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Date Sent: 2010-04-30
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, April 30, 2010 |
Costly IRS Mandate Slipped into HC Bill!!!! -- Oklahoma House passes bill outlawing militias
Ft. Lauderdale cop arrests man for asking for his badge number -- Arizona immigration law hit with its first 3 lawsuits -- Arizona new immigration law: Tougher restrictions sought -- UK to repay Iran $650 million for tanks -- "Fabled Enemies" Full Length Online Movie -- U.S. Army Trains to Take On Tea Party -- Why Arizona Immigration Law is Unconstitutional -- Pat Tillman film a haunting blindside -- Judge asks feds to show militia did more than talk -- Duncan Hunter: Deport US Citizen Children of Illegal Alien Parents --
Mexicans slam Arizona immigration law, but how do they treat their
migrants? -- Census mail results could be trouble for 5 states -- US
Taxpayers Raped: Greek Bailout Loans -- Why the Fed Won't Raise Interest Rates for a Long Time -- Will Jeb Bush Carry the Family Torch in 2012 -- Iowa GOP Candidate: Catch illegal immigrants and microchip them
AZ: Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Costly IRS Mandate Slipped into HC Bill: Businesses will have to issue 1099s whenever they do more t
04/29/2010
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godlikeproductions.com
Basically, businesses will have to issue 1099s whenever they do more than $600 of business with another entity in a year. For the $14 trillion U.S. economy, that’s a hell of a lot of 1099s. When a business buys a $1,000 used car, it will have to gath
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Phennommennonn GLP
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Feature Article • Events: Arizona
Arizona Breakfast Club Today
Powell Gammill
Arizona Breakfast Club this Saturday with LP Founder David Nolan, Barry Hess, Nick Coons who are running for office against John McCain, Jan Brewer and Harry Mitchell respectively. Hosted by FreedomsPhoenix' Powell Gammill and Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
Times-Union case puts newspaper in awkward spot on 'sunshine' law
04-29-2010
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Yahoo! News blog
The Hearst Corporation, which owns 15 daily newspapers across the nation, finds itself weighing whether to try to block a media request for e-mails among 4 people: 2 aides to New York Gov. David Paterson and a pair of reporters at the Hearst-owned Al
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ft. Lauderdale cop arrests man for asking for his badge number
04-29-2010
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Photography Is Not a Crime
And in today’s daily contempt-of-cop story, Ft. Lauderdale Police Officer Jeff Overcash did not appreciate a man asking him for his badge number, so he pulled out his handcuffs and arrested him. And it was all caught on video.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • F.E.M.A.
The Greyhound Station Gulag - by Will Grigg
04-29-2010
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Pro Liberate
Businessman Zeitoun, a naturalized US citizen, stands outside the New Orleans Greyhound station that was converted into an detention center following Katrina. Zeitoun was imprisoned under FEMA jurisdiction after being arrested on his own property.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
The Apple Exception
04-29-2010
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Simple Justice
Having ignored the hype surrounding a Gizmodo writer shenanigans with a secret unreleased Apple iPhone, because I just don't care at all, I'm now constrained to pay attention. Things changed when police executed a search warrant on his resident.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Local computer security expert investigates police practices
04-29-2010
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
Eric Rachner, a Seattle cyber security expert and one of the golf players, wasn't satisfied when the city dismissed charges against him after a possibly illegal arrest for refusing to provide identification.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Immigration vs Naturalization
04-29-2010
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Tenth Amendment Center
Is Arizona's new immigration law Constitutional? Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution empowers Congress to “establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization” " or, more simply stated, to make universal rules about giving foreign-born resid
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Michael Boldin
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona immigration law hit with its first 3 lawsuits
04-29-2010
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Arizona Republic
The first three lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's new illegal immigration law were filed in federal court today, and another group is promising theirs will come soon. [At least the lawyers are getting jobs.]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona new immigration law: Tougher restrictions sought
04-29-2010
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Arizona Republic
A conference committee of legislative Republicans and Democrats has approved several changes to Arizona's new immigration law. The changes still need final approval from both the House and the Senate before being passed along to the governor.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • World News
UK to repay Iran $650 million for tanks
04-29-2010
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Tehran Times
An international trade court ordered Britain to pay Iran $650 million for failing to deliver some 1,300 tanks after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was toppled in the 1979 Islamic revolution, officials said.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Conspiracies
Fabled Enemies Full Length
04-29-2010
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Jason Bermas - Full Length YouTube
Seven years after 9/11, the supposed mastermind behind the attacks is still at large, and the nation is entrenched in multiple wars in the Middle East.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Military
U.S. Army Trains to Take On Tea Party
04-29-2010
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InfoWars.com
On April 17, the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, reported on a military exercise dubbed “Mangudai,” named after the special forces of Genghis Khan’s Mongol army who could fight for days without food or sleep.
