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"Both general aviation and commercial aircraft use the public airspace and air traffic control facilities, and the public has a right to information about their activities." Oh, please. We all use public streets and sidewalks, which doesn't mean the police have a right to monitor our movements and let the world know where we go.

What's Osama's Bin Watchin! Have a lot of fun with this thread!!! http://www.tomscott.com/osama/#pxewzpVPgAE

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- An all-but-overlooked provision of the health reform law is threatening to swamp U.S. businesses with a flood of new tax paperwork. Section 9006 of the health care bill -- just a few lines buried in the 2,409-page document -- mandates that beginning in 2012 all companies will have to issue 1099 tax forms not just to contract workers but to any individual or corporation from which they buy more than $600 in goods or services in a tax year.

In response to California's stubborn 12%-plus unemployment rate, Republicans lawmakers

Don't Let the Myths About Health Care Reform Scare You. There are special interest groups trying to block progress on health care reform by using myths and scare tactics. Like the notion that health care reform would ration your care, hurt Medicare or be a government takeover. Actually, these are false statements. All of the health care reform plans currently being debated in Congress would ensure that you and your doctor are the ones making decisions about your health. The majority of working Americans will continue to receive their health care through their employer. In addition, health care reform will...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Clinton report nearly $109.2 million in income for seven years in newly released tax data. The Democratic presidential candidate and her husband paid $33.8 million in taxes from 2000 through 2007. They listed $10.25 million in charitable contributions during that period. Clinton has been under pressure to release her tax returns, especially from rival Barack Obama, who posted his 2000 to 2006 returns on his campaign Web site last week. Neither Obama nor Republican Sen. John McCain have made their 2007 tax returns public, though both say they will this...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge tossed out a lawsuit by California's attorney general on Monday seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from six automakers for damaging the state with climate-changing greenhouse gases.

EIB Programming Alert... Rush Will Interview President Bush on Wednesday's Show

Is Blackberry Settlement Coming To Computers Too? The $612 million settlement last week will seem small compared to more than 150 computer/semiconductor manufacturers and consumer electronics companies worldwide now being sued or put on notice for industry wide patent infringement that is validated by recent licensing or court settlements by Intel, AMD, HP, Casio and last week Fujitsu. Publicly traded Patriot Scientific Corporation co-owns and markets core microprocessor architecture technology patents which affects every computer manufactured since 1994 and semiconductors which run faster than 120 MHz. These microprocessors put into everything from office copy machines and automobiles to DVD players...

Just an online poll I found.

I'm tired of his Popups. My google toolbar no longer pops them. Could be something else, but I'm getting fed up with POPUPS!!!! I will no longer go to sites that I know of, that have popups. Thanks to FR I get all my news here! :)

A freshman Republican congresswoman said yesterday that House Transportation Committee Chairman Don Young tried to intimidate her because she is a leading opponent of an increase in the federal gas tax. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, Colorado Republican, said Mr. Young, Alaska Republican, stood a step above her on the floor of the House Monday night and with aggressive gestures and words attempted to exert his influence on her. "I've been married for a long time and my husband's a gentleman," Mrs. Musgrave said. "And I have never had a man talk to me like Mr. Young did. "I wouldn't say he...

Just curious who the fastest Freeper is!

A pettition for Califonia OHV users.

Comments on the Proposed San Rafael Swell Travel Plan by: Victor Johnson Editors Note Before I ever heard of the San Rafael Swell... Hell, before I even started riding dirtbikes... Victor Johnson was out in Utah, riding, mapping, and enjoying these vast public lands. He has remained amazingly committed in the face of continued frustration with the BLM. He has at great personal expense and time, mapped and published maps of existing trails and roads throughout the San Rafael Swell, and submitted this data to the BLM countless times - only to find employees of the BLM, both excited by...

PARIS (Reuters) - A loner arrested for killing eight politicians leapt to his death from the window of a Paris police station Thursday, cutting short the investigation into France's worst mass murder in years. Police said Richard Durn scrambled through a small fourth- floor window at the Quai des Orfevres, fabled headquarters of the Paris Criminal Brigade, despite his interrogators' efforts to hold him back by the legs, a police statement said. Early Wednesday, police say Durn shot and killed eight local councilors and wounded 19 other people after a routine municipal council meeting in the northwestern Paris suburb of...

KCAL POLL Are the 35 million descendants of African slaves entitled to reparations?

Where are our British Freepers opinions of Lord of The Rings? It's open in England.

Who is Chelsea's father? I don't know how to post pictures, but could someone post one of Webb Hubbel and Chelsea next to each other? Look at the mouth, lips, etc. Maybe Chelsea and her Mom, Chelsea and her dad