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Alberto Hodari performs abortions as casually as others pick their teeth, and with just as much thought. He has bragged about being involved in tens of thousands of abortions. Tens of thousands! He has wiped out literally several small towns in terms of population. And he's proud of it. But Hodari's past doesn't just include tens of thousands of dead babies. Probably due to his proclivity of lying to his potential patients to steer them towards an abortion, something he freely admitted to college students at Wayne State University, saying that he has a "license to lie, he's killed 4...

What was once a grocery shop is now a blackened mess. Two boys in shorts and singlets play in the rubble but the usual occupants are absent. Five days ago a Han Chinese family was butchered in this small shop — victims of the Uighurs who rampaged through Urumqi. Yu Dongzhi described how he clawed through the smoking ruins of the store to search for the family who lived there. He hoped to find his sister, Yu Xinli; her husband, Zhang Mingying; their 13-year-old son; her elderly mother-in-law; and a nephew aged 27. The police helped him to dig among...

Saeed Mortazavi, who has reportedly been given the job of pursuing Iranian democracy protesters through the courts, is a formidable hardliner with a decade-long track record of cracking down on reformists. As prosecutor-general of Tehran since 2003 and as a judge before that, he has earned the nickname "the butcher of the press" for ordering the closure of more than 100 newspapers, journals and websites suspected of being hostile to the establishment. He oversaw the arrest and trial earlier this year of Roxana Saberi, the American-Iranian journalist sentenced to eight years for spying, and it has been Mr Mortazavi's name...

Kansas Abortionist George Tiller was shot today as he was going to Church.

Our "Religion of Peace" buds at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) always tell us that honor killings are not a Muslim thing. Oh, and that Islam is a peaceful religion and that American Muslims are moderate. Then-National CAIR Chairman Parvez Ahmed Gives Wife Beheader Muzzammil Hassan Award

Atlantic Monthly must be excerpted and linked.

The Kansas Supreme Court heard arguments today over subpoenaed medical records of notorious abortionist George Tiller, who is accused of performing late-term abortions — which are illegal in Kansas — at his Wichita clinic. In January, the Sedgwick County grand jury subpoenaed about 2,000 late-term abortion records from Tiller’s clinic; the judge reduced that to 250. Tiller is refusing to turn over the records, claiming it would violate his patients’ privacy. However, the grand jury requested that all patient-identifying information be redacted from the subpoenaed records before the jury receives them. Tiller's attorneys argued the grand jury investigation constitutes harassment,...

Former Attorney General Janet Reno said the U.S. government must be careful to avoid selectively using facts when prosecuting suspected terrorists. Reno, who served as attorney general under President Bill Clinton, said prosecutors often allow prejudices to skew their use of facts. "But what I've discovered (from being a prosecutor and attorney general) is that we get tunnel vision," Reno said. "We want the facts to be something and we wish them into being." Reno made her comments while speaking to an audience of mostly students and professors at the S.J. Quinney College of Law on Tuesday. Her speech focused...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq, Jan. 10, 2008 – Business is booming for a butcher in Arab Jabour, Iraq, thanks to the micro-grants program being implemented by the 3rd Infantry Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team. Hussen Jowd (right), a butcher in Arab Jabour, Iraq, stands outside a new building being constructed for his business, Jan. 7, 2008. Improvements to his business are a result of the micro-grant program that provides businesses with up to $2,500 to help them expand. Photo by Sgt. Kevin Stabinsky, USA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Hussen Jowd’s success even garnered mention from President...

Another View of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest USA Calvin E. Johnson, Jr. August 11, 2007 URL: http://www.newmediajournal.us/guest/c_johnson/08112007.htm Is the history of our great nation important to you? Union Gen. William T. Sherman said of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, "After all, I think Forrest as the most remarkable man our "Civil War" produced on either side." This came from a man who was once a foe of Forrest on the field of battle. Why do some folks attack America's heritage? Several years ago attempts were made to change the name of Forrest Park in Memphis, Tennessee. Now, there are people...

