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Date Sent: 2013-03-07
Freedom's Phoenix PM Edition for Thursday, March 7, 2013 |
North Korea threatens pre-emptive strike -- Gun Trafficking Bill Approved By Senate Committee
Video: Janet Napolitano Ignores Question Asked by Luke Rudkowski About DHS's 2,700 Armored Trucks -- Tianyuan Man Linked to Modern Chinese -- UNICEF Study: Israel Abuses Palestinian Child Detainees -- Attorney For Freedom Show With Marc Victor -- Company hopes to bring 30 marijuana-dispensing machines to San Diego -- Flight attendants protest new policy on knives -- Senate committee starting votes on curbing guns -- Liberal actor, John Cusack, on Filibuster "For God's Sake, Where Are Democrats?" -- Starting a Strike movement against the killing of Americans, gun control and phony government -- The Supreme Court Is On The Verge Of Making An Unprecedented Power Grab -- Why Is The US Spending Hundreds Of Millions On These Secret Israeli Bunkers? -- NASA Puts Mars Rover Curiosity on Standby After Solar Flare --
Science Confirms The Obvious: Gun Laws Are Associated With Fewer Gun
Deaths -- MS-13 Smuggles Missile Launchers, Teams Up With Zetas Cartel --
Troops Explain That You Do Not Want To Be On The Ground Facing Defense
Cuts -- RAND PAUL ENDS HISTORIC FILIBUSTER AFTER NEARLY 13 HOURS
AZ: FIRST EVER PRIVATE GUN SHOW - this Sat, March 9th,
2013 in Lakeside, AZ; Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction
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News Link • World News
North Korea threatens pre-emptive strike
03-07-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a vote by UN diplomats on whether to level new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gun Trafficking Bill Approved By Senate Committee
03-07-2013
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AP
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved making gun trafficking a federal crime by creating penalties of up to 25 years in prison for people who legally buy guns but give them to others who use them in crimes.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Privacy Rights
Video: Janet Napolitano Ignores Question Asked by Luke Rudkowski About DHS's 2,700 Armored Truck
03-07-2013
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www.dailypaul.com
At an airline security conference, Luke Rudkowski asked Janet Napolitano about the Department of Homeland Security's purchase of 2,700 armored trucks that will be deployed to local law enforcement agencies around the country
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Archaeology
Tianyuan Man Linked to Modern Chinese
03-07-2013
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arclein
It was the first time scientists had found an effective method to retrieve and analyse ancient human DNA from remains outside permanent frost zones.
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robert klein
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News Link • Israel
UNICEF Study: Israel Abuses Palestinian Child Detainees
03-07-2013
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www.antiwar.com
A scathing new report (PDF) from UNICEF blasts the Israeli government for its treatment of the hundreds of Palestinian children it captures and holds as “detainees” annually, referring to their treatment as “cruel, inhuman and degrading.”
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News Link • Marc Victor
Attorney For Freedom Show With Marc Victor
03-07-2013
Attorney for Freedom Show live on the Dave Pratt DoubleWide Network. Show Number 1 with Marc Victor, Mike Wasdin and Traci Victor. Freedom is the answer, what's the question?
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News Link • Science
Green Borer Decoys
03-07-2013
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arclein
As their name implies, emerald ash borers are iridescent green. The beetles don't carry disease, but their larvae feed on the ash trees' sap, effectively killing the trees by depriving trees of their nourishment.
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robert klein
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News Link • Government
Arctic Development
03-07-2013
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arclein
Arcticnet's recommendations include improving management of large caribou herds, expanding monitoring of water quality, protection of berry production areas, assessing the sustainability of arctic char and improved weather forecasting in the region.
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News Link • Science
Completing Einstein's Agenda
03-07-2013
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arclein
The first creation of the particle pair fp described herein is sufficient to create the cosmos and all of time and space or the space time manifold and thereby unites Particle Physics and General Relativity.
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robert klein
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News Link • Media: Print
Time Warner Ends Talks With Meredith and Will Spin Off Time Inc. Into Separate Company
03-07-2013
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New York Times
Time Warner found its answer on Wednesday. It announced it would spin off its Time Inc. magazine unit into a separate, publicly traded company, a move that will allow the media conglomerate to focus entirely on its cable television and film businesse
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News Link • Self-Defense
Flight attendants protest new policy on knives
03-07-2013
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AP
The vice president of a flight attendants union says a new policy that would allow airline passengers to carry small knives is "outrageous."
