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Ron Paul talks about Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s testimony in front of the House Financial Services Committee yesterday. Our economy faces enormous difficulties and one of the biggest culprits is the inflation tax for which the (privately owned) Federal Reserve is largely responsible.

GENE JOHNSON
Associated Press
The military cannot automatically discharge people because they’re gay, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in the case of a decorated flight nurse who sued the Air Force over her dismissal.

The three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not strike down the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. But they reinstated Maj. Margaret Witt’s lawsuit, saying the Air Force must prove that her dismissal furthered the military’s goals of troop readiness and unit cohesion. Read more

Caroline McCarthy
CNET
According to a briefing detailed by The New York Times’ Brad Stone, the Wiesenthal Center flagged about 8,000 “problematic” sites on the Web pertaining to terrorism and hate, a 30 percent increase from last year.

In addition to religious terror groups, the sites identified also pertain to anti-Semitic, racist, xenophobic, and various anti-religion and anti-government sentiments. And social media is a particular concern, with games, Facebook groups, and Second Life having been identified as potential communication and event-planning tools for terrorist and hate groups.

“Every aspect of the Internet is being used by extremists of every ilk to repackage old hatred, demean the ‘Enemy,’ to raise funds, and since 9/11, recruit and train Jihadist terrorists,” the report detailed.
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