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More evidence of America’s Jihad Denial Derangement Syndrome. It turns out that fellow students of the army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan who murdered 13 and wounded dozens more in a jihadi attack on Fort Hood had complained to the faculty about his anti-American propaganda – but were too afraid to file a formal complaint for fear of being accused of prejudice: However, classmate Finnell said that Hasan made a presentation during their studies ‘that justified suicide bombing’ and spewed ‘anti-American propaganda’ as he argued the war on terror was ‘a war against Islam.’ Finnell said he and at least one other...

Clinton-Bush Gun Control Enabled Fort Hood Massacre A Clinton Administration revision to Department of Defense Directive 5210.56 — Army Regulation 190-14, dated 12 March 1993 — permits the Secretary of the Army to authorize military personnel to carry firearms “on a case by case basis� for personal protection within the continental United States, but forbids military personnel to carry their own personal firearms and both requires “a credible and specific threat� before firearms be issued for military personnel to protect themselves. It further directs that firearms “not be issued indiscriminately for that purpose.�Thus did President Bill Clinton — Commander-in-Chief of...

New Orleans (AP) -- It's now up to a federal judge in New Orleans to decide whether to put a challenge to campaign finance restrictions on a faster track to the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan heard arguments Monday by attorneys for Republican officials challenging the restrictions and from Federal Election Commission attorneys defending them. Republicans want Berrigan to send key issues in the case directly to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals without a district court-level trial. . . . The New Orleans suit challenges limits on what state and national parties can spend in...

In the aftermath of last night's vote in the House of Representatives in regards to health care, the Conservative blogosphere has been nitpicking at who supported the bill and who opposed the bill, even I joined the chaos of non-important examination of whom did what. This goes deeper than what Democrat supported the legislation and what Democrat opposed the legislation; we need to throw all Democrats out of the House of Representatives. Legislation which will put our entire life in control of the government from beginning to the end should never be discussed, let alone voted on.

For the purposes of argument, let's accept the media's insistence that Major Hasan is a lone crazy. So who's nuttier?

A Florida conservative has registered an official "Tea Party" with the office of the Secretary of State, and is promising to run candidates against Republicans and Democrats in state and national races. "The current system has become mired in the sludge of special interest money that seeks to control the leadership of both parties. It’s time for real change,” says Orlando lawyer Frederic O’Neal, the new party's chairman, who couldn't be reached immediately by phone, in a press release. A spokeswoman for the Florida Secretary of State, Jennifer Davis, said the party had registered in August, and that its qualified...

President Barack Obama is facing a tough battle to steer health care reform through the US Senate after his bill was declared 'dead on arrival' at the upper house. Having proclaimed s "historic" approval by the House of Representatives at the weekend of a bill that will extend medical insurance to almost every American, the president consulted his senior advisers on Monday about how to negotiate the next hurdle in a prolonged effort to overhaul the health system. While the bill passed the House of Representatives by a mere five votes, margins are also extremely tight in the senate, where...

A House Democratic leader said Monday she's “confident” controversial language on abortion will be stripped from a final healthcare bill. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the Democrats’ chief deputy whip in the House, said that she and other pro-abortion rights lawmakers would work to strip the amendment included in the House health bill that bars federal funding from subsidizing abortions. “I am confident that when it comes back from the conference committee that that language won't be there,” Wasserman Schultz said during an appearance on MSNBC. “And I think we're all going to be working very hard, particularly the pro-choice...

On April 19, 1995, 168 people lost their lives at the hands of Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City at the federal Alfred P Murrah Building. The media and officialdom INSTANTLY declared the attack to be an act of TERRORISM. Upon discovering who was responsible for this deadly attack, EVERYONE within the establishment branded McVey to be a Right-Wing Extremist, a member of some kind of vast conspiracy, and a CHRISTIAN Religious Fanatic. Truth be told, McVey was not a very religious person. He wasn’t part of any vast Right-Wing conspiracy, and his fundamental political and social views were not anywhere...

There was one world leader absent for today’s commemorations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Surprisingly enough, it’s President Barack Obama, who found time last year to give a campaign speech there last year, which Der Spiegel summed up as “People of the World, Look at Me”. The White House has cited a packed schedule, though looking at it he had nothing much on yesterday (brief chat to reporters about healthcare – by far his biggest priority) and just blah briefings and a bill signing today until a metting this evening with Benjamin Netanyahu. This...

