Congressional auditors would have broad power to examine the Fed's operations under the legislation first introduced 26 years ago by Rep. Ron Paul. Two-thirds of the House now backs it.
Ron Paul's bill, launched in 1983, got nationwide exposure when he ran for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
The congressman took the stage with Michele Bachmann to preach the evils of the Fed -- and of big government in general.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, rear, joined former presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul of Texas on Friday at the University of Minnesota. Unlike most town hall meetings called to discuss health care, this one dealt… Continue
Added by Localtarian on September 26, 2009 at 5:30pm —
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This woman was my friend Tracey. She was a good wife and mother. She had a loving heart and was a friend to all who knew her. She will be missed. The baby is still alive.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the new swine flu vaccine Tuesday, a long-anticipated step as the government works to get vaccinations under way next month. Studies in children and pregnant women are continuing. The vaccine approved Tuesday is made by CSL of Australia; Switzerland's Novartis; Sanofi-Pasteur of France; and Maryland-based…
There is a new flu virus going around. It initially looked quite lethal, and caused panic. Now it is clear that it has killed relatively few victims — and many of those have underlying conditions. It is particularly dangerous to be the possessor of a pushed-in nose — that is, to be a Pekingese, a pug or a Shi-Tzu. It is the H3N8 dog flu. The virus,… Continue
Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts. She was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after she raised concerns that one of the translators in her section was a member of a Turkish organization that was under investigation for… Continue
Added by Tara on September 25, 2009 at 9:26am —
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(NaturalNews) A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags.
The Middletown School District, in partnership with MAP Information Technology Corp., has launched a pilot program to implant RFID chips into the schoolbags of 80 children at the Aquidneck School. Each chip would be programmed with a student identification number, and would be read by an external… Continue
September 24, 2009 "Huffington Post' -- In the debate over the PATRIOT Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people's homes without their permission or knowledge so that terrorists wouldn't be tipped off that they're under investigation.
Now that the authority is law, how has the Department of Justice used the new power? To go after drug dealers.
President Trump just met the president of South Africa, and the discussion quickly turned to the refugee crisis taking place in that country, and what the So...