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  • Rep. Phillips Says Casinos Will Pay for Meigs Education

    Rep. Phillips reviews Educational Reform Plan; The Daily Sentinel Over the next two years, the Meigs Local School District is estimated to receive a total revenue increase, to include state funding as well as federal stimulus dollars, of 8.90 percent. Rep. Debbie Phillips met with the Meigs Local Board of Education [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:39pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Ohio Lottery Believes It’s the Federal Reserve

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    Ohio Lottery balks at request for audit; The Columbus Dispatch The state auditor has ordered a performance audit of the Ohio Lottery over the uncertainties of gambling revenue, but the lottery has balked at the idea and asked that the proposal be reconsidered. “The proposed audit does not seem reasonable, necessary or [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:34am EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • American Municipal Power bends over for Environmental Left

    Costs doom plans for Ohio River power plant; The Columbus Dispatch Plans to build a huge coal-fired power plant along the Ohio River in Meigs County have gone up in smoke. American Municipal Power, based in Columbus, announced cancellation of the project yesterday. It’s been a bad few years for coal, with dozens [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:31am EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • 36 States May Miss REAL-ID Deadline

    36 states may miss Real ID deadline; Belleville News Democrat In a letter to congressional leadership on Wednesday, the National Governors Association disclosed that as many as 36 states won’t meet the end-of-year deadline. Another 13 states have thumbed their noses at the federal government by passing laws that prohibit participation [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:25pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Vionovich Absent on Health Care Vote

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    Sealed With A Kiss: Dems Unite To Beat GOP Filibuster; The Huffington Post The one absentee senator was Republican George Voinovich of Ohio. Brown told reporters that his fellow state lawmaker had decided to attend a celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of his Cleveland mayoral election instead. Comment: Rather than screwing off [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:51pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Thank You, Rep. Wilson!

    I just sent this comment to the “letters to editor” for The Columbus Dispatch, The Sentinel (Pomeroy/Meigs County) and the Athens News. I am hoping it gets published in at least one newspaper. Thank You, Rep. Wilson! I want to thank Rep. Wilson for supporting passage of HR 3962, which will not [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:33pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Fool-Aid

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    I received this picture via email: Comment: It pretty much sums up this whole debate. [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:19am EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Localism with Teeth

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    Localism with Teeth; Front Porch Republic; Katherine Dalton Here is a snippet of a very interesting article that brings to light some of the essence of localism … All talk of local autonomy, all calls for devolution of power from a central government, must in the end be calls for the rights [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:16pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Concord police Taser man in wheelchair brandishing a toy gun

    Concord police Taser man in wheelchair who brandishes replica gun; San Jose Mercury News Officers used a Taser to subdue a man in a wheelchair who brandished what turned out to be a replica handgun at them, police said. Police were called to La Tapatia restaurant in the 1800 block of Willow [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:36am EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Police to investigate death of man who was Tasered

    Police to investigate death of man who was Tasered; The Detroit News The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office is investigating how a man died Thursday night after police say he led them on a chase, struck another car, attacked officers and was Tasered. [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:29am EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Phillips (D-92nd Ohio House) Should Be Investigated

    An Addition to the Athens Voter Fraud Controversy: Right Ohio Furthermore, in light of the recent revelations, the College Republicans are concerned about prior instances of this votes-for-cash bounty program. During the 2008 election in the 92nd Ohio House District, Republican candidate and Athens County Auditor Jill Thompson lost to the [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:42am EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Rand Paul Debunks the 46 Million Uninsured

    Rand Paul addresses the purported health care “crisis.” He explains that expense, not access, is the real problem with American healthcare. In this clip, he demonstrates why capitalism is the cure. [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:28pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Cop Tasers girl for resisting Bedtime

    Cop Tasers girl for resisting bedtime; The Star. Com The local police chief in Ozark, Arkansas is standing behind one of his officers who tasered a 10-year-old girl who was refusing to go to bed. The bizarre story is laid out in a police incident report obtained by website The Smoking Gun. Officer [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:58pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Child Porn and Domestic Abuse; Where’s the Justice Ted?

