Freedom-Lover News and Articles October 2011
This section lists links and summaries of news and other articles around the web related to freedom, Libertarians, Conservatives, Republicans and more. Do you have articles you’d like included? Email us (contact email in footer of this page).
IRS Roguery is Not a New Development |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-31 |
| Tax Attorney and tax blogger Kelly Phillips-Erb said that an IRS agent hung up on her the other day in IRS Gone Bad: Are Things About to Get Worse? Over the years, I’ve represented a lot of clients. I’ve listened to hours and hours of IRS hold music. | |
Great Myths of the Great Depression |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-31 |
 Jack Burkman on Obama’s campaign |
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The Drone War Coming to a Town Near You? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-31 |
 Lew Rockwell on the police state |
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Silver Will Eventually Go Through 50 USD |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-31 |
| We are going to eventually go through $50 (on silver), so buy it now. - in Beacon EquityETF: IShares Silver ETF (SLV)Peter Schiff`s comments on the economy, stock markets, politics and gold. Schiff is the renowned writer of the bestseller Crash Proof: How | |
Welfare For Millionaires |
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| 2011-10-31 | |
| I'm offended when politicians talk about raising taxes, because the government already wastes so much taxpayer money. It's obscene. The pols treat the taxpayers like their own personal ATM. It has to stop. If anyone in this country needs a union | |
Welfare For Millionaires |
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| 2011-10-31 | |
| I'm offended when politicians talk about raising taxes, because the government already wastes so much taxpayer money. It's obscene. The pols treat the taxpayers like their own personal ATM. It has to stop. If anyone in this country needs a union | |
Fair Share Update: Top 1% Pays More Income Tax than the Bottom 90% |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-31 |
| David Logan of Tax Policy Blog writes in The Income Tax Burden of the Top 1%: A Geographical Perspective: In 2009, the top 1 percent of taxpayers—1,379,822 of them—paid more than the bottom 90% combined. Geographically, this is equivalent to a c | |
Monday Open Thread: Halloween Edition |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-31 |
| Boo! | |
Greek Bailout Delays the Inevitable |
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| Jacob Hornberger's Blog | 2011-10-31 |
| The European Union's bailout of Greece will only delay the inevitable because it doesn't get to the root of the problem -- Greece's welfare state, along with the fierce refusal of the Greek citizenry to abandon the welfare-state way of life.... | |
The Regulation We Want Is The Market |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-31 |
The Air Has Been Let Out Of The Balloon |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-31 |
| Do you hear that sound? It is the sound of Europe being hit with a cold dose of financial reality. The air has been let out of the balloon, and investors all over the world are realizing that absolutely nothing has been solved in Europe. The solutio | |
The Air Has Been Let Out Of The Balloon |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-31 |
| Do you hear that sound? It is the sound of Europe being hit with a cold dose of financial reality. The air has been let out of the balloon, and investors all over the world are realizing that absolutely nothing has been solved in Europe. The solutio | |
Some Truth About Income Inequality |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-31 |
| Courtesy of Paul Caron, here is a must-watch interview of New York University Law School Professor Richard Epstein: Richard Epstein: The Income Inequality Myth Watch Does U.S. Economic Inequality Have a Good Side? on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. The D | |
Chris Corporatist Collins on WBEN Today |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-30 |
| Chris Collins went on WBEN today to boast about his support for corporate welfare and Obama’s stimulus bill. And he just loves to work with the worst agency in WNY, the NFTA. The man has never attended a tea party event to the best of my knowledge a | |
The Declaration and Constitution with Larry Arnn |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-30 |
| The Declaration and the Constitution have been thrown out the window by the Obama Administration. There’s no doubt that these are two of the most impressive and influential documents in history. The founding fathers of our country provided a framework | |
Civil Liberties Group Sues City over Property Rights of Minnesotan Serving In Afghanistan |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-30 |
| The Minnesota chapter of a national civil liberties legal group is going to court to fight for the property rights of a Winona man who’s got other battles on his hands: He’s currently serving as a U.S. advisor in war-torn Afghanistan. The Institut | |
America should listen to Paul Ryan |
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| Star Parker | 2011-10-30 |
| Last week, one of the Republican Party's young stars, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc), spoke at the Heritage Foundation and gave forth his vision of America and what we need to do today to restore our vitality. Listening... | |
Let Them Eat Cake: 10 Examples Of How The Elite Are Savagely Mocking The Poor |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-30 |
| There is absolutely nothing wrong with working hard and making a lot of money, but there is something wrong with being completely arrogant and smug about it. Today, many among the elite are savagely mocking the poor, and that is a huge mistake. You sh | |
Let Them Eat Cake: 10 Examples Of How The Elite Are Savagely Mocking The Poor |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-30 |
| There is absolutely nothing wrong with working hard and making a lot of money, but there is something wrong with being completely arrogant and smug about it. Today, many among the elite are savagely mocking the poor, and that is a huge mistake. You sh | |
Police Arrest 30 at #OccupyPortland |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-30 |
| PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -Police arrested about 30 anti-Wall Street protesters in Portland early Sunday, dragging and carrying them to waiting vans, after they refused to leave a park in an affluent district. The arrests came after protesters from the Occupy P | |
Capitalism Is The Solution |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-30 |
| Video Description: Last week, Reason.tv followed investment guru, radio show host, and unflappable defender of capitalism Peter Schiff as he spent three hours among the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.Peter Schiff`s comments on | |
CBO’s Witch-Doctor Economics and Gypsy Forecasting |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-30 |
| I’ve criticized the Congressional Budget Office for generating biased and inaccurate numbers. These are the clowns, after all, who say deficit spending stimulates the economy in the short run but they also rely on a model which seemingly predicts 10 | |
The Government-inflated College Loan Bubble |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-30 |
| Glenn Reynolds in today’s New York Post: It’s officially a crisis. Student loan debt has hit the $1 trillion mark, exceeding Americans’ total credit card indebtedness. Unemployed graduates with huge loan balances are camping out in “Occupy” | |
#OccupyOakland Calls for City-wide General Strike on November 2nd |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-30 |
| From #OccupyWallStreet: We as fellow occupiers of Oscar Grant Plaza propose that on Wednesday November 2, 2011, we liberate Oakland and shut down the 1%. We propose a city wide general strike and we propose we invite all students to walk out of school. | |
Competition and the Constitution |
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| Tom's Opinions and Information | 2011-10-29 |
Foreign Buying Impact On The US Housing Market |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-29 |
Oldie But Goodie (on Collins) |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-28 |
| This was published on the old Free New York blog in 2009 by Ray Roberts. I chimed in with a quick comment calling for a primary against Collins. Where’s Primary Challenge when you need them? Hey Chris Collins! Is this more of “running government l | |
Toe-to-Toe With the Socialists at Wall Street |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-28 |
 Tea Partier takes on Socialism |
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Is Organic Food Worth the Price? |
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| Fox business: Stossel | 2011-10-28 |
 Should you go organic? |
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Be Honest – The European Debt Deal Was Really A Greek Debt Default |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-28 |
| Once the euphoria of the initial announcement faded and as people have begun to closely examine the details of the European debt deal, they have started to realize that this "debt deal" is really just a "managed" Greek debt default. Let's be honest - th | |
Be Honest – The European Debt Deal Was Really A Greek Debt Default |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-28 |
| Once the euphoria of the initial announcement faded and as people have begun to closely examine the details of the European debt deal, they have started to realize that this "debt deal" is really just a "managed" Greek debt default. Let's be honest - th | |
Newt Gingrich’s Rise From the Dead |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-28 |
 Michelle Fields interviews Newt Gingrich |
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Life in Unconstitutional Times |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-28 |
 What happened to the Constitution? |
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Henderson: “Buy American” is Nonsense |
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| Fox business: Stossel | 2011-10-28 |
 Should you buy American or cheap? |
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Is Elizabeth Warren Out of Touch? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-28 |
 Elizabeth Warren's anti-capitalist rant |
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Peter Schiff, Part II |
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| 2011-10-28 | |
| Here's more of Peter Schiff conversing with the OWSer crowd in New York: I don't agree with everything Schiff said there, but most of it is exactly right. FDR didn't cause the Great Depression. It started a few years before he even took off | |
Peter Schiff, Part II |
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| 2011-10-28 | |
| Here's more of Peter Schiff conversing with the OWSer crowd in New York: I don't agree with everything Schiff said there, but most of it is exactly right. FDR didn't cause the Great Depression. It started a few years before he even took off | |
Andrew Napolitano on Jon Stewart, discussing new book |
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| Freedom Lover Nation | 2011-10-28 |
| Judge Andrew Napolitano appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss his new book, “It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong”. Of course he can only get so far with Jon Stewart’s cult of sheep, but it might wake | |
Clint Eastwood Gets It |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-28 |
| “I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21, because he promised to get us out of the Korean War,” he told GQ. “And over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And libertarians had m | |
What if the Government Controlled You? |
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| Freedom Lover Nation | 2011-10-28 |
| Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com More good stuff from The Judge! | |
In Defense of the 1% |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-28 |
| By: Peter Schiff Friday, October 28, 2011 Last week, I spent the afternoon visiting the Occupy W | |
October 28, 2011 |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-28 |
| Friday, October 28, 2011 By: Mark Hanna After a volatile week, global markets closed Friday in qui | |
Peter Schiff at OWS: "Walmart Doesn't Hold a Gun to Your Head!" |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-28 |
| Schiff believes that capitalism is the only hope for young, frustrated people to have a vibrant and prosperous future. So he went to Occupy Wall Street to engage and debate the protesters.Touring the Occupy Wall Street scene in New York with a sign that r | |
Dollar Decline in Full Swing in Risk-On Environment |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-28 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: CNBC Link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/4 | |
Greece Will Eventually Leave Euro, Rogoff Says |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-28 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Bloomberg Link: http://www.bloomber | |
Record Number of Americans Get Benefits |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-28 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Business Week Link: http://www.busi | |
Don't Miss Peter Schiff on Fox News Channe! • 8am |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-28 |
| Content Type: Event Event Date: October 30, 2011 - 8:00am - 10:00am Guest: Peter Schiff Network: Fox News Cha... | |
Don't Miss Peter Schiff on Fox Business Network! • 4pm |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-28 |
| Content Type: Event Event Date: October 28, 2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Guest: Peter Schiff Network: Fox Business ... | |
A Shiny Week for Gold |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-28 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Fox Business Link: http://www.foxbu | |
Economy Alters How Americans Are Moving |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-28 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: New York Times Link: http://www.nyt | |
Italy’s Borrowing Costs Soar at Debt Sale |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-28 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Financial Times Link: http://www.ft | |
Stossel - s2011 | e88 - Thu, Oct 6, 2011 |
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| John Stossel at Hulu.com | 2011-10-27 |
| Stossel's 'Job Killers!'Add this to your queueAdded: Thu Oct 27 07:44:12 UTC 2011Air date: Thu Oct 06 00:00:00 UTC 2011Duration: 44:03Rating: 4.4 / 5.0 | |
Protected: NNComm #217: Meet Your Mate on Halloween |
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| Marc Rudov | 2011-10-27 |
| There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. | |
Stupid Consumers (Airing Saturday on FOX News at 3pm ET) |
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| John Stossel 's Take | 2011-10-27 |
| I built my career doing consumer reporting, exposing bad businesses for pulling scams on people. I called for more government regulation. This kind of thing won me 19 Emmy awards. Now I realize that I had it wrong. The free market deters and punishes scams ... | |
It’s a Gold Rush! |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-27 |
 Gold Rush stars on their new season |
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Government in a Glass House |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-27 |
