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Davy Crockett– An American Original

Davy Crockett– An American Original

For the generation of Americans who grew up with Fess Parker as Davy Crockett, Indian fighter, there is little doubt what kind of a legend he was. He was the same kind of man as portrayed by John Wayne in ...

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A Friend In Need: Poor, Beleaguered Biotech Industry Gets Congressional Protection From Bullying Consumer Advocates And Demented Public Interest Groups

A Friend In Need: Poor, Beleaguered Biotech Industry Gets Congressional Protection From Bullying Consumer Advocates And Demented Public Interest Groups

These are not the easiest of times for the pesticide companies, the food manufacturers, and the seed vendors who are responsible for the biotechnology revolution in agriculture. Sure, corporations like Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, and Bayer are making profits off of ...

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Senator Rand Paul Introduces Bill to Limit use of Drones

Senator Rand Paul Introduces Bill to Limit use of Drones

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced the Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act this past Tuesday, which would require the government to obtain a warrant before using aerial drones to run surveillance on the United States. Paul says the bill’s purpose ...

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President Announces Higher Taxes and More Deficit Spending with New Budget

President Announces Higher Taxes and More Deficit Spending with New Budget

WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama will unveil his latest budget proposal Monday during an appearance at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale. The budget request he is sending to Congress is long on election cycle promises with what may prove ...

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President, Congress Admit Debt-Ceiling Debate was Elaborate Prank

President, Congress Admit Debt-Ceiling Debate was Elaborate Prank

WASHINGTON – President Obama and Republican leaders confessed Tuesday to playing a belated April Fools’ joke on the American public in the form of a seemingly apocalyptic debate about the debt ceiling. Amid general giggling and back-slapping at Wednesday’s bipartisan ...

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NFL and Congress Near Deal to Expand League to Reduce Unemployment

NFL and Congress Near Deal to Expand League to Reduce Unemployment

NEW YORK – With 13.9 million Americans unemployed, the U.S. Congress stepped up closed-door negotiations Tuesday with the National Football League to expand the number of professional teams and fill them with unemployed Americans. The current version of the plan ...

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Assessing the McCain-Kerry Privacy Act

Assessing the McCain-Kerry Privacy Act

In early April, Senators John Kerry and John McCain introduced a bill in Congress that would allegedly protect the privacy of Internet users from the unwanted advances of online marketers and retailers. Called the Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act ...

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Monkey See Monkey Do

Monkey See Monkey Do

As usual, the talking heads work overtime on pointless news items as though they rank right up there with revolution in Egypt and Pluto’s demotion from planet status. So what is one of these news events? Lindsay Lohan is in ...

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