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Brian R

YouTube - Proposition 8 commercial - 0 views

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gay marriage prop 8 marriage politics

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    Yeson8 campaign commercial
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Zogby: 56% of all Mexicans would consider moving to the US if another amnesty is passed. - 0 views

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immigration emnesty poll polling Mexican Citizens

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  • A new survey by Zogby International finds that people in Mexico think that granting legal status to illegal immigrants in the United States would encourage more illegal immigration to the United States. As the top immigrant-sending country for both legal and illegal immigrants, views on immigration in Mexico can provide insight into the likely impact of an amnesty, as well as other questions related to immigration.
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American Thinker Blog: Obama Administration Planning to Circumvent Congress on Amnesty - 0 views

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politics Obama democrats illegal immigrants amnesty

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  • In one of his final moves to fundamentally change how America operates, the Obama Administration appears to be circumventing regular congressional procedures on immigration reform by considering deferred action or parole on a massive scale for the more than ten million illegal aliens in the U.S. Typically these actions are carried out on a case by case basis, but Obama is anything but typical. From Fox News:Numbers USA , an organization that presses for lower immigration levels along with humanitarian treatment of illegal immigrants, has started a petition to the president expressing "outrage" at the alleged plan.  Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations with Numbers USA, said she's been hearing for weeks from "sources close to the Democratic leadership" in both chambers that administration officials are discussing whether the Department of Homeland Security could direct staff to grant "amnesty" for all illegal immigrants in the country.  "They're trying to figure out ways around a vote," she said. [snip] Jenks said illegal immigrants granted parole are often allowed to seek permanent legal status.  The President and his team of progressives see their popularity fading every day, and are cranking their bulldozer into high gear. Granting amnesty to millions of illegals may cause an untenable overload of processing them into the system, but who cares? The administration must complete its goal of collapsing the economy, and dividing the country by the November elections. Nothing like a perfect leftist storm before the Tsunami of 2010.
Brian R

Rasmussen Finds Most 'Angry' with Liberal, Pro-Obama Media | NewsBusters.org - 0 views

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rasmussen poll media Bias Obama media

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  • A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds most Americans (51%) say the average reporter is more liberal than they are, and nearly as many (48%) think the media are “are trying to help”  President Obama pass his left-wing agenda. Perhaps as a result, the poll finds an astonishing two-thirds of the public (66%) say they are angry with the media, “including 33% who are very angry” with the press. Most Americans seem to have a low view of journalists’ integrity and professionalism. Rasmussen discovered that “68% say most reporters when covering a political campaign try to help the candidate they want to win,” vs. 23% who think most reporters “try to offer unbiased coverage.” At the same time, “54% of voters think most reporters would hide any information they uncovered that might hurt a candidate they wanted to win, up seven points from November 2008.”
Brian R

Regulatory Spending Actually Rose under Bush | Cato @ Liberty - 0 views

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regulatory spending Bush politics regulation

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    "Analysts across the ideological spectrum generally agree that the government's regulatory bodies fail far too frequently. However, analysts seem to learn different lessons from this experience. Washington Post business columnist Steve Pearlstein cites numerous examples of failure and concludes, "It's time for the business community to give up its jihad against regulation." He says: It hardly captures the breadth and depth of these regulatory failures to say that during the Bush administration the pendulum swung a bit too far in the direction of deregulation and lax enforcement. What it misses is just how dramatically the regulatory agencies have been shrunken in size, stripped of talent and resources, demoralized by lousy leadership, captured by the industries they were meant to oversee and undermined by political interference and relentless attacks on their competence and purpose."
Brian R

FOXNews.com - The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From... - 0 views

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foxnews politics Mexico guns

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  • In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced -- and of those, 90 percent -- 5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover -- were found to have come from the U.S. But in those same two years, according to the Mexican government, 29,000 guns were recovered at crime scenes. In other words, 68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.
Brian R

