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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.

Crime of torture could only have been ordered by the president!

January 3, 2008 - It was announced on Wednesday that the Justice Department has opened an official criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA torture tapes. However, rather than appointing an outside special council, Attorney General Mukasey has assigned an assistant U.S. Attorney from Connecticut to handle the proceedings.

At the same time, the chairman and co-chair of th

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National Health Service patients told to treat themselves!

LONDON - January 2, 2008 - Millions of people with arthritis, asthma and even heart failure will be urged to treat themselves as part of a Government plan to save billions of pounds from the NHS (National Health Service) budget.

Instead of going to hospital or consulting a doctor, patients will be encouraged to carry out "self care" as the Department of Health (DoH) t

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Airplane owners stunned by out-of-state taxes!

PORTLAND, Maine - December 30, 2007 - When Steve Kahn got a $26,000 tax bill on his airplane, he thought Maine Revenue Services had made a mistake. Kahn lives, works, and keeps his plane in Massachusetts.

But the bill was no error. It was part of the agency's efforts to collect taxes on aircraft owned by out-of-state residents, even though they bought their planes elsewhere an

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Weird news stories from 2007!

December 30, 2007 - From a Greek nunnery turned into a marijuana farm by two men posing as gardeners to a South African man with a gunshot wound told by a doctor to "walk the pain off," the world was full of weird news in 2007.

A Moscow woman set fire to her ex-husband's penis as he sat naked watching television and drinking vodka. The couple divorced three y

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Congress empowers thought police!

December 27, 2007 - The Pope had his Index of Forbidden Books. Japan had its Thought Police against subversive or dangerous ideologies. And the United States Congress and President Bush have learned nothing from those examples.

Congress is perched to enact the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 20007 (Act)," probably the greatest assault on