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Conservative blogger heavyweight Andrew Sullivan endorses Ron Paul for the GOP nomination.

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For years, the idea of taxing soda to beat back obesity has been tossed around in medical circles. But now, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is proposing a tax on caffeine. I can hear those in Silicon Valley in an uproar (or at least who are left)!

Taxes have long been synonymous with death as a certainty in life. Here we have another example of politicians trying to “do good” for their citizens by generating revenue…er, taxing an item in order to keep people healthy.

As we know from the Prohibition era, overtaxation and/or outright bans, NEVER work and only serve a means to an end for more government regulation over what you consume.

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‘to prevent him protesting against government’. A Russian opposition activist has been sent to a psychiatric hospital by authorities a day before a planned demonstration. Artem Basyrov’s detention is the latest in a series of incidents suggesting a punitive Soviet-era practice is being revived under president Vladimir Putin.

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Called a “Money Bomb,” the goal was to raise as much money as possible on the Internet in one day. The campaign’s previous fundraiser brought in $4.2 million. At midnight EST, donations were over $6 million, according to the campaign Web site. Those donations are processed credit card receipts, said Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton.

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