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Despite President Obama’s best attempts to stimulate the economy through massive government spending programs and corporate bailouts, our economy remains in a slump.  Unemployment is stubbornly high, business and consumer confidence has lagged, and growing public debt problems at home and abroad have complicated prospects of a recover

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Santa Claus should be at the top of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's "naughty list" according to Benjamin England, a 17-year veteran of the FDA and Founder of FDAImports.com.  According to England Santa Claus has broken almost every rule in the book and violated numerous food, drug, facility registration and import laws, regulations and standards over the years as he has illegally imported millions of dollars worth of merchandise to children in the United States, albeit as gifts.  Since all imports coming into the United States must comply with United States Customs regulations, Santa's activities every December 24th are cause for both alert and action, especially as the number of gift-hungry American children grows each year. 

"I feel bad for the guy," said England in a recent interview. "Nobody wants to poo-poo on his gift-giving and good cheer but he needs to realize that the FDA's going to come after him at some point."  Mr. England cited three primary ways that Santa Claus' activities would likely be targeted by FDA and its new risk-based screening system, PREDICT.

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 Last week, the Montana Supreme Court overturned an earlier victory for free speech rights won in Helena district court by American Tradition Partnership (ATP), Montana Shooting Sports Association, and Champion Painting, Inc. over government bureaucrats’ right to bar individuals and companies from airing political opinions under a non-profit or for-profit corporate umbrella.

The ban on speech that Montana’s court temporarily restored was enacted before Prohibition, in response to this state’s embarrassing history of political corruption by state politicians and newspapermen who were bankrolled by the copper barons in a bygone era.

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The corporate opposition to IR 125, the citizens referendum to repeal the new HB 198 eminent domain law, continues to claim that 'the new law is the same as the old law.' Their claim is a textbook example of how to mislead by omission and the careful choice of words. As Paul Harvey use to say, here's "the rest of the story."

HB 198 did, in fact, significantly change Montana eminent domain law because it wrote specific language into statute (Montana's official laws as passed by the legislature) that had never been in statute before. It created a "one stop shopping" mechanism by which private individuals and corporations can all too easily secure the right of eminent domain for private, for-profit projects. 

Under the new HB 198 law, eminent domain and condemnation rights are "automatically" granted to a corporate applicant upon the issuance of a certificate of compliance from the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) under the Major Facility Siting Act (MFSA) This certificate is all that's necessary for a corporation to obtain the right of eminent domain and the right to condemn private property.