    Child-porn sentence is 75 months: The Columbus Dispatch A University District resident was sentenced this week to 75 months in prison for distributing child pornography on the Internet. Charles Fairbanks, 50, of 34 Clark Place, was indicted after an investigation that began in 2007, when he chatted online with an FBI agent [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:20pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Mich. House lawmaker defends expanding citizen access to tasers

    Mich. House lawmaker defends expanding citizen access to tasers; The Michigan Messenger Former Eaton County sheriff and Republican State Rep. Rick Jones says even after the death of a 30-year-old Matthew Bolick following a taser incident with East Grand Rapids Public Safety officers, he will continue to support his legislation to [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:41am EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Promises of tax cuts and the state’s $851 million budget deficit

    Promises of tax cuts and the state’s $851 million budget deficit; Thurber’s Thoughts The state of Ohio is facing an $851 million budget deficit following a decision from the Ohio Supreme Court that a source of funding, income from slot machines at racetracks, is subject to a ballot challenge and cannot [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:22am EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Elizabeth Kucinich and Hubby Promote Vegetarian School Lunches

    Elizabeth Kucinich and husband promote vegetarian school lunches: The Plain Dealer Elizabeth Kucinich and her husband, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, joined retired NBA star John Salley and representatives of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to promote vegetarian options in an upcoming bill that will reauthorize the school lunch program. … Colorado Democratic Rep. [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:20pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Ohio Bill Require Schools to Teach About Teen-Dating Violence

    Senators act on violence-education bill: The Columbus Dispatch A bill that would require schools to teach students about teen-dating violence has collected dust for months in the Ohio Senate. But yesterday, it found new life. On the final day of a four-day Dispatch investigation on domestic violence, lawmakers cleared the cobwebs off [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:57pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Charlie Wilson to Host Live Telephone Town Hall

    I received this message from my Congressman, Charlie Wilson, (DEM-OH-6): Shortly before 5:50 pm on Thursday the phones in about 40,000 homes will ring and everyone who answers will be given the option of participating in the forum. If you don’t want to wait for Rep. Wilson to call you, feel [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:02am EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Nearly $100 billion in taxpayer dollars wasted by government agencies

    Nearly $100 billion in taxpayer dollars wasted by government agencies; AP More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of it on questionable claims for tax credits and Medicare benefits, representing an increase of $26 billion from the previous year. In all, about 5 percent of [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:05pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Government Will Regulate Your Weight

    Report: Half Of Ohioans Will Be Obese By 2018; ONN Ohio has a weight problem and it’s growing. A new report claims that by 2018 more than half the population in the state will be obese. Comment: Well, have no fear folks, as soon as the Obama Health Care Plan goes through the [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:53pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Columbus to Hire Security-Camera Consultant

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    Columbus to hire security-camera consultant: The Columbus Dispatch Add neighborhood surveillance cameras to the list of Columbus projects that are moving ahead after voters approved an income-tax increase. Last night, the Columbus City Council approved paying a security consulting firm $250,000 to determine how the city should go about placing cameras in [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:49pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Police Taser Boy

    Police taser boy: ABCNews.Net From the land down under… Police say they were dropping the boy home on Saturday night after he was found wandering the streets drunk. When they got to his home, the boy allegedly threw an empty wine bottle at the police car before grabbing the star picket and swinging [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:07pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • New Blogging Home

    I have moved to a new blogging home over at the Ohio Freedom Alliance Network. The name's the same, One Oar in the Water, but the location is different.Blogging has become pretty tough to keep up with lately so I started to look for a collaborative site that I could [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 3:02pm EST
    by Brian

  • New Blogging Home

    I have found a new home to blog from and it is the Ohio Freedom Alliance Network. This is a great organization, one you should definitely check out. [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 3:00pm EST
    by Brian Duffy

  • Eustis Cop Zapped With Her Own TASER

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    Eustis cop zapped with her own TASER; Daily CommercialA verbal confrontation turned violent outside a Eustis discount store Monday afternoon.According to Eustis police, at about 12:50 p.m. officer Theresa Graham was attacked outside the Dollar Tree store located at 324 Ardice Ave. and was forced to defend herself by shooting [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 3:06pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Use of Taser on Teen Under Review

