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Mexico's drug war: No sign of 'light at the end of the tunnel'
Mon May 14, 2012
- The real drug problem is not Mexico, but the USA. This is where the market exists. The only way to stop the killings is to legalize and control the sale of drugs within the US. We have spent over a TRILLION Dollars on the war on drugs and have lost nearly every battle.
Catholic priest in Australia: I've been secretly married for a year
Wed May 2, 2012
- The Irish Catholic priests and bishops, prior to the English invasion of Henry II, married and had children. When the Bishop died his eldest son would take over. However the Vatican was not happy as they had no control over the church and all monies collected stayed within Ireland.
Former TSA chief: Airport security in America is 'broken'
Tue Apr 24, 2012
- With 3,000,000 air miles and having lived and flown in/out of Northern Ireland on a weekly basis during the turbulent 80's I agree with Mr. Hawley's commentary.
Can an illegal immigrant become a lawyer?
Tue Apr 24, 2012
- Have any of you been to New York City and looked into the harbor at the statue that resides there.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker helps save neighbor from fire: 'I felt terror'
Fri Apr 13, 2012
- Even though I live in Northern Connecticut I follow Cory on Twitter. The reason is that he represents all that is good with this country. He works hard for his fellow man and asks no reward. If all or most of our politicians were like him, this country and the world would be a better place.
Supreme Court: Strip searches in jail OK even for minor offenses
Mon Apr 2, 2012
- The Supreme Court has the responsibility to uphold the Constitution. I wonder if they have ever read it. There voting goes along party lines only. With a 5 to 4 Conservative majority we are seeing our rights being dissolved before our eyes.
Feds: Megaupload user data could be gone Thursday
Mon Jan 30, 2012
- We all pirate copyrighted material. Have you downloaded a friends CD; have you ever copied a page out of a book; do you copy music off a friend's MP3 player; do you let friends watch a movie that you purchased and they didn't. All of these are construed as piracy.
'Come for coffee, don't forget the cocaine,' Dotcom joked
Wed Jan 25, 2012
- If you look at the business model that Dotcom put together for Megaupload you will find that there really wasn't any form of piracy. Uploaders took their videos and stored them on Megauploads servers. Through third parties, others could download those videos. There was no fee for the service.
Feds shut down popular file-sharing website Megaupload
Fri Jan 20, 2012
- The Internet is an open forum where any information can be transmitted to any individual. It is not the place of governments to say what can and cannot be uploaded or downloaded. The Internet is no place for censorship.
Why we hate taxes (it's not what you think)
Tue Dec 20, 2011
- Of the 72,526 pages of the US tax code, I would guess that only 26 have relevance to the 99%. The remainder have been incorporated through the process of political contributions and lobbyists. It makes our taxes overly complicated and favors the wealthy, corporations and financial institutions.

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Mexico's drug war: No sign of 'light at the end of the tunnel'
Mexico is struggling to contain a drugs war that has claimed more than 50,000 lives in less than six years. Msnbc.com's F. Brinley Bruton spoke to NBC News contributor Jorge Castañeda, who is a former Mexican foreign minister and a New York University …
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Catholic priest in Australia: I've been secretly married for a year
A Catholic priest in Australia has publicly admitted that he has been married for a year and claimed "there are more like me." "So I've fallen in love and I've got married and it's outside of most people's awareness, but I'm sure people within the church could have had a suspici …
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Former TSA chief: Airport security in America is 'broken'
As head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from 2005 to 2009, Kip Hawley was the public face of an agency despised by millions of Americans. Today, he says that hatred is understandable because the agency’s approach to airport security is “broken,&rd …
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Can an illegal immigrant become a lawyer?
Jose Manuel Godinez-Samperio was brought to the United States from Mexico by his parents when he was nine years old. Sixteen years later, he had graduated from his Florida high school as class valedictorian, become an Eagle Scout, completed college and law school, and pas …
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker helps save neighbor from fire: 'I felt terror'
Updated at 11:35 a.m. ET Friday: Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker suffered second-degree burns and smoke inhalation as he helped rescue one of his next-door neighbors from a burning building Thursday.
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