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Obama closely linked with ethanol

When VeraSun Energy inaugurated a new ethanol processing plant last summer in Charles City, Iowa, some of that industry’s most prominent boosters showed up — and so did Senator Barack Obama.
When are we going to start hearing about Obama’s ties to “Big Ethanol?”  If it’s [...]

‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy
In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument. When asked about government surveillance and data mining, many people respond by declaring: “I’ve got nothing to hide.
I’ve always thought this was one [...]

All the media is concentrating on the battle between Barack and Hillary. Obama is campaigning on a platform of “Change” but I don’t see any change coming from Clinton, Obama or McCain. All three of them will give us more of the same — more Big Brother intervention in our daily lives, more [...]

Can someone like myself, a man with libertarian leanings, support John McCain? I think I agree with him on many social issues, but don’t agree with him on others. I want John to pledge to preserve the Bush tax cuts and make even more tax cuts. I want to support a candidate who [...]

I knew there was a reason I liked Fred. I’ve always said the government should be able to function on a 10% tax. If God can run his Kingdom on a 10% tithe, then the government should be able to get along with less. Government is not god.

clipped from www.gopusa.com

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McCain Goes Nuts Near Senate Floor

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, launched into a shouting match during a Thursday Capitol Hill meeting, where reportedly the presidential candidate dropped the “F” word and more.
According to reports in the Washington Post and the New York Post, Cornyn apparently got the former POW’s attention when [...]