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"U.S. cites al-Qaida DVDs in pressing for suspect's detainment Chicago man allegedly plotted to attack Danish newspaper, target in India" SNIPPET: "A federal judge could decide on Nov. 19 whether to release Rana, owner of a Chicago Immigration business and a Grundy County meat processing plant, on bond pending trial." SNIPPET: "Last week prosecutors alleged that Rana and Headley, also of Chicago, had discussed targeting the National Defense College in India, a military school. Rana also allegedly told an associate of the Pakistani terror organization Lashkar-e-Taiba how to use loopholes in U.S. Immigration procedures to get others into the country...

Windows Vista was quite possibly the worst operating system known to man. When it launched, it required users to upgrade to expensive new computers, failed spectacularly to work with crucial hardware and software, and didn't offer much in the way of improvement over Windows XP. Fast-forward to 2009 and we're seeing a similar trend with Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Despite earning positive press reviews, we'd argue its teething problems are reminiscent of those of Vista. Since its launch, it's been riddled with software and hardware incompatibilities. There's a lack of Earth-shattering new features and...

People were shocked when Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan brutally targeted fellow servicemen at Texas' Fort Hood with pistol fire, murdering 12 and wounding 31. Yet there is an aspect of this story that is far more shocking -- or at least, one that would be considered so in a sane society. We now know that Major Hasan did not hide his true loyalties and often expressed Islamist sentiments. For example, the Telegraph quotes former Hasan colleague Col. Terry Lee as saying, "[Hasan] was making outlandish comments condemning our foreign policy and claimed Muslims had the right to rise up and attack...

(snip) Although some in the party believe that it should be tilting right in whom to support in future elections, he said, "I will be by and large supporting conservative Republicans" but would not rule out backing some moderates, referencing former President Reagan. "He was the one who coined the term 'the big tent.' He also said that you don't build something by subtraction. So we welcome people who agree with us on most issues. Some will be very conservative on some issues. Some will be less so on others. We welcome you into the party." (snip) "We have a...

The recent attack at Fort Hood in Texas, where an Army Major by the name of Nidal Malik Hasan who opened fire on 43 of his fellow soldiers, killing 12 and injuring 31, is currently in critical condition after being shot 4 times in an attempt to stop him from killing and injuring more. But there is more to the story, and the media (aside from Fox News and talk radio) is not really covering it. Before Hasan fired on his fellow soldiers, he shouted, the words "Allah Akbar" which is Arabic for “God is great,” and is normally shouted...

Just in time for the 2012 craze, CNN reports on a brand new massive Mayan pyramid discovery, including an amazing stone frieze showing the Maya sacred creation story, the Popol Vuh: World’s Largest Myran Pyramid Discovered VIDEO

At the end of Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS, host Bob Schieffer offered commentary on the cause of the mass shooting at Fort Hood: “That doctor [Major Nidal Hasan] should not have been at Fort Hood. I don’t care how hard-up the Army is for mental health professionals....sadly, this shows the Army still does not take protecting soldiers’ mental health as seriously as it does training them to shoot.” Schieffer went on to argue: “And then there is the other part that often happens in government. Don’t deal with the problem, shuffle it off to somewhere else. When he...

To kill your fellow Americans—as many as possible, unarmed and in the most helpless of circumstances, while shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great), requires, of course, only murderous hatred—the sort of mindset that regularly eludes the Dr. Phils of our world as the motive for mass murder of this kind. As the meditations on Maj. Hasan's motives rolled on, "fear of deployment" has served as a major theme—one announced as fact in the headline for the New York Times's front-page story: "Told of War Horror, Gunman Feared Deployment." The authority for this intelligence? The perpetrator's cousin. No story could have...