By now, most of us are tired of the continuing litany of “let’s not judge” what happened at Fort Hood, and that Major Malik Nidal Hasan was simply mentally ill and stressed out because of his impending deployment. He, like a disgruntled employee, simply snapped. That is why it was so refreshing to hear Senator Joe Lieberman on Fox News Sunday, where the maverick Democrat now independent dissident dared to say that Hasan “reportedly showed signs of being a “self-radicalized, homegrown terrorist.’” There were indications, he noted, that Hasan “had turned to Islamist extremism” which should be investigated. If so,...

It’s an Obama infomercial! No, a Lesbian Night on the Fox channel? Wait, it’s a soft porn comedy hour on a major American television network. Actually, it's none of the above. It’s the premiere of the Wanda Sykes Show, a new one-hour program competing in the late night lineup. But at this juncture, it’s hard to tell what the show really is. The much buzzed “late-night show by the first gay black woman” with warnings of adult language and content conjures up an array of possibilities. Sadly, none of them really go anywhere in this perplexing presentation masquerading as hip....

We have to guard against a kind of moral obtuseness where if we don’t see the harm, that means it doesn’t exist. These poor people can’t afford to send their children off to day camp in the summer so they can do archery and go swimming. They can’t afford an academic program so the children’s achievements won’t dissipate over the summer. They can’t afford to have Mom quit work and stay home to watch them, so they bring their children to work. It is not in any way obvious that the children would be better off if their parents made...

Last night, Freedom Radio spoke with Combat Vet for Congress and conservative Republican candidate for Idaho's 1st District Vaughn Ward. Ward's 18 years of experience of public service includes: service with the Marines on missions in Liberia, Cuba, Japan, Korea and as a company commander in Iraq; as an Operations Officer with the CIA in the Middle East, Africa, and Washington, DC; and as a Legislative Aide on Senator Kempthorne’s staff where he worked on commerce, defense, energy, transportation, and veteran’s issues for the people of Idaho. He is running against first-term incumbent and self-proclaimed blue dog Democrat Walt Minnick....

Figures that I would learn this from my wife (who heard it from another woman): A little girl asked her mother, "How did the human race appear?" The mother answered, "God made Adam and Eve and they had children, and so all mankind was made." Two days later the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered, "Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved." The confused girl returned to her mother and said, "Mom, how is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Dad said they...

Dr. Rand Paul, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, explained his position on taxes, government spending, the drug abuse epidemic, welfare and other government benefits during an exclusive interview with the Times-Tribune, just hours before his appearance at the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg. Initially, Dr. Paul addressed drug abuse in rural Kentucky. As a doctor, he immediately zeroed in on more vigilant policing of doctors who recklessly write prescriptions. He asked, “Are they being disciplined? I’m a doctor and occasionally I’ll get notification from the medical licensure board of people who are having their licenses suspended.” Referencing a recent...

NEW ORLEANS — Offshore oil and gas operators in the Gulf of Mexico are evacuating platforms and rigs in the path of Tropical Storm Ida. The Minerals Management Service’s Continuity of Operations Plan team is monitoring the operators’ activities. This team will be activated until operations return to normal and the storm is no longer a threat to the Gulf of Mexico oil and gas activities. Based on data from offshore operator reports submitted as of 11:30 a.m. CST today, personnel have been evacuated from a total of 126 production platforms, equivalent to 18.1 % of the 694 manned platforms...

The personal Web site for a radical American imam living in Yemen who had contact with two 9/11 hijackers is praising alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as a hero.

House Democrats passed the 2,032-page Pelosicare bill on a near party-line vote Saturday night 220-215 (roll call here). The only Republican voting in favor of the measure was New Orleans-based Joseph Cao who has long ago proven to be a tax and spend (and spend and spend) liberal. After a week of intense arm twisting, threats and promises from party leaders, more than half of the 52 so-called conservative Blue Dog Democrats voted in favor of the over $1.3 trillion measure. These are the 28 Blue Dogs voting in favor of Pelosicare (who apparently fear the wrath of House Speaker...

