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Sep 13, 1862: The Union Discovers "Lost Order" Union soldiers find a copy of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's orders detailing the Confederates' plan for the Antietam campaign near Frederick, Maryland. But Union General George B. McClellan was slow to act, and the advantage the intelligence provided was lost. On the morning of September 13, the 27th Indiana rested in a meadow outside of Frederick, Maryland, which had served as the site of a Confederate camp a few days before. Sergeant John Bloss and Corporal Barton W. Mitchell found a piece of paper wrapped around three cigars. The paper was...

"BEING A NEW Congressman," Rep. David S. King (UT) wrote, "I have not as yet had any opportunity to learn enough about the issues involved with the Second Amendment to speak with any conviction on the matter one way or the other." Really? Then how in the world did this guy ever get elected, and what made him--and more importantly, his constituents--think he was qualified and competent to be entrusted with power to legislate legitimately? King was writing in response to GUNS Magazine's "Know Your Lawmakers," a regular feature in the magazine where politicians responded to a request to give...

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Word For The Day, Monday, 9/13/10 In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". feculent; adj. foul with impurities : fecal 1. filthy, scummy, muddy, or foul 2. of the nature of or containing waste matter Etymology: late 15c., from Fr. féculent , from L. faeculentus , from stem faec- (see feces). Related: Feculence Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day....

Listen Live: Sound Off Connecticut with Jim Vicevich 9 a.m. to noon ET (Daily Thread)Sound Off Connecticut is a popular conservative/libertarian call in talk show hosted by Jim Vicevich weekday mornings from 9 a.m. to noon ET. Although based in Connecticut, the show welcomes callers from all over the United States! This is your chance to sound off America! Call into the show toll free (800) 966-9842! Listen to the LIVE AUDIO STREAM at http://wtic.com - it's free and NO registration is required! If you're in southern New England listen over the air to WTIC 1080 AM, the 50,000 watt...

Here's a wedding that will go down in history: SAS Airlines, VisitSweden, and the Stockholm Gay & Lesbian Network have teamed up to remind the world—in a pretty over-the-top way—that they love the gays. The partnership recently launched a social media contest campaign in which the winners will get to be the first same-sex couple to wed onboard one of their A340 flights between Stockholm and New York on December 6. “Love is in the Air” contest, which started early this month, will offer one European couple and one American couple the opportunity to have an unforgettable marriage and honeymoon...

Thinking God's Thoughts Today's Scripture " No one can know a person's thoughts except that person's own spirit, and no one can know God's thoughts except God's own Spirit" (1 Corinthians 2:11, NLT). Today's Word from Joel and Victoria When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, God's Spirit becomes one with us and makes His home in us. Because He actually dwells in us, His thoughts and His power dwell in us. One of the ways God empowers us is through our thinking, our imagination. He wants to empower our minds because our thoughts set the direction...

The mother of a Malden man who survived being struck with four bullets in a gunfight that left the other two men dead said yesterday that she is grateful her son was armed with his licensed handgun at the time. “He had it on him. Why, I don’t know. His friends said he’s never had it on him. But I am very thankful he did. Otherwise it would have been him killed,” said Kathleen Becerra, 47. Jerry Bourque, 25, was on his porch at about 12:55 a.m. Tuesday with a friend when they were approached by two Boston men, Lakeem...

Newly discovered statements by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the Ground Zero mosque project, show he supports the destruction of Israel. His supporters may hold him up as a moderate, but he has spoken out in favor of a “one-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and he sees peace agreements with Israel as a means to that end. “And I personally — my own personal analysis tells me that a one-state solution is a more coherent one than a two-state solution,” Imam Rauf told an audience in July 2005. The phrase “one-state solution” is often used by Islamic...

After Surrender— Then What? "I have finished the work which You have given Me to do" —John 17:4 True surrender is not simply surrender of our external life but surrender of our will— and once that is done, surrender is complete. The greatest crisis we ever face is the surrender of our will. Yet God never forces a person’s will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. And once that battle has been fought, it never needs to be fought again.Surrender for Deliverance. “Come to Me . . . and...

