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Military Families Look To a New Year with Growing Financial Uncertainty
The $560 billion National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2015 may have been forgotten by the mainstream media, but some of the details of the bill remain troubling for military familie ...
30 Dec, 2014
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Net Neutrality, Immigration, and Cuba: Obama Playing GOP Like a Fiddle
"[T]he agreement the Obama Administration has entered into with the Castro regime has done nothing to resolve the underlying problem. Indeed, it has made it worse." - U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ...
18 Dec, 2014
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Congress Quietly Passes Bill Allowing Feds Unlimited Access to Your Private Communications
On Wednesday, December 10, Congress passed a bill called the "Intelligence Authorization Act for 2015." Not very many people have heard of this bill, much less its passage since the media's main ...
11 Dec, 2014
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Another Government Shutdown Looms Over 11th Hour Budget Negotiations
Editors note: An agreement was announced late Tuesday and the $1.1 trillion spending bill will be debated today. The spending bill funds the government - with the exception of the Department of Homela ...
10 Dec, 2014
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Torture Is Wrong: Once You Accept this, Most of the Talking Points Don’t Matter
"Once there are things you refuse to do, you have things to do."--Mencius Torture is wrong. I don’t intend to try to prove this by a lengthy process of ethical deduction or by appealing to sacred ...
09 Dec, 2014
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Feds Vow Civil, Possible Criminal Charges After Japanese Airbag Maker Refuses National Recall
WASHINGTON, D.C.— A federal official with the nation’s top auto safety regulator vowed at a House subcommittee hearing on Wednesday that the agency would consider every legal measure available against ...
04 Dec, 2014
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Ron Paul: No One Wants to be Obama's Defense Secretary
Historically, the position of defense secretary is quickly filled either from the beginning of a president's administration or after a sitting defense secretary resigns. While the confirmation pr ...
02 Dec, 2014
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Looking to the Founders: Taxation With Representation
"No Taxation without Representation," was a major rallying cry of the American Revolution. At the heart of it was the fact that Colonial Americans had absolutely no say in the legislation process that ...
02 Dec, 2014
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Net Neutrality: What It Is and What It Isn't
On Thursday, November 13, Rasmussen Reports published a new survey they say reveals that a majority of Americans object to net neutrality. According to the polling group, 61 percent of respondent ...
13 Nov, 2014
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Hawks Lost the War on Drugs -- Get Over It
While the news is focusing on the newly-elected Republican Congress wrangling with whether or not to overturn Washington, D.C.'s decriminalization of marijuana, the "War on Drugs" continues to be lost ...
13 Nov, 2014
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