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In The 5000 Year Leap, Cleon Skousen writes that most Americans in the early years of our Republic truly regarded the Constitution as a miracle, declaring that the formation and adoption of our new system of federal government represented a political achievement unprecedented in human history. It was a miracle because grounded on unchanging Reality, meaning the eternally existing personal Creator of life, Law, Truth, the living souls of humans, and all else that exists (Gen. 1-11):“…[T]he foundation of all reality is the existence of the eternal Creator, who is the designer of all things in nature and the promulgator...

While most people were absorbed in the Miers withdrawal and the bogus Plame case, the Associated Press pulled another fast one on the public. The Associated Press held a Managing Editors Conference in San Jose CA. As usual, the coverage of Iraq was a major part of the conference. The Associated Press came under fire in August after newspaper editors questioned the negativity of the Iraq coverage. The public was putting the pressure on the editors to print stories about the “good news” in Iraq. The AP came up with excuses for the biased coverage – too dangerous for reporters,...