An auto sales company owner reportedly shot a man who police believe had been on a crime spree. Police say that the 72 year old owner of Justice Auto Sales was asleep inside his Imperial, MO store when he awoke to the sound of an intruder, who entered the property through a hole in the barb-wire topped fence, tried to force open a door, and then finally broke a glass window to gain entry to the building. After a confrontation, the store owner is said to have fired his gun in self defense, striking the intruder and causing him to...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Indiana Republican Rep. Mike Pence and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli were among the keynote speakers at a thousands-strong rally in Washington, D.C., Sunday that was intended to send a message to big-spending lawmakers. Tea Partiers are going to "throw the bums out" and "let failures fail." Those were the notices on at least some of the signs at the FreedomWorks-sponsored march in Washington, D.C. Similar events were held in St. Louis and Sacramento. Sunday's event, themed "Remember in November," is calling for less government spending and smaller government in general. Dick Armey, the former Republican House...

Following the release of several passport applications of Stanley Ann Dunham to Christopher Strunk on July 29, 2010, The Post & Email sent in its own FOIA request to the General Services Administration (GSA) for all records pertaining to the alleged destruction of “non-vital records…during the 1980s in accordance with guidance from the General Services Administration” as claimed by State Department employee Jonathan M. Rolbin to Mr. Strunk....Why were records from 1965 and after released for Stanley Ann Dunham, but those from the years 1960-64 were not? Stanley Ann’s son, Barack Hussein Obama II, allegedly was born during one of...

Congress is returning for a final pre-legislative session on Monday to confront the thorny issue of potentially raising taxes during an economic downturn, with neither party showing clear consensus on a solution. The main order of business in the coming weeks will be debating the fate of income tax cuts approved under the Geroge W. Bush administration in 2001 and 2003 that are scheduled to expire at the end of this year. House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) surprised Democrats on Sunday when he said he might not oppose President Obama's plan to extend the cuts for all but...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new government study adds to the evidence that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative until recently found in many vaccines, does not increase children's risk of autism. It shows kids who had been exposed as babies to high levels of the preservative -- through vaccines they received or their mothers received while pregnant -- were no more likely to develop autism, including two distinct subtypes of the condition. "This study should reassure parents about following the recommended immunization schedule," said Dr. Frank Destefano, director of the Immunization Safety Office at the Centers for Disease Control and...

I, working with Cambria Consulting (see below), was involved heavily creating the WSJ's rankings which are in today's papers. All questions on the methods, I defer to them. College, or university, rankings are not and cannot be all-encompassing. This is because colleges are not singular entities, but serve at least three distinct purposes. The first, and probably foremost in most students' minds, is job training. This is rational: most employers now want a candidates to have a "degree" (a certificate only weakly correlated with education). To which school should a student go to get the best job? Second is in...

Red-district Democrats are pressuring Speaker Nancy Pelosi to extend Bush-era income tax rates for all brackets, revealing a high-stakes rift between the party's vulnerable moderates and its safe liberals as the issue increasingly dominates the national debate. POLITICO has obtained a draft of a letter from rank-and-file lawmakers to Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer urging them not to let tax rates rise for Americans at the highest income levels.

Tech Freepers -- I seek a simple url logger for my (in-home, DSL-connected) Linksys/Cisco WRT610N Dual-N Band Wireless Router. The experience I seek is that I can capture and then view a log of every url visited from the 6 PCs in my house. I would *really* prefer to capture these by url/domain name as opposed to IP address, like the Linksys software does. I am a fairly competent techie, but not a network kinda guy (e.g., I don't edit ports or dhcp settings). Ideas and links are appreciated. thx

This analysis identifies patterns exhibited by the Iranian government and the Iranian people since ancient times. Most importantly, it identifies critical elements of Iranian culture that have been systematically ignored by policymakers for decades. It is a precise understanding of these cultural cues that should guide policy objectives toward the Iranian government.

WASHINGTON – The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration, which was keenly sensitive to comparisons between its response and former President George W. Bush's much-maligned reaction to Hurricane Katrina. The government also spent $10,000 for just over three minutes of video showing a routine offshore rig inspection for news organizations but couldn't say whether any ran the footage. And it awarded a $216,625 no-bid contract for a survey of seabirds to an environmental group that has...