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Anger grows at government, Pakistan after attacks killed more than 170
November 30, 2008

An Indian commando soldier looks out at the Taj Mahal Hotel, seen reflected in a bus window, after he and fellow commandos were given roses and thanked by residents of Mumbai on Saturday following the end of a three-day rampage in the city.
MUMBAI, India [...]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27977381/
President-elect tries reassure top brass that he will listen, do nothing rash
November 30, 2008
By Karen DeYoung

Then-presidential candidate Barack Obama and the then-top U.S. military commander in Iraq, David Petraeus, talk as they take a helicopter ride over Baghdad on July 21. Obama has apparently been working to reassure military leaders that he will take their [...]

“History does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.”
–Dwight D. Eisenhower
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U.S. Army 1st Lt. Ashley Henderson Huff
In October, the Interior Ministry of the Kurdistan Regional Government honored a fallen American soldier with a statue at the opening of a police college in Erbil. U.S. Army 1st Lt. Ashley Henderson Huff of the 385th MP Battalion, based out of Fort Stewart, Georgia, was honored for her [...]

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Friday Digest - Vol. 08 No. 46, November 14, 2008 
By Mark Alexander

In 1776, an extraordinary group of men signed a document that affirmed their God-given right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” By attaching their signatures to our great Declaration of Independence, they, in effect, were signing their potential death warrants.
Indeed, the last [...]

“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. … A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never [...]

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2008/11/27/after_absentee_ballot_loss,_franken_eyes_options?page=full&comments=true
November 27, 2008
By Brian Bakst
Minnesota’s U.S. Senate showdown is veering down a path toward the courts and possibly the Senate itself after a panel’s ruling on rejected absentee ballots dealt a blow to Democrat Al Franken’s chances.
For the first time, his campaign on Wednesday openly discussed mounting challenges after the hand recount involving Franken and [...]

“If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without [...]

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/11/money-wins-white-house-and.html
November 5, 2008
WASHINGTON – The historic election of 2008 re-confirmed one truism about American democracy: Money wins elections.
From the top of the ticket, where Barack Obama declined public financing for the first time since the system’s creation and went on to amass a nearly two-to-one monetary advantage over John McCain, to congressional races throughout the nation, [...]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802248.html
November 29, 2008
By Peter Funt
This is not easy to write, because I consider the election of Barack Obama to be one of the most inspiring political and social developments of my lifetime. I truly mean no disrespect when I say: Stop asking for money.

Last spring, I signed up to receive e-mails from all the major [...]