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Date Sent: 2013-10-26
Freedom's Phoenix Edition for Saturday, October 26, 2013 |
Franks legislation authorizes military force against Iran
Louisiana: Federal Judge OKs Drug Dog Search In Driveway -- Harry Reid: 'Everybody ... Willing to Pay More' Taxes -- Man Accuses Police Of Opening Fire On Him After He Opened His Door And Refused Questioning -- Feds Order School to Ban Packed Lunches Without Doctor’s Note -- Bitdrop app beats NSA surveillance with anonymous encrypted file transfers -- SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, October 27, 2013 Edition -- UK Police Seize 3-D Printer Parts Instead Of 3-D-Printed Gun -- NSA Chief: Reporters Must Be Stopped -- NSA site down due to alleged DDoS attack -- World’s First Bitcoin ATM Set to Go Live Tuesday -- 7.3 magnitude earthquake hits Japan near Fukushima -- Your Life Literally Depends on Taking Your Money Out of Your Bank -- Banks have racked up $95 billion in fines for the housing crisis. But is that enough? -- They Are Coming for Our Water
AZ: Fall Harvest Festival today, Sat Oct 26th
10am-2pm - Location changed to Tonopah Rob's 35838 W Buckeye; AZ
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News Link • Iran
Franks legislation authorizes military force against Iran
10-25-2013
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http://thehill.com, By Morad Ghorban and Lee Hodge
Recent talks between the West and Iran have created an important opportunity to resolve the Iran nuclear standoff.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Events: America
Fall Harvest Festival Sat Oct 26th 10am-2pm - Location changed to Tonopah Rob's 35838 W Buckeye
09-10-2013
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MeetUp.Com
We have changed the location of this event from the 'Hancock Farm' to Tonopah Robs after going there for a tour of the place. It is awesome, and a great place for people to come and take a look at what you can grow in the desert.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
This Week In Innocence
10-25-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
Two Washington state men will get $10.5 million after spending 17 years in prison for a rape they didn't commit. It's easy to dismiss these exoneration stories as the product of an imperfect system that sometimes makes mistakes. But
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Louisiana: Federal Judge OKs Drug Dog Search In Driveway
10-25-2013
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The Newspaper
The magistrate last month rejected Beene's motion to suppress the evidence, arguing the driveway is not a space protected by the Fourth Amendment.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Harry Reid: 'Everybody ... Willing to Pay More' Taxes
10-25-2013
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Reid rebuked the Nevada Public Radio host when he was asked what Republicans would have to concede to get Medicare and Social Security cuts on the table.
“You keep talking about Medicare and Social Security. Get something else in your brain. Stop
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Fantasy Crime League
10-25-2013
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Simple Justice
ATF agents had themselves a fine CI, and it would be a shame to waste him. So they brought him from Miami to Phoenix, paid him $100 a day and instructed him to hang around in bars and see if he can find someone willing to commit a crime.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Man Accuses Police Of Opening Fire On Him After He Opened His Door And Refused Questioning
10-25-2013
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Jonathan Turley
There is a troubling case out of Dallas where David Blair said that he opened the door to his apartment only to be met with a hail of gunfire from police. The Dallas Police Department reportedly told him that he caused the response by shining a flash
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Feds Order School to Ban Packed Lunches Without Doctor’s Note
10-25-2013
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Infowars
A school in Virginia is following federal government instructions by telling parents that they need to have a doctor’s note in order for their children to be allowed to bring packed lunches to school, another example of the nanny state encroaching
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Surveillance
Bitdrop app beats NSA surveillance with anonymous encrypted file transfers
10-25-2013
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A small Swiss app developer has invented what it claims is a way to securely and anonymously transfer files between a browser and a mobile device without having to leave any traces of the user’s identity, device ID or location.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
The Decline of Wikipedia
10-25-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Wikipedia is the largest free source of information in the world.
The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • World News
UK Police Seize 3-D Printer Parts Instead Of 3-D-Printed Gun
10-25-2013
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http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D Atherton
When confiscating a gun, its best to know what that gun looks like.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Architecture
What's the tallest skyscraper physics would allow us to build?