What an empty shell this deceiver is. It was said. "By their fruits ye shall know them" The fruits off the Obama tree are rotten to the core. There is very little true substance in this man. He is a creature of the shadows surrounded by wolves and vipers. Let us take a moment to pray for the brave souls who died for freedom tearing down the Berlin Wall. By their fruits ye shall know them. Millios are free because of their sacrifice. Now it is our turn to shine the light for all to see. The final contest is...

Attorney General Martha Coakley said this morning that she would have voted against the landmark health care bill approved by the House over the weekend because it includes a provision restricting federal funding for providers of abortion services. Coakley this morning, in an interview on WTKK-FM, said her opposition to that aspect of the legislation is so strong that she would have voted against the overall bill, which would provide coverage for 36 million Americans, establish a limited public insurance plan, and prohibit insurers from discriminating against people with preexisting conditions. Her position opens up a potentially major fissure in...

SOARING numbers of mature Brit women dubbed Cougars are on the prowl for toyboy lovers, a survey has revealed. About 35 per cent of single females in their 40s, 50s and 60s are hunting for a fella at least five years younger. The figure was only eight per cent five years ago. And most Cougars - a term coined on American TV and websites - have no trouble finding suitable "prey" to date. British celeb Cougars include artist Sam Taylor-Wood, who directed new John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy. Sam, 42, is engaged to the movie's leading man Aaron Johnson, 19....

California Liberals Remain Hopeful About Obama Despite Setbacks, Times/USC Poll Finds November 9, 2009 Much media attention has been devoted in recent weeks to disappointed liberals — Obama supporters disillusioned by the problems the new president has had in converting his campaign promises into legislation. But how widespread is that phenomenon? Has disappointment spread throughout liberal ranks or are the disaffected still a rarity? At least in California, rare is the answer, according to a new Los Angeles Times/USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences poll of the state’s voters. The poll gave voters a list of emotions — anger,...

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FORT HOOD, Tex. -- Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who allegedly gunned down dozens of people at Fort Hood last week before being wounded by police, is conscious and talking to medical personnel at a U.S. Army hospital in San Antonio, hospital officials said Monday. Hasan, 39, was flown to Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston on Friday from a hospital in Temple, Tex., where he was taken following Thursday's shooting rampage at Fort Hood... "He is in stable condition, and he is conversing with the medical staff, the doctors and nurses who are assisting with his...

Settlement Opens Door For Hundreds Of Legal Immigrants To Become U.S. Citizens November 9, 2009 Hundreds of legal immigrants in Southern California who have been waiting years for citizenship will have their cases resolved as a result of a settlement with the federal government, attorneys announced today. The immigrants were stuck in lengthy delays as they waited for the FBI to complete their security name checks and for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to approve their citizenship applications. The settlement, approved Friday in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, sets a six-month deadline for the government to decide on hundreds...

Lou Dobbs does his research

Palestinian relatives of accused Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan grappled with his motives as some of their neighbours glorified the rampage as revenge for US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His cousin, Mohammed, denied that there were "religious or national motives" behind the killings, and said the killer's relatives in the US were equally baffled as to what provoked the massacre.

This is the response to a so-called ‘interim investigative report’ by an unknown private individual who called himself ‘CP’ investigator and Douglas J. Hagmann ********************************************************************** Be aware that this is a denial that there is any subversive activity by a Global Jihad movement in the United States....i.e.....The Fort Hood killingswere the action of a single individual a only reflects his deranged activities.... ***************************************************** Exposing Roots of Terrorism In USA His Eminence Sultan Muhyuddin Sheikh Syed Mubarik 'Ali Gilani   On the 12th of February, a so-called ‘interim investigative report’ by an unknown private individual who called himself ‘CP’ investigator and...

The details of the visit have not been announced but the office of the vice president has told members of the state's congressional delegation that he will attend the memorial service at the fort on Tuesday. The service will honor the seven soldiers killed in a single improvised explosive device attack on October 27 in Afghanistan. They were members of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade combat team, 2nd Infantry Division. It was the deadliest day so far for Fort Lewis soldiers since the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, according...

