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TEACHER YELLS AT STUDENT: CRIMINAL OFFENSE TO
CRITICIZE OBAMA An audio recording of an exchange between a teacher and a student at North Rowan High School in North Carolina serves as a reminder that the school system is becoming a training ground for teaching kids to be subservient to the state while indoctrinating them into thinking that the First Amendment doesn’t exist. The clip features a conversation in which teacher Tanya Dixon-Neely tells students that it is a criminal… |
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Cops Steal Bail Money Under Drug Forfeiture Law
When the Brown County, Wis., Drug Task Force arrested her son Joel last February, Beverly Greer started piecing together his bail. She used part of her disability payment and her tax return. Joel Greer’s wife also chipped in, as did his brother and two sisters. On Feb. 29, a judge set Greer’s bail at $7,500, and his mother called the Brown County jail to see where and how she could… |
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WHO IS THE MOST DANGEROUS
MAN IN AMERICA? According to a 2010 article by founder, editor and CEO of WND Joseph Farah Mitt Romney is the “Real most dangerous man in America.” Farah wrote a piece in 2010 to demonstrate why he believed this and cited his “esteemed friend and colleague” Robert Ringer’s column, “The most dangerous man in America?” Ringer took on, of all people, Mike Huckabee. While Farah claims that he “never lost a wink of… |
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BARACK OBAMA APPOINTS FIRST EVER ASSASSINATION CZAR
Just as the main stream media does with everything else of importance, they have blacked out one of the most terrifying events in our nation’s history: Barack Obama’s appointment of the first ever assassination czar, John Brennan. Brennan, Obama’s chief counterterrorism advisor was appointed in virtual silence. Boston.com carried the AP story claiming, White House counterterror chief John Brennan has seized the lead in choosing which terrorists will be targeted… |
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How About Defending Speech Because It’s Speech, Not Because
You Agree With It? Earlier today, in the course of discussing possible jackass/possible troll/possible mentally ill person George Tierney, Jr., I asked people to consider calling out vengeful would-be censors because they are vengeful would-be censors, not because the victim of the moment is on “our side”: Political differences are meaningful, and should not be disregarded, but recognition of mutual humanity is often productive, and there are few more common human experiences than encountering… |
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ATF REQUESTS RECORDS OF GUN OWNERS IN ALASKA
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents have been visiting gun shops in Alaska and asking for records of firearms sales, stoking fears that the federal agency is building a list of gun owners in the state. According to the Alaska Dispatch, earlier this year two gun shops in Alaska “reported that ATF agents had asked for their books, and both turned down the requests. The one sho… |
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US: World Obviously Won’t Accept Iran’s Civilian Enrichment of Uranium: The Baghdad summit between the P5+1 and Iran has ended, with both sides agreeing to launch another round of talks next month in Moscow. No agreements beyond this were reached, but Western powers seem to insist on continuing sanctions and denying Iran’s legal right to a civilian nuclear program.
US Prepares to Vet Syrian Rebels for Indirect Shipments of Arms: The Obama administration is preparing a plan that would attempt to vet rebel militias in Syria to determine whether they would be suitable recipients of munitions coming through Gulf Arab states with U.S. help, according to officials. Except they are already receiving this lethal aid with U.S. help and without any vetting process.
Afghanistan Secretly Adopts Indefinite Detention Regime With US Instruction: With Washington’s supervision, Afghanistan is secretly adopting a system of indefinite detention for thousands of prisoners previously held without charge by the U.S.
Growing Opposition as US Mulls Arming Domestic Drones: Opposition to the use of domestic surveillance drones by law enforcement had only just begun, but now U.S. authorities are doubling down by considering actually arming their domestic drones.
China Accuses Pentagon of Hyping Chinese Military Threat: China’s Defense Ministry has accused the Pentagon of hyping Chinese military power and inflating the threat it may pose to its neighbors, as ties between the two powers continue to be undermined by Washington’s aggressive postures.