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    Use of Taser on teen under review: Omaha.comAn incident Monday night in which a Sarpy County sheriff's deputy used a Taser on a 16-year-old boy will be reviewed, authorities said this morning.“It will be reviewed and taken care of,” said Lt. Russ Zeeb. “It's premature for me to make any [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 2:52pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Robert Higgs Quote

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    I haven't had the time to blog lately, but every now and then something hits the mark and you just want to scream at the top of your lungs...YES! And so it was with this quote from Robert Higgs that appeared in the header of a recent newsletter from The' [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
    by Brian

  • CDC Mixes H1N1, H5N1 Viruses in Tests

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    More Deadly Swine Flu? CDC Mixes H1N1, H5N1 Viruses in Tests; The Wall Street JournalPublic-health officials are breathing a small sigh of relief that the H1N1 swine flu virus hasn’t mutated to become more deadly since emerging last spring. But what are the chances it will?To find out, scientists at [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 1:20pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Gibson Wets Pants

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    Mainstream Media Fears Where Stories They Ignore May Lead; BigHollywood.ComYesterday the anchor of a major network (ABC) consciously chose to try and look like an imbecile rather than have to answer why he wasn’t covering what so far ranks as the biggest story/scandal of the year. And I say “try [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 2:28pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Phillips (D-Athens) Votes for Pedophilia

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    Sex/gender discrimination bill passes; The Daily Sentinel In a statement released yesterday, Gov. Ted Strickland said: “I applaud the leadership of House Speaker Armond Budish, Rep. Dan Stewart and Rep. Ross McGregor, as well as the bipartisan group of House members who today affirmed that Ohio is a welcoming and [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 2:01pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Health-Care Reform and the Constitution

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    Health-Care Reform and the Constitution; WSJ; By ANDREW P. NAPOLITANOLast week, I asked South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, where in the Constitution it authorizes the federal government to regulate the delivery of health care. He replied: "There's nothing in the Constitution that" [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 1:52pm EDT
    by Brian

  • 5 Republicans Joined the Democrats in Passing HB 176

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    Right Ohio has the latest on HB 176:5 Republicans joined the Democrats in passing legislation which prohibits employers and property owners, who have a moral objection to homosexuality, from hiring/renting to whom they wish. The vote was 53-39. The 5 Republicans who pandered to the sodomite lobby are: Terry Blair [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 1:20pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Joe Wilson and the Cult of Personality

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    From Wikipedia:Generally, personality cults are most common in regimes with totalitarian systems of government, that seek to radically alter or transform society according to (supposedly) revolutionary new ideas. Often, a single leader becomes associated with this revolutionary transformation, and comes to be treated as a benevolent "guide" for the nation, [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 9:17am EDT
    by Brian

  • The Dubliners - Whiskey in the jar

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    As I was going over the far famed Kerry mountainsI met with captain Farrell and his money he was counting.I first produced my pistol, and then produced my rapier.Said stand and deliver, for I am a bold deceiver, musha ring dumma do damma da whack for the daddy 'ol whack' [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 3:46pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Bob Bennett is a Blowhard

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    Former GOP Chairman Bennett scolds party; DDNI have been a little behind reading my RSS feeds, so this article from the Dayton Daily Dribble may be a little dated, but I'm obliged to highlight stupid ORP "tricks." This time it's Bob Bennett, inventor of the "Ohio Soup Sandwich" (that's code' [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 1:02pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Kettering Republicans Abandoned Civic Responsibility

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    ODP camps out at Husted's "home"; nobody's there; Buckeye State BlogThe folks over at Buckeye State Blog have a post concerning the ORP's boy wonder, Jon Husted, being mocked by an ODP supporter because he doesn't live in the Kettering residence and community he purports to represent.While Husted should be' [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 2:46pm EDT
    by Brian

  • ALERT: OHIO HB 176

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    Folks get in touch with your local state Representative and tell them to vote NO on Ohio HB 176.Note under the following section homosexual and pedophilia would be no longer be considered a mental impairment. From the bill:Sec. 4112.01.(b) "Physical or mental impairment" does not include any of the following: [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 2:06pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Police say syringes will help stop drunk driving

