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When President Obama was a student at solidly Left-wing and anti-military Columbia and Harvard universities in the 1980s students were not taught the simple fact that the Western democracies of today only exist because a lot of people put on uniforms and fought to preserve those democracies. The only reason that the American, British and other soldiers succeeded in their fight is because in the period between the wars a handful of military leaders fought to maintain a core infrastructure of the defence establishment. Today US Defence Secretary Gates has announced that he wants to close Joint Forces Command stationed...

strikes down the portion of officials demanding papers from immigrants....no word yet if she has decided this law trumps fed law but she has not struck down entire law... info is coming in on Fox...

Terrorism: The administration says it was surprised and angry at the Lockerbie bomber's "compassionate" release. Now a letter reveals that it actually lobbied for it. Was this malicious intent or mere incompetence? Last week, at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, President Obama was asked what he thought about a possible Senate investigation into the "Lockerbie bomber stuff" — namely that British Petroleum, among its other sins, lobbied the British government to release convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi in order to win oil contracts from the Libyan government. Obama replied: "I think all of us...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A U.S. Senate committee has canceled a much-publicized hearing slated for this Thursday on the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber after the panel was turned down in its request for key witnesses from BP and the British and Scottish governments. An aide to Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, who was slated to chair the hearing, informed

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rebuffed twice by the courts, the Obama administration is taking another crack at a moratorium on deep-water drilling, stressing new evidence of safety concerns and no longer basing the moratorium on water depth. But those who challenge the latest ban question whether it complies with a judge's ruling tossing out the first one. The new order does not appear to deviate much from the original moratorium, as it still targets deep-water drilling operators but defines them in a different way. "It is unnecessary and shortsighted to shut down a major part of the nation's energy lifeline while...