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Sep 14, 1862: Battles of South Mountain and Crampton's Gap General Robert E. Lee's exhausted Confederate forces hold off the pursuing Yankees by closing two passes through Maryland's South Mountain, allowing Lee time to gather his forces further west along Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg. After the Battle of Second Bull Run on August 29-30, Lee decided to invade Maryland to raise supplies; he also hoped a decisive win would earn the South foreign recognition. As he moved, he split his army into five sections while the hungry Rebels searched for supplies. A copy of the Confederate plans accidentally fell into...

Spurgeon's Morning & Evening - September 14 -------------------------------- Morning Devotional "There were also with him other little ships." - Mark 4:36 Jesus was the Lord High Admiral of the sea that night, and his presence preserved the whole convoy. It is well to sail with Jesus, even though it be in a little ship. When we sail in Christ's company, we may not make sure of fair weather, for great storms may toss the vessel which carries the Lord himself, and we must not expect to find the sea less boisterous around our little boat. If we go with Jesus...

We have already discussed how eBooks will hasten the end of what we called long-form reading, i.e. book reading, by the majority. We have speculated that eBooks will lead to a vast reduction in traditional publishing, mainly because with eBooks there are no used books to sell, which excludes a major pathway by which readers discover new authors. And it now appears that, if a certain court ruling holds, eBook publishers will be able to legally forbid the reselling of eBooks. Thus, if you buy a Kindle or iPad from another citizen upon which are titles not in the public...

Congress is back for a final four-week session before the midterm elections, and lawmakers are facing a politically divisive question: How many of the Bush-era tax cuts, which expire at the end of the year, should get extended? Democrats have split over what to do, and the issue is now dividing Republicans as well. Until a couple of days ago, it seemed congressional Republicans were on the same page about extending all the Bush-era tax cuts. But a crack in that united front appeared Sunday when House Minority leader John Boehner told CBS' Face the Nation he could see voting...

The Obama administration is considering filing the first criminal charges against radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in case the CIA fails to kill him and he is captured alive in Yemen. The decision continues the White House's strategy of fighting terrorism both in courthouses and on battlefields. Al-Awlaki, a U.S. and Yemeni citizen born in New Mexico, has inspired a wave of attempted attacks against the United States and has become Al Qaeda's leading English-speaking voice for recruiting and motivating terrorists. Counterterror officials said al-Awlaki, since mid-2009, has become a major operational figure who selects targets and gives orders.

Republican Bill Brady earns his highest level of support yet against Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn in Illinois’ gubernatorial contest, moving this race from a Toss-Up to Solid GOP in the Election 2010 Gubernatorial Scorecard. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state, with leaners included, finds Brady picking up 50% of the vote, while Quinn earns 37% support. Green Party candidate Rich Whitney, included for the first time in a Rasmussen Reports survey of this race, earns just four percent (4%) of the vote. Seven percent (7%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are...

The Washington Employment Security Department has released to Red County the email sent by a WorkSource employee who used government resources to organize support for Sen. Patty Murray’s campaign. In the email, WorkSource employee Sally Garcia asks veterans to contact Kerala Hise, either by telephone or at a pattymurray.com address, to get involved in a ‘”walk and knock” to remind people to vote” for Murray’s re-election. Garcia’s email also suggested that recipients “[t]ake a look at the attachments I”—Garcia—“have included.” Employment Security unequivocally stated that no attachments were sent with the message but that Garcia did send a file to...

There may be a time when John Boehner becomes a hate figure. Say, after he loses a government-shutdown fight with the president and makes enough radioactive comments that he starts to glow -- Newt Gingrich's path to notoriety in the 1990s. Until then, the leader of a Republican House minority that's routinely been trampled by Democrats with their 70-vote margin is not going to make a deep impression, no matter how much President Barack Obama inveighs against his callous disregard for all that is right and good. It must have been a sad, desultory meeting of White House strategists when...

2010 is gone for Democrats By: Roger Simon September 14, 2010 04:48 AM EDT 2010 Is ‘Gone,’ Says Big-Time Dem “He cannot save 2010,” the big-time Democrat is saying of Barack Obama. “It is gone. He must now concentrate on saving 2012. But the biggest fear of some of those close to him is that he might not really want to go on in 2012, that he might not really care.” In my experience, the big-time Democrat has hardly ever been wrong. He does not dislike President Obama. On the contrary, like most big-time Democrats, he worked hard for his...

