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Date Sent: 2010-03-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest -- US, UK Move Closer to Losing AAA Bond Rating
Junk Bond Avalanche Looms for Credit Markets -- House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it -- Arizona House to approve Real ID, mandatory identification tomorrow -- Karzai Angry at Taliban Boss' Arrest -- Obama & Dems are hiding 60% of costs of ObamaCare -- Supporting the War Instead of the Troops - by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) -- Marc Faber: Time To Ditch U.S. Treasuries -- More Thoughts on the Effective Federal Funds Rate -- McCain's Idea of Liberty: A Detention Bill You Ought to Read --
National Association of Home Builders Index Falls Near Record Low --
Man wearing ‘Freedom or Die’ t-shirt stopped at airport -- Military
discharged lesbian soldier after police ‘outed’ her to Air Force -- Google ‘99% certain’ to shut China engine -- U.S. suffers net capital outflow in January -- China trims holdings of Treasury securities -- Widespread U.S. fraud in Iraq Chaos
NM: Adam Kokesh Needs Your Help!
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest
03-15-2010
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Wired
The nation’s chief executive extols the virtues of mandatory DNA testing of Americans upon arrest, even absent charges or a conviction. Obama said, “It’s the right thing to do” to “tighten the grip around folks” who commit crime. When it comes to civ
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S., U.K. Move Closer to Losing Rating, Moody’s Says
03-15-2010
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Bloomberg
The US and UK have moved “substantially” closer to losing their AAA credit ratings as the cost of servicing their debt rises. Both economies must balance bringing down their debt burdens without damaging growth by removing fiscal stimulus too quickly
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
Junk Bond Avalanche Looms for Credit Markets
03-15-2010
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NY Times
2012 is the beginning of a 3-year period in which more than $700 billion in risky, high-yield corporate debt begins to come due, an extraordinary surge that some analysts fear could overload the debt markets. With huge bills about to hit corporations
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it
03-15-2010
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Washington Post
After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it. Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rel
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona House to approve Real ID, mandatory identification today
03-15-2010
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AZ House of Representatives
Read it for yourself. Find your state rep here
http://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster.asp?Body=H
CALL AND EMAIL BEFORE TOMORROW - TUES - 10 AM
This is the one you can't ignore. Because it wont ignore you when passed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Aide: Karzai Angry at Taliban Boss' Arrest
03-15-2010
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AP
The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan, and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, according to one of Karzai's advisers.
The detention of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar - second
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Detroit to city workers: Leave smelly perfumes, deodorants, and candles at home!
03/15/2010
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By Dory Devlin, Shine, Yahoo.com
Getty Images
Detroit officials are telling workers in city offices to leave smelly perfumes, deodorants, and other strongly scented toiletries and items at home.The signs are going up in response to a federal lawsuit, which also awarded $100,000
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Constitution
DEAR HOUSE REPS: IN CASE YOU'VE FORGOTTEN YOUR OATH: U.S. House of Representatives:
11/06/09
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Clerk House Gov
“I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Voting and Elections
Libertarian Philosophy
3/15/10
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Youtube
"Libertarianism is, as the name implies, the belief in liberty. Libertarians believe that each person owns his own life and property, and has the right to make his own choices as to how he lives his life - as long as he simply respects the same righ
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Healthcare
Smoking Gun: Obama & Dems are hiding 60% of costs of ObamaCare
3/15/10
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CATO
This weekend, the Congressional Budget Office released “a very strange memo” titled, “Budgetary Treatment of Proposals to Regulate Medical Loss Ratios.” You wouldn’t know it from the title, but that little memo is the smoking gun that shows how cong
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • World News
The Petraeus briefing: Biden’s embarrassment is not the whole story
03/13/2010
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By Mark Perry, foreignpolicy.com
On Jan. 16, two days after a killer earthquake hit Haiti, a team of senior military officers from the U.S. Central Command (responsible for overseeing American security interests in the Middle East), arrived at the Pentagon to brief Joint Chiefs of S
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Texas Yanks Thomas Jefferson From Teaching Standard
03/12/2010
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By David Knowles, AOL News
(March 12) -- Widely regarded as one of the most important of all the founding fathers of the United States, Thomas Jefferson received a demotion of sorts Friday thanks to the Texas Board of Education.
