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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...
Dec 28, 2009 FOX News At least 15 people were killed during massive anti-government protests in Tehran when opposition supporters clashed with security forces in the streets, Iranian state television reported Monday. The report said 10 people killed during Sunday’s fierce clashes in the Iranian capital were members of “anti-revolutionary terrorist” groups, apparently referring to [...]
By Louise M. Slaughter, Special to CNN December 23, 2009 10:31 a.m. EST Editor’s note: Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, a Democrat, represents the 28th Congressional District of New York. Slaughter is the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee and the only microbiologist in Congress. Washington (CNN) — The Senate health care bill is [...]
Dec 27, 2009 (CNN) — The alleged terror incident aboard a passenger flight from Amsterdam to Detroit has raised questions as to how a Nigerian man carried explosives through stringent security measures. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been charged with attempting to destroy a passenger plane after he detonated a device on board a jet on [...]
By ANTHONY FRANCE Crime Reporter and ALEX WEST Published: Today COPS fear that 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners. The fanatics, in five groups, are now training at secret terror camps in Yemen. It was there London-educated Umar Abdulmutallab, 23, prepared for his Christmas Day bid to blow up a [...]
Accused Northwest Bomber Says More Bombers On the Way; Al Qaeda Promises to Hit Americans By BRIAN ROSS and RICHARD ESPOSITO Dec. 28, 2009 American officials have cause to worry there may be more al Qaeda-trained young men in Yemen planning to bring down American jets. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, charged with the attempted Christmas Day [...]
Sun Dec 27, 8:02 pm ET PHOENIX – Two men thought to have been acting suspicious aboard a flight bound for Phoenix were detained and questioned by federal anti-terrorism authorities before they were released, the FBI said Sunday. Transportation Security Administration officials said passengers aboard U.S. Airways Flight 192 from Orlando, Fla., on Saturday night reported that two men, [...]
By Sheena Harrison | MLive.com December 26, 2009, 2:22PM A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport. Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., who posted an earlier comment about his experience, talked exclusively with MLive.com and confirmed [...]
December 27, 2009 by Austin Hill Who cares about the U.S. Constitution, when Barack Obama’s vision for America is weighing in the balance? Don’t count on the U.S. Congress to care. In the aftermath of the Senate’s passage of an Obamacare bill, Attorney’s General from multiple states have begun to announce that they are launching [...]
Dec 27, 2009 Afghanistan Stories: Soldiers visit Kajakan Valley By Army Master Sgt. David Elmore PARWAN PROVINCE – U.S. Spc. Matthew McKinney, TF Cyclone, HQ Co, 38th ID, entertains local children with his juggling talent in Kajakan Village, Shinwari District in Parwan prov., Dec. 14. TF Cyclone and the Kentucky ADT have [...]
Taxes on the rise for nearly all Dec 27, 2009 By Deroy Murdock While hastily ramming his 2,457-page, $2.5 trillion Obamacare package through the Senate before Christmas, Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, must have seen himself as Saint Nick. High atop his sleigh, Santa Harry piled 12 brand-new taxes and six tax hikes totaling [...]

