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• "DONT BE A SUCKER!" (1947). HOW ABOUT 2009+?

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  Dont Be a Sucker! (1947) "Dont Be a Sucker!" (1947). How about 2009+? Tell it to the banksters who have arranged things so all those common people in the film will have to pay the banksters 23-trillion dollars in additional taxes to bail out those banksters who actually crashed the U.S. economy for just that ...
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• Rhode Island Governor Carcieri – You’re a Dick

  
  The Legal Satyricon — Authority: 562
  So much for me being a smug New Englander who thinks that the Northeast is intellectually superior to the peckerwood hellholes of the Confederacy. Hot on the heels of Maine voters deciding that they don’t want all eight gay couples who live in Maine to have the right to marry who they want, Rhode [...]
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• Wanted: Non-corrupt conservative leaders to defend civil liberties

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 681
  David Weigel reports that David Keene of the American Conservative Union and Grover Norquist of Club for Growth have come out in favor of closing Gitmo and trying terror suspects in a federal court. Norquist, who usually describes himself as some sort of libertarian, has never been a particularly visible defender ...
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• How Is Sotomayor Doing?

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  I was one of those who opposed the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, mainly because the pick was based on race and gender rather than merit and she was disingenuous and obfuscatory at her confirmation hearings . Well, the Court still hasn’t decided any cases argued with Justice Sotomayor on ...
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• The Remnants of “War on Terror”

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared on Fox News Sunday this weekend to argue against the Obama administration’s plan to try some alleged terrorists in New York courts. He did not acquit himself well. Giuliani argued, for example, that criminal defendants aren’t tried “at the scene of the ...
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• ON: THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  I quote the Wiki on this since its pretty mainstream now. Elements of the text in the Protocols were plagiarized from the 1864 book, Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu (Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu), written by the French satirist Maurice Joly. Jolys work attacks the political ...
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• THE FASCISTS ARE TRYING TO STOP THE CHURCHES FROM FEEDING THE POOR. TAKE A STAND FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  My post on the Anti-fascist Facebook Group: The Fascists are trying to stop the Churches from feeding the poor. Take a stand for righteousness. Visit the site and leave a supportive comment as soon as you can. Dont let any religious differences stand in the way on this, please. Im not a Methodist, but I stand with ...
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• Excuse Me..?

  
  Ambush Predator — Authority: 532
  Home Secretary Alan Johnson has announced suspected violent men will be banned from their own homes even if police do not press charges . At present, a person can be kept away from their home address only if they are charged with a crime , and it is made a condition of their bail. Alternatively, the alleged ...
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• WA Police using Smartrider public transport data to track people

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 137
  WA Today reports that police are weekly requesting personal information from Perth’s public transport system without a subpoena – and are receiving it. Police using Smartrider to track people Police are using the Public Transport Authority’s Smartrider electronic ticketing system to track people’s ...
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• Senate Bill Would Allow "Mentally Incapacitated" Vets to Buy Guns

  
  MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — Authority: 146
  Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood Army base , has been described by former colleagues as "psychotic." As more details emerge about Hasans troubled state, gun safety advocates are launching fresh attacks on a Senate bill they say would make it easier for mentally unstable veterans to buy ...
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• MY FACEBOOK REPLY TO EURO YANK 11/15/2009, ADDED AS A BLOG POST

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  Yes, I noticed you werent around here or tweeting, etc., so I thought Id check you out. Ive been nosing around "groups." Facebook is not as alive as I thought it would be. People seem shell shocked or to be entertainment zombies — just what the dark side ordered. I was thinking youre pretty good at coming up with ...
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• New York Times: Window Watchers in a City of Strangers

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 524
  The New York Times has an interesting story about what people can see when looking out their apartment windows and into others’ homes:The ability to observe the private lives of strangers from the windows of our homes — and the knowledge that they can often watch us, as well — has long been a staple [...]
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• Washington Times: Airport rules changed after Ron Paul aide detained

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 524
  The Washington Times reports on new rules at the Transportation Security Administration concerning airport searches.An angry aide to Rep. Ron Paul, an iPhone and $4,700 in cash have forced the Transportation Security Administration to quietly issue two new rules telling its airport screeners they can only conduct ...
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• The KSM Trial Will Be an Intelligence Bonanza for al Qaeda

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  The government will have to choose between vigorous prosecution and revealing classified sources and methods. This is a prosecutorial decision as well as a national security decision," President Barack Obama said last week about the attorney generals announcement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al Qaeda ...
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• Texas and Death Row

  
  B12 Solipsism — Authority: 145
  Is there hope for Texas? We’ll see… Even in Texas they are having their doubts. The state that executes more people than any other by far – it will account for half the prisoners sent to the death chamber in the US this year – is seeing its once rock-solid faith in capital punishment shaken by ...
  15 hours ago

• Coroners and justice act: Keep tabs on the teaspoons

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  Ralph Waldo Emerson is familiar on this side of the Atlantic for the line "The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted the spoons." It is a thought that occurs when listening to senior politicians awarding themselves powers which they claim are so laden with safeguards that they can never be abused. On ...
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• Death penalty in the US

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Find out which US states use the death penalty and which do not Paddy Allen
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• The Worst Kind of Trial

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 653
  “Men, we’ve got to give this man a fair trial before we hang him.” — attributed to Judge Roy Bean. Finding an impartial jury for the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) is the least of our worries in President Obama’s decision to try him in a civil court. Our greatest concern is that it will be a shambles of a ...
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• November 20th – Transgender Remembrance Day

  
  Tasithoughts's Weblog — Authority: 128
  Within the LGBT rights movement is the Transgender community.  This is often the group that probably has the toughest obstacles on the road to equality issues than any demographic in across LGBT peoples. They face both prejudices outside the community and even within the community. Some of those prejudices have ...
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• Cause, Effect, and the State

  
  who's your nanny? — Authority: 122
  As I was clicking through the channels Thursday night, I saw a local report about a 14-year-old boy in Virginia who mysteriously came down with Guillain-Barre syndrome hours after receiving a vaccination for H1N1. Ive had very little time to write lately, but Karen De Coster also noticed this story and commented ...
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