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• Gallup shows the decline of Christians during the Christmas season

  
  The Western Experience — Authority: 131
  by JasonWell, not entirely. America is and remains an overwhelming Christian nation. A nation that embraces Christianity and has a remarkable respect for all religions — an existing Christian virtue. However, as Gallup’s data shows that Americans who identify with Christianity is declining while those who have no ...
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• Dred Scott Redux: Obama and the Supremes Stand Up for Slavery

  
  NObama Blog — Authority: 139
  Written by Chris Floyd While we were all out doing our Christmas shopping, the highest court in the land quietly put the kibosh on a few more of the remaining shards of human liberty. It happened earlier this week, in a discreet ruling that attracted almost no notice and took little time. In fact, our most august ...
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• Bernie Madoff Beat Up in Jail?

  
  STREET KNOWLEDGE MEDIA — Authority: 148
  Well it seems that Bernie got his head handed to him in jail. The inmates obviously don’t like people who steal.via Huff PostSources told WTVD, the ABC affiliate in Raleigh Durham, North Carolina, that the convicted Ponzi schemer had facial fractures, broken ribs and a collapsed lung and was discharged from Duke two ...
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• What Crimes Does the New Human Rights Section Prosecute?

  
  TAPPED — Authority: 151
  Over at Main Justice, Andrew Ramonas reports that Barack Obama just signed into law the Human Rights Enforcement Act of 2009, which authorizes the creation of a human rights section within the criminal division of the Department of Justice. According to the legislation , the new human rights section will ...
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• Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Obamacare – Critical Condition on National Review Online

  
  NObama Blog — Authority: 139
  Jeffrey H. Anderson - [...] At its core, what Obamacare really means is a loss of freedom. Full article: National Review Online . Posted in NObama Tagged: Assault on Civil Liberties, Health Care, Socialist Policies, Thugocracy
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• Chris Grayling u-turns again, on home defence

  
  Liberal Conspiracy — Authority: 659
  It seem to have worked out for the cerebral and shy Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling, treading gingerly into the high profile area of the right to self-defence this week. Perhaps a tiny amount of over-reach? Indeed Melanie Phillips thought Grayling had gone well over the top in ‘ endorsing mob rule ‘. David ...
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• Pig Brother

  
  who's your nanny? — Authority: 422
  In a free country, there would be no government police. But in those that could at least uphold the facade of freedom, the cameras would be pointed in the exact opposite direction .
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• RAIM-Seattle on the recent WTO 10 year anniversary

  
  MSH — Authority: 119
  RAIM-Seattle on the recent WTO 10 year anniversary ( raims.wordpress.com) The imperialist media hype around the recent slayings of police (the enforcers of empire) in the Seattle and Lakewood, and the predictable show of support for the kkkops by the general cracker population, overlaps the ten year anniversary of ...
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• Quote of the Day: The Demon Pot

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: kevin drum — Authority: 146
  From Mary Grabar, "conservative professor of English, commentator, fiction writer, and poet," on why alcohol is OK but marijuana isnt even though it tends to have a milder effect: That’s exactly what the left wants: a nation of young zombies — indifferent, unengaged, and uncaring. They provide amenable subjects ...
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• Mexico… land of the free?

  
  The Legal Satyricon — Authority: 525
  Living a mere 20 minutes from the Mexican border, it always seems funny to me that the U.S. side is supposed to be the “land of the free.” Meanwhile, if you want to buy certain drugs without getting a doctor and an insurance company involved, you just walk in to the Farmacia over the [...]
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• Study: Non-Whites More Likely to Be Arrested for Weed Than Whites

  
  Runnin' Scared — Authority: 711
  We already know that New York is the Marijuana Arrest Capital of the World, and that the administration of alleged marijuana user Mayor Bloomberg has greatly increased the hassling of users....
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• Czech Drug Policy

  
  The Adam Smith Institute Blog — Authority: 555
  As of January 1st, the Czech Republic’s drug policy is changing. While the personal use of illicit drugs was decriminalized a year ago, possession of the vague “larger than small” amount of a substance still lead to prosecution. The difficulty the public, police and courts faced in judging this amount has lead ...
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• It wouldnt happen here

  
  The Adam Smith Institute Blog — Authority: 555
  Public outrage has been expressed at a US cop who pulled a gun during a friendly Washington snowball fight. The detective, who was calmed down by uniformed police called to the scene, has been suspended pending disciplinary action. This could not possibly happen in the UK. In Britain five or six squad cars would ...
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• Nativity returns, joined by Santa (complaint to ACLU by atheist at Catholic college)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The Nativity scene and menorah are back on the Luzerne County Courthouse lawn, surrounded by some new secular decorations. Added were Santa and Mrs. Claus, two reindeer, some candy canes, a little elf handling mail for Santa, a Christmas tree and signs that say “Happy Holidays” and “Happy Kwanzaa.” Passing ...
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• CRS: ACORN Videotape Makers May Have Violated Federal, State Law.

  
  TAPPED — Authority: 151
  In response to a request from Rep. John Conyers , chair of the House Judiciary Committee, the Congressional Research Service issued a report finding absolutely zero cases in which ACORN violated the terms of its federal funding in the past five years. But the report may have more harrowing implications for the ...
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• Heard of the First Amendment?

  
  Augusta Free Press — Authority: 572
  ACLU backs Gloucester residents in removal case Staff Report News Tips: freepress2@ntelos.net The ACLU of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression today filed an amicus brief in the Virginia Supreme Court on behalf of 40 Gloucester residents who were ordered to pay a ...
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• The Politicization of the Law

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 752
  By Roger Pilon Are law and politics separate realms? That’s the ideal. But Adam Liptak, Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times , raises questions today about whether it’s any longer the case. Drawing on a study published last month in The Vanderbilt Law Review and summarized in the autumn issue of ...
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• Do Bring a Phonecam to a Snowball Fight

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 752
  By Julian Sanchez By now, you’ve probably heard the story— and seen the video .  During the weekend’s Snowpocalypse™ in DC, a gaggle of young urbanites, using Twitter and other social media, announced a big group snowball fight at the corner of 14th and U Streets.  For a while, it was all good fun, with the ...
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• ‘Counterpoint’ to Keillor’s War-on-Christmas op-ed is more of same

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 653
  Photo: Wikipedia Two days after the Star Tribune carried Garrison Keillor’s War-on-Christmas op-ed , the paper prints a “ Counterpoint ” by Mitch Pearlstein, president of the Center of the American Experiment. Pearlstein calls Keillor “nasty” but “brilliant” — and agrees that Christmas is under ...
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• Taking DNA catches murderers | Sandra Laville

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Civil liberties activists have seized the agenda, but the DNA database helped find the killer of 16-year-old Colette Aram In the public gallery of Nottingham crown court this week a woman in her 60s sat silently as the man who had abducted, raped and strangled her 16-year-old daughter made the admission she had ...
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