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Date Sent: 2013-02-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, February 12, 2013 AM edition |
9/11 defendant’s attorney says U.S. is listening in on client conversations
New York judge grants class-action status to "stop and frisk" suit -- Judge overturns Arizona law barring Planned Parenthood funding -- SKorea believes NKorea conducted third atomic test -- Australia, Germany, Poland: Traffic Cameras Under Fire -- Largest
Red Light Camera Program In World Faces Widened Corruption Probe -- City hikes taxes on Sandy-hit houses -- Gas prices hit a historic high: What's driving them up? -- Pope Resigns in Historic Move -- US' Betrayal of Truth | Interview with Whistleblower Thomas Drake --
DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS -- Surprise investigations aimed at home schoolers -- ‘Gay’ attack on Scouts: Human rights has become the sword -- NASA: Asteroid to Pass Very Near Earth -- A Presidential Decision
That Could Change the World: The Strategic Importance of Keystone XL
-- Genetically Engineered Meat, Coming Soon to a Supermarket Near
You -- NY Fracking Scandal: Seven Groups Demand Conflict of Interest
Investigation of Cuomo Administration -- Could a New Technology Developed
for Space End the Pipeline Debate? Interview with Adrian Banica -- Algorithm
learns how to revive lost languages -- 6 Ways Benedict XVI Embraced
The Future During His Papacy -- Mohammed's Conversion on the
Road to Mecca
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
9/11 defendant’s attorney says U.S. is listening in on client conversations
02-11-2013
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Washington Post
A defense lawyer at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said there is “overwhelming circumstantial evidence” the US government is listening to privileged communications between high-value 9-11 detainees and their attorneys.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Absurdity on Patrol
02-11-2013
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Lew Rockwell blog
If someone had murdered 3 people, and the killer could not be located, a token report might appear on a TV newscast. But the killing of members of the police force - particularly carried out by a former cop - sends the entire system to DEFCON 1
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
New York judge grants class-action status to "stop and frisk" suit
02-11-2013
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Reuters
A federal judge on Monday granted class-action status to a lawsuit seeking to stop the New York Police Department from conducting some "stop and frisk" searches of people outside certain residential buildings in the city's Bronx borough.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Welfare: Corporate
Judge overturns Arizona law barring Planned Parenthood funding
02-11-2013
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Reuters
A federal judge has overturned an Arizona law that sought to block funding through the state for Planned Parenthood's healthcare clinics because the group also performs abortions.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
SKorea believes NKorea conducted third atomic test
02-11-2013
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AP
North Korea apparently conducted a widely anticipated nuclear test Tuesday, strongly indicated by an ‘‘explosion-like’’ earthquake that monitoring agencies around the globe said appeared to be unnatural.
There was no confirmation from Pyongyang th
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Australia, Germany, Poland: Traffic Cameras Under Fire
02-11-2013
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The Newspaper
Australians are spitting on the drivers of photo radar vehicles. Police reported 6 incidents in the past month where beer cans were tossed at speed camera van drivers, or cars swerved toward the photo ticketing vehicle in a threatening way.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Camera Fraud
Largest Red Light Camera Program In World Faces Widened Corruption Probe
02-11-2013
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The Newspaper
The Australian Securities Exchange allowed trading to resume on Redflex stock this morning. On Thursday, the photo enforcement firm had requested a trading halt to prevent a massive sell-off as news leaked of a widening corruption probe in Chicago, I
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Local
City hikes taxes on Sandy-hit houses
02-11-2013
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http://www.nypost.com
“We just sustained one of the worst national disasters in our nation’s history, and now the city is delusional, claiming our property values went up.”
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
Gas prices hit a historic high: What's driving them up?
02-11-2013
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http://www.csmonitor.com
Gas prices hit a national average of $3.59 Monday " the highest ever for a Feb. 11. Several factors will continue to drive up costs, but not to last year's highs, analysts say.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
US' Betrayal of Truth | Interview with Whistleblower Thomas Drake
02-11-2013
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Russia Today
Abby Martin sits down with former NSA whistleblower, Thomas Drake, about his personal story as a whistleblower and what he describes as a 'total betrayal' by part of the government.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Bill of Rights
DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS
02-11-2013
the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures " does not apply along the border. By the way, the government contends the Fourth-Amendment-Free Zone stretches 100 miles inland from the nation's actual border."
