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Archive for the month “July, 2013”

Obamacare Postponed

President Obama has waved a white flag and announced a delay in implementing Obamacare. Pundit Dick Morris says the delay is timed until after the 2014 election so Democrats can sidestep the wrath of voters from a massive and misguided piece of legislation that’s certain to spawn political mayhem.

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Loch Ness Monster A Ripple?

A geologist says mysterious effects on the water’s surface can be attributed to seismic activity from the fault running below Loch Ness.

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Who’s Watching You?

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan) and Judge Andrew Napolitano attempt to school John Stossel on the danger of a government surveillance state.

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Spain’s Grisly Crime Reporting

It was just the next morning after the murder of volleyball star Ingrid Visser when the local Spanish newspaper La Verdad was able to publish an extremely detailed report about the find. So just where did this information come from? “That’s a million euro question that I will never answer”, retorts crime reporter Ricardo Fernandez. The Spanish press and police have a notoriously close relationship. The lawyer of the main suspect claims that his client has already been convicted in the court of public opinion, and that a fair trial is now impossible. In Holland relatives of Visser have been horrified by the intimate revelations about the case. Yet Fernandez remains defiant: “I have to protect my interests. And my interests are to inform society.”

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Got Breast Milk?

Clueless star Alicia Silverstone, a vegan, is on a new mission to launch a breast-milk sharing program that looks to help women who are unable to produce enough breast milk on their own.H/T Next Media Animation

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The Most Dedicated Mailman

OK, so the carriers with the US Mail, Fed Ex, UPS and other mail services have got the Fourth of July holiday off. Still, we all know what separates a decent, hardworking mailman from a mediocre one. In this short, written by Jeff Wysaski and animated by Sarah Johnson, a mailman has an extremely difficult route, but that doesn’t stop him from getting daily mail into the hands of such movie characters as Indiana Jones, Harry Potter and Iron Man.

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Morsi “Didn’t Play Fairly”

Channel 4’s Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Saif Kisham, a doctor and activist about the day’s events in Egypt. Kisham said Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi “didn’t play fairly” after his election, overturning the country’s courts and laws, and threatening the future of free elections, by excluding Egyptians who didn’t belong to the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Meanwhile, a panel assembled by the Wall Street Journal, including  Nancy Messieh of the Atlantic Council, WSJ Middle East bureau chief Bill Spindle and Simon Constable discuss the ouster of Morsi by the military and what comes next for the country and the Middle East.

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Restore the Fourth

Restore the Fourth is a day of protest on July 4th calling for the protection of the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment. Visit Restore the Fourth’s website at http://www.restorethefourth.net/ to locate a protest near you. The movement started on Reddit and spread via 4Chan and Mozilla. Restore the Fourth will show that Americans won’t tolerate unaccountable government agencies violating their privacy. NSA, are you listening in?

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Where Is the True North Pole?

Is it in the Arctic Ocean? In Canada? Russia? MinutePhysics circles in on the answers.

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Dependence Day

Bill Whittle thinks that the Freedom of Speech is in peril, and so is the Freedom of Religion. Hear why on this Afterburner as Whittle reminds you of the importance of our most important civil liberties, and how each is threatened by the expanding welfare state. H/T PJTV

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