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Date Sent: 2014-02-13
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Thursday, February 13, 2014 |
It is Now Illegal for Homeless People to Cover Themselves with Blankets
How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error -- Man hurt in ax attack; police shoot his aggressive dog -- One Little Victory: Victim of Idaho Falls Police Riot is Vindicated -- U.S. Congress approves debt limit increase after Senate drama -- Canada charts comfortable course to 2015 budget surplus -- Britain warns Scotland: Forget the pound if you break away -- 8 Police Officers Fire 103 Times At 2 Unarmed Women Delivering Newspapers: It's OK -- Ray Nagin, former New Orleans mayor, convicted of federal corruption charges -- Indiana Tax Assessor – All Churches in Indiana are Public Theaters -- No U.S. Soldier Should Have Died in Korea (or Vietnam) -- Obama Spins Subsidies Both Ways -- Rand Paul to sue Obama administration over NSA -- Putting Big Brother in the Driver’s Seat: V2V Transmitters, Black Boxes & Drones -- Stocks rally on Yellen; best four days for S&P 500 in more than a year -- The lasers fuelling hopes of unlimited, clean nuclear energy -- Americans Killed By Cops Now Outnumber Americans Killed In Iraq War -- Illegal drone use highlights questions for videographer journalists -- Airport Security Confiscates Toy Story Doll’s Gun -- DARPA Creating Transformers Like Robots -- Obama's Kill List
AZ: Freedom Summit 2014, starts tomorrow, Feb. 14-16; Memorial for Jack
McLamb, Saturday February 22nd, 2014, 2-4 p.m. (MST) - Phoenix, AZ
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News Link • Government
A Town in Florida Has Made It Illegal for Homeless People to Cover Themselves with Blankets
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Thanks to a “camping” ordinance passed by the City Council homeless people will be criminalized for sleeping outdoors while “adjacent to or inside a tent or sleeping bag, or atop and/or covered by materials such as a bedroll, cardboard, newspapers,
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News Link • TERRORISM
How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error
02-12-2014
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Wired
Instead of admitting to the error, high-ranking President Barack Obama administration officials spent years covering it up. Attorney General Eric Holder, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and a litany of other government officials
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man hurt in ax attack; police shoot his aggressive dog
02-12-2014
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A 55-year-old man sustained a cut to his hand Saturday night when a relative swung a hatchet at him during a domestic dispute. When officers arrived, the victim’s dog charged officers, who shot and killed the dog.
The dispute began with an argumen
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
One Little Victory: Victim of Idaho Falls Police Riot is Vindicated
02-12-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
Victor Madrigal, who was attacked in his Idaho Falls home by a thugscrum of the city’s “finest,” has been acquitted on charges of disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, and assault on an officer. Madrigal and his brother, Delosanto, were two of
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. Congress approves debt limit increase after Senate drama
02-12-2014
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Reuters
The U.S. Congress approved an increase in the country's debt limit through March 2015, bowing to President Barack Obama's demands to extend federal borrowing authority without conditions, but only after a dramatic Senate vote on Wednesday.
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News Link • Economy - International
Canada charts comfortable course to 2015 budget surplus
02-12-2014
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Reuters
Canada's Conservative government looks set to comfortably balance its books in 2015 or even sooner, its latest budget showed on Tuesday, with cuts in spending on the public service more than offsetting a series of modest new expenditures.
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News Link • Government
Britain warns Scotland: Forget the pound if you break away
02-12-2014
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Reuters
Britain will warn Scotland on Thursday it can't keep the pound if it votes for independence, its boldest attempt yet to scuttle a nationalist bid to break the 307-year-old union with England.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
8 Police Officers Fire 103 Times At 2 Unarmed Women Delivering Newspapers: It's OK
02-12-2014
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Jonathan Turley
We recently discussed the decision by the Los Angeles district attorney not to charge officers who shot up a vehicle of an innocent man because they were acting in "an atmosphere of fear and extreme anticipation."
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News Link • Corruption
Ray Nagin, former New Orleans mayor, convicted of federal corruption charges
02-12-2014
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Ray Nagin, the former two-term mayor of New Orleans indicted after he left office, was convicted Wednesday of 20 federal corruption charges for illegal dealings with city vendors, dating back to 2004. A jury delivered its verdict just before 1 p.m.,
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News Link • Energy
Laser-sparked fusion power passes key milestone
02-12-2014
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In a first for laser-driven fusion, scientists at a US lab say they have reached a key milestone called fuel gain: they are producing more energy than the fuel absorbed to start the reaction.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Google To Lease And Restore NASA's Famous Hangar One
02-12-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Francie Diep
The hangar once housed the U.S. Navy's dirigibles.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
The Cosmos, Explained: Neil deGrasse Tyson On His New Series
02-12-2014
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http://www.popsci.com, By Douglas Main
Tyson will pick up where Carl Sagan left off, hosting a continuation of the "Cosmos" TV series
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News Link • Media: Internet
Confessions of an Unreconstructed ‘Isolationist’
02-12-2014
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Justin Raimondo
An appeal to our readers
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
The Best Earth Pics From the Newest Landsat Satellite
02-12-2014
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Wired.com
Launched a year ago on Feb. 11, the Landsat 8 satellite has been capturing incredible images of Earth. As beautiful as these images are, the true value of this satellite lies in its connection to the past.
