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Nuthin’ but Net: The AAA Factor
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Dave Hodges
The internet is the last bastion of media freedom. The internet will soon constitute the major way that individuals obtain their news and information. The internet is immediate, detailed and unlike the mainstream media, it is completely uncensored, u
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Were Evangelicals Played For Suckers?
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Chuck Baldwin
No president in American history played the "God card" any better than George W. Bush. Early in his 2000 presidential campaign, Bush convinced fundamentalist/evangelical Christian leaders that he was "their" man.
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Something To Talk About
Remembering a Legend One Ball and One Fence at a Time
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Rachel Gluck
Buck O’Neil’s response to his lack of induction into The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, on “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” left not only The Host, but many Americans, including
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C bs: The Washington Party and Its Intramural Senatorial Debate
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Dave Hodges
Our job is to give the people NOT what THEY want, but what WE decide they ought to have."
Richard Salant (former President of CBS News)
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Close the Window, the Draft is Coming
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Dave Hodges
Many pro-draft politicians are, no doubt, waiting for the post-election period when the lame duck President will reintroduce the military draft under the pretense of fighting terrorism!
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Something To Talk About
Proud to Be a Republican?
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Rachel Gluck
Are you a Republican? Are you proud to be a Republican, today? Am I a Republican? Are you sure? Come check out the coolest, most entertaining new video commentary on www.freedomsphoenix.com.
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Prop 207 is about Freedom and Common Sense
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Howard Blitz
With the Kelo v. New London Supreme Court decision of last summer so freshly in the minds of Americans, propositions are popping up all over the United States, including Arizona, to clamp down on the power of eminent domain.
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Some Choice: Socialist Democrats Or Fascist Republicans
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Chuck Baldwin
Whenever some well-meaning conservative Christian takes issue with one of my columns chronicling the abysmal governing record of Republicans, he or she almost always exclaims, "Think how bad it would be if Democrats were in charge."
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Reflexiones Libertarias
LA ANGLOESFERA…¿CAMPECHANEADA?
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Ricardo Valenzuela
Los EU anuncian la construcción de un muro fronterizo, y “retiemble en su centro la tierra.” Después de siglos practicando el deporte favorito en nuestra región, culpar a los gringos desde nuestra pobreza, opresión, nuestra escalofriante deuda, terre
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Back to the Future: Echoes of 1935 (Part Three)
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Dave Hodges
Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. George W. Bush
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Back to the Future: Echoes from 1935 (Part Two)
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Dave Hodges
We can bid farewell to our former constitutional era when Americans could say "it can't happen here." The Holocaust-inspired, heart-rending cries of “Never Forget” contain warnings which are quickly disappearing into the winds of time.
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Back to the Future: Echoes from 1935 (Part One)
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Dave Hodges
As the United States is just over eighteen months away from the implementation of the Real ID Act (i.e., National ID Card), Americans, everywhere, should be experiencing a sense of foreboding. Hitler and Stalin must be jumping for joy as Thomas Jeffe
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The Libertarian
HOW MANY FCCs SHOULD ONE GOVERNMENT BE ALLOWED TO OWN?
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Vin Suprynowicz
The Federal Communications Commission kicked off the first of six planned public hearings Tuesday to discuss a number of broadcast ownership rules, including whether a single company should be able to own both a newspaper and a television station in
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My Tribute To Helen Chenoweth
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Chuck Baldwin
I was extremely saddened to hear the news that former Idaho congressman (the way she preferred to be addressed) Helen Chenoweth had recently been killed in an automobile accident. With her passing, America lost a great statesman and patriot.
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Constitution Decimation
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Howard Blitz
The very individuals who have taken an oath to uphold the United States Constitution continue their decimation of the very document that separates tyranny from befalling the citizens of the United States. Both the house and the senate have given the
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The Libertarian
NEW CRISIS LOOMS: BEARS FOUND DUMPING IN THE WOODS
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Vin Suprynowicz
In Philippe de Broca’s 1966 comedy “King of Hearts,” set during the First World War, a British private is sent into a French village in search of an armed bomb supposedly left behind by retreating German forces.
