Fort Riley opens Battle Command Training Center
Officials at Kansas Army base unveil a 29 million Battle Command Training Center. The facility enables global, computer based mission training for the 1st Infantry Division and other units. It enhances situation awareness, reduces costs, and supports deployment readiness for Iraq and peacekeeping missions.
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Fort Riley
Kansas Army Base
Battle Command
1St Infantry Division
Iraq
U.S
Germany
Afghanistan
Telegram invites signed letters to editor
The Telegram solicits letters to the editor with required signer name, address, and phone number. Each letter will be confirmed before publication and may be edited for libel and length. General thank you notes are allowed. form letters, poems, consumer complaints, and business testimonials will not be printed.
First Amendment text cited for religious and press freedoms
The First Amendment outlines limits on Congress prohibiting establishment of religion or free exercise restrictions. It protects freedom of speech and of the press, and preserves the right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances.
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Debate over faith based offices under Bush and Obama
A Pew study analyzes how U S media treated the faith based initiative under George W Bush and Barack Obama. It notes Bush faced front page scrutiny over church state separation and possible theocracy, while Obama drew focus on process and policy scope with less criticism.
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Jesus
Bush
Obama
Joshua DuBois
Pew Research Center
Pew Forum On Religion & Public Life
George W. Bush
White House
Pew
Michael Cromartie
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Evangelicals In Civic Life
Cromartie
Washington
Obama and Latin America policy under scrutiny
Mark Weisbrot argues that Obama has continued Bush policies in Latin America, citing Honduras' coup, neutral White House statements, expanded U.S. military presence in Colombia, reactivated Fourth Fleet, and sanctions on Bolivia. He warns these moves damage democracy and regional progress. Distributed by Minutemanmedia.org.
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Bush
Mel Zelaya
Honduras
Washington
White House
General Assembly of the United Nations
Organization of American States
Zelaya
State Department
Richard Lugar
Clinton
Lanny Davis
Bennett Ratcliff
Pentagon
Lula da Silva
Brazil
Michelle Bachelet
Chile
U.S
Colombia
Congress
South America
U.S. Navy
Caribbean
Bolivia
Hugo Chavez
Venezuela
George W. Bush
Mark Weisbrot
Center For Economic and Policy Research
Washington, D.C
Minutemanmedia.org
Conservatives Lose Ground in Mixed Week Abroad
A satirical column reflects on Bill Clinton rescuing Laura Ling and Edne Lee in North Korea, Sonia Sotomayor's Senate confirmation, and a modest economic uptick. It condemns conservatives as enviro- and economy-skeptical, mocks their hostility to Obama, and questions their commitment to free speech and health care reform. The piece ends with cautious optimism about a passable health bill in flawed form.
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Bill Clinton
North Korea
Laura Ling
Edne Lee
Kim Jong-il
Sonya Sotomayor
Supreme Court
Barack Obama
Osama bin Laden
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