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While most of America’s political attention was enthralled with President Donald Trump’s scornful rebuke of former BFF Steve Bannon, House Republican leaders dropped a pretty heavy bomb in the war on freedom with the scheduling of a hearing and possible vote on a new FISA bill. The House Rules Committee is going to meet this week on the new FISA rules, which were slipped into a bill it has absolutely nothing to do with. It’s pretty smart of House leadership to sneak the announcement out on a late Friday afternoon, but mass surveillance watchdogs still raised awareness on what was...

The last three days could not illustrate better just how far American politics have fallen as of late, and what it will take to resuscitate it and the nation from the coma into which President Obama has put it. Start with tonight’s Republican Debate. One could call them the Seven Dwarfs, so little do they look while they obediently jump through the ridiculous hoops presented to the by the biased media that effectively works for Obama. And even when they have glimmer of understanding how obviously they’re being manipulated, as Newt Gingrich did when he criticized moderator Brian Williams of...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three quarters of Americans can correctly identify two of Show White's seven dwarfs while only a quarter can name two Supreme Court Justices, according to a poll on pop culture released on Monday. According to the poll by Zogby International, commissioned by the makers of a new game show on pop culture called "Gold Rush," 57 percent of Americans could identify J.K. Rowling's fictional boy wizard as Harry Potter, while only 50 percent could name the British prime minister, Tony Blair. The pollsters spoke to 1,213 people across the United States. The results had a margin...

NOTE:  This is a reprint of the original thread at http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a32d5b11183.htm, which is now locked, at least temporarly.---SUNSET THE SUPREMES IN THE SUNSHINE STATE!! News/Current Events Announcement Keywords: JACKPEACE, FL-SC Source: Jack Thompson Published: 12-09-2000 Author: Jack Thompson Posted on 12/09/2000 17:00:33 PST by gonzo [From Miami Attorney Jack Thompson, 305-666-4366, 12/09/00] The performance of the Florida Supreme Court in the past month, the low point of which was yesterday's 4-3 vote that ushered in a national constitutional crisis, underscores the need to make the seven Florida Justices accountable to the people. Under the Florida Constitution, Supreme Court Justices are nominated...

They say that, in the ancient days of the dawn of man, we lived in caves and beneath the earth, sheltered ourselves in hidden canyons and caverns of rock. Then, about 1848, gold was discovered. It was not the first time. This time, it was the new frontier of America. Beaver pelts are nice, and the French were hunting pelts up North. But in those days, on the way to the beaver dams, there was gold in the rivers, streams and creeks nearby, and in the mountains, and in the deserts, and gold was, well, just laying on the ground...