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Charles Goyette Discusses Relationship Between Inflation and Despotism
04-29-2010
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Sharlene Holt, Musicians for Freedom
On 10 April 2010, at the Mises Circle in Phoenix, radio talkshow host and author of bestselling book, “ The Dollar Meltdown” Charles Goyette, presented his perspective in a talk entitled “The Inflationary Path to Despotism.”
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Reported by:
Sharlene Holt
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News Link • Constitution
Oklahoma House passes bill outlawing militias and gang recruiting
04-29-2010
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The Oklahoman (video)
Recruiting membership in an unauthorized militia or the Ku Klux Klan would be a crime if legislation approved by the House of Representatives becomes law. "This is making unauthorized militias illegal,” said Rep. Mike Shelton, the amendment’s author.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Heroes
Pat Tillman film a haunting blindside
04-29-2010
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LATimes
I have never quite gotten the Pat Tillman story out of my system. Only now am I understanding why.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Emmigration
More American Expatriates Give Up Citizenship
04-29-2010
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Lew Rockwell
Amid mounting frustration over taxation and banking problems, small but growing numbers of overseas Americans are taking the weighty step of renouncing their citizenship.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Communications
Build Your Own Cellular Network
04-29-2010
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Technology Review
Just about anybody can create an inexpensive cellular base station that routes calls all over the world.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Alan Mollohan: Incredible Perpetual Money Machine Fills Campaign Coffers
04-29-2010
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Mondo Frazier
As usual, Congressman Alan Mollohan's (D-WV) Incredible Perpetual Money Machine has filled his once-empty campaign coffers. What's not so usual is that the congressman, a staple on Citizens for Reform and Ethics in Washington's "15 Most Corrupt" list
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Reported by:
Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Immigration
Illegal Immigration: Anything is Possible With Political Will
04-29-2010
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RidesAPaleHorse
The USA put a man on the moon, but can't do anything about foreigners who come here illegally? With the political class it's a matter of Where's there a will, there's a way.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
3-D Movie Camera
04-29-2010
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Technology Review
A new model weighs just seven pounds and is the first professional-quality camcorder to combine all the necessary components for 3-D filmmaking: lenses, camera head, and twin memory card recorder.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Science
Concentrated Solar Set to Shine
04-29-2010
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Technology Review
Large investment could jump-start concentrated photovoltaic deployments.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Software
Early Version of Firefox Lands on Android Phones
04-29-2010
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Webmonkey
The mobile version of Firefox, known by code-name Fennec, is now available for testing on the Android mobile platform.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Polaroid Lives! New Camera Uses Real Instant Film
04-29-2010
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Wired
Like a phoenix rising from the flames and gently fading back into view as you pointlessly flap it in the air, Polaroid has returned. And this time, with real instant film, not that awful camera/printer - the Pogo - we saw last year.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Militia
Judge asks feds to show militia did more than talk
04-29-2010
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AP News
A federal judge challenged prosecutors Wednesday to show that nine members of a Michigan militia accused of plotting war against the government had done more than just talk and should remain locked up.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Immigration
Duncan Hunter: Deport US Citizen Children of Illegal Alien Parents
04-29-2010
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RawStory.com
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) wants to deport the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants.
Hunter said, "it takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen - it's what's in our souls."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Rosenberg: This Chart Explains Why The US Economy Is Going To Suck
04-29-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
It shows who paid for the New Deal and there can be little doubt that something similar is
going to happen this time around " especially since Obama is running deficits relative
to GDP that are double what FDR ever ran to “save the system”.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona immigration law: painful lessons from Oklahoma
04-29-2010
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Christian Science Monitor
In late 2007, OK legislators enacted what was then the nation’s toughest anti-immigrant law. Months later, state Sen. Coates said, "You really have to work hard at it to destroy our state’s economy, but we found a way. We ran off the workforce."
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Census
Census mail results could be trouble for 5 states
04-29-2010
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AP
Five states " New York, California, Texas, Arizona and Florida " are perilously close to losing out on congressional seats because of lackluster participation in the U.S. census.