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    Police say syringes will help stop drunk driving; The Associated PressWhen police officer Darryll Dowell is on patrol in the southwestern Idaho city of Nampa, he'll pull up at a stoplight and usually start casing the vehicle. Nowadays, his eyes will also focus on the driver's arms, as he tries' [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 3:15pm EDT
    by Brian

  • John Stossel Moving to FOX

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    HT: JohnJ at Repeal the 17th Amendment [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 7:37am EDT
    by Brian

  • The Greatest Senators Came Before 1913 And Popular Election

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    The Greatest Senators Came Before 1913 And Popular Election; Wall Street JournalIt is interesting that all of the great senators mentioned in Jay Winik's "Kennedy for the Ages" (op-ed, Aug. 28) served prior to 1913 and the ratification of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution. That amendment changed the selection [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2009, 1:51pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Obama to seal US-UN relationship

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    Obama to seal US-UN relationship: FT.ComBarack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council.The topic for the summit-level session of the council on September 24 is nuclear non-proliferation and [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 3:03pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Ohio Farmers Raise Concerns About Issue 2

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    Ohio Farmers Raise Concerns About Issue 2; By Clint Zeigler; Director Ohio Freedom Alliance Mt. Giliead ChapterHT: Ohio Freedom AllianceWho should have the final say as to how livestock are raised and cared for in the state of Ohio? This November House Joint Resolution 2 will be on the ballot [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 1:17pm EDT
    by Brian

  • The Dollar Collapses

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    The Dollar Collapses; ForbesThe U.S. dollar reached its lowest point against the euro this year due to a myriad of forces including rising global stocks and commodities prices, low interest rates, and investors diversifying out of Treasury debt and into other assets including U.S. stocks with the Dow Jones industrial [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 3:34pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Police Use Taser On Veteran After Brawl

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    Police Use Taser On Veteran After Brawl; WLTW.comA Riverfest event to honor soldiers was marred by a late night altercation.On Friday night, one of the men who was supposed to be recognized at the USO Riverfest Gala was shocked by a police Taser after police said he tried to punch [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 2:47pm EDT
    by Brian

  • CO Man hit with Taser dies

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    Aurora Police: Man hit with Taser dies; The Denver PostA man hospitalized after being shocked with a Taser by Aurora police on Thursday died Sunday morning, according to a police news release.The Arapahoe County Corner's Office will perform an autopsy on Shane Ledbetter, 38.The release by Aurora police said Ledbetter [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 2:41pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Mass. Health Care Portends National Future

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    Mass. Health Bill Would Allow Warrantless Arrests, Quarantines; The New AmericanA pandemic and disaster preparation bill (S. 2028) passed unanimously by the Massachusetts Senate earlier this year is receiving wide-spread criticism as citizens mobilize to oppose its passage in the commonwealth’s House of Representatives. “Under this bill, Massachusetts becomes a [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 7:33am EDT
    by Brian

  • The IRS and Health Care

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    Ready for an Even More Intrusive IRS? By Marc Kilmer; The Buckeye Institute.What federal agency is the big winner in the health care “reform” debate? The IRS:Under the various proposals now on the table, the IRS would become the main agency for determining who has an “acceptable” health insurance plan; [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 2:20pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Pro-gun Bill Hides REAL-ID Agenda

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    You really can't trust a Republican these days. Check this story out: Rep. Price (R-GA) is working on a law that would give the poor who live in Section 8 housing the right to protect themselves under the 2nd Amendment. Great...sure it is, we're all about the Bill of Rights, [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 2:32pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Freedom is Slavery

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    Thanks to JohnJ at Repeal the 17th [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 2:18pm EDT
    by Brian

  • McCain and McConnell Jointly Attend Semi-Town Halls

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    The Early Word: The Close of Summer; The New York TimesBut in this last week of summer before the holiday, lawmakers and others are busily traveling and meeting with various constituencies as the health care debate continues to simmer. Leading Republican senators like John McCain and Mitch McConnell will jointly [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 2:16pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Socialist Sweden Moves to Ban Homeschooling for Religious or Philosophical Reasons

