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Crack-to-Powder Equitable Sentencing Act: A Victory for Justice?

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3 August, 2010 | TDX by Cyril Grossé On August 3, 2010, the Huffington Post reported the passing of H.R. 2178, the “Crack-Cocaine Equitable Sentencing Act of 2009.”  This act has been touted as being a meaningful measure towards addressing the historically racist laws concerning the criminal penalties for crack and powder cocaine possession.  However, [...]


Supremes Deliver a Narrow 5-4 Win to McDonald in a Victory for Gun Rights Nationwide

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29 June, 2010 Cyril Grossé | TDX In the wake of the landmark Heller v. District of Columbia decision which acknowledged  the right to keep and bear arms as an individual right, yesterday’s decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago reaffirmed and extended this right to apply to the states and local governments.  Before the [...]


Citing Terror, Lawmakers Crack Down on Prepaid Cells

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Citing Terror, Lawmakers Crack Down on Prepaid Cells NBC New York Alarmed by the use of hard-to-track prepaid cell phones by terror suspects, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and Texas Sen. John Cornyn have introduced legislation requiring consumers to produce identification before buying such phones. The bill has been praised by law enforcement and has [...]


FDA Defeated in Key Victory for the Health Freedom Movement

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2 June, 2010 Cyril Grossé | TDX A stunning decision was handed down by the District Court of D.C. on May 27 delivering a victory to the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) and to the Health Freedom movement at large. Although there were a total of four claims made by ANH that the FDA had [...]


Mainstream Media Now Covering Ex-lawyer Jailed 14 months after Exposing Corrupt Judges, but not charged with a crime

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30 May, 2010 Cyril Grossé | TDX In April of 2010 TDX reported on Richard Fine, who discovered that LA County Superior Court judges receive illegal payments (over $50,000 a year per judge) has been jailed for 14 months, with no charges, no trial, no sentence, and no conviction. Today the U.S. Supreme Court declined [...]


An Attack on Free Speech is an Attack on your Health

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FDA threatens walnut producers that if they claim that walnuts lower cholesterol (they do), then they will be considered as selling drugs. It is because of absurdities like this that the Natural Health Alliance is sponsoring a bill to allow producers of natural health products to advertise their proven benefits.


Feds: States growing gun-rights movement a threat

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Feds: States growing gun-rights movement a threat Attorneys argue laws ‘void’ because of impact on ‘interstate commerce’ Bob Unruh | 2010 WorldNetDaily The federal government is arguing in a gun-rights case pending in federal court in Montana that state plans to exempt in-state guns from various federal requirements themselves make the laws void, because the growing movement certainly [...]


U.S. Approval of Killing of Cleric Causes Unease

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U.S. Approval of Killing of Cleric Causes Unease Scott Shane | 13 May 2010 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay of the [...]


Udderly Ridiculous: Feds tell court they can decide what you eat

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Feds tell court they can decide what you eat. Bob Unruh | 2010 WordNetDaily Attorneys for the federal government have argued in a lawsuit pending in federal court in Iowa that individuals have no “fundamental right” to obtain what food they choose. The brief was filed April 26 in support of a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by [...]


Michelle Obama: Obama is Kenyan (video)

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A video has been posted online in which Michelle Obama, at a 2007 fundraiser, describes her husband as “Kenyan.” The statement from the now-first lady adds weight to another video revealed earlier in which she describe Kenya as Barack Obama’s “home country.”


Big Brother is Watching (video)

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Report: Congress makes too many vague laws

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Report: Congress makes too many vague laws Mark Sherman | Associated Press WASHINGTON – A conservative think tank and criminal defense lawyers are forming an unusual alliance to try to get Congress to quit writing criminal laws so loosely that they subject innocent people to unjust prosecution and prison. A new study by the Heritage Foundation and the National [...]


Policing for Profit: How Americans are Being Looted by Those Charged with Their Protection

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29 April, 2010 | TDX by Cyril Grossé For the past several decades Americans have been made subject to one of the most insidious, corrupt, malevolent laws you’ve likely never heard about.  It’s called Civil Asset Forfeiture and it can be used to divorce you of your property without ever being convicted of a crime. [...]


