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Date Sent: 2013-03-10
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Sunday, March 10, 2013 |
Court curbs laptop searches at U.S. border -- City May Expand 'Gun Offender' Registry
Flu vaccines failed to provide protection this year, particularly
among elderly -- Couple Uses Massive Lottery Payout to Build Community
Infrastructure -- Army suspends tuition assistance program for troops -- Neocons Reel In The Ron Paulians -- Lindsey Graham: "...And when they say, 'I want my lawyer,' you tell them 'Shut up!" -- John Brennan Takes Oath with Hand on Constitution MINUS the Bill of Rights -- DEBATE: Larken Rose vs Atty. Tom Willcutts, Moderated by Richard Grove --
Amber Lyon: Why Journalists Fear NDAA. Harvard Law School 2013 -- Elon
Musk discusses hovering rocket, Mars and that NYT review -- Gotcha! Feinstein: All Vets are Mentally-ill & Gvt should
prevent 'em from owning Guns! -- Rand Paul’s Filibuster Divides the
Left and Right -- SXSW 2013: Makerbot Shows Off New 3-D Scanner That
Turns Real Objects Into 3-D-Printable Files -- Yes, This Exists: An
Indiegogo Campaign For A Luxury Airship RV -- 3-D-Printed Implant
Replaces 75 Percent Of Man's Skull -- Flying Robots 101: Everything
You Need To Know About Drones -- What Does the Dow Really Measure?
-- 31 Killed Across Iraq; Police Fire on Protesters -- Afghan Soldiers Attack US Base in Kapisa, Kill Contractor --
ACLU Has Concerns Over Military Weapons Used By Local Police -- The True Purpose of Gov’t with Historian Tom Woods -- The Feds Next Assault on YOUR wealth! - by Charles Goyette -- Mail "Right to Bear
Arms" Super Brochures across the country now!!! -- Stopping Illegally
Funded Gun Buy-Backs -- Michigan
School Confiscates 3rd-Grader’s Cupcakes Decorated With Toy Soldiers -- EPA Accused Of Blocking Scientific Advancement of Corexit In
BP Cleanup -- Cheney Admits that He Lied about 9/11 -- US
Unemployment Figures are a Camouflage. Boom in Corporate Profits,
Collapsing Wages -- Syrian Death Squad
Invaders Seize UN Peacekeepers -- Army’s First Interactive iPad Book
Lets You Finger-Swipe Through Afghanistan -- Phone Service Kills
Roaming Charges With Virtual Local Numbers -- Whole Foods announces
mandatory GMO labeling by 2018; here's how it happened -- If Earth
Were Hosting An Alien Species, This Is What It Would Look Like --
The melting of
Canada's glaciers is irreversible -- Why I Fled My Dehumanizing Corporate Law Firm And
Never Looked Back -- CHAOS IN EGYPT After Court Confirms Death Sentence Of Soccer Rioters
-- Money Velocity Could Be A Problem When The Fed Takes Its Foot Off
The Interest Rate Brake Pedal -- Serial Killer Heads CIA
AZ: Silver Circle at Pollack Tempe Cinemas -
April 11th, 2013 - Tempe, AZ -- Lincoln Day Dinner and Auction
with Keynote Speaker, Sheriff Richard Mack, Apr. 13
CA: Peymon Mottahedeh's Freedom Law School Freedom
Rally 2013, March 8-11th, 2013 - Ontario, CA
Checkpoint Content Contest Now Underway!
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News Link • Homeland Security
Court curbs laptop searches at U.S. border
03-09-2013
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Washington Times
A federal appeals court said the Border Patrol cannot confiscate or download every laptop or electronic device brought into the U.S., ruling people have an expectation their data are private and the government must have “reasonable suspicion”
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News Link • Gun Rights
City May Expand 'Gun Offender' Registry
03-10-2013
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dnainfo.com
Chicago's gun offender registry needs to be expanded to include the names of people busted committing crimes with a gun, Ald. Ed Burke (14th) said Thursday. And Mayor Rahm Emanuel agrees.
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Flu vaccines failed to provide protection this year, particularly among elderly
03-10-2013
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naturalnews.com
Even with all its number-fudging and statistic-twisting, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was unable to make the case this year that flu shots are legitimately effective at preventing the flu.
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News Link • Positive News
Couple Uses Massive Lottery Payout to Build Community Infrastructure
03-10-2013
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resilientcommunities.com
Here’s a great story.
Mark and Cindy Hill, from Dearborn, Missouri, recently won a quarter billion dollar lottery payout.
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News Link • Military
Army suspends tuition assistance program for troops
03-10-2013
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stripes.com
The Army announced Friday it is suspending its tuition assistance program for soldiers newly enrolling in classes due to sequestration and other budgetary pressures.
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News Link • NeoCons
Neocons Reel In The Ron Paulians
03-10-2013
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economicpolicyjournal.com
What can be better for The Republican Party (in general) and Neocons (specifically) than to get those Ron Paul supporters....without Ron Paul?