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News Link • European Union
"F*** Europe"
02-12-2014
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http://www.unz.com, By Eric Margolis
F*** Europe!” Such were the words used in Kiev, Ukraine by Victoria Nuland, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe.
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
A Supercut of Every Death in The Walking Dead’s First Season
02-12-2014
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Wired.com
As television series go, The Walking Dead has always been something of a death march for its characters, and not particularly kind to either the living or the undead. But exactly how many bodies really end up dropping over the course of a season?
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News Link • WAR: About that War
No U.S. Soldier Should Have Died in Korea (or Vietnam)
02-12-2014
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http://fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
As the Los Angeles Times reported, four days before Christmas last year 94-year-old Clara Gantt received the remains of her husband, whom she had married in 1948.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Spins Subsidies Both Ways
02-12-2014
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lewrockwell.com
In our current age of spin and counter-spin, there is no contortion too great for a politician to attempt.
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News Link • Surveillance
Rand Paul to sue Obama administration over NSA
02-11-2014
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CNN's Dana Davidsen
Sen. Paul will sue President Obama and top officials in the NSA over surveillance.
Paul's political action committee, RandPAC, announced plans by the Kentucky senator and potential 2016 presidential candidate to file a class-action challenge on Wed
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News Link • Drones
Putting Big Brother in the Driver’s Seat: V2V Transmitters, Black Boxes & Drones
02-12-2014
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rutherford.org
“It’s a future where you don’t forget anything…In this new future you’re never lost…We will know your position down to the foot and down to the inch over time…
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Stocks rally on Yellen; best four days for S&P 500 in more than a year
02-12-2014
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http://www.cnbc.com, By: Kate Gibson
U.S. stocks surged on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising triple digits and the Nasdaq Composite turning positive for the year, as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen reassured Wall Street that the Fed would continue the central bank
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
Is Stakes the most portable BBQ in the world?
02-12-2014
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gizmag.com
Cooking food when in remote places can mean having to lug a camping stove along for the journey or trying your hand at some bushcraft to fashion a rudimentary grill. Israeli designer Roee Magdassi has created another possibility, however. Stakes is a
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News Link • Transportation
Hero's 2WD diesel-electric RNT radically rethinks the motorcycle as an all-purpose utility vehic
02-12-2014
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gizmag.com
Hero Motocorp suddenly seems more than capable of replacing Honda's technology, it also seems capable of producing machinery better suited for the emerging market it currently serves, but also of producing truly ingenious solutions that existing long
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News Link • Energy
The lasers fuelling hopes of unlimited, clean nuclear energy
02-12-2014
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http://www.independent.co.uk, Stev Connor
A milestone has been reached in the 60-year struggle to harness the nuclear reactions that power the Sun in an experiment that could lead to a way of producing an unlimited source of clean and sustainable energy in the form of nuclear fusion.
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News Link • Climate Change
Global Warming? Lake Superior Will Freeze Over this Winter
02-12-2014
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How to explain record cold temperatures? Well, global warming has “paused,” according to warmist scientists.
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News Link • Police State
Americans Killed By Cops Now Outnumber Americans Killed In Iraq War
02-12-2014
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Prison Planet
Cops have killed well over 5,000 Americans since 9/11. Many of these killings have occurred during no-knock raids, which have risen by 4000% since the 1980s.
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News Link • Drones
Drone use highlights questions for journalists
02-12-2014
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http://www.breitbart.com, AP
As police responded to a deadly car crash, they noticed an increasingly familiar sight: a remote-controlled aircraft, equipped with a video camera, hovering over the wreckage.
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Conservatives rally against debt ceiling ‘surrender,’ call for Boehner’s head
02-12-2014
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Prison Planet
The House voted Tuesday to raise the debt ceiling with no conditions attached, and conservative groups are calling for Speaker John Boehner’s head.
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News Link • Military
New US Military Space Plane Aims for 2017 Liftoff
02-12-2014
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http://www.space.com, By Mike Wall
The United States military is making progress toward developing a new unmanned space plane, which it aims to begin flight-testing in 2017.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
DARPA Creating Transformers Like Robots
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On Tuesday the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), released concept images for its plan to design flying drones for the U.S. military that can “transform”.
