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Last September, when Iran’s uranium enrichment plant buried inside a mountain near the holy city of Qum was revealed, the episode cast light on a wider pattern: Over the past decade, Iran has quietly hidden an increasingly large part of its atomic complex in networks of tunnels and bunkers across the country.

You’ve seen all the press lately on parents’ demanding to know if a sexual predator is in their neighborhood. Likewise, what parent wouldn’t want evidence of a possible sexually based offense against a child reported to the authorities? Yet, when my good friend state Attorney General Phillip Kline recently took steps to make these things happen, it was labeled an “inquisition.” Why? The almost sacred status of the “right to an abortion.” Earlier this year, Phillip Kline, the attorney general of Kansas, subpoenaed the medical records of ninety women “who received late-term abortions at two Kansas clinics in 2003.” In...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Paunchy Americans should consider diets or health clubs, because suing restaurants over fatty fare will be off the menu if a bill the US House of Representatives passed becomes law. The House voted 236-139 for the so-called "Cheeseburger Bill," which would shield restaurants and food producers from Americans who put on weight with junk food and then take legal action over the negative health consequences. The bill's author, Republican representative Ric Keller of Florida, argued that such lawsuits are not only frivolous, but harmful to the US economy. "We're talking about protecting the single largest private-sector employer...