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    Socialist Sweden Moves to Ban Homeschooling for Religious or Philosophical ReasonsGovernment accused of "showing off its worst totalitarian socialist roots"The Swedish Association for Home Education (ROHUS) is asking for support from the international community to stop an attempt by the Swedish government to outlaw homeschooling. The new legislation argues that [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 4:26pm EDT
    by Brian

  • The Federal Tax Escrow Account

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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 3:20pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Kennedy Buried at Arlington

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    Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington, beside brothers; APSen. Edward M. Kennedy was laid to rest Saturday night alongside slain brothers John and Robert on hallowed ground at Arlington National Cemetery, celebrated for "the dream he kept alive" across the decades since their deaths.Comment: This is a travesty. He was [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2009, 1:41am EDT
    by Brian

  • Kennedy Funeral: How Delusional Have We Become!

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    How delusional have we become when we believe this scoundrel, Edward Kennedy, had our country’s best interest in mind and acted with any form of selflessness...worst of all, how delusional is the American Catholic Church and where are the clergy who would put this malefactor above Holy Mass and allow [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2009, 3:08pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Portman and the School of DeWine and Voinovich

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    Dave Potts, who writes at Buckeye State Blog, and I have bantered back and forth occasionally, and while I can't point to the times I have agreed with him, I can today.Dave has a post about the ORP's darling "waiting in the wings," Rob Portman, which has me seeing DeWine, [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 4:27pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Voinovich Breaks From Party Over Sotomayor

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    Senate poised to make history with Sotomayor vote; APRepublican Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio said he'd break with his party to support Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor Thursday, as the Senate pressed toward a history-making vote to confirm her as the first Hispanic justice over the grave objections of most GOP' [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 4:24pm EDT
    by Brian

  • University of Dayton's March Toward Islam

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    Dean: UD students can relate to Islamic faith journey: Dayton Daily NewsMelody Moezzi is “ecstatic” to have her book, “War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims,” selected as required reading for more than 1,700 incoming University of Dayton students. ...Comment: Learning about other cultures is one thing, but without [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 2:35pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Gay Pride Shines in UK Military

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    In U.K. Military, Gay Pride Shines; CBSNewsWhile the U.S. adheres to a "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gays in the military, its staunchest ally across the Atlantic is nine years removed from dramatically changing its own stance toward gay and lesbian service members – allowing completely open military service [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 2:29pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Bangor hospital to have Taser

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    Bangor hospital to have Taser: bangordailynews.comFrom Maine:Citing an increase in the frequency of aggressive and sometimes violent patients in the emergency department, Eastern Maine Medical Center and the Bangor Police Department have agreed to place a Taser at the hospital for exclusive police use."It's not a change in practice. Police'" [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 9:35am EDT
    by Brian

  • HR 2749: Food Safety’s Scorched Earth Policy

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    HR 2749: Food Safety’s Scorched Earth Policy; Food Wars...The problem does not lie squarely in the lap of the farmer, where this legislation places it. It lies in the processing that happens after the produce leaves the farm. This legislation pronounces a death sentence on all small farmers, organic growers, [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 1:45pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Republican Senator Graham Says He'll Vote for Sotomayor

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    Republican Senator Graham Says He'll Vote for Sotomayor; BloombergRepublican US Senator Lindsey Graham said he will vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor for the US Supreme Court. ...Comment: Of course he will because he is the picture of the typical statist republican party politician...and know, Mike DeWine would have been right' [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 1:37pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Brown, Voinovich help vote down conceal carry proposal

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    Brown, Voinovich help vote down conceal carry proposal; The Columbus DispatchBoth of Ohio's U.S. senators, Democrat Sherrod Brown and Republican George V. Voinovich, were among the "no" votes that helped defeat a Senate proposal to let gun owners carry concealed weapons across state lines.The proposal needed 60 votes to be [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 3:05pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Is Aborted Fetal DNA in Vaccines Linked to Autism?

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    Is Aborted Fetal DNA in Vaccines Linked to Autism? LifeSiteNews.ComJust when the pharmaceutical industry thought the vaccine-autism controversy had been resolved, the National Vaccine Advisory Committee has recommended further study of vaccine safety. A perceived fear of the safety of the U.S. vaccination schedule has led increasing numbers of parents [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 2:00pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Gun Control: What's the Agenda?

