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Rahm’s Chicago: $1 Billion Financial Shortfall Forecast by 2015

"Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel released the city’s second Annual Financial Forecast on Wednesday. Not only does the report predict a $369 million financial shortfall for the city's operating 'budget' in 2014, but it also predicts a shortfall of more than $1 billion by the year 2015. On Thursday, Breitbart News reported the city’s payroll is more than $2.4 billion, with over 2400 city employees (not including school employees) making over $100,000 a year. The payroll is by far the highest expense for the city, yet in the Financial Forecast report, it is expected to increase by $100 million in 2014." Continue reading →

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Bootleggers and Baptists on the Beach

"Last year, two young college graduates had a great business idea that has become a huge success in the beach town of Delray Beach, Florida. Observing the ordeal of vacationers lugging beach chairs and other heavy beach equipment for the long, hot walk to the beach, they introduced a free golf cart shuttle service called 'The Downtowner.' The Downtowner is always fully booked and for good reason; the young drivers are prompt, exceptionally polite and courteous, and it’s free! Not surprisingly, the city government of Delray Beach is apparently doing everything it can to drive The Downtowner out of business." Continue reading →

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Mayhem in LA! Cars Must Be Banned!

"There was mass carnage yesterday on the Venice Beach boardwalk near LA when a man used his high-powered automobile to run over 12 people – killing one of them and sending the remainder to the hospital. The black car – a menacing color typically favored by the military – was used by a young man in his 20s – probably a loner. He may have bought the car without a background check, since these are not mandatory in California. Anyone can just go out and buy a car 'under the table' – from an unlicensed seller. There are no laws requiring that high-powered cars be kept securely stored, with their ignitions disabled or locked." Continue reading →

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Obama administration task force wants to make unauthorized streaming a felony

"The U.S. Department of Commerce wants to crack down on the unauthorized streaming of video and audio content by reviving a provision of the Stop Online Piracy Act. In a report released last week, the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force called for the unauthorized streaming of copyrighted works to become a felony. 'While the willfully infringing reproduction and distribution of copyrighted works can be punished as a felony, willful violations of the public performance right are punishable only as misdemeanors,' the report stated. 'This discrepancy is an increasingly significant impediment,' the report continued." Continue reading →

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What is an American? Forget the state and just be a child of the nation

"The act of renouncing U.S. citizenship should not 'diminish your personal identity'. If you want to think of yourself as an American that’s fine. Nobody can take that away from you. This is important. Why? Because the Obama 'Witch Hunt' against U.S. citizens abroad has forced people to reevaluate many of their fundamental assumptions. Few Americans abroad still view the United States as 'that great citadel of freedom and justice'. Few Americans abroad see themselves as 'tax cheats' because they have offshore accounts." Continue reading →

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Indiana Appeals Court: Motorist Search Over Expired Tag Disallowed

"A motorist's bag cannot be searched because his car has an expired tag, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled last week. A divided three-judge panel overturned the conviction of Adam Miller, who was pulled over on January 9, 2011 for having an expired sticker on his license plate." Continue reading →

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Appeals court reverses course and says poker is gambling, not game of skill

"Poker may be a game of skill, but that does not protect a man who hosted games of 'Texas Hold ‘Em' from being prosecuted under an anti-gambling law, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York reversed a decision last year that said Lawrence DiCristina could not be prosecuted because 'Texas Hold ‘Em' was a game of skill rather than chance. DiCristina was convicted under the law for running games of 'Texas Hold ‘Em' at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, which he publicized by text message and word of mouth. DiCristina faces 10 years in prison." Continue reading →

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Fmr. NSA chief: Snowden defenders ‘20-somethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex’

"'If and when our government grabs Edward Snowden, and brings him back here to the United States for trial, what does this group do?' said retired air force general Michael Hayden, who from 1999 to 2009 ran the NSA and then the CIA, referring to 'nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex in five or six years'. 'I’m just trying to illustrate that you’ve got a group of people out there who make demands, whose demands may not be satisfiable, may not be rational, from other points of view, may not be the kinds of things that government can accommodate,' Hayden said." Continue reading →

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Kristin Davis, Libertarian Candidate for NYC Comptroller, Arrested By FBI On Drug Charges

"A cooperating witness (the 'CW') was arrested in or about December 2012, and has pled guilty in this district to narcotics conspiracy and distribution offenses. The CW is cooperating with the FBI and the Government in the hope of obtaining leniency with respect to sentencing in the CW’s case. From in or about 2009, up to and including in or about Fall 2011, KRISTIN DAVIS, the defendant, purchased controlled substances, including ecstasy pills, Adderall pills, and Xanax pills, from the CW. DAVIS told the CW that she purchased ecstasy and Adderall pills at least in part to provide them to others at house parties." Continue reading →

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