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Barack Obama promises to accomplish quite a lot if he becomes our next President. These promises are symbolized in his campaign themes: hope and change. But just how likely is he to fulfill his own promise and the promises he has made to the American people? Judging by his previous career, not very likely. We have seen this movie before in Barack Obama's life, and the end is not a happy one. In fact, when you examine his career in its various dimension, it seems to be marked disturbingly often by failure. Faced with his failures, he tries to obscure...

Bernard Siegan, a conservative legal scholar whose Reagan-era nomination to a federal appeals court was rejected after creating a political firestorm, has died. He was 81. Siegan died Monday of complications related to a stroke at a convalescent care facility in Encinitas, according to the University of San Diego, where he had taught more than 30 years. Appointed by President Reagan to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1987, Siegan was turned down the following year by a senate committee amid criticism from Democrats that his writings were outside the mainstream. Siegan was known for his views on...