Archive for November, 2009

A Minority Viewpoint with Libertarian Jabriel Ballentine

November 30, 2009

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Endless Revolution

November 29, 2009

These days people have a variety of online gaming content to choose from, from facebook apps, to sites like pogo.com, online poker websites, and of course games like World of Warcraft that have entire worlds for you to explore. None of these games that are browser based are as in depth as say a game [...]

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ClimateGate: The Fix is In

November 25, 2009

By Robert Tracinski
In early October, I covered a breaking story about evidence of corruption in the basic temperature records maintained by key scientific advocates of the theory of man-made global warming. Global warming “skeptics” had unearthed evidence that scientists at the Hadley Climatic Research Unit at Britain’s University of East Anglia had cherry-picked data to [...]

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Feeling Nervous? 3,000 Behavior Detection Officers Will Be Watching You at the Airport This Thanksgiving

November 25, 2009

Nearly 100,000 passengers were pulled aside by TSA behavior watchers last year, and it remains to be proven whether you can spot terrorists by the looks on their faces.
Here’s a question to ponder the next time you’re taking off your shoes at airport security: Can you spot terrorists by the look on their faces?
For the [...]

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Kicking the Can While Riding a Tiger

November 25, 2009

By Gary North at LewRockwell.com
Loretta was singing about kicking the bucket. Kicking the can is what people do before they kick the bucket. It is [...]

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Reborn Coma Man’s Words May Be Bogus

November 25, 2009

The statements of a Belgian man believed to be in a coma for 23 years, but recently discovered to be conscious, are poignant, but experts say they may not be his words at all.
Rom Houben’s account of his ordeal, repeated in scores of news stories since appearing Saturday in Der Spiegel, appears to be delivered [...]

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How to Conquer Poverty

November 25, 2009

The message of Henry Hazlitt’s The Conquest of Poverty is that his subject could have been dealt with in the past tense if it weren’t for the pernicious doctrine that “the state knows best.”
Alas! the tendency to hand problems of income “distribution” over to politicians whose only real skill is the accumulation of votes has [...]

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Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist

November 25, 2009

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.
The three, all members of the Navy’s elite [...]

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There’s idiots in all circles

November 25, 2009

This is a conversation I had today with a fellow marijuana activist that has been spouting off a lot of unsubstantiated claims about several leaders in NORML. Me being the open minded person I am, took the time and effort to try and understand what this guy was talking about and if his claims had [...]

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Obama pledges to bring troops home, then reneges

November 25, 2009

Quote: “I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank.”

President Obama to announce 30-35,000 troop [...]

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FDIC insurance fund closes quarter $8.2 billion in debt

November 25, 2009

As the number of problem U.S. banks swells to the hundreds, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is increasingly hard-pressed to fill in the gaps where institutions have put depositor’s funds at risk.
Unfortunately, a dire prediction made by government officials in early 2009 has come true: the FDIC’s deposit insurance fund is now broke, according to [...]

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The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

November 24, 2009

The Muppets perform Queen’s legendary song, Bohemian Rhapsody.

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Obama Quietly Backs PATRIOT Act Provisions

November 24, 2009

With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA PATRIOT Act that civil libertarians say infringe on basic freedoms.
And it is reportedly doing so [...]

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Phrase “so help me God” in police oath challenged in Marietta, Ga.

November 23, 2009

City council members in Marietta, Ga., will consider changing the oath of office that the city’s police officers take so that recruits can swear to uphold the law without saying the phrase “so help me God.”
This article can be found at Fox News
Lets examine this article, shall we?
Det. Gwen Lewis, a police spokeswoman, said no [...]

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Save Those Bullets for the Monsters

November 23, 2009

John Quincy Adams once said that the United States does not go “abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.” We all know that ceased to be true a long time ago. Over the last hundred years or so America has identified (created) a number of monsters and in most instances has been unsuccessful in destroying [...]

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