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On Thursday, September 24th, after an apparently productive day at Fengler High School in Chicago, Derrion Albert, a black 16 year old honor student was knocked to the ground by a blow to the head with a railroad tie. He was then punched, kicked and stomped. Those who responded to rescue him were too late. Derrion had walked into the middle of a fight between two rival black gangs. He attempted to help one of the victims in the melee and was killed for his trouble. This took place in Barack Obama's Chicago. All his work for "social justice" did...

"Thousands of people have gathered at a mosque in Guinea's capital, Conakry, to identify those killed in Monday's opposition rally against military rule ... Soldiers used live rounds against huge crowds of protesters on Monday ... Eyewitnesses have told human rights groups of soldiers raping women in the streets during the crackdown ..."

The given in any conversation concerning the violence surrounding the abortion issue is that pro-lifers are religious fanatics prone to violence. In fact, it's so prevalent that it's actually a cliche. Everyone knows that pro-lifers are a bunch of wackjob violent anti-woman wackos. Even though one time in the past decade a wacko killed an abortionist we're all violent wackjobs as liable to be hiding a pipe bomb as we are carrying the Bible. But what about pro-abort crowd? Isn't there violence associated with them? I mean, other than the slaughter of millions of babies. Of course we recently had...

After World War II, the U.S. government invested an enormous amount of money in medicine; medical research, medical procedures and medical technologies. This investment made contemporary scientific medicine into American medicine, characterized by a continuing flow of new treatment possibilities. These advances raised all kinds of ethical questions. Some were personal and individual, others were social and political. Both type questions are addressed by a new academic discipline called bioethics. The first attempt to develop a scientific medicine took place in Greece in the 5th century B.C. It was called Hippocratic medicine. Closely linked with this first scientific medicine was...

warning, very graphic. A Chicago honor roll student was beaten to death over the weekend, and here's the local report.

The scruffy young Afghan at the heart of a plot to bomb New York looked ripe for a makeover as he shopped for Ion Sensitive Scalp Developer, which promises "brilliant color results." Najibullah Zazi also filled his cart with bottles of nail polish remover and hair dye agents like Clairoxide Liquid Developer. Sometimes Zazi was joined on his shopping trips to the beauty supply stores in suburban Denver by other bearded men ... Zazi...might have fooled the clerk, but it didn't fool the feds. They knew the hydrogen peroxide - and the other acetone-based goodies that Zazi bought - could...

A Scottish baggage handler who became a hero after he tackled the Glasgow airport bombers is hoping to break into politics. John Smeaton will stand as an independent candidate for the Parliamentary seat vacated by the former Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin in the wake of the MPs' expenses row. The Glaswegian airport worker was hailed a hero in June 2007 after he grappled with the attackers and helped rescue victims during a cigarette break...He gained fame for his colourful descriptions when asked about the incident by TV reporters and warned off would-be terrorists with the unforgettable...

PITTSBURGH — Police fired canisters of pepper spray and smoke at marchers protesting the Group of 20 summit Thursday after anarchists responded to calls to disperse by rolling trash bins and throwing rocks. The march turned chaotic at just about the time that President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrived for a meeting with leaders of the world's major economies. The clashes began after hundreds of protesters, many advocating against capitalism, tried to march from an outlying neighborhood toward the convention center where the summit is being held.

Several delegations, including the United States, walked out of the General Assembly chambers just as Iranian President Mahoud Ahmadinajad began to speak. The Canadians were among those who showed their displeasure with the Iranian president by exiting the already-half empty hall. Canadian Foreign Minister told reporters on Tuesday that he would walk out. Other delegations watched the exodus, some with knowing nods. It is disappointing that Mr. Ahmadinejad has once again chosen to espouse hateful, offensive and anti-Semitic rhetoric," said the U.S. Mission, which distributed a written statement... Israel on Tuesday called for a boycott of Mr. Ahmadinijad's speech late...

The lawyer for a Flushing imam arrested in a nationwide terror probe said his client's family plans to put up property in Queens and Virginia to secure a request for bail. Ron Kuby, the civil rights attorney representing Ahmad Wasi Afzali, 37, said the property would be posted by relatives of Afzali at a bail hearing Thursday in Brooklyn federal court...Federal prosecutors said they intend to try to keep Afzali in jail on the grounds that he may flee. The Brooklyn bail hearing, as well as one in Denver, where two other suspects are being held, comes as major rail...

