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Philosophy of Liberty "Sh*t People Say" Contest: Liberty Theme
01-25-2012
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Silver Underground
There’s this meme floating around on YouTube. There’s these videos satirizing the ridiculous things people say, usually broken down by demographic. Shit white people say. Shit black people say. Shit rich people say. Shit hipsters say. Shit zombies sa
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Foreign Policy Ron Paul Trounces Santorum on Foreign Policy in CNN Debate
01-27-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
On Thursday night, the four remaining GOP presidential candidates squared off in Jacksonville in the second of two Florida debates, hosted by CNN and moderated by Wolf Blitzer.
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Drug War Active duty cop: ‘The war on drugs is a war on people’
01-27-2012
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www.rawstory.com
Speaking to Raw Story recently, an active duty police officer who asked not to be named threw down the gauntlet over the part of his job he hates most: the drug war.
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Food My Top 6 Anti-Inflammatory Foods
01-27-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Mark Sisson
Before I begin, let me preface this post with the identification of a simple confounder for everyone to consider as they read: context. Any discussion of a concept as nebulous, multifaceted, and confusing as inflammation must integrate the question o
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World News Of Bankers and Ship Captains
01-27-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Bill Bonner
The poor man is calumnied as a pusillanimous incompetent. Just because he hit a rock. Heck, anyone with a ship that big could hit a rock. And the rock wasn’t s’posed to be there!
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Constitution The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution
01-27-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Clyde Wilson
The document describes itself not as "the U.S. Constitution" or the "Constitution of the United States," but as a "Constitution FOR the United States of America."
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Politics: Republican Campaigns The Indignation of Newt
01-27-2012
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www.decoded.nationaljournal.com
You know it's an ugly, brutish debate when Newt Gingrich of all people turns to his rival and says, "You have to be realistic in your indignation."
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Iran Iran arrests journalists, to execute bloggers
01-27-2012
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The Examiner
Iranian courts have sentenced two bloggers to death for "spreading corruption," and government security forces have arrested four other journalists, in the lead-up to the nation's March elections.
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World News Syrian revolt creeps closer to Damascus
01-27-2012
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www.ft.com
This unexpected meeting with the militarised opposition who style themselves the Free Syrian Army was just the first of a series of striking insights offered by the capital’s restive suburbs into the country’s social faultlines and its dangerous stat
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Iran Israel Senses Bluffing in Iran’s Threats of Retaliation
01-27-2012
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www.nytimes.com
Israeli intelligence estimates, backed by academic studies, have cast doubt on the widespread assumption that a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would set off a catastrophic set of events like a regional conflagration, widespread acts of
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Outdoor Survival Is Now The Time To Move Away From Major U.S. Cities?
01-27-2012
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www.endoftheamericandream.com
As the U.S. economy falls apart and as the world becomes increasingly unstable, more Americans than ever are becoming "preppers". It is estimated that there are at least two million preppers in the United States today, but nobody really knows.
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Politics: Republican Campaigns BREAKING: Nevada GOP Changing The Rules!
01-27-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
Looks like Money really can purchase elections. Sheldon Adelson, who donated 5 million to Gingrich's PAC, and whose wife donated another 5 million, has been granted a Special Evening Caucus at a private school that Adelson owns.
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Housing Old mortgages rise from the dead, haunt homeowners
01-27-2012
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Reuters
their old loan, the one Wells Fargo told them was paid off, would resurrect itself, trashing their credit report, scotching their son's student loans and throwing the whole family into foreclosure. All, they say, even though they didn't miss a single
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Activism Cross-hair stickers placed outside Missouri lawmakers’ offices
01-27-2012
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Rawstory
“We don’t have any explanation,” Democratic state Sen. Jolie Justus said. “Many of us when we came back to our office this afternoon had gun targets on our nameplates. A few of the senators removed them, only to have them replaced by larger stickers
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Science WHY DOES OUR UNIVERSE HAVE THREE DIMENSIONS?
01-27-2012
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arclein
But there is a gaping hole. The standard model doesn't include the gravitational force. That's why Jove, the physicist in Jeanette Winterson's novel, Gut Symmetries, calls the Standard Model the "Flying Tarpaulin" -- it's "big, ugly, useful, c
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Police State Police Get Help With Confronting Veterans
01/27/2012
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Officer.com
The Justice Department is funding an unusual national training program to help police deal with an increasing number of volatile confrontations involving combat veterans.
