President Obama's Defense Team Reverses Decision and Completes Missile Defense Fields in Alaska
PR-AU.com
November 07, 2009
By Staff

Riki Ellison, President and Founder of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org went on record today praising President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on their decision to build and complete 14 additional ground-based interceptor silos in Alaska. His comments on this significant national decision are as follows:

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UAF group honors anniversary of Berlin Wall’s dismantle
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
November 07, 2009
by Rebecca George

FAIRBANKS — The fall of the Berlin Wall two decades ago was arguably the result of a grass-roots effort to protest communist control and support German reunification.

Following a series of protests, on Nov. 9, 1989, a spokesman for the East German government declared that, effective immediately, all East German citizens were free to travel abroad

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Fort Hood tragedy
Anchorage Daily Planet
November 07, 2009
Editorial

Our hearts go out this morning to the friends and families of the 13 people slain and the 30 wounded in a wild burst of gunfire at the sprawling Fort Hood military installation outside Killeen, Texas.

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RCA approves Enstar, Anchor Energy natural gas contract
Anchorage Daily Planet
November 07, 2009
By JEREMIAH SCOBY

The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has approved a gas sales agreement allowing Anchor Point Energy to supply 10 billion cubic feet of natural gas to Enstar Natural Gas Co.

Anchor Point Energy has agreed to supply at least 1.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas annually to Enstar, with first gas expected to come on line as soon as 2011.

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Gold is a good investment, right? Wrong
Anchorage Daily News
November 05, 2009
By JEFF PANTAGES

What is it about gold? Its price is soaring in the market and is now over $1,000 an ounce. There are more and more TV ads exhorting viewers to "Buy gold, now!" The higher it goes the louder the ads seem to get.

It just doesn't make sense to me as an investment. It generates no cash flow and pays no interest. In fact you have to pay money to store and insure it.

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Trade Could Be Key For Afghanistan And Entire Region
RFE/RL
October 30, 2009
By S. Frederick Starr

Both U.S. General Stanley McChrystal and President Barack Obama have affirmed the need for "economic" and "governance" measures in Afghanistan.

They're right, of course. Without them Washington's stated goals -- to destroy Al-Qaeda and cripple the Taliban -- remain purely negative and not compelling to most Afghans, to the countries neighboring Afghanistan, or even to its NATO allies.

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Iran Positions Israel In Its Cross Hairs
IBD.com
November 07, 2009
Editorial

Mideast: Iran tests an advanced warhead design as it gets caught shipping weapons to Hezbollah. Syria is reported to give the group operational control over Scud missiles. It's five minutes to midnight.

Tyranny abhors a vacuum. While the U.S. and the West dither in Hamlet-like fashion over whatever we shall do in places such as Afghanistan and Iran, the Axis of Evil is in full swing in its plans to destroy Israel and threaten Europe and America.

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Nightmare On Wall St.
IBD.com
November 07, 2009
Editorial

Regulation: Washington is quietly preparing a hostile takeover of Wall Street with a new bill that would put regulators in control of managing asset prices.

While all eyes are fixed on the cobra poised to strike the health care industry, a python is wending its way through Hill banking panels that would squeeze the life from the whole economy.

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Do I Wake or Sleep?
American Thinker
November 07, 2009
By Susan D. Harris

It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - J. Krishnamurti

Remember the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"? Undoubtedly the only song that successfully rhymed the phrase "children of thalidomide"?

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Loyalty and the Lunatic Fringe
American Thinker
November 07, 2009
By Thomas M. Kelly

Where is the loyalty of the RINOs? Arlen Specter joins the Democrats. Colin Powell endorses the Democrat. Dierdre Scozzafava endorses the Democrat.

I'm not opposed to the Democratic Party out of some sense of style or family history. I'm opposed to the Democrats because I think they are wrong.

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