NEW YORK - A suspected bomb plot under investigation in New York and Denver has the ingredients of a worst case scenario for U.S. security, experts say: an al Qaeda link, overseas training and free movement within U.S. borders. Colorado airport shuttle driver Najibullah Zazi, who U.S. authorities say admitted to taking a bomb-making course at an al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan, is at the center of what they say could be a plot to blow up subways or other targets... Whether the allegations outlined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in court papers are true, the picture they...

NEW YORK — Police in New York City stepped up their patrols and increased their random searches on subways and buses Wednesday following reports that as many as 24 more people are being sought in a suspected cross-country terror plot. Amid media reports that some public storage centers in the region were being raided, the FBI told FOX News that there may be "consensual searches" under way, but no facilities were being "raided." The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security issued bulletins earlier this week warning law officials around the country to watch mass transit, stadiums, warehouses with rentable...

Counter-terror agents raided several city apartments on Tuesday searching for evidence that could link a half-dozen suspected terrorists to a recently uncovered plot to bomb in New York. The men are friends and associates of the three Afghan immigrants arrested over the weekend after police raided several Queens apartments...Between 16 and 20 men are under surveillance - as are their haunts in the city, sources said...(Police Commissioner Raymond) Kelly also declined to address reports that detectives were combing Queens storage facilities looking for explosive chemicals that were stockpiled by Al Qaeda terrorists.... The News also reported that NYPD investigators, in...

A depressing report in the Washington Times about the ongong terrorism investigation, suggesting that turf warring between rival agencies — the FBI and the NYPD — prematurely blew the investigation before law enforcement could gather enough evidence to make a strong terrorism case against anyone. Specifically, the FBI was watching the Denver-based prime suspect, Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old native Afghan who has reportedly received training in al-Qaeda camps. Zazi had plans to be in New York by the anniversary of 9/11 (always a date of concern) and, in fact, took two days to drive there. (Driving, rather than flying or...

A 24-year-old Afghan man at the center of an unfolding FBI investigation into a possible U.S. terrorism cell was ordered held without bond Monday as authorities raced to learn more about an alleged plot using hydrogen peroxide explosives and who else might have been helping to carry it out. A federal judge in Denver followed the recommendation of Justice Department prosecutors and refused to release Najibullah Zazi, a permanent U.S. resident...Unlike in recent U.S. plots -- which federal authorities often described as "aspirational" and whose leaders' search for expertise or weapons often unwittingly led to them to consult FBI informants...

...Do we arrest potential terrorists too early and allow them to plead to lesser charges? Or do we wait and risk an attack? How seriously has law enforcement taken the plot? Serious enough for the FBI to have sent out warnings to local law enforcement to be on the lookout for bombs and bomb-making material. Was a terrorist attack “imminent”? We may never know how close the alleged plotters were to actually carrying out their attacks. If this New York Post article is to be believed, sometime prior to the raid Zazi was warned that he was the subject of...

Jen in the UK found an interesting article in yesterday's print version of The Evening Standard. For some reason, she couldn't find any reference to it online. But here's what it said: "An Islamic sect with links to the airline bomb plotters and 7/7 suicide bombers has been warned it faces legal action over its illegal mosque near London's Olympic park.Newham council has given Tablighi Jamaat six months to submit plans for a "mega-mosque" or risk the removal of a temporary Portakabin-style structure it has used without planning permission for three years." Tablighi Jamaat was followed by the 7/7 bombers...

AURORA, Colo. — Djilali Kacem tugged at his beard and surveyed the warehouse of Islamic books he helps oversee near Denver International Airport. “The government should know better by now,” said Mr. Kacem, an imam at a local mosque. “It has been eight years since Sept. 11 and our government still overacts sometimes when it comes to Muslims.” As an investigation into a possible terrorist plot against New York City focused increasingly last week on a local Afghani shuttle bus driver, some Muslims in and around this Denver suburb have grown uneasy, saying they are concerned that law-enforcement officials are...

