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A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal. – John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776

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  By • May 9th, 2012 • Category: Civil Liberty, Ethics, History, International Relations, Politics, War on Terror

May 8, 2012 CNN’s Marlena Baldacci Atlanta (CNN) – Vice President Joe Biden spoke out forcefully against the Iranian government Tuesday at the Rabbinical Assembly Convention meeting, saying actions taken by the Obama White House were preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. But the Romney campaign was quick to disagree. Military assistance, coupled with [...]

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  By • May 9th, 2012 • Category: Civil Liberty, Ethics, Intelligence, International Relations, National Defense, War on Terror

By Greg Miller, Published: May 8, 2012 The latest al-Qaeda bomb plot targeting U.S. aircraft was unraveled from inside the terrorist group by operatives — including an agent who posed as a willing suicide bomber — working on behalf of the CIA and its counterparts in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, said U.S. and Middle Eastern officials. [...]

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  By • May 8th, 2012 • Category: Civil Liberty, Editorial, Ethics, Judiciary, Politics, War on Terror

Is it too much for Eric Holder to defend these prosecutions? May 7, 2012 – WSJ You don’t have to be a mind reader to figure out the propaganda strategy of September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the four other terrorists who were arraigned Saturday in a 13-hour spectacle in Guantanamo Bay. The idea [...]

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  By • May 8th, 2012 • Category: Civil Liberty, Editorial, Ethics, Politics, War on Terror

Islamist antics make a mockery of justice in 9/11 trial By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Monday, May 7, 2012 Five planners of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were arraigned on Sunday before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. The 13-hour proceeding was a theatrical farce, which unfortunately gives a [...]

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  By • May 8th, 2012 • Category: Civil Liberty, Economics, Ethics, Government Waste, International Relations, National Defense, Opinion, Politics, War on Terror

By Douglas Wissing, Douglas Wissing Published May 07, 2012 FoxNews.com American taxpayers are encountering a drumbeat of bad news from Afghanistan: Insurgents are launching coordinated complex attacks and implanting record numbers of IEDs. Strained by more than a decade of war, US troops, are implicated in Koran-burning, desecration and renegade killings.  Today the news broke [...]

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  By • May 8th, 2012 • Category: Civil Liberty, Ethics, Homeland Security, Intelligence, International Relations, Politics, War on Terror

By BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) , RICHARD ESPOSITO and RHONDA SCHWARTZ May 7, 2012 U.S. and European officials say that even though an al Qaeda bomber was stopped before he could board a plane for the U.S., the threat is far from over — there are believed to be several other would-be bombers with similar non-metallic [...]

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  By • May 8th, 2012 • Category: Civil Liberty, Ethics, Intelligence, International Relations, National Defense, War on Terror

May 8, 2012 By ADAM GOLDMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. bomb experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida improvised explosive device, a top Obama administration counterterrorism official said Tuesday, to determine if it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane. Officials told The Associated Press a day [...]

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  By • May 7th, 2012 • Category: Civil Liberty, Ethics, Politics, Presidency, War on Terror

May 6, 2012 In an interview with Mike Huckabee, General Jack Keane claimed Obama had key intelligence relating to Osama bin Laden for a long time before the bin Laden raid actually occurred. View at: http://townhall.com/video/general-claims-obama-knew-about-bin-laden-hideout-since-2010 Social Bookmarking

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  By • May 7th, 2012 • Category: Civil Liberty, Ethics, International Relations, National Defense, Politics, War on Terror

Published May 07, 2012 NewsCore KABUL –  The US has been secretly releasing captured Taliban fighters from a detention center in Afghanistan in a bid to strengthen its hand in peace talks with the insurgent group, the Washington Post reported Monday. The “strategic release” program of high-level detainees is designed to give the US a [...]

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  By • May 7th, 2012 • Category: Civil Liberty, Ethics, Politics, Presidency, War on Terror

May 7, 2012 (AP) WASHINGTON – In a video released Sunday by al Qaeda, American hostage Warren Weinstein said he will be killed unless President Obama agrees to the militant group’s demands.  ”My life is in your hands, Mr. President,” Weinstein said in the video. “If you accept the demands, I live; if you don’t [...]

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