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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...
Apr 29, 2011 IBD Regulation: While we were distracted by the president’s birth certificate show-and-tell, his EPA releases its guidelines for expanding federal power under the Clean Water Act. America’s economy and freedom are at stake. President Obama’s long-form birth certificate wasn’t the only thing released last Wednesday, but it was probably the least important. [...]
Apr 29, 2011 IBD Politics: McDonald’s announced that it received a million applications across the country for what amounted to 62,000 low-skill jobs. What does that say about the state of job creation in this country? For 62,000 Americans, the heavy weight of unemployment has been lifted by much-maligned McDonald’s, the fast-food giant whose employment [...]
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Apr 30, 2011 AFGHANISTAN STORIES: TF Currahee jointly eliminate enemy stronghold during Op Overlord Written by Army Sgt. Luther Boothe Jr., TF Currahee Brig. Gen. Steve Townsend, Dep. Comm. Gen. of Ops, 101st AD, talks to Lt. Col. Don Hill, cmdr. of 2nd Bn, 506th Inf Regt, 4th BCT, 101st AD, TF White Currahee, [...]
Administration appears complicit in Mexican firearms smuggling scheme By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times 7:41 p.m., Friday, April 29, 2011 The Obama administration on Friday renewed its proposal to force gun dealers in four southwest border states to register multiple firearms sales. According to its filing in the Federal Register, the Bureau of Alcohol, [...]
Note to the GOP: The 2012 presidential election is up for grabs By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times 7:41 p.m., Friday, April 29, 2011 “April is the cruelest month,” T.S. Eliot warned, and particularly for Presi- dent Obama. The White House had been enjoying a robust run-up in the polls since the “shellacking” of [...]
Beijing cracks down on faith in officially atheist state By Brett M. Decker The Washington Times 7:40 p.m., Friday, April 29, 2011 Easter is a dangerous time to be a Christian in communist China. Holy Week – which commemorates the arrest, torture, crucifixion and eventual resurrection of Jesus Christ – witnessed an increase in government-directed [...]
Apr 30, 2011 By Zachary A. Goldfarb President Obama on Saturday blasted oil companies for enjoying gangbuster profits while pump prices surged to nearly $4 a gallon this week, and he again urged Congress to end $4 billion a year in subsidies for the oil and gas industry. Obama fired the volley in his weekly [...]
Five likely contenders attack taxes, government regulations and the 2010 health care law By CHARLES BABINGTON The Associated Press Apr 30, 2011 MANCHESTER, N.H. — The Republican presidential contest executed a soft launch this weekend, with eager but unofficial contenders focusing all their criticisms on President Barack Obama at a New Hampshire dinner — and none [...]
By Liz Peek Published April 29, 2011 FoxNews.com Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would probably not be unhappy that I pulled a Joe Biden during his press conference. Yes, I confess I nodded off, despite the historic nature of the session and its obvious importance to our nation’s future. Mr. Bernanke was above all else [...]