A Russian policeman has triggered a political storm by breaking a code of silence over corruption in the ranks, in videos posted on the internet. Major Aleksei Dymovsky, a senior drugs trafficking investigator, accused corrupt police chiefs of ordering officers to jail innocent people and claimed that it was impossible to live on the official salary, £290 a month, without taking bribes. He made an appeal to Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister, to order a national inquiry into corruption, saying that he was speaking up for ordinary officers who considered dignity and honour as “words burnt into the mind”. His...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found his health reform efforts seriously complicated Monday by the explosive issue of abortion, as key centrist senators said they wanted to see airtight language in the bill blocking federal funding for the procedure. Abortion threatened to derail a House health reform bill Saturday, and now it’s standing in the way of Reid’s attempts to get 60 votes as well, with Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) saying he wants to see language as restrictive as the House’s in the Senate bill. If the language isn’t clear in prohibiting federal funds for abortion, “you could be sure...

A fuming Gov. Deval Patrick is taking on University of Massachusetts officials who now say they must allow a convicted terror bomber to speak on campus because of “academic freedom” - even after angry cops thought the event had been stopped. “Gov. Patrick is outraged and extremely disappointed at reports that the University of Massachusetts has again extended a speaking invitation to Raymond Luc Levasseur,” said Patrick spokesman Joe Landolfi. The governor last night called on UMass brass to “review” the abrupt about-face. Levasseur, now under federal parole in a Maine halfway house, was the radical leader of United Freedom...

What a moron, Robert Gibbs gives out NBC Chuck Todd's e-mail on live television, Chuck Todd was just asking for clarification on Obama wanting a Health Care bill, and Obama signing one...(Video)

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Congressional candidate Rob Wasinger, R-Cottonwood Falls, gained the endorsement of U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the GOP's presidential nominee in 2008. "Rob Wasinger has the right experience, vision, and values to lead Kansas into an era of economic growth and prosperity. He is an exemplary public servant we can trust," McCain was quoted saying in a news release from the Wasinger campaign. "I am humbled to be supported by Sen. John McCain, an American hero who has served our country with honor and integrity both in uniform and in Congress," Wasinger said in the same release. Wasinger is the former...

The day of the Fort Hood massacre I heard on either ABC or CNN radio that a second suspect had been arrested by military personnel a few miles away at a golf course. We've heard jack since then. I'm a little curious especially since we were told the main shooter was dead for several hours then made a miraculous recovery later in the day. I wonder what Hoekstra knows...

The media has been reporting that there is a wave of suicide on Ft. Hood. That the number of soldiers who are choosing to take their own lives is staggering. That violence abounds in this highly-stressed population. I was wondering, is this really true? So I decided to do a very crude statistical analysis of the situation here at Ft. Hood to see if I could shed light on these “shocking” numbers. I’m not a statistician, and I’m sure my methodology will make a real math nerd wince, but I think I’ve proven that the streets of Ft. Hood are...

Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. Heinous pictures and videos can be deposited on computers by viruses — the malicious programs better known for swiping your credit card numbers. In this twist, it's your reputation that's stolen. Pedophiles can exploit virus-infected PCs to remotely store and view their stash without fear they'll get caught. Pranksters or someone trying to frame you can tap viruses to make it appear that you surf illegal Web sites. Whatever the motivation, you get child porn on...

From Tun Tavern to Afghanistan, The US Marines are a cut above. "A Few Good Men" is an understatement. Pound for pound, the most dangerous warrior on the planet is a Marine and his Rifle.... For those of us who share this Brotherhood, This is not rhetoric, it is fact. How many men and women in the history of the world are or have been US Marines? Not many. I celebrate our birthday by thinking of you, my brothers and sisters, and pray you are kept safe. Dragonmarine

2009/11/10 15:43 KST N. Korea demands apology from South over naval clash SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korea demanded an apology from South Korea over a naval clash on the western sea border on Tuesday, calling the skirmish a "grave armed provocation" by the South that targeted a patrol boat on routine duty. "Today the north side let a patrol boat of the Navy of the KPA (Korean People's Army) on routine guard duty promptly go into action to confirm an unidentified object that intruded into the waters of its side," the North's Supreme Command of the KPA said...