Arizona Sheriff Says He Won’t Enforce New ‘Racist’ Anti-Immigration Law

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Think Progress By Amanda Terkel, 28 April, 2010 Last night on Fox News, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin criticized opponents of Arizona’s draconian new anti-immigration legislation, SB-1070, for making it into a “racial issue” by “perpetuating this myth that racial profiling is a part of this law.” As usual, host Sean Hannity agreed with her, [...]


Video: Nancy Schaefer “The Unlimited Power of Child Protective Services”

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Dprogram.net Posted by sakerfa on April 28, 2010 Nancy Schaefer, former Georgia State Senator and President of Eagle Forum of Georgia and Eagle Forum’s National Chairman of Parents’ Rights, spoke at the World Congress of Families in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on the subject of “The Unlimited Power of Child Protective Services.” Nancy Schafer explained to [...]


Senate leader urges California to end state contracts with Arizona if Immigration Law is Enacted

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Senate leader urges California to end state contracts with Arizona The Sacramento Bee Published: Wednesday, Apr. 28, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 3ABy Susan Ferriss sferriss@sacbee.com California’s state Senate leader on Tuesday urged a possible end to state contracts with Arizona to protest that state’s new immigration law. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said Arizona’s law [...]


Judge Napolitano: Immigration law will “bankrupt the Republican Party”

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By Andrew McLemore|Raw Story Saturday, April 24th, 2010 — 8:51 pm After Fox News analysts spent most of Friday defending Arizona’s bill to target illegal immigrants, Judge Andrew Napolitano offered a different take on the controversial measure,Crooks and Liars reported. When asked about Gov. Jan Brewer, Napolitano said her signing of the bill into law will [...]


Papers Please: Arizona Legislature Enacts Draconian Immigration Bill

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Papers Please 24 April, 2010 | TDX Cyril Grossé Backed by an act of state legislature, Arizona State Governor Jan Brewer announced the implementation of the controversial new Bill (SB 1070), deceptively entitled the “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act” signed into law which not only enables, but requires officials and agencies of the state [...]


Ariz. governor signs immigration enforcement bill

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By PAUL DAVENPORT and JONATHAN J. COOPER The Associated Press Friday, April 23, 2010; 10:40 PM PHOENIX – Gov. Jan Brewer ignored criticism from President Barack Obama on Friday and signed into law a bill supporters said would take handcuffs off police in dealing with illegal immigration in Arizona, the nation’s busiest gateway for human and drug [...]


Judge Napolitano on How to Protect your Rights from Encroachment by Government

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Judge Napolitano on Freedom Watch TDX: Judge Napolitano discusses how government has  eroded away the rights of the individual citizen, as enumerated in the constitution. Judge Napolitano airs out government’s dirty little secret: the government does not feel compelled to follow its own laws. video below: Freedom Watch – Material Support (4/19/2010) Judge Napolitano discusses [...]


Illinois Mayor Expresses Doubts About Obama’s Citizenship (video)

Champaign, IL Mayor Schweighart expresses concern that Obama may not be an American Citizen and has ‘something to hide.’ Stating further, “if he doesn’t have something to hide, produce it,” referring to Obama’s original, vault copy birth certificate which he has refused to release for public scrutiny. Share on Facebook


Justice Clarence Thomas: We’re ‘evading’ eligibility

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Does testimony hint at division behind Supreme Court’s doors? Posted: April 17, 2010 4:13 pm Eastern By Drew Zahn © 2010 WorldNetDaily Justice Clarence Thomas U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told a House subcommittee that when it comes to determining whether a person born outside the 50 states can serve as U.S. president, the high court [...]


Officer Suspended, Others Could Be Fired in Brutality Case

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Full Story: Officer Suspended, Others Could Be Fired in Brutality Case|NewsChannel 8. COLLEGE PARK, Md. – One Prince George’s County police officer has been suspended and several others could be fired after a video surfaced showing a group of officers beating a University of Maryland student during a celebration when Maryland defeated Duke at the Comcast [...]


Epic Corruption in LA and the Falsely Imprisoned Whistle-blower Exposing it

Cassandra Anderson Infowars.com April 14, 2010 The U.S. Supreme Court will be holding a private conference hearing on Friday, April 23rd 2010, to determine whether to hold a full court hearing on corruption charges within the Los Angeles County government for illegally imprisoning attorney Richard Fine. A rally to acknowledge the U.S. Supreme Court hearing [...]