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Date Sent: 2010-05-12
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Wednesday, May 12, 2010 |
Slaves 37, Financial Elite 62: Audit the Fed FAILS -- WV Voters Toss Alan Mollohan: 28-year Reign En
Obama to End Drug War - But Increases Funding -- Obama: Too Much Information Is Bad For
America -- 4409 -- Psychopath, liar, flip flopper, scam
artist, legislative terrorist, John (Juan) McCain -- Concern about
Kagan's First Amendment Position -- JPMorgan
Joins "Perfect 10" Club With Flawless Trading Quarter -- Why
The Fed Cannot Simply Inflate Its Way Out of Every Financial Crisis --
Texas Man Killed After Fake Census Worker Invades Home -- Police Use
GPS to Track Robbery Suspect -- Government Debt: The Not-So-Silent
Economy Killer - by - Bill Bonner -- Challenger
Investigation Got $175 Million. Columbia $152 Million. Lewinsky $30
Million. 9/11 $15 Million. -- Obama Muscled the European Union
to Bailout the PIIGS -- Financial Oligarchy Reigns: Democracy’s Death
Spiral From Greece to the U.S.A -- Elena
Kagan helped shield Saudis from 9/11 lawsuits -- U.S.
single-stock circuit breakers done deal -- Tea Party Clueless About U.S. Tax Dollars
Funding Bailout Heist -- Mid East Peace with Noam Chomsky -- Andy Stern leaves SEIU $85 million in debt,
joins Obama’s Deficit Commission -- LA Teacher Teaches Sedition
To Students, Touts Revolution
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Slaves 37, Financial Elite 62: Audit the Fed Fails
05-11-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
In the meantime, America still pretends it is not a bankster-controlled despotic regime, in which the wealth of the middle class is funneled every day into the Wall Street/Propaganda ponzi.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
WV Voters Toss Alan Mollohan: 28-year Reign Ends
05-11-2010
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Mondo Frazier
A reliable vote for Nancy Pelosi became the first incumbent to lose his congressional seat Tuesday: Rep. Alan Mollohan lost his 28-year lease on WV's 1st congressional seat. Mollohan was defeated by state Sen. Mike Oliverio in the WV Dem primary ele
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Drug War
Everything is a Lie: Obama to End Drug War - But Increases Funding
05-11-2010
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RawStory.com
"But we can't let them get away with claiming that they've ended the 'war on drugs' while we continue to arrest 800,000 people a year on marijuana charges alone."
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Free Speech
Obama: Too Much Information Is Bad For America
05-11-2010
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FOX News
Speaking at Hampton University in Virginia, the president raised alarms when he said "information becomes a distraction, a diversion" that is putting "pressure on our country and on our democracy."
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Sharon Secor
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News Link • Military
Kagan spit in the eye of America’s Armed Forces
5/10/10
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Western Journalism
Millions of Americans will be outraged when they learn that Obama has picked a Supreme Court nominee with a demonstrated hostility to the very armed forces that make our freedom and constitutional rights possible. But that’s just one reason why Presi
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Constitution
Concern about Kagan's First Amendment Position
05-11-2010
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Paul Levinson
Kagan's statement about "new solutions" for combating porn and hate speech is not encouraging
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Paul Levinson
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News Link • Corruption
JPMorgan Joins "Perfect 10" Club With Flawless Trading Quarter
05-11-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The coincidence of the two main firms that control the world having a perfect track record is impossible2. And since things in reality tend to be zero sum, when everyone makes money, someone may be tempted to ask the question, just who is losing mone
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Why The Fed Cannot Simply Inflate Its Way Out of Every Financial Crisis
05-11-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Or as Joe Klein so colorfully phrased it, the elite have been strip-mining the middle class in America for the past thirty years.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Second Leg of the Great Depression Was Caused by European Defaults
05-11-2010
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Washingtonsblog.com/
The second leg down of the Depression was larger than the first, as shown by this chart of the Dow:
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Census
Texas Man Killed After Fake Census Worker Invades Home
05-11-2010
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Officer.com
A man posed as a Census worker before a home invasion that turned deadly, KPRC Local 2 reported Sunday.