Q. Does swearing relieve pain? A. Holy @//!#!, does it ever! Or so concludes a British study published recently in the journal NeuroReport. The idea for the study first occurred to psychologist Richard Stephens of Keele University in North Staffordshire, when he hit himself on the finger with a hammer and let loose with a few choice words. It solidified when his wife swore gustily during a breech delivery of their daughter and one of the midwives “mentioned that women often swear in childbirth, which I found intriguing,’’ said Stephens in an e-mail. So he set up an experiment in...

LAS VEGAS — Top-ranked competitive eater Joey Chestnut has won the first-ever Martorano's Masters Meatball Eating Championship in Las Vegas. The San Jose resident on Sunday ate 50 meatballs in 10 minutes at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino. The event was a Major League Eating-sanctioned competition. Chestnut's 6.25 pounds of meatballs set a new world record. The first-place prize was $1,500.

It should be telling to all Americans that while our current "president" has plenty of time to jet set around to places like Copenhagen, to shill for his corrupt Chicago buddies, and of course, play golf and shoot hoops, he is conspicuously absent from the festivities going on in Berlin this week. I have to wonder if, instead of cheering as most of us were twenty years ago, were Obama and his Marxist friends all shedding tears and consoling one another instead, at the fall of this symbol of oppression.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain set out plans Monday to speed up the planning process for big wind farms and new nuclear power plants and named 10 sites where reactors could be built. Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said new nuclear plants, combined with cleaner coal plants and more renewable energy, would help Britain to secure its energy supplies and cut its greenhouse gas emissions. About 20 percent of Britain's electricity was generated from existing nuclear power reactors in the second quarter of 2009, but all except one of them is due to shut by 2025. Previous attempts to...

Ten months into Barack Obama's presidency, Democrats are accusing Republicans of creating "a dark mark on the Senate" by delaying confirmation of his federal court nominees. The mark might not be as dark as Democrats make it seem. Of the 27 judicial nominations Mr. Obama has made so far, all five brought up for votes in the Senate have won relatively quick confirmations, including new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. So what is this "dark mark" that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, talks about? It's primarily two federal judges - one from Indiana, the other Maryland...

Palm Springs, CA -- In an effort to keep dangerous terrorists out of California, Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack (CA-45) today launched today an online petition calling on President Obama to keep Guantanamo Bay detainees from being transferred to the State of California. "We as Californians need to band together to let the Administration and the Majority in Congress know that we do not want these dangerous criminals in our prisons or on our streets," said Bono Mack. "I join with the majority of Americans in being outraged by the Administration's decision to bring deadly terrorists to U.S. soil without a...

Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Monday for more cooperation between nation states and the transfer of power to multilateral organizations such as the UN, in a speech ahead of anniversary celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall. "This world will not be a peaceful one if we do not work for more global order and more multilateral cooperation," said Merkel, who was to great world leaders in Berlin later Monday. Compared with the European the Americans more problems would have to deliver authority. This is however necessary for a peaceful future. “One of the most exciting questions,...

A Posting from Kevin Sinnott on Sarah Palin's facebook......" I am a Soldier stationed at Fort Hood and we did a Ramp Ceremony (putting the Flag draped coffins on the plane) and there were 500-1000 soldiers that were there to give respect. Even the Army Chief of Staff from DC came to give his respect. Mayors from the nearby cities were there. No President Obama though. He was able to go to New Jersey 5 times to campain for the former governor, but he couldn't come to pay his respect the day after the terrible tragedy. Even President Bush came...

Peter Schiff's campaign website has been repeatedly targeted by cyber attackers, his brother and spokesman said this afternoon. The campaign has notified the FBI. Schiff, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, had planned a "moneybomb'' -- a one-day online fundraising blitz -- for today, but just minutes before midnight, when the moneybomb was set to start, the website went down, his brother, Andrew Schiff, said. "These are coordinated attacks,'' Andrew Schiff said in a brief phone interview. It wasn't the first time the website has been hit, Andrew Schiff said. The campaign had been targeted several times in the past...

