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China is developing armed forces that can conduct offensive operations around the world, a GOP presidential candidate has warned.

With all the candidates declaring (and not declaring) their intentions to run for the highest office in the United States, there is some question as to how much though each of them have given to the national security problems the nation will face during the next administration. Of ourse all of the aspirants have evolved quick debate responses to the serious questions....

The most controversial component of the Senate's Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007 is Title V1 euphamistically entitled,"Nonimmigrants in the United States Previously in Unlawful Status." It would create a new "Z" visa exclusively for illegal aliens..... www.heritage.org/Researdh/Immigration/wm1468.cfm

Fred Thompson sat at the end of a long table in The Monocle restaurant on Capitol Hill Tuesday night for dinner with some 20 fellow conservatives, mostly journalists. He sent two signals. First, he sounded like a man who has decided to run for president. Second, his candidacy will be something different from other Republicans, in both substance and style.

The super-secret Bilderberg Group, an organization of powerful international elites, is set to meet this week somewhere in Turkey - but even the precise location is a mystery.

No bad idea is ever completely defeated in this country, perhaps in other nations as well. I have seen bad ideas surfact again and again in this country. When the right is defeated, the right tends to stay defeated. I recall advocating a national right-to-work law when I worked in the Senate in the late 1970's. The member of the leadership to whom I pitched the idea exclaimed, "oh, no. We can't do that. It was defeated in 1958"! I meerely was suggesting that we try to get a vote......

While Americans are recovering from a scandal over poison pet foods imported from China, FDA inspectors report tainted food imports intended for American humans are being rejected with increasing frequency, as they are filthy, are contaminated with pesticides and tainted with carcinogens, bacteria and banned drugs.

In this reporter's opinion that we are witnessing the undermining of our Constitution, and our accepted government procedures by a new maneuver, "stealth government." The president and his New World globalist cronies, through national emergencies and other means, rm their ideology down our throats without congressional approval or oversight. The president and his New World globalist cronies, through national emergencies and other means, ram their ideology down our throats without congressional approval or oversight. This procedure became obvious in Georgw W. Bush's determination to invade Iraq. Those closest to Bush label the president "obsessive, arrogant, bullheaded, stubborn, and inflexible." They...