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Seattle's new 'head tax' blasted by city's mega-corporations | Fox News - 0 views

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    "Turn about" fair play? Or are the "progressives" being hypocritical in their own business practices? https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/05/15/seattles-amazon-tax from the libertarian viewpoint
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http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/04/12/proposal-calls-california-be-split-three-states-b... - 1 views

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    Would secession from the Union actually work this time?
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Glad that Obama won't stick it to us......................... - 0 views

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    The new prohibitions are part of an executive order President Barack Obama issued for federal agencies to review the types of equipment they provide to local and state police. Obama traveled Monday to Camden, N.J., to highlight crime reduction and community policing tactics that the administration hopes can be a model around the country.
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Disobey! It's time for REVOLUTION!! - 2 views

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    A Commentary By John Stossel Charles Murray, already controversial for writing books on how welfare hurts the poor, on ethnic differences in IQ and on (less controversial, but my favorite) happiness and good government, has written a new book that argues that it's time for civil disobedience.
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Baltimore Has a History of Illegal Arrests. No Wonder Freddie Gray Ran from the Cops. - 5 views

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    When the cops chasing Freddie Gray caught up with him, they had a problem: He had not done anything illegal. They solved that problem the way cops often do: They picked a charge after the fact. According to Marilyn Mosby, the state's attorney for Baltimore, that charge, carrying a switchblade, was legally unfounded.
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The Time to Limit NSA Snooping Is Now - 0 views

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    When Congress passed the PATRIOT Act in 2001, it did not intend to authorize the indiscriminate collection of personal information about every American. But that is what Congress will be doing if it renews the law next month without changes aimed at protecting our privacy from an increasingly intrusive national security state.
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Is enforcing the law even legal? - 1 views

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    Yesterday afternoon in Detroit, via ABC affiliate WXYZ: We're told the ICE officer was serving the warrant to 19-year-old Terrence Kellum as part of task force investigation. Police say he was allegedly wanted for armed robbery. The task force was known as "D-FAT" which stands for Detroit Fugitive Apprehension Team.
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Forgetting Federalism, Oklahoma And Nebraska Demand That Colorado Ban Marijuana - 1 views

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    Last month the attorneys general of Oklahoma and Nebraska filed a lawsuit aimed at forcing Colorado to ban marijuana. In my latest Forbes column, I note that the effort has provoked criticism not just from anti-prohibitionists but from conservatives who correctly see it as an assault on federalism.
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Our Constitution, a worthless piece of paper? - 0 views

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    President George W. Bush was fond of saying that "9/11 changed everything." He used that one-liner often as a purported moral basis to justify the radical restructuring of federal law and the federal assault on personal liberties over which he presided.
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Congress Considers Limiting Pot Prohibition - 1 views

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    Last week Georgia's legislature overwhelmingly approved a bill that allows people suffering from certain medical conditions, including epilepsy and multiple sclerosis, to treat their symptoms with cannabis oil that is low in THC but high in cannabidiol (CBD), a nonpsychoactive compound with considerable medical promise.
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The State Is Spying on You Right Now. Where's the Outrage? - 4 views

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    Here is a short pop quiz: When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress earlier this month about the parameters of the secret negotiations between the United States and Iran over nuclear weapons and economic sanctions, how did he know what the negotiators were considering?
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