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Date Sent: 2008-05-28
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News for Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
FBI Interviews McCain Staff--Bush 'plans Iran air strike by August'--Fingerprint Registry in Bill
Gun dealer takes on New York City in court -- New al Qaeda video to urge WMDs against West: FBI -- Bush-McCain event moved to private home due to low ticket sales -- Former White House spokesman: Bush used 'propaganda' to sell war -- 30 months in jail for broken gun! -- Ron Paul: Collapse of the Dollar video -- Will Sheriff Joe enforce a warrant? -- Ron Paul backers to pose 'serious challenge' at convention -- The LP as "The Party of Principle" is DEAD -- Military Families and Foreclosure -- Knapp's take on the LP CONvention -- How Bob Barr and Wayne Allyn Root took over the Libertarian Party -- Bush's War on Iraqi Children -- Libertarians for Statism - by Mike Gogulski -- Not everyone’s throwing out the welcome mat for Bob Barr -- Plan Colombia Heads for Mexico - Stephen Lendman -- Meddlesome Businessman Gets Woman Busted for DUI -- Insanity - by Charley Reese -- Iran Is No Threat, Unless Bush Makes It One -- The Crime of Being White -- IAEA: Iran may be withholding info in nuke probe
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun dealer takes on New York City in court
5-27-2008
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Reuters
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's crusade against illegal guns entered the courtroom on Tuesday in a battle against a Georgia gun dealer.
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News Link • TERRORISM
New al Qaeda video to urge WMDs against West: FBI
5-27-2008
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Reuters
[clairvoyant?] Groups that monitor Islamic Web sites say al Qaeda will post a new video in the next 24 hours urging jihadists to use biological, chemical and nuclear weapons to attack the West, the FBI said on Tuesday.
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News Link • Eugenics
Bush-McCain event moved to private home due to low ticket sales, expected protests
5-27-2008
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Rawstory
President Bush will make a quick visit to Phoenix to campaign with John McCain. Bush and McCain were supposed to attend a fundraiser at the Phoenix Convention Center but the event has been canceled due to poor ticket sales and expected protests, acco
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Former White House spokesman: Bush used 'propaganda' to sell war
5-27-2008
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Rawstory
In a new tell-all memoir on sale next week, former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan writes that the president depended on propaganda to sell the Iraq war to the American public, The Politico reports.
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News Link • Eugenics
FBI Interviews McCain Staff
5-27-2008
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The Hill
Federal agents interviewed staffers for likely Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) as part of their corruption case against Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.).
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News Link • Gun Rights
30 months in jail for broken gun!
5-27-2008
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WorldNetDaily
A federal judge has ordered a 30-month prison sentence for a man whose rifle misfired, letting loose three shots at a firing range, prompting 2nd Amendment supporters to warn their constituents how easily they, too, can become a "gun felon."
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul Goes "Respectful" by James Bovard
5-27-2008
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Antiwar
The Washington Post has an article today on the number of Ron Paul’s relatives who worked for his presidential campaign. I will be curious if there are other analyses of how the Paul campaign spent $30 million.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul: Collapse of the Dollar video
05-27-2008
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RP2008
The collapse of the dollar and the falling standard of living in the United States.
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Wanted Bush Spotted in Maricopa Co.; Someone Inform America's Toughest Sheriff
5-27-2008
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Yannone
[Well Joe?] Early in 2008 several towns in Vermont (Brattleboro, Marlboro, and others) proposed the issue of arrest warrants for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. They intended to vote on the measure in March but by then they had changed the proposal
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News Link • Eugenics
Ron Paul backers to pose 'serious challenge' at convention
5-27-2008
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Minnesota Monitor
The Republican Party of Minnesota is concerned that Ron Paul supporters could take control of the Republican state convention in Rochester this weekend. Paul supporters are touting the likelihood of a Ron Paul appearance during the convention, while
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News Link • Eugenics
Barack Obama: His Uncle May Have Been in Attic--But Not Auschwitz
5-27-2008
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Mondoreb
Prevarication or gaffe? Barack Obama and the whereabouts of his uncle won’t interest the Mainstream Media. Why it’s dangerous"even if Obama is “their guy”.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Iran
Bush 'plans Iran air strike by August'
5-28-08
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AsiaTimes.com
China is Iran's biggest customer for oil, and Iran buys weapons from China. Trade between the two countries hit US$20 billion last year and continues to expand. China's reaction to an attack on Iran is also a troubling unknown for the US.
