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HARRISBURG, Pa.—Rep. John Murtha, a retired Marine Corps officer who became the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77.
The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. He died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., spokesman [...]

Iran moved closer to being able to produce nuclear warheads Monday with formal notification that it will enrich uranium to higher levels, even while insisting that the move was meant only to provide fuel for its research reactor.

The U.N.’s controversial climate report is coming under fire — again — this time by one of its own scientists, who admits he can’t find any evidence to support a warning about a climate-caused North African food shortage.

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the U.N.’s International Panel on Climate Change, said global warming skeptics are like people who see no difference between cancer-causing asbestos and talcum powder.

British and US troops are planning a major operation against the Taliban in Helmand province.
American and British troops poised to assault the Taliban stronghold of Marjah have begun targeting insurgent leaders for assassination.
Military sources said special forces had been infiltrating the town on “kinetic” missions — jargon for armed attacks. “Special forces guys have been going in on assassination missions with the aim of decapitating the Taliban force,” one said.

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The Democratic agenda is “running out of time,” former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Saturday at the National Tea Party Convention, claiming that the conservative tea party movement is part of a brewing “revolution” that constitutes the “future of politics.”

As the science scandals keep coming, the air has gone out of the climate-change movement.
In 2007, the most comprehensive report to date on global warming, issued by the respected United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made a shocking claim: The Himalayan glaciers could melt away as soon as 2035.

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The Hamas government in Gaza distanced itself Saturday from a statement it made earlier this week in which it expressed regret for harming Israeli civilians in rocket attacks.
The zigzag reflects the Islamic militants’ conflicting objectives.

Harry Knox is not exactly a household name, and the media elite have no interest in making him one. The media are in the controversy-making business, but not when Barack Obama picks “spiritual advisers” who think condoms are holier than the Pope.
Most media outlets have reported nothing on Knox, despite his view that Pope Benedict is “hurting people in the name of Jesus.”

Over the past two decades, there have been a number of attempts to subject Americans to an international judicial system with jurisdiction over war crimes and the like. This idea of a “world court” became a reality in 1998 with the introduction of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The Court itself was officially established in 2002 after 60 countries ratified the statute.

A month after Germany surrendered in May 1945, America’s eyes turned to the Far East, where the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war was joined on the island of Okinawa.
Twelve thousand U.S. soldiers and Marines would die — twice as many dead in 82 days of fighting as have died in all the years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Within weeks of the battle’s end came Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Three weeks later, Gen. MacArthur took the Japanese surrender on the battleship Missouri.

Now keep in mind this is according to the Iranian propaganda wing of their government…But it would be just in time for February 11th “Present” to the west from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. According to Russian propaganda – On Iran, Moscow has refused to sell it the S300 and has dropped hints of its unhappiness about [...]

Rules of Engagement make it impossible to shoot back at the Taliban and now the top “brass” have decided to punish officers whose men get shot. If troops are under fire from the enemy, and if there’s any chance of creating civilian casualties, and if the troops can withdraw from the situation without firing, they [...]

No Patches, your a joke and I do not believe you will be laughing come your election day
Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Mass.) election has been shown to be “a joke,” the son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) said Thursday.
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) castigated Brown for having pushed to be sworn in ahead of schedule [...]

This week, sixty-five years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta, in the Crimea, to discuss and plan the postwar world–namely, to address the redistribution of power and influence. It is at Yalta that many place the birth of the Cold War.

Police used tear gas, plastic bullets and water cannons to scatter hundreds of students protesting against the government Thursday, while President Hugo Chavez’s supporters celebrated the 18th anniversary of his failed coup as an army officer.

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