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Date Sent: 2013-08-09
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Friday, August 9, 2013 |
One In 25 Americans Was Arrested In 2011 -- Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down
Thou Shalt Not Praise His Name: Rep. Lewis Praises Snowden . . . Then Quickly Retracts Praise -- Dylan Ratigan (rightfully) loses it on air -- Shipwreck Throws Man, Wife and Dog Into Sea . . . Man Rescues Dog And Then Wife -- Obama's abuse of the Espionage Act is modern-day McCarthyism -- Federal judge: Bitcoin, “a currency,” can be regulated under American law -- Engineering Potential Disaster in Syria -- Temper Tantrum Politics -- Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet -- Voluntaryism Revisited -- TSA's VIPR could be screening you without you knowing it --
SURPRISE! IRS ASSAULT ON CHURCHES STARTED WITH HOLDER -- Egypt Cannot
Possibly Use All Of Its US-Made Tanks 'Short Of An Alien Invasion' -- Video of Cop Slapping 10-Year-Old Boy Stirs Outrage --
Bill Bonner for Fed Chairman! -- Who’s too crazy to own a gun? --
Calling All California Lawyers (and Others Who Want to Help Abused
Homeowners)! -- Ugly, Tailing 30 Year Auction Prices With Lowest Bid-To-Cover Since August 2011... --
Troika Lenders Demand Confiscation Of Homes In "Bastion Of Stability"
Greece -- Not being a prepper is negligent,...just ask these neighbors.
-- 95 year old WWII veteran killed after being tased and shot by police -- Bill Gates Disses Tech Billionaires Spending Their Free Time On Space Rockets: --
AZ: Pool party at the Hancock's - Saturday August 10th, 2013 - 2
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
One In 25 Americans Was Arrested In 2011
08-08-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
According to the FBI, in 2011 there were 3991.1 arrests for every 100,000 people living in America. That means over the course of a single year, one in 25 Americans was arrested.
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News Link • Internet
Snowden’s Email Provider Shuts Down
08-08-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on"the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Pool party at the Hancock's - Saturday August 10th, 2013 - 2 p.m. til ???
08-01-2013
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www.meetup.com/ArizonaLibertyR3VOLUTION
The pool is about 88 degrees and is pretty refreshing right now, so we hope that you can make it to the party - may be the last one of the summer for us. Bring your bathing suits and towels (and sunscreen). This is a kid-friendly party so if you brin
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Thou Shalt Not Praise His Name: Rep. Lewis Praises Snowden . . . Then Quickly Retracts Praise
08-09-2013
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Jonathan Turley
The degree of pressure on politicians from the White House and Democratic leadership in the Snowden controversy was in full and embarrassing view when Rep. John Lewis was back from an interview he gave to the Guardian praising Snowden.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Dylan Ratigan (rightfully) loses it on air
08-09-2013
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youtube
DYLAN'S LAST SHOW on MSNBC will be on Friday June 22, 2012 at 4PM! Dylan says his next move will be to put what he's been preaching into action; "to show rather than to tell" in his words. I don't know what form this will take, but in the meantime yo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Shipwreck Throws Man, Wife and Dog Into Sea . . . Man Rescues Dog And Then Wife
08-09-2013
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Jonathan Turley
The only thing more surprising that the survival of Graham and Sheryl Anley in their shipwreck this week in South Africa is the survival of their marriage.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Obama's abuse of the Espionage Act is modern-day McCarthyism
08-09-2013
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The Guardian
The conviction of Bradley Manning under the 1917 Espionage Act, and the US Justice Department's decision to file espionage charges against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden under the same act, are yet further examples of Obama's
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News Link • Bitcoin
Federal judge: Bitcoin, “a currency,” can be regulated under American law
08-09-2013
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ars technica
The case revolves around Bitcoin Savings and Trust, a virtual Bitcoin-based hedge fund suspected of being a scam. BTCST shut down in August 2012, and the Securities and Exchange Commission formally charged founder Trendon Shavers
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News Link • Internet
Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet
08-08-2013
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Responding to allegations the video-chat service Skype -- owned by Microsoft -- was changing its protocols to make it possible for the government to eavesdrop on users, Corporate Vice President Mark Gillett denied it. Turns out that wasn't quite true
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economics: Agorism
Voluntaryism Revisited
08-08-2013
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by Wendy McElroy
"As Voluntaryists, we reject the Libertarian Party on the same level and for the same reason we reject any other political party..."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation
TSA's VIPR could be screening you without you knowing it
08-08-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
[4409 at 1:25] They are a special brand of the TSA, called "VIPR."
