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"This guy was a religious extremist, pure and simple. I'm not attacking the religion of Islam or saying that this man's actions define its people as a whole, but to say this was anything other than an act of religious fanaticism and terrorism is ridiculous. This guy let his religious convictions drive him to the cold-blooded, calculating murder of innocent victims. He had a fundamental disagreement with the implementation of wars in the middle east. Great, lots of people do. In America, we institute change through peaceful means--we VOTE. This guy carried out an act of terrorism [according to...

Must see conservative music video of the year. A true classic.

An armed robber in America turned to God mid-robbery in what investigators are calling the strangest case they have ever seen.Gregory Smith, 23, walked into a store in an Indianapolis shopping centre brandishing a gun. But instead of raiding the place, he started hugging his tearful victim, Angela Montez, telling her he hated what he was doing but had no choice. The pair began discussing God and before long Smith was on his knees in tears, praying and being hugged by her.

DIYALA — U.S. Soldiers recently assisted in the rescue of a local Iraqi man who became trapped in his truck following an auto accident here. While conducting a convoy, the Soldiers of 18th Engineer Company, Task Force 296, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, noticed multiple Iraqi Police vehicles near a truck that looked to be damaged. A medic in the convoy was dispatched to the victim to provide a medical assessment and aid. It was then determined that the victim was pinned into the vehicle at the waist by the cab of the truck. Using a Stryker...

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WASHINGTON, June 12, 2009 – U.S. and Afghan forces detained four suspected insurgents and rescued a kidnapping victim in recent operations in Afghanistan, military officials reported. The suspects were detained today in Khost province. U.S. and Afghan troops were targeting a man they believed was connected to the Haqqani terrorist network. The joint force detained him, along with the others, without confrontation. An assault rifle and belts and vests of ammunition were confiscated, officials said. In Helmand province’s Washer district June 10, coalition forces found a man tied and gagged inside a truck as they were establishing security for a...

WASHINGTON, June 9, 2009 – A soldier wounded last week during an attack at a recruiting office in Little Rock, Ark., that claimed a fellow soldier’s life expressed no bitterness today at his attacker, and said the incident has done nothing to dampen his desire to serve in the Army. Army Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, spoke publicly about the incident for the first time since he was gunned down outside an Army recruiting office June 1. He is recovering from gunshot wounds to his neck, back and buttocks. Army Pvt. William Long, 23, was killed in the attack. He was...

Attorneys: Rahm Emanuel was alleged extortion victimBy Mike Robinson Associated Press CHICAGO -- President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, was the congressman targeted by an alleged extortion plan described in the indictment against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to attorneys familiar with the case. At the time, in 2006, Emanuel was the congressman from the 5th District on Chicago’s North Side. The attorneys spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday because the congressman isn’t named and the information is secret grand jury material. The indictment says the congressman sought a $2 million grant for a school. But Blagojevich allegedly...

Most of Madoff's victims were also his accomplices By Joe Nocera Friday, March 13, 2009 NEW YORK: Standing in the security line Thursday morning, waiting to get into the federal courthouse in Manhattan, I started chatting with the man behind me. He looked to be in his early 60s, and though he was well dressed, he looked a little haggard. I asked him if he was a victim of Bernard Madoff, who would soon be pleading guilty to masterminding the greatest Ponzi scheme in history. He said he was. Did he want to talk about it? He wasn't sure, he...

FBI in search for Stanford ‘victims’ By Stacy-Marie Ishmael and Joanna Chung in New York Published: March 9 2009 23:14 | Last updated: March 9 2009 23:14 The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Monday it was seeking to identify potential “victims” who invested in a slew of companies associated with Sir Allen Stanford as part of an ongoing investigation. The agency is seeking information from anyone who invested in either Stanford Financial Group or its affiliated companies – Stanford Capital Management, the Stanford Group Company, the Stanford International Bank, the Stanford Trust Company, and the Bank of Antigua. “If...

OAKLAND -- A 23-year-old visitor from the East Coast had just gotten money from an ATM when he told his friend on a cell phone that he had a bad feeling about two men approaching him at the Fruitvale BART Station in Oakland. His worst fears were realized when one suspect, Victor Veliz, 18, held a folding knife with a 5-inch blade to his neck and the other, Christopher Gonzalez, 18, threatened to shoot him Thursday night, authorities said.

