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Drew Carey Promotes Libertarian Ideas for Cleveland

(AP) — “The Price Is Right” host Drew Carey showcases his hometown of Cleveland in an upcoming series of online videos suggesting remedies to the city’s problems.

The comedian argues for less government, more competition and less taxes to revitalize Cleveland in 10-minute segments that are scheduled to begin appearing next week on the Web site reason.tv. It’s affiliated with the Reason Foundation, a nonpartisan, libertarian-leaning organization which has Carey as a board member.

In an introduction to the six-part series, Carey says he loves Cleveland and says the city is going through “tough times” with a troubled economy, troubled schools and ongoing population losses.

The Web site says the series explores how Cleveland can learn from other places, like Houston.

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Letter to Editor Quoting Cicero

To the Editor (MJ): What have we learned in 2,065 years? “The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.” — Cicero, 55 BC. Evidently nothing.

Don Race, Fitchville

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The Value of Government Surveillance of Citizens

By Jacob Hornberger

It’s amusing to watch U.S. officials protest the Chinese government’s surveillance of its own citizens. After all, isn’t it the U.S. government that secretly and illegally conspired with private telecom companies to record telephone conversations of private American citizens? And isn’t it the U.S. government that secured both civil and criminal immunity for the telecoms’ decision to sell out the privacy of their customers to the feds?

One of the aspects of the federal government’s telecom surveillance scheme that is rarely mentioned by the mainstream press goes to the heart of why government surveillance of its citizens is so valuable — to provide a means to keep the citizenry subdued and subservient through an subtle form of blackmail. » read more

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