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		<title>Texas Oppresses the Sick and Weak</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/07/13/texas-oppresses-the-sick-and-weak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas, the state I call home and many regularly call the land of the truly free where government tends to stay out of your business, why must you continue to oppress the sick and the weak?
Texas has been known to, for the most part, leave the regulation of private matters to the individual, rightly where [...]


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		<title>New Jersey Governor Defies Political Expectations</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/07/12/new-jersey-governor-defies-political-expectations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A momentous deal to cap property taxes was all but done, but Gov. Chris Christie was taking no chances, barnstorming the state to commiserate with squeezed homeowners and keep pressure on the Legislature.
Outside a farmhouse here in central New Jersey last week, buttoned up in a dark suit despite the triple-digit heat, Mr. Christie promised [...]


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		<title>Televised Forum for Texas Governor and Attorney General Candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, July 5th, the Kerrville Area League of Women Voters will feature candidates for Governor and Attorney General with questions from the audience at the Cailloux Theater, 910 Main St, in Kerrville. This event will be televised on KVHC-TV and statewide.  The theater holds over 700 people, and Libertarians are encouraged to attend [...]


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		<title>Washington State Favors Marijuana Legalization 52% to 35%</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poll released last week by The Washington Poll, a quarterly, nonpartisan effort by the University of Washington, shows that Washington State residents support an initiative that would legalize the possession and use of marijuana.
According to the poll of 1,252 registered voters conducted last month, 52% in Washington State support “removing state civil and criminal [...]


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		<title>Vote No on Prop 14 &#8211; California</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proposition 14, also known as a Top Two election system and mistakenly called an “open primary”, would abolish our current party primary elections and replace it with a free for all June election to pick the top two candidates for the November election. Only two candidates will appear on the November ballot, even two candidates [...]


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		<title>Washington Drug Agents Seize Pot Legalization Petitions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 17:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington drug agents have illegally seized signed petitions for marijuana legalization, according to organizers of ballot initiative I-1068.
Marijuana advocacy group Sensible Washington says it has learned that a dozen signed copies of  the marijuana legalization initiative for Washington State of which it is the sponsor, were seized last week by the federally-funded WestNET drug [...]


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		<title>NORML reaches out and slaps medical marijuana patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not even a 520-square-foot billboard in Times Square could induce Santa Cruz to allow a 3rd medical  marijuana dispensary on Tuesday.
Instead, as expected, the council voted unanimously to limit  the dispensaries in this town of about 54,000 to the two currently  existing.
Nor has anyone been able to name a single city or [...]


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		<title>Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.
The [...]


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		<title>Authorities raid indoor marijuana operations in Central Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Public Safety and Williamson County sheriff’s deputies conducted simultaneous raids Wednesday on six sophisticated indoor marijuana-growing operations in Williamson and Travis Counties. Read the article
Our society is more dangerous due to the criminalization of this relatively harmless plant, which is safer to use than both alcohol and tobacco, and has never resulted [...]


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		<title>The Texas Textbook Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last week, the Texas Board of Education, meeting in Austin, the state capitol, made some preliminary decisions about what the next generation of students will learn about subjects like history, economics, and sociology, when they take courses in those subjects in any of the Lone Star State&#8217;s public schools. The board decided, for example, [...]


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		<title>LEAP removes Brad Jardis due to his public refusal to arrest medical marijuana patients</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/01/26/leap-removes-brad-jardis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Law Enforcement Against Prohibition member Bradley Jardis has been removed from the organization due to his public stance that he would no longer arrest medical marijuana patients. Here is his announcement:
Hello everyone.
- Bradley
As you all know, I have been cleared for duty and will be reporting back shortly. I have been re-reading the NH [...]


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		<title>Minnesota Supreme Court Rules DUI Possible in Inoperable Vehicle</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/01/26/minnesota-supreme-court-rules-dui-possible-in-inoperable-vehicle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court of Minnesota on Thursday upheld the drunk driving conviction of a man caught asleep behind the wheel of a vehicle that would not start. At 11:30pm on June 11, 2007, police found Daryl Fleck sleeping in his own legally parked car in his apartment complex parking lot. The vehicle’s engine was cold [...]


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		<title>Medina&#8217;s star rising in GOP gubernatorial primary</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/01/20/medinas-star-rising-in-gop-gubernatorial-primary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of being largely dismissed in a race dominated by the state’s two Republican heavyweights, Debra Medina is making her presence felt with an anti-establishment message that has evidently struck a chord among a segment of Republican voters.
Buoyed by her performance against Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in last week’s [...]


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		<title>Medina shows up Perry and Hutchinson in GOP governor&#8217;s debate</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/01/15/gop-governor-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, January the 14th, three candidates hoping to gain the Republican nomination for Texas governor took the stage to debate one another in front of a live audience, with it all being televised all around the state. These three candidates consisted of Texas governor Rick Perry, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, and the outsider, [...]


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		<title>Revisionaries</title>
		<link>http://brokenspectrum.com/2010/01/06/revisionaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article concerns the hijacking of Texas education standards, and in actuality, a large proportion of the nation&#8217;s standards. Admittedly, there is a &#8220;left slant&#8221; to this article, but the points made are relevant and worthwhile. It is alarming to me that the education standards are hijacked by either side of the bias&#8217;. There is [...]


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