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Our goal is to positively influence our readers by presenting accurate, reliable information regarding the formative stages of our country as well as current national events. About Lux Libertas...
October 30, 2009 CJTF-82 in Afghanistan, Bagram Media Center Displaced Afghans make their way home with help from CF Story and photos by AF Master Sgt. Sarah Webb A child poses for a photo with his grandmother at their home in the returnee camp outside of Ghazni City. GHAZNI – Children [...]
by Ken Klukowski FOXNews.com October 30, 2009 There’s no case suggesting that the individual mandate you seek in your health care legislation is constitutional. You and the president have both sworn to support and defend the Constitution. The oaths you took do not grant you a right to do what you please, or even what [...]
by Forum Contributor FOXNews.com October 29, 2009 Trevor Keever, who says he was fired by Home Depot for wearing wearing an American flag pin that said “One nation under God, indivisible” talks with Fox Forum about what happened to him. His lawyer also explains why she and her co-counsel took his case. TREVOR KEEVER [...]
Ten qualities we need in our public leaders as we head back to the voting booth on Tuesday. Oct 30, 2009 by Bill Shuler As we embark upon a midterm election, our nation considers who will be granted the honor of leading us in the days ahead. The times in which we live demand that [...]
Oct 30, 2009 Posted by Charles Cooper The accidental disclosure of a House ethics investigation has kicked up quite a fuss on Capitol Hill as it turns out that more than 30 congressman and aides are under investigation. But after committee chairman, Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), disclosed the breach on the House floor late Thursday, her [...]
John Nichols: In The Healthcare Reform Bill, The Compromise Was Even More Than Expected Oct 30, 2009 (The Nation) John Nichols writes about politics for The Nation magazine as its Washington correspondent. The public option was always a compromise for serious supporters of health-care reform, who — like Barack Obama when he was running for [...]
Mark Hemingway: Don’t Count Out Nevada’s Powerful Democrat Oct 30, 2009 (National Review Online) Mark Hemingway is a stafff reporter for the National Review Online If you’ve been reading the papers lately you’ve probably concluded that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s political future doesn’t look good. The headlines speak for themselves: “Poll: Reid’s re-election numbers [...]
National Security Cited In Obama Administration Bid To Stop Warrantless Wiretap Lawsuit Oct 31, 2009 (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) – Attorney General Eric Holder says a lawsuit in San Francisco over warrantless wiretapping threatens to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out. In making the argument, the Obama administration agreed with the Bush administration’s [...]
Iran’s senior lawmakers reject UN draft plan on uranium enrichment By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran October 31, 2009 (AP) Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected on Saturday a U.N.-backed plan to ship much of the country’s uranium abroad for further enrichment, raising further doubts about the likelihood Tehran will finally approve the deal. [...]
Oct 30, 2009 By Mark Henderson Exaggerated and inaccurate claims about the threat from global warming risk undermining efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and contain climate change, senior scientists have told The Times. Environmental lobbyists, politicians, researchers and journalists who distort climate science to support an agenda erode public understanding and play into the [...]

