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To: tejek who wrote (781755)	4/25/2014 2:14:27 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

Ted, For CA, the prices were in the $5s and $6s per gallon. I've never seen $5/gallon in CA. Maybe once, at one gas station I never go to. I don't know why that chart shows such high prices in 2008. Either way, that was a temporary spike up, not "the new normal" as we're seeing today. Tenchusatsu

To: tejek who wrote (781755)	4/26/2014 10:08:52 AM
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To: tejek who wrote (781755)	4/26/2014 10:20:06 AM
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MSNBC Host Calls Cover Oregon Failure ‘Biggest Obamacare Train Wreck In The Entire Country’ ........................................................................................................ Washington Free Beacon ^ \| April 25, 2014 \| Washington Free Beacon Staff MSNBC’s Chris Hayes called the now defunct Cover Oregon website the “biggest Obamacare train wreck in the entire country” Friday on MSNBC. “Today the state gave up and called for help on what has to be the biggest Obamacare train wreck in the entire country,” he said. “Oregon became the first state to dump its own troubled online health exchange and use the federal marketplace instead. Oregon spent $248 million of $305 million in federal grant, including $3 million on this cool ad campaign.” (Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...

To: tejek who wrote (781755)	4/26/2014 10:22:13 AM
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Second Student Ordered to Stop Handing Out Copies of Constitution Files Lawsuit BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff April 25, 2014 10:06 am A student at the University of Hawaii filed a lawsuit on Thursday claiming her First Amendment rights were violated when she was ordered to stop handing out copies of the U.S. Constitution to fellow students. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, claims an administrator ordered plaintiff Merritt Burch and another student to stop approaching students to hand out the copies. Burch is in the HU Hilo chapter of Young Americans for Liberty. Both Burch and her friend, the complaint alleges, were at an outdoor event featuring other student groups who were distributing literature from various tables set up for that purpose. Burch claims she left her table and approached other students, and an administrator told her and her friend to get behind their table. Burch then claims she protested about her rights and the administrator dismissed them. A week after the incident, another administrator allegedly told Burch and fellow student Anthony Vizzone that if they wanted to protest, the proper place would be in the university’s “free speech zone.” The administrator also allegedly said, “This isn’t really the ‘60s anymore” and “people can’t really protest like that anymore.” The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is assisting in this lawsuit as it did in the case of a California student who also was ordered to stop handing out copies of the Constitution, which occurred on Constitution Day. His lawsuit was settled in late February. “So far this academic year, students have twice been prohibited from distributing the Constitution on a public campus, less than four months apart. That is absolutely unacceptable,” said FIRE President Greg Lukianoff. “The First Amendment is not optional at public colleges—it’s the law. Enforcing restrictive ‘free speech zone’ policies that prevent students from passing out copies of the Constitution is impossible to justify,” Lukianoff said.