The ex-husband of a woman shot dead in a Christmas Eve massacre has been asked to pay her rent. Her landlord claims Alicia Ortiz broke her lease and gave 'insufficient notice to vacate' before she was killed. ... Her landlord, Broadcrest Foothill Apartment Homes, told Ortiz's former husband, Carlos, that he owes $2,821 in rent and penalties.

EIB Conversation: Ann Coulter January 16, 2009 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: As you know ladies and gentlemen we very infrequently have guests here. We do make occasions now and then. Today is one of those occasions. Ann Coulter is here, and for those of you watching on the Dittocam, we've got a new camera placement so that you see Ann and a view of me that seldom is ever seen, my rear. (laughing) But Ann Coulter's new book -- and I'm sure a number of you have seen her pilloried and abused on cable television for the past week. I...

THE family of Private Greg Sher, the latest Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan, have described him as a quiet acheiver who always got the job done. Private Greg Sher's family has paid tribute to his committed determination. The Defence Department last night named 30-year-old Private Sher, whose name was initially withheld at the request of his family, after he was killed by Taliban insurgents during a rocket attack on a forward base in Oruzgan province in southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday. The Jewish soldier was a member of the Sydney-based 1st Commando Regiment and at the time of the attack was...

List Of Entities Announcing Exposure To Madoff Investments December 24, 2008: 03:45 PM ET The following entities have announced exposure to Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, the New York-based business that allegedly lost $50 billion in a giant pyramid scheme. Entity: Access International Advisors Exposure: $1.5 billion Date of disclosure: Dec. 24 /snip Entity: International Olympic Committee Exposure: $4.8 million Date of disclosure: Dec. 19 Notes: The IOC's exposure represents about 1% of its total investment portfolio. Organizing committee confirmed they will be able to meet their obligations. /snip

Monday, 22 December 2008 1:04PM Man Shoots Armed Robber In Oak Park (OAK PARK, Ill.) Police are searching for a man who shot an armed robber after the man refused to give up his leather coat Sunday night at an Oak Park gas station. The shooting happened about 11 p.m. at a gas station at North and Hayes avenues, in the northeast corner of Oak Park, according to Village of Oak Park Communications Director David Powers. A man was putting gas in his car when he was approached by two other men who demanded his leather coat. The man in...

Perhaps it's the crippling effect of the "Great Society Initiatives," or the systemic levels of cerebral toxification induced by a never-ending inculcation of victimization, or maybe it's undetected concentrations of amobarbitol in their drinking water – but whatever the primary causal factors, there remains a resistance against a truly inclusive cultural modernity that exists among far too many blacks. Said resistance refuses to be assuaged or put to death – and having a black man elected president has, if anything, only strengthened their resolve. The depth of this animus continues in ways that can only be described as irrational and...

Congress gave final approval yesterday to legislation that will bring more Americans under the umbrella of “disabled” under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). President Bush said he’d sign the bill (S. 3406). The ADA Amendments Act of 2008 reverses several court rulings from recent years that had limited the scope of ADA protections. It directs U.S. courts to apply a broader definition when deciding what truly qualifies as an ADA-covered disability. The biggest change: The bill makes clear that courts (and employers) should not take into consideration any “mitigating measures” that reduce the impact of an impairment—such as medication,...

While the indigenous Christian Europeans don't reproduce, in 2-3 generations Europe will be majority muslim. The same is true for Russia much to my regret. He actually says "I am the victim." Have a view.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will kick off the Democratic National Convention by making one thing clear: The Democratic Party is united behind Sen. Barack Obama... When asked whether she expected a large demonstration by Sen. Hillary Clinton's delegates Tuesday, Pelosi said, "I'm all for it." "This is not unusual in a campaign," she said. "It's healthy. It's important that people who have worked really hard during a campaign are able to express themselves at the convention on behalf of the candidate they worked for. They have to respect the results.... Pelosi had tough words today for reporters who referred to...

Finally some justice, now our two border agents need to be released. Smuggler shot by agents gets 9½ years in prison Mexican national sentenced for part in later incidents By ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press Aug. 6, 2008, 11:55PM Complete coverage of immigration issues EL PASO — An admitted drug smuggler shot by a pair of former U.S. Border Patrol agents was sentenced to nearly a decade in federal prison Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2008 – Coalition and Iraq security forces killed four enemy fighters and detained dozens more during several operations over the past few days, military officials said. Coalition forces killed four terrorists and detained 18 suspected terrorists yesterday and today during operations around Baghdad targeting al-Qaida in Iraq bombing networks. Coalition forces conducted a series of operations near Balad, targeting the financier behind a bombing network in the Tigris River Valley. At one location today, coalition forces came under attack by small-arms fire from a nearby rooftop. They returned fire and killed four armed men. At other locations...

