Archive for May 1st, 2009

The Pakistani Taliban, even while continuing their penetration of central Pakistan, have begun mobilizing fresh recruits from all over the country to go help their Afghan Taliban brothers resist the newly arriving Western troops. The Taliban now control the tribal regions of Pakistan, huge sections of the Swat Valley and have just consolidated their control over the district of...
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By BEN CASSELMAN CADDO PARISH, La. -- A massive natural-gas discovery here in northern Louisiana heralds a big shift in the nation's energy landscape. After an era of declining production, the U.S. is now swimming in natural gas. Even conservative estimates suggest the Louisiana discovery -- known as the Haynesville Shale, for the dense rock formation that contains the gas...
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Phil Krone Its time to pass a simple constitutional amendment.  It should state that any American who has been a citizen for at least twenty years shall be eligible to be President or Vice-President.   It should be written in a manner that would not only  allow Governor Schwarzenegger to run, but also completely legitimate Barack Obama’s tenure who is being accused...
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by Lori Tipton ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska health officials and the Anchorage School District teamed up Wednesday to prepare for a worst case scenario by practicing a mass dispensing of vaccines. The exercise comes as the World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert, which means it believes a global outbreak of the swine flu is imminent. No cases of swine flu...
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There are two common misconceptions held by those who are critical of globalism. The first error is that there is a very small group of people who secretly run the world with all-powerful and unrestrained dictatorial powers. The second error is that there is a large amorphous and secret organization that runs the world. In both cases, the...
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 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Last weekend, the blog Stormin’s Morning Java noticed an odd claim on the State Department website.  In a list that intended to brag about how much Hillary Clinton had traveled as the new Secretary of State to foreign countries, Foggy Bottom included a trip to...
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by  Wayne LaPierre Barely 100 days into the new Obama-Biden administration, ominous storm clouds are already gathering over your most fundamental right as a free citizen: Your right to own a gun to protect yourself, your family and your freedom. Betraying all their campaign promises to protect your right to keep and bear arms or your freedom to hunt,...
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by Rabbi Simon Jacobson A practical guide to becoming great in 49 days. With the mitzvah of counting the 49 days, known as Sefirat Ha'Omer, the Torah invites us on a journey into the human psyche, into the soul. There are seven basic emotions that make up the spectrum of human experience. At the root of all...
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HAVIV RETTIG GUR and YAAKOV KATZ Use of the military option to force Iran to halt its nuclear program would only yield temporary and ineffective results, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday. Sanctions would make more sense, he said. Gates said a military attack on Iran would merely send the country's nuclear program...
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Holocaust Remembrance Authority offers number of ways for people from all over the world to educate themselves on the Shoah, including YouTube video channel, websites in Farsi, Arabic Yad Vashem in Arabic Yad Vashem's Arabic website includes academic articles translated into Arabic, testimonies of Holocaust survivors, maps, archived documents, multi-media slideshow of images from the Auschwitz concentration camp, and the...
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