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Ron Paul finished a close 2nd in the Iowa Straw Poll on the 13th, though it doesn't feel that way. You, see the good doctor, the only principled politician in Washington for 30 years, has been ignored by the media. I find this quite puzzling. Reasons for this puzzlement are numerous, but I would like to focus on two for now. The first being the financial crisis, and Washington economics in

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LRC The U.S. Mint offers its newly minted dollar coins, featuring the Presidents of the United States. The US Mint has spent millions of dollars attempting to coax Americans to use these tinny coins in commerce, but nothing doing. If you've had one of these coins in your hand you would get the feeling it is counterfeit in some way. And that is because it is largely made of copper with some zinc,

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CNBC Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke went before Congress last week looking to emphasize the "unusual uncertainty" surrounding the US economy and wound up pledging, in no uncertain terms, that the Fed was prepared to take unusual steps to fire up growth. "We are ready and will act if the economy does not continue to improve, if we don't see the kind of improvements in the labor market that we are

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Wall Street Journal After fending off most challenges to its independence and winning new powers to oversee big financial firms, the Federal Reserve has emerged from a bruising debate on the overhaul of U.S. financial rules as perhaps the pre-eminent regulator in the sector. But that could only bring it added blame if things go wrong again. Just a few months ago, amid populist anger at the

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CNN A car bomb killed at least four people in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, authorities said. It was the first time a car bomb has been used to attack federal police, said the city's mayor, Jose Reyes Ferriz.The incident happened about 8 p.m. Thursday in the city's most violent zone. Juarez municipal police spokesman Jacinto Seguro said Friday that federal police were responding to a call that a police

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Fox News More than 1 million American households are likely to lose their homes to foreclosure this year, as lenders work their way through a huge backlog of borrowers who have fallen behind on their loans. Nearly 528,000 homes were taken over by lenders in the first six months of the year, a rate that is on track to eclipse the more than 900,000 homes repossessed in 2009, according to data

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CNN During a speech at an event called "Freedom Fest," former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin warned Tea Party activists that while government spending was a bad thing, conservatives should not go too far and start calling for reductions in the military budget.While Palin told the crowd in Norfolk, Virginia, "Something has to be done urgently to stop the out-of-control Obama-Reid-Pelosi spending machine

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In my senior year of high school, I stopped standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. It was at that time that I discovered the libertarian works of Mises, Rothbard, and Rockwell. I began to discover that nationalism was very detrimental to the cause of liberty. You see, the pledge was used as a way to convince students, since schools are where you will hear the pledge these days, the US government

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Part 2 In part 1, I tackled the issue of the Arizona immigration law from the perspective of worker illegal immigration and how Arizona went about solving the problem using the same failed tactics that the federal government used to initiate the problems at the beginning. Part 2 will be taking on the issue of the Mexican Drug Cartels that have been the leading cause of violence in Mexico and in

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Part 1 The Arizona state government has passed a bill that takes a hard stance against illegal immigration. Arizona Senate Bill 1070 requires immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police to question people if there is reason to suspect that they're in the United States illegally. It also targets those who hire illegal immigrant day laborers or knowingly

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Watching the federal government has always been a depressing and maddening event, but I feel it is more now than ever. They've egregiously betrayed our trust. Of course, that is what they've always done.We've seen bills passed with secret 3 am amendments (of the 300 page variety) that go unread while being passed with majority. These bills containing draconian legislation that erodes the very

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I have recently viewed a plethora of TV commercials here in my home state of Arkansas regarding the enforcement of the new seat belt laws. The first law stated that you could get a ticket if you or your front seat passenger weren't wearing a seat belt, but it could only happen as a secondary offense, meaning the hired guns for the government couldn't pull you over for it. So of course, this past

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