Truthdig
by Juan Cole
04/20/11
Among the many elements of the Obama administration that have disappointed civil libertarians is its interest in spying on Americans...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/starship_america_20110419/
Keep debt limit and cut spending
Freedom Politics
by Thomas J. Lucente Jr.
04/24/11
Now that the 2011 federal budget battle is behind us, there looms battles over the debt limit and the 2012 budget. The first fight will be the debt limit, currently at $14.29 trillion. The United States will hit that limit no later than May 6 and possibly as early as this week. With accounting tricks, the nation can go another two months before finally running out of money somewhere around the Fourth of July. How apropos...
http://tinyurl.com/3wcsg5a
Budget-cutting resistance
Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman
04/22/11
So here s the problem: While polls show that people want the government s budget deficit and the national debt reduced, they don t want the biggest spending items cut. Some numbers: In the latest ABC-Washington Post poll (April 17), 59 percent said that the deficit should reduced through a combination of unspecified spending cuts and tax increases...
http://tinyurl.com/3z78fcb
The Oath Keepers dilemma, government betrayal
Liberty For All
by David P. Shirk
04/23/11
First thing I would like to point out is that when such a large group of veterans sees a coming event, and chooses to stake their reputation on its inevitability, rest assured, it will happen. The wording is very plain - economic collapse. Not depression, not recession, but collapse. This does not mean a slowdown of the economy, or even a hard-hitting decline -- it means that it will cease to be as we know it; period, end of story...
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5829
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fourth+of+July
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=budget
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=deficit
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=spending
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=economic+collapse
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=spying
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Juan+Cole
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Thomas+J.+Lucente
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+P.+Shirk
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