Mom always told you not to play with your food. She probably didn't tell you that you could get arrested for it though. More than two dozen students, ranging in age from 11 to 15 years old, were arrested on criminal charges after a food fight in a cafeteria at a Chicago charter school. According to reports, a good old-fashioned food fight broke out Thursday at the Perspectives Charter Schools in Calumet. Someone tossed a piece of food, someone else threw an orange, someone yelled "Food fight!," and chaos ensued. Twenty-five students were taken into custody at about 12 noon...

Left un-addressed (intentionally, by the device and drug lobbies) are the reasons we spend so much on health care in this country. Put simply, America pays for the development of every advanced treatment in the world and has for the last 30 years, yet every other nation's citizens get to enjoy those advancements for free. That's right. The Pharmaceutical and Device industry has managed to get legislation enacted prohibiting the re-importation of devices or drugs sold overseas. These overseas markets demand price controls on the drugs and devices sold there, and get it. We, on the other hand, have a...

George Bush Sr., with Condoleeza Rice, celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall at his library days after his Berlin reunion with Gorby and Helmut Kohl.

A soldier turning on his comrades at Fort Hood, an Afghan policeman killing the British soldiers who trained him - two uncannily similar events in two days, but incidents which, across the Western world, security authorities have been planning for and dreading. Since the Mumbai attacks counter-terrorism planning has seen a major shift. Those charged with thwarting or reacting to future terror attacks were alarmed by Mumbai. The shootings in Afghanistan and Fort Hood carry echoes of the atttacks in India with the added danger that the enemy has come from within. The new-style of attack relies not on the...

Thirty years ago I used to drink whiskey and play chess with several of the MP's and PMI's at Ft. Hood. Though it never rated five stars, the place was home when I was on pass from my own installation. Fifty-five years ago the subways I rode had Radio Free Europe Ads promoting beaming the Truth behind the Iron Curtain. Today we keep the truth from our own people. The very protoges of the journalists so enraged by Bill Moyers lying about Vietnam now routinely lie or refuse access to the Truth. The American people just yawn and vote Democrat....

Well, you’ve heard about Sham-Wow – here’s the Real Wow: Find God in Just 60 Days or we’ll return your meaningless existence with no obligation! My new Klavan on the Culture video with visuals once again by Justin Folk who actually personally decapitated Richard Dawkins to get that shot of his head floating in muck. Is that dedication or… what? Anyway, here’s the vid: Cannot embed here

It was Friday afternoon that I finished the draft of "The Left and Terror", at which point I logged on to waste a little time poking around the Net, something I am very good at. Imagine my shock at being confronted with the news from Fort Hood at that moment. Such coincidences tap into sources deep in the subconscious -- it was as if my own writing had somehow called Nidal Malik Hasan into existence. A disturbing sensation, one that served to curtail analysis of the event. I merely updated the piece and sent it on in. Developments over the...

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One of Australia's most prestigious university colleges has been urged to launch an investigation into student behaviour after it emerged that some had set up a "pro-rape" page on the social networking website Facebook. The group, which was named "Define Statutory", described its members as "anti-consent" and was listed in the sports and recreation section of the site. Created by male students from the St Paul's College at the University of Sydney, the page could be accessed from any of its members profiles. It was shut down at the end of last month, but had been live on Facebook since...

Are some liberals and progressives beginning to figure out that 1 + 1 doesn't equal 3, and that the national debt is exploding to the degree that even they feel a bit quesy? You know the health care reform bill is in trouble when even self-proclaimed "Progressives" (aka: liberals) are worried about the mammoth bill's cost and its effect on the already out-of-control budget deficit.

Important info for all veterans! WAGA: The I-Team obtained thousands of pages of legal documents and personally examined more than a hundred closing statements belonging to veterans. According to federal loan records, there have been some 884,000 veteran home loans refinanced during the past eight years. The question raised in a racketeering and class action law suit is how many of those loans involved banks defrauding U.S. military veterans.

