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The Alamo Flag. This flag was used from 1824 until the 1830′s. On March 6, 1836, the Mexican army under General Santa Anna breached the walls of the Alamo at San Antonio, Texas. 187 defenders died that morning. All were avenged six weeks later when Sam Houston, with the cry “Remember the Alamo,” defeated Santa [...]

CBS News: The controversial immigration bill signed into law in Arizona Friday is exposing a rift in the Republican party over how it addresses issues important to Latinos, a fast-growing voting bloc overwhelmingly opposed to the GOP-backed bill. Two prominent Florida Republicans – former Governor Jeb Bush and likely GOP Senate nominee Marco Rubio – [...]

Politico: In the recent diplomatic rift between Israel and the United States, Republicans see a chance to attract votes and contributions from a demographic group that has voted overwhelmingly for Democrats — Jewish Americans. Meanwhile, the White House has launched a charm offensive to smooth over its relationship with the Jewish community after two of [...]

Politico: One of the enduring storylines of Barack Obama’s presidency, dating back to the earliest days of his candidacy, is that the press loves him. “Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me,” Obama joked last year at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. But even then, only four months into his [...]

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. government may challenge Arizona’s new immigration law, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday as Arizona officials blamed the Feds for forcing the state into passing its own immigration enforcement mechanisms. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters on Tuesday that he fears the new law is subject to abuse. He said [...]

Washington Times: The sole Senate Republican working with Democrats on a bipartisan immigration bill said Tuesday that the issue will have to wait until 2012, undercutting the drive to pass a law this year and setting up a partisan floor showdown that all sides acknowledge won’t produce a bill that can reach the president’s desk. [...]

Politico: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rejected a proposal from supporters of a stalled Senate energy bill that would move immigration reform through the regular committee process on a priority basis and allow the energy bill to move forward on the Senate floor. The proposal would tentatively set action on immigration for November, after the [...]

Jerusalem Post: Israel is concerned that Indonesia could take up command of UNIFIL’s naval force, making it difficult for the IDF and particularly the Israel Navy to maintain a high level of coordination with the peacekeeping force. Italy is currently in charge of the UNIFIL Maritime Task Force after taking over command from the German [...]

Fox News: Jack Kevorkian’s infamous “death bus” was removed from auction on eBay, it emerged Tuesday. The 1968 Volkswagen Bus/Vanagon was put on sale on the website last week by Jack Finn, a Volkswagen parts expert in Ferndale, Mich., who previously stored it in a warehouse. He claimed the van was in the same condition [...]

Agencie France Presse: Hezbollah has shot back at US accusations it was stockpiling sophisticated weapons and vowed to continue to build its artillery, in comments published on Wednesday. “Our choice was and remains to secure all the arms of resistance that we can,” Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah told the Arabic-language newspaper As-Safir, which is close [...]

Agencie France Presse: Damascus’s oldest cafe, the Havana, used to be packed with customers whiling away the hours sipping coffee and puffing on a water pipe, but today it is three-quarters empty. Like so many other places in the world, Syria has been hit by a ban on smoking in public places. Smoking nargiles, or [...]

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Winchester Ammunition was recently awarded a contract by the Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security to supply a maximum of 200 million, 40 cal. rounds over the next five years. The load selected for this contract is a 135-grain, hollow point designed for the office [...]

Blankfein The Hill: A financial regulatory reform bill has at least one supporter outside of Congressional Democrats, Lloyd Blankfein, the head of investment bank Goldman Sachs. “I’m generally supportive,” Blankfein told the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Wall Street will benefit from the bill because it will make the market safer, Blankfein said. “The biggest [...]

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Rasmussen: The Arizona legislature has now passed the toughest measure against illegal immigration in the country, authorizing local police to stop and check the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 70% of likely voters in Arizona approve of the legislation, while [...]