Beyond The Broken Spectrum » Legislation http://brokenspectrum.com Advancing the cause of truth and liberty daily Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:36:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Senate bill would make airport body scanners mandatory http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/07/12/senate-bill-would-make-airport-body-scanners-mandatory/ http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/07/12/senate-bill-would-make-airport-body-scanners-mandatory/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:38:20 +0000 Stephen http://brokenspectrum.com/?p=2178
  • Feeling Nervous? 3,000 Behavior Detection Officers Will Be Watching You at the Airport This Thanksgiving Nearly 100,000 passengers were pulled aside by TSA behavior watchers...
  • Reid Health Bill Perpetuates the $1.5 Trillion Fraud Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has finally unveiled his...
  • Obama internet ‘kill switch’ bill approved The US senators pushing a controversial new bill that some...
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  • Senate bill would make airport body scanners mandatory A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate requiring all airports...
  • Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with...
  • Obama Presses for $33 Billion War Supplement In a move that was widely expected, Obama Administration officials...
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  • A Modest Proposal: Approval Voting Voters are increasingly unsatisfied with their choices on the ballot....
  • Libertarians ask Voters to Declare their Independence AUSTIN, TEXAS – July 1, 2010 — As Texans celebrate...
  • A California Split The group Downsize California Now is preparing a ballot initiative...
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  • Washington State Favors Marijuana Legalization 52% to 35% A poll released last week by The Washington Poll, a...
  • Washington State Legislators Support Marijuana Decriminalization http://blog.norml.org/2009/08/23/washington-state-legislators-support-marijuana-decriminalization/ Could Washington be the next state moving towards a...
  • Marijuana legalization gains momentum in California Marijuana advocates are gathering signatures to get as many as...
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  • ‘Timing is right’ for hemp, state senator says Within the next three weeks, State Sen. Joey Pendleton...
  • Legalize It and I Will Industrialize It: Industrial Hemp is the Engine to Kickstart This Economy Over 30 countries around the world grow industrial hemp, including...
  • Hemp farmers arrested for planting hemp seeds on DEA lawn Six of the twenty protesters outside DEA headquarters were arrested...
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  • How Soon Until the Free Market Stops the Oil Spill? This was an inflammatory headline I saw on the Huffington...
  • Libertarians call for more finance industry freedom WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Executive Director Wes Benedict issued the...
  • Why Not Universal Car Insurance? I was recently involved in a car accident in which...
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  • The Social Function of Credit-Default Swaps Whenever the government causes a mess, chances are high that...
  • The Current Financial Crisis — and After My main topic this morning is the resolution of the...
  • To regulate or deregulate banking: Isn’t the question Does It Make Sense to Resurrect the Glass-Steagall Act? Mises...
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  • Libertarians ask Voters to Declare their Independence AUSTIN, TEXAS – July 1, 2010 — As Texans celebrate...
  • What’s Really Wrong with the Healthcare Industry On May 3, 2010, I gave a talk to a...
  • Huge, Legal Cannabis Farm Study Surprises Industry, Officials The groundbreaking study showing how the City of Oakland could...
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  • Congress Lifts Ban On D.C. Medical Marijuana Law The U.S. Senate today passed historic legislation to end the...
  • VA Docs Prohibited From Recommending Medical Marijuana to Returning Vets The U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) recently adopted a policy prohibiting...
  • LEAP removes Brad Jardis due to his public refusal to arrest medical marijuana patients Former Law Enforcement Against Prohibition member Bradley Jardis has been...
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  • Waco tanning salons bothered by 10 percent tax in health care bill Tanning salon customers may be paying a little more for...
  • How Medical Boards Nationalized Health Care The negative impact of high healthcare costs on the national...
  • Harry Reid likens Democrat health care opponents to racists, sexists Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) upped the rhetorical ante...
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  • Supreme Court Gives Corporatism and Special Interests Stamp of Approval The Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling has now declared...
  • Obama Supports the Patriot Act http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090915/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_patriot_act I hope you weren’t expecting that change he was...
  • Obama Quietly Backs PATRIOT Act Provisions With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it...
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  • Another Way That The Federal Reserve Makes Massive Gobs Of Money For The Big Banks When most people discuss how the Federal Reserve benefits the...
  • Dollar loses reserve status to yen & euro Ben Bernanke’s dollar crisis went into a wider mode yesterday...
  • “Deficit Financing” and Inflation I assume that you know how the banking system developed...
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  • $6.4 Billion Stimulus Goes to Phantom Districts Just how big is the stimulus package? Well for one,...
  • Stimulus creates jobs in district that does not exist It seems that the stimulus is on a roll, creating...
  • The Stimulus Reports Are In…But Are They Accurate? What do you get when you take nearly $800 billion,...
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  • Dollar loses reserve status to yen & euro Ben Bernanke’s dollar crisis went into a wider mode yesterday...
  • Texas Congressman Wants to ‘End the Fed’ “The Federal Reserve should be abolished,” writes Ron Paul, “because...
  • Bernanke was wrong while Peter Schiff was right In the years preceding the 2008-2009 Depression both Peter Schiff...
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  • JoP denies marriage license to interracial couple It looks like even today we still have racial discrimination...
  • Congressional leaders fight against posting bills online As Congress lurches closer to a decision on an enormous...
  • Harry Reid likens Democrat health care opponents to racists, sexists Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) upped the rhetorical ante...
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