 Risk managers feared the worst in 2004? |
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Ralph Nader: Capitalist for Hemp! |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-27 |
 Ralph Nader on the Cisco dividend story |
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What Does The GDP Really Tell You? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-27 |
 Breaking down the GDP |
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Stossel - s2011 | e90 - Thu, Oct 20, 2011 |
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| John Stossel at Hulu.com | 2011-10-27 |
| Stossel's 'Stupid in America'Add this to your queueAdded: Thu Oct 27 08:00:13 UTC 2011Air date: Thu Oct 20 00:00:00 UTC 2011Duration: 44:04 | |
Grover Cleveland for County Executive |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-27 |
| Who should I write-in for Erie County Executive? I wish we had an actual candidate who opposed corporatism. Any volunteers? Suggestions? Draftees? (Should it be “whom”?). I haven’t heard a single interesting idea out of either candidate. | |
Stossel - s2011 | e89 - Thu, Oct 13, 2011 |
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| John Stossel at Hulu.com | 2011-10-27 |
| Stossel's 'Liberate Wall Street!'Add this to your queueAdded: Thu Oct 27 07:44:12 UTC 2011Air date: Thu Oct 13 00:00:00 UTC 2011Duration: 44:04Rating: 4.1 / 5.0 | |
Europe Tries To Kick The Can Down The Road But It Will Only Lead To Financial Disaster |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-27 |
| Have you heard the good news? Financial armageddon has been averted. The economic collapse in Europe has been cancelled. Everything is going to be okay. Well, actually none of those statements is true, but news of the "debt deal" in Europe has set | |
Europe Tries To Kick The Can Down The Road But It Will Only Lead To Financial Disaster |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-27 |
| Have you heard the good news? Financial armageddon has been averted. The economic collapse in Europe has been cancelled. Everything is going to be okay. Well, actually none of those statements is true, but news of the "debt deal" in Europe has set | |
How Excessive Government Intervention Hinders Economic Recovery And Growth |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-27 |
The One Percent: Gigantic Government + Gigantic Corporations = Massive Wealth Inequality In America |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-26 |
| Today, there are protests all over America that are targeting "the one percent" and all of the wealth and power that they have accumulated. Unfortunately, many of the solutions that these protesters are advocating simply will not work and will not lead | |
The One Percent: Gigantic Government + Gigantic Corporations = Massive Wealth Inequality In America |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-26 |
| Today, there are protests all over America that are targeting "the one percent" and all of the wealth and power that they have accumulated. Unfortunately, many of the solutions that these protesters are advocating simply will not work and will not lead | |
Drama–Rahm, Obama: #OccupyChicago Invades City Hall to Demand Amnesty for Arrested ‘Community Organizers’ |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-26 |
| UPDATE: Rahm offers talks, Occupy leaves… President Barack Obama’s friends in Occupy are clashing with Obama’s former White House chief of staff, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, in an ongoing protest at Chicago’s City Hall. Activists | |
School Competition Rescues Kids |
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| John Stossel 's Take | 2011-10-26 |
| Conventional wisdom says that government should run schools. This idea is intuitive. It is also wrong. The free market would do a much better job. This week in my syndicated column, I compare the public school system to the cars produced by governments: The ... | |
Miscellaneous Thoughts |
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| 2011-10-26 | |
| The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors are frauds. They hold up signs protesting against crony capitalism and the influence of special interests, while at the same time every proposal we hear from them is about redirecting wealth into OWS hands and OWS c | |
Miscellaneous Thoughts |
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| 2011-10-26 | |
| The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors are frauds. They hold up signs protesting against crony capitalism and the influence of special interests, while at the same time every proposal we hear from them is about redirecting wealth into OWS hands and OWS c | |
BREAKING: #OccupySF About to Go Down; Activists Prepare for Mass Arrests, Repetitive Chanting |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-26 |
| UPDATE 2 (10:34 pm): Live streaming from the main group of activists. UPDATE: Live streaming from “Anonymous media.” Video streaming by Ustream Police are moving to clear Occupy San Francisco. The remaining activists are organizing for resist | |
Rep. Mack Explains His Romney Endorsement |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-26 |
 Reppin’ for Romney |
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A Brief History of Tyranny in America |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-26 |
 A Brief History of Tyranny in America |
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Waiting for Greek Revolution |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-26 |
 Crisis from across the pond |
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There Is Too Much Pessimism On The Euro |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-26 |
| I think that euro bullish move is going to catch a lot of people off guard who were writing the obituaries for the euro, to see the euro approaching the 1.50 level. The dollar index should be headed back down to the 72 level.Certainly I think there is to | |
Peter Schiff's Fair Share |
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| 2011-10-26 | |
| Peter Schiff is a financial expert, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Inc. He's been in the financial industry for a very long time, and he's part of the top 1% the Occupy Wall Street protestors are going after. Watch as Schiff goes into the crowd | |
Peter Schiff's Fair Share |
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| 2011-10-26 | |
| Peter Schiff is a financial expert, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Inc. He's been in the financial industry for a very long time, and he's part of the top 1% the Occupy Wall Street protestors are going after. Watch as Schiff goes into the crowd | |
Perry’s Flat Tax Proposal Puts Him Back in the Saddle Again |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-26 |
| Around lunchtime on Tuesday I sat down in front of my computer, opened foxews.com, and immediately texted my brother: “Gov. Perry is back!” I did this because the largest portion of the Fox News homepage was taken up by a photo of a confident looking | |
Public-Sector Unions To Ohio Taxpayers: We Will Bury You |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-26 |
| …Or, Unions Win, Right-to-Work States Win, You Lose With less than two weeks before the November 8th elections and with the polls leaning toward repealing SB5, it appears that Ohioans are ready to vote to increase their taxes and unemployment. Ult | |
Chairman of Illinois ‘Conservative’ Think Tank Calls Encounter with Occupiers “Delightful” |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-26 |
| Shocked? We are…. Is this the sort of thing you would expect to hear from John Tillman, the chairman of the Illinois Policy Institute, a “conservative” think tank, after walking through #OccupyChicago? “It was delightful.” D | |
It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong |
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| JudgeNap.com | 2011-10-26 |
| Judge Napolitano's sixth book | |
Bullish On The Euro: Year End Target Near 1.48 |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-26 |
Radicals Leading #OccupyChicago to #OccupyCityHall Under Investigation by FBI for Terror Links |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-26 |
| Today Occupy Chicago protesters stormed City Hall to let Mayor Rahm Emanuel know their displeasure in the recent arrests of the Occupy campers at Grant Park on Michigan Avenue. They were lead by radical anti-war activists Joe Iosbaker and Andy Thayer, who | |
In Ohio, Perry Finds Room to Romney’s Right |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-26 |
| With D.C. union bosses spending millions to smear Senate Bill 5 as unfair, dangerous, and racist, Issue 2 is hardly a sure thing. It's disappointing that instead of backing reforms which will empower Ohio taxpayers, Mitt Romney handed unions a rhetorical | |
NY Fed's $40 Billion Iraqi Money Trail |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-26 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: CNBC Link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/4 | |
Paper Currency Has Too Much Bull, Not Enough Bullion |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-26 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: The Globe and Mail Link: http://www | |
Gold Climbs to 1-Month High on Euro Debt-Crisis Concern |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-26 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Bloomberg Link: http://www.bloomber | |
Nurse Making $270K on California’s OT Binge |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-26 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Bloomberg Link: http://www.bloomber | |
Don't Miss Peter Schiff on Fox News! • 8pm |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-26 |
| Content Type: Event Event Date: October 29, 2011 - 8:00pm - 9:00pm Guest: Peter Schiff Network: Fox News Chan... | |
Fed Considers its Stimulus Options |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-26 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Washington Post Link: http://www.wa | |
BofE Governor King says Euro Fix is Just Buying Time |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-26 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: This is Money Link: http://www.this | |
Greenspan: Why European Union Is Doomed to Fail |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-26 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: CNBC Link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/4 | |
Will US Be Drawn Into Euro Bailout Fund? |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-26 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: CNBC Link: http://www.cnbc.com//id/ | |
All Protective Labor Laws, Including Minimum Wage Laws, Should Be Repealed |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-25 |
| Just as employees are allowed to leave jobs for whatever reason, employers should be allowed to hire and fire based on any criteria without fear of litigation. In other words, liability cost for hiring employees should be minimized. Employees become easie | |
Flat Tax Takes Flight |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-25 |
 America reacts to President’s overreach |
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The Judge Deciphers the Contemporary Tax Debate |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-25 |
 Flat tax, fair tax, high tax, low tax |
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U.S. Looking for a New War? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-25 |
 Col. MacGregor on Syria |
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Stossel - s2011 | e87 - Thu, Sep 29, 2011 |
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| John Stossel at Hulu.com | 2011-10-25 |
| Stossel asks 'what if Libertarians were in charge? Would there be chaos...or greater prosperity?'Add this to your queueAdded: Tue Oct 25 08:35:12 UTC 2011Air date: Thu Sep 29 00:00:00 UTC 2011Duration: 44:04Rating: 4.7 / 5.0 | |
Democracy, Denied; Republic, Lost |
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| Tom's Opinions and Information | 2011-10-25 |
Waiting for Lehman |
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| Gonzalo Lira | 2011-10-25 |
October 25, 2011 |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-25 |
| Tuesday, October 25, 2011 By: Mark Hanna Disappointing earning reports and a delay in the meeting | |
Coming Back From Iraq |
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| 2011-10-24 | |
| When President Obama announced that all US troops will be coming home from Iraq by the end of the year, he said it was a campaign promise fulfilled. He didn't bother to remind us it was George W. Bush's promise that was being fulfilled, not his | |
Coming Back From Iraq |
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| 2011-10-24 | |
| When President Obama announced that all US troops will be coming home from Iraq by the end of the year, he said it was a campaign promise fulfilled. He didn't bother to remind us it was George W. Bush's promise that was being fulfilled, not his | |
Charter School Burnout |
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| John Stossel 's Take | 2011-10-24 |
| The blob (the education establishment) likes to say that charter school teachers are more likely to burn out and leave the profession for good. One writer said, "Teachers at charter schools often ‘burn out' due to the longer hours and higher levels of s... | |
What Have We Gotten For The Trillion Dollars We Have Spent On Wars In Afghanistan, Iraq And Libya? |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-24 |
| Over a trillion U.S. taxpayer dollars have been spent on wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Whether you are for the wars or against the wars, it is important for all of us to step back and evaluate what we have really gotten for all of that money. I | |
What Have We Gotten For The Trillion Dollars We Have Spent On Wars In Afghanistan, Iraq And Libya? |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-24 |
| Over a trillion U.S. taxpayer dollars have been spent on wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Whether you are for the wars or against the wars, it is important for all of us to step back and evaluate what we have really gotten for all of that money. I | |
Forgive us our Debtors? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-24 |
 Ron Paul on mortgage mess |
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House Freshman Won’t Go Along to Get Along |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-24 |
 The GOP’s rising star |
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The Price of Blood & Oil |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-24 |
 The price of oil post-Qaddafi |
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U.S. Foreign Policy Hurting Freedom, Economic Prosperity? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-24 |
 Teaming up with animals to slay monsters |
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Monday Open Thread: ‘Black Tuesday’ Edition |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-24 |
| Today, in 1929, was ‘Black Tuesday’, the first in a series of trading days known collectively as ‘The Great Crash of 1929.’ Although not technically correct, the Crash is popularly known as the start of the Great Depression. Seems | |
The NFTA CRISIS–AN OCCASION FOR REFORM |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-24 |
| Free New York! FreeNewYork.org Buffalo, New York 14216 jameso@apollo3.com (716) 435-8918 President Executive Director James Ostrowski Paulette Peterson Free New York Policy Report No. 6 Note: For our sixth Policy Report, we reach back 22 years to republis | |
