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on October 3, 2013 in World News

Feds Try to Shut Down Privately Owned Mount Vernon

Barrycades: Feds Try to Shut Down Privately Owned Mount Vernon The National Park Service erected barricades to shut down parking lots surrounding Mount Vernon despite the fact that the tourist destination is privately owned, another example of how the feds are deliberately worsening the government shut down. Mount Vernon is the former plantation of George Washington and is owned by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, which doesn’t receive any government funding. The attraction’s official website reads, “NO SHUTDOWN HERE – The Federal government may be shut down, but Washington’s home remains open. Mount Vernon has remained a private non-profit for… View Article

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on September 10, 2013 in World News

New details in how the feds take laptops at border

                          New details in how the feds take laptops at border Newly disclosed U.S. government files provide an inside look at the Homeland Security Department’s practice of seizing and searching electronic devices at the border without showing reasonable suspicion of a crime or getting a judge’s approval. The documents published Monday describe the case of David House, a young computer programmer in Boston who had befriended Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the soldier convicted of giving classified documents to WikiLeaks. U.S. agents quietly waited for months for House to… View Article

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on August 22, 2013 in World News

Feds are building a detective squad to target consumers

                            Feds are building a detective squad to target consumers and companies that don’t follow Obamacare’s rules Post-Obamacare law hiring at the Department of Health and Human Services included 86 ‘criminal investigators,’ but just two ‘consumer safety’ officers On the day President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, HHS received authority to make 1,814 new hires The authorization included positions for 50 criminal investigators. The agency increased that number to 86 The agency was also authorized to hire 261 ‘consumer safety officers.’ Only… View Article

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