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How a Soviet mole in FDR's inner circle triggered Pearl Harbor – and its dire relevancy to our conflict today. ... On December 7, 1941, 353 Japanese aircraft delivered a shocking blow .. Nearly seven years later, Harry Dexter White, a senior official in the Roosevelt Administration, appeared to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities . Numerous witnesses, including Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley, had implicated White in involvement with the Communist Party and the Soviet Union. ... Harry Dexter White, a Harvard PhD and Assistant Treasury Secretary, had played a major role in creating the World Bank...

Tanker carrying more than 3,000 gallons of gas stolen on Maryland's Eastern ShoreArticle by: Associated Press Updated: September 13, 2011 - 6:47 PM WORTON, Md. - Authorities in Maryland say a tanker truck carrying more than 3,000 gallons of gasoline has been stolen. **SNIP** The truck has an Alger Oil logo on the tank. It was stolen in northeast Maryland Monday or early Tuesday.

Last week the Pew Research Center came out with a study of the American electorate that crystallized something I've been sensing for a long time: rich people are boring, but poor people are interesting. The Pew data demonstrated that people at the top of the income scale are divided into stable, polar camps. There are the educated-class liberals - antiwar, pro-choice, anti-tax cuts - who make up about 19 percent of the electorate, according to Pew. And there are business-class conservatives - pro-war, pro-life, pro-tax cut - who make up 11 percent of voters. These affluent people are pretty well...

THE UN IS COMMUNIST By: Alan Stang For weeks, we have been looking at the major American wars of the Twentieth Century, in order to provide a context of understanding for the present war on Iraq. We have seen that, in behalf of their perennial goal of world government, our own leaders tricked us into both world wars by arranging for the murders of thousands of our own people. The next war we need to look at is the war in Korea, and to understand the war in Korea we need to look first at the United Nations. The war...