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DENVER – A good Samaritan who helped push three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: A jaywalking ticket. ">snip<"

2007 Keeper of the Flame Award Center for Security Policy | Oct 17, 2007 (Washington, D.C.): On Wednesday, the Center for Security Policy paid tribute to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Defenders of the Home Front – the men and women who work daily to keep us and our families safe here at home. Senator Lieberman's address to the nearly 350 attendees at this elegant black-tie dinner held at Washington's landmark Union Station was preceded by a welcome from Mr. Linden Blue, Vice Chairman of General Atomics, and remarks by The Honorable Francis...

ICE-deputized troopers round up suspected illegal immigrants. Recently trained Colorado troopers arrested 48 suspected illegal immigrants in a sweep along Interstate 70 on Tuesday near the Eisenhower Tunnel... "That's a good big number for us," said Jeff Copp, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement district chief based in Denver. It was the first roundup by Colorado State Patrol officers deputized by ICE to process suspected illegal immigrants. In the joint operation between ICE and the State Patrol, three cars were stopped for traffic violations and a fourth was stranded beside the road, said state Master Trooper Ron Watkins. All of the...

Facing an enemy that for decades has been focused on killing Americans and destroying our way of life, the stakes for our future stability have never been higher. Consequently, for the 2006 elections, nothing could be more dangerous to America's security than an uninformed electorate. View the Center for Security Policy's new ad campaign meant to educate us all about the enemy we face...right here. In the 2006 mid-term elections, no issue is likely to be more determinative of the outcomes of congressional races and, arguably, the future course of our country than public attitudes on national security. In particular,...

(Washington, D.C.): At a moment when things are not going particularly well in the War for the Free World - the global conflict with Islamofascism and its aiders and abetters in which, like it or not, we are currently embroiled - there is a bit of very welcome good news: America is employing at last a powerful new "weapon," one that may help turn the tide. Interestingly, this weapon is not being wielded by our men and women in uniform on the far-flung battlefields of this war. Yet, it has the potential not only to help them prevail there, but...

At this point in our history, is what we really need a Treasury Secretary who is a pedigreed "Friend of China?" That is a term the Communist Chinese apply to individuals who have proven their affinity for the People's Republic by service of one kind or another. Communist China arguably has no better or more powerful friend in the whole of the Western world than the man President Bush has just appointed to be this nation's chief financial officer: Henry Paulson. Mr. Paulson has made a very successful career, an immense personal fortune and an astounding financial empire at the...

Washington, D.C.): One of the most important public policy fights in years is taking place within the U.S. government. The debate is over how to deal with the growing danger posed by Islamofascist Iran. A House Divided In one corner are those who believe, against all historical experience, that appeasement of despots will work this time. Hence, their support of efforts by the so-called "EU-3" - Britain, France and Germany - to present a sufficiently attractive package of concessions to the Iranian mullahocracy to induce it to give up at least some of its program for developing nuclear weapons. The...

Millions of American investors, as well as their pension funds, mutual funds and other institutions, have unsuspectingly invested their hard-earned wealth in foreign companies that aid and abet the Islamofascist theocracy in Iran. If you are reading this article, you’re probably one of those unsuspecting investors. You may not directly own shares of corporations that do business in and with the Islamic Republic of Iran, but chances are your 401K, mutual fund portfolio or public pension system is invested in such companies. Congratulations. A portion of your money is going toward arming and training Hezbollah terrorists, sheltering members of Al...

Now we know. The Sunday morning CNN program hosted by Wolf Blitzer provided an explanation for at least some of the bizarre behavior in evidence lately in Washington. In response to a video clip of Senator Jon Kyl (Republican of Arizona) making the sensible point that it is "nuts" in a time of war to be disclosing our intelligence sources and methods, former Carter National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski declared that "we are not at war." While he acknowledged that there are serious threats, he suggested that it was fear-mongering to talk about being in a war, a practice used...

FEATURE STORY | September 2, 2002 The Men From JINSA and CSP by JASON VEST Almost thirty years ago, a prominent group of neoconservative hawks found an effective vehicle for advocating their views via the Committee on the Present Danger, a group that fervently believed the United States was a hair away from being militarily surpassed by the Soviet Union, and whose raison d'être was strident advocacy of bigger military budgets, near-fanatical opposition to any form of arms control and zealous championing of a Likudnik Israel. Considered a marginal group in its nascent days during the Carter Administration, with the...