The only Republican to vote for House Democrats' healthcare bill this weekend stressed on Monday that his party's leaders did not harangue him for his decision. Instead, the House GOP leadership treated his party defection in a "professional" way, Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.) told Fox News. "I knew that it would cause some, I guess, 'talking points' within the party, but to tell you the truth, the party leadership, they were very professional about it," he told Fox's Geraldo Rivera. "They do realize I have a very poor district, and they do realize that this healthcare reform bill, or any...

Reporting from Sacramento - Backers of an overhaul of California's government, who hope to leverage disgust with Sacramento into support for changing how the state raises taxes and spends money, have a difficult path ahead, according to a new poll of California voters. Major segments of the electorate see the state's problems as the product of unrestrained lawmakers driven by special interests to waste taxpayer money, and reject arguments that structural issues with the state's Constitution and government institutions are to blame. Voters don't want the tax code overhauled in the ways that many fiscal experts promise would tamp down...

The Huckster took a swipe at Sarah Palin and he did it with a smile. He does everything with a smile, being far from the first snake I've seen that has himself one of those. At least she isn't a Mormon. He might cut her a little bit of slack. Why am I thinking Huck has now read every Palin column Andy Sullivan has ever written? The Hucky puck doesn't like it that he's being overshadowed by both Palin and Romney, who comes up in the interview, as well. Is Huck's real problem that Sarah may have blown him off...

Over the weekend, the House of Representatives passed a (somewhat final) version of the health care reform bill. There are a lot of good things about this bill. It'll provide coverage to a lot of people that didn't previously have coverage, make health care more affordable, and increase options for health insurance. These are good things. But I'm still not happy. Because this health care reform bill, although it has a lot of good aims, falls short in key ways. One of the biggest problems with the bill the House voted on this weekend is that it includes the Stupak-Pitts...

News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has suggested the company's online newspaper pages will be invisible to Google users when it launches its new paid content strategy. He claimed that readers who randomly reach a page via an internet search hold little value to advertisers. When asked by Sky News Australia's political editor David Speers why News Corp has not stopped Google from finding its content, Mr Murdoch replied: "I think we will." He cited the Wall Street Journal as an example of where only the first paragraph comes up on search engines and is free. Anything after that is subscription-based.

London, England, Nov 6, 2009 / 12:24 am (CNA).- Members of The Traditional Anglican Church in Great Britain have announced that they will enter into communion with the Vatican under Pope Benedict XVI's Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans. According to the group's website, members met on October 29 for their October 2009 Assembly. They scrapped their initial itinerary for the meeting following the Vatican's Oct. 20 announcement that an Apostolic Constitution was being prepared in response to requests from groups of Anglican clergy and faithful wanting to enter into full communion with the Church. Instead, the assembly focused on what the...

Holiday hiring is off to a slow start, with retailers filling just 63,500 jobs in October, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That’s up slightly from a year ago, when retailers added 59,100 jobs. “Retailers are taking a wait-and-see approach, and could decide to bring in extra workers at the last minute,” Challenger, Gray & Christmas CEO John A. Challenger said in a news release. He noted that retail employment grew by just 384,300 jobs between October and December of last year, making it the worst hiring season in 19 years. Monday’s news comes on the heels of last...

http://www.billoreilly.com/ O’Reilly Poll: “At this point in time, which Republican could beat Barack Obama?” Mike Huckabee Mitt Romney Sarah Palin Newt Gingrich

World leaders of the past and present have commemorated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by walking across a key bridge linking the east and west of the city. Despite the rain, thousands of people have gathered for a commemorative ceremony on the Bornholmer Street Bridge, which was the first border crossing to open on November 9, 1989. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Solidarity leader and later Polish President Lech Walesa walked across the bridge, recreating the short but historic journey taken by thousands of East Germans to reach West Berlin...

Warning: This video dramatically depicts the violent collapse of the United States. Many Americans are losing confidence in their government.

A study in mice has hinted at the impact that early life trauma and stress can have on genes, and how they can result in behavioural problems. Scientists described the long-term effects of stress on baby mice in the journal Nature Neuroscience. Stressed mice produced hormones that "changed" their genes, affecting their behaviour throughout their lives. This work could provide clues to how stress and trauma in early life can lead to later problems...... The team found that mice that had been "abandoned" during their early lives were then less able to cope with stressful situations throughout their lives. The...