It stands for "Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response." VIPR has been around since 2005, and they are meant to boost security by being a deterrent, and detecting security risk
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entrepreneurship
Elon Musk And Richard Branson Give Their Best Advice To Entrepreneurs
08-08-2013
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Max Nisen and Alexandra Mondalek
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Virgin Chairman Sir Richard Branson, two of the tech world's most lauded entrepreneurs, just gave their best advice on how to start a company during a Google + hangout this afternoon.
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News Link • Housing
This Guy Turned A Dumpster Into His Dream Brooklyn Getaway
08-08-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Mandi Woodruff
Making the most out of a minuscule living space is something of a rite of passage in New York City.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Retired NASA Director Says We Could Totally Build An 'Elysium-Style' Space Station
08-08-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Miriam Kramer
In the new movie "Elysium," Earth is beyond repair, and the rich and powerful have decided to leave it behind.
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt Cannot Possibly Use All Of Its US-Made Tanks 'Short Of An Alien Invasion'
08-08-2013
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
The real reason why America sends so much military equipment to Egypt may have more to do with American industry than geopolitical demand.
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News Link • Police Accountability Report
Video of Cop Slapping 10-Year-Old Boy Stirs Outrage
08-08-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
A YouTube video of a police officer in Oregon slapping a 10-year-old boy as he removed the child from the care of his mother has stirred outrage.
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News Link • Anthropology
Saki Mafundikwa: Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets
08-08-2013
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http://www.ted.com,
From simple alphabets to secret symbolic languages, graphic designer Saki Mafundikwa celebrates the many forms of written communication across the continent of Africa.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Two young scientists break down plastics with bacteria
08-08-2013
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http://www.ted.com
Once it's created, plastic (almost) never dies. While in 12th grade Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao went in search of a new bacteria to biodegrade plastic -- specifically by breaking down phthalates, a harmful plasticizer.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bill Bonner for Fed Chairman!
08-08-2013
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http://www.economicpolicyjournal.comBy Bill Bonner
According to the press accounts, the race to replace Ben Bernanke is centered on two people " Janet Yellen and Larry Summers " with Summers on the inside track.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Who’s too crazy to own a gun?
08-08-2013
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http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com
Yes, I know those crying for ever more rigorous “background checks” and other permits and fees say making things harder for law-abiding gun owners is not their goal.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Calling All California Lawyers (and Others Who Want to Help Abused Homeowners)!
08-08-2013
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http://www.nakedcapitalism.com
Calling All California Lawyers (and Others Who Want to Help Abused Homeowners)! Please Ask California Court of Appeal to Publish an Important Pro-Borrower Chain of Title Ruling
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ugly, Tailing 30 Year Auction Prices With Lowest Bid-To-Cover Since August 2011...
08-08-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Ugly, Tailing 30 Year Auction Prices With Lowest Bid-To-Cover Since August 2011 US Rating Downgrade
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News Link • Economy - International
Troika Lenders Demand Confiscation Of Homes In "Bastion Of Stability" Greece
08-08-2013
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http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
As the Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, visits the US to promote his nation as a "bastion of stability" in the eastern Mediterranean, things appear to be going from worst to worster in his nation.
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News Link • Prepping
Not being a prepper is negligent,...just ask these neighbors.
08-08-2013
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The Onion
Negligent Father Failing To Build A Castle To Protect Family From Apocalypse
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
95 year old WWII veteran killed after being tased and shot by police
08-08-2013
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American Legion's Burn Pit
When John Wrana was a young man, fit and strong and fighting in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps, did he ever think he'd end this way?
Just a few weeks shy of his 96th birthday, in need of a walker to move about, cops coming through the
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • General Opinion
Bill Gates Disses Tech Billionaires Spending Their Free Time On Space Rockets:
08-08-2013
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Business Insider
A lot of successful tech entrepreneurs are fascinated by space exploration and rockets.
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Watch A Panhandler's Surprising Speech That Ended With Cheers And Chest Bumps
08-08-2013
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Business Insider
Subway riders approach their daily commutes prepared to be serenaded by mariachi bands or a capella groups, dodge kicks to face by break dancers, and listen to stories from homeless people asking for some spare change.
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News Link • Gun Rights
How and Why Adam Kokesh was Framed
08-08-2013
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www.prisonplanet.com
WeAreChange goes to the home of activist and YouTube host Adam Kokesh to find out what happened on the night he was raided and arrested.
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News Link • Corruption
Judge who accepted private-prison bribes to send black kids to jail sentenced to 28 years
08-07-2013
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boingboing.net
In 2009, I wrote about Judge Mark A. Ciavarella, one of two Pennsylvania judges who was paid bribes by a private prison contractor to send black children to prison and keep the for-profit prisons full.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Phoenix Police Illegally Detain Arizona Open Carry Supporter
08-07-2013
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livingnotsurviving.com
Phoenix Police illegally detained an Arizona open carry supporter who because of his knowledge and experience with this generation’s version of police, was recording the detainment with a video camera.