Feisal Abdul Rauf now says he is "looking at every option" to "resolve [the] crisis" caused by his proposal to build a mosque and Islamic center in the shadow of Ground Zero. "Everything is on the table," Rauf told the Council on Foreign Relations, adding that he is "focused on solving it, and solving it in the way that will create the best possible outcome for all." But Rauf was decidedly vague about precisely what options he's talking about -- even as he underscored what he insisted was the importance of building his project at its current proposed location, two...

Workers at polling places for today's primary and November's general election are being required to file tax withholding forms for the first time ever in a move that could be aimed at inflating the nation's employment numbers. Is this really a little Election Eve trick? Here's what I learned, you decide. The New York City Board of Elections, which uses 30,000 to 36,000 temporary workers for both the primary and general election, said it is being ordered by the Internal Revenue Service to make "employees" out of the very temporary workers who tend the polling sites. But an IRS spokesperson...

U.S. Faces Growing Terror Threat from ‘Indigenous Muslims,’ Experts Find Tuesday, September 14, 2010 By Matt Cover SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) – The United States faces a growing threat from terrorists drawn from “immigrant and indigenous Muslims as well as converts to Islam,” a new report finds. These new sources of radical Islamic terrorism defy attempts at profiling because they come from all walks of American life."

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The Vatican's Apostolic Library is reopening to scholars following a three-year renovation. Improvements have been made to how volumes and manuscripts are catalogued and to security measures. The library re-opens to scholars and academics September 20. Scholars have not been able to access the wealth of books and manuscripts or the coin and medal collection that belong to the Vatican's Apostolic Library. It has been closed for renovation since 2007. But on September 20th it will be reopened, sparkling clean, with modern technology. Vatican Library Prefect Monsignor Cesare Pasini says there is great interest for the world to know about...

Via the Right Scoop. There’s nothing here that you haven’t heard before, but since “true conservatives” are in RINO-stomp mode towards Paul Mirengoff and John McCormack and Jim Geraghty and a bunch of other people who were conservatives in good standing as of, say, four days ago, let’s make sure the stealth liberal known as Charles Krauthammer takes his licks too. The only part of CK’s monologue that I disagree with is the “capricious” part: I’m sure Palin and DeMint made their endorsements with due deliberation, knowing how much it would please their base. (They certainly took long enough to...

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Coming two weeks after Election Day, a book from President Barack Obama for some of the nation's nonvoters: inspirational stories for children about American pioneers. "Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters" is a tribute to 13 groundbreaking Americans, from the first president, George Washington, to baseball great Jackie Robinson to artist Georgia O'Keeffe. It will be released Nov. 16 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, which will officially announce the new work Tuesday. Knopf declined to identify the other 10 subjects.

Return to the Article September 14, 2010Media's Self-Defeating Attacks on PalinBy J.R. Dunn Michael Joseph Gross's Vanity Fair piece demonstrates that there will be no end of attacks on Sarah Palin, no limit to their mendacity, and that they will have the exact opposite effect that the left yearns for. The American left and its tame media desire -- with an intensity that normal individuals would find impossible to understand -- to treat Palin the way a pit bull would treat a rabbit: tear her to pieces and toss her aside broken. But each new encounter ends with the governor...

Sears Yanks Shirts Showing Picture of Twin Towers With Word 'Gotcha' Sears department store is reportedly under fire for selling T-shirts depicting images of the Twin Towers with the word "Gotcha" emblazoned on the front of the clothing. The company Gotcha reportedly made the clothing and printed its brand name on the front of the shirts. But Sears executives claim the word "Gotcha" was never meant to be attached to images of the World Trade Center towers, the station reports.

When he lost the GOP nomination to the "moderate" Gerald Ford in 1976 by a razor thin margin of arm twisted delegates, Ronald Reagan tried to comfort his supporters. Reagan invoked a little humor in the process noting that the political process is like "the world with its pants down." Fast forward to 2010 and the battle between the RINO Mike Castle and the outsider Christine O'Donnell. O'Donnell has gotten the anal exam and more from the RINO's in this campaign. But after the emotions of the smear wear off, what are we left with. If Mr. Reagan were with...