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Medical students 'brainwashed' in Syria

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Story highlights Families say the doctors and students went to Turkey to help refugees "They have been cheated, brainwashed," parliamentarian Mehmet Ali Ediboglu says The group is made up of Britons, Sudanese, an American and a Canadian

The group of 11 people includes seven Britons, an American, a Canadian and two Sudanese, Turkish lawmaker Mehmet Ali Ediboglu told CNN on Sunday.

Ediboglu, an opposition lawmaker, told The Observer that he had spoken with the students' families, who were convinced their loved ones wanted to work for ISIS, and were asking him for help tracking them down in neighboring Syria.

"They have been cheated, brainwashed. That is what I, and their relatives, think," Ediboglu said, according to the newspaper.

But he also stressed that the group did not travel with the intention of joining the battle.

"Let's not forget about the fact that they are doctors," he told The Observer. "They went there to help, not to fight."

In a joint statement, the students' and doctors' families said their children are humanitarians who went "to Turkey willingly to offer voluntary medical help to those refugees who are in need of medical care on Turkey's borders."

They have since "disappeared," the statement said.

"We have heard from the British, Turkish and Sudanese authorities that we have so far met, but we hope that the respectable governments of these countries would enforce, speed up and coordinate more effective measures to ensure the safety of our children wherever they are and bring them back to us as soon as possible," the statement said.

Eight of the group are medical students who've just graduated, and the three others are in their final year of medical school, he said. They'd been studying in Khartoum, Sudan.

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Transcript: Ted Cruzs speech at Liberty University

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) announced his intention to run for president in the 2016 election during a speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. (AP)

March 23 at 11:39 AM

Here is a complete transcript of Ted Cruzs address at Liberty University in which he officially announced his 2016 presidential bid.

CRUZ: Good to see you.

(APPLAUSE)

Thank you. (APPLAUSE)

Thank you so much, President Falwell. God bless Liberty University.

(APPLAUSE)

I am thrilled to join you today at the largest Christian university in the world.

(APPLAUSE)

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Why Liberty University?

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Founded by former Southern Baptist pastor and conservative political commentator Jerry Falwell, the university emphasizes traditional conservative Christian values and beliefs.

Cruz, a Texas Republican, is a favorite among conservatives for his positions on both social and fiscal issues.

READ: Ted Cruz to announce 2016 bid Monday

The school is now a magnet for Republican presidential candidates and politicians, often times during their campaigns as they're looking to enhance their support among evangelical voters.

Seeking to make amends for derogatory comments made during a 2000 speech, including claiming Falwell to be an "agent of intolerance," Sen. John McCain visited Liberty as the commencement speaker before his presidential nomination in 2008.

In September 2011, Texas Gov. Rick Perry spoke during the school's convocation. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann also addressed the student body later that same month. Both made bids as GOP presidential candidates.

Then-Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, gave the 2012 commencement address to more than 14,000 graduates. Romney, a Mormon, sought to dissuade any concerns Christians had regarding his faith.

Mat Staver, the university's law school dean, said having such national leaders speak "indicates the importance of Liberty and the impact of our students."

SEE: Jerry Brown says Cruz is 'absolutely unfit' for office

Cruz, 44, is a first-term senator and the first Latino to represent Texas in the Senate. He made waves back in 2013 when he unrepentantly made efforts to block the implementation of President Barack Obama's health care law.

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Virginias Liberty University: A mega-college and Republican presidential stage

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Why has Liberty University become a stage of choice in Republican presidential politics?

On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is expected to launch his bid for the White House from the university in Lynchburg, Va. Republican candidate Mitt Romney spoke about Judeo-Christian values at the campus during his 2012 campaign. In 2014, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), a possible 2016 contender,spoke at Libertys commencement.

One reason candidates are gravitating to the university is symbolism. It is perceived as a bastion of the Christian right. The evangelical Christian school was founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, who led an influential movement in the 1980s known as the Moral Majority.

