In Freedom’s Cause

Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) said, “Mr. Speaker I understand we are under Martial Law as declared by the speaker last night.”

Michael Burgess begins his address by saying, “Mr. Speaker I ask permission DURESS… to address the house for one minute…” He then goes on to say that martial law has been declared.
Was this intentional?
Martial [...]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7638159.stm
“There is no disagreement that something suspic[sious]… substantial must be done,” said Bush.

In choosing a candidate, there are two damaging ways of thinking that can be seen:

Pick the candidate who is in the party you chose, even before you knew the current candidate
Predict who you think will win and vote for them (aka bandwagoning)

The problem with picking the candidate who is in the party that you chose [...]

The number “700 billion” is being thrown around a lot over the last week. That is the amount the feds want to throw at the economy to fix the problem. (The terms “fix” and “problem” are used very loosely.)
Everyone is saying that $700b will be thrown on the backs of the American taxpayers, [...]

Source: Reuters
Senate passes $612 bln defense spending bill
Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:54pm EDT
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a $612.5 billion defense spending bill for fiscal 2009, including $70 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As passed on an 88-8 vote, the measure would authorize $103.9 billion for Pentagon [...]

Written on September 16, 2008
(Posted here on September 19, 2008)
Source: blogs.chron.com
Libertarian presidential candidate wants to remove both John McCain and Barack Obama from the ballot in Texas and has filed suit to eliminate the major-party candidates from consideration by Texas voters.
His argument is that the Democratic and Republican parties technically violated state election law by [...]

Source: BBC News
“Speaking at an event organised by the German Marshall Fund in Washington, Ms Rice acknowledged that Georgia had fired the first shots in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.”
Full Story:
Condoleezza Rice on Russia’s ”aggression”
Russia is becoming increasingly authoritarian at home and aggressive abroad, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said.
In a [...]

Source: Army Times

3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army
By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Sep 8, 2008 6:15:06 EDT
The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling [...]