The villagers he encounters seem r
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The Libertarian
A HEFTY HELPING OF D.C. DOUBLE-TALK
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Vin Suprynowicz
At the White House on Sept. 22, President Bush met with Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who vowed continuing efforts to root out the Taliban and other extremists from Afghanistan and from Pakistan’s own northwest provinces.
Then, Sept.
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One Oily Hand Washes the Other Oily Hand: Do We Dare Use the “F” Word?
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Dave Hodges
Many academic scholars view Fascism as a kind of corporatism in which the interests of corporations and government become one in the same. After reading the following account, Americans will inevitably seek to find a label to adequately describe the
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The Libertarian
TIME TO HOSE OUT THE SERVANTS' QUARTERS
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Vin Suprynowicz
Let us suppose those oil stocks you bought went through the roof, you invented a better mousetrap, or the Megabucks machine finally decided to line up just right. Imagine, in other words, you’re suddenly a millionaire with a new house so big you need
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The Libertarian
THE STRATEGY BEHIND THE CLINTON BLOW-UP
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Vin Suprynowicz
Off-year elections are about expectations.
The party of a lame-duck president, having presumably spent much of its momentum, is expected to lose seats. The only question is: how many?
When the incumbent president is not the most eloquent of s
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Reflexiones Libertarias
KID BOURS VS SUGAR RAY EL IMPARCIAL
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Ricardo Valenzuela
“Si estuviera en mi decidir el tener gobiernos sin prensa, o prensa sin gobiernos. Sin dudarlo decidiría por los segundo. Cuando la prensa sea libre y todos puedan leer, el país estará seguro”
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The Religious Right Needs To Heed The Example Of Rev. Dozier
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Chuck Baldwin
For at least the last three decades, conservative Christians (known
collectively as the Religious Right), have allowed themselves to become
wedded to Republican politicians.
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A Personal Invitation To Come Hear Dr. Alan Keyes
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Chuck Baldwin
Readers often write and express their desire to attend services at my church, the Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. In fact, it is not uncommon now to see people in the congregation from across the country who are readers of my column.
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Health Care Best Left to the Market, not Government
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Howard Blitz
Individuals seem to think that elected officials have the perfect knowledge to understand the marketplace no matter what product or service is being discussed, and elected officials always accept the appointment of getting something done to create wh
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Senator Jon Kyl Has Gone Vegas: The Greenhouse Effect
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Dave Hodges
In his most series of recent campaign ads, Jon Kyl has abandoned his blue suit, red power tie and the make-up which served to obscure his facial flaws in favor of a more humble, less powerful appearance. This is an obvious Jeffersonian ploy to displ
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The Libertarian
LEAVE CENSORSHIP TO THE TURKS
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Vin Suprynowicz
Experience “should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent,” warned Justice Louis D. Brandeis, in his prescient dissent in America’s first case involving warrantless wiretapping, 1928. “Men bo
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The Libertarian
THROWING SOME READER MAIL ON THE BARBIE
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Vin Suprynowicz
My recent column on the curious lack of international coverage of the death of Rod Ansell (the man who became the real-life model for the movie character “Crocodile Dundee”) in a 1999 shoot-out with Aussie police brought some “attaboys” ...
“Hell
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Necessary Evil
The UN Circus Leaves Town
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Dave Gallagher
In the small tent, Ahmadinejad used the opportunity to cite the UN's increasing irrelevance while in the side show Hugo Chavez demonstrated his.
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Is It Just Me, Or Are People Really Getting Meaner?
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Chuck Baldwin
Is it just me, or are people really getting meaner? It seems that much of what I hear and read these days indicates that people's actions and attitudes are increasingly rude, crude, and downright cantankerous. Has it always been this way?
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Mediaocracy-The Great American Propaganda Machine
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Dave Hodges
I believe that web sites and blogs are the most reliable sources of real news in contemporary America. Sites like freedomsphoenix.com, huffingtonpress.com, antiwar.com stand as the future in journalistic integrity, if we can maintain the right to sp
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