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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.

Flawed paperwork aggravates foreclosure crisis!

NEW YORK - October 3, 2010 - As some of the nation’s largest lenders have conceded that their foreclosure procedures might have been improperly handled, lawsuits have revealed myriad missteps in crucial documents.

The flawed practices that GMAC Mortgage, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America have recently begun investigating are so prevalent, lawyers and legal experts say, that

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Are we raising a generation of nincompoops?

NEW YORK - September 27, 2010 - Second-graders who can't tie shoes or zip jackets. Four-year-olds in Pull-Ups diapers. Five-year-olds in strollers. Teens and preteens befuddled by can openers and ice-cube trays. College kids who've never done laundry, taken a bus alone or addressed an envelope.

Are we raising a generation of nincompoops? And do we have only ourselves to blame? Or a

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Emergency workshop prepares people for world without power!

CARLISLE, Pennsylvania - September 28, 2010 - It might sound like something out of a movie, but an electromagnetic pulse could put millions in the dark and paralyze daily lives; and it's a very real threat.

That was the exact topic at a conference Tuesday in Cumberland County. Organizers of the conference at the Army War College said there's no better time to get prepared.
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Private company takes over libraries!

SANTA CLARITA, Kalifornia - September 26, 2010 - A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in Kalifornia, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the country’s fifth-largest library system.

Now the company, Library Systems & Services, has been hired for the first time to run a system in a relatively healthy city, setting off an inten

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Italy to abandon airport body scanners!

ROME, Italy - September 23, 2010 - After a six-month test, Italy's government will drop the use of full-body scanners for security checks in airports, judging them slow and ineffective, Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported Thursday.

The scanners in the airports of Rome, Venice and the southern city of Palermo are no longer in use, and Milan's airport is likely to sto

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The secret deal that changed the monarchy!

LONDON, England - September 23, 2010 - The Queen has been forced to give up the ultimate right to manage the Palace's financial affairs in a secret deal signed by Palace aides and the Government, The Independent has learned.

A "financial memorandum" formalizing the relationship between the sovereign and ministers also sets out tough terms on how the Queen can spe

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Commentary: Registry vote leaves police image wounded!

By Lorne Gunter

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada - September 23, 2010 - “Police chiefs and police officers have lost my respect, totally.” That’s what one reader told me immediately after the three opposition parties ganged up Wednesday to preserve the federal gun registry.

She was far from alone.

For weeks now I have been receiving scores of ema