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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.

Gold hits another new record!

LONDON, England - November 9, 2009 - Gold hit a record high above $1,110 an ounce in Europe on Monday as the dollar index .DXY slid 1% on expectations U.S. interest rates will remain low, boosting interest in the metal as an alternative asset.

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Communist college launches First Amendment attack on student body president!

SACRAMENTO, Kalifornia (PNN) - November 9, 2009 - Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund Center for Academic Freedom have issued a cease-and-desist letter to Sacramento City College officials after the president of the Associated Student Government was subjected to an illegal recall election for refusing to censor a pro-life group

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U.S. Treasury Secretary slaps down global tax!

The international finance community was split last night after Gordon Brown surprised world leaders by announcing that he wanted to explore a multi-billion pound worldwide tax on financial transactions.

LONDON, England - November 7, 2009 - The volte-face by the Prime Minister on a global transaction tax, which had previously

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Commercial property market to hit bottom in 2010!

Owners of properties such as office buildings, warehouses and malls will suffer a surge of painful defaults, write-downs as the market finally faces up to the reality of its diminished conditions.

NEW YORK - November 5, 2009 - After spending more than a year in suspended animation, the commercial real estate industry is expec

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Shudder speed!

WASHINGTON - November 5, 2009 - You rip open the envelope and there it is: Another darned photo-enforcement traffic ticket. The photograph, the zoom-in on the tag, it's you, baby. Your car. Two weeks ago. Forty-one in a 30-mph zone.

It's from your favorite municipality. You can pay $40 now or $80 later. You can also contest it, the infraction

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Italy convicts former CIA agents in rendition trial!

MILAN/ROME, Italy - November 4, 2009 - An Italian judge sentenced 23 Amerikans to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric, in a symbolic condemnation of the CIA rendition flights used by the former U.S. government.

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Executive pensions increase even though stocks fall!

NEW YORK - November 3, 2009 - Pensions for top U.S. executive rose by an average of 19% last year, and more than 200 officers saw their retirement savings surge by as much as 50%, even as their companies’ stock prices fell, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.