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News Link • Homeland Security
Airport Security Confiscates Toy Story Doll’s Gun
02-12-2014
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http://www.nationalreview.com, By Andrew Johnson
Another gun-wielding toy has had its weapon seized by airport security.
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News Link • Off Grid Living - Survival Prepping
A Foreshadowing of Future Mass Panic in America: This Is Why We Prepare…
02-12-2014
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shtfplan.com
Every year somewhere in our country tens of thousands of Americans experience an emergency resulting from any number of scenarios that may include natural disasters, economic hardship or other unexpected circumstances.
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Historic Ice Storm Immobilizes Ground, Air Travel in the South
02-12-2014
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http://www.accuweather.com, By Brian Lada
A snow and ice storm will severely impact travelers and residents from northern Georgia to the Carolinas into Wednesday night.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republicans to offer condition-free US debt ceiling hike
02-11-2014
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House Republicans said Tuesday they will introduce a measure this week to extend US borrowing authority with no conditions attached, marking a clear victory for President Barack Obama.
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News Link • Corruption
Christie’s deals as a prosecutor raised eyebrows
02-10-2014
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As the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, Chris Christie struck an unusual deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb.
In exchange for not charging the drugmaking giant with securities fraud, Christie’s office would require it to fund a professorship at Se
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News Link • Obama Administration
Administration weighs drone strike against American citizen
02-10-2014
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Prison Planet
The Obama administration is considering lethal force against an American citizen overseas who has allegedly been working with al Qaeda, U.S. officials have told the Associated Press.
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News Link • Media: Internet
Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill Launch "The Intercept"
02-10-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Today Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras launched their new investigative journalism site, "The Intercept" with two new stories regarding the out of control National Security State.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Straight-Faced Man Makes Epic Mockery of City Council Over Gun Ban
02-10-2014
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Daily Paul.com
An Ashland, Ore., resident on Monday used satire to point out the idiocy of the proposed ordinance to City Council members.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
Freedom Summit Phoenix and Texas Bitcoin Conference: building momentum for Generation Next
02-10-2014
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Daily Paul.com
Freedom Summit in Phoenix is always a great event with amazing teachers and instructors. Amid the more traditional figures such as John Buttrick and Will Grigg, both of whom are simply mesmerizing speakers, are all these rebel upstart bitcoiners. It'
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News Link • Gun Rights
Manufacturers Change Look of AR-15; Rifle Is Now Legal in New York State
02-10-2014
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nationalreview.com
Pass a stupid law, get a stupid result. This, Clash Daily reports, is a remodeled AR-15, and it is legal in New York despite the state’s “assault weapons” ban:
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News Link • Obamacare
White House delays health insurance mandate for medium-sized employers until 2016
02-10-2014
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The Obama administration announced Monday it would give medium-sized employers an extra year, until 2016, before they must offer health insurance to their full-time workers.
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
The Final Swindle Of Private American Wealth Has Begun
02-10-2014
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shtfplan.com
I began writing analysis on the macro-economic situation of the American financial structure back in 2006, and in the eight years since, I have seen an undeniably steady trend of fiscal decline.
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News Link • Death
Suspicious Death of JPMorgan Vice President, Gabriel Magee, Under Investigation in London
02-10-2014
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wallstreetonparade.com
London Police have confirmed that an official investigation is underway into the death of a 39-year old JPMorgan Vice President whose body was found on the 9th floor rooftop of a JPMorgan building in Canary Wharf two weeks ago.
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News Link • Surveillance
Why a Railroad Merger May Get the Supreme Court to Rule on NSA Spying
02-10-2014
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Wired.com
There are some events that bookies won’t accept wagers on, because the outcome is considered all but certain.
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News Link • Police State
Supreme Court Justice Predicts Internment Camps in America’s Future
02-10-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
"You are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again," said Justice Scalia.
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News Link • Iraq
The Truth about the Criminal Bloodbath in Iraq Can't Be 'Countered' Indefinitely
02-10-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
The media cover-up has been a weapon in the crimes of western states since the first world war. But a reckoning is coming for those paid to keep the record straight
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Not All Lives are Equal-According to the Inhabitants of the Barbarically Civilized Nation
02-10-2014
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Lewrockwell.com
I rarely accept invitations for speaking arrangements. It is not my cup of tea. When I rarely do I insist in dividing my allocated time into 1/3 for speaking and 2/3 for Q & A.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
Use of NSA metadata to find drone targets kills civilians " Greenwald
02-10-2014
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Prison Planet
The US is relying upon NSA metadata to identify targets for drone strikes, reports the Intercept. A former NSA operative said the tactic is flawed and the agency targets phones “in the hopes that the person on the other end of the missile is the bad
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News Link • Obamacare
Health law's employer requirement will phase in
02-10-2014
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Associated Press
The Obama administration is giving another delay to business groups concerned about the health care law's requirement that larger firms cover their workers.
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