse could saddle them with across-the-board spending cuts that threaten to slow their fragile recoveries or thrust them back into recession.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Social
11 states with more people on welfare than employed
02-24-2013
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[god I'm linking Michael Savage--time to retire] In fiscal year 2011, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average U.S. household below the poverty line received $168.00 a day in government support.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Libor scandal no threat to Deutsche Bank co-chief Jain
02-24-2013
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Reuters
Deutsche Bank co-chief executive Anshu Jain will likely not be sacked as a result of the investigations into the bank for manipulating Libor interbank rates, three people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
A Bust Too Far
02-24-2013
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Simple Justice
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, figured out something the Second Circuit couldn't: no rubber band can stretch a mile. The Court held Bailey's seizure a mile away from an apartment where a search warrant was executed wasn't close enough.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
United Airlines Kicks Travel Writer Off Flight for Photographing Video Monitor in Front of Him
02-24-2013
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A travel writer was kicked off a United Airlines flight for taking a picture of the video monitor in front of him, forcing him to dish out an additional $225 to find another cross Atlantic flight from Newark to Istanbul.The flight attendant who had h
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Officials Debate Bank’s Losses Once Economy Mends
02-24-2013
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New York Times
The Federal Reserve’s plans for the eventual wind-down of its economic stimulus campaign could provoke a political reaction that will make it more difficult to control inflation, a current Fed official and a former Fed governor said Friday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Regulators examine if big banks evade payday loan laws: NYT
02-24-2013
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Reuters
Federal and state regulators are examining whether some of the largest U.S. banks are helping Internet-based lenders evade state laws that cap interest rates on payday loans, The New York Times said on Sunday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Connecticut Cop Assaults Woman for Video Recording him
02-24-2013
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Photography Is Not a Crime
A cop in Connecticut assaulted a woman for video recording him on a public street after repeatedly telling her, "put the camera away." Not much information is available, but there is enough evidence to show the cop abused her rights.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Internet
The Myths and Realities of "The Marketplace Fairness Act"
02-24-2013
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Free Press Publications
The Marketplace Fairness Act is being bounced around once again, this is the proposal to allow States to require businesses to collect sales tax on all items sold via internet and catalog. The National Taxpayers Union reports several myths have cropp
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Self-Defense
Purim Guide for the Perplexed 2013
02/24/2013
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Amb. (ret.) Yoram Ettinger - Arutz Sheva
Interesting facts and tid-bits for the holiday. Happy Purim!!
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J E Andreasen
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News Link • Bitcoin
Need Bitcoins? This ATM takes dollars and funds your account
02-23-2013
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Cnet
NASHUA, N.H. -- Zach Harvey has an ambitious plan to accelerate adoption of the Internet's favorite alternative currency: installing in thousands of bars, restaurants, and grocery stores ATMs that will let you buy Bitcoins anonymously.
It's the op
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Ronald Bogner
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
Brennan’s Loose Talk on Iran Nukes
02-22-2013
Ray McGovern
MEMORANDUM FOR: Senator Dianne Feinstein, Chair, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
SUBJECT: Due Diligence on John Brennan
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News Link • WAR: About that War
China, Japan, and the US May Go to War Over These Rocks
02-22-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
Here is a link to the Google Maps Satellite view of the Senkaku Islands. Take a moment to contemplate how insignificant these scrubby rocks really are. First, there are no visible houses, bases, airstrips, factories, or really anything of value other
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
When solitude is torture - by George Will
02-22-2013
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Washington Post
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of American prison inmates are kept in protracted solitary confinement that arguably constitutes torture and probably violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishments.”
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Guerrilla surveillance camera destruction hits the U.S.
02-22-2013
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Salon
A group identifying itself as “the Barefoot Bandit Brigade” released a statement claiming to have “removed and destroyed 17 security cameras throughout the Puget Sound region,” with ostensible photo evidence published alongside
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Syria
Carnage in Syria Courtesy of US Allies
02-22-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
While the US and its Western partners pretend to be engaged in a global war against terrorism, their terrorist allies in Syria have set off another car bomb, tellingly very close to the ruling Baath party offices and the Russian embassy.
