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(AP) Ukraine’s capital girds for major demonstrationsKIEV, UkraineOpposition demonstrators are heading for a major rally in the center of Ukraine’s capital while government backers are gathering nearby for their own demonstration, as tensions remain strong in the political crisis now

Former President Jimmy Carter applauded President Obama for shaking Cuban President Raul Castro’s hand during the memorial service for Nelson Mandela on Tuesday in South Africa.  “I think it was something significant,” he told CNN. “I hope that will be an

(AP) Ukraine police stand down after protest growsBy JIM HEINTZ and MARIA DANILOVAAssociated PressKIEV, UkrainePolice in Ukraine on Wednesday pulled back as protesters claimed victory after an overnight face-off in which authorities removed some barricades and tents and scuffled with

On Thursday, the Associated Press reports, “President Barack Obama is ordering the federal government to nearly triple its use of renewable sources for electricity by 2020.” In October, the Department of Energy announced $60 million in subsidies for solar energy

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com What do Thailand’s anti-government protesters want? The conundrum is solved Ukraine again in crisis as anti-government rioters demand president’s resignation What do Thailand’s anti-government protesters want? The conundrum is solved Thailand’s PM Yingluck Shinawatra

(AP) Ukraine: Protesters besiege government buildingBy YURAS KARMANAU and MARIA DANILOVAAssoicated PressKIEV, UkraineThousands of Ukrainian protesters on Monday blocked entrances to the government building and called for the ouster of the prime minister and his cabinet, as anger at the

The U.S. is withdrawing from leadership in the Middle East. At the same time, the U.S. is becoming less dependent on Middle East oil. Luke Rodeheffer and Lewis King, both graduate students at Istanbul’s Koç University, conclude from these two

A junior at Millennium High School in Goodyear, Arizona was suspended after another student allegedly attacked him over the Confederate flag on his truck. The junior, Jacob Green, told Fox News: “I’ve done nothing wrong. I’ve flown that flag on

Life is an experiment. We begin as infants. Everything that comes later is untried, at least in our own experience, thus everything we face is new – every time we pick up the phone or cross a street. Almost exactly

The memory of the Gettysburg Address–like the Battle of Gettysburg, like the Civil War itself–has become a sort of all-purpose, all-American occasion for fuzzy feel-good patriotism. And that’s probably how it should be, because nations thrive only when they have

One-hundred fifty years ago, President Abraham Lincoln stood before a crowd of journalists, soldiers, citizens, and statesmen in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and delivered perhaps the most famous speech in the English language. Viewed in context of the Civil War in 1863,

The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln’s undying call for a “new birth of freedom” at the bloody turning point of the US Civil War, turns 150 years old Tuesday, even as the union he fought to preserve quarrels bitterly over the

Today in America, we see two kinds of libertarianism, which we might call “Calhounian” and “Heinleinian.” Both kinds believe in freedom, but they are very different in their emphasis–and in their politics.  The names behind the adjectives are John C.

To one degree of another, Republicans have spent decades on the opposite side of our nation’s unions. That’s a generalization of course, but the fact is the GOP’s crack message machine repeatedly lumps unions together as one monolithic group. In

Barack Obama, in a tailspin as his management of ObamaCare has forced him to apologize to the American people, has resorted to his favorite political tactic: bullying, as he threatened to use executive orders and bypass Congress to see his

Hundreds of angry protesters threw shoes at riot police Sunday as Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang party held a congress to call for unity as public discontent grows with the government. The demonstrators — some of them jobless after factory shutdowns and

To no one’s surprise, just days after her high-profile split with Deadline.com, the Hollywood news site she founded and grew into an industry powerhouse, Nikki Finke is already preparing to launch a new site, NikkiFinke.com. The sub-headline reads, “Come for

When I lived in Cape Town, South Africa, I occasionally listened to the local Islamic radio station, partly out of curiosity and partly because it was often left on in the background in the living room of the Muslim family

If it ends up being true, no one is going to excuse the behavior of these Miami Dolphins’ players accused of hazing/bullying one of their teammates. But the media feigning surprise as a way to turn unsurprising locker room behavior

(AP) Bangladesh sentences 2 men to death for war crimesBy JULHAS ALAMAssociated PressDHAKA, BangladeshA special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh on Sunday sentenced to death two Bangladeshis now living in the U.S. and Britain for crimes against humanity during the

An eyewitness noted when thirteen railroad tanker cars carrying propane and crude oil across Alberta, Canada exploded after derailing early on October 20, “the fireball was so big, it shot across both lanes of the Yellowhead (Highway)… there’s fire on both

The new guys running the fourth season of AMC’s The Walking Dead understand that the show is about zombies, not feelings. This is good. And the astronomical ratings for the Oct. 13 premiere showed something good about Americans as well. There are

(AP) Impostor service animals posing growing problemBy SUE MANNINGAssociated PressLOS ANGELESIt’s an easy law to break, and dog cheats do. By strapping a vest or backpack that says “service animal” to their pet, anyone can go in stores and restaurants

The last revolutionary from mankind’s bloodiest century died Friday at a military hospital in Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi.  A former journalist with no formal military training, General Vo Nguyen Giap defeated the French at Dien Ben Phu in 1954 and later America’s

POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms in an ongoing Islamic uprising in northeast Nigeria, the school’s provost

When traveling by air, Americans expect to encounter the security methods of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Like clockwork, we take off our shoes and submit to X-ray scanners, invasive pat downs, and baggage searches. But most Americans are unaware

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) at the Center for American Progress (CAP) last week

The Arab Spring, which peaked with the ouster of former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, is all but over after the Muslim Brotherhood was banned once again by an Egyptian court earlier this week. The status quo ante

When Thomas Jefferson crafted the Declaration of Independence, he pointed to “certain unalienable rights” with which we were endowed by our “Creator.”  What did he mean when he wrote the phrase “unalienable rights,” and what rights are “unalienable”? Jefferson understood

Thanks to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the generally mis-defined concept of American exceptionalism has again come to the fore. In last week’s New York Times, Mr. Putin displayed his lack of knowledge of the United States’ founding. Toward the end

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director Richard Cordray and his staff are planning to track four out of five U.S. consumer credit card transactions this year through a controversial new data-mining program. Richard Pollock of the Washington Examiner reported Friday

“No one has power with the wind to restrain the wind…” Ecclesiastes 8:8 In his most recent speech to the nation, President Obama urged the American people to support him should he choose to use extremely limited force to stop