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Date Sent: 2010-04-07
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, April 7, 2010 |
FDIC wants retirement cash to save banks -- Low Rates Funding Washington's Enormous Deficit
Elian Gonzalez shown at Cuba Youth meeting -- Food Stamp Usage Hits Record 39.4 Million, AZ up 32.9% in a year -- Rand Paul, NOW is a Good Time to Fight for Election Integrity -- White House to media: 'Don't report what you discover' -- Mish: L.A. Controller Says City Could Run Out of Cash by May 5 -- US court rules against FCC on 'net neutrality' -- Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone: Looting Main Street -- Maoist rebels kill 75 troops in eastern India -- AZ Revenue: Jan. retail sales fall 6% -- Judge dismisses scores of Guantanamo habeas cases -- String of bombings rip through Baghdad, killing 49 -- Cameras make Chicago most closely watched US city -- 25 dead in W.Va. mine blast, worst since 1984 -- European Parliament question aircraft condensation trails which no longer only contain water
-- Tsunami Wave of Foreclosures About to Hit -- Deflation on the prowl
as Bernanke shuts down his printing press -- Data from past 120 years
indicates another 22% housing price drop -- US-Committed Atrocities in Afghanistan - by Stephen Lendman -- General McChrystal's Employment of Military Deception -- Peak Oil Now Accepted -- Kristol: 'Better' for US to attack Iran, than if Israel did -- RNC chief of staff Ken McKay resigns
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News Link • Obama Administration
FDIC wants your retirement cash to save banks
04-06-2010
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Blacklistednews.com/
Under the pretext of combating the financial crisis, Democrats in Congress have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate private retirement accounts and turn them into government-controlled accounts managed by the Social Security...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke's Dilemma: Low Rates Funding Washington's Enormous Deficit
04-06-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
This is not just convenient for the banks, it's crucial to Washington's ability to borrow, especially as foreign demand begins to wane (supposedly).
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • TERRORISM
How Americans are propagandized about Afghanistan
04-06-2010
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by Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
On February 12 of this year, U.S. forces entered a village, surrounding a home where a celebration of a new birth was taking place, shot dead 2 male civilians (government officials) who exited the house in order to inquire why they had been surrounde
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
Elian Gonzalez shown at Cuba Youth meeting
04-06-2010
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Beitbart
Elian Gonzlez now 16, is shown serious-faced with fellow youth delegates during last weekend's congress at a sprawling and drab convention center in western Havana.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Death
Survivng Death on Larry King Live
04-06-2010
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Scientific American
Michael Shermer comments on his experience being on the Larry King Live show with Deepak Chopra and Dr. Sanjay Gupta to discuss the topic of near death experiences.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Obama Administration
Matthew Lasko: New Official Spokesman for the Democrat Party
04-06-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Remember Matthew Lasko? The guy who jumped around on TV promising you’d be set for life if you bought his books on “Free Government Money!” That’s almost the entire platform of Progressive Liberal Democrats. Free Government Money Only $19.95! ...We'l
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Food Stamp Usage Hits Record 39.4 Million: Arizona up 32.9% in 1 year
04-06-2010
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Globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
Inquiring minds are looking at a SNAP Participation Table that shows a record 39,430,724 receive SNAP benefits, a 22.4% increase from a year ago.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Would Microsoft's 'guardian angel' turn our brains to mush?