In Normal Market Conditions, Speculators Lessen Volatility |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-24 |
Time to End the NFTA Transit Monopoly |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-23 |
| Media Advisory: Contact: Jim Ostrowski FreeNewYork.org jameso@apollo3.com (716) 435-8918 Buffalo, NY, October 23, 2011. Free New York will release a study calling for an end to NFTA’s mass transit monopoly at a press conference tomorrow at noon in f | |
#OccupyWallSt Supporter Rants Against Israel, Jews |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-23 |
| Earlier this week we sent some of the MRCTV staff up to Occupy Wall Street in New York to see what they could see. Now they’re back and, trust me, they’ve got some very interesting video. Our first taste of what they found comes in the form of | |
#OccupyAnimalFarm: Fights Over Money Splintering #OccupyWallSt |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-23 |
| From The New York Post: Even in Zuccotti Park, greed is good. Occupy Wall Street’s Finance Committee has nearly $500,000 in the bank, and donations continue to pour in — but its reluctance to share the wealth with other protestErs is fraying temp | |
New Video Reveals: New York Times Reporter Natasha Lennard Is #OccupyWallStreet Activist, Supporter |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-23 |
| A newly-discovered video–filmed by Occupy Wall Street supporters themselves–reveals that New York Times reporter Natasha Lennard is not merely covering the protests, but is also apparently taking part in planning and executing them. In the vid | |
Is the volcano about to blow? |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-23 |
| I ran into this terrific website that is on top of all the financial issues of the day. The following is a summary: “The Federal Reserve, in collusion with the Wall Street banks, has engineered a two year stock market rally, while the average Americ | |
Support for Obama Slipping Among Hispanic Voters |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-23 |
| From the Associated Press: Obama won 67 percent of Hispanic voters in 2008 but many of those voters have become disillusioned during the past three years. Unemployment among Hispanics tops 11 percent and many Latinos are losing their homes. Others criti | |
#OccupyDayton Threatens to Sue in Response to Video of Activist: ‘F- the Military, F- your Flag, F- the Police’ |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-23 |
| The radicals at “Occupy Dayton” were not too happy when one of their activists was caught on video shouting: “F*ck the military, f*ck your flag, f*ck the police!” The video aired at Breitbart.tv and was subsequently picked up acros | |
We Need To Restore Capitalism |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-23 |
| "We need to restore capitalism." - in a recent visit to Occupy Wall StreetPeter Schiff`s comments on the economy, stock markets, politics and gold. Schiff is the renowned writer of the bestseller Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collaps | |
Caveats. |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-23 |
U.S. Startups Are Not As Easy as Those In... |
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| The Libertarian Entrepreneur | 2011-10-22 |
| ...Rwanda. Yes, you read that right. According to an Inc. Magazine report on the World Bank's annual Doing Business Report, the U.S. ranks 13th in ease of starting a business. Although we're number 4 in ease of doing business, we don't exactly make it eas | |
Video: Live From Occupy Wall Street |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-22 |
Underemployed And Hating Life |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-21 |
| Today, millions of smart, hard working Americans are flipping burgers, waiting tables or working dead end retail jobs not because they want to, but because they have no other options. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 14 million Am | |
Underemployed And Hating Life |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-21 |
| Today, millions of smart, hard working Americans are flipping burgers, waiting tables or working dead end retail jobs not because they want to, but because they have no other options. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 14 million Am | |
Tea Party Coalition Candidates’ Night Nov. 3rd |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-21 |
| The Tea Party Coalition will have a Candidates’ Night and general meeting on Wednesday, November 3rd from 7:30-9:30pm at Danny’s South, 20A and Abbott Rd. in Orchard Park, NY. All candidates in Erie County are invited to attend. The event is f | |
#Occupy and Unions Combine Forces Against Private Business In Their War On America |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-21 |
| The war on business by the #Occupy movement is stepping up to a new level, and local authorities don’t appear to be ready to deal with it. Separate and seemingly related incidents are breaking out across the country and represent a possible first wave o | |
Protected: NNComm #216: Kim Kardashian’s Sham Marriage |
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| Marc Rudov | 2011-10-21 |
| There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. | |
#OccupyMilwaukee Protester Yells Inside Bank: ‘This Is a Hostile Takeover!’ |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-21 |
| By Collin Roth According to reports by Sharif Durhams of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Occupy Milwaukee Facebook page, an Occupy Milwaukee protester walked into a downtown Milwaukee M & I Bank and yelled “this is a hostile takeover!&# | |
Obama: All Troops Out of Iraq By Year’s End |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-21 |
| WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from the country by year’s end. Obama’ | |
VP Biden: Pass the Bill or There Will Be More Rape |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-21 |
 VP Biden on Obama’s Jobs Bill |
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Presidential Flavors of the Week |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-21 |
 Kirsten Powers reviews the week |
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What if the Government Controlled You? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-21 |
 What if freedom were a myth? |
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Fighting to Save America’s Schools |
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| Fox business: Stossel | 2011-10-21 |
 Should America adopt the models of charter schools? |
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Do School Vouchers Work? |
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| Fox business: Stossel | 2011-10-21 |
 Unions square off against school vouchers |
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If We Go Back To The Gold Standard What Will Happen To Silver? |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-21 |
| Peter Schiff answers this question on the Peter Schiff Show.Tickers, iShares Silver Trust ETF (AMEX:SLV), SPDR Gold Trust ETF (AMEX:GLD) Peter Schiff`s comments on the economy, stock markets, politics and gold. Schiff is the renowned writer of the bestsel | |
Veni, Vidi, Mortuus Est |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-21 |
| Corbett Daly of Political Hot Sheet reports that, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed. “We came, we saw, he died,” she jo | |
#OccupyLA: To Hell With Solidarity, But Wait…Free Food Stamps!! |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-21 |
| I spent a few hours with the “occupiers” in Los Angeles. Most of them were dirty, confused, and spent a lot of time fighting with one another. Right before we left, someone offered $150 of “emergency” taxpayer funded food stamps | |
An Unprecedented 26 Million Americans are Underemployed |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-21 |
| Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss why an unprecedented 26 million Americans are underemployed, Rick Perry’s fl | |
Chris Collins, the Socialist Big Spender |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-21 |
| I get a kick of local so-called tea types pulling for corporatist-liberal-socialist Chris Collins for county executive. Here’s my latest indictment. Collins wants to spend $100 million to update the Bills’ football stadium. Ah, why is the coun | |
Qaddafi Sleeps With The Fatwas |
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| 2011-10-21 | |
| What can I say about the demise of Libyan strongman Myanmar Godaffy, the man whose name we never learned to spell ? Quadiffi lived by the sword and died by the sword. His death serves as a warning to would-be dictators everywhere. Your injustices, terrori | |
Qaddafi Sleeps With The Fatwas |
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| 2011-10-21 | |
| What can I say about the demise of Libyan strongman Myanmar Godaffy, the man whose name we never learned to spell ? Quadiffi lived by the sword and died by the sword. His death serves as a warning to would-be dictators everywhere. Your injustices, terrori | |
The Anti-Semitic and Anti-Israel Organizers of #OccupyWallStreet |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-21 |
| Sometimes it seems as if every time someone in the Tea Party breathes, the mainstream press finds a way to label it as racist or promoting violence. Yet all of the anti-Semitic posters, chants and comments, as well as the ones demonizing Israel made b | |
German Business Confidence Drops to 16-Month Low |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-21 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Bloomberg Link: http://www.bloomber | |
Fed Is Poised for More Easing |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-21 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Wall Street Journal Link: http://on | |
How Does Europe Borrow Dollars From The Fed? |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-21 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: CNBC Link: http://www.cnbc.com//id/ | |
S&P Sees Downgrade Blitz in EMU Recession |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-21 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: The Telegraph Link: http://www.tele | |
In Stressed Economic Scenario, France Downgrade Likely |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-21 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Bloomberg Link: http://www.bloomber | |
More Workers Falling Behind Average Wage Level |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-21 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Washington Post Link: http://www.wa | |
EU Considers Wielding $1.3 Trillion to Break Impasse |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-21 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Business Week Link: http://www.busi | |
Steve Wynn Doesn't Hold Back on State of the Economy |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-21 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Fox Business Link: http://www.foxbu | |
#OccupyFannieMae: Government Policy Caused the Subprime Crisis |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-21 |
| From Investors Business Daily: While not blameless, Wall Street is an easy scapegoat. And investment houses that made billions slicing and dicing mortgages into CDOs, derivatives, credit default swaps and other exotic paper are easy to demonize. But the | |
Stop Government Greed |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-20 |
| John Hinderaker of Power Line writes what I wish I wrote about the inconsistency between the left’s objection to corporation’s being treated as people and their repeated accusation that corporations experience the human emotion of greed | |
Protected: NNComm #215: Observe Rudov’s Two-Week Rule |
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| Marc Rudov | 2011-10-20 |
| There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. | |
Bureaucrats kill Rhinos |
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| John Stossel 's Take | 2011-10-20 |
| The stupidity of bureaucrats continues to amaze. In the 1970's, the rhinoceros was being hunted to extinction, so African government signed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITIES), which makes it a crime to buy or sell Rhino horns... | |
A Note On The Housing Market |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-20 |
| Despite the fact that record numbers of houses are vacant, most are not on the rental market yet. When that changes, condo construction will fall off. - in CNBCPeter Schiff`s comments on the economy, stock markets, politics and gold. Schiff is the renowne | |
The Suicide of a Superpower |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-20 |
 Pat Buchanan on Freedom Watch |
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Reclaiming the Tea Party |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-20 |
 Tea Partiers protest Congressman Grimm |
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The Ecstasy of Gold |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-20 |
 The monetary gods have failed |
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VP Joe Biden Says Women Will be Raped if Republicans Don’t Pass Obama Jobs Bill |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-20 |
| I’ve heard of fear-mongering before but this latest example from Vice President Joe Biden takes the proverbial cake: If the Republicans don’t pass this bill, then rape will continue to rise. Murder will continue to rise; rape will continue t | |
The Big Con |
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| 2011-10-20 | |
| Leading Democrats have been trying to tell us the government needs to spend a boatload more money to get the nation back to work. Around $450 billion more. This is from The Hill: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday indicated Congress n | |
The Big Con |
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| 2011-10-20 | |
| Leading Democrats have been trying to tell us the government needs to spend a boatload more money to get the nation back to work. Around $450 billion more. This is from The Hill: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday indicated Congress n | |
Sexual Responsibility and Fiscal Responsibility Go Hand in Hand |
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| Star Parker | 2011-10-20 |
| Last week the House passed with bi-partisan support the Protect Life Act, which amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) to assure that no taxpayer dollars will be used to fund... | |
Stupid in America (New Show Tonight at 10pm on FBN) |
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| John Stossel 's Take | 2011-10-20 |
| Not everyone liked my education special "Stupid in America". I got angry emails, accusing me of "union bashing" and "teacher bashing". Tonight on FBN, I'll revisit the subject. We'll show more of the exciting things happening in charter schools, where stude... | |
Pork Lawsuit on YouTube |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-20 |
US Stocks Are Overpriced |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-20 |
The "Black Market" Becomes The "Informal Sector" |
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| The Libertarian Entrepreneur | 2011-10-20 |
QE3 'Certainly a Possibility': Boston Fed President |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-20 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: CNBC Link: http://www.cnbc.com//id/ | |
The Ranks of the Underemployed Continue to Grow |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-20 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: US News & World Link: http://mo | |
