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• US Postpones Internet Gambling Rules Implementation

  
  Daily Contributor — Authority: 553
  An Internet gambling payment rule, supposedly for implementation on Tuesday, December 1 has been postponed by the US Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Board for six months. The law was passed in 2006 under then President George W. Bush and Republican Party controlled congress states that financial ...
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• Obama, destroyer of freedom.

  
  Boudica BPI Weblog — Authority: 131
  BHussein: “Let MY People Go” Lieberman: Barghouti Will Not be Released Article: Israel National News Speaking Thursday morning, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he could “guarantee” that arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti would not be released from prison in any deal to exchange terrorists ...
  9 hours ago

• Treating Wall Street Like the Mafia

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  Perhaps Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) thinks of himself as a modern day John Sherman. In 1890, Ohio Sen. Sherman set out on a mission to establish “just competition” laws and level the economic playing field. His quest culminated in the dismantling of monopolies—such as American Tobacco ...
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• U.S. delays internet gambling crackdown

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 607
  Internet gambling, long a poster child for shady dealings on the World Wide Web, has gotten a reprieve from the U.S. government, which has delayed a planned ban for six months. Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement [...]
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• …Because What We Really Need is a Dying Magazine Acting as Surrogate for the Exclusionist Fantasies of the Permanent-Activist Class of Employed Gay Elites

  
  ENDAblog — Authority: 141
  What’s left of The Advocate is at it again: Would you support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act if gender identity protections were again taken out of the bill? In the comments section to that ‘poll’, Jill Weiss asks some salient questions: Why is the Advocate suggesting that such a thing is even ...
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• Holidays Are Always A Good Time To Curl Up With A Good Book-- Here Are Some Suggestions From Some Members Of Congress

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 640
  I hope you get a chance to visit the DWT book store and music shop from time to time. In it youll find the books weve been reading and enjoying enough to recommend, from Idiot America , Bloggers On The Bus , Blinded By The Right and Dateline Havana to Family of Secrets , The Progressive Revolution and ...
  2 days ago

• Thankful, I Am

  
  Hard-Boiled Poker — Authority: 128
  Whew. Like that turkey, named “Courage,” who yesterday received a last-minute “pardon” from President Obama sparing him from a dinner table, it looks like we online poker players in the U.S. have also been granted a reprieve. For a while, anyhow. It’s Thanksgiving, and if yr like me you have a lot else ...
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• Democrat House Speaker Pelosi Says Americans Want More Gov. Debt To Get Jobs: Call Her and Tell Her, “Heck No!”

  
  Gospel of Jesus Christ, The Gift of Eternal Life — Authority: 125
  Democrat Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi thinks Americans do not have enough government debt, now projected to be a mind-boggling $24 TRILLION in the next ten years , standing presently at $12 TRILLION = $38,956 per PERSON and rising Fast for EACH AND EVERY ...
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• Support Paul-Grayson AND H.R. 1207

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 567
  D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h Rep. Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act is making progress . . . * The House version of the bill (H.R. 1207) has 313 co-sponsors * The Senate  version (H.R. 604) has 30 co-sponsors And last week, Ron Paul along with Rep. Alan Grayson introduced a version of ...
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• An Astute Translation of the Banks’ Case Against New Regulations

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 747
  The finance industry, seeming to forget that it was responsible for the economic turmoil that’s pushed unemployment above 10 percent , is lobbying furiously (and successfully ) against Democratic legislation designed to protect consumers and prevent a similar episode in the future. Yesterday, industry ...
  3 days ago

• The Door is Closing: Hoping for UIGEA Delay

  
  Hard-Boiled Poker — Authority: 128
  Yesterday on the Two Plus Two forums, a question was asked about “how pivotal are the next 24 hours” when it comes to the possibility that compliance with the finalized regulations for the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 -- scheduled to begin next Tuesday, December 1 -- will be delayed. ...
  3 days ago

• War Tax A Good Idea

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 420
  The idea itself is a basic one -- pay for the costs of war now, instead of endlessly borrowing money in order to do so. A few weeks ago, the White House leaked an interesting factoid -- it costs one million dollars to put one U.S. soldier in Afghanistan for one year. This is a nice round number, and gets people to ...
  4 days ago

• Poison Pills and Ron Paul Fed Audit Thrills

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 567
  By now everyone probably knows that Ron Paul’s bill, HR.1207, was passed as an amendment tacked on to the gigantic unconstitutional financial regulatory reform bill. By this measure, Paul’s effort to have a full audit of the Fed is poisoned by the underlying bill. So the question becomes, will Ron Paul himself ...
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• Politicians solving their own problem(s)

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 143
  Thomas Sowell explains what politicians are after when making disastrous policy: Solving Whose Problem? No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems– of which getting elected and re-elected are ...
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• Could Wall Street Actually Lose in Congress?

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 138
  Something strange and a little disorienting is happening in the fight to reform Wall Street: It looks like the reformers are actually starting to win. This is not something you could have said as recently as six weeks ago. Back then, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank had just released a ...
  5 days ago

• PIMCOs Total Return Fund Sells Over $80 Billion Of Mortgage Securities To US Taxpayers Year-To-Date

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Bill Gross PIMCO is selling mortgage securities like there is no tomorrow. In October, the Newport Beach firms Total Return Fund held the lowest amount of mortgages in recent (or distant) history: at 16% of the total $193 billion in fund total net assets, securities backed by the housing bubble (v1 and/or v2) ...
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• Sen. whore Landrieu prostitutes herself to Sen. pimp Harry Reid.

  
  Boudica BPI Weblog — Authority: 131
  Landrieu was against this monster government grab until the pimp of the senate Harry Reid offered $300 million, then got in bed with him and his plan. Do your own research, leave your comments. Congress sucks. This administration sucks. Stand up America, against both parties. These people are criminals that are ...
  5 days ago

• >>China may well be our Savior from Obamanation

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 142
  It is ironic that We the People   may have a communist dictatorship to thank for saving us from our own President and Congress. Our President, Barack Obama went hat in hand and on bended knee to our nation’s banker this past week to beg that our mortgage be extended and even that we be allowed to take out an ...
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• NH: Radio Talk Show Host Fired After Tirade of Gay Slurs Against Barney Frank Broadcast

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has long been the bete noir of liberals and of Democrats; of feminists and of gays; and in recent months has become anathema to nonwhites. But a local right-wing radio talk-show host in New Hampshire did something to a local politician last week that even ...
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• Why is Obama Championing Bush’s Financial Wrecking Crew?

  
  New Deal 2.0 — Authority: 141
  Bill Black lays out a near-term list of financial priorities. Item #1: Team Obama must be purged of the ‘Wrecking Crew’ who drove the economy over a cliff. Tom Frank’s book, The Wrecking Crew explains how the Bush administration destroyed effective government and damaged our social fabric and our economy. ...
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