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A US national Wednesday pleaded guilty to the charges of helping and supporting Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba involved in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Michael Kyle Sewell, 18, who was arrested in February, admitted to encouraging an individual, identified in court documents only as coconspirator 1, to join Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). He now faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine of up to USD 250,000. The sentencing is scheduled for August 12. According to the guilty plea, Sewell provided the coconspirator, who he spoke to on social media, with contact information for an individual he believed could...

Last year, eight members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence issued a demand that their staffers be granted access to top secret classified information. The signatories to the letter were Andre Carson, Luis Guiterez, Jim Himes, Terri Sewell, Jackie Speier, Mike Quigley, Eric Swalwell and Patrick Murphy. All the signatories were Democrats. Some had a history of attempting to undermine national security. Two of them have been linked to an emerging security breach. The office of Andre Carson, the second Muslim in Congress, had employed Imran Awan. As did the offices of Jackie Speier and Debbie Wasserman Schultz;...

House Member Recalls BOth Obamas From CollegeBy Lauren Fox September 3, 2012 CHARLOTTE,N.C. --Alabama Democrat Rep. Terri Sewell **SNIP** Sewell and Obama attended Harvard Law School together. **SNIP** Sewell jokes she might be one of the only people in the country who knew the first lady and the president before they met in the summer of 1989 at Chicago's Sidley and Austin law firm where the first lady was assigned to mentor a star Harvard Law graduate named Barack Obama.

Andy Barr of Politico today writes a column blasting a Thomas Sowell article that criticizes how Adolph Hitler came to power through a combination of public apathy, ignorance, and systematic Socialization and Nationalization. Sowell warns Americans not to ever become like the "useful idiots" who helped Stalin create the Soviet Union, or like the German Public who saw their freedoms taken away piecemeal by a creeping, growing central government. To read Barr's attack on Sowell's Column criticizing Hitler's rise to power, go to this address: http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=70&threadid=4199146 To read Thomas Sowell's article blasting Hitler's rise and warning against ever letting it...

I love to read, but I'm not an avid newspaper reader. I learned a long time ago not to believe everything I see in the paper or on TV. But I have noticed lately a lot of fairly young people are mentioned in the obituary column. Some, of course, are quite young, in their 20s or 30s, but there seems to be a very large number in their 40s and 50s, and that's getting too close to home. Perhaps it is just that too many people in my own age group are dying and it re-minds me of my own...