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The following articles by various authors are of significant interest. They cover many important topics including current events, historical documentation, commentaries, subjects in law, natural rights, and more. Take the time to educate yourself and form your own opinions. You will find it to be time well spent.

Police State Chronicles: No dancing allowed inside Jefferson Memorial!

WASHINGTON - May 24, 2011 - Martha Reeves may have beckoned us all to come dancing in the street, but don't take that revelry to Jefferson Memorial. The D.C. Circuit has upheld a lower court's decision that spontaneous dancing at the memorial is tantamount to a demonstration, and prohibited with out a permit.

The case stemmed from the April 2008 arrest of Mary Brooke Oberwetter, who

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Watchdog says 70,000 more should be evacuated from Fukushima!

PARIS, France - May 24, 2011 - Seventy thousand people living beyond the 12-mile no-go zone around Fukushima should be evacuated because of radioactivity deposited by the crippled nuclear plant, a watchdog said.

Updating its assessment of the March 11 disaster, France's Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) highlighted an area northwest of the plant that lie

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Advocacy group pushes back on government wiretapping!

WASHINGTON - May 23, 2011 - The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a Freedom of Information Act request, demanding that the Department of Justice explain why the government can access citizen phone records and other private information.

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) has been controversial since it was implemented in 1986. Since then, the wiretapping law's big

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Iran president says west is causing drought!

TEHERAN, Iran - May 21, 2011 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week accused western countries of devising plans to "cause drought" in the Islamic republic, as he inaugurated a dam in a central province.

"Western countries have designed plans to cause drought in certain areas of the world, including Iran," the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in the ce

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Real life superhero defends wrongfully accused mother!

AUSTIN, Texas - May 9, 2011 - Zimmer, subject of this year's smash hit documentary, “Superheroes”, is active aiding in trauma emergencies as an EMT, doing homeless outreach and even fighting violent crime. When he learned his mother, attorney Carolyn Barnes, was in jail, he traveled from New York to Texas to defend her.

“She's being accused of shooting at a census worker,” sa

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How old is grandma?

One evening a grandson was talking to his grandmother about current events. The grandson asked his grandmother what she thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and things in general.

The grandma replied, "Well, let me think a minute. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill. There were no radar

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Police State Chronicles: Talking back to a cop can cost you your job!

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado - May 10, 2011 - Speaking your mind to a police officer during a traffic stop is not free speech, according to the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel ruled last Thursday that Colorado Springs Police Officer Duaine Peters did nothing wrong in having Miriam Leverington fired from her job as a nurse at Memorial Health System for talking back after h