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Senate committee starting votes on curbing guns
03-07-2013
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APNews.MyWay.Com
President Barack Obama's prospects for winning near-universal background checks for gun purchases seemed shaky as the Senate Judiciary Committee prepared for Congress' first votes on curbing firearms since December's horrific shootings at a Connectic
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Processed meat 'early death' link
03-07-2013
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BBC.CO.UK
Sausages, ham, bacon and other processed meats appear to increase the risk of dying young, a study of half a million people across Europe suggests.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Surveillance
Rand Paul's filibuster " with a little help from his friends
03-07-2013
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Washington Times
Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster Wednesday to bring attention to drone strikes turned into a committee affair, with a dozen other GOP senators coming to the chamber floor to help carry the speaking load by asking long-winded questions, giving Mr. Paul a c
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News Link • World News
North Korea says it will launch nuclear attack on America
03-07-2013
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TheSun.Co.UK
The provocative statement comes weeks after the country conducted underground nuclear tests which caused a massive earthquake. America’s west coast cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco are feared to be in Kim’s sights.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
What will your last 10 years look like? -1 Min Video
03-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
The Heart and Stroke Foundation asks: What will your last 10 years look like? The average Canadian will spend their final decade with sickness and disability. But you can change your future and grow old with vitality.
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News Link • Political Parties
Liberal actor, John Cusack, on Filibuster "For God's Sake, Where Are Democrats?"
03-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Liberal Actor (John Cusack) on GOP-Led Filibuster Over Drones:
"For God's Sake, Where Are Democrats?"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Activism
Starting a Strike movement against the killing of Americans, gun control and phony government
03-07-2013
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Daily Paul.com
I've been thinking this over, and I think we should start encouraging striking days against this government.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Justice and Judges
The Supreme Court Is On The Verge Of Making An Unprecedented Power Grab
03-07-2013
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Business Insider
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was torn to shreds in the media for calling the Voting Rights Act a "racial entitlement" during heated arguments last week.
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News Link • Internet
How Much Porn Can You Buy For Your Kindle?
03-07-2013
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popsci.com
Quite a lot, apparently. But do you really want to look at nudie pics on a 6-inch, electrophoretic, black-and-white screen?
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News Link • Drones
Paul’s filibuster in opposition to Brennan, drone policy ends after nearly 13 hours
03-07-2013
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Washington Post
“When I asked the president, ‘Can you kill an American on American soil?’ it should have been an easy answer. It should have been a resounding, an unequivocal, ‘No,’ ” Paul said. “The president’s response? He hasn’t killed anyone yet. We’re supposed
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Israel
Why Is The US Spending Hundreds Of Millions On These Secret Israeli Bunkers?
03-07-2013
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Business Insider
Last year it was announced the U.S. was looking to build a secret underground complex in Israel.
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News Link • Just For Fun!
Spectacular eruption video: Mount Etna sends lava & ash into night sky
03-07-2013
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youtube
Europe's highest active volcano, Italy's Mount Etna, erupted on Tuesday, sending plumes of ash and lava into the night sky on the island of Sicily. Roads close to the volcano were covered with volcanic stones.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
This Means War? N.Korea fights back South-US drills with ceasefire scrap
03-07-2013
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youtube
North Korea has threatened to end the decades long ceasefire with its Southern neighbor if it goes ahead with its joint military drills with the US. Pyongyang also cited the US-led attempts to slap it with sanctions, as being behind the decision.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Self-Healing Concrete Uses Sunlight to Fix Its Own Cracks
03-07-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Researchers have demonstrated a way to give concrete surfaces the ability to heal when small cracks appear, an advance that could allow bridges and other structures to last longer.
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News Link • Drug War
Report: MS-13 Smuggles Missile Launchers, Teams Up With Zetas Cartel
03-07-2013
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Wired.com
Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, became El Salvador’s deadliest gang through force of numbers and the power of the handgun while inking some pretty crazy tattoos. Now if they weren’t deadly enough, the gang is transitioning into adopting heavier weapons w
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Troops Explain That You Do Not Want To Be On The Ground Facing Defense Cuts
03-07-2013
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Business Insider
With elaborate projects flying high above defense cuts, it's become tough to get a feel for what's going on within individual military units.
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
ADP Is Getting Better At Predicting The Official Jobs Report
03-07-2013
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Business Insider
The ADP jobs report, which comes out two days before the official BLS jobs report, is generally considered to be a preview of the official report
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
RAND PAUL ENDS HISTORIC FILIBUSTER AFTER NEARLY 13 HOURS
03-07-2013
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Business Insider
Senator Rand Paul took over the Senate floor Wednesday with a old-fashioned, talk-until-you-drop filibuster against John Brennan's nomination as CIA director vote, delivering a protracted speech on civil liberties and President Barack Obama's .....