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News Link • Eugenics
The LP as "The Party of Principle" is DEAD
05-27-2008
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Paid for by Christine Smith for President
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
New Home Sales: No Spring in 2008
5-27-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
Take a look at the first chart to get an idea how bad the market really is in Bush's America.
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News Link • Military
Military Families and Foreclosure
5-27-08
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CalculatedRisk.blogspot.com
The biggest surge was in Columbia, South Carolina, home to Fort Jackson, where the Army trains recruits for combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. Properties in some stage of foreclosure rose 492 percent from a year earlier.
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News Link • Eugenics
Knapp's take on the LP CONvention
5-27-2008
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Thomas Knapp
To some observers, it may have looked like I was mostly running around with a glass of bourbon and cola in hand, hitting on women and raising general hell. In fact, what I was doing was constantly lobbying. My job consisted mostly of talking to peopl
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News Link • Eugenics
How Bob Barr and Wayne Allyn Root took over the Libertarian Party
5-27-2008
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Reason
The Bob Barr campaign couldn't have plotted it any better. The former GOP congressman-turned Libertarian Party contender announces his candidacy two short weeks before the LP convention, and grabs more free media than 2004 nominee Michael Badnari
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News Link • Immigration
Illegal Immigration: Jobs Americans Will Not Do for Less
05-27-08
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Mondoreb
When you hear “the jobs Americans won’t do”, it usually means those jobs Americans won’t do for less.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Bush's War on Iraqi Children
5-27-2008
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Counterpunch
Surely nothing that President Bush has done in his two wretched terms of office can compare in its ugliness as his approval, as commander in chief, of the imprisoning of over 2500 children. Well, almost nothing....
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News Link • Police State
Fingerprint Registry in Housing Bill!!!
5-27-2008
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OpenMarket
Earlier this week, a measure creating a federal fingerprint registry totally unrelated to national security passed a US Senate committee almost without notice. The database and fingerprint mandates were tucked into housing and foreclosure assistance
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News Link • Eugenics
Libertarians for Statism by Mike Gogulski
5-27-2008
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Nostate
So, if you’re one of the less than 2% who dutifully cast their ballots for the party of "liberty" in America, or one of the small fraction of those involved in Libertarian Party politics, do yourself a favor: save yourself the time.
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News Link • Eugenics
In Denver, not everyone’s throwing out the welcome mat for Bob Barr
5-27-2008
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It would be a bit much, right now, to call the 2008 Libertarian nomination fight "heated" or "bitter." Still, there’s a battle gearing up, and not just over the headline fight over who will win the nomination. Two years ago, the s
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News Link • Drug War
Meddlesome Businessman Gets Woman Busted for DUI
5-26-2008
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Phoenix New Times
The businessman was meeting with clients for lunch at Mimi’s Café when he noticed the woman. Sitting a few tables over with her 4-year-old boy, she seemed groggy " yet she was drinking a mimosa. It got worse. The woman ordered a glass of white wine,
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News Link • Iran
Insanity by Charley Reese
5-26-2008
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LewRockwell
President George Bush and his tag-along buddy John McCain are repeating almost word for word about Iran the pattern of lies and threats they used to justify the war against Iraq. Our intelligence agencies have said that Iran gave up the pursuit of a
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News Link • Iran
Iran Is No Threat, Unless Bush Makes It One
5-26-2008
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Antiwar
In one of the most embarrassingly absurd, historically baseless, and astonishingly one-sided speeches any U.S. president has ever given, President Bush compared Iran to Nazi Germany in his speech to Israel's Knesset.
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News Link • PC: Political Correctness
The Crime of Being White
5-26-2008
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American Thinker
Recently I wrote a piece about Keith John Sampson, a college student who was charged with "racial harassment" for reading an anti-Ku Klux Klan book. A couple of these accounts are so compelling I've decided to publish them in this piece
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News Link • Iran
IAEA: Iran may be withholding info in nuke probe
5-26-08
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News.Yahoo.com
Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday in an unusually strongly worded report.
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