» Still Waiting For Keith Olbermann To Condemn Obama's Assassination Program…... - 0 views

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Media Bias politics Terrorist olberman CIA Obama Bush

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  • George Bush’s decision merely to eavesdrop on American citizens without oversight, or to detain without due process Americans such as Jose Padilla and Yaser Hamdi, provoked years of vehement, vocal and intense complaints from Democrats and progressives. All of that was disparaged as Bush claiming the powers of a King, a vicious attack on the Constitution, a violation of Our Values, the trampling on the Rule of Law. Yet here you have Barack Obama not merely eavesdropping on or detaining Americans without oversight, but ordering them killed with no oversight and no due process of any kind. And the reaction among leading Democrats and progressives is largely non-existent, which is why Olbermann’s extensive coverage of it is important. Just imagine what the reaction would have been among progressive editorial pages, liberal opinion-makers and Democratic politicians if this story had been about George Bush and Dick Cheney targeting American citizens for due-process-free and oversight-less CIA assassinations.
  • To be fair to Olbermann, his mystifyingly outrageous lack of outrage over this story appears contagious among the liberal MSM — so much so that it apparently forced a group of prominent liberals to fundraise in order to publish an advertisement in the New York Review of Books entitled “Crimes are Crimes No Matter Who Does Them,” which condemned Obama’s terrorist-assassination program.  Signatories to the ad include liberal stalwarts Noam Chomsky, Cindy Sheehan and Williams Ayers (though, in all fairness to Ayers, he may have more understandably self-serving motives for condemning a CIA program that summarily hunts down and assassinates suspected U.S. citizen-terrorists.)
  • Brian R on 24 May 10
     
    More than a week since a New York Times story on the Obama-approved program to assassinate U.S. citizens named as terrorists, Keith Olbermann still has not condemned that program. One reader correctly observed that Olbermann reported on the story in early April but, inexplicably, without commentary or expressing an opinion and, instead, he gave a commendably fair and balanced presentation almost worthy of broadcast on Fox News. As Glenn Greenwald noted at Salon:
Brian R

Gee, Maybe the Los Angeles City Council should boycott California because of California... - 0 views

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politics immigration california Arizona

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  • attempt to verify the legal status of such person as a legal citizen, - notify the person of his apparent status as an illegal alien, and - contact the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service of the apparent illegal alien status. Also, subsection (c) of Section 834b prohibits [a]ny legislative, administrative, or other action by a city, county, or other legally authorized local governmental entity with jurisdictional boundaries, or by a law enforcement agency, to prevent or limit the cooperation required by subdivision (a)
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      Brian R on 24 May 10
       
      CA law virtually requires CA police to do what Arizona law requires, also illegal to be sanctuary city.
  • Brian R on 24 May 10
     
    "California's anti-illegal immigration law, Penal Code Section 834b, strangely enough, is similar to Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law, SB 1070 (although California's Section 834b doesn't apply until after a lawful arrest, while Arizona's SB 1070 applies upon a "lawful contact" with law enforcement). Section 834b says every California law enforcement agency SHALL ("shall" implies a mandatory duty), if it suspects the arrested person is in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws"
Brian R

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/05/19/living-longer-in-a-warming-world/ - 0 views

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global warming politics climategate IPCC

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  • Goklany project 51,000 world-wide excess deaths because of additional poverty from bio-fuel programs alone. While climate change ranks on the WHO’s risk factor’s, being underweight ranks at the top. Biofuel production, which is heavily subsidized in many developing countries, diverts food away to fuel and attempts to address the lowest risk factor at the expense of the most important. To truly help developing countries with the risks associated with climate change as well as the many more important ones, we should shift away from biofuel policies and focus on broader economic development.
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      Brian R on 24 May 10
       
      Using food for fuel rather than feeding the hungry causes 51,000 deaths
  • As the earth has warmed the extent of malaria and hunger rates have dropped and life expectancy and health-adjusted life expectancy (disability adjusted life years) has increased. Goklany says that “global warming or its underlying human causes, if any, have not increased death or disease. In fact, they are probably responsible for the worldwide decreases in mortality rates and increases in life expectancy over the last century.”
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      Brian R on 24 May 10
       