The board voted to enact new teaching standards
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Israel
'Israel, US relations at lowest level in 35 years'
03/15/2010
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Presstv.com
Israel's envoy to Washington said ties between the two allies have hit "the most severe crisis since 1975" over Tel Aviv settlement plan that embarrassed the US administration at a time that it was promoting indirect peace talks with the Palestini
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Lauren Roseman
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News Link • Drug War
Medical Pot Patient Robbed, Beaten; Cops Take Plants While He's Dying
03-15-2010
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Toke of the Town
Michael Shane Howard was attacked and killed by robbers who wanted his medical marijuana. While he lay dying, the cops took his plants. When local police were called to the scene, rather than investigating the assault, they started questioning
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Steve Elliott
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News Link • Activism
Clyde Cleveland Speaks to Phoenix Activists 3/13/2010
03-15-2010
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Ed Vallejo Productions! LOL
Clyde Cleveland - Author of "Common Sense; Revisited" and Iowa Delegate to the recent Continental Congress 2009 speaks to Phoenix Activists (video).
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
James Howard Kunstler: Where Have We Been; Where Are We Going?
03-15-2010
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Kunstler.com
This disintegrating nation is woefully distracted by Web 2.0, iPads, Avatar movies, Facebook, and the idiot celebrity spectacles of TV, not to mention the disasters of job loss, foreclosure, medical extortion, bankruptcy, corporate loot-ocracy...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Healthcare
Why is Obama asking Democrats to Commit Political Suicide?
03-15-2010
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FireDogLake.com
The generals know it’s a suicide mission but they don’t care. They think they might get a promotion so they send the troops in anyway. But the troops won’t go, so the generals start firing on their own men in the trenches.”
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
What's Wrong with the U.S. Education System? - Parental Neglect!
03-15-2010
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
If the parent is not participating, the kids stand little chance. Even 10:1 student to teacher ratios, kids will fail without parental concern.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
More Thoughts on the Effective Federal Funds Rate
03-15-2010
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
In case 1, this means banks are pulling money out of the system. They are borrowing Fed funds and depositing them as excess reserves. This would be an extremely deflationary tight money situation.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
FDIC is in Trouble: So Sheila Does a Deal
03-15-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
The FDIC has a $500b line with Treasury. This borrowing could have been accomplished much cheaper. The reason that did not happen is just more optics. If the FDIC had borrowed from Treasury the word ‘bailout’ would have been uttered.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Marc Faber: Time To Ditch U.S. Treasuries
03-15-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Mr. Marc Faber is pounding the table hard, warning that investors should get out of U.S. bonds:
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Chart of the Day: The Consumer is Already Rolling Over into Double Dip
03-15-2010
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Businessinsider.com/
Yet if their transactions data is a dependable leading indicator, then we could be in for a tumble. That's because their Daily Growth Index just crashed, which means that U.S. GDP growth could be about to slump as well.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Bill of Rights
McCain's Idea of Liberty: A Detention Bill You Ought to Read
03-15-2010
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theatlantic.com/
A close reading of the bill suggests it would allow the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens without trial indefinitely in the U.S. based on suspected activity. Read the bill here, and then read the summarized points after the jump.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
National Association of Home Builders Index Falls Near Record Low
03-15-2010
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ZeroHedge.com
More ominously the spread between hope and reality, or the 1-family Sale Present Time component and the Next 6 Months components, dropped to 9, matching the tightest level over the past year, even as the Prospective Buyer Traffic component dropped...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
20 Signs That The United States Is Rapidly Becoming A Totalitarian Big Brother Police State
03-15-2010
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The End Of The World As We Know It
Once upon a time, the United States was a land of unparalleled freedom....Now Americans have to fear that they will be tackled...and dragged off to a detention facility if they spill a Pepsi on a flight attendant.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona: The Surveillance State
03-15-2010
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Fox News
For years Arizona has been known as the “sunset state,” but lately some residents simply call it the “surveillance state.” “They track us everywhere we go,” says Phoenix resident Shawn Dow.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Man wearing ‘Freedom or Die’ t-shirt stopped at airport