Russia’s New Missile to Target US Missile Shield: Just days after NATO announced that its missile defense shield in Europe is provisionally operational, the Russian military has successfully tested a new ICBM that it says is designed to penetrate the system.
Opinion and Analysis
- Justin Raimondo examined the “NATO Three,” the ideological origins of the military-industrial-media complex, and the phony negotiations with Iran.
- Kelley Vlahos documented War Inc.’s shift homeward.
- Ivan Eland urged the U.S. to leave NATO, not shore it up.
- Philip Giraldi explained what’s wrong with “lawfare.”
Events:
Angela Keaton will be speaking on techniques on how to speak to non-activists about the War at Porcfest, June 22nd. Porcfest is an annual gathering of peace and freedom lovers in Lancaster, NH.
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SCHOOL TREATS STUDENT
LIKE JEWISH PRISONERS TO TEACH NAZI OPPRESSION A former student at Perryton High School in Perryton, Texas, has filed a lawsuit against the school’s district for injuries he allegedly suffered during a teacher-mandated reenactment of the Holocaust. According to the suit, Andrew Yara, now 19, suffered a partially dislocated hip, dehydration, and a series of seizures after being forced to carry around several heavy student on his back as part of the bizarre education experiment. For a… |
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Sheriff Joe Sends Detectives
to Honolulu In a major development in his probe of Barack Obama’s eligibility for Arizona’s 2012 presidential ballot, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has dispatched his lead Cold Case Posse investigator and a deputy detective to Hawaii. The mission to Obama’s purported birthplace comes as the Hawaii Department of Health continues to resist efforts by Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett to verify that the Honolulu agency has a valid birth certificate… |
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UPDATE: TEACHER SUSPENDED FOR SILENCING STUDENT
OBAMA CRITIC The social studies teacher from Spencer, North Carolina that shouted down a student who voiced his opinion has been suspended with pay. The quarrel began when a discussion about Mitt Romney’s alleged bullying led Hunter Rogers, the student who arranged the now viral recording, to ask if Obama didn’t also bully, as mentioned in his book. Here’s a transcript of some of the audio from the heated exchange: Teacher: Did… |
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NEW BILL TO LEGALIZE TARGETING
PROPAGANDA DIRECTLY AT U.S. CITIZENS Should it be legal for the U.S. government to spend billions of dollars on propaganda designed to change public opinion in the United States? Should it be legal for the U.S. government to use television, radio, newspapers, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs and Internet forums to conduct “psychological operations” targeted at the American public? An amendment that has been added to a new defense bill in Congress would make it legal… |
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Zero Americans Died from Terrorism Inside America in 2010
Michael S. Rozeff, writing for Lew Rockwell’s LRC Blog, cites a couple interesting statistics that demonstrate just how bogus the war on terror is. He writes: “How many private Americans died in 2010 due to terrorist incidents” and then responds as follows: Fifteen (15) according to the U.S. government’s 2010 Report on Terrorism, the most comprehensive of its kind. Of these, thirteen (13) were in Afghanistan, one (1) in Iraq… |
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OBAMA’S FIVE TRILLION DOLLAR LIE
Why isn’t the U.S. economy in a depression right now? The number one reason is because the federal government has stolen more than five trillion dollars from future generations since Barack Obama was elected and has used that money to pump up our grossly inflated standard of living. Whether the federal government spends money wisely or foolishly, the truth is that the vast majority of it still ends up in… |