[Virginia's Liberty University transforms into evangelical mega-university.]

But another reason is that the school has become a national higher education phenomenon in recent years under the leadership of Falwells son, Jerry Falwell Jr. It now has about 81,000 students, the largest enrollment in the country of any private, non-profit university. Most are online students, but about 14,000 are residential.

The enrollment far exceeds the number of students Liberty had at the time of the elder Falwells death in 2007. The younger Falwell, president of Liberty, envisions the online and residential programs complementing each other. With a strong financial position, the school has gone on a building boom.

Nick Anderson covers higher education for The Washington Post. He has been a writer and editor at The Post since 2005.

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How will evangelicals vote? What Ted Cruzs announcement means for his rivals.

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By Tobin Grant March 23 at 4:21 PM

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz announced his presidential bid today at Liberty University, a symbolic venue for Cruz and maybe a harbinger that he is outpacing his rivals for a key bloc of voters in the GOP.

Liberty was founded by the late Jerry Falwell Sr., the Southern Baptist minister who also founded the Moral Majority. Among evangelicals and other social conservatives, Liberty is highly symbolic as the home of a particular blend of historic fundamentalism and politics.

Fundamentalism is a stream of evangelicalism that formed in the 1920s. Unlike other evangelicals, fundamentalists are often suspect of the larger American culture, eschewing influences that could have a corrupting influence on their spiritual lives.

Cruz spoke to students and supporters as an evangelical insider. He included a story of his own conversion and about how his father was transformed after he gave his life to Jesus Christ.

There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family theres not a second of doubt, because were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, I would not have been saved and I would have been raised by a single mom without my father in the household, Cruz said.

In the past, Republican candidates have used Liberty to demonstrate their willingness to work with evangelicals. Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney each gave commencement addresses in hopes of assuaging doubts among social conservatives. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal gave last years commencement address.

Cruzs announcement is far different. He did not go to Liberty as a stop along the way just to reach out to evangelicals. He is a conservative Baptist who chose Lynchburg, Va., as his launching pad.

Gods blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isnt done with America yet, Cruz said in his speech.

[Here's what we know about Ted Cruz's faith]

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Liberty University Yik Yak Flooded With Ted Cruz Posts During Republican's 2016 Candidacy Announcement

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Since the anonymous social media app's release two years ago, Yik Yak has become a landing place for college students' thoughts on everything from dining hall food to final exams. But at Liberty University in Virginia Monday, a different subject dominated students' Yik Yak feeds: politics. Dozens of users took to the app before, during and after Sen. Ted Cruz's on-campus speech announcing his plans to run for U.S. president in 2016. Attendance was mandatory, Business Insider reported, and the Texas Republican's audience had a lot to say.

Several users made jokes referencing Cruz's use of "imagine," a word he invoked 38 times during his announcement, according to atweetfrom Washington Post reporter Jose A. DelReal. Others repeated the now-famous statement made by Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch that "I'm just here so I won't get fined," as students who didn't go to Cruz's speech faced reprimands and a fine.

Some Paul supporters wore bright red shirts to steal attention away from Cruz's speech as conversation on Yik Yak continued.

Liberty University is a private Christian university with about 13,500 residential students.CNN reportedCruz likely chose the college for his announcement because of its focus on conservative values, and he's not the first to do so. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was the school's commencement speaker in 2006. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney have also spoken before Liberty students.

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Libertarians and the Struggle for Womens Rights

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March is Womens History Month, which reminds me of the role women played in launching the libertarian movement and the role that women with libertarian values have played in advancing womens rights.

In the dark year of 1943, in the depths of World War II and the Holocaust, when the most powerful government in the history of the United States was allied with one totalitarian power to defeat another,three remarkable womenpublished books that could be said to have given birth to the modern libertarian movement. Stephen Cox, Isabel Patersons biographer, writes that women were more important to the creation of the libertarian movement than they were to the creation of any political movement not strictly focused on womens rights.