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Private Secular Schools and Home School
Surprise investigations aimed at home schoolers
02-11-2013
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WND
In an ultimate power grab, Connecticut is trying to require investigations of children via a "confidential behavioral health assessment" of every public school student in grades 6, 8, 10 and 12, and every homeschool student at ages 12, 14 and 17
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
‘Gay’ attack on Scouts: Human rights has become the sword
02-07-2013
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Bradlee Dean, of You Can Run International
If the Boy Scouts succumb to pressure groups on the gay issue, they will be invaded by homosexual predators, following Canada's experience. See also a shocking video on sex ed in public schools.
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Kevin Banet
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
NASA: Asteroid to Pass Very Near Earth
02-11-2013
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youtube
Astronomers around the world are preparing for a record-breaking asteroid flyby February 15. Measuring 45 meters in diameter and weighing an estimated 130,000 metric tons, Asteroid 2012 DA14 is considered small by scientists who track the solar syste
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
A Presidential Decision That Could Change the World: The Strategic Importance of Keystone XL
02-11-2013
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Common Dreams
Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually determines how the world turns.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Food
Genetically Engineered Meat, Coming Soon to a Supermarket Near You
02-11-2013
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Common Dreams
If you’re one of the 91 percent of Americans who opposes genetically engineered (GE) meat, you may have limited time to act: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed approval of the first-ever GE animal, called “AquAdvantage Salmon.”
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Corruption
NY Fracking Scandal: Seven Groups Demand Conflict of Interest Investigation of Cuomo Administration
02-11-2013
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Common Dreams
New York could soon become the newest state in the union to allow hydraulic fracturing (fracking), the controversial technique used to enable shale oil and gas extraction.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Trading places with us makes robots better teammates
02-11-2013
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newscientist.com
I am not a natural team player: I hate to have to rely on other people performing well but, equally, I am devastated if I fear I have let them down. That makes working with me a tough brief for my latest teammate, Abbie, a bright orange, industrial r
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Climate Change
Arctic sunshine cranks up threat from greenhouse gases
02-11-2013
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newscientist.com
IT'S a solar double whammy. Not only does sunlight melt Arctic ice, but it also speeds up the conversion of frozen organic matter into carbon dioxide.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Ayahuasca Therapy With Graham Hancock
02-11-2013
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arclein
These days I rarely go into an Ayahuasca session without some fear and this has much to do with a terrifying session on pure (smoked) DMT that I had in the United States in 2011 (described here:http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/HancockG3.php). The A
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Uping the Steaks
02-11-2013
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arclein
Black Earth is an abattoir, an old-fashioned butchery containing everything from a slaughterhouse to a retail store. Its sales have doubled in four out of the last five years. Durand expects them to jump again this year, from $6 million to $10 millio
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
Urban Energy Use Impacts Global Climate
02-11-2013
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arclein
Though the amount of human-generated energy is a small portion of that transported by nature, it is highly concentrated in urban areas.
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robert klein
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Mohammed's Conversion on the Road to Mecca
02-11-2013
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arclein
The Stockholm syndrome is a severe form of a psychological phenomenon known as dissociation. It is the mind's survival mechanism, the way trauma victims convince themselves that "this isn't happening". Mohammed discovered it by accident.