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    Gun Control: What's the Agenda? By Paul Craig Roberts; CounterPunch.comSome years or decades ago I researched and reported on the Sullivan Act, one of America’s first gun control laws.New York state senator Timothy Sullivan, a corrupt Tammany Hall politician, represented New York’s Red Hook district. Commercial travelers passing through the [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2009, 1:49pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Stay Out of Iran!

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    Stay Out of Iran! by Jack Hunter [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2009, 1:05pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Double Whammy—Obama Care & Cap-and-Trade

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    Double Whammy—Obama Care & Cap-and-Trade; by Peter Schif; TakiMag.comMisguided government policies have already dealt vicious body blows to our economy, but that hasn’t stopped politicians this week from launching two new kicks to the groin: a national health insurance plan and a carbon emissions regulation system called “cap and trade.” [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2009, 12:28pm EDT
    by Brian

  • PJB: California, Here We Come!

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    PJB: California, Here We Come! By Patrick J. BuchananAnd Americans should take a good, long look at the fiscal and social wreck of the Golden Land, because California is at a place to which all of America is heading.In May, when five fund-raising proposals were put on the ballot, Gov. [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 6:40am EDT
    by Brian

  • Wall Street Sets Campaign on 'Populist Overreaction'

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    Wall Street Sets Campaign on 'Populist Overreaction;' BloombergWall Street’s largest trade group has started a campaign to counter the “populist” backlash against bankers, enlisting two former aides to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to spearhead the effort.In memos of confidential meetings with top financial executives, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 5:40pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Jim Jordan and Dennis Kucinich on Bernanke-Federal Reserve Hearing

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    HT: Ohio Freedom Alliance [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 5:37pm EDT
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  • Screw the Cities, What About the Rest of Us?

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    A libertarian dilemma; TaxmanblogNow here's my beef with these deals.Why can't Lorain, Canton, Akron, Youngstown, Marietta, my home town of Lancaster, Springfield, Dayton, Athens, Portsmouth, etc. have a casino?Why is it OK for these other cities to suck revenue from outlying communities for benefit of the four "chosen" cities? Why' [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 5:15pm EDT
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  • Obama Care

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    From Reason: [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 5:11pm EDT
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  • Joel's visit to Washington

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    Joel's visit to Washington; The Farm BlogFrom the conclusion of the Joel's post:...No face time. No interaction. I was just supposed to listen, catch the euphoria bug, and leave elated and thankful that the Democrats were finally in charge. Of course, I don't think the Republicans would be any better,' [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 4:35pm EDT
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  • High-Speed Rail a Waste of Money, Says Report

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    Via email from The Buckeye InstituteThe Obama Administration's proposed high-speed rail plan will cost $1,000 for every federal income taxpayer, yet the average American will ride high-speed trains less than 60 miles a year, says a new report from the Buckeye Institute. The report estimates that the average Ohio resident [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 3:05pm EDT
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  • American Solutions

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    HT: Southeastern Ohio Conservative Thoughts [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 9:44am EDT
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  • ALERT: Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009

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    Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009; Open Congress.comBlair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit a person from possessing a firearm unless that person has been issued a firearm license under this [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 8:25am EDT
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  • EPA Conspired with DuPont to Allow Teflon Chemicals in Drinking Water

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    EPA Conspired with DuPont to Allow Teflon Chemicals in Drinking Water; Natural News.comThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signed an agreement with the DuPont corporation, imposing a new maximum level of a toxic Teflon chemical in drinking water near a factory in Parkersburg, West Virginia. According to the Environmental Working [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 4:33am EDT
    by Brian

  • Report Debunking UN's Global Warming Alarmism is Backed by 31,478 U.S. Scientists

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    Report Debunking UN's Global Warming Alarmism is Backed by 31,478 U.S. Scientists; Daily TechNote: the article has quite a number of embedded links, which could not be posted here.The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) has issued a rebuttal to the United Nation's International Panel on Climate Change. The [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 4:03am EDT
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  • International Bailout Brings Us Closer to Economic Collapse

