Month: April 2012
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How America Will Fail
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc?rel=0]
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DHS/TSA & 450 Million Hollow Point Bullets
1 + 1 = Concern. Start with this: The DHS has signed off on an “indefinite delivery” from defense contractors ATK that will include, for some reason, nearly 500 million high-power ammunition for .40 caliber firearms. The department has yet to discuss why they are ordering such a massive bevy of bullets for an agency…
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I truly believe that what the poor people in our community need is not more handouts from the government — which only makes them more enslaved to the government — but real freedom. Dr. Paul is a huge supporter of freedom. This is good news.
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New Zealand Mulls $100 for Pack of Cigarettes
New Zealand’s Health Ministry has reportedly considered boosting the price of a pack of cigarettes as high as $100 ($81 U.S.) in a bid to make the country smoke free by 2025. An internal government working paper raised the possibility of upping the cost of a 20-cigarette pack by 30 to 60 percent and tacking…
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Bank of America Hates the Second Amendment
McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing and McMillan Group International have been collectively banking with Bank of America for 12 years. But no more: In a recent meeting, the mega-bank told the firearms company that its business is no longer welcome. Operations director Kelly McMillan told the Daily Caller that his company has never been…
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Trayvon Martin Case Causing More Beatings?
Mobile police need your help to catch a mob that beat Matthew Owens so badly that he’s in critical condition. According to police, Owens fussed at some kids playing basketball in the middle of Delmar Drive about 8:30 Saturday night. They say the kids left and a group of adults returned, armed with everything but…
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Tale of Two Missions
Absolutely amazing piece of work about Chicago’s failing schools. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmnFQkD0Eg0] I have considerable new found respect for Mr. Williams after seeing this. I always thought we was railroaded out of NPR unfairly. But I also thought he was a little light intellectually. Whatever his faults (and we all have faults) it’s clear he cares…
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How Big Should Government Be?
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.— Gerald Ford, Joint Statement to Congress, August 12, 1974. I had not heard this before two days ago (yes, I don’t know where I’ve been either.) But it struck me. We, as a…
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Pentagon Smears Critics
The first casualty when war comes is the truth. — Hiram Johnson No one knows this better than the folks at the pentagon. The newspaper USA Today said Friday an editor and reporter probing Pentagon propaganda efforts have been targeted by an online “misinformation campaign.” Fake Twitter and Facebook accounts have been created under the…