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News Link • Political Parties
Rubio Votes With Reid And Obama, Against The American People
08-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Today, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) stood with President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and against the rule of law to continue sending foreign aid to Egypt.
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News Link • Economy - International
Spot The Difference
08-07-2013
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zerohedge.com
One of these charts represents the equity market of an over-levered, recovery-hoping, money-printing nation that shows no signs of removing its training-wheels-efforts to devalue its currency and reflate its economy... the other is Japan.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Cancels Meeting With Putin Due To Snowden Asylum Grant
08-07-2013
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zerohedge.com
There were some rumors that the "most transparent administration in history" would not get bent all out of joint due to Russia's favorable treatment of NSA whistleblower Snowden.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Springtime For Summers: Larry's "Fed Chairman" Odds Surge, Overtake Yellen
08-07-2013
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zerohedge.com
Two weeks ago, Larry Summers was a long-shot 4/1 odds of becoming the next Fed Chair while Janet Yellen (at 1/3) was a 75% probable shoe-in.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
As Kenyan Airport Burns, Keynesians Predict Economic Boost
08-07-2013
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zerohedge.com
If destruction is nothing but a boost to the economy as the global Keynesian brotherhood of voodoo priests believes, than Kenyan (not to be confused with Keynesian of course) GDP is about to go vertical.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Amusing: Judge halts trial in Fort Hood shooting rampage
08-07-2013
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AP
[standby attorney] Poppe said Hasan was acting as his own attorney in a way that, "we believe is repugnant to defense counsel and contrary to our professional obligations." Hasan repeatedly asked the judge to allow him to explain why
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News Link • Imperialism
US officials cite deadly drone strike in Yemen to defend NSA spying operations
08-07-2013
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Thomas Gaist
The US is known to have bombarded targets in Yemen with twelve missile strikes so far this year, following a total of forty strikes in 2012. At least 24 children under the age of 18 have been killed by US strikes against Yemen.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama scraps planned Putin summit after Snowden leaks
08-07-2013
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Yahoo! News blog
President Barack Obama has decided to cancel a planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the aftermath of Moscow’s decision to grant asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
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News Link • TERRORISM
Al-Qaida ‘Legion of Doom’ conference call triggered alert
08-07-2013
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Yahoo! News blog
That worldwide terrorism alert? Those sweeping U.S. embassy closures? All because American intelligence intercepted a " get this " "conference call" led by al-Qaida al-Zawahiri that included al-Qaida affiliate leaders around the world.
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News Link • TERRORISM
'I am the shooter,' Nidal Hasan tells Fort Hood court-martial
08-07-2013
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CNN
Hasan, who is representing himself, admitted to being the shooter and carrying out the attacks on behalf of the mujahideen, or holy warriors.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Escambia County deputies shoot two dogs
08-07-2013
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Pensacola News Journal
In yet another case in two weeks of shooting first and asking questions later, Escambia County Sheriff's Office deputies broke into a couple's home and shot their two dogs, killing one.
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Bob Ross
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News Link • Movies
Anti-GMO 'Santo' movie appears to have been the victim of an elaborate disinfo campaign
08-07-2013
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naturalnews.com
A Natural News investigation has been conducted into the anti-Monsanto movie named "Santo," which has garnered an enormous amount of attention over the past few weeks.
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News Link • Energy
California's Fracking Regulatory Bill: Less Than Zero
08-07-2013
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Common Dreams
A year after buying his dream home in Los Angeles, Gary Gless started falling down and breaking bones.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Latin America on Its Way to Legalizing Drugs, Experts Say
08-07-2013
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laht.com
Latin America is headed towards the decriminalization of drug possession for personal consumption, according to experts and officials who took part in a regional conference in Buenos Aires.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Last Chance for Liberty (by Matt Papke)
08-07-2013
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Free Tempe
2014 is coming quickly, I encourage each and every one of you to run for some office: school board, corporation commission, or development commission, there are so many offices to chose from. If not you, then consider who will? More of the same stat
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
No Horses, But Detroit Water Department Employs 'Horseshoer'
08-07-2013
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Michigan Capitol Confidential
Yet even with a department so bloated that it has a horseshoer and no horses, the local union president said it is "not possible" to eliminate positions.
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News Link • Housing
Why Are Your Children Buying Houses for Ben Bernanke?
08-07-2013
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FreemansPerspective.Com
Every now and then I like to look at government numbers and see what they really mean. I ran into this batch several months ago but hadn’t had time to play with them till now.
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Opinion • General Opinion
In a tattoo state of mind
08-07-2013
Menckens Ghost
Is there a deeper meaning to today’s tattoo trend? Are tattoos an example of how easy it is to get Americans to emulate what they see on TV, in movies, and in professional sports? Are tattoos a reflection of diminished economic opportunities or of s
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