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A small part of more than $800,000 that was parked in campaign accounts controlled by indicted or convicted California lawmakers is making its way back to contributors, but more than half a million dollars remains missing.. At the time of his arrest on bribery and corruption charges in March, Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) had $134,000 cash in his secretary of state campaign account and had weeks earlier sent more than $518,000 to a Los Angeles media agency for future campaign commercials. Campaign finance reports filed with the state by Thursday's reporting deadline show the indicted lawmaker had reduced that...

President Obama finally addressed the nation Wednesday about the growing scandal at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. After meeting with VA Secretary Eric Shinseki he pledged to hold folks accountable. Thanks, Mr. President. By now most American have heard about the VA’s infamous patient “secret wait lists” which reportedly contributed to the deaths of up to 40 veterans in the Phoenix area alone. Those patriots were American heroes who served our country proudly. Yet they were left to die waiting to see a doctor. < snip > Despite the fact that Al Qaeda terrorists carried out the Sept. 11...

Russia’s decision to withdraw its troops away from Ukraine border caused confusion among Slovyansk terrorists, military expert Dmytro Tumchuk told journalists in Kyiv May 19. The reason for the concern is that the extremists have failed to ship the bodies of hundreds of Russia militants out of Donbas – to avoid post-mortem examinations in Ukraine which can identify the dead as Ukrainian or Russian terrorists, LigaBiznesInform says.

Hillary Clinton was a “team player” in Team Obama’s attempt to maintain the fiction that the threat posed by al Qaeda, and by global terrorists generally, has receded significantly. As a result, her image is taking a hit and her bid for the presidency (if she makes one) may suffer. James Comey, the new head of the FBI, does not intend to take any hit to his image (which he also zealously protected during the Bush years). Comey has made it clear, via the New York Times, that he doesn’t buy President Obama’s line, delivered last year in a speech...

Recently installed FBI Director James Comey tells The New York Times that his plans to refocus the bureau’s attention back toward prosecuting criminals and away from terrorism were made before he realized just how serious the terrorist threat facing the US really is. It was only after seeing the top-secret intelligence that was unavailable to him while he was publicly opposing things like the NSA’s surveillance program that, Comey says, he realized the tide of war is not "receding" as fast as President Obama has repeatedly claimed, if it is even receding at all. Al-Qaeda, Comey says, is very much...

Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only Obama administration official who went to bat for Boko Haram over the past few years. Soon after John Kerry took over as Secretary of State, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence P. McCulley, accused the Nigerian government of butchery during a confrontation with Boko Haram terrorists in Baga, a Nigerian town on the shores of Lake Chad, and in May 2013 threatened to withdraw U.S. military aid from the West African nation. Boko Haram militants attacked a Nigerian military outpost in April 2013 outside Baga, killing one soldier. Following the three-day battle human rights activists,...

Did He ever encounter a terrorist organization other than Al Qaeda with which He failed to empathize? Boko Haram has been much in the news lately because it kidnapped substantially more than two hundred girls from a school in Nigeria.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T2na5McxrA] Video link The clear Islamic connection has been downplayed, when mentioned at all. So have the facts that the girls were Christians attending a Christian school.Unless taken from their captors by force, a potentially dangerous exercise, the girls will either be sold into slavery (and/or worse) or held as hostages pending Nigeria's release of captured Boko Haram terrorists.How about Islamic honor killings? [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXL9do9phBc]...

In this week's address, First Lady Michelle Obama honored all mothers on this upcoming Mother's Day and offered her thoughts, prayers and support in the wake of the unconscionable terrorist kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls.

Few pay attention to the common agendas shared by Boko Haram (the terrorist group that has kidnapped over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls) and the non-profit organizations ran by the Obama family. The primary goals of both is to eradicate western education in Africa; the evidence is overwhelming. ... the foundation bearing the name of Barack’s grandmother – the Mama Sarah Obama Foundation (MSOF). In the interview, Musa confessed that the MSOF accepts western donations under faulty premises (helping orphaned children with AIDS) and then uses those funds for scholarships to send Kenyan students to extremist Wahhabist schools in Saudi Arabia. In...

The Obama administration appears to have a terrorist “hands off” list that permits individuals with extremist ties to enter the country, according to internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents obtained by a United States Senator. It’s unimaginable that any government would do this, but it seems like the Obama administration is constantly breaking new ground. The disturbing details of this secret initiative were made public this week by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, who has obtained DHS electronic mail discussing what could be a terrorist “hands off” list. The exchange includes a 2012 email chain between U.S. Immigration and Customs...