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RNC & ITS ATTORNEY PROCLAIM STATE DELEGATES ‘UNBOUND’
In an article last week, it was pointed out that many of the delegates that the states are actually electing are Ron Paul delegates. Though Paul has not won a single state in the primaries, he has won several in delegate counts. While the main stream media and the GOP apparently think that Mitt Romney is the nominee, that has yet to be seen. Ben Swann of Fox News local… |
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New York Times Openly Admits Domestic Terror Plots Masterminded By the FBI
If it seems as though the FBI is making a large number of terror busts these days, maybe it’s because the agency itself is at least partly responsible for hatching the plots. That has some political observers wondering if the FBI’s strategies are making the best use of the nation’s limited counterterrorist resources. In recent months, FBI agents have arrested suspects who were planning a range of terrorist attacks, from… |
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OKLAHOMA GOP CHEATING RON PAUL IN DELEGATE PROCESS
In what is an unorthodox turn of events, the Oklahoma Republican Convention has reconvened in the parking lot of the Embassy Suites in Norman, Okla. The state convention was held today inside the Embassy Suites with party officials calling for an adjournment at or around 5 p.m. From early in the day, old guard Republicans refused to conduct the official meeting according to established Republican Party rules. Party officials adjourned… |
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1) Why Medicaid Should Be More Like Food Stamps
The approximately 50 million low-income people on Medicaid often face a daunting challenge: finding a doctor who will see them. How bad is the problem? In Massachusetts, for example, only 53 percent of internists and 62 percent of family physicians accept MassHealth (Massachusetts Medicaid), and only 43 percent of internists and 56 percent of family physicians will accept patients enrolled in Commonwealth Choice (state-subsidized health plans). But as Independent Institute Research Fellow John C. Goodmanexplains, there is a simple remedy to this problem: allow poverty-level families to add their own money to pay for healthcare. READ MORE
What Food Stamps Teach Us about Health Care, by John C. Goodman (5/11/12)
Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, by John C. Goodman
2) California’s Debt Crisis Warrants Serious Reforms
Governor Jerry Brown hopes to tackle California’s huge budget deficit with a mix of spending cuts and tax hikes. Unfortunately, the spending cuts are not sufficient, and the tax hikes would make it harder for businesses to grow during a time of economic uncertainty. A more serious approach is necessary because the Golden State’s fiscal woes have been long in the making, as Independent Institute Research Editor Anthony Gregory explains in his latest piece for the Huffington Post. READ MORE
The Golden State Gone Broke, by Anthony Gregory (The Huffington Post, 5/18/12)
The Property Tax Panacea, by Anthony Gregory (The Beacon, 5/15/12)
California’s Budget Woes, by Randall Holcombe (The Beacon, 5/12/12)
3) Georgia Immigration Law Backfires
“Be careful what you wish for,” an old adage begins. In the case of Georgia, that means fewer illegal immigrants are around to harvest nature’s bounty. Last year, the Peach State passed HB 87, which makes it harder for businesses to hire illegal immigrants, even though a labor shortage in agriculture led to an estimated $140 million in losses. Thanks to the new law, this year we can expect the labor shortage to be even worse, explains Independent Institute Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell. READ MORE
The Law of Unintended Consequences: Georgia’s Immigration Law Backfires, by Benjamin Powell (Forbes, 5/17/12)
Why Is Immigration Illegal Anyway?, by Benjamin Powell and Art Carden (Birmingham News, 11/20/11)
4) Defense Secretary to Air Force Spin Meisters: You’re Grounded!