Beware of Foreign Tax Evasion Promoters |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-19 |
| Fortunately, the Milwaukee Brewers surprising loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship Series has not blurred Milwaukee lawyer and blogger Brian Mahany‘s judgment in tax matters.¹ Mahany, proprietor of the law blog, Due | |
Oral Argument of the Pork Lawsuit |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-19 |
| Click here. http://www.courts.state.ny.us/CTAPPS/arguments/2011/Oct11/101211-No190.asx | |
Radio host reacts to Mitt Romney, converts to Ron Paul on air! |
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| Freedom Lover Nation | 2011-10-19 |
| I love this. This radio host was giving Mitt Romney a chance – but Romney was laughing off the issues that matter to real Americans. The host gets increasingly angry as Romney basically mocks him, Ron Paul and the need to aggressive, real change to | |
Your Money's No Good Here |
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| The Libertarian Entrepreneur | 2011-10-19 |
| KLFY in Acadiana, Louisianna reports that cash is no longer allowed as currency in transactions involving secondhand goods. Thad D. Ackel, Jr., Esq. blogs about the new law here, giving details that the news agency omitted. Why have no national news age | |
Montel Williams on Medicinal Marijuana |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-19 |
 Montel advocates for legalization |
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Gary Johnson's Latest Campaign Outreach |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-19 |
 Gary Johnson’s still running for Pres. |
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Tea Partiers Vs. Tea-O-Cons |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-19 |
 Rep. Grimm on the Tea Party |
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Incomes of Uber-rich Decline, Effective Tax Rates Rise |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-19 |
| David Logan of Tax Policy Blog has another reality check for the 99 percenters occupying Wall Street: An Overlooked Two-Year Trend: Incomes of the Top 1 Percent Decline While Effective Rates Increase It’s true. In 2008 and 2009, the average taxpay | |
Occupy Wall Streeters are Ignorant About Taxes |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-19 |
| Our left-wing tax blogger friends James Maule and Linda Beale avidly support the Occupy Wall Street movement. Together, Maule and Beale have written dozens of posts about out how middle-class conservatives – tea partiers, in particular – have | |
Top 25% of Income Earners Pay 87% of Income Taxes |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-19 |
| Paul Caron has a nice little chart that shows that the rich and the upper-middle class pay much more than their fair share of taxes: Only in the bizarro world of egalitarian, class-warfare utopianism can it be said that the top 10% of income earners are | |
The Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could Destroy The Entire Global Financial System |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-19 |
| Most people have no idea that Wall Street has become a gigantic financial casino. The big Wall Street banks are making tens of billions of dollars a year in the derivatives market, and nobody in the financial community wants the party to end. The word | |
The Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could Destroy The Entire Global Financial System |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-19 |
| Most people have no idea that Wall Street has become a gigantic financial casino. The big Wall Street banks are making tens of billions of dollars a year in the derivatives market, and nobody in the financial community wants the party to end. The word | |
Cain Puts Foot In Mouth…Plus Bonus OWS Quiz ! |
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| 2011-10-19 | |
| GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain once said foreign policy was not his strong suit. And he keeps proving himself correct. Yesterday, Cain said he might release all the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay in exchange for one American hostage. Apparently, Mr. | |
Cain Puts Foot In Mouth…Plus Bonus OWS Quiz ! |
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| 2011-10-19 | |
| GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain once said foreign policy was not his strong suit. And he keeps proving himself correct. Yesterday, Cain said he might release all the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay in exchange for one American hostage. Apparently, Mr. | |
Basketball |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-19 |
| I’ll be coaching a girls’ basketball team this winter. My daughter Anna will be playing. The league is for 15 and under. Games are on Sunday in South Buffalo. We are looking for a few more players. I am a youth basketball coach at St. MarkR | |
What's the Point of Occupy Wall Street? |
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| Tom's Opinions and Information | 2011-10-19 |
Video: An Obama Speech, Debt and China |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-19 |
Wall Street Protesters Half Right? |
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| John Stossel 's Take | 2011-10-19 |
| Last week, I visited the Occupy Wall Street protesters. I didn't get a warm reception. I wanted to argue with them about capitalism. Most were more interested in just screaming at me. But as I write in this week's syndicated column, they did get some things ... | |
Herman Cain: A Black American |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-18 |
| In the late 1940s — when the Democrat party began shifting from denying equal rights to southern blacks to championing them — race became a central tenet of American politics. Although the Democrat party fought for slavery during the Civil War | |
#Occupy Arrest Scam Unmasked |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-18 |
| Leftists love to get arrested at protests. It must make them feel like adults and compensates for their otherwise very childish behavior. But new video released exclusively by EAGtv shows the protestors pre-arrange who is to be arrested. That’s right | |
Anti-Defamation League Speaks Out: Calls on #OccupyWallSt to Condemn Antisemitic Remarks Made at Rallies |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-18 |
| Following Big Government’s Oct. 16 article noting the alarming silence of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) regarding the evident antisemitism in many #Occupy protests, the organization issued the following statement Oct. 17: ADL Calls On ‘Occu | |
The New Reality For U.S. Cities: No Money For Street Lights, Roving Packs Of Wild Dogs And Open-Air Drug Markets |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-18 |
| If you want to know what the early stages of an economic collapse look like, just walk around some of the downtown areas of our major cities. Today, nearly all large U.S. cities are either flat broke or they are on the way to being flat broke. Yes, Ne | |
The New Reality For U.S. Cities: No Money For Street Lights, Roving Packs Of Wild Dogs And Open-Air Drug Markets |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-18 |
| If you want to know what the early stages of an economic collapse look like, just walk around some of the downtown areas of our major cities. Today, nearly all large U.S. cities are either flat broke or they are on the way to being flat broke. Yes, Ne | |
All This "Austerity" Is Killing Us |
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| 2011-10-18 | |
| "It is hard to understand politics if you are hung up on reality. Politicians leave reality to others. What matters in politics is what you can get the voters to believe, whether it bears any resemblance to reality or not". – Thomas Sowell | |
All This "Austerity" Is Killing Us |
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| 2011-10-18 | |
| "It is hard to understand politics if you are hung up on reality. Politicians leave reality to others. What matters in politics is what you can get the voters to believe, whether it bears any resemblance to reality or not". – Thomas Sowell | |
Tuesday Open Thread: Vegas Edition |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-18 |
| Tonight, the GOP turns its nomination process over to Anderson Cooper and CNN for another MSM-sanctioned Presidential debate. The event goes live at 8pm EDT. | |
Rand Paul Makes His Presidential Endorsement |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-18 |
 Sen. Rand Paul on jobs, politics & 2012 |
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Old School Diseases Making a Comeback |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-18 |
 Should vaccinations be mandatory? |
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Economics 101 With Thomas Sowell |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-18 |
 The Sowell of a nation |
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The U.S.’s Military Role in Uganda |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-18 |
 The U.S. is going to Uganda |
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Libertarianism in a Nushell Series, Part 2 |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-18 |
| I am committed to finding the right word formula to explain to people why libertarianism is right. We have been failing to so explain that for forty years and the country is literally falling apart because of this communications failure. In my first post | |
Message to 99% of Americans: The Top 1% Pay 37% of Federal Income Taxes |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-18 |
| Kiplinger has a neat little widget that tells you where you stand as an income earner relative to other taxpayers. Here is the entry for someone with $350,000 of adjusted gross income: Your $350,000 adjusted gross income (AGI) puts you in the top 1% of ea | |
Green Beret Released From Prison, Fighting to Clear Name of Sex Assault Charges |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-18 |
| A lot has changed in the life of former Army Special Forces Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart since he left prison, but his fight to clear his name continues. | |
Chris Collins at the IDA |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-18 |
| The so-called champion of limited government, Chris Collins, sat silently at the Erie County IDA meeting yesterday when they proposed to increase their personnel budget by eight percent while income was flat. He voted for the resolution. Chris apparently | |
Herman Cain`s 9-9-9 Plan & A Forth "9". |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-18 |
| Herman Cain has been gaining much traction with his 9-9-9 Plan, a bold proposal to replace our dysfunctional tax code with what could be a simpler, less invasive, and more economically stimulative alternative. While I don't agree with the full spectrum of | |
Herman Cain's Hidden Nine |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-18 |
| By: Peter Schiff Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Herman Cain has been gaining much traction with his 9 | |
The Tea Party Coalition’s War Against Corporate Welfare |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-18 |
| The Tea Party Coalition’s Four-Part Plan. A four-part plan. Please forward! 1. Win the Pork Lawsuit. 2. Ask all candidates to sign a pledge against corproate welfare (see below). 3. Ask all voters not to vote for any candidate who supports corporate | |
The Tea Party’s Relationship to Occupy Wall Street |
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| Tom's Opinions and Information | 2011-10-18 |
Gold: Dips Are A Good Opportunity To Buy |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-18 |
Interview With Peter Schiff: Prepare For QE3 With Foreign Currencies |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-18 |
| By: Garrett Baldwin Source: Seeking Alpha High volati | |
Interview With Peter Schiff: Prepare For QE3 With Foreign Currencies |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-18 |
| By: Garrett Baldwin Source: Seeking Alpha High volati | |
October 18, 2011 |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-18 |
| Tuesday, October 18, 2011 By: Mark Hanna U.S. stocks staged another afternoon rally on essentially | |
Access Granted: An Evening w/ Peter Schiff in New York |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-18 |
| Content Type: Event Event Location: AXA-Advisors, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, Between 51st and 52nd Street, Big Apple Rm. 15th Floor | |
Greece Braces for 'Mother of All Strikes' |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-18 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Reuters Link: http://www.reuters.co | |
French-German Yield Spread Advances to Record |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-18 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Bloomberg Link: http://www.bloomber | |
JPMorgan Says Gold Miners Are Way Undervalued |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-18 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Financial Post Link: http://www.fin | |
Greek Debt Writedown of 100 Percent Needed: Analyst |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-18 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: CNBC Link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/4 | |
Inflation Pressures Intensify on Rising Producer Prices |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-18 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: CNBC Link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/4 | |
In Debt Up To Our Eyeballs |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-17 |
| The entire financial system of the western world is designed to be a debt spiral. The total amount of money and and the total amount of debt are supposed to continually expand. Today, we are in debt up to our eyeballs and it seems like nearly everyone | |
In Debt Up To Our Eyeballs |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-17 |
| The entire financial system of the western world is designed to be a debt spiral. The total amount of money and and the total amount of debt are supposed to continually expand. Today, we are in debt up to our eyeballs and it seems like nearly everyone | |
Iowa GOP Schedules Jan. 3 Presidential Caucuses |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-17 |
| THOMAS BEAUMONT (AP) – WASHINGTON Iowa Republicans are holding their state’s presidential nominating caucuses on Jan. 3, even though New Hampshire is threatening to move its traditional first-in-the-nation primary into December. Iowa Republica | |
100 Years of Statism |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-17 |
 Government’s grown, a lot |
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Children of Barack |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-17 |
 Neal Boortz on Occupy Wall Street |
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We’ve Got the Power |
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| Fox Business Freedom Watch | 2011-10-17 |
 Why the 99% really has the power |
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Less Government, More Prosperity |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-17 |
 More prosperity, less government |
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How To Silence A Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Ask Him About The Economy |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-17 |
| The Peter Schiff Show (10/14/2011) - How to silence a Nobel Prize winning economist: Ask him about the economy.Peter Schiff`s comments on the economy, stock markets, politics and gold. Schiff is the renowned writer of the bestseller Crash Proof: How to Pr | |
