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	<description>Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time.</description>
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		<title>ACTION ALERT: Tell Gov. Perry to Give Hank Skinner 30 More Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With less than five days until the scheduled execution of Hank Skinner, a DNA testing laboratory in Phoenix, AZ has offered to test evidence that Skinner’s attorneys say will prove his innocence. Chromosomal Laboratories has told Texas Gov. Rick Perry that they will run the tests for free if Perry agrees to grant Skinner a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/19/action-alert-tell-gov-perry-to-give-hank-skinner-30-more-days/</link>
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		<title>Quote Of The Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the LA Times, a story about the LA City Council.  Electronic auto-voting allows council members to avoid actually attending council meetings, much to the chagrin of voters:
Still, their physical absence frequently infuriates members of the public who show up to testify only to find themselves addressing one or more empty chairs.
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&#8220;We go there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/19/quote-of-the-day-135/</link>
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		<title>The CBO Health Care Numbers Are Phony And Meaningless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the Democrats in Congress will try to spin it otherwise, the  truth about the CBO numbers released today can be found on the  first page of CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf’s letter to Speaker  Pelosi:

Although CBO completed a preliminary review of  legislative language  prior to its release, the agency has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/18/the-cbo-health-care-numbers-are-phony-and-meaningless/</link>
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		<title>Quote Of The Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
&#8211; Thomas Jefferson
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		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/18/quote-of-the-day-134/</link>
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		<title>Liberty Papers Bracket Challenge 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March Madness has arrived.  For the first time, I&#8217;ve decided to throw together a Liberty Papers Bracket Challenge.  Hosted at CBS Sports (p/w &#8220;thomaspaine&#8221;), feel free to sign up.  Hurry, of course, as the games start Thursday morning.
Scoring rules are somewhat standard, but with a kick on the first two rounds.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/15/liberty-papers-bracket-challenge-2010/</link>
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		<title>How To Shrink The Size Of Government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s very simple&#8230;  Just require federal employees to follow the law, and they&#8217;ll make themselves ineligible for service:
`SUBCHAPTER VIII&#8211;INELIGIBILITY OF PERSONS HAVING SERIOUSLY DELINQUENT TAX DEBTS FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT
`Sec. 7381. Ineligibility of persons having seriously delinquent tax debts for Federal employment
      `(a) Definition- For purposes of this section&#8211;
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		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/13/how-to-shrink-the-size-of-government/</link>
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		<title>Former Texas Prosecutor and Judge Both Believe the State Has Executed More Than One Innocent Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hank Skinner is scheduled to be executed by the State of Texas on March 24th. Despite more than a decade of requests to have his DNA tested, Texas courts have denied him every step of the way. The Medill Innocence Project has even offered to pay for the testing to no avail. Skinner’s attorneys have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/11/former-texas-prosecutor-and-judge-both-believe-the-state-has-executed-more-than-one-innocent-man/</link>
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		<title>Quote Of The Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Economist Donald Marron:
I often tell my students that, in my humble opinion, one purpose of government is to help people be happy. The DC government did a good job on Wednesday.
I disagree with that on so many levels.  The government&#8217;s job is to secure people&#8217;s rights, and as Thomas Jefferson so eloquently said, one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/10/quote-of-the-day-133/</link>
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		<title>And How&#8217;d That Work Out For Them?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ezra Klein, on Congressional bending of the rules*:
Here are some things that happened on the night the GOP pushed the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit through the House of Representatives:
A 15-minute vote was scheduled, and at the end of 15 minutes, the Democrats had won. The Republican leadership froze the clock for three hours while they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/09/and-howd-that-work-out-for-them/</link>
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		<title>The Four Scariest Words Of Markets: &#8220;It&#8217;s Different This Time&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Economist Free Exchange blog points me to Steve Waldman and an interesting question:
Suppose the good guys win. Better yet, suppose they had never lost. Suppose banks had never ventured beyond conservatively prudent lending; that there had been no housing, internet, or credit bubble. Forlorn cul-de-sacs surrounded by mouldering homes were never cut from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/09/the-four-scariest-words-of-markets-its-different-this-time/</link>
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		<title>The Government Paid Me $10 To Tell Them How Awesome My Job Is</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the receptionist at the office started* walking around handing out envelopes &#8212; envelopes larger than a paycheck &#8212; which is sometimes not a good sign.  But lo and behold, opening the envelope revealed a nice crisp, clean $10 bill courtesy of [a proxy for] the government!

This is an employment survey designed to assess [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/08/the-government-paid-me-10-to-tell-them-how-awesome-my-job-is/</link>
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		<title>Time To Buy Prostheses For My Junk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to think that&#8217;s the only acceptable reaction to this:
The Transportation Security Administration is spreading airport body-scanner technology across the country. 
A TSA official said Friday that units will be fielded next week in Chicago, and in the coming months at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; San Jose, Calif.; Columbus, Ohio; San Diego; Charlotte, N.C.; Cincinnati; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/08/time-to-buy-prostheses-for-my-junk/</link>
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		<title>Happy Friday</title>
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Yep.  Modern life has made surrealism obsolete.
Hat Tip: EDSBS
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		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/05/happy-friday/</link>
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		<title>Quote Of The Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The state of Washington is currently in process on a bill that will impound any car for 12 hours where the driver is arrested on suspicion of DUI.  This will be automatic &#8212; whether the car is owned by an innocent third party, or whether someone else in the vehicle can legally drive does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/05/quote-of-the-day-132/</link>
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		<title>Liz Cheney, Bill Kristol, And The Shameful NeoCon Attack On America&#8217;s Legal System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest controversy of the day among many on the right, led principally by Liz Cheney and William Kristol, involves attacking Justice Department lawyers who represented alleged members of al Qaeda or the Taliban detained at Guantanmo Bay.
As Kristol puts it:
[L]awyers now at the DOJ worked on the  historic Boumediene case. That case established [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2010/03/05/liz-cheney-bill-kristol-and-the-shameful-neocon-attack-on-americas-legal-system/</link>
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