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82 Pirate Sites Shut Down, But WikiLeaks Walks?
PCWorld reports "Courts Shut Down 82 Sites for Alleged Copyright Violations." Meanwhile, "Foreign Terrorist Orga Video: 
Beck Expects Terror From "the Left," Ignoring Recent History
Just as George "PNAC" Bush needed 9/11 to justify hegemony from "the Right," Barack "ZBig" Obama  needs a new catalyzing event to justify he
Bill Gates, and Why He Still Worries Me
In 2000 when I met Bill Gates as a consultant in Silicon Valley I wondered if underneath his placid demeanor might skulk a deep angst over what he and Bill Joy both knew Tech's brave new world was unleashing on the world Video: 
The Question Neither Pro Life or Pro Choice Dares to Ask
The Right talks about abortion, the Left about freedom of choice; but the pivotal issue is neither a surgical procedure or a choice. It's something more basic.
Arizona Decides
FreedomFriends July 2010by Rob Argento
Sex, Spies, and Video Hype
By Rob Argento July 5, 2010 Video: 
Does America Still Dream?
by Rob Argento A recent poll of over one thousand adults by Xavier University asked: "Is it harder to reach the American Dream than it was for your parents?" The results might surprise some:Harder   60%Easier   33%About the Same 6% Even though the poll did not define what the American Dream is it is still disappointing that so many find the Dream harder to achieve today than a generation ago. Video: 
"Up In The Air": The Downside of Downsizing
by Rob Argento In  the recent film "Up In The Air" actor George Clooney stars as a corporate hatchet man, a sort of hit man for-hire who specializes in downsizing a company's head count by slickly and detachedly playing out the same script, over and over again. Ryan Bingham, Clooney's character, has it all down to a fine art. Perhaps too much so for his own good. Video: 
Peter Schiff: "We are creating a class of permanently unemployed Americans"
by Rob Argento In the clip below Peter Schiff comments on extending unemployment benefits for up to 99 weeks. Says Peter, "That's creating more inflation, because the money that pays the unemployment benefits has to be printed, because we don't have it, we're running a huge deficit. Meanwhile the more money we give people to remain unemployed the longer they're going to stay unemployed. The more attractive we make it for people not to work the less likely it will be that they will go out and work." Video: 
A Revolt Against "the Wealth Fraternity" ... By the Super-Rich!
The rich pay most of the taxes to keep the poor safe, well-fed and educated, right? Every good Republican knows that. But wait...
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