10-25-2013
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dvice.com
In just a few weeks, architects will find out if the tallest building in America really is 1,776 feet tall.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Entertainment: Television (TV)
HBO breaks free from cable bundles, cozies up with cable internet
10-25-2013
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dvice.com
The long-sought goal of cable cutters everywhere looks as if it has finally been realized. In a recent announcement, Comcast has freed HBO from the oppressive shackles of traditionally-bundled cable packages.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Guest Post: 4 Things To Ponder This Weekend
10-25-2013
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zerohedge.com
It has been a very interesting week as the Government shutdown/debt ceiling debate debacle moves into the background.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
NSA site down due to alleged DDoS attack
10-25-2013
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rt.com
NSA.gov has been unavailable globally as of late Friday afternoon, and Twitter accounts belonging to people loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivism movement have suggested they are responsible.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bitcoin
World’s First Bitcoin ATM Set to Go Live Tuesday
10-25-2013
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www.wired.com
hree high school buddies from a tiny Canadian town say that they will flip the switch on the world’s first bitcoin ATM next week. It will operate near the entrance of a downtown Vancouver coffee house.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Geology
7.3 magnitude earthquake hits Japan near Fukushima
10-25-2013
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worldnews.nbcnews.com
A 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook Japan early Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake was off the Fukushima region of Japan, 231 miles east off the island of Honshu. It was 6.2 miles deep and was felt 300 miles away in Tokyo.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • MEDIA NEWS REFERENCES
Banks have racked up $95 billion in fines for the housing crisis. But is that enough?
10-25-2013
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http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/bank
Over the past five years, the U.S. government has become steadily more aggressive at fining banks for their role in the housing crisis.
JPMorgan was the latest target, settling for $13 billion. And there’s more to come: “Bank of America may soon re
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Reference Link • WAR: About that War
They Are Coming for Our Water
www.thecommonsenseshow.com
What happens when government begins to sell off its infrastructure to pay down their staggering debts? What happens to the people? The short answer is that there is hell to pay.
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News Link • United Nations
Exclusive: Germany, Brazil Turn to U.N. to Restrain American Spies
10-25-2013
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By Colum Lynch, Shane Harris, John Hudson
Brazil and Germany today joined forces to press for the adoption of a U.N. General Resolution that promotes the right of privacy on the internet, marking the first major international effort to restrain the National Security Agency's intrusions into
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News Link • Food
Forensic Investigation of Chicken Nuggets
10-25-2013
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arclein
What I appreciate about all this, by the way, is that Dr. deShazo's team has reproduced and confirmed my original scientific findings. This is encouraging, as it means the Natural News Forensic Food Lab is now inspiring other scientists to test our
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News Link • U F O and Other Unidentified Stuff
Pterosaur Survey
10-25-2013
When shown books filled with pictures of animals living and extinct, every native present immediately selected pictures of pterosaurs and identified them as representations of the kongamato. And indeed, there is no doubt that the above description o
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Research Proves Wheat Can Cause Harm To Everyone’s Intestines
10-25-2013
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arclein
In celiac disease, an alcohol-soluble wheat storage protein known as gliadin is partially degraded (i.e. deamidated) by the enzyme tissue transglutaminase, the effect of which is to activate susceptible host T-cells to mistakenly identify and attack
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Airship Flight Tests Begin
10-25-2013
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arclein
s, it is still a one-half scale prototype " the final design is expected to be more than 400 feet (121m) long and be able to lift a cargo weight of 66 tons.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
The River of No Return
10-25-2013
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ncc-1776.org
The Age of Authority, now drawing to a close after ten thousand blood-stained years, has also largely been an age of witlessness and fraud. Stripping history of all of its excuses and rationalizations, it is surpassingly difficult to ......
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Mozilla's Lightbeam tool will expose who is looking over your shoulder on the web
10-25-2013
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independent.co.uk
Just who is looking over your shoulder when you browse the Internet?
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drug War
Is the Drug War Toast?
10-24-2013
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blog.independent.org
Public opinion now decisively favors legalizing marijuana. Fifty-eight percent of Americans want the war on pot to stop.
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News Link • Housing
"...bring all your interests here." ~ OK. The Ultimate Liberty Community
10-24-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Barracuda Trader
This is a completely self contained development that has 38 buildings, all restored to pristine condition.