Judges are banning terms such as 'rape' and 'victim' as prejudicial to defendants Call it the age of the Loaded Word. A steadily increasing number of courts across the United States are prohibiting witnesses and victims from uttering certain words in front of a jury, banning everything from the words "rape" to "victim" to "crime scene." Prosecutors and victims' rights advocates nationwide claim the courts are going too far in trying to cleanse witness testimony, all to protect a defendant's right to a fair trial. Concerns and fears over language restrictions have been percolating ever since judges in Nebraska and...

There was a pre-Lewinsky time, before moral relativism blurred America's vision, when associating with people like Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers would have automatically excluded someone from attaining the highest office in the land. Back then, anyone with well known connections to such America-averse personalities would have been rejected by a super-majority of the electorate during primary season and almost certainly blocked by the Democratic Party before they could have gotten to within a mile of the White House. But those days -- when patriotic, true liberals like Joe Lieberman were considered typical Democratic Party politicians -- are gone. Now...

If you want to understand the negative impact of feminism on women (and men) and, by extension, the destructive effects of liberal teachers, Democratic politics and liberal news media on African-Americans, here is Katie Couric last week on the CBS Evening News: "A new study on teens and sexual harassment should give every parent pause. "Most teenage girls report they've been sexually harassed. ... In a study that appeared in the journal Child Development, 90 percent of teen girls say they've been harassed at least once." Millions of American parents and their daughters were told on one of the most...

4/11/2008 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- Since 3-year-old Al Amreeki left Balad Air Base, Iraq, with more than 45 percent of his body burned from a stove fire at his home, he has come a long way due to treatment from Airmen and medics throughout the world. The young boy's uncle brought him to the Air Force Theater Hospital in Iraq Jan. 25, and since then the boy has traveled aboard a C-17 Globemaster III to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and onto Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and finally arriving by commercial air bus to...

A gunman accosted a man carrying a duffel bag containing nearly $150,000 in broad daylight Friday next to a New York City Starbucks coffee shop, leaving his victim empty-handed and bloodied, WNBC.com reported. Seton Ijams, 50, had just withdrawn the money from a Chase Bank when the assailant approached him from behind, pistol-whipped him in the head and dragged him on the sidewalk as he clung to the bag, police said. Police said the robber is between 25 and 30, was dressed in a black parka and black pants and is about 5 feet 9 inches tall, WNBC.com reported. Limousine...

Whenever western governments mention weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and Muslims in the same breath, the western media immediately breaks into wild frenzy warning its people that a catastrophic event of epic proportions is about to unfold. Old European fables of Muslims spreading Islam by the sword are reinvented to convey the impression that Muslims are extremely dangerous, highly irresponsible and pay scant regard to human life. Hence the mantra of disarming Muslim countries of WMD has become the rallying cry of the West directed against the Muslim world. In some cases the arguments are extended to justify the West’s...

Meet Melonie Griffiths-Evans, the new poster child for the Subprime Lending Scandal of 2008. You’ve probably seen her on TV, or read about her in this newspaper. She’s the single mom with three kids who just wanted to “live the American dream,” as she puts it. In December 2004, with no down payment and working as an assistant teacher, she signed on the dotted line for a $470,000 subprime mortgage on a house in Dorchester. Three years later, the government foreclosed on her loan. She was to be evicted yesterday, until a threatened physical confrontation from a coalition that calls...

<p>GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) – State police said the man charged with crashing into two parked cars on Interstate 40/85 Sunday morning is an illegal alien.</p> <p>Investigators said Jose Balderas has yet to produce a photo ID, and will not be released from jail until he provides one. Balderas reportedly told investigators he has been living in Washington, D.C. for the past seven months.</p>

Better late than never - even when it's seven years late. In 2000, Congress passed a law authorizing visas for illegal immigrant crime victims. Seven years later, federal immigration officials say they're finally ready to start issuing "U-visas" to certain victims who cooperate with law enforcement in the investigation and prosecution of violent crimes. Federal immigration officials attribute the delay to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the resulting mass reorganization of government agencies in the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "We realize it took a long amount of time," U.S. Citizenship and...