      Increases in life expectancy is in part due to warming.
  • Brian R on 24 May 10
     
    "Indur Goklany was involved with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as an author, U.S. delegate and reviewer since before its inception. His focuses are climate change and economic development, among others, and his presentation at Heartland's 4th International Climate Change Conference on global warming and mortality was one of the standout presentations in the entire conference. His talk establishes the long-standing fact that cold kills more than warmth and that global warming policies cost more lives than global warming itself."
Brian R

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/05/21/sea-level-rises-what-sea-level-rises/ - 0 views

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global warming sea level heritage politics climategate

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    "Another one of the standout presentations at the Heartland Institute's fourth International Conference on Climate Change was the one by Nils-Axel Morner, former emeritus head of the paleogeophysics and geodynamics department at Stockholm University. His talk focused on sea level increases and the difference between observed data and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) model's predictions."
Brian R

(Video) Jackboot to the throat--FDA claims citizens have no right of access to certain ... - 0 views

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politics FDA regulation Rights

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    "In yet another arrogant display of the federal government's jackboot to the throat of America and of its troubling disregard for the rights of citizens, the Food and Drug Administration now claims that Americans have no fundamental inherent right of access to certain foods. The agency also claims that Americans do not have a fundamental right to grow their own food, to sell it as they see fit, or to engage in contractual agreements with other citizens in forming food coops."
Brian R

Criminalizing immigration? Ask Mexico | Washington Examiner - 0 views

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President Calderon immigration politics Mexico Arizona

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  • Democrats should hold their applause and consider Mexico's immigration policies, codified in that country's General Law on Population adopted in 2000. Under Mexican immigration law, illegal immigrants are sentenced to up to two years in prison for a first violation and up to 10 years for a second violation. Foreigners in Mexico who violate their visas can be jailed for six years. Mexican law also empowers the government to deport any foreigner whose presence authorities deem to be harmful to Mexico's "economic or national interests, or who is not "physically or mentally healthy," or who lack the "necessary funds for their sustenance" for them and their dependents. We wonder if the sanctimonious Mr. Calderon would consider that "criminalizing immigration."
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      Brian R on 24 May 10
       
      I wonder what the Democrats would say if Arizona insituted Mexico's immigration law? yet they appluad the Pres when he criticizes Arizona!
  • Brian R on 24 May 10
     
    "Democrats should hold their applause and consider Mexico's immigration policies, codified in that country's General Law on Population adopted in 2000. Under Mexican immigration law, illegal immigrants are sentenced to up to two years in prison for a first violation and up to 10 years for a second violation. Foreigners in Mexico who violate their visas can be jailed for six years. Mexican law also empowers the government to deport any foreigner whose presence authorities deem to be harmful to Mexico's "economic or national interests, or who is not "physically or mentally healthy," or who lack the "necessary funds for their sustenance" for them and their dependents. We wonder if the sanctimonious Mr. Calderon would consider that "criminalizing immigration.""
Brian R

The gathering revolt against government spending | Washington Examiner - 0 views

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michael Barone government spending revolt politics teaparty elections

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  • Now the political scientists' maxim seems out of date. The Democrat who won the Pennsylvania 12th Congressional District special election opposed the Democrats' health care law and cap-and-trade bills. The Tea Party-loving Republican who won the Senate nomination in Kentucky jumped out to a big lead. The defeat of the three appropriators, who among them have served 76 years in Congress (and whose fathers served another 42), is the canary that stopped singing in the coal mine
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      Brian R on 24 May 10
       
      Democrat victories were by those who oppossed Obamacare and the Cap and Trade bills.
  • Brian R on 24 May 10
     
