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Arsonist Sets Fire to Palin's Church
By Tom McGregor
The home church of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska was terribly damaged by arson, causing the governor to personally apologize if the fire was connected to "undeserved negative attention" from her failed campaign as the Republican vice presidential nominee.
Obama Team May Reverse Bush-Era Abortion Rules
President-elect Barack Obama is looking to reverse a regulation being finalized this week by the outgoing Bush administration that allows health care providers to refuse participation in any practice they object to on moral grounds, The Wall Street Journal reports. Read more National News.... |
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Appointment Raises Red Flags
by Gary Bauer
Today's Washington Times reports that a key appointment by President-elect Barack Obama is raising red flags with immigration reform activists and those concerned about homeland security. Last month, Obama tapped Alexander Aleinikoff to lead his immigration policy transition team. Like so many of Obama's appointments, Aleinikoff was a top official in the Clinton Administration and directed and "staunchly defended" a program at the Immigration and Naturalization Service called Citizenship USA.
A Long-Term Afghanistan
by George Will
With President U.S. Grant's long, narrow desk behind him, he works at Gen. John Pershing's spacious partners desk, and converses with guests at a round table used by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, part of the reassuring furniture of government for most of 42 years, will soon serve his eighth president in a career that began in 1966 when Gates joined the CIA, of which he became director 25 years later.
Planning For The Worst?
by Gary Bauer
Do you recall Senator Joe Biden's campaign warning that if America elected Obama we would get a crisis? Here is an excerpt of Biden's remarks, as reported by ABC News on October 20th:
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The Impending Collapse of Our Enemies
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Dick Morris and Eileen McGann |
The Depression - let's call it what it is - leaves us, well, depressed. But there is very good news from around the world. Our enemies are collapsing under the strain of dropping oil and gas prices. What we had all hoped conservation and off-shore drilling would achieve, the global economic collapse is accomplishing: the defeat of OPEC, Iran, Chavez, Putin and the weakening of the financial underpinnings of Islamist terrorism. In each of these nations, the hold of the dictator is weakening as, one after the other, they face the consequences of dropping oil prices.
In Iran, the sanctions imposed by the United Nations, the aggressive efforts of the U.S. government, and the actions of states like California, Florida, and Missouri to ban pension investments in companies that do business with Iran are having a big effect. Unable to expand its oil production for a lack of foreign investment, Iran faces the need to slash its budget drastically as energy revenues, the source of 85% of its income, crash. Iranian President Ahmadinejad is announcing harsh austerity measures. Having based his budget on $50-$60 oil, he now must recast it for at a $40 per barrel level. He boasts of cash reserves of $23 billion, but that sum won't last long unless he makes major cuts. (Do the math: a shortfall of $25/barrel per day x 4 million barrels a day x 365 days = $36.5 billion, more than he's got on hand).
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