Suggesting they wanted to pack it with explosives...Investigators probed a failed Queens truck rental for ties to a possible Al Qaeda bomb plot yesterday as a chief terror suspect tried making a deal to save his skin. The New York end of the expanding federal probe centered on seven Afghan men who tried to rent the biggest truck at a Queens U-Haul on Sept. 9, sources told the Daily News. The size of the vehicle involved - a 26-foot-long truck - suggested the conspirators wanted to pack it with explosives, sources said. A police source acknowledged there was "quite a...

Najibullah Zazi, the man at the center of a probe into a suspected terror plot against a target in the New York area, has admitted ties to al Qaeda, an administration official familiar with the matter told CNN Friday.Either a plea deal or charges are possible, the official said. The terror plot that came to light this week following raids in New York may have been targeting a major transportation center, sources close to the investigation told CNN on Thursday. There was planning and preparation for an attack, presumably in the New York area, where there would be a large...

When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad decided to go on his annual visit to New York this month, it probably seemed like a good idea at the time. The Iranian leader, re-elected in June amid widespread allegations of vote rigging, desperately needed to restore credibility at home and abroad. With the results of the contested election confirmed by the authorities and his government sworn in last month, he may have concluded that opposition to his rule was weakening, not least because scores of his opponents had been arrested or intimidated. He probably calculated that turning up for the UN General Assembly, alongside...

An Aurora man embroiled in a multi-state terror investigation is expected to participate in a third round of questioning with federal agents today. Attorney Arthur Folsom told the Denver Post that his client, Najibullah Zazi, 24, is exhausted. The questioning has changed as interviews have proceeded, Folsom said. "They are going through things - the best I can describe it - is chronologically. Covering all the bases." Folsom said authorities have been mindful of Zazi's needs as a Muslim to fast — it is the holy month of Ramadan — and pray. "The FBI has been very aware with that"...

Najibullah Zazi, the once-chatty suspect at the center of the probe, was silent and downcast as he arrived at FBI headquarters in Denver for a second round of questioning...The day before, Zazi, 25, fielded detailed questions for eight hours from two of FBI agents. His Aurora, Colo., home was raided by feds and local law enforcement. (Zazi's lawyer, Arthur) Folsom said there was no word of any bomb-making materials being found in the apartment, although agents carried away several boxes of evidence after going through the home with bomb-sniffing dogs. Zazi had taken video with his cell phone camera inside...

Clashes in Tehran as opposition defies regime warnings Philippe Naughton Clashes broke out on the streets of Tehran today as tens of thousands of Iranians marched in favour of the opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, defying government warnings and a heavy police presence at an annual rally to show solidarity with the Palestinians. The demonstrators carried accessories in green, the signature colour of Mr Mousavi’s election campaign, for what was the first demonstration in two months against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's contested re-election in June. But the protest soon sparked violence as fistfights broke out with Ahmadinejad loyalists. Witnesses said that at...

The great Iran-engagement experiment is about to begin. If it doesn't succeed, it will be followed very shortly by more of the great Iran-sanctions experiment. That, in a nutshell, is what to expect in the next few weeks.. keep an eye on the sanctions part; the government's machinery already is moving on that front. In fact, lists of possible moves already are being drawn up quietly. There will be an effort to get the Security Council to adopt sanctions beyond those already on the books, but Russia and China will pose problems. The more important action likely will be what...

DENVER — A man identified by law enforcement as having a possible link to al-Qaida met with his attorney Thursday before a second round of questioning by federal agents. Najibullah Zazi planned to meet with FBI agents later in the day, said the attorney, Arthur Folsom. Agents questioned Zazi for hours on Wednesday. They also searched Zazi's apartment and the home of his aunt and uncle, both in the east Denver suburb of Aurora. Folsom said Zazi has never met with al-Qaida operatives and isn't involved in terrorism... Folsom said he believes the FBI would have arrested Zazi if agents...

MOMBASA, Kenya — The mother of a top al-Qaida fugitive who was killed in a U.S. raid in Somalia demanded Wednesday to see her son's body while a Somalia-based group claimed him as their leader and confirmed his death. Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a 30-year-old Kenyan, was wanted for the 2002 car bombing of a beach resort in Kenya and a failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner. Three senior U.S. officials familiar with Monday's commando raid confirmed he was killed. Aisha Abdallah told The Associated Press she wants "to see the body of my son before it is...

