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Date Sent: 2010-01-21
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
Coakley Concedes MA Senate Race in Record Time! -- TSA nominee withdraws amid 'political agenda'
Federal judge strikes down Ariz. matching funds -- Election Experts Issue 'Orange Alert' for Massachusetts Special Election -- Chavez: US weapon test caused Haiti earthquake -- The Rule of Law Has Been Lost - By Paul Craig Roberts -- Why is the FBI Still Hiding Information about the Assassination of Martin Luther King? -- Hurting People For a Living - by Will Grigg -- IRS to expand audits as cash runs low
-- 30 states plan to opt out of Obamacare -- NH Cop Refusing to Arrest
Medical Cannabis Users! -- CNN Video: Ron Paul on the State of the
Union and 2012 -- Former Monsanto Exec. Appointed to F.D.A. covering foods! -- The Science Behind the Cell Phone Cancer Scare -- New Ga Law making you register your Ammo -- Monsanto GM Corn Causing Organ Failure in Rats -- 4 Reasons Why Bernanke Will Refuse to Fight Inflation -- Google attack puts spotlight on China's "red" hackers -- Martin Luther King Assassinated by the CIA -- Sheriff Joe's Enabler -- Tea Party Nation excludes CFL, Birchers from National Tea Party?
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Coakley Concedes MA Senate Race in Record Time!
01-20-2010
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http://www.bradblog.com
Ensuring that nobody's vote would actually be counted, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in MA injures several supporters in her race for the phone
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Drew
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
TSA nominee withdraws amid 'political agenda'
01-20-2010
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AP
President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Transportation Security Administration withdrew his name Wednesday, a blow to an administration trying to explain how a man could attempt to blow up a commercial airliner on Christmas Day.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Humor
Hollow Point Bullets Recalled That Don't Explode In Targets
01-20-2010
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The Onion - YouTube
Steel Hawk Inc. is offering a full refund to customers who bought the non-flesh-shredding bullets.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
China teen seen as hero for killing local official
01-20-2010
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AP
Few of his fellow villagers mourned the local Communist Party official many say made their lives hell by seizing land, extorting money and bullying people for years.
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Federal judge strikes down Ariz. matching funds
01-20-2010
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AzCentral.com
Arizona's system of providing extra campaign cash to publicly funded candidates who are outspent by privately funded opponents or targeted by independent groups was declared unconstitutional Wednesday by a federal judge.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Misinformation
Ominous Signs Are Aligned: Not A Particularly Good Sign
01-20-2010
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robert singer
Recall the baffling news events from November 2009?
* Is Doomsday Coming? Perhaps, but Not in 2012 [1]
* Survey: Nearly half of adults don’t plan to get H1N1 vaccine
* Fort Hood attack likely Islamist terrorism, Cornyn and Lieberman
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War Onyou
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Election Experts Issue 'Orange Alert' for Massachusetts Special Election
01-20-2010
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www.prnewswire.com
Representatives of nonpartisan election watchdog groups around the nation issued a last-minute 'orange alert,' warning that tomorrow's Massachusetts special election to elect a successor to the late Senator Ted Kennedy is ripe for manipulation.
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Drew
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Mixed welcome for US Troops in Haiti
01-20-2010
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CNN
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2010/0120/bs.penhaul.haiti.us.troops.cnn?eref=widgetmpvideo
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Reported by:
Chris Wagner
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Rule of Law Has Been Lost - By Paul Craig Roberts
01-20-2010
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Information Clearing House
What is the greatest human achievement? Many would answer in terms of some architectural or engineering feat: The Great Pyramids, skyscrapers, a bridge span, or sending men to the moon. Others might say the subduing of some deadly disease or Einstein
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Conspiracies
Why is the FBI Still Hiding Information about the Assassination of Martin Luther King?