A “distorted” Channel 4 documentary about Muslim extremism that enraged community leaders and resulted in a fruitless police investigation will now be the subject of an Ofcom inquiry. West Midlands Police made a formal complaint over a Channel 4 Dispatches film that participants and race crime prosecutors claim was edited in a misleading manner. Undercover Mosque, broadcast in January, featured footage shot at a number of mosques, including one at which a preacher praised the Taleban for killing British soldiers. Channel 4 said that the programme revealed how a message of hatred and segregation was being spread by some Islamic...

KNOXVILLE: Jake Butcher helped bring the World’s Fair to the city in 1982, but the collapse of his banking empire soon after "took a lot of wind out of the sails for Knoxville," he said in a recent interview. WBIR-TV in Knoxville interviewed Butcher for the station’s coverage of the 25th anniversary of the World’s Fair that began May 1, 1982. The interview, a first for Butcher in many years, was aired Tuesday evening. Butcher, 70, former chairman of United American Bank, also was chairman of the Knoxville International Energy Exposition board of directors and used his political ties and...

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) -- Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno encouraged lawyers to become more familiar with forensics to prevent innocent people from going to prison. Reno told members of the Manatee Bar Association on Wednesday that ``there's nothing more horrible (than) being told you're going away for life for a crime you didn't commit. Let's file charges based on solid evidence.'' Reno is on the board of directors for the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization that has helped exonerate 197 prisoners through DNA testing. The former Miami-Dade County state attorney also discussed concerns for juvenile justice, child welfare and...

Oooh-oooh-oooh !! Saddam fed the sparrows and watered weeds before he died !! Look-look-look ! See the Media cleanse and sanctify his image. Read the story,buy the book, see the movie,sing the song,buy the action figures ! (Batteries not included.)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi special forces backed by U.S. advisers have captured an al Qaeda cell leader believed to be behind the kidnap in June of two U.S. soldiers who were found tortured and dead, the U.S. military said on Thursday. A U.S. statement said the man was captured in a raid on Tuesday in Yusifiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad. It said he had recently been seen commenting on a video CD showing the kidnapping of the soldiers that was shown at a mosque. "The terrorist is believed responsible for kidnapping two U.S. soldiers from a checkpoint...

Four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher died Saturday in a Seattle hospital of complications from a recent bone marrow transplant, a hospital spokeswoman said. She was 51.

CAIRO, Egypt — Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri said in a videotape aired Monday that President Bush was a "butcher" and a "failure" because of a deadly U.S. airstrike in Pakistan targeting the bin Laden deputy, and he threatened a new attack on the United States.

MIAMI -- Former Attorney General Janet Reno got up and sang Aretha Franklin's "Respect" at a Miami fundraiser Thursday night. The karaoke performance was caught on tape. It happened at an event honoring the 10th anniversary of the Human Services Coalition. Proceeds went to help fight poverty. Reno suffers from Parkinson's disease, but that hasn't stopped her public appearances. Recently, she gave speeches on law enforcement at the University of Iowa and Pennsylvania State University.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2005 – Saddam Hussein is getting something he didn't give his victims - a fair trial. Saddam's trial, which began in Baghdad today, is being held under the rule of law and is in accordance with international norms, U.S. State Department and National Security Council officials said on background here today. The Iraqi courts are handling the prosecution, Iraqi investigative judges are handling the evidence, and Saddam is being charged under laws passed by the Transitional National Assembly. Iraqi laws will be followed, officials said. However, both the prosecutors and defense lawyers are receiving outside help, as...

Saw this Frontline special on PBS just now... at times I wanted to scream at the TV. Other times, I wanted to cry because I had no voice to scream. I had to sit and watch the racism card played again. "In the end, perhaps the best for reconciling opinion on both sides is the view expressed by USC professor Todd Boyd, which emphasizes class over race: "Do I think that O.J. murdered those two people? Yes. Do I think he got off for it? Yes. Do I think he's the first person to get away with murder in America?...