The Justice Department is funding an unusual national training program to help
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Police State Breaking: LAX FEMA Rendition Site Confirmed
01-27-2012
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www.prisonplanet.com
Alex presents newly exposed footage filmed at LAX airport in Los Angeles confirming a ‘rendition hub’ capable of processing thousands of people per hour from straight off the tarmac and other transportation points.
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Internet Meet SOPA's evil twin, ACTA
01-27-2012
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CNN Money
The brouhaha over the American internet piracy bill has died down, giving way to proposed international legislation with many similar elements.
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Central Intelligence Agency CIA to pull officer from NYPD after internal probe
01-27-2012
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www.miamiherald.com
The inspector general opened its investigation after a series of AP articles that revealed how the NYPD, working in close collaboration with the CIA, set up spying operations that put Muslim communities under scrutiny.
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Food Monsanto’s Infertility-Linked Roundup Found in All Urine Samples Tested
1-27-12
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http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/monsantos-infe
A recent study conducted by a German university found very high concentrations of glyphosate, a carcinogenic chemical found in herbicides like Monsanto’s Roundup, in all urine samples tested.
The amount of glyphosate found in the urine was stagger
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World News Italy On the Verge of a Full Revolt
01-27-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Alexander Jousse
This past week has been a very turbulent time for Italy. And it wasn't just the grounding of the Concordia cruise ship by a playboy captain; but the grounding of the country by Euro-technocrat usurper Darth Monti, trying to impress his Keynesian budd
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Politics: Republican Campaigns Adelson, Gingrich, and the Selling of America
01-27-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/Justin Raimondo
If you want to know what’s wrong with our campaign finance laws – and our political system in a more general sense – look at the way Sheldon Adelson is buying the Republican nomination for his sock puppet, Newt Gingrich.
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Politics: Republican Campaigns Sabato Warns of Electoral 'Newt-Mare'
01-27-2012
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www.usnews.com
Newt Gingrich's nomination as the GOP presidential candidate would not only lock in an Obama victory in November, but would also keep the Senate in Democratic hands and make Nancy Pelosi speaker again, according to elections predictor Larry Sabato's
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Politics: Republican Campaigns Dole assails Gingrich in plea to conservatives
01-27-2012
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www.politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
Bob Dole, a Mitt Romney supporter and former Republican presidential nominee, issued a scathing statement Thursday blasting Newt Gingrich for being a "one-man-band who rarely took advice."
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Arizona's Top News Brewer releases copy of letter she handed to Obama
01-27-2012
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www.azcentral.com
In a sudden about-face, Gov. Jan Brewer on Thursday evening made public a copy of the letter she handed President Barack Obama during their high-profile encounter a day earlier that dominated national news, the blogosphere and water-cooler conversati
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World News Egypt activists to hold mass rally Friday
01-27-2012
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www.breitbart.com
Egyptian activists are preparing for a mass rally on Friday, after they spent the night in Cairo's Tahrir Square marking the first anniversary of the uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak.
Letters to the Editor
• Constitution The States Must Lead Our Nation Back from the Brink; Debunking the Myth of an Article V “Runaway Con
Written by: Robert Thorpe
Irresponsible and Unpatriotic
On July 3, 2008 candidate Obama said
that it was “irresponsible” and “unpatriotic" that President George W.
Bush had added $4 Trillion of new debt in 96 months to our nation… and I agree.
After being sworn-in
Read Letter and Editor's Reply
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Cuba Ron Paul calls for diplomatic relations with Cuba
01-27-2012
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www.latimes.com
Ron Paul took a risky position in Florida in Thursday’s debate, calling for communication and diplomatic relations with Cuba, saying that people's positions have changed dramatically over the last few years.
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Drug War Former Tenn. Officer Won't Face Drug Charges
01-27-2012
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A Cleveland police officer who resigned this month was so addicted to hydrocodone he was acquiring the drugs in uniform and snorting the crushed pills in his cruiser. His admission of drug use to police investigators couldn't be used against him in a
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Drug War New Research Combating Addiction
01-27-2012
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arclein
investigating ways of targeting a protein in the brain, called the kappa opioid receptor, which can alter a person’s perception of mood, reward and pain.