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Barack Obama addressed the issue of indefinite detentions for the enemy combatants we are holding and said that the thought “gives me huge pause.” He has already discovered how difficult it is to get rid of the [...]
The National Republican Congressional Catamites, also known as the National Republican Congressional Committee, is furiously excoriating Democrats for the vote on HR 2454, the so-called ?Cap and Trade? bill that passed the House last week after not one single representative could possibly have read the entire bill. They are even [...]
The youngest player on the [...]
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Helen Thomas hits White House like a sturm
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[...] Helen Thomas: Not Even Nixon Tried to Control the Media Like Obama
[www.cnsnews.com]"The only part of the conduct of anyone for which he is amenable to society is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
[...] Too late, the cat's out of the bag and the damage is done. It comes as no surprise though, news organizations have been buying access for decades, it took an outsider (Politico.com?) to expose what most within the industry already know to be common practice. Exposing the Post, as a [...]
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[...] "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
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IRL racer Danica Patrick is mulling her future options in racing. The Andretti-Green driver is a free agent after this season. She has been linked to rival IRL squad Ganassi, or even a move to NASCAR.
Steve Helber/Associated Press
By Ken de la Bastide
CNHI News Service
The [...]
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. [...]"I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I [...]
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them."
A 12-foot pet Burmese python broke out of is enclosure and strangled a 2-year-old girl in her bedroom Wednesday at a central Florida home, authorities said. [...]
[...] Posted by Andrew J. Coulson
I?ve often complained on this blog that there are no education muckrakers ? no reporters who will actually go out and investigate the misleading claims so often fed to them by politicians and public school officials. Well, it turns out there?s at least [...]
However, Rep. Frank M. Kratovil Jr., D-1st-Md., put in an amendment to
restore the rights of local [...]
However, Rep. Frank M. Kratovil Jr., D-1st-Md., put in an amendment to
restore the rights of local [...]
The Congress, particularly the Democrats, have been after auto makers to make more fuel efficient cars and they have been after us to drive less and save fuel to save the Earth and prevent global warming. We [...]
Thursday, June 25, 2009
David Rittgers, legal policy analystdrittgers@cato.org:
The Supreme Court's decision today in Safford Unified School District #1 et al. v. Redding was a victory for privacy and decency. The Court held that a middle school violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a thirteen-year-old girl by strip searching her [...]
by Harry de Gorter and David R. Just
Harry de Gorter and David R. Just, economists in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, are authors of an upcoming Cato Institute study on sustainability standards for biofuel production.
by Michael D. Tanner
Michael Tanner is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and coauthor of Healthy Competition:What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.
Added to cato.org on July 1, 2009
This article appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on July 1, [...]
"Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of socialism existing in America. "
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Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii owns shares of Central Pacific bank worth between $350,000 and $700,000 which is about two thirds of his reported assets. The bank was in trouble and had applied for government assistance. [...]
President Interrupted By 'Duck Ringtone' During Speech
June 29, 2009
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President Obama Interrupted By 'Quacking Duck Ringtone' During Speech
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[...] "To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. "
[...] "I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty. "
[...] The press has been easy on Obama since he decided to run for the White House. They treated him like royalty and protected him. They, in effect, became the media wing of his campaign and they remained [...]