I Do Believe That It The Decline In U.S. Treasuries Will Be Very Abrupt |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-17 |
#OccupyWallStreet Squatters Mock 9/11 ‘Shrine’ Statue |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-17 |
| A Big Government reader, Andrew Kaczynski, noted that demonstrators squatting in Zuccotti Park have defaced a 9/11 memorial statue. The sculpture, J. Seward Johnson’s “Double Check,” once sat at the feet of the World Trade Center and bec | |
Herman Cain: Rocket Fuel for America |
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| Star Parker | 2011-10-16 |
| It's not just conservatives who are frustrated today. It is every single American who longs to see their nation regain its vitality, restoring freedom and prosperity at home and shining the light of human potential... | |
The 9-9-9 Plan: Is The Herman Cain Tax Plan A Good Idea? |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-16 |
| As he continues to heavily tout his "9-9-9 plan", Herman Cain has seen his popularity soar. But is the Herman Cain tax plan a good idea for America? Without a doubt, the "9-9-9 plan" is simple and it is easy to remember. To most Americans, it sounds | |
The 9-9-9 Plan: Is The Herman Cain Tax Plan A Good Idea? |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-16 |
| As he continues to heavily tout his "9-9-9 plan", Herman Cain has seen his popularity soar. But is the Herman Cain tax plan a good idea for America? Without a doubt, the "9-9-9 plan" is simple and it is easy to remember. To most Americans, it sounds | |
Transparency, By Any Other Name… |
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| 2011-10-16 | |
| "Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency" – Barack Obama. In March 2011, President Obama was given a "transparency award" from five different open government advocate groups. The award was pres | |
Transparency, By Any Other Name… |
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| 2011-10-16 | |
| "Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency" – Barack Obama. In March 2011, President Obama was given a "transparency award" from five different open government advocate groups. The award was pres | |
#OccupyBoston Ruins Food Bank Fundraiser, Conservatives Step in with $3,700 Fund Drive |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-15 |
| The Greater Boston Food Bank intended to have a fundraising event in Boston’s Dewey Square over the weekend of the 14th of October. It was to be called the “Greenway Mobile Food Fest” and was supposed to help raise funds to feed the poor | |
The Laffer Curve Wins Again: Snooki 1, IRS 0 |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-15 |
| The Laffer Curve is the simple notion that higher tax rates don’t necessarily generate as much loot as politicians expect because taxpayers have less incentive to earn and/or report income. And it works in both directions. Lower tax rates don’ | |
Obamacare Has No CLASS: Administration Admits Entitlement Program Unsustainable |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-15 |
| The Obama administration has admitted that it cannot move forward with a major feature of Obamacare, its long-term care insurance program, due to the fact that it contains a critical design flaw. The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports prog | |
Post Pork Lawsuit Court of Appeals Appearance |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-15 |
| After driving to Albany early Wednesday for the Court of Appeals oral arguments, I stayed the night in nearby Schenectady. I got an early start Thursday morning for a leisurely drive through the Adirondacks to view the fall foliage. Below are a few ph | |
#OccupyLA Protester: ‘Zionist Jews’ Who Run Banks Should Be ‘Run Out of This Country’ |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-15 |
| Here’s one of the protesters Reason.tv spoke to at Occupy Wall Street in Los Angeles on October 12, 2011. She identifies herself as Patricia McAllister and as an employee of Los Angeles Unified School District. “I think that the Zionist Jews, | |
OWS Day of Rage (But Watch Out for Those Violent Tea Partiers) |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-15 |
| The irony is richer than Warren Buffett’s secretary. Reuters reports that the Occupy Wall Street mob, after two short weeks of relatively peaceful occupying, has gone violent in a global day of rage (emphasis is mine): Hundreds of hooded, masked p | |
My Bogeyman Theory of the Parties |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-15 |
| Leaving all the BS aside, what actual function do the two parties serve? Two. First, they allow the corporate state elite to con the public into thinking they actually have a choice in how the nation is run. However, have you noticed that nothing importan | |
Things I’d Like to Know About the Erie Co. County Executive Race |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-15 |
| Things I’d like to know: 1. what was the budget when Chris Collins took office and what is it now? 2. I know CC supports crony capitalism and corporate welfare. Where does Mark Poloncarz stand? Does he favor abolishing the useless and corrupt IDAs f | |
Holder Knew About Fast and Furious, Before He Didn’t Know About It |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-15 |
| Houston, we have a problem. On March 24, 2009, Deputy Attorney General David Ogden made the following announcement: “The President has directed us to take action to fight [Mexican] cartels…and Attorney General Holder and I are taking several new and | |
Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan, Occupy Wall Street |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-15 |
| Video Type: Video Blog October 15, 2011 | |
Obama Nation: He’s Mad |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-15 |
State Taxpayers, Johns, Guilty Until Proven Innocent |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-15 |
| Several months ago vice squads in West Palm Beach, Florida began the practice of giving local beat reporters the names and mugshots of men who had been arrested for allegedly soliciting prostitutes. I believed then, and still do, that in a country t | |
#OccupyWallStreet Wants to Violently Remake the Republic, Not Achieve Economic Justice |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-15 |
| In the beginning, I was willing to accept that a group of unhappy citizens utilized their First Amendment rights to protest what they believe to be an injustice (as I have written here and here): the picking of winners and losers by government with | |
Liberate Wall Street! (Show airs Saturday 10PM, 1AM, 5AM & Sunday 3PM, midnight on FNC) |
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| John Stossel 's Take | 2011-10-14 |
| I visited the Occupy Wall Street protesters this week and didn't get a warm reception. I wanted to argue with them about capitalism. Most were more interested in just screaming at me. The protesters have a few things right. Bailouts and crony capitalism are wr... | |
Protected: NNComm #214: Rudov Slimed at Sundance Whinefest |
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| Marc Rudov | 2011-10-14 |
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Free Trade Or Fair Trade? 20 Reasons Why All Americans Should Be Against The Insane Trade Policies Of The Globalists |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-14 |
| It is absolutely amazing how many Americans are still convinced that more "free trade" is the answer to our economic problems. The truth is that there is a vast difference between "free trade" and "fair trade", and in this article I will prove that all | |
Free Trade Or Fair Trade? 20 Reasons Why All Americans Should Be Against The Insane Trade Policies Of The Globalists |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-14 |
| It is absolutely amazing how many Americans are still convinced that more "free trade" is the answer to our economic problems. The truth is that there is a vast difference between "free trade" and "fair trade", and in this article I will prove that all | |
Rick Santorum on Marriage, Markets, and Morality |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-14 |
 Rick Santorum with the Judge |
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To Silence a Governor |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-14 |
 Presidential hopeful Buddy Roemer |
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Charlie Rangel on Occupy Wall Street |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-14 |
 Rep. Rangel visits Wall Street |
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Can Capitalism Be Socially Responsible? |
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| Fox business: Stossel | 2011-10-14 |
 Wall Street protests continue |
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Your Freedoms, All of Them |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-14 |
 Freedoms you may not think about |
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Live from Occupy Wall Street |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-14 |
 Freedom Watch heads to Liberty Park |
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Wall Street Protesters’ Economic Myths |
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| Fox business: Stossel | 2011-10-14 |
 Debunking economic myths |
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Top 50% get 100% Percent of the Income Tax Breaks |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-14 |
| Now this is awfully unfair to the bottom 50% of Americans, don’t you think? I mean, what kind of a society treats its most vulnerable citizens this way? Surely, the Occupy Wall Streeters will start focusing on this horrifying inequity, right? Oh, | |
Remarks at the National Rally Against Corporate Welfare |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-14 |
| Remarks at the National Rally Against Corporate Welfare Albany, NY, Oct. 12th by James Ostrowski Welcome to the first annual National Rally Against Corporate Welfare. We’re holding this event in Albany since it probably leads the states in doling out ta | |
IRS Lawyer Ethics |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-14 |
| From Paul Caron: Kwon: Four Difficult Ethical Questions for IRS Lawyers Michelle Kwon (Texas Tech), The Tax Man’s Ethics: Four of the Hardest Ethical Questions for an IRS Lawyer, 9 Cardozo Pub. L. Pol’y & Ethics J. 371 (2011): The article explores | |
Rafael Nadal to Skip Wimbledon Warm-Up Event to Avoid Taxes |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-14 |
| WebCPA reports that tennis player Rafael Nadal will not play in the traditional Wimbledon tennis tournament warm-up event next year because of stringent British tax laws: The No. 2-ranked Spanish tennis player said Thursday he can “lose money” playing | |
A Hair Trigger Rally |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-14 |
| By: John Browne Friday, October 14, 2011 By the first week of October, after having dropped more | |
IRS Audit’s Google |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-14 |
| I just googled “IRS audit of Google” and found this blog post by Paul Caron: Bloomberg, Google Tax Probe to Focus on Offshore Units, by Jesse Drucker: The IRS is auditing how Google avoided federal income taxes by shifting profit into offshore | |
Capital Tonight – Liz Benjamin Reports on the Pork Lawsuit |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-14 |
| Pardon the crappy video, I shot this with my phone in my hotel room in Schenectady Tuesday night, after the Court of Appeals oral arguments. The justices definitely had the State’s Attorney spinning a tale. Hopefully that portends the right deci | |
October 14, 2011 |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-14 |
| Friday, October 14, 2011 By: Mark Hanna U.S. stock rallied Friday on the back of better than expec | |
The Bottom Line #6 |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-14 |
| By: Paul Azeff and Kory Bobrow Friday, October 14, 2011 "[I]f any of the gold or silver | |
Many Economic Sectors Have Little Room To Fall |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-14 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Washington Post Link: http://www.wa | |
Fitch Downgrades UBS, Puts Other Banks On Review |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-14 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Reuters Link: http://www.reuters.co | |
US Weighs Issuing Floating-Rate Notes |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-14 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: MarketWatch Link: http://www.market | |
India Inflation Exceeds 9% for 10th Month |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-14 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Business Week Link: http://www.busi | |
Refinancing Chills U.S. Home Purchases |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-14 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Bloomberg Link: http://www.bloomber | |
Fed Responding to Ridicule Over Prices People Pay |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-14 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Bloomberg Link: http://www.bloomber | |
Protected: NNComm #213: Why She Chooses Sexual Duds |
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| Marc Rudov | 2011-10-13 |
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Obama Conjures Election Wedge Issues |
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| 2011-10-13 | |
| After nearly three years of Obama's policies, we know this much – Obama's policies aren't working. Unemployment is still over 9%, despite trillions spent on stimulus measures and three years of deficits in excess of a trillion dollars | |
Obama Conjures Election Wedge Issues |
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| 2011-10-13 | |
| After nearly three years of Obama's policies, we know this much – Obama's policies aren't working. Unemployment is still over 9%, despite trillions spent on stimulus measures and three years of deficits in excess of a trillion dollars | |
Market Insiders Go to Jail |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-13 |
 Why insider trading should be legal |
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Rick Santorum on Marriage, Markets, & Morality |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-13 |
 Rick Santorum with Judge Napolitano |
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Department of Injustice? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-13 |
 Michael Scheuer on Iran plot |
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An Open Letter to Occupy Wall Street |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-13 |
 End the fed, the wars and income tax |
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MSNBC’s Steven Ratner: Capital Gains Tax is Cause of Income Gap |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-13 |
| It can’t be denied that the gap between the rich and the middle class has grown larger in the last ten years. So, the questions we should ask now are, 1) Why? 2) What do we do about it? Steven Ratner was on MSNBC this morning suggesting that the rea | |
The US Economy Is Just Trying To Survive The Regulations |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-13 |
On a 'Living' Constitution |
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| Tom's Opinions and Information | 2011-10-13 |
Stossel - s2011 | e84 - Thu, Sep 15, 2011 |
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| John Stossel at Hulu.com | 2011-10-12 |
| Stossel looks at some of the ways we should question authority -- in government, religion, business, and medicine.Add this to your queueAdded: Thu Oct 13 01:21:12 UTC 2011Air date: Thu Sep 15 00:00:00 UTC 2011Duration: 44:04 | |