03-15-2010
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AFP
"When I went through the metal detector, first they told me to take my trainers off, then they took my wallet off me. Then the guy who checked me told me to turn my T-shirt inside out," he said,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Military discharged lesbian soldier after police ‘outed’ her to Air Force
03-15-2010
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AP
The Rapid City Police Department says Newsome, an aircraft armament system craftsman who spent 9 years in the Air Force, was not cooperative when they showed up at her home in November with an arrest warrant for her partner, who was wanted on theft c
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News Link • Internet
Google ‘99% certain’ to shut China engine
03-15-2010
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Financial Times
Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with
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News Link • Government Waste
State Dept. spends $5.4 million on Swedish crystal glassware
03-15-2010
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NY Post
Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department is spending $5.4 million to buy fine crystal stemware for American embassies -- but it won't give the US economy much of a boost.
The contract was given to a tiny Washington, DC, interior designer, which i
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. suffers net capital outflow in January
03-15-2010
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Reuters
Foreign investors, led by central banks, were net sellers of all U.S. securities in January but continued to buy U.S. Treasuries. China remained the largest single holder of U.S. government debt, with $889 billion in hand in January, down from $894.8
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX says Falcon 9 rocket test fire is a success
03-15-2010
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Reuters
Space Exploration Technologies successfully test fired its Falcon 9 rocket this weekend, clearing a milestone toward the inaugural flight of a privately developed spaceship to fly cargo, and possibly astronauts, into orbit, the company said.
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News Link • China
China trims holdings of Treasury securities
03-15-2010
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AP
China is still the biggest foreign holder of US Treasury debt in January although it trimmed its holdings for a third straight month. Underscoring worries the US government faces much higher interest rates to finance soaring budget deficits.
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News Link • Government Waste
Probe highlights widespread U.S. fraud in Iraq
Chaos, weak oversight allowed many who stole cash to
03-14-2010
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James Glanz, New York Times
Investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new cases in six months by scrutinizing large cash transactions " involving banks, land deals, loan payments, casinos and even plastic surgery "
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Financial Contraction Phase II
03-15-2010
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arclein
The American consumer is in a position to walk away from the lenders and this is bullish for Main Street. Those same consumers will be buying all that foreclosed housing and restoring their balance sheets. This is all bullish news. A massive amoun
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robert klein
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News Link • Science
Cryptoterrestrials
03-15-2010
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arclein
Rather, Mac - right up until the time of his death - was chasing down the theory suggesting that the UFOnauts may actually represent the last vestiges of a very ancient race of distinctly terrestrial origins; a race that - tens of thousands of years
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robert klein
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News Link • Agriculture
Wild Bison Restoration
03-15-2010
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arclein
Restoring wild populations of American bison would benefit ecosystems in their historic range from the desert grasslands of northern Mexico, through the Great Plains of the United States and Canada, to the lowland meadows of interior Alaska, finds a
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robert klein
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News Link • Healthcare
Brace Yourselves: Democrats Introduce the Trojan Horse Health Care Bill
3/15/10
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The Sundries Shack
Here it comes, folks. The Democrats have introduced the first step of their plain to ram government-run health care down our throats whether we want it or not. The bill is 2,309 pages long, but don’t get too comfortable with it. Here’s why......
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • Healthcare
Virginia Bill BANS Government Mandate of Health Insurance by Bob Marshall (R) Fox News Reports
3/13/10
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Youtube
Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall (R) describes the CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE the Commonwealth of Virginia is putting into place to protect Virginians from ANY mandatory purchase of Obama-Care FORCED upon Virginians by ANY government (Federal or State).
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