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    International Bailout Brings Us Closer to Economic Collapse; Rep. Ron PaulLast week Congress passed the war supplemental appropriations bill. In an affront to all those who thought they voted for a peace candidate, the current president will be sending another $106 billion we don’t have to continue the bloodshed in [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 3:07am EDT
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  • Pink Pomeranian Charlie Wilson Rejects Fed Reserve Investigation

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    As of 19 June, my Congressman, and member of the Pink Pomeranian Coalition, Rep. Charlie Wilson (DEM-OH-6th) still rejects Rep. Ron Paul's bill H.R. 1207, Audit of the Federal Reserve.Maybe Charlie should spend less time being the lap dog of Nancy Pelosi and Barney Franks (we won't discuss what that [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2009, 7:22am EDT
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  • VA in Penn. botched cancer treatments; REALLY?

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    VA in Penn. botched cancer treatments; The Associated PressNinety-two veterans were given incorrect radiation doses in a common surgical procedure to treat prostate cancer during a six-year period at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia, according to newspaper reports Sunday.A hospital team that performed the procedure botched it on [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2009, 6:28am EDT
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  • More On HR 2749: Totalitarian Control of the Food Supply

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    HR 2749: Totalitarian Control of the Food Supply; Food FreedomAlarming Provisions: Some of the more alarming provisions in the bill are:* HR 2749 would impose an annual registration fee of $500 on any “facility” that holds, processes, or manufactures food. [isn't this every home in the US, every garden?] Although' [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2009, 5:06am EDT
    by Brian

  • Have Monsanto, Oxfam America, Gates, Rockefeller and more teamed up to foist GM onto Africa?

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    Have Monsanto, Oxfam America, Gates, Rockefeller and more teamed up to foist GM onto Africa? Food FreedomCongress may pass the Global Food Security Act – Senate Bill 384. This would “boost spending on foreign agricultural development and nutrition programs from $750 million in 2010 to $2.5 billion by 2014. …the [...]
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    Posted: June 21, 2009, 4:42pm EDT
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  • Democrats Bury ‘Community Transformation’ Plans in Health Care Bill

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    Democrats Bury ‘Community Transformation’ Plans in Health Care Bill; CNSNews.comSenate Democrats inserted a wide-ranging provision for “Community Transformation Plans” in their half-completed health care bill, outlining the proposal on page 382 of the now-615 page bill, major sections of which have yet to be written.Some Republicans have criticized the provision [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2009, 12:57pm EDT
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  • Days of the Taser

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    NAU student dies in Utah after officer stuns him with Taser; Arizona RepublicA graduate student at Northern Arizona University died this week after being Tasered by a police officer on a highway in southwestern Utah ...Methodist hospital police use Taser on patient; Dallas Morning NewsMethodist Health System police arrested a [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2009, 7:32am EDT
    by Brian

  • Soda Tax Is Coming

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    Soda Tax Coming? QSR.comFederal and state governments should levy excise taxes on soda and other sugary drinks both to raise revenues to pay for health coverage and prevention programs, and also to decrease consumption of products that promote obesity, the Center for Science in the Public Interest said today.The nutrition [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2009, 7:16am EDT
    by Brian

  • Dodd's wife serves on health care company boards

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    Dodd's wife serves on health care company boards; The Associated PressThe wife of a senator playing a lead role on a national health care overhaul sits on the boards of four health care companies, one of several examples of lawmakers with ties to the medical industry.Jackie Clegg Dodd, wife of [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2009, 3:05am EDT
    by Brian

  • Napolitano on Your World with Cavuto

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    HT: JohnJ at Repeal the 17thPlease watch this video and then pass it on. This three minute discussion is a great summary of the diabolical direction Obama and the Washington and New York Oligarchs are taking this country. [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 5:15am EDT
    by Brian

  • Is This Justice: Woman Ordered to Pay $1.92 Million

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    Jury rules against Minn. woman in download case; The Associated PressA replay of the nation's only file-sharing case to go to trial has ended with the same result — a Minnesota woman was found to have violated music copyrights and must pay huge damages to the recording industry.A federal jury [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 4:25am EDT
    by Brian

