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After studying the constitutional language governing the use of military force and the debates that the Framers had on the issue, Joe Biden determined that the Founding Fathers had vested the power to authorize even the limited use of military force in the Congress not the president---unless it was necessary for the president to act swiftly to repel an attack on the United States or to rescue U.S. citizens. Biden derided the opposite position—that the president could use military force without congressional authorization—as a “monarchist” view of presidential power. That was in 1998, however, when Biden was in the Senate.

German bomb plot intended for World Cup: paper Fri Sep 1, 2006 3:14pm ET BERLIN (Reuters) - Two failed attempts to bomb trains in western Germany in July had originally been planned for the football World Cup, a newspaper reported on Friday. The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung cited security sources as saying interrogation of the suspects had established that the would-be bombers had abandoned the original plan as they had considered the implications of such an attack. One of the bombs was found in July on a train in Dortmund, which hosted some of June and July's World Cup matches. The...

More than 2,000 wooden crosses intended for a pro-life demonstration were stolen on the night of January 21st from a vehicle owned by the president of the Oregon State University College Republicans. The crosses were part of a demonstration to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision which prohibited the states from passing laws criminalizing abortion. College Republican President Chad Robinson had worked with members of his organization for over 18 hours to cut and assemble the crosses for the protest. It took members an additional one-and-a-half hours to pack them into his pick-up truck,...