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May 22, 2013

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Thomas Woods, Damon Root and Michael Schermer join Stossel to discuss popular myths of history regarding labor unions, FDR’s New Deal, Herbert Hoover, the Founding Fathers, Native Americans and more

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Top IRS Official Will Invoke 5th Amendment

May 22, 2013

WASHINGTON — A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the 5th Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups. Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew [...]

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Reason #7,452 To Stay Out Of NJ – TX Man Transporting Unloaded Firearms Through NJ Doing 3-5 Years In Prison

May 22, 2013

A TX man, who was in the process of moving to Maine, made a very simple mistake, and never made it to his hew home. Dustin Reininger is serving a 3-5 year prison sentence in the Garden State because he made a mistake, he stopped to take a nap in NJ during his multi day [...]

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No Arrests On Wall Street, But Over 7,700 Americans Have Been Arrested Protesting Big Banks

May 22, 2013

As Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has said, the nation’s biggest banks have essentially gained “too big for trial” status, and the federal government has failed to prosecute any executive at a Big Bank for financial fraud. While Wall Street has escaped prosecutions, thousands of Americans have been arrested in the course of protests against the [...]

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After You Read This Kid’s Story, You’ll Think Twice About What You Post On Facebook. (And That’s The Problem.)

May 22, 2013

Meet Cameron D’Ambrosio. He’s 18 and lives in a small town outside Boston. He wants to be a rapper and calls himself “Cammy Dee” in his YouTube videos. Oh, and he’s been locked up without bail for weeks — facing terrorism charges and 20 years in prison — all for something he posted on Facebook. [...]

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California Police Beat Man Nearly To Death For Asking To Read His Ticket

May 22, 2013

A Berkeley truck driver is suing the California High Patrol for a brutal assault that brought him to the brink of death — provoked, according to a report by the local NBC affiliate, only by the man’s request to read the ticket he was being given before he signed it. On September 2nd, 2011, Russian [...]

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Man Killed By FBI After Being Questioned About The Boston Bombings

May 22, 2013

An FBI special agent shot and killed a man in Orlando, Florida, early on Wednesday morning, just hours after he was interrogated about the Boston Marathon bombings. The man, who was identified as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, was reportedly an acquaintance of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who he met through the world of mixed martial arts. Like Tsarnaev, he was [...]

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Nanny State

May 22, 2013

America, the land of opportunity, the last best hope of human freedom. People traveled to her wide open spaces to create economic opportunity for themselves, escape religious persecution, and live a life they couldn’t possibly have imagined living in their homelands, a life of freedom and opportunity. From sea to shining sea they tamed what [...]

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BREWERCARE: Arizona Obamacare Compromise Ignites Conservatives

May 22, 2013

News of obamacare-fueled Republican resistance against a governor of an opposing political party is nothing new for Americans. Arizonans do things a little differently though, where backlash against Republican governor Jan Brewer normally means she’s compromised Conservative principles again. This is the case in the Arizona Obamacare – Brewercare compromise, which has ignited Conservatives against the Republican governor after [...]

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4 Issues Far Worse Than the IRS, Benghazi, and AP Scandals

May 22, 2013

While those of us who have been highly critical of the Obama administration since the beginning are happy to see this media-protected president finally face some close political scrutiny, this flurry of scandals is sadly just the tip of the iceberg. The IRS’s targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups and the Justice Department’s monitoring [...]

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