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How Using Eminent Domain to Seize Land for a Border Wall Harms American Property Owners

Your property rights are gone. Also National Butterfly Center Founder: Trump’s Border Wall Prep ‘Trampling on Private Property Rights’

How you can be tracked even with your GPS turned off

Why wouldn't you want to be tracked, Citizen? Are you doing something wrong?

Feds moving quickly to cash in on seized bitcoin, now worth $8.4 million

Seized from a "suspected" Dark Web dealer. Not convicted, but "suspected"

Federal Labor Board Reverses Bad Decision that Made Corporations Responsible for Franchise Decisions

If it's the franchisee that cut's the employee's paycheck, then the franchiser has no responsibility. This was a cash grab pure and simple.

Harlem Shook: Google Is Using Its Immense Power To Censor Content That Doesn’t Fit Its Political Goals. Everyone In America Should Be Concerned About That

For all the talk about net neutrality, it's the service providers who are the real censors. Why is Google filtering results? Why is Facebook manipulating your feed and tracking down everyone you may have talked to since the sixth grade? Why is Twitter monitoring the non-Twitter online activity of it's verified members? If you are not paying for a product, you are the product.

Don’t Blame Big Cable. It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition

And oldie but still accurate

The Warlock Hunt

#MeToo will destroy everyone, women and men. That's what happens when you raise table stakes.

Big Brother Installing Surveillance Cameras in Places of Worship

Two simple questions. Will surveillance cameras make parishioners safer? How long until an Authority Figure™ decides to monitor the cameras to make sure the worshipers are doing things "correctly?"

Bitcoin futures are about to get another big boost

“TD Ameritrade, the largest futures operation of any online brokerage, is going to allow bitcoin futures trading on its platform starting Monday.” The Federal Reserve is about to get competition.

Residents Outraged as DHS Spraying Town With Chemicals—Using Them as Human Guinea Pigs

Did anyone bother asking the residents what they thought?

Is climate change REALLY the culprit causing California’s wildfires?

More claims without proof

Court Rules Plastic Flamingos Okay But Growing Vegetables in Front Yard Is ILLEGAL

“That’s what government does – interferes in people’s lives.”

Watch: Police body cam of innocent woman clamped in K-9’s jaws. She’s suing.

Even if she wins, the cop won't pay. In many states sovereign immunity and qualified immunity "protect" police officers, even fi the actions of the police are illegal.

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Beacon Headline Quick Links for 23Mar2009

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Beacon Quick Links for 23Mar2009

Roundup of the headline links


Kroft to Obama: Are you punch-drunk?

I've begun to wonder that myself.

Wikileaks taken offline after publishing Australia's banned websites

Turns out that the server couldn't handle the traffic.

Resistance grows to Obama's bigger government

Encouraging signs

DHS Officials Skirt Open Meeting Laws to Promote REAL ID

Evidently the law only applies to the little people.

Montana's Sound Money Bill

I am not convinced that this one isn't a big dose of wish fulfillment, but it could be. Also here, but consider the source.

US Mint Suspends Production of More Gold and Silver Coins

Granted it's collectable coins, but certainly worth watching close. Especially if states start requiring gold and silver for payment.

US bikini wax ban plans ditched

New Jersey officials found they had a fight on their hands.

Law puts non-offenders on state's sex registry

Another example of the tyranny of the sex offender laws.

Posted: Mon - March 23, 2009 at 01:49 PM

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Super oversized roundup - clearing out the old stack

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