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The following articles by various authors are of significant interest. They cover many important topics including current events, historical documentation, commentaries, subjects in law, natural rights, and more. Take the time to educate yourself and form your own opinions. You will find it to be time well spent.

Bahrain uprising may be too much for Saudis!

MANAMA, Bahrain - March 4, 2011 - Saudi Arabia has watched revolts unfold in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. When it comes to Bahrain, the world’s largest oil exporter may not be a mere spectator.

Protests on the neighboring island, where the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet guards Gulf oil supply, are being overshadowed by reported challenges to Libya’s Moammar Qaddafi. Yet they underscore t

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20-year-old American sues FBI for placing GPS tracker on his car!

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia - March 3, 2011 - Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old Arab-American student, is suing the FBI for placing a GPS tracking device on his car and then threatening him with charges when he tried to keep it.

The lawsuit, filed by by Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Wednesday, accused Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller of violating Afi

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Bald eagles are dropping from the skies in Canada!

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada - March 2, 2011 - Bald eagles in the Comox Valley of British Columbia, Canada, are having a difficult time finding food these days. A recent report in The Province explains that the birds are literally starving and falling from the sky, adding to the string of strange animal events that has occurred in numerous places around the world in the past few

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Researchers design working tractor beam

BEIJING, China - February 28, 2011 - There’s no escaping it: though the tractor beam is a staple of science fiction space faring scenarios, it’s also extremely counter-intuitive. How does one pull something in via an outward propagating beam? Now a few Chinese researchers think they’ve found the answer via a theoretical method that should generate a backward pulling force from a forward t

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States’ rights legislation gathering momentum!

WASHINGTON - February 27, 2011 - State legislatures, bolstered by the huge Republican freshman classes that were swept into power from New Hampshire to Montana last year, have intensified their attacks on federal authority in the name of states’ rights.

The efforts actually began before the election, in fights over the health care bill and gun regulation, but have spread to issues

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Baby dolphins dying along oil-soaked Gulf Coast!

GULFPORT, Mississippi - February 22, 2011 - Baby dolphins are washing up dead along the oil-soaked U.S. Gulf Coast at more than 10 times the normal rate in the first birthing season since the BP disaster, researchers said.

Some 17 baby dolphin corpses have been found along the shorelines of Alabama and Mississippi in the past two weeks, according to The Institute for Marine Mammal St

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Illusion cloak makes you see what isn’t there!

NANJING, China - February 24, 2011 - Now you see it, now it looks like something else. Radar images might never be the same again, thanks to an illusion device that can change an object's appearance. The technology could ultimately be used to hide military aircraft.

The device is part of a growing family of metamaterials - structures designed to steer light along curved paths. They h