01-20-2010
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AllGov
The FBI continues to keep secret hundreds of thousands of pages of documents stemming from the Civil Rights Era, including information related to the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Records not released include details about a Ku Klu
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Hurting People For a Living - by Will Grigg
01-20-2010
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Pro Liberate
Any of us can experience state-inflicted violence at any time as a punishment for doing literally nothing, or by refusing to be bound by "contracts" arranged by other people in transactions to which he was not a party. A infuriating illustration of t
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
DC Cops Can Arrest You for Carrying More Than Two Condoms
01-20-2010
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La Figa
Washington DC police can arrest a woman in any area they've declared a prostitution free zone. And in a backasswards move to curb prostitution, carrying more than two condoms is considered proof of intention to prostitute.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
USA’S Haitian Earthquake Relief Efforts: AID or Benevolently-disguised BETRAYAL?
01-20-2010
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SMCC
Here is the greatest brainwash of all: Why complain of the damaged roads and disabled airport when helicopters are capable of air-dropping food, water, medicines and fuel, and we have had that capability all along?
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS to expand audits as cash runs low
01-20-2010
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MSNBC
The Internal Revenue Service, trying to recoup some of the estimated $14 billion that companies underpay in employer taxes each year, plans to wage a 3-year campaign to audit 6,000 businesses. The cash-strapped government, which separately said it wa
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • States' Rights
30 states plan to opt out of Obamacare
01-20-2010
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Washington Times
Congress can pass a federal health care bill and President Obama can sign it, but that doesn't mean the states plan to abide by it.
Lawmakers in 30 states are pressing for constitutional amendments to exempt individuals from the requirement to pur
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • General Opinion
Just a Quick Thought on the Senatorial Election in Massachusetts
01-20-2010
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thinkactlive's blog
The message this election sends is not that voters prefer Republicans over Democrats.
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Anita Barnett
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Imagine There's No Healthcare
01-20-2010
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JustCauseIt.com
Imagine there's no healthcare, it's easy if you try. Now, imagine there's no pill to take. That might be more of a stretch of the imagination. According to a recent MSNBC article, it is estimated that 130 million Americans consume about 3.5 billion p
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • World News
Haitian’s Are No Fans of Clinton or Bush
01-20-2010
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Buffalohair Gazette International
Though Bill Clinton arrived with a plane full of supplies his history with the Haitian people has been marginal at best. George W. Bush scored even lower in the popularity scale. Bill’s romance with hopelessly corrupt Haitian president Jean Bertrand
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Carlos Guevara
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
NH Cop Refusing to Arrest Medical Cannabis Users!
01-20-2010
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FreeKeene
From Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Member Brad Jardis, a 10+ year veteran of the NH police force (and probably the most courageous cop I’ve ever known): I have been cleared for duty and will be reporting back shortly. I have been re-reading the
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
First Solar Powered Plane Makes Debut
01-20-2010
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HappyNews.com
CNN's Cal Perry takes a look at the world's first solar-powered plane and explains its loose connection to "Star Trek."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Positive News
Accidental Entrepreneurs on the Rise
01-20-2010
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HappyNews.com
Andy Owen never thought he’d go into business for himself.
“I was dragged in kicking and screaming,” he said. “I like working for other people.”
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Defending Archimedes
Meet Marko, the 9-year-old systems engineer
01-20-2010
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cNet
9-year-old Marko Calasan from Macedonia, is more than just a kid who's into computers. At age 6, he got his first systems administrator credential from Microsoft and, last month, he became the youngest Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
CNN Video: Ron Paul on the State of the Union and 2012 - 1/19/10
01-20-2010
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Daily Paul
Texas Rep. Ron Paul talks about Obama's first year, where he thinks the country is headed and his plans for 2012
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Food
Former Monsanto Exec. Appointed to F.D.A. covering foods!
01-20-2010
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WeAreGreen.tv
During his former stint in the FDA during the Clinton admin. he wrote the rules allowing recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone into our children's milk. Which is perhaps why his bio seems to have forgotten his decade-plus of Monsanto work.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Misinformation
Time for next eco-scare already?! As Global Warming Movement Collapses, Activists Already ‘Test-Mark
01-20-2010
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PrisonPlanet.com
As man-made global warming fears enter the ashbin of history, what will environmentalists, UN activists and politicians do to fill the void of a failed eco-scare?