The five were average or below average in mailing back 10-question c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Mexico
Mexicans slam Arizona immigration law, but how do they treat their migrants?
04-29-2010
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Christian Science Monitor
“Invisible Victims: Migrants on the Move in Mexico” details the abuse faced by Central American migrants, who cross the southern border between Guatemala and Mexico, usually en route to the US. Each year, tens of thousands of migrants make the trip.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Meredith Whitney: Middle Class De-Banks, Small Business & Consumers on Rears
04-29-2010
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CNBC.com
In this interview Meredith Whitney states that the middle class is de-banking, and moving to predatory loan sharks. Toward the end of the interview she states that small business and consumers funding sources are the same, and both are on their rears
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Bill Boyarsky: Stay Away From Arizona
04-29-2010
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Truthdig.com
Arizona and its new immigration law offer a frightening preview of the police-state mentality that could envelop other parts of the nation if anti-immigrant hysteria spreads to other states with weak-kneed legislatures and city councils.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Negative Index Metamaterial Designed
04-29-2010
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arclein
allowing for the development of broadband wide-angle metamaterials that could enhance light collection in solar cells," he explains. "And the fact that the metamaterial has a wide-angle response is important because it means that it can 'accept'
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robert klein
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News Link • Obama Administration
US Taxpayers Raped: Greek Bailout Loans To Be Junior To Existing Claims
04-29-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The IMF has decided that not only will US taxpayer money be freely abused to rescue a profligate Greece, but that money will be effectively junior to existing claims, in essence making it some MC Escher DIP reverse DIP nightmare.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Climate Change
Climate Change Modelling Under Attack
04-29-2010
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arclein
They have found themselves trying to persuade the public -- now surrounded by computerized predictions of the future -- to believe in these.
If policymakers don't heed the models, "you're throwing away information. And if you throw away informa
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robert klein
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News Link • History
Ancient Tools Collected And Revealed
04-29-2010
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arclein
Warming temperatures are melting patches of ice that have been in place for thousands of years in the mountains of the Canadian High Arctic and in turn revealing a treasure trove of ancient hunting tools.
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robert klein
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Why the Fed Won't Raise Interest Rates for a Long Time
04-29-2010
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BusinessInsider.com & CalculatedRiskBlog.com
My guess is the Fed will probably wait until the unemployment rate is closer to 9% before removing the "extended period" language, and it is unlikely they will raise rates until the unemployment rate is below 8%
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Agriculture
Water and Wine
04-29-2010
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arclein
such practices not only kill soil, they also deaden wine. Over time, the Benzigers began to rethink modern viticulture. One motivation was improving the product, making it stand out from the gusher of wine coming out of Sonoma. Another was the sinkin
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robert klein
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News Link • Economy - International
Spanish Q1 2010 Unemployment Number Leaked, Surpasses 20%
04-29-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
Unemployment among Spain's youth is reaching epidemic proportions: "the unemployment rate for those under 25 years in the first quarter of 2010 was 40.93% and 18.02% in those over 25 years. In the group of 16-19 years, the rate is 59.79%
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • China
WTF, again?!!!! Man stabs 28 children at kindergarten in China
04-29-2010
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AP
A knife-wielding man attacked a kindergarten class of 4-year-olds in eastern China today, slashing 28 children in what an expert said was a copycat rampage of two other episodes at Chinese schools in the past month.
A 47-year-old jobless man, Xu Y
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Political Parties
Will Jeb Bush Carry the Family Torch in 2012 Presidential Election?
04-29-2010
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news.yahoo.com/s/ap
With little fanfare, the former governor is keeping up an aggressive campaign travel schedule and even wading into party primaries. Since the start of the year, he has stumped for gubernatorial candidates in Ohio, Alabama, Wisconsin, Nevada...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Immigration
Iowa GOP Candidate: Catch illegal immigrants and microchip them
04-29-2010
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RawStory.com
Bertroche said. "I can microchip my dog so I can find it. Why can’t I microchip an illegal? That’s not a popular thing to say, but it’s a lot cheaper than building a fence they can tunnel under.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Racism
Anti-Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany
04-28-2010
Antisemitism and the persecution of Jews represented a central tenet of Nazi ideology. In their 25-point Party Program, published in 1920, Nazi party members publicly declared their intention to segregate Jews from "Aryan" society and to abrogate Jew
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Thomas Costanzo
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