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Liberty is perhaps the most overlooked component in the ongoing Republican debates. iVoteAmerica has ranked the Republican candidates based upon the answers they gave to questions as measured by the US Constitution’s concept of liberty.

A candidate’s understanding and application of liberty as reflected in their answers has been weighted 50%. Of course, it would be instructive to hear the commentators in these debates ask the candidates about their concept of liberty.

In addition to the weighting of the candidates according to the concept of liberty, we have rated the candidates based upon their dedication to traditional American values as reflected in their answers.

Editorial – by iVoteAmerica

We cannot fully comprehend the mind of Osama Bin Laden.

Nor does iVoteAmerica wish to engage in some sort of self-serving treatise about his misguided, dangerous and evil ways being the product of his environment…or, worse, his mother.

Bin Laden is dead.

As a result of the announcement of his death we can expect conspiracy theorists to grow like weeds in a garden, setting forth notions about the U.S. intelligence community creating a myth about Bin Laden’s demise.

The idea of understanding Osama Bin Laden’s mind should be left to pop psychologists who engage in such self-serving analysis.

However, one is naturally forced to wonder, if only for a moment, what his final moments were like and what his last thoughts might have been.

Luckily, we can all sleep better tonight knowing precisely what went through Osama Bin Laden’s mind at the very end?

A bullet!

By Alan Caruba.

The Korean War ended in a stalemate in 1953. Having begun on June 25, 1950 with the blessings of Joseph Stalin, an armistice agreement on July 27, 1953 left the peninsula divided between the Republic of South Korea and the Peoples Republic of North Korea. How long ago was that? Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected largely on the promise to go there and secure an end to the conflict

By the time it was over the Red Chinese had intervened and American casualties were around 54,000 with 103,000 wounded. The North Koreans and Chinese were estimated to have lost ten times that number. The war was immensely unpopular with an American public that was still recovering from World War Two that had ended in 1945.

Another UN Sanctioned War for America

To his credit, President Truman did not hesitate to commit troops. Within two days after the invasion, Americans were fighting another war in Asia. The United Nations provided cover and the conflict was officially a UN action.
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By Alan Caruba.

What kind of government deliberately denies its citizens access to the energy they need to live, to conduct business, to transport goods, to travel, and to just turn on the lights? Answer: The United States of America.

In a letter to members of the G-20, the finance ministers and central bankers of leading industrial nations, President Obama said, “We should make sustained effort to carry through with our groundbreaking Pittsburgh commitment to phase out fossil fuel subsidies.”

The result of such action would give international energy companies in other nations a large competitive advantage while penalizing U.S. oil and natural gas companies.

As Dr. Richard Swier noted recently, “In the U.S., support for the oil and gas industry is largely about investment depreciation rules which are available to many industries.” Energy companies routinely put huge amounts of money at risk to explore, discover, and extract the so-called fossil fuels. Take away the subsidies and the cost of all energy use in the U.S. goes up.

Meanwhile, CNN Money reported on November 12 that “President Obama lifted his moratorium on deepwater oil drilling nearly a month ago, but the government still hasn’t issued any new permits in the Gulf of Mexico. And most analysts say permits will be slow in coming through 2011.” (emphasis added)

Some Good News and Some Bad News

This is great news for Saudi Arabia and bad news for Americans who think we should be accessing our own vast oil reserves. This failure to revive the oil drilling industry in the Gulf comes at a time when the price of a barrel of oil is rising while leaving thousands of oil industry workers in the Gulf States out of work.
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