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January 12, 2010
Answering Helen Thomas on Why They Want to Harm Us
By Ray McGovern – ConsortiumNews.com
Thank God for Helen Thomas, the only person to show any courage at the White House press briefing after President Barack Obama gave a flaccid account of the intelligence screw-up that almost downed an airliner on Christmas Day.
After Obama briefly addressed L'Affaire Abdulmutallab and wrote "must do better" on the report [...:]
Suppressed Energy Breakthroughs: See for Yourself and Evaluate
by Carl Herman – Washington Examiner
From time-to-time, mainstream news reports on energy-creation breakthroughs. The video links below will remind you and evoke the follow-up thought, "Why haven't we heard more about these?"
For example, last year leading electromagnet expert and MIT professor Markus Zahn verified that the magnetic motor of Thane Hines did indeed create acceleration [...:] 
Secret Police: Can Personal Privacy Survive the Digital Revolution?
By Brian Doherty – The American Conservative
Civil libertarians hoped that the Obama era would see a renewed commitment to privacy protections. But their dreams are being dashed. Congress seems likely to recess without adjusting aspects of the Patriot Act set to expire at the end of the year, which means that the existing law will [...:] 
9th Circuit Court Rules Cops Can Be Sued for Tasering
By Julie Johnson – The Press Democrat
Verdict complicates police use of stun guns
Judge rules 'immediate threat' must be posed; local policies unlikely to change for now
Police may have new reason to pause before using a stun gun to subdue a suspect after an appeals court ruled an officer in San Diego County can be sued [...:] 
January 11, 2010
Why Are They at War With Us?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
"We are at war. We are at war against al-Qaida, a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people and that is plotting to strike us again."
Thus did Barack Obama clear the air as to whether we are at war, and with [...:] 
January 8, 2010
Our Stupid Foreign Policy
The Southern Avenger – The American Conservative
In the ongoing war of words over who's more willing to fight the "War on Terror," former Vice President Dick Cheney says President Obama has made us less safe, while Obama says the policies of Cheney made us less safe. Obama's right–Cheney did make us less safe. And Obama [...:] 
VIDEO: Our Stupid Foreign Policy
Click here to view the embedded video.
January 7, 2010
The 'Long War': Who's Winning?
By Justin Raimondo – AntiWar.com
It has been eight years since al-Qaeda attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon: eight long years in which the "war on terrorism" – begun by George W. Bush in a blaze of righteousness, and since carried on by his successor, in [...:] 
Another God That Failed
By Patrick J. Buchanan
"America is Losing the Free World," was the arresting headline over the Financial Times column by Gideon Rachman. His thesis:
The largest democracies of South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia — Brazil, South Africa, Turkey, India — are all moving out of America's orbit. "(T)he assumption that the democracies would stick [...:] 
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