November 10, 2009                                    Memorial of Saint Leo the Great,                                     pope and doctor of the Church   Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Wis 2:23–3:9 God formed man to be imperishable;the image of his own nature he made them.But by the envy of the Devil, death entered the world,and they who are in his possession experience it. But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them.They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be dead;and their...

North and South Korean warships have been involved in an exchange of fire along a disputed sea border area off the west coast of the Korean Peninsular, according to South Korean military officials. The clash comes at time when relations between the divided nations appeared to be thawing following several months of increased tensions caused by North Korea's decision to test a second nuclear device earlier this year. Initial reports said that there were no casualties from the exchange, which took place after a South Korean warship fired shots across the bow of a North Korean naval vessel that had...

MSNBC's Chris Matthews has said some things that would make your scratch your head - like getting a thrill up his leg from a speech given by Barack Obama. However, this one will really make you wonder what he was thinking. On his Nov. 9 broadcast of "Hardball," in an interview with Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, Matthews compared the incident of Maj. Nidal M. Hasan at Ft. Hood to Sirhan Sirhan's 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. "You know, I have a hard time with this because people like Sirhan Sirhan, who is...

You have to wonder at the double standards of  “justice” applied to former Bush Homeland Security chief nominee Kerik and former Bush energy advisor Majida Mourad, a Shi’ite Muslim lobbyist and former Bush Administration energy advisor.Both lied on federal forms and to White House personnel officials in the Bush Administration.  But only one of them was prosecuted.  The other, Ms. Mourad, lives the life of Al-Riley.

NOVEMBER 10, 2009 Life on Severance: Comfort, Then Crisis By MARY PILON SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Paul Joegriner hasn't worked since March 2008, when he was laid off from his $200,000-a-year job as chief executive officer of a small bank. But you wouldn't know it by appearances. His wife, Marzena, shuttles their two young children to private school every morning. The family recently vacationed in Virginia Beach, Va., and likes to dine on Porterhouse steaks. Since losing his job, Mr. Joegriner, 44 years old, has had several offers. He's turned each down in hopes of landing a position comparable to...

Barack Obama, the US President, will confront Chinese officials on the divisive subject of the yuan next week in a bold move which could anger America's largest creditor. President Obama, who, since taking office in January, has resisted branding the Chinese government as currency manipulators, promised to discuss the thorny issue of the yuan, and whether it is undervalued, as part of a visit to Shanghai and Beijing. "Currency, along with a host of other issues, will come up, and I'm confident that both the United States and China can arrive at a broad set of policies that encourages trade...

Baby Boy Gives Two-Finger Salute To The World... From Inside The WOMB DAILY MAIL REPORTER 09th November 2009 If Owen Skeffington grows up to show a lack of respect for authority, his parents can hardly complain that he didn't warn them. A scan taken at 27 weeks clearly shows the infant raising two fingers to the camera. Such was the hilarity at Royal Preston Hospital that the sonographer asked permission of his parents, Owen senior and Kelly, to put the picture on the wall. The 4D scan image of baby Owen Patrick Skeffington sticking his two fingers up to the...

Part Three:  The Will of God The Ten Commandments Table of Contents     The Ten Commandments are also called the Decalogue, from the Greek deka, ten, and logos, word. They are therefore the Ten Words of God which synthesize God’s covenant with His chosen people. They were divinely revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai and engraved on two tablets of stone. Moses broke the stone tablets in anger when he came down from the mountain and saw the people practicing idolatry. However, the tablets were later replaced and placed in the Ark of the Covenant.There are two versions of the Ten...

Satan works like this. First you lie, then you deny then you lie again. Genesis 3:1 Now the serpant was more subtle than any beast of the field. (He was a liar). And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? (First lie is that God will deny you joy and fulfillment). And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said....