Robbery target won't be victim, kills intruder When two armed men allegedly attempted to rob a house full of young adults in Brunswick early Monday morning, their victims fought back. A man visiting the house at 601 Wolfe St. in the city's south end pulled a handgun from the front of his pants and shot the two would-be robbers, killing one of them and wounding the other, police said. Police did not release the names of the two suspects. No charges had been filed Monday. The renters of the house, Leah Whitman, 18, Robert Herd, 20, and Josh Stout, 20,...

(FReeper thread from earlier today: Ron Paul Will Win Debate But Be Discredited)[FOX News just declaired Ron Paul the winner in tonights debate....but Ron Paul's win has been discredited by Hannity]Now to the article......: Washington D.C.: An analyst at USAElectionPolls.com has recently published the frequency the top news sources mention each of the Republican candidates. As expected, the top tiered candidates were mentioned most often but by how much varied. Their analysis found that the New York Times, USA Today, and CBS News were the fairest of all the news sources analyzed. The biggest "culprit" according to the web site...

Wed Aug 1, 7:54 PM OTTAWA (AFP) - Canadian researchers on Wednesday said they positively identified the remains of a young child who died when the RMS Titanic sank in 1912. (Advertisement) The remains belong to a 19-month-old English boy named Sidney Leslie Goodwin who died with his family as they were setting out for a new life in Niagara Falls, New York, researchers said. Goodwin's body was found floating in the waters of the North Atlantic six days after the luxury liner sank on April 15,9 1912, killing 1,503 passengers and crew. Many of the Titanic victims are buried...

TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- Titusville resident William Herring acted in self-defense when he grabbed a gun and shot two intruders who attacked him in his garage early Sunday morning, killing one of them, police investigators said. It's the third fatal shooting in Titusville in three weeks, but unlike the other two, police are not looking at it as a criminal offense, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported. Herring, 46, has not been charged. Herring was working in his garage at 908 S. Washington Ave. in downtown Titusville when he spotted two men on his property "in an area they didn't...

First Known Gunshot Victim in Americas Discovered Kelly Hearn in Buenos Aires, Argentina for National Geographic News June 19, 2007 The first known gunshot victim in the Americas was an Inca Indian killed by a musket-wielding Spaniard nearly 500 years ago in Peru, scientists announced today. (See pictures and watch video.) The casualty's skeleton was discovered in 2004 while excavating an Inca cemetery in the Lima suburb of Puruchuco—less than a mile from thousands of Inca mummy bundles discovered by Peruvian archaeologist Guillermo Cock. The individual may have been killed during an Inca uprising against Spanish conquistadors in 1536, according...

Tory Bowen says she knows what happened to her ... But she won’t be able tell her story to jurors... because a judge’s order bars witnesses from using words like “rape” and “sexual assault” in the trial of Pamir Safi, who is accused of sexually assaulting Bowen. In my mind, what happened to me was rape,” said Bowen, 24. “I want the freedom to be able to point in court and say, ‘That man raped me.’” Last month, Lancaster County District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront denied a motion by prosecutors that would have prohibited Safi’s attorneys from using words like “sex”...

A woman who says she was spanked with a pingpong paddle is the latest person to file charges against a Baptist preacher in Culpeper. Laura Beth Scott, 26, charged the Rev. Charles V. Shifflett with assault "with the intent to maim, disfigure, disable or kill." It is the fifth charge brought this year against the former pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. All are related to Shifflett's former position as headmaster of the Calvary Baptist Academy, which was part of the church's outreach program. Shifflett, who is no longer with the church, turned himself in about 9:30 a.m. yesterday and was...

CAMP TAJI — Multi-National Division–Baghdad Soldiers provided healthcare to a badly burned Iraqi boy in northern Baghdad May 9, in a continuing effort to provide medical support to the Iraqi people. Elements of 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, were conducting operations near the town of Muhammad al’Abbas when a local woman approached requesting medical aid for her three-year-old son. The boy was involved in a hot water accident which caused second-degree burns on the child’s face and upper body May 7th. The injuries were severe enough for the boy to...

Reports say 12 people have died as a result of tornadoes sweeping through Kansas over the weekend. Here are the names of those identified so far. Each life was special. As we get information about the deceased, we will publish it here. Alexander 'Junior' Giles Giles, 84, was a lifetime resident of Hopewell. He was a farmer/stockman and a veteran of World War II. Giles won the Bronze Star in the Battle of the Bulge. He was a member of the Byers United Methodist Church and former Trustee for Pratt Community College. Giles died at his home after a tornado...