In Illinois, the two largest taxpayer-funded universities have now boasted bona fide American terrorists on their faculties. The University of Illinois at Chicago, a dismal and endless slab of concrete that is easily one of the ugliest campuses in America, was the well-known professional home of unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers from 1987 until his retirement in 2010. Until just recently, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, the semi-prestigious flagship school of the state’s college system, employed James Kilgore, an adjunct instructor of global studies and urban planning, a felon and a former member of the infamous Symbionese Liberation...

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Stockman Friday asked Democrat-aligned group MoveOn.org to apologize for hosting an online petition opposing a terrorist designation for Boko Haram. “Boko Haram has murdered thousands and kidnapped hundreds of little girls to sell into sexual slavery. It is beyond despicable for Democrat Party groups to support a terrorist organization,” said Stockman. “The Democrat Party group MoveOn should apologize for hosting supporters of kidnappers and terrorists.” The petition, “Reject ‘Terrorist’ Designation for Boko Haram” was posted in 2012 and began gaining more signatures from Democrat Party activists after the group kidnapped 230 Nigerian girls to sell into...

"...During the 1970s and 1980s, FALN members set off at least 138 bombs in five major U.S. Cities. Six Americans were killed in those attacks...Despite the Clintons' repeated denials, there is evidence that the pardons were offered to the terrorists with Hillary Clinton's full knowledge...on Aug. 11 (2008), President Clinton would offer pardons to the terrorists..."

What, in hindsight, can be only described as an obtuse and extremely wrong statement, former President Bill Clinton stated in 2013 that the terrorist organization Boko Haram acts out of poverty, not because of religious fever. Mr. Clinton not only stated that poverty was the cause, but that specifically, Islam and religion could not be blamed in any way. “You have to somehow bring economic opportunity to the people who don’t have it," Clinton stated. He added, "You have all these political problems — and now violence problems — that appear to be rooted in religious differences and all the...

The United States has said it will recognise the offices of the main opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) as a diplomatic foreign mission and announced plans for a $27m increase in non-lethal assistance to rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad. The announcement came at the start of a visit to Washington on Monday by a Syrian opposition delegation led by Ahmad Jarba, president of the coalition, in his first official visit to the US since the SNC was set up in 2012. Jarba is set to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday. State Department deputy spokeswoman...

A band of Al Qaeda-linked terrorists was reportedly being grilled Saturday over the disappearance of the missing Malaysian jetliner. The 11 suspects — believed to be members of a terror group planning bomb attacks in Muslim countries — were arrested in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur and the state of Kedah last week, according to London’s Mail on Sunday. The militants were rounded up at the request of international investigators, including the FBI and MI6, the paper reported.

"Terrorists fired on a minibus near Slavic and Ukrainian militia. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Interior. So the armored van was attacked with Russian-made machine gun on both sides of the road, about a kilometer from the Slavic, Ukrainian checkpoints between the two. According to preliminary reports, victims do not. Formerly head of the Interior Ministry Arsen Avakov said that during the ATO in ponediok hit 8 police."

Eleven Al Qaeda-linked terrorists were arrested in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, according to the Daily Mail, in connection to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in March. The eleven, whose ages range from 22 to 55 and include students, business professionals, odd-job workers and even a young widow, are being questioned intensively over the flight after an investigation by several intelligence organizations. Despite repeated denials that the flight's disappearance was a terror attack, Malaysian officials finally admitted after the arrests that the new development raises the possibility of Al Qaeda's involvement. "The possibility that the plane was diverted by...

Two Ukrainian paratroopers who died in Slavic night against May 3 separatists shot from behind the local people, said in a special edition of TSN. Note that the active phase of the antiterrorist operation in the Donbas resumed about six in the morning on Saturday, May 3, but fighting between separatists and the Ukrainian military in the vicinity of Slavic and Kramatorska started a little earlier and lasted all night. It is on the border of two cities, near the village EDMONTON, around 21 pm, killing two Ukrainian paratroopers of the 95th separate airmobile brigade. Saboteurs, using local residents as...

While a new State Department report equates graffiti with terrorism, barbaric Islamic jihadists are growing bolder in Israel — no doubt emboldened by the international pressure on Israel, spearheaded by Obama’s relentless hostility against the Jewish state. This is what real terrorism is: the savage murder of a young woman for nothing other than the crime of being Jewish. Shelly Dadon, a woman aged 20, was found dead Thursday in an abandoned parking lot near the industrial area at Migdal Haemek, in the Galilee. There were signs of violence on her upper body. A police source told Arutz Sheva that...