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A Dominican with an anti-American grudge has been busted for building a bomb in his upper Manhattan apartment to blow up a police station, sources said Sunday night. -snip- The suspect was identified through one of the al-Awlaki web sites, where he posted anti-American comments, the source said.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is holding a terrorism-related press conference tonight at 7:30 pm. NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and District Attorney Cy Vance will also be in attendance. This is a late breaking addition to Bloomberg's schedule — and the presence of Vance indicates there may have been some sort of arrest. Neither the Mayor's Office nor the NYPD are releasing any information prior to the press conference. UPDATE 6:24: NBC's Jesse Rodriguez tweets: WNBC: Terror suspect taken into custody yesterday; lone-wolf suspect was preparing a pipe bomb. UPDATE 6:28: The New York Times is reporting that the...

I have a question for O. Ricardo Pimentel: Yo, O., where did you learn economics? Who is O. Ricardo Pimentel? He is a syndicated columnist and an opinion writer for the Arizona Republic, a Gannett newspaper with a circulation of over 500 thousand. He also is living proof that economics illiteracy is not a barrier to being a journalist. Pimentel published an op-ed on May 1 that could have been written by the Marxists with bad haircuts who used to stand on the reviewing stand in Red Square and watch the May Day parades. The Soviet Union may no longer...

<p>Let me translate into "bigotspeak" what Sen. Rick Santorum meant when he compared gays to bigamists, polygamists and practitioners of incest and adultery.</p> <p>Translated: Hey, I place you in the same category as all those scummy people I just mentioned. Oh, and if you act on who you are, you're also a criminal.</p>