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Border Patrol Agent Arrested For Smuggling Illegal Aliens Into The United States

digitaljournal.com:
Since 2005, Border Patrol agent Jesus Huizar has headed the illegal alien smuggling ring of over 100 illegals into the United States. In May of 2008, he was arrested for his alleged role in the crime but it does create some issues of trust.  
More proof that positions of power attack those that are willing to abuse [...]

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Streaming Killed the Video Store

The Onion is just absolutely hilarious:

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US Supreme Court Kills Fourth Amendment

digitaljournal.com:
The lawyers representing David Lee Moore, a Portsmouth, Virginia resident who was arrested five years ago and charged with the possession of cocaine, knew that text well and thought it would help Moore become a free man.
On that night Moore was stopped by Portsmouth officers for driving with a suspended license. Under Virginia law, he [...]

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Big Government and the Oil Crisis

Today I wrote a very interesting Op-Ed piece for the website digitaljournal.com exploring government subsidies in oil and ethanol along with other reasons why gas prices are so high. You can read it here.
An excerpt:
Gas prices in the United States are clearly on the rise and both short-term and long-term solutions need to be figured [...]

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Third Grade Boy Suspended For Sniffing Non-Toxic Sharpie

In what seems to be another case of the “Zero Tolerance” policy going to far, an 8-year-old boy has been suspended for sniffing a Sharpie.
Ethan Harris was originally suspended from a Colorado elementary school for three days for his participation in an incident that involved the sniffing of a Sharpie. The principal of said school [...]

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Firefly Revived as Comic Book Series

 Digitaljournal.com:
The series, officially titled Serenity: Better Days, takes place after the TV series Firefly and prior to the movie Serenity. There will be a total of three issues and the first is already in publication.

Since Better Days takes place before Serenity, the whole crew is present, even those who are destined for death in the [...]

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I Want Indentured Servants

I belong to that ubiquitous group of people that pay their taxes. I am, as it were, a taxpayer. And, not altogether incidentally, I am an indentured servant. I am forced, by my masters, to fill out paperwork and they do not pay me for this task. Rather, they force me [...]

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