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World famous psychic Sylvia Browne is dead at the age of 77, according to her website. Browne, who made appearances on programs like "Larry King Live" and "Unsolved Mysteries," died Wednesday morning in San Jose, California, the site reported. Her son, Chris, confirmed her death to TMZ, saying she passed away while surrounded by family and friends. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/psychic-sylvia-browne-dead-77-reports-article-1.1524107#ixzz2lFGsj590

“He’s just as a beholden to the people who put him in office as any of the Republicans would be. But what’s a mystery to me is how he installed pretty much the exact same infrastructure in his administration that deals with finances as the administration that we thought we voted out.”  Jackson Browne

John McCain fights back vs. Jackson Browne Senator seeks damages, claims singer's lawsuit chilled free speech By Eriq Gardner Hollywood Reporter updated 8:10 a.m. CT, Thurs., Nov. 20, 2008 LOS ANGELES - John McCain may have lost the presidential election to Barack Obama, but his campaign seems absolutely determined not to lose to Jackson Browne. The singer/songwriter sued McCain in August after the Republican candidate for the highest office in the land used his song, “Running on Empty,” in a campaign commercial that targeted Obama’s energy plan. At the time, many didn’t take the legal threat very seriously, but based...

Browne admits 'we underestimated Taliban' By Toby Helm, Chief Political Correspondent (Filed: 19/09/2006) Britain and Nato seriously underestimated the resilience of the Taliban when sending troops into Afghanistan, Des Browne, the Defence Secretary has admitted. British troops are facing a hard fight in Afghanistan Addressing the Royal United Services Institute in London, he said the task had proved “harder than we expected”. But he urged Nato countries who are now resisting sending extra troops to think again. The Taliban’s tenacity in the face of massive losses has been more than we expected,” Mr Browne said. Referring to Nato’s attempts to...

It came as a jolt to learn that Harry Browne -- scholar, gentleman, apostle of freedom, and two-time Libertarian Party candidate for president -- had died on March 1 of Lou Gehrig’s disease. It came as an even greater jolt to discover that his last published words were apparently a criticism of . . . me. The final post on “Harry Browne’s Journal,” his online blog at HarryBrowne.org, was dated Dec. 19, 2005, and titled, wearily, “To this we’ve come.” It was about a column of mine arguing that Supreme Court nominees should be compelled to give substantive answers to...

-snip- Browne's vision of minimal government allowed for no state role in environmental protection, health and safety regulations, or building and maintaining highways. His platform included immediate repeal of the federal income tax and dismantling of Social Security. -snip-

Most Americans know where Republicans and Democrats stand on the war in Iraq, but few have heard views on the war expressed by the plethora of other, smaller political parties. Accepted as the nation's third-largest organized political party, the Libertarian Party generally advocates a military policy of non-interventionism unless such intervention is directly tied to American security. "Any U.S. military policy should have the objective of providing security for the lives, liberty and property of the American people in the U.S. against the risk of attack by a foreign power. This objective should be achieved as inexpensively as possible and...

Harry Browne blasts campaign laws at CFI conference in Washington, DC (February 12) American campaign finance laws are not just hypocritical -- they're "designed to assure the re-election of incumbents." That was the message that Harry Browne delivered at a conference entitled "Task Force on Financing Presidential Nominations," hosted by the Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on January 31. Browne, the LP's 1996 and 2000 presidential candidate, appeared on a "Third Party Perspectives" panel with Theresea Amato of the Green Party and Kingsley Brooks of the Natural Law Party. During his remarks, Browne...

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