Katherine Haynes said a man posed as a census worker Saturday afternoon before two men armed with guns barged their way in her home demand
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Surveillance
Ind. Police Use GPS to Track Robbery Suspect
05-11-2010
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Officer.com
Police said a southern Indiana man accused of robbing four Walgreens pharmacies was tracked through a GPS surveillance unit.
Floyd County police put the GPS device on Joseph Johnson's vehicle three weeks ago after getting enough information and
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Government
Advocates attest national identity debate here to stay
05-11-2010
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BeatTheChip.org
Advocates working against national identity found, over time, their work has become permanent due to the replicated, even redundant, efforts to precipitate national ID card programs.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • World News
Skinheads in Japan
5-11-2010
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Dan Freire
An essay by Dan Freire explores the subculture of japanese skinheads.
The Japanese skinheads are a group not unlike the skinheads found in America they believe in the superiority of their race and dislike foreigners especially immmigrants.
Cosplay
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Concerned Patriot
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Challenger Investigation Got $175 Million. Columbia $152 Million. Lewinsky $30 Million. 9/11 $15 Mil
05-11-2010
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waronyou
It spent $152 million on the the Columbia disaster investigation.
It spent $30 million investigating the Monica Lewinsky scandal.The government only authorized $15 million for the 9/11 Commission.
And how much has the government authorized for
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War Onyou
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Muscled the European Union to Bailout the PIIGS
05-11-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
You just know some heavy bankster money had to be on the line somewhere. I wonder how much input came from President Obama's favorite banker, Greek-American Jamie Dimon?
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Conspiracies
Financial Oligarchy Reigns: Democracy’s Death Spiral From Greece to the U.S.A
05-11-2010
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ampedstatus.com/
Jefferson reiterated his conviction: “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by de
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
BP’s oil spill fight plagued by methane hydrates, a hazard of deep water
05-11-2010
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blogs.ft.com/
The problem at those depths has been the formation of gas hydrates, ice crystals described as “jelly like” by one former drilling engineer, which filled the top of the container and made it impossible to use it to pump the oil up to the surface.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Charles H. Smith: Scrape Away the Noise and Hype, and What Remains?
05-11-2010
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Oftwominds.com/blog
If we subtract the bogus phantom jobs created by the "birth-death model" and the temporary Census Bureau jobs, the U.S. economy is staggering along the zero line, neither creating jobs nor losing them.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
20 Cities Where Home Prices Are Still Dropping Like A Stone
05-11-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Do not believe cheerleaders like the Arizona Republic, or National Association of Realtors.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Graphic of the Day: Changes in European Debt, 2000-09
05-11-2010
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Ritholtz.com
What is so striking is not that PIIGs states have gotten so much worse " but rather, the relative increase of the rest of European debt to GDP:
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Currencies
Europe: Is Shock and Awe a Blazing Bluff?
05-11-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Already the Euro has given up 100% of its gains. Round trip currency moves of 3% each way, from 1.27 to 1.31 and back, in just over a day are not the norm to say the least. This could get very interesting soon enough.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • 911 / World Trade Center
Elena Kagan helped shield Saudis from 9/11 lawsuits
05-11-2010
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RawStory.com
Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama's latest nominee to the Supreme Court, helped protect the Saudi royal family from lawsuits that sought to hold al Qaeda financiers responsible in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraq boosts security after deadliest day this year
05-11-2010
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AP
Iraqi forces beefed up checkpoints, conducted house-to-house searches and rifled through cars Tuesday looking for suspects behind a devastating string of attacks across the country that killed 119 people a day earlier.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. single-stock circuit breakers done deal: source
05-11-2010
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Reuters
Adopting new, U.S. market-wide circuit breakers to halt precipitous drops in individual stocks is "a done deal," a source said on Tuesday, five days after a severe market plunge rattled investors and perplexed regulators.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
UN rights experts criticize Arizona law
05-11-2010
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AP
Arizona's new law on illegal immigration could violate international standards that are binding in the United States, six U.N. human rights experts said. [Oh, this will help . . . not!]