03/30/2010
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Posted by Nick Eaton, blog.seattlepi.com
I was reading TechFlash's Monday piece on Microsoft's new "guardian angel" patent, and it stirred up a creepy feeling inside of me. In the time I've been covering Microsoft for seattlepi.com, I've had this strange shudder a handful of times. An
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Memo to Rand Paul: NOW is a Good Time to Fight for Election Integrity in KY's GOP U.S. Senate Pr
04-06-2010
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BradBlog.com
Grayson's disturbing history of misrepresenting the truth in regard to certification of the state's electronic voting systems should be of great concern to Paul and his supporters, particularly given the state's rich history of confirmed election fra
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Barack Obama: Our First President of Self-Esteem
04-06-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Americans are paying higher taxes, dealing with more regulations, alienating allies, comforting enemies, dithering on national security, giving rights to terrorists"but we’re told that we're all winners. Welcome to the Obama years: America’s first se
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Activism
Commission Invites Public to Comment on Performance of Judges on 2010 General Election Ballot
04-06-2010
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Judicial Performance Review
The Arizona Commission on Judicial Performance Review will hold public hearings at the following times and locations to take comments on judges appearing on the 2010 retention election ballot:
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Renee Houlihan
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
BLS: 5.5 Unemployed People Per Job Opening - Increases In February
04-06-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The number of unemployed persons per job opening has started to increase again, hitting 5.5 in February, as just disclosed by the BLS' most recent Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Media: Print
White House to media--'Don't report what you discover'
04/06/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
In light of numbing revelations over the last several days concerning fraudulent statements on Barack Obama's resume, this piece of information curiously comes to light. The White House has instructed the 'mainstream media' not to report what they
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Phennommennonn GLP
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Mish: L.A. Controller Says City Could Run Out of Cash by May 5
04-06-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
In the face of a crushing recession, the Mayor actually accelerated spending and hiring to the point that the City may have to declare BANKRUPTCY before the end of 2010.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
US court rules against FCC on `net neutrality'
04-06-2010
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AP
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone: Looting Main Street
04-06-2010
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Blacklistednews.com/ & RollingStone.com
A mob of corrupt local officials and morally absent financiers got together to build a giant device that converted human shit into billions of dollars of profit for Wall Street " and misery for people like Lisa Pack.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Maoist rebels kill 75 troops in eastern India
04-06-2010
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AP
Maoist rebels launched a series of devastating attacks on paramilitary forces patrolling the forests of eastern India, killing at least 75 troops in the deadliest strike against the government in the 43-year insurgency. The attack, which came amid a
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Department of Revenue: January retail sales fell 6%
04-06-2010
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AZcentral.com
Overall taxable sales, an important source of state, city and town sales-tax revenue, fell to $3.2 billion in January, the third January in a row in which they fell below the previous year's level.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Iran
Trent Franks is anxious to attack Iran
04-06-2010
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Washington Examiner
Israel remains the truest friend America has in this world, and our two nations need each other now as much as we ever have; because a nuclear Iran represents a threat to the paradigm of freedom for the entire world.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • TAXES: State
Mansion Owner Fights Taxes With Church Exemption
04-06-2010
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ABC News
He converted his home into a chapel and became ordained as a minister by signing up with an online program. But is that enough to exempt a real estate agent from tens of thousands of dollars in taxes on his multimillion dollar lakefront property?
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Judge dismisses scores of Guantanamo habeas cases
04-06-2010
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McClatchy News
A federal judge has dismissed more than 100 habeas corpus lawsuits filed by former Guantanamo captives, ruling because the Bush and Obama administrations had transferred them elsewhere, the courts need not decide whether the Pentagon imprisoned them
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
String of bombings rip through Baghdad, killing 49
04-06-2010
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AP
At least 5 bombs ripped through apartment buildings across Baghdad Tuesday and another struck a market, killing 49 people and wounding more than 160, authorities said.
Iraqi officials blamed al-Qaida in Iraq insurgents for the violence " the latest
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Police State
Cameras make Chicago most closely watched US city (for now)
04-06-2010
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AP
Within days, police recreated Scott's 20-minute drive through the city using high-tech equipment that singled out his car on a succession of surveillance cameras, handing the image from camera to camera. The video didn't capture Scott's final moments
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Marc Faber and Mish on Inflation, Deflation, Doom and the End of Civilization
04-06-2010
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by Mac Slavo - LewRockwell.com
Gloom Boom & Doom Report publisher Marc Faber and economic analyst Mike “Mish” Shedlock join Yahoo’s Tech Ticker on March 12, 2010 to discuss the global economy, where we’re headed and the possibility of the “end of civilization.”
