Petraeus Arrives in Afghanistan as Taliban Attack
New U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus arrived in Afghanistan on July 2 to assume command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) —...
Politics
Financial Reform: Expanding Hubris, Limiting Freedom
When the House passed the 2,319-page Dodd-Frank financial reform bill by a vote of 237-192, all it did was confirm for many the...
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The Right’s Posturing and the Left’s Illogic
Broken down into its most simple explanation, cognitive dissonance is when one spouts diametrically opposite ideals with equal conviction — something akin to...
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Black Landowners Fight to Reclaim Land Taken by Feds
A group of black former residents of an area of McIntosh County, Georgia, known as Harris Neck has banded together in an attempt...
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Kagan Promises She’ll Reread Federalist Papers
President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan on May 10 to occupy the chair that would be soon left vacant by Supreme...
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High Court Rules Against Christian Group at California Law School
The U.S Supreme Court ruled five to four on June 28 that a University of California law school can refuse to recognize a...
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Kagan, Confirmation, and the Constitution
Elena Kagan's responses to the questions put to her by the Senate are worthy of comment since she has been nominated for a...
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Graham, Kagan and the Global “Battlefield”
As a preface to a series of questions about the due process afforded the would-be "Christmas Day bomber" last December 25, Sen. Lindsey...
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Kagan Remains Vague in Day Three of Hearings
Day three of Elena Kagan’s hearings to be the next Supreme Court justice was expected to be relatively amicable as the remaining members...
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Memorializing Stalin — in Virginia
Born in 1878 to a drunken father and strict religious mother, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) went on to succeed...
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Utah Concealed Gun Permit Honored in Other States
As we now know, on Monday, June 28, the United States Supreme Court held up that the Second Amendment guarantees Americans that their...
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First Days of Kagan’s Judicial Hearings
On May 10, President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the position of Supreme Court Justice as a replacement for Justice...
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Russia, China Spies Belie “End of the Cold War”
Barack and Dmitry. The photo-op lunch couldn't have been chummier: The U.S. and Russian presidents enjoying cheeseburgers and fries together at Ray's Hell...
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Concerned Women for America Labels Kagan: “Liberal Political Careerist”
Our Founding Fathers, being God-fearing men, incorporated the essence of God's commandment — "Thou Shalt Not Kill" — into the Declaration of Independence...
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The Founding Fathers, Political Civility, and Journalism
“In the American imagination,” author Ron Chernow wrote in the Wall Street Journal June 28, “the founding era shimmers as the golden age...
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