  • HR 2749: Totalitarian Control of the Food Supply

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    HR 2749: Totalitarian Control of the Food Supply; Food FreedomA new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress-HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The bill needs to be stopped. HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing existing judicial restraints on actions taken [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2009, 1:27pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Nuclear Plant Planned for Ohio

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    Nuclear plant planned for state; The Columbus DispatchA multibillion-dollar nuclear power plant proposed for southern Ohio would be the first started in the U.S. since before the Three Mile Island accident."I'm a big cheerleader for nuclear power, and I always have been," Gov. Ted Strickland told The Dispatch. "I'm excited" [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2009, 12:25pm EDT
    by Brian

  • Are You Ready for War with a Demonized Iran?

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    Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former Reagan Administration official and editor of the Wall Street Journal, questions the tremendous media focus on the elections in Iran, when there is little if no consequence to the US by Iran. We need to wake up; Iran’s President Ahmadinejad is so low on the [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2009, 8:09am EDT
    by Brian

  • Estate Tax is Killing 58,000 Ohio Jobs Study Says

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    Via email from The Buckeye Institute:Ohio could add 58,363 new jobs at no cost to taxpayers if the federal estate tax were repealed, according to a new analysis by the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions. The estimates are based on research by the former director of the nonpartisan Congressional [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2009, 8:05am EDT
    by Brian

  • John Stossel's Take

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    John Stossel has a weblog called "John Stossel's Take." If his weblog is half as good as his "Give Me a Break" segments on 20/20, this weblog will be worth reading everyday.Welcome to the blogosphere John! [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2009, 7:49am EDT
    by Brian

  • Abortion Business in Philadelphia Gives Away Free Abortions Honoring George Tiller

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    Abortion Business in Philadelphia Gives Away Free Abortions Honoring George TillerAn abortion business in Pennsylvania is drawing criticism or giving away free abortions on Tuesday in honor of slain late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller. The Philadelphia Women's Center said the free abortions were meant to show appreciation for Tiller, who [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2009, 7:33am EDT
    by Brian

  • Visions From A Crystal Ball

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    Visions From A Crystal Ball; By Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.; June 8, 2009; NewsWithViews.comFrom the concluding paragraph:If We the People actually want to exercise their sovereignty, they must do it, not in court rooms from which issue all-too-often-faulty “judicial opinions”, but in their State legislatures, where true “laws” [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2009, 4:52am EDT
    by Brian

  • Obama's Speech In Egypt

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    By Chuck Baldwin; June 9, 2009; NewsWithViews.comMuch has been made of President Barack Obama's "reconciliation" speech in Cairo, Egypt, last week. For the most part, the American media have focused on Obama's attempt to "repair" relations with the Muslim nations of the world. For example, Obama referenced the Koran five [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2009, 4:24am EDT
    by Brian

  • On Flag Day Fly Only the Ohio Flag

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    HT: Ohio Freedom AllianceFrom: Aude SapereI am not about rah rah flag waving cheerleader stuff, but on June 14th, instead of flying the US flag, why not fly the Ohio flag in solidarity for states rights, 10th Amendment and the state sovereignty movement. Comment: I think it's a great idea [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2009, 2:46am EDT
    by Brian

  • Catholic Answers sues IRS, alleging ‘intimidation’ on political issues

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    Catholic Answers sues IRS, alleging ‘intimidation’ on political issues; Catholic News AgencyThe apologetics organization Catholic Answers has filed suit against the Internal Revenue Service claiming the federal tax collection agency has “intimidated” churches and non-profit groups into silence on politically controversial moral issues.In an announcement posted at the organization’s web [...]
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    Posted: June 10, 2009, 7:21am EDT
    by Brian

  • Anger as school tells children aged five about gay issues

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    HT: Blacklisted NewsAnger as school tells children aged five about gay issues…to the sound of Elton John; Daily News.From...where else, England:Pupils as young as five were left ‘confused and worried’ after a school assembly to explain homosexuality.Teachers played a recording of Elton John’s Your Song before explaining that the singer [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 1:04pm EDT
    by Brian
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