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News Link • Constitution
Lindsey Graham: "...And when they say, 'I want my lawyer,' you tell them 'Shut up!*
03-10-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Here is a video reminder of the McCain/Graham view of the United States Constitution
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Government
DEBATE: Larken Rose vs Atty. Tom Willcutts, Moderated by Richard Grove
03-10-2013
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Daily Paul.com
For those who may not be familiar with TragedyAndHope.com & its proprietor Richard Grove, please check it out.For those of you who may have guessed, indeed the eponymous site is named after Carroll Quigley's magnum opus insider expose....
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News Link • Constitution
Amber Lyon: Why Journalists Fear NDAA. Harvard Law School 2013
03-10-2013
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Daily Paul.com
This is an excerpt from Journalist Amber Lyon`s speech at Harvard Law School on Feb. 27, 2013. Investigative journalists who cover those the U.S. Government deems ¨terrorists¨ fear they could be indefinitely detained under the NDAA...
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Elon Musk discusses hovering rocket, Mars and that NYT review
03-09-2013
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http://www.latimes.com
AUSTIN -- Elon Musk says if mankind doesn't make it to Mars by the time he dies, it'll be the biggest disappointment of his life.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Gotcha! Feinstein: All Vets are Mentally-ill & Gvt should prevent 'em from owning Guns!
03-09-2013
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Daily Paul.com
if you’re going to do this, find a way that veterans who are incapacitated [as in any level of PTSD] for one reason or another mentally don’t have access to this kind of weapon.
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News Link • Government
Rand Paul’s Filibuster Divides the Left and Right
03-09-2013
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http://blog.independent.org, By Anthony Gregory
Senator Rand Paul’s thirteen-hour filibuster of Obama’s appointee for CIA chief, John Brennan, was the ninth longest filibuster in U.S. history, and unlike most such spectacles in U.S. history, it concerned fundamental, core issues of American libert
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Yes, This Exists: An Indiegogo Campaign For A Luxury Airship RV
03-09-2013
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popsci.com
I want to believe in the airship revival, but this crowdfunded luxury airship RV project just seems like, uh, dead air.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Expanding Biological Control of Crop Pests
03-09-2013
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arclein
The scientists describe development of a synthetic genetic system that produces vigorous adult males with lethal information encoded in their sex-determination genes.
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robert klein
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News Link • Drones
Flying Robots 101: Everything You Need To Know About Drones
03-09-2013
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popsci.com
How do you define a drone? What's the difference between an RQ-9 Reaper and a quadrotor? Your pressing drone questions, answered.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Agriculture
Indian Farmers Smash Crop Yield Records Without GMOs
03-09-2013
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arclein
SRI for rice involves starting with fewer, more widely spaced plants; using less water; actively aerating the soil; and applying lots of organic fertilizer. According to Uphoff’s SRI Institute website [PDF], the farmers who use synthetic fertilizer w
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
What Does the Dow Really Measure?
03-09-2013
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The Daily Bell
The Dow Isn't Really At A Record High (And It Wouldn't Matter If It Were) ... Just a quick, cranky reminder:
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Iraq
31 Killed Across Iraq; Police Fire on Protesters
03-09-2013
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Margaret Griffis
Friday: 31 Killed, 22 Wounded
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Climate Change
Ice Sheet Flow Research
03-09-2013
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arclein
However, when the climate is warmer, water levels build up beneath the ice and allow it to float higher above the rocks, cutting down on the friction. Researchers have reported that the speed of the ice shelf movement has nearly doubled in recent yea
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robert klein
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News Link • Afghanistan
Insider Attack: Afghan Soldiers Attack US Base in Kapisa, Kill Contractor
03-09-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
Soldiers Were in Afghan Army Uniforms, Driving Military Vehicle
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science
SMOS(Soil, Moisture and Ocean Salinity) Success
03-09-2013
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arclein
Salinity observations from SMOS show that warm, salty water being carried north by the Gulf Stream meets the colder, less-salty water transported southward along North America's east coast by the Labrador Current, mixing the water masses off Cape Ha
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robert klein
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News Link • Military
ACLU Has Concerns Over Military Weapons Used By Local Police
03-09-2013
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StLouis.CBSLocal.Com
The ACLU feels the surplus equipment, things like flash-bang grenades, shock cuffs, and tracking devices that are being handed down, are leading to more aggressive policing, especially in poor neighborhoods and neighborhoods of color.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
The True Purpose of Gov’t with Historian Tom Woods
03-09-2013
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www.infowars.com
The grassroots are finally turning to the local and state level for solutions to undo Washington’s tyranny, according to libertarian author Tom Woods, who joined the Alex Jones Show Friday.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - March 9-10 2013
03-09-2013
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LewRockwell.com
Dear Creep, An open letter to Lindsey Graham, from Glenn "Kane" Jacobs / De Facto Gun Control? / Guns of Blackbeard / The Dictator Is a Drone Assassin / War Propaganda Continues / Is the Fed Lying About Its Gold? / International War on Cash
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Conferences
Peymon Mottahedeh's Freedom Law School Freedom Rally 2013, March 8-11th, 2013 - Ontario, CA
03-07-2013
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Freedom Law School
This 4-day event includes a seminar on how to "Legally Beat IRS Assessments and Collections" featuring Donald Macpherson (BeatIRS.com). We will also have 10 of the most exciting Freedom speakers in the country, a seminar on "Stopping Home Mortgage F
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Gun Rights
Mail "Right to Bear Arms" Super Brochures across the country now!!!