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News Link • Obama Administration
The Coming Hunger Games: Young People Forced To Serve, Kill and Die
03-06-2013
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lewrockwell.com/jeff berwick
Even if these young people don't become cannon fodder, they will literally be forced to perform unpaid labor for their government. Last we checked unpaid labor at gunpoint satisfied the definition of slavery.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Zero Tolerance: High School Student Suspended For Disarming School Bus Gunman
03-06-2013
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lewrockwell.com/Mac Slavo
With a nationwide effort now underway to disarm America’s gun owners because of the dangers firearms purportedly pose to the general public, namely our schoolchildren, the following report from Cypress Lake, Florida highlights how our government spon
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The New Era in Gold Repatriation Will Affect Everything
03-06-2013
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Daily Bell
The old era in which central banking trust was ingrained in the system is gone now " and the ramifications are many even though they have not yet been felt.
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News Link • Government
Keene district court judge Edward Burke rules decisively against Cheshire County Sheriff.
03-06-2013
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FreeKeene.com
Cheshire Sheriff's No-Trespass Orders Ruled Unconstitutional
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News Link • Surveillance
Eric Holder: Drone strikes against Americans on U.S. soil are legal
03-06-2013
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www.washingtonexaminer.com
Attorney General Eric Holder can imagine a scenario in which it would be constitutional to carry out a drone strike against an American on American soil, he wrote in a letter to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
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News Link • Surveillance
Homeland Security Drones Designed to Identify Civilians Carrying Guns
03-06-2013
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www.breitbart.com
Recently uncovered government documents reveal that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) unmanned Predator B drone fleet has been customize designed to identify civilians carrying guns and track cell phone signals.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Study Shows More Americans Are Raiding 401(k) Accounts To Pay Bills
03-06-2013
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philadelphia.cbslocal.com
A new national study shows that too many of us are cashing out 401(k) accounts to pay bills. If that retirement account is calling your name, a financial expert advises you to stop listening.
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News Link • World News
Hugo Chavez's handpicked successor at helm in Venezuela, for time being
03-06-2013
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CBS News
Even in death, Hugo Chavez's orders are being followed. The man he anointed to succeed him, Vice President Nicolas Maduro, will continue to run Venezuela as interim president and be the governing socialists' candidate in an election to be called with
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News Link • Employee and Employer Relations
The Surprising Way Debt Collectors Know Where You Work
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
It is "perhaps one of the most powerful and private databases of American's personal information ever created, containing 190 million employment and salary records, covering more than one-third of US adults."
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News Link • Activism
Judge Calls Occupy Protesters The 'Most Affable Defendants' He'd Ever Seen
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
A judge made an unusual move after a jury acquitted a dozen Occupy Philadelphia protesters of trespassing Tuesday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
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News Link • China
Is China's real estate bubble about to burst?
03-06-2013
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www.youtube.com
Real estate mogul Zhang Xin tells 60 Minutes that residential development in China has reached the end of the road.
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News Link • Bitcoin
This Chart Of Bitcoins Is Bananas, And It Looks A Lot Like The Price Of Gold
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
This Chart Of Bitcoins Is Bananas, And It Looks A Lot Like The Price Of Gold
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News Link • Iraq
It Looks Like Iraq Has Joined Assad's Side In The Syrian War
03-06-2013
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Business Insider
At least 48 Syrian soldiers and eight Iraqis died on Monday when they were ambushed inside Iraq, The Associated Press reports.
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News Link • Secret Government Projects
CIA and FBI Had Planned to Assassinate Hugo Chávez
03-06-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Kurt Nimmo
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation. “How do we know that the CIA was behind the coup that overthrew Hugo Chávez?” asked historian William Blum in 2002.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ron Paul With an AR-15 (Video)
03-06-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
In this rare video from 1989 Ron Paul discusses the second amendment, life, liberty, property and the right to defend all three.
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News Link • Conspiracies
“Chavez Death Could Be A US Plot”
03-06-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Ria Novosti
The death of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez from cancer may have been part of a plot by the United States to infect its enemies in Latin America with the disease, the leader of Russia’s Communist party, Gennady Zyuganov, speculated on Wednesday.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
If There's No Penalty, It's Not Wrong
03-05-2013
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Simple Justice
Court records show that the Army veteran was set to start a new job with the state, with solid pay and benefits, until Chicago police hauled him out of his house in his boxer shorts. No judge had signed a warrant for [Frank] Craig's arrest.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Officer Claims Cops Sell LAPD Guns to Civilians and Dealers
03-05-2013
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Courthouse News
Los Angeles police officers bought and sold guns from the police armory for profit, and told the lieutenant in charge of the armory to "watch his back" after he reported it, the 25-year LAPD veteran claims in court.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Why Barry and Michelle Lost Their Law Licenses
03-05-2013
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
President Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer a "lawyer". He surrendered his license back in 2008 in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application. Michelle Obama "voluntarily surrendered" her law license after
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
"For Your Own Protection"
03-05-2013
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
According to the court, police were entitled to arrest, taze, and beat a teenager who had done nothing more sinister than speak to his mother on the street in front of their home. A police officer accosted the young man after he saw him approaching a
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