Rose Wilder Lane, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who had writtenLittle House on the Prairieand other stories of American rugged individualism, published a passionate historical essay calledThe Discovery of Freedom. Isabel Paterson, a novelist and literary critic, producedThe God of the Machine, which defended individualism as the source of progress in the world. And the most famous, Ayn Rand, publishedThe Fountainhead.

The women were very different. You could hardly get more traditionally American than Lane, the daughter of the bestselling chronicler of the American frontier. She traveled throughout Europe as a journalist after World War I and lived for long periods in Albania. Paterson too was born to a poor farming in family, albeit in Canada. She made her way to Vancouver and then to New York City, where she became a prominent newspaper columnist. Ayn Rand was born in czarist Russia and came to the United States after the Communist takeover, determined to write novels and movie scripts in her adopted language.

A libertarian must necessarily be a feminist, in the sense of being an advocate of equality under the law for all men and women.

The three women became friends, though the three strong-minded individualists eventually fell out over religious and political differences. By that time, though, the individualist tradition in America had been revived, and a fledgling movement was under way.

Paterson, Lane, and Rand were not, however, the first libertarian women to advocate for individual rights.

The equality and individualism that underlay the emergence of capitalism and republican government in the 18th century naturally led people to start thinking about the rights of women and of slaves, especially African American slaves in the United States. Its no accident that feminism and abolitionism emerged out of the ferment of the Industrial Revolution and the American and French revolutions. Just as a better understanding of natural rights was developed during the American struggle against specific injustices suffered by the colonies, the feminist and abolitionist Angelina Grimk noted in an 1837 letter to Catherine E. Beecher, I have found the Anti-Slavery cause to be the high school of morals in our land the school in which human rights are more fully investigated, and better understood and taught, than in any other.

Mary Wollstonecraft (wife of William Godwin and mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author ofFrankenstein) responded to Edmund BurkesReflections on the Revolution in Franceby writingA Vindication of the Rights of Men, in which she argued that the birthright of man is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

Just two years later, in 1792, she publishedA Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which asked whether, when men contend for their freedom it be not inconsistent and unjust to subjugate women?

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Rand Paul, Tweaking Ted Cruz, Says GOP Must Reach Beyond Its Base

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Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican and libertarian, Monday argued that hes the most electable GOP presidential candidate in 2016 and suggested that fellow GOP Sen. Ted Cruzs appeal wouldnt reach beyond the partys core voters.

Mr. Paul couldnt say exactly that hes running for president, because he hasnt declared himself a candidate. But during a Monday night Fox News interview, Mr. Paul took a series of shots at Mr. Cruz on the day the Texan launched his presidential campaign. (Mr. Paul did say hell have some kind of announcement April 7th.)

This isnt just about rousing the base. Its about exciting the base by being for the principles of liberty, but its then taking those principles of liberty, not diluting them, and taking them to new people and bringing them into the party, Mr. Paul said. Thats the way you win general elections.

He continued: Ted Cruz is a conservative, but it also goes to winability. And people will have to make a decision, which is the Republican who can not only excite the base but also bring new people into the party without giving up their principles.

Its hardly the first time Mr. Paul has taken shots at would-be 2016 Republican presidential candidates. Hes he a regular critic of Jeb Bush, a likely rival for the GOP nomination, and squabbled with GOP Sen. Marco Rubio in December over Cuba policy. He fought with Rick Perry, the former Texas governor, about Middle East foreign policy last summer.

So it was no surprise Monday that Mr. Paul took a few other unprovoked shots at Mr. Cruz on his big day. Mr. Paul noted that attendance at Mr. Cruzs Liberty University campaign announcement speech was required by the school. And 11 hours after Mr. Cruz made the case that Republican primary voters should choose a candidate who appeals to the base, Mr. Paul said he would try to grow the GOP to include African Americans and voters in liberal enclaves.

Ive spent the last couple years trying to go places Republicans havent gone and maybe not just throwing out red meat but throwing out something intellectually exciting to people who havent been listening to our message before, he said.

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