The head of the Boulder Abortion Clinic said that an anti-abortion group's neighborhood leaflet campaign is an effort to get him killed. In a full-page ad published in local newspapers over the weekend, Dr. Warren Hern said the flyers, distributed by a group that calls itself Operation Save America, were designed to cause hate and fear and to get someone to kill him. As proof, Hern points to other abortion doctors who have been killed after neighborhood flyers identified them. The flyers labeled Hern a "baby killer" and were placed in the doors of a Boulder neighborhood. "It's not freedom...

In the early 1940s, a politically ambitious butcher from West Virginia named Bob Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to form a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. After Byrd had collected the $10 joining fee and $3 charge for a robe and hood from every applicant, the "Grand Dragon" for the mid-Atlantic states came down to tiny Crab Orchard, W.Va., to officially organize the chapter. As Byrd recalls now, the Klan official, Joel L. Baskin of Arlington, Va., was so impressed with the young Byrd's organizational skills that he urged him to go into politics. "The country...

The Diaz-Balarts were out of the country when Castro took over and after Castro burned their house to the ground they never returned, getting that message loud and clear. Living in Florida, Rafael was a leader of the Castro opposition, and taught his sons to love freedom through word and deed. The commitment runs so deep in the Diaz-Balart blood that speaking of their Cuba and other tyrannies, like China, Lincoln said in a 2003 interview with the National Review: "I feel almost embarrassed for the human race that we just sit here and accept regimes like that." As members...

From ABC news: - The United States military has not yet managed to catch Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the top Al Qaeda-linked terrorist in Iraq. But they have perhaps snagged the next best thing: his laptop. snip On the hard drive was everything from information about Zarqawi's medical condition to pictures of himself, kept in a file labeled "My Pictures."

Janet Reno is out on the public speaking circut, making money and rewriting her legacy. She is due in Fort Collins, CO on Feb. 7th. The Colorado State University leftists are fawning all over her..............

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - The New Year's Eve celebrations in the small community of Paraiba do Sul will honor a figure the town's mayor says hasn't been honored anywhere else in the West - the late Yasser Arafat. Moments before the clock rings in 2005, a fireworks and light show will serve as a backdrop to the unveiling of a life-sized statue of the Palestinian leader holding the traditional symbol of peace, the olive branch. The 5-foot, 7-inch bronze statue will be part of an open-air memorial that includes a marble map of Palestine and a replica of the...

MIRAMAR, Fla. Dec 24, 2004 — A doctor whose license was revoked for botching abortions, including leaving fetus parts inside a patient, was arrested on charges he continued to perform the procedures. Robelto A. Osborne, 44, turned himself in to police Wednesday and was released on bond. He was charged with performing medicine without a license, a third-degree felony. The state Department of Health contacted police about Osborne last month after receiving an anonymous tip about Osborne performing abortions at A Gyn Diagnostic Center in Miramar. Telephone calls to the clinic rang unanswered on Friday, and Osborne does not have...

A MURDERER dubbed the vampire killer after he drank his best pal's blood and ate his skull has been found dead in prison. Allan Menzies, 23, was found hanged in his cell at Shotts Prison in Lanarkshire yesterday morning. He was jailed in October 2003 after being convicted of bludgeoning his friend to death. During his trial, the court heard he had drunk Thomas McKendrick's blood from a whisky glass and then eaten a part of his skull. Judge Roderick Macdonald QC branded Menzies an 'evil and dangerous psychopath' and recommended he serve at least 18 years in prison. The...

General Clark on Bush's Missing Explosives General Wesley Clark released the following statement today in response to President Bush's remarks today about the missing explosives in Iraq: “Today George W. Bush made a very compelling and thoughtful argument for why he should not be reelected. In his own words, he told the American people that “…a political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your Commander in Chief.” “President Bush couldn’t be more right. He jumped to conclusions about any connection between Saddam Hussein and 911. He jumped to conclusions about...

There he was, back with the same old bluster. Saddam Hussein's recovered bravado, to be sure, is directly a result of his American captors' having provided him with a warm bed and three squares a day and dental care and whatnot these past seven months. This is not the same filthy, feeble Saddam who got dragged out of a hole in the ground. It's amazing how much fresher a man can feel when he isn't sleeping in the dirt. Several of his fellow defendants, for their part, seemed to be swaggering a bit less - Chemical Ali, for one, was...