Last week’s Lighthouse characterized the Pentagon’s stance on America’s air combat capabilities as an exercise in denial and deception. Since then, there has been a new development, one that adds nuance to the story by pitting the Pentagon brass against the Air Force’s public-relations squad. The controversy involves the safety of the F-22 fighter jet, as Independent Institute Research Fellow Winslow T. Wheeler explains. READ MORE
F-22 in a Dogfight as Panetta Crimps Its Flight Envelope, by Winslow T. Wheeler (Time Magazine Battleland Blog, 5/16/12)
Promoting Air Power: The Influence of the U.S. Air Force on the Creation of the National Security State, by Arlene Lazarowitz (The Independent Review, Spring 2005)
5) New Blog Posts
From The Beacon:
Randall Holcombe (5/21/12)
Even Worse Than Democracy
Anthony Gregory (5/18/12)
Krugman’s Mythology of U.S. Banking History
Carl Close (5/15/12)
The Property Tax Panacea
Anthony Gregory (5/15/2012)
From MyGovCost News & Blog:
Craig Eyermann (5/21/12)
Three Ideas from Europe for Controlling Government Spending
Craig Eyermann (5/19/12)
Trickle-Down Taxation
John C. Goodman (5/17/12)
Reason for Slow Recovery: Bad Government
John C. Goodman (5/16/12)
Hail Emperor Reich
Burt Abrams (5/15/12)
The Impotence of Stimulus Spending
Craig Eyermann (5/15/12)
Court Rejects Obama Arguments, Enjoins NDAA Detentions: A U.S. District Judge has issued a temporary injunction prohibiting the enforcement of the portions of the National Defense Authorization Act 2012 (NDAA) that relate to open-ended military detention of “suspects” and rejecting the Obama Administration’s attempts to have the case thrown out.
House Bill Shifting Red Line for War on Iran Passes Overwhelmingly: A bill in the House of Representatives passed on Thursday which essentially calls for a military strike on Iran if they attain “nuclear weapons capability,” an undefined term that could already apply to Iran, and many other countries with civilian nuclear programs.
US DEA Agents Kill Up to Six Civilians in Honduras: Drug Enforcement Administration agents on helicopter gunships killed up to six innocent civilians more in Honduras in a drug raid gone bad.
Obama Decree Sanctions Any Who Challenge Rule of US-Backed Dictatorship in Yemen: President Obama signed an Executive Order on Wednesday threatening to exert economic sanctions against any person or group in Yemen or the United States who is “obstructing” implementation of the U.S.-backed political transition in Yemen.
Dueling Arms Shipments: Is Syria Becoming a Proxy War? Arms are flooding into Syria – from Iran and Russia to the Assad regime and from the U.S., Europe, and the Gulf Arab states to the rebel fighters – prolonging the conflict and preventing a peace deal.
Opinion and Analysis
- Justin Raimondo discussed the Parchin deception and Hillary’s favorite terror group
- Kelley Vlahos reported on the military’s mistreatment of rape victims.
- Ivan Eland listed the unlearned lessons of an already forgotten war.
- Philip Giraldi drew attention to a dangerous bill just passed by the House.
Quebec: “I and my Fellow Quebecers Reside in a Quasi-fascist State”
Sun, May 27th, 2012, 1:40 am CDT – As of late this afternoon, I and my fellow Quebecers reside in a quasi-fascist state, and that is not a term I use lightly. You’ll f…
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The Mighty US and Its Dragooned Western Allies
Have been bested in Afghanistan by a bunch of mountain warriors from the 12th century. Article by Eric Margolis. |
| Don’t Worry About Your Kids’ Economic Future Worry about yours, says Gary North. |
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What To Expect at the Republican Convention
Aside from high heat, an empty wallet, the police state, and GOP fascisti. Brian Wilson talks to Lew. |
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War Flags on Graves?
It’s insanity, says Roger Young. |
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Mitt the Mighty Job Creator?
Charles Goyette on David Stockman’s comments. |
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What’s the Right Concealed Carry Handgun?
4 factors to help decide what’s best for you. |
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The Teetering Tower of Babel
When US bonds go down, it’s good news for gold, says Jim Willie. |
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Fire Up the Grill, Men!
Go beyond the usual fare with these 5 delicious easy recipes. |
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The 10 Most Painful Insect Stings on the Planet
From the man who subjected himself to 150 different ones. |
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Leaving Suburbia
Lessons learned in my 3-year quest for self-sustainable life. |
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Whodunnit…and How?
Solving the ultimate puzzle of locked-room mysteries. |
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Drop the Pounds
Super-slow weight training automatically reduces injury and improves fitness, says Joseph Mercola. |