Stossel - s2011 | e83 - Thu, Sep 8, 2011 |
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| John Stossel at Hulu.com | 2011-10-12 |
| Stossel looks at the growth of the American government since the 9/11 attacks.Add this to your queueAdded: Thu Oct 13 01:21:12 UTC 2011Air date: Thu Sep 08 00:00:00 UTC 2011Duration: 44:03 | |
Occupy Wall Street, End the Fed |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-12 |
 From protest to policy |
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Some Terror Threats Are Real |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-12 |
 The Judge warns against the drums of war |
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What Newt Really Said |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-12 |
| It’s bad enough when the left-wing radicals who run MSNBC make false accusations about conservatives, but it’s truly hideous when the network’s token conservative does so. This morning on Morning Joe ex-conservative Joe Scarborough fei | |
Joe Biden: There Will Be A Huge Increase In Murders And Rapes If The Federal Government Doesn’t Spend More Money To Help The Economy |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-12 |
| An increasing number of politicians and celebrities are openly declaring that if the economy continues to decline, it could lead to civil unrest, more crime and outbreaks of violence all over America. But instead of loudly denouncing the coming violence | |
Joe Biden: There Will Be A Huge Increase In Murders And Rapes If The Federal Government Doesn’t Spend More Money To Help The Economy |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-12 |
| An increasing number of politicians and celebrities are openly declaring that if the economy continues to decline, it could lead to civil unrest, more crime and outbreaks of violence all over America. But instead of loudly denouncing the coming violence | |
Gold Prices Are Going A Lot Higher |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-12 |
| Gold prices are going a lot higher. There is a lot of upside left in the gold market and I think we are years and years away from making a top [as a result of QE3 and subsequent QEs]. - in Beacon EquityRelated ETFs: SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD)Peter Schiff`s | |
Stossel - s2011 | e86 - Thu, Sep 22, 2011 |
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| John Stossel at Hulu.com | 2011-10-12 |
| Stossel asks who creates jobs: government or the private sector?Add this to your queueAdded: Thu Oct 13 01:21:12 UTC 2011Air date: Thu Sep 22 00:00:00 UTC 2011Duration: 44:04 | |
Government, Job Killer |
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| John Stossel 's Take | 2011-10-12 |
| My column this week is about the politicians' continued deceptive and ignorant job program push. I had to laugh, when President Obama, in one speech, cited the transcontinental railroad as an example of why we need more subsidies for infrastructure projects... | |
Stossel - s2011 | e85 - Sat, Sep 17, 2011 |
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| John Stossel at Hulu.com | 2011-10-12 |
| Stossel's "Stupid in America" documentary special.Add this to your queueAdded: Thu Oct 13 01:21:12 UTC 2011Air date: Sat Sep 17 00:00:00 UTC 2011Duration: 40:11Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 | |
JK Harris Filing for Bankruptcy |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-12 |
| Joe Kristan reports that J.K. Harris, the most egregious of the many penny-on-the-dollar tax resolution companies, is about to file for bankruptcy protection to forestall a government seizure of it’s business: One of the late-night tax settlement ou | |
The Federal Reserve Is Not Out Of Bullets. They Will Keep Printing. |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-12 |
You Know That Your City Has Become A Hellhole When…. |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-11 |
| All across America there are cities and towns that were once prosperous and beautiful that are being transformed into absolute hellholes. The scars left by the long-term economic decline of the United States are getting deeper and more gruesome. The t | |
You Know That Your City Has Become A Hellhole When…. |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-11 |
| All across America there are cities and towns that were once prosperous and beautiful that are being transformed into absolute hellholes. The scars left by the long-term economic decline of the United States are getting deeper and more gruesome. The t | |
AICPA Opposes IRS Fees, Fingerprinting of Tax Preparers |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-11 |
| WebCPA reports that the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) is asking the Internal Revenue Service to reconsider some of the fees it plans to charge for competency exams and fingerprinting as part of its tax preparer oversight program. The new fees would a | |
Down with the Oligarchy |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-11 |
 Patrick Byrne on the Oligarchs |
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Pedaling Libertarian Values |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-11 |
 Gary Johnson’s bike tour |
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What You Don’t Know About Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-11 |
 Rep. Andy Harris on Occupy Wall Street |
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A Ron Paul Revolution? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-11 |
 Is the GOP moving closer to Ron Paul? |
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Regulations Are Running Up The Cost Of Doing Business All Over The Country |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-11 |
| Regulations are running up the cost of doing business all over the country. I mean, there are a lot of companies that never even get started because they can't overcome that regulatory hurdle. Many that do, but get started end up going bankrupt because th | |
Tuesday Open Thread: Debate Edition |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-11 |
| Tonight, GOP candidates meet in New Hampshire for a debate sponsored by Bloomberg and The Washington Post. Still boggles our mind that the GOP is willing to let its enemies in the press orchestrate their vetting process. | |
Herman Cain vs. Lawrence O’Donnel Interview |
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| Freedom Lover Nation | 2011-10-10 |
| This is the must-see interview video of Hermain Cain by MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnel. O’Donnel’s juvenile, desperate attacks reveal him to be the ass that he is, making Cain look all the better. This liberal is so desperate to bring d | |
Next Up: Protesting Envy |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-10 |
| As in being envious of those with more than you. Quit picking on the 1% who earned their money through voluntary transactions. And stop supporting politicians who are tools of the corporate state. | |
Bocephus: You Can Keep the ‘Change’ |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-10 |
| Last week, Hank Williams Jr. was blindsided by ‘Fox & Friends’ hosts with a political question. (He was booked to talk about a new CD of his father’s music.) In his response, he made a similar analogy to one we’d suffered throu | |
Occupy Sesame Street |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-10 |
| Occupy Wall Street? What about Occupy Sesame Street? You’ve heard of Occupy Wall Street, but how about Occupy Sesame Street? That’s a newish hash tag — #occupysesamestreet — that has emerged on Twitter over the last two weeks, with | |
Occupy Wall Street or DC? |
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| Fox Business Freedom Watch | 2011-10-10 |
 Protesters misguided and misdirected? |
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European Euphoria? |
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| Fox Business Freedom Watch | 2011-10-10 |
 Euro bailout a reason to buy? |
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LOL – This Stock Market Rally Is For Suckers |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-10 |
| Hey, have you heard? The stock market is absolutely soaring right now. The Dow was up 330 points on Monday, and overall the Dow has risen by more than 10 percent since October 3rd. So should we all be throwing our money into the stock market in orde | |
LOL – This Stock Market Rally Is For Suckers |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-10 |
| Hey, have you heard? The stock market is absolutely soaring right now. The Dow was up 330 points on Monday, and overall the Dow has risen by more than 10 percent since October 3rd. So should we all be throwing our money into the stock market in orde | |
Occupy the Fed |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-10 |
| From THE NEW AMERICAN: Some media outlets are reporting that the Wall Street protesters are “libertarian,” which could be true of those who have focused their attention on the Federal Reserve. However, the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York | |
‘Fast and Furious’: What if Eric Holder Is Telling the Truth? |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-10 |
| In light of the “Fast and Furious” fiasco, the Obama administration is embarrassing itself whenever it tries to convince the public that on issues like healthcare and immigration reform, the government is well equipped to ensure the safety of the Amer | |
Joe The Plumber Running for Congress in Ohio |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-10 |
| TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – Joe the Plumber is plunging into politics. The Ohio man who became a household name after questioning Barack Obama about his economic policies during the 2008 campaign has filed paperwork to run for Congress. Samuel “J | |
EPA to Place $100 Billion Regulations on Farms for Natural Chemical with No Observable Effect on Human Health |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-10 |
| Every five years, the National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) conducts a “Census of Agriculture” that includes a snapshot of America’s black farmers–how many, average farm size, sales, etc. Since 2007 was the last year the c | |
We Are Moving!! |
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| Conservative for Change | 2011-10-10 |
| We have created a new site that will replace the content on Conservative for Change.You can now find new content on @ www.libertarian-examiner.comSame mission! Different look! | |
BREAKING: Operation #OccupyWallStreeters–SEIU’s Stephen Lerner Leaks Plan to Terrorize Corporate Executives |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-10 |
| Radical labor organizer Stephen Lerner of SEIU intends to terrorize the families of bank executives in their homes as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests. SEIU, a longtime ally of ACORN, has done it before, as ably documented by Big Government’ | |
October 10, 2011 |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-10 |
| Monday, October 10, 2011 By: Mark Hanna U.S. stocks and European stocks jumped sharply Monday for | |
John Browne September 23, 2011 CNBC – Closing Bell |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-10 |
| Video Type: TV Interviews September 23, 2011 | |
Peter Schiff October 6, 2011 FBN – Stossel |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-10 |
| Video Type: TV Interviews October 6, 2011 | |
There`s No Jobs Because There`s No Recovery |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-10 |
Did You Notice Self-proclaimed Teamster ‘Union Thug’ with John Lewis? |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-10 |
| You may have seen the 10-minute video clip of U.S. Rep. John Lewis‘ unsuccessful attempt to address the ‘Occupy Atlanta’ crowd, but did you notice the self-proclaimed “Teamsters Union Thug” apparently from the Jimmy Hoffa’ | |
Fannie and Freddie Debt Fuels Anxiety |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-10 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Financial Times Link: http://www.ft | |
Europe's Banks Show Further Cracks |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-10 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Wall Street Journal Link: http://on | |
European Bank Bill Well Over €100 Billion |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-10 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Reuters Link: http://uk.reuters.com | |
Banks Brace for Fallout on Earnings |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-10 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: New York Times Link: http://www.nyt | |
LCH.Clearnet to Accept Gold as Collateral |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-10 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Financial Times Link: http://www.ft | |
Recession Officially Over, U.S. Incomes Kept Falling |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-10 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: New York Times Link: http://www.nyt | |
Further QE in the UK Possible |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-10 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: London Evening Standard Link: http: | |
Greedy Capitalists ? |
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| 2011-10-09 | |
| The tiny Occupy Wall Street protests look to consist of mostly young people. The young tend to be idealistic, which is a good thing. As Winston Churchill once said, “If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart. If you're not a conserva | |
Protected: NNComm #212: Her Fake Football Cramps |
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| Marc Rudov | 2011-10-09 |
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More From the Culture of Narcissism |
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| Star Parker | 2011-10-09 |
| I wouldn't think it would be worthwhile to draw attention to the Occupy Wall Street "movement," or its list of demands that wouldn't pass muster in an average kindergarten class. But if America's president and vice... | |
The Singapore Dollar Is A Safe Haven |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-09 |
| East Asia is my favorite region of the world. I think that’s where you’regoing to see the most dynamic economic growth and the most opportunity. Take Singapore. I just love Singapore as an economy – it has minimal government interference, low taxes, | |
NYS Court of Appeals Pork Lawsuit Summary |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-08 |
| This is the summary from the Court’s web site. Formatting may be a bit off. To be argued Wednesday, October 12, 2011 No. 190 Bordeleau v State of New York In this declaratory judgment action, 50 New York taxpayers challenge the constitutionality o | |
The GOP ? What's That ? |
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| 2011-10-08 | |
| A 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll discovered that most people don't know what the Republican party acronym 'GOP' stands for. I wasn't too surprised by that. It's not that important. For the record, 'GOP' stands for 'Gre | |
Taxes, Competition and Pricing |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-08 |
| If President Obama were like George Washington and could not tell a lie, this is what he would say to the American taxpayer: Yes, we are going to increase your taxes, but don’t worry. If we waste those funds, we’ll just increase your taxes | |
Follow me on Twitter |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-08 |
