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Don't Worry: Unmanned Drones Soon To Patrol Your Neighborhood
Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:12 AM EST
We've heard enough of TSA's plans to put their checkpoints at bus stops and train stations. Sure, that will happen sooner or later, because the government can only do one thing--and that is grow, and keep growing, until all freedom is stamped and choked out.
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Beware Rich Guys Begging To Be Taxed More
Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:10 AM EST
It is all the rage amongst the uber wealthy today to beg to be taxed more. Warren Buffett has done it.
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Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
Seeded on Sun Dec 4, 2011 6:10 PM EST (Forbes)
As the privacy controversyaround full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting thatcourthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed.
85-year-old woman may sue TSA after being strip searched at JFK Airport
Seeded on Sat Dec 3, 2011 6:19 PM EST (NY Daily News)
An 85-year-old Long Island grandmother says she plans to sue the TSA after a humiliating strip search on Tuesday by agents at JFK Airport. Lenore Zimmerman, who lives in Long Beach, says she was on her way to a 1 p.m.
Obama Needs To Sign A New Emancipation Proclamation, Of Dope (Poll)
Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:29 PM EDT
There is a drug arrest, mostly for marijuana, every 17 seconds in America.There are more black people in jail on drug charges than were enslaved during the period of slavery in this country, according to Alternet.Our country is bad off.
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Raising Taxes On The Rich Is A Side Show To Distract The Masses (Poll)
Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:13 AM EDT
Liberals love to talk about raising taxes on the rich. It, in fact, is their favorite topic. They talk about incessantly. What don't they talk about?
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What Is Class Warfare? (Poll)
Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:59 PM EDT
Obama says we aren't in the middle of a class warfare situation.
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Middle Class Should Pay Buffett's Tax Rate; Meaning, We Should Cut Everyone's Taxes To Match Warren's, Not The Reverse
Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:02 PM EDT
Obama is right that there is something fundamentally unfair about Warren Buffett paying a lower tax rate than a middle class worker.
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Obama Administration Overrides 2009 Ogden Memo, Declares Open Season on Pot Shops in States Where Medical Marijuana Is Legal Mike Riggs | June 30, 2011
Seeded on Fri Jul 1, 2011 12:33 PM EDT (Reason Magazine)
Obama administration is violating everyone's civil rights.
Let's Go Back To 1967 On Medicare
Sun May 22, 2011 9:15 PM EDT
Obama took the political world by surprise recently by suggesting that Israel go back to 1967 borders. I think going back in time to solve political problems is a good idea.
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Why Hasn't Obama Ended the War on Drugs?
Sun May 15, 2011 10:36 AM EDT
According to Alternet, there are more black people in prison today than were enslaved during slavery. Why? The War on Drugs? Why hasn't Obama stopped the War on Drugs? Obama is no civil libertarian.
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Who Would You Rather Have Invest For Our Future, Bill Gates Or Barack Obama?
Sun Apr 17, 2011 2:25 PM EDT
A fundamental debate is going on in Washington, D.C., and has been going on for decades. The question is this--who should invest our capital, for the future, to make our future brighter and better than our past?
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America, In Trouble...
Sun Apr 17, 2011 1:23 PM EDT
The US Government incurred a deficit of $830 billion in the first six months of this fiscal year. We are on our way to another $1.5 Trillion Plus annual deficit.
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Instead of Raising Tuition, Let's Cut Retired Professors Pensions
Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:14 AM EST
Kids and educating the future should come first. Retired professors who are drawing $100K plus annual pensions and free healthcare should have those benefits taken away.
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Bill Gates Worried About Public Pensions?
Seeded on Thu Mar 3, 2011 1:56 AM EST (This Is The Government: Your Legal Right To Redeem Your Money Market Account Has Been Denied | zero hedge)
Bill Gates is right.
Work For Government, Retire at 53 With a $276,000 Annual Pension for Life
Seeded on Tue Mar 1, 2011 4:38 PM EST ()
This is outrageous.
Public Employees Paid More Than Private Workers in 41 States
Seeded on Tue Mar 1, 2011 1:18 PM EST (Silicon Alley Insider)
It is no wonder people are made about public employee unions.
"It's unbelievable. Goldman … no one has any criminal convictions—the whole new regulatory reform is a joke. The whole government is a Ponzi scheme."
Seeded on Mon Feb 28, 2011 1:07 PM EST (New York Magazine)
Bernie Madoff is right. The whole government is a ponzi scheme. Especially our most cherished social programs--Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid.
Poll: Is It Possible Anymore In America To Have A Rational Discussion About Hard Issues?
Mon Feb 28, 2011 12:48 PM EST
It seems increasingly impossible in America to have a rational discussion about hard issues. We have serious problems confronting the country. We are broke. We can't pay our debts as they come due without printing trillions of dollars via the Federal Reserve.
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Poll: Should Government Ponzi Schemes Be Illegal Just Like Private Sector Ponzi Schemes?
Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:48 PM EST
When do we go ahead and admit to ourselves that the great social programs that we all feel so passionately about, Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid, are Ponzi Schemes? What do I mean by this? These are programs that are woefully and terribly underfunded.
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Who Really Runs Washington? Millions Of Old People
Seeded on Sat Feb 26, 2011 3:46 AM EST (Silicon Alley Insider)
Invariably, year after year, more and more benefits are bestowed on senior citizens and soon-to-be senior citizens. It turns out, year after year, that the AARP runs Washington. Every year, they win the budget battle by a slightly wider margin than they did the year before.
GOP Congress Did What Dem Congress Couldn't; Not Renew Patriot Act
Wed Feb 9, 2011 11:29 PM EST
We should all be thankful for this. Who would have thunk it would take a GOP Congress to accomplish this.
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Property Tax Breaks For Seniors Are Welfare For The Rich; Let's Repeal
Sun Feb 6, 2011 3:05 PM EST
The retired are the wealthiest segment of our society. I continue to be dumbfounded at politicos desire to pander to this group. 1 in 4 children in America is on foodstamps. 1 in every 2 kids in America will have been on foodstamps at some time before they turns 18.
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Is It Time To Repeal About 4/5ths Of The Law On The Books?
Fri Feb 4, 2011 10:56 PM EST
Do 2,000 page bills help us? Do they make us better off? Aren't they just a suffocating burden on the entire populace? Isn't it about time that we do nothing for the next several years but repeal laws? How about repealing the marijuana criminalization laws?
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Poll: Should Defined Benefit Pension Plans Be Illegal, Especially for Public Workers?
Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:13 PM EST
Across the country state and local governments are broke because public employees have raided the treasuries. How did they do it? They negotiated super rich health and welfare retirement packages.
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Don't Worry: Unmanned Drones Soon To Patrol Your Neighborhood
We've heard enough of TSA's plans to put their checkpoints at bus stops and train stations. Sure, that will happen sooner or later, because the government can only do one thing--and that is grow, and keep growing, until all freedom is stamped and choked out.
Beware Rich Guys Begging To Be Taxed More
It is all the rage amongst the uber wealthy today to beg to be taxed more. Warren Buffett has done it.
Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving VansAs the privacy controversyaround full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting thatcourthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed.
- 85-year-old woman may sue TSA after being strip searched at JFK Airport
An 85-year-old Long Island grandmother says she plans to sue the TSA after a humiliating strip search on Tuesday by agents at JFK Airport. Lenore Zimmerman, who lives in Long Beach, says she was on her way to a 1 p.m.
- Florida teen detained by TSA for design on her purse |- Yahoo! News
It's not unusual for 17-year-old to find themselves in hot water with the fashion police.
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