03-09-2013
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SuperBrochure.Com
Creator of the Ron Paul Super Brochure now has a 'Right to Bear Arms' Super Brochure available to order - The media and politicians want the American public to believe their lies that we don't want our guns. Nothing could be farther from reality.
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Opinion • Philosophy: Libertarianism
PIGSTY
03-08-2013
Glenn Jacobs
I was reminded of Animal Farm recently when I flew into my home airport. As I was walking to the parking lot, I noticed a very nice, expensive car parked in the “Authorized Cars Only” area of the airport. This parking area is much closer to the termi
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News Link • Gun Rights
Stopping Illegally Funded Gun Buy-Backs
03-08-2013
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The International Libertarian
Mayor Joseph DiGirolamo and Director of Public Safety Fred Harran of Bensalem, PA state that their two day gun buy-back of February 6 and 16 was the first in the nation financed with federal funds seized from drug dealers.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • How To
Paracord - DIY drawstring pouch
03-09-2013
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http://www.off-grid.net, TREASUREGIFT
Those of us who are interested in survival stuff already know about paracord, that magically strong yet thin and lightweight cord that was once the domain of parachutist, this wonderful product is often turned into decorative as well as useful items
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Michigan School Confiscates 3rd-Grader’s Cupcakes Decorated With Toy Soldiers
03-09-2013
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http://govtslaves.info, Steve Watson
The nationwide panic over anything remotely related to guns continues apace as a third grader in Michigan was reprimanded by school officials when he brought a cupcake to school with a plastic toy soldier on top of it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Cooking With A Microwave Destroys Cancer-Fighting Nutrients In Food
03-09-2013
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http://govtslaves.info, Mike Adams
Microwaves absolutely decimate the nutritional value of your food, destroying the very vitamins and phytonutrients that prevent disease and support good health.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
EPA Accused Of Blocking Scientific Advancement of Corexit In BP Cleanup
03-09-2013
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http://www.freedomsphoenix.com, by Farron Cousins
Oil Spill Eater International (OSEI), through the Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference group, issued a press release this week saying that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effectively blocked or otherwise delayed scientific advancement
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
US Unemployment Figures are a Camouflage. Boom in Corporate Profits, Collapsing Wages
03-09-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, By Andre Damon
The number of jobs in the US grew by 236,000 in February, and the official unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since 2008, according to the Labor Department’s latest jobs report released Friday.
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News Link • Military
Army’s First Interactive iPad Book Lets You Finger-Swipe Through Afghanistan
03-09-2013
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Wired.com
The Army has no shortage of battlefield maps. But until Friday, it didn’t have many that animate troop movements or enemy positions at the touch of a fingertip.
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News Link • Technology: Software
Phone Service Kills Roaming Charges With Virtual Local Numbers
03-09-2013
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Wired.com
You really ought to save your international friends money with a local number, or at least impress people with a number in Sweden. You can do that with VIR2SIM.
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News Link • Activism
Whole Foods announces mandatory GMO labeling by 2018; here's how it happened
03-09-2013
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naturalnews.com
In a huge victory for the alternative media and grassroots activism, Whole Foods announced on Friday that it would require GMO labels on all products by 2018.This announcement deals a significant blow to Monsanto, DuPont and all the GMO pushers ....
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News Link • Animals and Pets
Retired Lab Chimps See The Sky For The First Time [Video]
03-09-2013
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popsci.com
Tissues at the ready, everyone.
A National Institute of Health report recently recommended retiring most government lab chimps. So what's next for them?
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News Link • Climate Change
The melting of Canada's glaciers is irreversible
03-09-2013
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newscientist.com
See Canada's glaciers while you still can. Their melting is irreversible, according to projections based on real-world data and validated by satellite images
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News Link • Egypt
CHAOS IN EGYPT After Court Confirms Death Sentence Of Soccer Rioters
03-09-2013
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Business Insider
The verdict that had everyone in Egypt scared has come out and it's not good.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Money Velocity Could Be A Problem When The Fed Takes Its Foot Off The Interest Rate Brake Pedal
03-09-2013
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Business Insider
With the DOW blowing by milestones I went looking for other things that were at record levels.
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, March 10, 2013 Edition
03-08-2013
John Semmens
McCain Calls Fellow Senators “Wacko Birds”
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz) assailed fellow Senators Rand Paul (R-Ken) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex) as “wacko birds” for participating in a 13-hour long filibuster against the confirmation of CIA Director nomine
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