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robert klein
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Opinion • Obama Administration
Ray McGovern: My Take
John Brennan’s Tenet-Like Testimony
02-10-2013
Ray McGovern
Though false intelligence was at the center of the disastrous Iraq War, CIA Director-to-be John Brennan played fast and loose on Iran’s nuclear program in his Senate testimony, a troubling sign he might undermine the principle of honest analysis just
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News Link • Obama Administration
‘Obama Has Put In Place’ Secret Database With ‘Everything On Everyone’
02-10-2013
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http://www.westernjournalism.com, By Daniel Noe
“The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life,” Representative Maxine Waters told Roland Martin on Monday.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Chemtrails
Well, Well Evergreen Aviation Admits to (chemtrail) Weather Modification Contract w/USAF
02-09-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Evergreen Aviation, one of the worlds largest private aviation companies admits to weather modification service. On their own website in the Markets section for their New Super Tanker they state Weather modification among other interesting services.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Drones Across America
2-10-2013
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Free Press Publications
Senator Lindsey Graham recently told reporters today that his colleagues in Congress need to get behind Obama's targeted killing program, and protect the president from "libertarians and the left." And a leaked Department Of Justice white paper ex
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Darryl W. Perry
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
In the near future, your phone is your doctor
02-10-2013
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NBC News
Why pay hundreds of dollars for EKGs, ultrasounds, blood tests, heart monitoring and other things when there's an app for that? What if your phone could tell you were about to have a heart attack?
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • Gun Rights
FULL Reality Check Special: Gun Control HD
02-10-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
(Video) Full length video from Ben Swann with another edition of Reality Report. This report covers the true statistics regarding gun and other violence, our individual rights and the founders meaning and reason for the second amendment. Also discus
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Chris Menke
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police seeking Dorner opened fire in a second case of mistaken identity
02-10-2013
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Los Angeles Times
David Perdue was on his way to surf before work when police flagged him down. They asked who he was and where he was headed, then sent him on his way. Seconds later, a police cruiser slammed into his pickup and officers opened fire
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Currencies
This Is It! China Surpasses U.S. As Number One Global Trading Power
02-10-2013
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http://www.activistpost.com, Brandon Smith
Back in 2008, at the onset of the derivatives and credit collapse, I wrote several economic editorials discussing what I saw as the single most vital trend in the global fiscal system, and how it would cause a disastrous upheaval that would leave the
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
10 Questions The Media Refuses To Ask Regarding Sandy Hook
02-10-2013
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http://govtslaves.info, Jon Rappoport
Slashing through the bland authoritative front the media have presented, people want to know more about the Sandy Hook massacre.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Arkansas Law Jails Tenants Who Don’t Pay Their Rent
02-10-2013
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http://govtslaves.info, David Ferguson
Under a state law in Arkansas, renters can be imprisoned for failing to pay their rent.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
HR 390: FEMA Camp Bill Reintroduced By Florida Democrat
02-10-2013
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http://govtslaves.info, Lee Rogers
It looks as if Representative Alcee Hastings a Democrat from Florida has decided to reintroduce his FEMA Camp bill.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cops! Just Professional, Hardworking Guys. (Video)
02-10-2013
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Simple Justice
Who really don't like to help people who need them very much. Unless they respect their authority. Somebody gets to go home without getting hit. Can you guess who?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Man Ordered to Pay Child Support For 3 Kids Conceived In Affairs With 3 Other Men
02-10-2013
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Jonathan Turley
We have previously discussed rulings where fathers have contested the obligation to pay child support for children conceived in affairs or where they were simply sperm donors. The latest case involves a man who was ordered to pay
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Pirate Bay co-founder: "I can sit here and jerk off for 5 years. And I will."
02-10-2013
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ARS Technica
Say what you will about The Pirate Bay: if nothing else, its founders are resilient, defiant, and clever. Two out of its three co-founders have yet to be brought to justice, having been convicted of aiding copyright infringement
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Pension Fund That Ate California
02-10-2013
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After spending years dogged by unpaid debts, California labor leader Charles Valdes filed for bankruptcy in the 1990s"twice. At the same time, he held one of the most influential positions in the American financial system: chair of the investment com
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun control advocates refuse to place 'gun free zone' signs in their own front yards
02-10-2013
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naturalnews.com
They don't mind publishing the names of law-abiding gun owners living in their area, violating their privacy and putting them in danger, but when it comes to news publishers, editors and columnists letting the public know they live in a gun-free zone
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • NeoCons
The B.S.S. Karl Rove is sinking - "All hands abandon ship!"
02-10-2013
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www.americanfreedombybarbara.com
Invoking the grace-bestowing ghost of Reagan to ward off the hungry packs of Tea Party folks looking to take him down, Rove claimed he was The Gipper's Texas campaign director in 1980. Too bad it is a proven lie.
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Chip Saunders
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