Now that the Marine General engineered a "peace" in Falluja--where exactly are the murders who shot, burned and then desecrated the bodies of 4 American civilans??? Are we so weak in Iraq that we're letting them get away with such true torture and abuse--not to mention murder? To my mind this makes the hubub over our prisoner abuse pale in comparision--in reality there is no comparison. Do our policy-makers really think Iraq will have a stable pro-western government--when whole cities have not admitted the defeat of Saddam, but rather have declared "victory" over us? I just do not understand, I...

THEY FOUND HIM IN A HOLE It’s only natural that they found him in a hole in the ground. It put him that much closer to hell. Because that is where Saddam Hussein belongs. It is where Saddam Hussein has drawn his inspiration. It is the home of the god Saddam Hussein worships. Not the Allah of Islam. But the serpent of the garden. We must never fear calling a spade a spade, or a devil a devil. And Saddam Hussein is that. He long since stopped being a man and became a partner with evil. A disciple of darkness....

And so this is how it ends for the fearsome Ace of Spades: Dragged unresisting from a rathole in the dirt, scabbed and filthy, all bluster and bravado gone, the fire fled from his belly, silently and forlornly submitting to the indignity of a videotaped oral swab - For the ways of the wicked will surely come down upon their heads ... When his own time came to fight to his last bullet, his last drop of blood, his last heroic breath, Saddam Hussein put up his hands. He never reached for a gun. Not a shot was fired as...

Pretoria - Video footage of South African police brutality that goes back as far as the apartheid era is being used by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to incite his youth brigade, the Green Bombers. Information on the man believed to be the "brain" behind the brigade's indoctrination and his "specialised acts" in certain instances has been filtering out of Zimbabwe recently. The "brain" - also known as Mugabe's secret weapon - is apparently former Brigadier-General Ricky Ruwodo who is also accused of having been involved in the land-grab process. It is understood that people who do not conform to Zanu-PF...

Court Rejects Davidian Claim Against U.S. Tue Jul 15, 9:52 AM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! By ALAN SAYRE, Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS - A federal appeals court rejected an attempt by survivors to collect damages from the government for the deadly 1993 confrontation outside Waco, Texas, between federal agents and members of the Branch Davidian cult. Without dissent, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web sites) late Monday turned aside contentions that a lower court judge who ruled against the survivors was biased. Scores of Branch Davidian...

Son of Saddam Odai Hussein Brutal to Iraqis, Behind Torture of U.S. Prisoners By Brian Ross Feb. 14 — It was a father's dilemma: What to do with a wayward son? In Saddam Hussein's case, the problem was his son Odai, who has been accused of murders and rapes too numerous to count. For Saddam, the answer was to put Odai in charge of Iraq's Olympic committee. In the 16 years since, Odai Hussein has more than lived up to his reputation for capricious cruelty. One example: 20/20 uncovered evidence linking Odai with the torture and interrogation of some...

Biography of Saddam Hussein of Tikrit Note to our website visitors: This is an "open" chronology of Saddam Hussein's regime. Please e-mail us any additions, corrections and comments, with references if possible. We hope to expand the chronology with your help. Part I: Early Beginnings to the Presidency April 28, 1937 is the declared birth date of Saddam Hussein in the village of Ouja, near Tikrit in northern Iraq. He is born of a poor landless peasant family. His father dies, or disappears, before Saddam is born. He is sent to live with his maternal uncle, Khairallah Talfah, who influenced...

Armand Hammer was a Communist butcher and mass murderer Josef Stalin's "right-hand man." Those of us who love the rule of law and are demonized as "right-wingers" and "Nazis," question his "rightness,"

<p>A notorious bank fraud case provided more ammunition yesterday for shots fired between Lamar Alexander and Bob Clement in the U.S. Senate race.</p> <p>In the latest round, the Clement campaign accused Alexander of taking $50,000 in campaign contributions raised by the late C.H. Butcher Jr. and later lobbying federal regulators to preserve the banking empire Butcher and his brother, Jake, had built. The Butchers went to prison for bank fraud after federal and state regulators padlocked their failing banks in 1983.</p>