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The Chickens Come Home to Roost Michael Kosares Writes: You get a sense that America’s chickens have come home to roost. Instead of learning from our past mistakes though, as the idiom above is meant to suggest, the nation appears intent on compounding them.

Where is the promised land Where is the brave new world Where do all dreams go when they die We can move the streets today – “Brave New World,” Covenant At any time of radical change or transformation, two things happen.

Dispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2008 -- Afghan national security forces and coalition forces killed 43 militants in Qalat district of Afghanistan’s Zabul province Oct. 5, military officials reported. Afghan and coalition forces on patrol received heavy weapons, machine-gun and sniper fire from militants in multiple locations.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson turned to his former Wall Street firm, Goldman Sachs, when he picked a director to oversee the Troubled Assets Relief Program and the newly created Office of Financial Stability.

Dispatches from the Front: WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2008 -- Coalition forces captured an alleged weapons smuggler in Kut, southeast of Baghdad, and 11 other suspects in operations today, military officials reported.

News in Balance: WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2008 -- A senior Defense Department spokesman dismissed Iranian-sourced reports that a U.S. military aircraft had been forced down in Iran. The Iranian reports he has reviewed contradict themselves, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters today.

Image courtesy of Zyance A few days ago I posted an article on Green Mamma about how to navigate meat and dairy markets; specifically, I set out to understand the meanings and marketing behind the multitude of flesh food labels and seals of approval.

Lithuanian official Alvydas Tamosiunas welcomes everyone to the change-over ceremony as the U.S. and German formations wait for the beginning of the ceremony, marking the first day of the U.S. rotation performing the NATO Baltic air policing mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt.

It’s the Jews, of course. The Hamas militant group on Tuesday accused the Jewish Lobby in the United States of fomenting the global financial crisis. The crisis was the result of “bad administrative and financial management and a bad banking system put into place and controlled by the Jewish lobby,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum said in a statement.

India’s Ship IS Battered By The Global Storm, But She Will Survive! Edward Hugh Writes: by Edward Hugh: BarcelonaIndia is in the middle of a storm at the moment, there can be no doubt about that. But the important point to note is that this storm is not of India's making.