| I finally figured out the whole Twitter thing and I’m posting like crazy. Please go Twitter.com and search for JimOstrowski to follow me. | |
Currency Outlook: The Euro & The Swiss Franc |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-08 |
Conscripting Tax Preparers Part 2: EITC Due Diligence Requirements |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-08 |
| Last year I wrote a post titled IRS Disbars CPA for Relying on Client’s Income and Expense Numbers about a disturbing trend by the IRS to draft private tax preparers and force them to work as IRS auditors without pay. Here’s what I said: | |
The Best at What They Do...and Illegal |
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| The Libertarian Entrepreneur | 2011-10-08 |
More Fake Farmers |
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| John Stossel 's Take | 2011-10-07 |
| Last year, Congress chose to give to give millions more dollars to black farmers who claim they were discriminated against by the US Agriculture Department -- I've reported that lots of the money goes to people who never farmed. In my report, Othello Cross, a ... | |
5 Reasons a Millionaire Tax is Dumb |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-07 |
| Howard Gleckman of TaxVox writes in The Democrats Millionaire Tax: Smart Politics, Awful Policy: Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid’s plan to fund a $445 billion stimulus, err, jobs bill with a 5.6 percent surtax on millionaires is not all bad. After a | |
Is The Health-Care Law a Job Killer? |
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| Fox business: Stossel | 2011-10-07 |
 Health-care law’s impact on profits, jobs |
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Should Companies be Able to Discriminate Against Unemployed? |
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| Fox business: Stossel | 2011-10-07 |
 The Fair Employment Opportunity Act |
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Nader on Occupy Wall Street & Tea Parties Common Causes |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-07 |
 Ralph Nader on Occupy Wall Street |
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When is it Legal to Kill an American? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-07 |
 Kirsten Powers on al-Awlaki |
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Peter Schiff: Regulation is My Single Biggest Fixed Cost |
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| Fox business: Stossel | 2011-10-07 |
 Regulations’ impact on jobs |
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Wall Street Protestors Getting Paid? |
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| Fox Business Freedom Watch | 2011-10-07 |
 Freedom Files: Wall Street protests continue |
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Infrastructure Spending Not a Jobs Creator? |
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| Fox business: Stossel | 2011-10-07 |
 Impact of infrastructure spending on jobs |
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The US Dollar Has Been The Titanic |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-07 |
| But if you’re going to be in a currency, there are a lot of fiat currencies out there that I think are a lot less flawed than the dollar...The dollar has been the Titanic. - in Newsmax.comPeter Schiff`s comments on the economy, stock markets, politics a | |
More Imaginary Green Jobs |
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| John Stossel 's Take | 2011-10-07 |
| Another green jobs initiative has failed. Just a few weeks after Solyndra's default, the Inspector General of the Labor Department said that a $500 million green jobs training program should be shut down. The Labor department said 79,854 people would get jobs ... | |
Anti-Corporation Hypocrites. Classic! |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-07 |
| (Hat Tip: Power Line) Bookmark & Share: | |
Feds Announce Obama Flip-Flop |
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| John Stossel 's Take | 2011-10-07 |
| Yesterday, dozens of California medical marijuana dispensaries got letters like this one from Obama's Department of Justice that warned they must shut down "even if such activities are permitted under state law." This afternoon, four DOJ attorneys held a pres... | |
R.I.P. Steve Jobs (2/24/1955 – 10/5/2011) |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-06 |
| Cross-Posted: TobyToons (Conservative Political Cartoons) | |
Peter Schiff WANTS to Hire...but Can't? |
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| The Libertarian Entrepreneur | 2011-10-06 |
| You read that right. Here's a guy who wanted to hire more people...then he did...then he got fined...(wait for it)...for hiring too many people. Click here for the story from Real Clear Politics. If this doesn't make you scratch your head, I don't know | |
The Top 100 Statistics About The Collapse Of The Economy That Every American Voter Should Know |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-06 |
| The U.S. economy is dying and most American voters have no idea why it is happening. Unfortunately, the mainstream media and most of our politicians are not telling the truth about the collapse of the economy. This generation was handed the keys to th | |
The Top 100 Statistics About The Collapse Of The Economy That Every American Voter Should Know |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-06 |
| The U.S. economy is dying and most American voters have no idea why it is happening. Unfortunately, the mainstream media and most of our politicians are not telling the truth about the collapse of the economy. This generation was handed the keys to th | |
Another Tax Untruth |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-06 |
| Greg Mankiw calls the left out on another tax fib in Obama versus Clinton on Tax Policy: One of the common memes about tax policy is that President Obama just wants to return the tax code to where it was during the Clinton years. The problem is, this is | |
Can the Government Steal your Property? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-06 |
 Civil Asset Forfeiture Case |
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Can Left & Right Unite? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-06 |
 Wall Street protesters vs Tea Party |
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Steve Jobs, Free Market Hero |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-06 |
 Embodying what free market can enable |
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Mitt Romney’s Medicare Love Affair |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-06 |
 Mitt Romney says “hands off” Medicare |
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Occupy Wall Street, Solyndra and the Obama Double Standard |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-06 |
| Stephen Hayes just made a brilliant observation about the disconnect between President Obama’s support of the Wall Street occupiers and his defense of his administration’s decision to invest in Solyndra: The President says the Wall Street pro | |
McCain, Hagan Repatriation Tax Holiday Bill |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-06 |
| WebCPA reports that Senators John McCain, R-Ariz., and Kay Hagan, D-N.C., introduced legislation Thursday allowing multinational corporations to repatriate their foreign earnings at a reduced tax rate: The bipartisan bill, known as the Foreign Earnings Re | |
Denmark’s Fat Tax |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-06 |
| If President Obama and the tax-happy left get their way, this is what is coming in America. Lisa Abend of TIME reports that Denmark has just enacted a tax on fatty foods: The tax, the first of its kind in the world, imposes a 16 krone (roughly $3) hike pe | |
Currency Outlook: Scandinavian Currencies |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-06 |
| I like the whole region of Scandinavia for a number of reasons. A big one is that it’s a way to gain exposure to Europe without being in the eurozone.I also like the fact that Scandinavia experienced a lot of socialism already, and they’re already dea | |
IRS Use of Tax Liens Often Violates its Stated Mission |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-06 |
| Paul Caron discusses Danshera Cords’ Brandeis Law Review article Lien on Me: Virtual Debtors Prisons, The Practical Effects of Tax Liens and Proposals for Reform, 49 Brandeis L.J. 341 (2011): This Article discusses the harm that a notice of federa | |
Westboro Church Announces Protest of Steve Jobs’ Funeral…on the iPhone |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-06 |
| The fringe crazies at Westboro Church are going to protest Steve Jobs’ funeral for…well, for reasons I can’t possibly explain. As best I can tell, they believe this titan of capitalism should have done more to support their particular re | |
The Inevitable Consequences of Class Warfare Rhetoric |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-06 |
| Somehow we’ve gone from tax-the-rich to kill-the-rich. Gee, I wonder how that happened? This story from Politico makes me pine for the gentler days of mere crosshairs on congressional districts: Several influential New York state lawmakers have rec | |
“Death is Life’s Change Agent” – Steve Jobs |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-06 |
| Who knew Steve Jobs was also a wise philosopher? No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because | |
Ryan's Plan to Repeal and Replace Obamacare. |
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| Conservative for Change | 2011-10-06 |
Thursday Open Thread: Israel Edition |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-06 |
| Today, in 1973, Egypt and Syria launched attacks against Israel in what would become known as the Yom Kippur War. It didn’t end well for Egypt or Syria. | |
Elementary Economics: Is Obama Smarter Than A 2nd Grader? |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-06 |
Why Not Just Pay Her More? |
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| The Libertarian Entrepreneur | 2011-10-06 |
What Are Big Businesses So Afraid Of? |
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| The Libertarian Entrepreneur | 2011-10-05 |
| Small businesses relish competition, because they're usually the ones doing the competing. They're the ones doing it faster, doing it friendlier, doing it better and with more pizzazz. They love competition, and competition helps them to grow, for i | |
Apple Founder Steve Jobs Dead at 56 |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-05 |
| CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) – Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, has died. He was 56. Appl | |
Peter Schiff Vs. Michael Moore |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-05 |
| Peter Schiff points out the hypocrisy in Michael Moore’s comments:WeAreChange confronts filmmaker Michael Moore on whether he supports ending the private Federal Reserve banking system. Expert economist Peter Schiff rebuts Moore’s words.Moore calls fo | |
Inspector General: Green Jobs Training Program a Failure, Money Should Be Returned |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-05 |
| From The New York Times: greenjobs_gw_03 // A $500 million green jobs program at the Department of Labor has so far provided only 15 percent of current participants with jobs, leading the agency’s inspector general to recommend that the bulk of the | |
Common Gound With the Occupy Wall Street Movement |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-05 |
| Common Gound With the Occupy Wall Street Movement Posted by James Ostrowski on October 5, 2011 11:50 AM Here are a few issues that can serve as the basis for a coalition between Paulian libertarians and tea people and the Occupy folks: 1. End the Fed 2. E | |
End the U.S.’s Wars Now? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-05 |
 The growing sentiment to end the wars |
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Fast, Furious and Fouled Up |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-05 |
 The ATF botched a deadly experiment |
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Letting Markets Do What Markets Do |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-05 |
| I have been reading Thomas Sowell‘s classic textbook Basic Economics in which he makes many wise observations, including this one: The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the governme | |
Palin Says She’s Not Running for President in 2012 |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-05 |
| Sarah Palin told Mark Levin on his radio show today that she will not be seeking the Republican Presidential Nomination in 2012. Palin released the following update to supporters: October 5, 2011 Wasilla, Alaska After much prayer and serious considerat | |
Gold Is Real Money. Everything Else Is Just A Substitute |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-05 |
| Gold is real money, everything else is just a substitute. - in ETF Daily NewsRelated ETFs: SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD), Newmont Mining (NEM)Peter Schiff`s comments on the economy, stock markets, politics and gold. Schiff is the renowned writer of the bestse | |
And So It Begins – The First Major European Bank Has Been Bailed Out And More Bailouts Are Coming |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-05 |
| And so it begins. The first major European bank bailout of 2011 has now happened. French/Belgian banking giant Dexia has failed and both governments have pledged to participate in a rescue plan. But Dexia will not be the last major European bank to | |
And So It Begins – The First Major European Bank Has Been Bailed Out And More Bailouts Are Coming |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-05 |
| And so it begins. The first major European bank bailout of 2011 has now happened. French/Belgian banking giant Dexia has failed and both governments have pledged to participate in a rescue plan. But Dexia will not be the last major European bank to | |
Occupy Wall Street: A Story without Heroes |
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| Tom's Opinions and Information | 2011-10-05 |
Video: Currency Plays Outside The US Dollar |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-05 |
Gibson: Don't Just Fear OUR Laws & Regs |
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| The Libertarian Entrepreneur | 2011-10-05 |
October 5, 2011 |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-05 |
| Wednesday, October 5, 2011 By: Mark Hanna A better than reported services report, and generally ov | |
E-Mails: OMB Staffers Joked About Solyndra Bilking Tax Payers |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-05 |
| Just months after receiving the first “Green Jobs” stimulus money from the Obama Administration, the Department of Energy was poised to funnel another $469 million to Solyndra, the failed solar energy start-up at the center of a growing scanda | |
The Government Has Really Discredited Capitalism |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-05 |
Senate Democrats Propose 5% Surtax on Millionaires |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-05 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Wall Street Journal Link: http://on | |
After $200M Stimulus, Company Cuts 10% of Workforce |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-05 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Fox News Link: http://nation.foxnew | |
Euro Nations Face Downgrade, Moody’s Says |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-05 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Bloomberg Link: http://www.bloomber | |
Announced U.S. Job Cuts Rise 212% From Year Ago |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-05 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Bloomberg Link: http://www.bloomber | |
