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'The most fundamental principle of American foreign policy.'

The national media have tended to focus on which potential candidate Perry's indictment might help or hurt. But Texas reporters know Perry has a history of hardball politics, forcing people out of office, and say that we should take the charge of criminal abuse of office seriously.

How many times was Justice Antonin Scalia wrong about Henry Lee McCollum and the death penalty?

Unless you have celiac disease or a gluten intolerance – estimated to be about 1% of the population – or if you suspect that you do, do yourself a favor and avoid gluten-free products.

Last Sunday the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confiscated nearly 1,000 acres of Palestinian land in the West Bank, a move the Israeli organization Peace Now termed "unprecedented in its scope since the 1980s." Peace Now said this recent seizure of 990 acres of Palestinian land places yet another "obstacle" in the road to a two-state solution. Israel confiscated 243 acres in the same area in April.

Thousands of fast food workers across 150 U.S. cities walked off the job on Thursday. Hundreds of those workers — nearly 500 of them, according to a public relations firm supporting the strikes — willfully committed civil disobedience as part of their protest, and were subsequently arrested by the police.

The country's largest private prison firms are experiencing strong increases in the price of their shares as a result of the incarceration of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children in recent months. While these firms have no experience in child welfare, investors nonetheless "see this as an opportunity." For private firms with existing federal contracts to detain immigrants, the increased jailing of unaccompanied minors is "a potentially untapped market."