Senate Report Fails to Call Guantanamo Abuse Torture
The bipartisan report on detainee torture at Guantanamo (pdf) released by the Senate Armed Services Committee on December 11 did a good job...
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Automaker Bailout Fails in the Senate
H.R. 7321, the auto bailout bill which swept through the House of Representatives on Wednesday, died in the Senate on Thursday evening when...
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The Hope of the World
As I see it, the beginning of the United States of America was the most dramatic and significant episode in a long pilgrimage...
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Bretton Woods
While WWII raged in 1944, 44 delegations met to create a world currency, bank, and trade organization. They fell short of that goal,...
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Faith Triumphs Over Persecution
The simple and enduring faith of Christians has proven unconquerable despite the persecutions from ancient Rome to modern-day Iraq. ...
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Imprisoned for Seven Years Without Being Charged
Consider this incredible sequence of events. A young American citizen was invited to study in a Middle Eastern country. Having arrived there, the...
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Court Won’t Hear Obama Citizenship Case — but May Soon
On Monday, December 8, the Supreme Court unsurprisingly decided not to hear a case by retired lawyer Leo Donofrio claiming that Obama is...
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The War on Christmas
Because "public life" now entails virtually every part of our lives, erasing references to God entirely from public life means virtually eliminating them...
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Obama Cap-and-trade Plan Uncaps Federal Power
ITEM: President-elect Barack Obama provided a pre-recorded video message to the nearly 800 attendees from the United States and foreign countries at the...
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Report Confirms Torture at Guantanamo
Last month, a consortium of human-rights groups from the University of California at Berkeley released a report entitled Guantanamo and Its Aftermath: U.S....
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Bush Says Saddam Hussein Was Not Connected to 9/11
Addressing the Saban Forum on December 5, President George W. Bush stated: "It is true, as I've said many times, that Saddam Hussein...
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Plaxico Burress, Francis Lewis, and Gun Rights
Plaxico Burress and Francis Lewis, two prominent residents of the state of New York, lived three centuries apart. Burress is a New York...
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Pearl Harbor: Motives Behind the Betrayal
There are several interpretations of the facts surrounding Pearl Harbor. The first, as expressed by Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of the film Pearl Harbor,...
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Pearl Harbor: Scapegoating Kimmel and Short
Pearl Harbor's secrets had been successfully preserved before the fact — but what about after? People around the nation, including some vocal congressmen,...
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Planned Parenthood Offers Gift Certificates for Exams – and Abortions
While many major retailers like Home Depot, Lowe's, and Wal-Mart grapple with today's politically correct pressure in deciding whether to advertise using the...
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