Legislation Passed In House, Expected To Face Fierce Contention In Senate WASHINGTON (CBS) ― Abortion opponents in the Senate are seeking tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, a move that could roil a shaky Democratic effort to pass President Barack Obama's signature issue by year's end. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said Monday it's unlikely he could support a bill that doesn't clearly prohibit federal dollars from going to pay for abortions. His spokesman said Nelson is weighing options, including offering an amendment similar to the one passed by the House this weekend. The House-passed restrictions were the price...

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Harding Township Manages To Keep Taxes Very Low Because Residents Volunteer, Do Many Things Themselves HARDING TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBS) ― Across the Hudson River where property taxes are a hot button issue, homeowners in one New Jersey town know how to get more bang for their buck. What's Harding Township's secret? Lawmakers keep those taxes down and residents happy. It's a secret the residents don't want the rest of the state to know about -- how they've managed keep their property taxes down. When you step into Harding Township you feel like you've gone back in time. Horses, farms, barely...

WASHINGTON — Intelligence agencies intercepted communications last year and this year between the military psychiatrist accused of shooting to death 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., and a radical cleric in Yemen known for his incendiary anti-American teachings.But the federal authorities dropped an inquiry into the matter after deciding that the messages from the psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, did not suggest any threat of violence and concluding that no further action was warranted, government officials said Monday.Major Hasan’s 10 to 20 messages to Anwar al-Awlaki, once a spiritual leader at a mosque in suburban Virginia where Major Hasan worshiped,...

NASHVILLE — Republican legislators are at odds over whether to criticize the state’s largest anti-abortion organization for supporting a Democrat. House Republican Leader Jason Mumpower drafted a letter to Tennessee Right to Life President Brian Harris saying the endorsement of Democrats would harm prospects for anti-abortion legislation. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported Monday that he e-mailed the letter last week to House Republicans, inviting them to add their names to the letter. But several have objected, including House Speaker Kent Williams and Knoxville Reps. Bill Dunn and Stacey Campfield. Mumpower cites the group’s endorsement of Democrat Ty Cobb in a...

The big news this morning was about the Fort Hood shooter's disturbing ties to Islamists, including an apparent effort to reach out to al-Qaeda. I'm not quite sure what, precisely, I expect from the Department of Homeland Security at a moment like this... But the idea of an Islamist soldier in the ranks would seem to suggest that there's a threat lurking out there, and that would seem to suggest that DHS should be at least monitoring this, right? Of course, there's more to their home page than the USFA campaign focusing on home smoke alarms and sprinklers; their home-page...

Decontamination Centers Set Up Outside French And Austrian Missions & Uzbekistan Consulate Near United Nations NEW YORK (CBS) ― CBS 2 HD has learned suspicious letters with white powder were sent to two international missions and a consulate in New York City on Monday night. A red decontamination tent was set up by the FDNY outside the French Mission at 47th Street and Second Avenue after as teams were set up to check all the people in the building for a possible contaminant. The tent at the French Mission was one of three set up, joining similar staging areas...

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Abortion Could Roil Senate Health Care Debate Some lawmakers want to prohibit federal dollars from paying for abortions Nov . 9, 2009 WASHINGTON - Abortion opponents in the Senate are seeking tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, a move that could roil a shaky Democratic effort to pass President Barack Obama's signature issue by year's end. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said Monday it's unlikely he could support a bill that doesn't clearly prohibit federal dollars from going to pay for abortions. His spokesman said Nelson is weighing options, including offering an amendment similar to the one passed by...

Mitch McConnell on Foxnews Greta says that health care is in doubt in the Senate and that the Dem Leadership will have to convince a number of Democrats to "take a bullet for the team" for passage...(Video)

Clearly something must be up with AARP. Why else would the nation's largest lobbying organization, sworn to protect the interests of senior citizens, watch silently as Congress plans to cut Medicare spending by $400 billion to pay for its health reform legislation? Could it be that the interests of seniors and AARP are not exactly aligned? Let's follow the money..... Link to Full Article