Category: episode 14 - 6 Jan 2010
Guest co-host: Rob McNealy, LP candidate for Colorado's 6th CD
For three decades, Texas congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul's extreme brand of libertarian economics consigned him to the far fringes even among conservatives. Not a few times, his views put him on the losing end of 434-1 votes on Capitol Hill.
No longer. With the economy still struggling and political divisions deepening, Paul's ideas not only are gaining a wider audience but also are helping to shape a potentially historic battle over economic policy -- a struggle that will affect everything including jobs, growth and the nation's place in the global economy.
The suit claims that AT&T should turn over unused balances on the calling cards of consumers whose last known address was in Washington, D.C. and have not used the calling card for three years.
"AT&T's prepaid calling cards must be treated as unclaimed property under district law," the attorney general's office said in a statement.
A federal appeals court this week ruled that a California police officer can be held liable for injuries suffered by an unarmed man he Tasered during a traffic stop. The decision, if allowed to stand, would set a rigorous legal precedent for when police are permitted to use the weapons and would force some law enforcement agencies throughout the state -- and presumably the nation -- to tighten their policies governing Taser use, experts said.
Homeschooling parents arrested for not filing paperwork with bureaucrats. The bureaucrats acknowledge that the kids were being educated, and have approved the curriculum that they have since submitted, thus proving that all this harassment was all about paperwork.
Could the time submitting paperwork and sitting in a cage have been better spent educating the kids?
Why do right-wingers hate the most popular movie in years?
A Sicilian man stole sweets and a packet of chewing gum so he could get arrested and spend New Year's Eve in a jail cell rather than be with his wife and relatives, Italian media reported.