    "This month three members of Congress have been beaten in their bids for re-election -- a Republican senator from Utah, a Democratic congressman from West Virginia and a Republican-turned-Democrat senator from Pennsylvania. Their records and their curricula vitae are different. But they all have one thing in common: They are members of an Appropriations Committee."
Brian R

Fannie Mayhem: A History - WSJ.com - 0 views

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Fannie Mae Freddie Mac sub prime financial crises politics

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    List of articles covering fannie and freddie
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» (VIDEO) Chicagoans React To Recent SEIU-NPA Mob Actions - Big Government - 0 views

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politics SEIU Mob banker video

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    "We hit the streets of Chicago to gauge people's reaction to the recent street mob action style protests organized by long time Obama allies - National People's Action (NPA), SEIU and Heather Tobis Booth. Almost everyone we spoke with believes going to private home of a bank employee is deplorable. Almost everyone we spoke with thinks politicians shouldn't take money from or support groups that use mob tactics like this."
Brian R

» Head Start Scandal on Par With ACORN's Antics - Big Government - 0 views

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    "Two role-playing investigators with bogus documents and a hidden camera walked into Head Start centers across the country to expose fraud and corruption. They got more than they had bargained for, discovering a pattern of rule-bending fraud so shocking it prompted a briefing for President Obama. sub-head-start Is this the latest James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles sting operation? Nope. It was the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which used tactics remarkably similar to O'Keefe and Giles, sans the pimp and prostitute costumes. GAO's undercover investigation revealed a common practice among Head Start employees: the deliberate disregard - or even outright falsification - of income documentation to pad enrollment. "Now you see it, now you don't," said a Head Start employee in New Jersey who "disappeared" $23,000 worth of income for one applicant so that his fictitious child could be enrolled. GAO found Head Start programs were more than willing to help its investigators falsify applications at eight of the 15 centers it visited."
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Field Notes - Stay denied; U.S. says it's complying with moratorium ruling - 0 views

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Obama BP Oil energy moratorium oil spill

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  • The judge has rejected the Interior Department's argument. He's denied the Obama administration's request for a stay.
  • The Justice Department says in court papers that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has instructed all employees to not take any action to enforce the moratorium. It also says the department is sending letters to operators who received notices of suspension that those notices have no legal effect at this time. The government is seeking a delay in the ruling overturning the moratorium while it appeals the decision. The moratorium had halted approval of any new permits for deep water projects and suspended drilling on 33 exploratory wells.
  • The Justice Department says in court papers that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has instructed all employees to not take any action to enforce the moratorium. It also says the department is sending letters to operators who received notices of suspension that those notices have no legal effect at this time. The government is seeking a delay in the ruling overturning the moratorium while it appeals the decision. The moratorium had halted approval of any new permits for deep water projects and suspended drilling on 33 exploratory wells.
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  • The Justice Department says in court papers that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has instructed all employees to not take any action to enforce the moratorium. It also says the department is sending letters to operators who received notices of suspension that those notices have no legal effect at this time. The government is seeking a delay in the ruling overturning the moratorium while it appeals the decision. The moratorium had halted approval of any new permits for deep water projects and suspended drilling on 33 exploratory wells.
  • The Justice Department says in court papers that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has instructed all employees to not take any action to enforce the moratorium. It also says the department is sending letters to operators who received notices of suspension that those notices have no legal effect at this time. The government is seeking a delay in the ruling overturning the moratorium while it appeals the decision. The moratorium had halted approval of any new permits for deep water projects and suspended drilling on 33 exploratory wells.
Brian R

Judge lifts deep-water oil-drilling moratorium - Washington Times - 0 views

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judge oil energy policy Obama tyranny