(Videos follow exc
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Energy
25 dead in W.Va. mine blast, worst since 1984
04-06-2010
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AP
A huge underground explosion blamed on methane gas killed 25 coal miners in the worst U.S. mining disaster in more than two decades. Crews bulldozed an access road Tuesday so they could drill 1,000 feet into the earth to try to find four others missi
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
America’s Nuke Nazis and the Radiation State
04-06-2010
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Proliberty.com
It is pertinent to our predicament that leading U.S. corporations were secretly funding and supplying the German Nazi Wehrmacht throughout WWII and that legions of Nazi functionaries were transplanted to U.S. intelligence and science posts after the
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Chemtrails
European Parliament: question on aircraft condensation trails which no longer only contain water
04-06-2010
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www.avionews.com
Subject: aircraft condensation trails which no longer only contain water but cause persistent milky veils, possibly due to the presence of barium, aluminium and iron
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
David Petraeus for President: Run General, run
04-06-2010
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telegraph.co.uk/news/
Perhaps the only public institution that has increased in prestige in recent years is the American military. Its officers are looked upon, as General George Patton once noted, as "the modern representatives of the demi-gods and heroes of antiquity".
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Deflation on the prowl as Bernanke shuts down his printing press
04-06-2010
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telegraph.co.uk/finance/
Mr Bernanke is taking the fateful decision to knock away the props of the mortgage market even though the M3 broad money supply has been contracting at an epic pace of 6pc since September. If M3 gives early warning of six to 12 months, beware.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Thunderous Roar: Tsunami Wave of Foreclosures is About to Hit
04-06-2010
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cnbc.com
I'm also starting to hear rumblings among the number crunchers that the wave of foreclosures we keep hearing about is about to hit with a thunderous roar. Diana Olick
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Data from the past 120 years indicates another 22% price drop
04-06-2010
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HousingDoom.com
A significant drop in national house prices remains likely.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Afghanistan
General McChrystal’s Employment of Military Deception
04-05-2010
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Jim White, FDL
Deception employed here is not a rare, unexpected development, but is instead a designed feature of how our Joint Special Operations Command forces operate under the command of General Stanley McChrystal
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Comet Kazi
04-06-2010
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arclein
On March 12, SOHO spied a bright comet, likely from that same sun-grazing lineage, in its final hours as it streaked toward a fatal encounter with the sun. The inbound comet is visible below and to the left of the sun in this SOHO image. (The blindin
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Peak Oil Now Been Accepted
04-06-2010
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arclein
Yet official recognition of the peak oil threat remained muted, couched in warnings about "adequate investment" and blithe assertions that demand would soon peak, averting any supply shortage.
All that seems to have changed in the last month. A su
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robert klein
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News Link • History
Pict Script Discovered
04-06-2010
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arclein
The ancestors of modern Scottish people left behind mysterious, carved stones that new research has just determined contain the written language of the Picts, an Iron Age society that existed in Scotland from 300 to 843.
The highly stylized rock e
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Dense Plasma Physics Update
04-06-2010
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arclein
Since mid-month, we have increased that to 90% good shots. The two time-of-flight neutron detectors have produced more evidence that we are already duplicating the high ion energies achieved with higher currents in the Texas experiments
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
The Day The Earth Froze
04-06-2010
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arclein
An hour-long hailstorm from space bombarded the Earth 13,000 years ago - plunging the planet into a mini-ice age, scientists claimed today.
The catastrophe was caused by a disintegrating comet and saw the planet sprayed by thousands of frozen boul
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robert klein
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Kristol: ‘Better’ for US to attack Iran than if Israel did
04-06-2010
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PrisonPlanet.com
The Obama administration should be seriously considering a strike on Iran, according to neoconservative Fox News contributor Bill Kristol.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US, Karzai embroiled in new row
04-06-2010
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RawStory.com
The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Karzai had told lawmakers that the United States was interfering with Afghan affairs and that the Taliban would become a legitimate resistance movement if it did not stop. (Election Fraud big issue)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Tea Party
Tina Fey to Come Back as Sarah Palin
04-06-2010
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cbsnews.com
Comedic actress and writer Tina Fey says she will reprise her infamous impression of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin when she returns to NBC's "Saturday Night Live" as this weekend's host.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
RNC chief of staff Ken McKay resigns
04-06-2010
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voices.washingtonpost.com
Republican National Committee chief of staff Ken McKay has resigned in the wake of a controversy over an expenditure at a risque California nightclub, RNC communications director Doug Heye said Monday.
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Ernest Hancock
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