Another Voice

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” –theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Man wearing Afghan National Army uniform kills American soldier, official says

U.S., Middle East Forces Wage Huge War Game

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“There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.” –George Washington, First Inaugural Address, 1789

House panel votes to ban same-sex marriages on US military bases

Obama’s week: Bad to worse – Muddles gay marriage, nearly loses in W.Va. to inmate

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“An opportunity society awaits us. We need only believe in ourselves and give men and women of faith, courage, and vision the freedom to build it. Let others run down America and seek to punish success. Let them call you greedy for not wanting government to take more and more of your earnings. Let them defend their tombstone society of wage and price guidelines, mandatory quotas, tax increases, planned shortages, and shared sacrifices. We want no part of that mess, thank you very much.” –Ronald Reagan

U.S. institute says sees “new activities” at Iran site

U.S. Panel Moves to Eliminate Defense Budget Cuts

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“Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.” –James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791

Russian soldiers to train at Fort Carson

CIA thwarts Al Qaeda underwear bomb plot near anniversary of bin Laden’s death

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“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it … gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.” –economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

Lawyer: Edwards knew money was for his benefit

5 charged in 9/11 attacks resist Gitmo hearing

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“The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.” — James Madison (1788)

Spirit bows to pressure: Airline CEO to refund dying veteran’s fare

Iraq’s unity tested by rising tensions over oil-rich Kurdish region

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“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.” –Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801

ISAF under-reporting attacks by Afghan allies

With an asterisk, WTC is back on top in NYC

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“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” –James Madison, National Gazette Essay, 1792

FDA may let patients buy drugs without prescriptions – Medicare, insurance could be rid of costs

Marines hunt Taliban hiding in tunnels

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“The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.” –James Madison, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1788

Official: Expanded U.S. drone strikes approved for Yemen

Major Obama ‘bundler’ gets Dutch ambassador’s post

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