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  • Republicans have turned to satire and the new media.Joseph WeberNewsOpinionSportsCultureBooksBlogsCommunitiesMultimediaNationalWorldPoliticsNational SecurityEconomyD.C. LocalInside the BeltwayInside the RingPruden on PoliticsEditorialsCommentaryLettersWater CoolerCartoonsDeckerKuhnerNugentMastioBlankleyFootballBaseballHockeyBasketballSoccerGolfTennisEntertainmentHome and LifestyleTechnologyWater CoolerTechnologyNewsmakersTwo Guys in a NewsroomCapitol Hill MinutePhoto GalleriesRadioHomeNewsPolitics Account Edit My ProfileEdit PasswordLogoutLog InE-Mail AlertsSubscribeClassifiedsE-EditionRSSJudge lifts deep-water oil-drilling moratoriumCriticizes government report as 'misleading'
  • A federal judge halted President Obama's deep-water oil-drilling moratorium on Tuesday, telling the government its justification for the ban was "rather overbearing" and misled the public in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.Judge Martin L.C. Feldman issued an injunction, describing the president's decision as rushed and ruling that the government had jumped to the conclusion that all deep-water drilling rigs are dangerous despite the lack of any evidence.The White House said it will immediately appeal, but in the meantime it is yet another setback as Mr. Obama seeks to show he has gained control of the environmental disaster in the region two months after the BP well first began gushing. Eleven workers were killed when the rig exploded on April 20.The moratorium has come under fire from lawmakers of both parties in the region, who said the halt could hurt the already struggling economy's chances of rebounding.
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Gen. Stanley McChrystal to see Obama today over critical remarks | LoHud.com | The Jour... - 0 views

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mcchrystal Obama afghanistan war on terror

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  • On a summons from Obama, McChrystal flew to Washington from Afghanistan to see his boss in person today, first in the Oval Office and then in the president's regular monthly war meeting, in which McChrystal usually participates by videoconference.Two military officials said McChrystal was prepared to submit his resignation. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.Obama is set to make an announcement on McChrystal's future soon after their face-to-face.RelatedAfghan leaders voice strong support for McChrystalFire McChrystal? A new test for ObamaThe Oval blog at USA Today: Latest on Obama, McChrystal"I
  • think it's clear that the article in which he and his team appeared ... showed poor judgment," Obama said Tuesday at the close of an unrelated Cabinet meeting. "But I also want to make sure that I talk to him directly before I make any final decisions."
  • Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed his confidence in McChrystal during a video conference Tuesday night with Obama, Karzai spokesman Waheed Omar said today in Kabul.
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  • a Rolling Stone magazine article, McChrystal didn't criticize Obama himself but called the period last fall when the president was deciding whether to approve more troops "painful" and said Obama appeared ready to hand him an "unsellable" position.
  • McChrystal also said he was "betrayed" by Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, the man the White House chose to be his diplomatic partner in Afghanistan. He accused Eikenberry of raising doubts about the reliability of Afghan President Hamid Karzai only to give himself cover in case the U.S. effort failed. "Now, if we fail, they can say 'I told you so,"' McChrystal told the magazine. And he was quoted mocking Vice President Joe Biden.
Brian R

» Anthony Weiner's AAA Rated Attack on Beck and Goldline: Amateur, Arrogant a... - 0 views

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politics free speech democrats Glenn Beck Anthony Weiner

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  • Brian R on 27 May 10
     
    "Anthony Weiner honed his political craft working for New York Senator Charles Schumer, and it shows in his recent attack on Glenn Beck and his sponsor Goldline. gold_bullion Weiner and his comrades' views are well reflected when he says in his Goldline Report: …during troubling economic times it seems there is always someone ready to take advantage of the situation and profit from people's fears. In the past there is always the "product" that is either the next big thing (the dot com boom) or the investment that will never go down in price (the housing market), and in the past much of the media has failed in its duty to conduct due diligence, but never before have they worked so hand in hand to cheat consumers. Commentators like Glenn Beck who are shilling for Goldline are either the worst financial advisors around or knowingly lying to their loyal viewers. Goldline's high pressure sales tactics and fear mongering about big government as well as their ability to hire sales staff and spokespeople who misrepresent their roles are case studies in why entities like the SEC and FTC are necessary."
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