Rep. Patrick Kennedy says he is tackling his prescription drug addiction one day at a time, a year after crashing his car into a Capitol barricade in the middle of the night. In an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, the 39-year-old son of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said he has been more vigilant about reducing stress and reaching out to friends and colleagues for support. "I'm much more aware of the stresses in my life and minimize it where possible and connect with people whenever I do have it, so I have social support systems there when I...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. - Altar boy. Avid runner. Ambitious student. Thomas Herbstritt boasted about grandson Jeremy Herbstritt's life and accomplishments like a typical proud grandparent. But for the 77-year-old grandfather, it was simple acts of kindness that stood out above all the memories of his grandchild, one of the 32 slain in the massacre Monday at Virginia Tech University.

Adults of a certain age will remember what we were told for 25 years about how to behave in an airline hijacking. The training was similar for the aircrews: * Don't draw attention to yourself. * Don't look the bad guys in the eye. * Cooperate. * Don't resist. That approach to passenger safety, passive non-resistance, died along with the passengers on United 93, who sacrificed themselves so that thousands of others might live. Those passengers, armed with the information that they were most likely not to be hostages but were destined for sacrifice on the altar of Evil, rebelled...

Wolfowitz's friend says she's the victim By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer Shaha Riza WASHINGTON - The woman at the heart of the controversy that has embroiled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz says she is a victim and was forced into a job transfer because of their relationship. Shaha Riza's comments are included in new documents released by the World Bank on Friday that also show Wolfowitz had a direct hand in arranging her promotion and generous pay package. Wolfowitz is fighting to retain his job. Riza said that at no time did she report directly to Wolfowitz and that...

Being LGBT Shouldn't Be a Job Hazard Have you been fired or denied a job for being LGBT? Do you know someone who has? The new Congress and some states might be willing to pass landmark protections for LGBT workers. But first, lawmakers must be convinced this is a problem worth fixing. That's where your story can make a difference. We want to hear from LGBT workers from all backgrounds and job skills: from fast food to brain surgery. Tell your story by completing this simple online form: http://www.hrc.org/shareyourstory/share.asp Equality Virginia is partnering with a coalition of national and statewide...

She had gone to Target with her brother and sister-in-law to buy a DVD player for their new house, and had decided to go off on her own. She was looking over women's blouses when a young girl brushed past her. The girl angrily demanded an apology. The woman was taken aback and refused, according to her account, and tried to turn her attention back to the rack of clothes. [snip] Sanchez said some store employees were present when the fight began and didn't try to intervene. "They didn't do nothing, nothing whatsoever," Sanchez said. "The manager didn't respond when...

Motorcyclist Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- The driver of a pickup is accused of leaving the scene of a crash Sunday after colliding with a motorcylist who ended up in the bed of his truck, according to Titusville police. Lewis Spicuzza, 68, of Macon, Ga., was driving a 1994 Chevrolet pickup southbound on Brown Avenue around 3:30 p.m. when he ran a stop sign at Garden Street, pulling into the path of a motorcyclist, police said. The unidentified motorcycle driver struck Lewis' pickup and landed in the back of the truck, according to a police report. Police said Lewis...

Updated: Jan. 25, 2007, 1:11 PM ET Athlete who fled Katrina jailed for making bomb threat Associated Press DENTON, Texas -- A high school basketball star is accused of calling in a bomb threat to the school the night of a game he was missing because of a suspension for fighting. Howard Stirgus, an 18-year-old who came to Denton in 2005 after fleeing New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, was jailed on suspicion of making a false alarm and abusing the 911 system. Authorities said he called Denton High School on Tuesday night, claiming there was a bomb in the building...

A black man who was shown being asked to perform a rap to get out of a littering ticket on a police-produced TV show in Tempe has demanded the city pay him for emotional damage. Louis Baker’s lawyer confirmed Saturday he sent a notice of claim to the city. That letter, sent Thursday afternoon, asked for $500,000 for damage done by the episode of “Tempe StreetBeat,” a show that followed cops on patrol and aired 20 times during November on the city’s cable Channel 11. “He doesn’t have any broken bones,” said lawyer Howard Schwartz. “But he does have an...

Alphonso Jackson, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, says that black leaders like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Julian Bond are doing a disservice to blacks by perpetuating an ideology of victimhood. "They [black leaders] have created an industry," Jackson, who is black, told NewsMax. "If we don't become victims, they have no income. They have no podium." Rather than confronting real issues that face blacks, African-American leaders suggest that "it's racism that's stopping everything that we're doing," Jackson said. "They are in the business of making excuses," he said. "White folks have nothing to...