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President Can’t Tackle Debt With Just Talk

8:41 pm in Economic News by acai_berry

DAVOS, Switzerland — The state of the union is … leaderless. Sounds harsh, but when it comes to digging America out from what President Obama calls its “mountain of debt,” I’m becoming increasingly worried this assessment is accurate. The president talks the talk about fiscal responsibility. But the evidence suggests he’s not willing to spend the political capital to translate that talk into action. Judge Obama by his own standards. “We have to

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No Longer A Law

6:30 am in Economic News, General News by Abdom Roig

The Law: Already bruised and unpopular, ObamaCare has now been issued a death sentence. Yet the White House says it will “proceed apace” with its implementation. Has anyone there heard of checks and balances? It’s worth noting that Monday’s ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson that the Democrats’ health care overhaul is unconstitutional is only the latest setback for the badly flawed legislation inflicted on the nation last March. The

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Freed New Jersey Man Wants Gun Conviction Overturned

12:59 am in Action Alerts, Activist Training & Education by Shelly Autin

A New Jersey man whose seven-year prison sentence was commuted this week and is now seeking to get his felony gun charge conviction overturned blamed judicial “bullying” for his guilty verdict. 

Brian Aitken told Fox News on Thursday that he is armed with an e-mail he claims he received earlier this week from a juror who told him that then-Superior Court Judge James Morley pushed the jury into obtaining a conviction.

“Interestingly enough, I got an e-mail from one of the jurors a night or two ago, and he told me, ‘You know, we all pretty much knew what was going on. We knew the judge was bullying us to this position. That’s why we came back three times and asked for the exemptions,’” Aitken said.

Aitken, an entrepreneur and media consultant with no prior criminal record, was arrested in January 2009 in New Jersey for possession of two locked and unloaded handguns he legally purchased in Colorado but didn’t have a carry permit for in the Garden State. 

He was convicted and in August 2010 sentenced to seven years in prison. But after serving four months in a New Jersey prison, the cause célèbre for gun advocates was released Monday when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie commuted the sentence. 

He says he now wants to clear his name.

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