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News Link • Military
Each U.S. Troop In Afghanistan Now Costs $2.1 Million
10-24-2013
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http://cdn.defenseone.com, Kevin Baron
The average cost of each U.S. troop in Afghanistan will nearly double in the last year of the war to $2.1 million, according to a new analysis of the Pentagon’s budget.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
The Pepper-Spraying Cop Is Getting a Larger Settlement Than the Students He Pepper-Sprayed
10-24-2013
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slate.com
Remember former UC-Davis police officer John Pike? That's him in the video above casually pepper-spraying a group of students peacefully protesting a tuition hike back in 2011.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Central Banks Drop Tightening Talk as Easy Money Goes On
10-24-2013
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bloomberg.com, By Simon Kennedy & Jeff Kearns
The Bank of Canada’s dropping of language about the need for future interest-rate increases and today’s decisions by central banks in Norway, Sweden and the Philippines to leave their rates on hold unite them with counterparts in reinforcing rather t
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News Link • Internet
Facebook Is No Longer the Most Popular Social Network for Teens
10-24-2013
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slate.com
Twitter has overtaken Facebook as the social media network that is most important to teens, according to Piper Jaffray's semi-annual teen market research report.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Gun Rights
Emily Miller: ‘Now that I’m a gun owner, I’m never afraid of being helpless’
10-24-2013
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Lewrockwell.com
The ebullient Emily Miller has become a champion for gun rights in recent years.
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News Link • Marc Victor
Attorney For Freedom Show - Ben Swann
10-24-2013
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Attorney For Freedom Show
Muckraker Ben Swann was our guest on The Attorney For Freedom Show
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Court Rules Probable-Cause Warrant Required for GPS Trackers
10-24-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Kim Zetter
An appellate court has finally supplied an answer to an open question left dangling by the Supreme Court in 2012: Do law enforcement agencies need a probable-cause warrant to affix a GPS tracker to a target’s vehicle?
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Judge Forced To Resign After Caught Texting Instructions To DA During Trial
10-24-2013
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TechDirt
Judge Coker communicated information about the Reeves case to the assistant district attorney prosecuting the case; to suggest questions for the prosecutor to ask during the trial; to ensure that a prior witness was able to rehabilitate his testimony
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News Link • Healthcare
The Dental UnProfession and ObamaCare
10/24/2013
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BetweenTheHeadlines.net
An experienced dental assistant explains some of her experiences in the dentistry, what trends are occurring affecting employment and wages and suggest, if the socialized portion of dentistry is a potential example of ObamaCare, you may want to rethi
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News Link • Propaganda
The Population Control Agenda Is Being Relentlessly Pushed In American Public Schools
10-24-2013
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End of the American Dream
Do you want your kids to be taught that the earth has too many people and that they should have no more than two children for the good of the planet? Yes, I know that this sounds absolutely crazy, but this is actually the kind of propaganda that is
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Exclusive Interview With Ron Paul: Gold, Dollar, Debt Ceiling And The Fed
10-24-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, Birch Gold Group
In this exclusive interview with Birch Gold Group, former Congressman Ron Paul shares his opinions on a number of topics, including investing in physical gold and silver, the future of the U.S. dollar and the role of the Federal Reserve.
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News Link • History
The Lost Story of the American Revolution
10-24-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Jonathan Goodwin
The story we learn of the American Revolution is one of tea parties, Paul Revere, taxation without representation, all men created equal, Patriots against Loyalists, heroes without self-interest.
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News Link • Energy
Elon Musk Calls Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars ‘Bullsh*t’
10-24-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Damon Lavrinc
There’s an old joke about hydrogen power: It’s the fuel of the future, and always will be. Elon Musk doesn’t just agree, he called out hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as “bullshit,” claiming they’re more of a marketing ploy for automakers than a long-ter
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Jackfest II "The Jackalope Freedom Festival" Non-Event (video)
10-24-2013
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www.agoristmarketplace.com
Video of the Jackalope Freedom Festival August 2-4th 2013.
Jackfest II "The Jackalope Freedom Festival" Copyleft Music by Dan Dectis
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News Link • Drones
In Swat Valley, U.S. drone strikes radicalizing a new generation
10-24-2013
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http://edition.cnn.com, By Nic Robertson
The Sabaoon School for boys in northern Pakistan is anything but average.
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News Link • Syria
Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with US over response to conflict in Syria
10-24-2013
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http://www.dailymail.co, By Reuters Reporter
Upset at President Barack Obama's policies on Iran and Syria, members of Saudi Arabia's ruling family are threatening a rift with the United States that could take the alliance between Washington and the kingdom to its lowest point in years.
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News Link • Events: Arizona
McCain considering seeking reelection in 2016
10-24-2013
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http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Aaron Blake
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday that he is considering running for another term in 2016, when he would be 80 years old.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Super Bowl Champs Get $130,000 to Promote Obamacare
10-24-2013
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http://www.judicialwatch.org,
The professional football team that won this year’s Super Bowl is getting $130,000 from American taxpayers to promote Obamacare, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch this week.
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