Ireland Still Faces Bailout Challenges |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-05 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Wall Street Journal Link: http://on | |
Bernanke: Political Pressure Wouldn’t Halt More Easing |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-05 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Bloomberg Link: http://www.bloomber | |
UK Economy Grows Less than Estimated |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-05 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Bloomberg Link: http://www.bloomber | |
Moody's Slashes Italy Debt Rating by Three Points |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-05 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: The Guardian Link: http://www.guard | |
Marshalling The Forces Of Anti-Capitalism |
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| 2011-10-04 | |
| Above is a photo of the Occupy Wall Street protesters tussling with police as they blocked off the Brooklyn Bridge: About 700 protesters were arrested after a horde of anti-Wall Street demonstrators swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday, halting traffic f | |
Marshalling The Forces Of Anti-Capitalism |
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| 2011-10-04 | |
| Above is a photo of the Occupy Wall Street protesters tussling with police as they blocked off the Brooklyn Bridge: About 700 protesters were arrested after a horde of anti-Wall Street demonstrators swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday, halting traffic f | |
Protected: NNComm #211: Ashton Kutcher’s Two-Way Street |
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| Marc Rudov | 2011-10-04 |
| There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. | |
Rep. Ron Paul on GAO Audit of the Fed |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-04 |
 Ron Paul on Federal Reserve & war |
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Quarter of a Billion Dollar Tax Refund Scam Busted by IRS |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-04 |
| WebCPA reports that a federal grand jury has indicted 55 individuals for participating in a massive income tax fraud scheme based in Southern California that illegally sought over $250 million in tax refunds. Special agents in the Internal Revenue Servic | |
Surreal News: Michael Savage agrees with Ron Paul |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-04 |
| Hard to believe, but he agrees for all the right reasons. | |
It Always Surprises Me That Most US Investors Still Fail To Take Currency Risk Into Account |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-04 |
Bank Fees? Let’s Tell The Banksters That We Don’t Want Their Stinking Bank Fees And That We Are Switching Banks |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-04 |
| Millions of Americans are about to get stabbed in the back by their banks. Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank and several other large banks are either already implementing outrageous new bank fees or are currently testing them. So | |
Bank Fees? Let’s Tell The Banksters That We Don’t Want Their Stinking Bank Fees And That We Are Switching Banks |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-04 |
| Millions of Americans are about to get stabbed in the back by their banks. Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank and several other large banks are either already implementing outrageous new bank fees or are currently testing them. So | |
Let There Be Freedom |
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| John Stossel 's Take | 2011-10-04 |
| What would America look like if libertarians were in charge? There would be a lot less government and a lot more freedom. Some people fear freedom. They think less government means chaos. But they are wrong. I explore the subject this week in my syndicated ... | |
Smaller Government, Less Regulation is Better for Everyone |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-04 |
| As readers of this blog know, I am a frequent reader of Linda Beale’s tax blog ataxingmatter. I recently left a comment on one of her posts objecting to the left’s demonization of conservatives as either stupid or malicious and said the follow | |
October 4, 2011 |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-04 |
| Tuesday, October 4, 2011 By: Mark Hanna U.S. stocks flip flopped from losses to gains throughout a | |
The Touchdown Tax: A Sin Tax on College Sports |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-04 |
| Allen Sanderson wrote a column for Chicago Life Magazine titled Taxes and Touchdowns, Leveling the Playing Field in College Athletics: If [the sin taxes} now on the table are acceptable, let me suggest a fifth item: college football games. Yes, I am adv | |
Monday Open Thread: TARP Edition |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-03 |
| Today, in 2008, the TARP bailout was signed into law by President Bush. | |
Bad Financial News Keeps Pouring In: 14 Facts That Just Might Scare The Living Daylights Out Of You |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-03 |
| Will the bad financial news ever stop? A lot of people in the financial world were hoping for a much better fourth quarter after an absolutely disastrous third quarter. Well, if Monday was any indication, October could end up being a really rough mont | |
Bad Financial News Keeps Pouring In: 14 Facts That Just Might Scare The Living Daylights Out Of You |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-03 |
| Will the bad financial news ever stop? A lot of people in the financial world were hoping for a much better fourth quarter after an absolutely disastrous third quarter. Well, if Monday was any indication, October could end up being a really rough mont | |
Wait, what? |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-03 |
| The liberal version of the Tea Partiers have taken it to the streets. Much like many of the TP’ers (who act as shills for the establishment GOP), they’re being funded by special interests closely aligned with a political party and their agenda | |
Is Due Process Dead? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-03 |
 Gov. Johnson on Al-Awlaki |
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Was Al-Awlaki Killing Against American Values? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-03 |
 Jacob Hornberger on Al-Awlaki |
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The Plain Truth about Executive Assassination |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-03 |
 The Judge on Anwar Al-Awlaki |
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What’s the Message from OccupyWallStreet? |
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| Fox Business: Napolitano | 2011-10-03 |
 Mixed messages from protesters |
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Herman Cain Plays the Race Card |
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| Tax Lawyer's Blog | 2011-10-03 |
| And I was just starting to like Herman Cain. Cain has jumped on the race-hustling bandwagon and accused Rick Perry of racism simply because Perry didn’t remove an offensive sign on one of his properties fast enough. “The name of the place was | |
Is the Federal Reserve Constitutional? |
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| Tom's Opinions and Information | 2011-10-03 |
Currency: The Hidden Portfolio Risk |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-03 |
| By: Peter Schiff Monday, October 3, 2011 In today's investment landscape, risk can come | |
Third Quarter: Wrap-Up |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-03 |
Germany Will NEVER Leave the Eurozone—Because It Can’t |
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| Gonzalo Lira | 2011-10-03 |
Qatari Wealth Fund Plans $10bn Gold Buying Spree |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-03 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: The Telegraph Link: http://www.tele | |
Greece To Miss Deficit Targets Despite Austerity |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-03 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Reuters Link: http://www.reuters.co | |
Stocks Sink, Pushing S&P To New Low For The Year |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-03 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Yahoo! Finance Link: http://finance | |
No Rise in Home Prices Until 2020: Bankers |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-03 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: CNBC Link: http://www.cnbc.com//id/ | |
That Retirement Calculator May Be Lying to You |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-03 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Bloomberg Link: http://www.bloomber | |
Don't Miss Peter Schiff on Fox Business! • 10pm |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-03 |
| Content Type: Event Event Date: October 6, 2011 - 10:00pm - 11:00pm Guest: Peter Schiff Network: Fox Business... | |
'Biggest Tech IPO Ever' Planned by Chinese Firm |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-03 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: Fox News Link: http://www.foxnews.c | |
Fed Retirement Blowout Almost as Bad as Social Security |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-03 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: ABC News Link: http://abcnews.go.co | |
Germany 'Won't Give More To EU Bail-Out Fund' |
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| Euro Pacific Capital | 2011-10-03 |
| Content Type: Newswire Source: France24 Link: http://www.france24. | |
Pork Lawsuit Oral Argument October 12th (Rally Before) |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-02 |
| Media Advisory Contact: James Ostrowski (716) 435-8918 jameso@apollo3.com http://www.corporatewelfarerally.com/ Pork Lawsuit Oral Argument October 12th (Rally Before) Buffalo, NY. October 2, 2011. A multi-billion dollar citizens’ lawsuit seeking to | |
The Devil’s Delusion with David Berlinski |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-02 |
| Why are so many scientific experts atheists? Is it because of their desire for power, their sole acceptance of physical theories, or mere denial? Contrary to what many people think, science and religion are not always mutually exclusive. Many laws of the | |
700 Arrested After Protest on NY’s Brooklyn Bridge |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-02 |
| From the Associated Press: Protesters speaking out against corporate greed and other grievances were maintaining a presence in Manhattan’s Financial District even after more than 700 of them were arrested during a march on the Brooklyn Bridge in a | |
Sadly, more of the same from the Black Caucus |
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| Star Parker | 2011-10-02 |
| President Obama does not miss an opportunity to point out that the problems this country is facing today did not start on his watch. And, by and large, this is true. However he could also use this refrain to react to... | |
John King Isn’t a Republican, So Why Should He Pick Our Candidate? |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-02 |
| Have you ever been told to settle for something you weren’t happy with or to ‘just deal’ with the hand you’d been dealt because … well, it is what it is? Yeah. I’ve been dealing with that a lot lately – especially when the talk turns to poli | |
ObamaCare Tops Upcoming Supreme Court Agenda |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-02 |
| From Reuters: President Barack Obama’s sweeping healthcare overhaul will top the agenda in the new Supreme Court term that opens on Monday and could be the most momentous in decades. Returning from its three-month recess, the nation’s highes | |
Meet #OccupyWallSt’s @JeffRae: Professional Rabble Rouser, Agitator, Organizer & Labor Activist |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-02 |
| Saturday, marked the second week of the #OccupyWallSt protests. With the endorsements of union bosses now firmly in their back pockets, protesters in New York celebrated the anniversary of their campout in a New York City park by shutting down the Brookly | |
Remarkable Essay by Hugo–Very Important Now |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-02 |
| In these times when liberalism is destroying the nation while its antidote libertarianism struggles to connect with more than ten percent of the population, I struggle to construct the proper word formulas to explain to people the nature of this conflict. | |
Private Schools Are Good for Your Kids |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-02 |
| One of the points I made in Government Schools Are Bad for Your Kids is that private school students get more scholarship money for college. Today, I went to the Sacred Heart HS open house (Buffalo, NY). It’s a top flight private schools for girls. | |
Who’s Behind The ‘Occupy Everywhere’ Faux-tests? |
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| Big Government | 2011-10-02 |
| With the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests starting the catch on in the media after the arrests at the Brooklyn Bridge and protests in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Occupy Whatever meme is coming to a city near you. Occupy Dallas! is coming t | |
Buffalo News Story Shows Free New York Was Right |
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| Political Class Dismissed | 2011-10-02 |
| Matt Spina has a good story today about how a local law firm has profited from its contract with the Erie County IDA. In Free New York’s report, we discussed the cost of IDAs and showed that these are all wasted dollars since IDAs do not help the ec | |
Currencies Outlook: Canadian Dollar |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-02 |
| I also like the Canadian dollar. Years ago, Canada put in place some deep structural changes to help deal with their problems of deficits and big government. While it’s certainly not a free-market utopia up there, I think they’ve done a lot of good th | |
Uh Oh: 90 Percent Of Americans Rate Economic Conditions In The U.S. As “Poor” |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-02 |
| Uh oh - are we rapidly reaching another major economic tipping point? According to a new CNN/ORC International Poll, 90 percent of the American people believe that economic conditions in the United States are "poor". This represents a significant incr | |
Uh Oh: 90 Percent Of Americans Rate Economic Conditions In The U.S. As “Poor” |
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| The Economic Collapse | 2011-10-02 |
| Uh oh - are we rapidly reaching another major economic tipping point? According to a new CNN/ORC International Poll, 90 percent of the American people believe that economic conditions in the United States are "poor". This represents a significant incr | |
Killing Awlaki |
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| 2011-10-01 | |
| When I heard we killed the terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki with a Predator drone strike in Yemen, my first reaction was "good, we got another one !" When it comes to killing al Qaedans, I'm on-board with the idea, mainly because al Qaedans are on | |
Killing Awlaki |
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| 2011-10-01 | |
| When I heard we killed the terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki with a Predator drone strike in Yemen, my first reaction was "good, we got another one !" When it comes to killing al Qaedans, I'm on-board with the idea, mainly because al Qaedans are on | |
Currencies Outlook: British Pound |
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| Peter Schiff Blog | 2011-10-01 |