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Government Using Anti-Terrorism Laws to Crush Dissent

The following quotes all have something in common:”It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error”– United States Supreme Court …

Obama heads to Asia, breaks foreign travel record

US President Barack has travelled to more countries in his first year in office than any of his predecessors and now, will undertake a nine-day tour of Asia.
Since taking office, he has made seven foreign trips and visited 16 countries, three of them twice.
The Asia trip will take him to Japan, Singapore, China and South [...]

Barack Obama Nobel Peace Prize 2009

President Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, also citing the president’s outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.

The committee said it attached particular emphasis on the President’s vision of a world [...]

Australian Navy In NY Harbor (PHOTOS)

TEXT FROM AP, SLIDESHOW COMPILED BY HUFFINGTON POST FROM AP IMAGES.

NEW YORK (AP) — The United States and Australia are celebrating a friendship at sea that has lasted more than 100 years.

On Sunday, two Australian warships arrived in New …

Frans de Waal: Sotomayer’s Empathy: Not for the Birds

That a candidate for the Supreme Court needs empathy, as Obama emphasized, is almost too obvious to pay attention to. Because apart from psychopaths, all…