Well, wonder no more…
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
The Science Behind the Cell Phone Cancer Scare
01-20-2010
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LiveScience.com
The answer lies in the fear of the unknown. Never in the history of humankind have we drenched ourselves so soddenly in electromagnetic radiation.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
New Ga Law making you register your Ammo also Ga open carry laws Update
1-19-10
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www.LCLReport.com
We Talk to Diana Williams who is leading the charge against this awful bill. We also get more information about the expanded carry bill being proposed in Georgia. We interview the fine fellas from http://www.GeorgiaCarry.org and Valerie Sargent Meyer
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Tarrin Lupo
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News Link • Food
Monsanto GM Corn Causing Organ Failure in Rats Study: Everything You Need to Know
01-20-2010
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Huffington Post
The finding that corn produced by one of the world's agricultural giants could cause organ failure has been met with obvious concern by food activists and consumers alike
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Supreme Court rules jury selection must be open to the public
01-20-2010
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ChristianScienceMonitor.com
The Supreme Court justices ruled Tuesday, 7 to 2, that jury selection is included in a defendant's right to a public trial.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
Iraq Political Fissures Widen as March Vote Nears
01-20-2010
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Dahr Jamail
With all attention on Afghanistan as violence and US troop commitment there surges, the occupation in Iraq has received less attention in recent months than it has since the invasion of Iraq took place in March 2003.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • China
The Long and Short of Investing in China
01-20-2010
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Daily Reckoning
Oh happy days are here again. Obama is going to get our money back from the banks. Jeffrey Sachs is telling Haiti how it can get its economy back in order (with other people’s money, naturally). And Thomas Friedman is offering investment advice.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
4 Reasons Why Bernanke Will Refuse to Fight Inflation
01-20-2010
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Daily Reckoning
With recent news of inflation rising in Australia we turn an eye to the same eventuality at home in the US. Despite overwhelming growth in the monetary base, little inflation has yet to appear in government measures. Not that we’re one to trust thos
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Google attack puts spotlight on China's "red" hackers
01-20-2010
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Reuters
Founded in 2001, it was involved in cyber-warfare with US hackers over the Hainan spy plane incident in 2001 and last week attacked Iranian websites in retaliation for the Iranian Cyber Army's temporary takeover of Chinese search engine Baidu.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Witness: Former Ill. cop threatened to kill wife
01-20-2010
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AP
Former police officer Drew Peterson threw his ex-wife to the floor one night, grabbed her throat and told her he "could kill her there and then," a one-time co-worker of the woman testified at a hearing to determine what evidence can be admitted in P
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
“Race To The Top” is fixed: just say No!
01-20-2010
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Derek Sheriff
The Obama administration’s “Race To The Top” (RTTT) stimulus grant program should really be called the “Race to Nationalize Education”. Like the Bush administration’s “No Child Left Behind” program, it is nothing but another measure designed to enabl
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Michael Boldin
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News Link • Food
Michelle Obama Tackles Children's Diets
01-20-2009
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arclein
If the First Lady plans to confront the issue in a serious way, she’ll soon be knocking heads with those very companies. She has already gotten a taste of the coming pushback, just by planting an organic garden.
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
High Climate Comedy
01-20-2009
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arclein
The report was based on an interview with a little-known Indian scientist who has since said his views were “speculation” and not backed up by research.
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
PetroBank Ramps up THAI
01-20-2009
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arclein
We have now revised our maximum target production for the Conklin pilot to 1500 bopd and we anticipate reaching this production level in mid 2010.
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robert klein
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Martin Luther King Assassinated by the CIA (video)
01-20-2010
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BrasscheckTV
Martin Luther King, JFK, RFK and Malcolm X were murdered by an conspiracy involving the CIA, the US military and the Mafia under a four year reign of LBJ. An assassination COINTELPRO-like program? Jim Di Eugenio interviewed
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Sheriff Joe's Enabler
01-20-2010
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Reason Magazine
"Andy Thomas has a reckless streak to him," says Clint Bolick, director of constitutional studies for the Goldwater Institute, Arizona's largest right-leaning think tank. "He's willing to use law enforcement tools in ways that are pretty blatant abus
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Terry Bressi
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