The Tyrant in You
Larken RoseWhat would you do if YOU were in charge? Chances are, you'd be a tyrant.
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Government
Moth Forces Wine Country's Smuggling Into the Open
• APSuitcase smuggling is the winked-at act of sneaking in cane cuttings to clone vines from France's premier vineyards. It helped build a handful of exceptional vineyards in the 1980s when U.S. plant choices were limited and import testing took 7 years.
RI Indians want valuable Navy property in Newport
• APHundreds of prime acres are up for grabs in this waterfront city and its neighboring towns, valuable commodity on an island known for prized beaches, lavish homes and natural beauty. The 260 acres on Aquidneck Island were for decades owned by the
Native Hawaiian government may become reality
• APTheir kingdom [not that] long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they've ever been to being allowed to establish their own government. [Oh, lucky few.]
IRS visits Sacramento carwash in pursuit of 4 cents
• godlikeproductions.comIt was every businessperson's nightmare. Arriving at Harv's Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. "They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending,"
FEMA's sale of Katrina trailers sparks criticism
• Washington PostIn a giant auction, the federal government has agreed to sell for pennies on the dollar most of the 120,000 formaldehyde-tainted trailers it bought nearly five years ago for Hurricane Katrina victims. But the sale of the units, perhaps the most visib
Rand Paul Crushing All Opponents
• Red StateThe son of Ron is waaay ahead of his Republican opponents, and any potential Democratic one as well. It looks as if Kentucky will be as safe a seat for Rand as Texas 14 has become for his dad.
Grand Distractions - by Will Grigg
• Pro LiberateColor me cynical, but I can't resist the suspicion that Mullet was put up to this stunt by somebody. If it weren't for the material support it receives from the federal government, the white supremacist movement wouldn't exist. It wouldn't surprise m
The U.S. Postal Service plans to cut Saturday delivery
• godlikeproductions.comNEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Snail mail might soon get even slower. The U.S. Postal Service plans to propose Tuesday an adjusted mail service schedule, which will likely cut Saturday delivery. The agency will also suggest closing some branches and e
That Government Is Best That Governs Not At All
• John SampsonThe great American experiment of a perfected and limited civil government has gone terribly wrong. All but the most ardent statists now accept this. Many feel that drastic reform is needed. Others feel the present system is just too corrupt and the p
21st Century Breakdown
• Lew Rockwell"Wherever we’re headed, America is evolving in ways most of us don’t like or understand. Individually focused yet collectively adrift, we wonder if we’re heading toward a waterfall. Are we?"
Individual Rights, The 10th and 17th Amendments, & States (audio)
• Christine Smith's blogRadio interview (approx. 19 min.) in length.
U.S. Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency website
• US Dept of DefenseThe MDA has fielded an initial capability to protect the U.S and our allies against limited ballistic missile attack. The Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) is becoming more integrated, robust, and global every day.
Judge Napolitano on the Basics: How The US Government is Supposed to Work
Jet LaceyParts are entitled: An Introduction to History & Liberty, The Declaration of Independence & Bill of Rights, The Congress, The Presidency, The Courts, and the States.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary
www.constitution.orgBouvier's Law Dictionary is a book with a long tradition in the United States legal community. A LAW DICTIONARY ADAPTED TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND OF THE SEVERAL STATES OF THE AMERICAN UNION
Entered By: Thomas Costanzo
More Spending is Always the Answer - by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul
Powell GammillContinually increasing the debt is one of the logical outcomes of Keynesianism, since more government spending is always their answer. It is claimed that government must not stop spending when the economy is so fragile. Government must act. Yet, wh
Income angst? Not for public employees
• Jeff JacobyThe federal government has been adding jobs at a 10,000-a-month clip. Between December 2007 and June 2009, federal payrolls exploded by nearly 10 percent. And data from the Office of Personnel Management show the average federal salary is now roughly
The American Form of Government
• Speak Truth 2 PowerA short, excellent explanation of the various forms of government, and how America was never set up as a democracy because it inevitably leads to oligarchy.
$3 Million Fed Stimulus Program for Renters Facing Eviction: Bizarre Guidelines, Red Tape
• Ginn"I'm from the Government and I'm here to help--as soon as you fill out these forms in triplicate proving you don't need help."
U.S. agencies responsible for nuclear data leak : GAO
• ReutersSeveral federal agencies share responsibility for the inadvertent publishing by a government office of sensitive U.S. nuclear power information on the Web last May, Congressional investigators said on Wednesday.
Fannie and Freddie CEOs to get up to $6M in pay
• APThe two chief executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could get paid as much as $6 million for 2009, despite the companies' dismal performances this year which cost taxpayers more than $100 billion. Fannie's CEO, Michael Williams, and Freddie CEO
Haley Barbour's Bizarre Pardon Record - by Radley Balko
• SlateThe governor of Mississippi simultaneously ignored increasing evidence there may be a high number of innocent people in prison in MS and handed out pardons to the convicted murderers who happen to do work on his house.
Al Franken, Joe Lieberman Senate Smackdown: The Real Reason Franken Cut Lieberman Off
• GinnProgressives are hailing Al Franken’s “shutting down” Joe Lieberman on the floor of the Senate as a “glorious moment” after Franken wouldn’t allow Leiberman an extra “minute” to finish his remarks. We’ve found what we believe the real reason why Fran
Pennslyvania Teachers Retirement Funds Says it Needs Billions More From Taxpayers
• GinnAnd the PA taxpayers are none too happy about it either--judging from the readers' comments from a Philly paper the article appeared in.
For the feds, some Wall Street firms are too big — to punish
• McClatchy NewsForget too big to fail. In the eyes of federal regulators, many Wall Street firms are too big to punish. During the past three years, some of the nation's largest financial firms have been accused by the government of cheating or misleading client
U.S. to pay $3.4 billion to settle Indian trust lawsuit
• ReutersThe US government [taxpayers] will pay $1.4 billion to settle a long-running lawsuit against the Interior Dept. for [stealing] the revenue in Native American trust funds. The government will establish a $2 billion [trust?!!!!] fund to buy land from N
Sen: Gov't shouldn't have closed openness workshop
• APA Republican senator who sponsored a law meant to help people with open-records requests says a government workshop on openness shouldn't have been closed to the public. [and the punishment is?]
Babies to have genetic code mapped at birth from 2019
• Daily TelegraphBabies born from 2019 onwards will have their genetic code routinely mapped at birth, Jay Flatley, one of the world's leading genome sequencing experts has predicted. Dr Flatley, the chief executive of Illumina, the world's leading genome sequencing
Va. instructors: Yoga regulations unconstitutional
• APThree Virginia yoga instructors say the state's plans to regulate and license would-be yoga instructors is an unlawful infringement of free speech. The three instructors are filing a federal lawsuit in Alexandria against state regulators on Tuesda
Lobbyists pushed off advisory panels
• Washington PostHundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street's influence in Washington, according to White House officials and lobby
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