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
20 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope
05-11-2010
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Space.com
Twenty years after its April 24, 1990 launch, the Hubble Space Telescope is an icon in space. Here are some of the most amazing views from the prolific space telescope. Hubble’s new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) starts things off in this image of the pl
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Tea Party Clueless About U.S. Tax Dollars Funding Bailout Heist
05-11-2010
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PrisonPlanet.com
As CNBC hosts Joe Kerne and Rick Santelli pointed out yesterday, the Tea Party movement seems largely clueless about the fact that a huge chunk of the $1 trillion dollar bailout heist being pushed through to save the face of global economic governanc
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Anti-war 9/11 families oppose Holder proposal to modify Miranda
05-11-2010
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RawStory.com
During an interview Sunday on ABC television's current affairs talk show This Week, Attorney General Eric Holder suggested creating an exception to so-called Miranda rights established in a 1966 Supreme Court ruling that forbids prosecutors from usin
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Propaganda
US Orders Blackout Over North Korean Torpedoing Of Gulf Of Mexico Oil Rig
05-11-2010
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A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today written by Russia’s Northern Fleet is reporting that the United States has ordered a complete media blackout over North Korea’s torpedoing of the giant Deepwater Horizon oil platform owned by the World’s
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Art
Frank Frazetta: Frazetta the Legend Dead at 82
05-11-2010
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Mondo Frazier
You may not know who Frank Frazetta was, but chances are good that you've seen his artwork during an incredibly-productive life. Frank Frazetta, February 9, 1928 " May 10, 2010. R.I.P. A look at some of his work and a tribute by--the National Enquire
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Palestine -- Israel
Mid East Peace with Noam Chomsky
05-11-2010
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arclein
The U.S. and Israel have been acting in tandem to extend and deepen the occupation. In 2005, recognizing that it was pointless to subsidize a few thousand Israeli settlers in Gaza, who were appropriating substantial resources and protected by a larg
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Spray on Transistors
05-11-2010
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arclein
This airbrush technique deposits a well-studied material called P3HT to create spray-on transistors, which perform comparably to lab-standard equivalents made by spin coating. Credit: NIST
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robert klein
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News Link • Energy
Bladeless Wind Turbine
05-11-2010
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arclein
What this efficiency translates to, according to a recent article at EcoGeek, are final costs of about $1.50/watt rated output, which is roughly 2/3 the cost of comparable bladed units. Further, “total operating costs over the lifetime of the unit” a
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robert klein
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News Link • Climate Change
EU Emission VAT Fraud Investigation
05-11-2010
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arclein
A total of 25 people were arrested amid a blitz by authorities on hundreds of company offices in the two countries, including Deutsche Bank and energy firm RWE, in a case involving the theft of an estimated €180 miillion from government coffers.
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robert klein
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News Link • Constitution
Mark Levin: Filibuster Nominee Kagan (Audio)
5/10/10
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MoFo Politics
Mark Levin has questions for Kagan
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Humor
Funniest Beer Commercial We’ve Seen All Year
05-10-2010
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Mondo Frazier
We thought Dos Equis had the funniest beer commercials on TV. But this one beats them out. Our pick for Funniest Beer Commercial We’ve Seen All Year.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Currencies
Ron Paul on the Euro Bailout by the Federal Reserve: Inflation is Coming
05-10-2010
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YouTube
This is a short interview of Ron Paul by Stewart Varney of Fox News.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Small Business hiring "Bleak"
05-10-2010
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
April marked the 27th consecutive month in which small businesses either shed more or the same number of jobs that they added, according to a monthly survey to be released Tuesday by the National Federation of Independent Business...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Politics
Andy Stern leaves SEIU $85 million in debt, joins Obama’s Deficit Commission
05-11-2010
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JoAnne Moretti
This is one of those stories that makes it worthwhile for a blogger to get out of bed in the morning.
Andy Stern, Chief Thug President of the infamous Service Employees International Union, more commonly known as SEIU, left the union $85 million i
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Immigration
LA Teacher Teaches Sedition To Students, Touts Revolution
05-11-2010
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DRScoundrels
This man is preaching sedition, not only against your country people, but against your whole way of life. To be substituted for what? Gang style neighborhoods and barrios? Such wealth, social programs, medicine, science, and of course green pow
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Obama Administration
Elena Kagan: The Latest on What is Being Unearthed
05-10-2010
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Mondo Frazier
President Obama nominated Elena Kagan--his version of Harriet Meiers for the Supreme Court. The new favorite parlor game in the beltway and in the punditocracy is What Does Elena Kagan Think? Here's the latest on what been found.
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Randy Ricochet
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