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Over at Townhall, another tale of out-of-control government.

Click on over, then back here for more reading.

• Common Sense by Paul Jacob: Scared of Maryland
• YouTube: Police Beat University of Maryland Student
• WJLA-TV: Police officer’s conviction tossed out in UMD beating case caught on video
• Washington Post: A judge wrongly throws out an officer’s assault verdict in Prince George’s County
• WJLA-TV: Police injured and intimidated investigative reporter
• Washington Post: No accountability, by Radley Balko
• Baltimore Sun: Prince George’s County to revisit term limits on November ballot

This weekend’s Common Sense column over at Townhall may seem familiar to readers of Common Sense. It summarizes a bunch of ideas we grapple with all the time. Even the historical facts about the Roman Republic and Empire may seem familiar — and for a reason. Most were featured in the “Today in Freedom” sidebar.

So click on over to Townhall, and then back here for some more reading:

• Odoacer, the Arian Christian conqueror of the Western Roman Empire, commonly said to have ended the Romans’ long imperial run.
• Romulus Augustus, the usurping emperor to Julius Nepos, was also known with an extra syllable, Romulus Augustulus.
• Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom, by Andrew P. Napolitano
• Ex America, by Garet Garrett, with a foreword by Bruce Ramsey — the classic case (an anniversary edition of “The People’s Pottage”) for America-as-empire.

I don’t know about you, but I wonder if Vladimir Putin sees himself as Odoacer. And Obama as Romulus Augustus.

Oh, here is Elizabeth Warren calling Tea Party Republicans “anarchists”:

http://youtu.be/AEqpQuenCxQ

Over at Townhall, the case for getting rid of big business’s favorite sugar daddy. Click on over, then back here for more reading.

• USA Today: Shut down costly slush fund
• Club for Growth: The Top 10 Clients of the Export-Import Bank
• Heritage: Mismanagement of Export-Import Bank Invites Fraud
• Washington Examiner: Export-Import Bank costs taxpayers $2 billion a decade
• Club for Growth: Key Vote FY15 Continuing Resolution (H.J.Res. 124)
• Club for Growth: Elizabeth Warren and the Export-Import Bank

Over at Townhall.com, the foreign policy prowess of the current president is called into question. Click on over, then back here.

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Text of President Obama’s Address – Sept. 10, 2014
• Reason: 3 Reasons NOT to Fight ISIS
• Cato: “Defeat ISIS by Letting Syria Loose” by Doug Bandow
• Cato: “Nation Building Isn’t Needed to Fight ISIS” by Christopher Preble
• Washington Post: Can Obama wage war without consent of Congress?
• USA Today: Obama team suspects Syria still has chemical weapons
• Freedom Outpost: Why Is The US At War With Yemen?
• NPR: Are Yemen and Somalia Good Examples of U.S. Anti-Terror Strategy?
• Hot Air: Obama lets another red line lapse in Ukraine, and the consequences will be dire

BREAKING NEWS

• Inquisitr: ISIS Strikes Again: British Hostage David Haines Beheaded As ‘A Message to the Allies of America’
• Rueters: Iraq premier orders halt on airstrikes over civilian areas held by ISIS

Over at Townhall… how not to negotiate a pay hike. Click on over, then back here for more to think about.

• Common Sense: The Forgotten Scandal by Paul Jacob
• Washington Post: Hill Votes Pay, Ethics Package by Don Phillips
• Orlando Sentinel: Too Little, Too Late to Defeat Gingrich by Mary Mcgrory
• New York Times: Gingrich Barely Escapes by William E. Schmidt
• Government Executive: House Approves Sixth Consecutive Congressional Pay Freeze by Kellie Lunney
• USA Today: Obama rallies Wisconsin workers at Labor Day festival
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Poll — Majority of Americans back minimum wage hike by Michael A. Fletcher and Peyton M. Craighill
• Forbes: The Minimum Wage Typifies Much That Is Wrong With Washington by Doug Bandow
• Reason: The Washington Post Fact Checker Calls Out Obama by Jess Remington
• Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Raise the minimum wage? by George F. Will