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News Link • Environment
Mission to transport 23,000 liters of bomb-grade uranium from Canada to US
02-22-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Up to 76 truckloads of radioactive waste could soon be crossing into the US from Canada, local media reveal. Relocating the weapons-grade uranium (HEU) in liquid form would be the first operation of its kind, and is set to cost $60 million.
The tr
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Gun Rights
Campus Rape Victim: ‘I Was In A Safe Zone And My Attacker Didn’t Care’
02-24-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Recently, Revealing Politics released a video of Colorado Rep. Joe Salazar arguing that college women don’t need guns to prevent rape because they can use whistles, “safe zones”, and call boxes instead. His theory behind this was that just because wo
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Justice Department joins whistleblower lawsuit against Lance Armstrong
02-22-2013
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Washington Post
The Justice Department on Friday joined a whistleblower lawsuit against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, increasing the odds Armstrong may have to forfeit millions of dollars paid out by his team sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Whistleblower files federal lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, FINRA
02-22-2013
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Reuters
A former Morgan Stanley broker who tried to blow the whistle on what he called unethical sales practices, and was later ordered to pay $1.2 million following his departure, is seeking his day in federal court.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Gov: 6 underground Hanford nuclear tanks leaking
02-22-2013
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AP
Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, federal and state officials said Friday, prompting calls for an investigation from a key senator.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
US troops in Niger to set up drone base
02-22-2013
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AP
President Barack Obama said Friday that about 100 American troops have been deployed to the African nation of Niger. Two U.S. defense officials the troops would be setting up a base for unarmed drones to conduct surveillance.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Marc Victor
Marc Victor on Jodi Arias Trial
02-22-2013
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AzCentral.com
Marc Victor on Jodi Arias Trial-
Defense Attorney Marc Victor offers perspective on prosecution's strategy on first day of cross examination
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Mike Wasdin
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
MARC FABER: The Stock Market Has Peaked
02-22-2013
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Business Insider
The stock market has "peaked out" and bonds may be on their way to a rebound, Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, said Thursday on CNBC.
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News Link • Science
Higgs Boson particle predicts end of the universe
02-21-2012
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Terrence Aym - Helium
Many physicists searched for years for an elusive particle named the "Higgs Boson" that's been nicknamed the "God particle." During 2012 scientists at the LHC announced to the world they believed they discovered the particle. Referred to as the
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS Insider: Obama’s cyber warriors & preparing for collapse (PART 2)
02/06/2013
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homelandsecurityus.com
The following information was provided to me by my DHS contact on two different occasions. Information from my first contact was previously published in two parts. I was asked to withhold the final portion of the information that was provided to me a
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News Link • Homeland Security
DHS INSIDER GIVES REPORT ON GUN CONFISCATION AND MARTIAL LAW TO INVESTIGATOR IN FACE TO FACE MEETING
01/02/2013
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alanpressreport.com
By Douglas J. Hagmann
Introduction
23 December 2012: After a lengthy, self-imposed informational black-out, my high-level DHS contact known as “Rosebud” emerged with new, non-public information about plans being discussed and prepared for imp
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
SWAT Team Raids Home With Armored Car, Kills Unarmed Occupant, and Costs Millions In Damages
02-21-2013
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Jonathan Turley
5 Connecticut towns will pay $3.5 million in a bizarre raid by a heavily armed SWAT team after a report of drugs in the house of a Norwalk man. The team hit the home with flash grenades while snipers and officers surrounded the property.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Draft
Identity Politics Über Alles - by Wendy McElroy
02-21-2013
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Future of Freedom Foundation
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) is backing a bill to reinstate the draft, but he wants to include women this time. Gender and liberal feminists seem to have arrived at the same conclusion: an endorsement of drafting women.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Washington Appeals Court Approves Blocking Of Anti-Camera Initiatives
02-21-2013
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The Newspaper
Washington state's second highest court believes the public should never be allowed to vote on red light or speed cameras. The Court of Appeals ruled a judge could decide on his own which issues should be presented to voters on a ballot.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Brennan confirmation leads Obama to bargain on Benghazi instead of disclosing on drones
02-21-2013
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Rawstory
To get his pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) through the Senate, President Barack Obama has opted to bargain with Republicans on Benghazi instead of disclosing secret drone warfare memos to members of his own party, The New York Time
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