The Obama administration has for the first time set out its views on the controversial USA Patriot Act, telling lawmakers this week that legal approval of government surveillance methods scheduled to expire in December should be renewed, but leaving room to tweak the law to protect Americans' privacy. In a letter from Justice Department officials to key members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the administration recommended that Congress move swiftly with legislation that would protect the government's ability to collect a variety of business and credit card records and to monitor terrorism suspects with roving wiretaps. But Assistant Attorney General...

Since the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States, some have called for a law enforcement response rather than a military one. Monday's U.S. Special Forces raid on Somalia, which killed a suspected terrorist, has raised the issue again. Dan Volman, director of the African Security Research Project, questions the wisdom of the raid. "I think it's in some ways a real serious mistake and I think it will undermine a lot of the efforts by the United States and other parties to achieve a peaceful resolution or at least some kind of resolution…in Somalia," he says. He says...

GANJGAL, Afghanistan — We walked into a trap, a killing zone of relentless gunfire and rocket barrages from Afghan insurgents hidden in the mountainsides and in a fortress-like village where women and children were replenishing their ammunition...Dashing from boulder to boulder, diving into trenches and ducking behind stone walls as the insurgents maneuvered to outflank us, we waited more than an hour for U.S. helicopters to arrive, despite earlier assurances that air cover would be five minutes away... U.S. commanders, citing new rules to avoid civilian casualties, rejected repeated calls to unleash artillery rounds at attackers dug into the slopes...

Like many young British Muslims, I was 'radicalised' at college. Just as the three British-born men who were found guilty this week of plotting to blow flights out of the sky were recruited at school, I encountered extreme Muslims at the age of 16 and was slowly converted to their ranks. At my East London college, the Islamic society was run by the extremist group Hizb ut Tahrir, which believes in setting up an Islamic state, destroying Israel, and denounces Western values. At first, I, too, was convinced by their rhetoric. However one awful violent moment changed me for ever....

I had a really bad thought, and I want to post this for some discussion. I pray this weekend will be peaceful everywhere, but the potential for this scenario. Tonight, the Supreme Leader, His Obama-ness is giving a speech on his (party’s) Health Care takeoverReform plan. Her Highness, Empress Pelosi says she has the votes to pass this mess. They could have a vote as early as tomorrow morning on this. This Congress is known for passing stuff with little or no debate this year (Porkulus, the budget, etc.) The Senate could take this up as early as Thursday afternoon,...

The actor Will Smith is no one's image of a suicide bomber. With his boyish face, he has often played comic roles. Even as the last man on earth in I Am Legend, he retains a wise-cracking, ironic demeanor. And yet, surrounded by a horde of hyperactive vampires at the end of that film, Smith clasps a live grenade to his chest and throws himself at the enemy in a final burst of heroic sacrifice. Wait a second: surely that wasn't a suicide bombing. Will Smith wasn't reciting suras from the Koran. He wasn't sporting one of those rising sun...

(On 9/11) I said to myself, "We'll get you, you bastards," but I was wrong. We haven't. It has been eight years, two terms of Bush moralism and the beginning of Obama pragmatism, and the man who ordered the killing of Americans in Lower Manhattan and the Pentagon and in the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania is still in his lair... ...and I wanted then, as I do now, revenge for what happened. Bring me the head of Osama bin Laden. That revenge would be my first thought surprised me even then...When we talk about Afghanistan, whether to stay or...

The sadistic attack on two boys aged nine and 11 by a pair of brothers of similar age has shocked and appalled in equal measure. But what background did the attackers themselves have and what turned them to such extreme violence? As the horrors of the bloody attack on two young boys in Edlington, near Doncaster, are digested, a picture is emerging of the feral, troubled upbringing of their abusers. Whichever side of the story you focus on, it makes uncomfortable reading. The young attackers grew up in a large family with a mother who left them to their own...

Surprised he didn’t call the kids cracka’s. Race baiter as well as liar suits this man. Earth to White House, your boy “it guy” is a problem! Van on suburban white kids: “You’ve never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, ‘We can’t believe it happened here. We can’t believe it’s these suburban white kids.’ It’s only them. Now, a black kid might shoot another black kid. He’s not going to shoot up the whole school.” Exit question: It’s okay to shoot one black kid Van? HA: Try to imagine, say, Mike Huckabee expounding on...

Summary: (1) Despite claims by liberal talkers and politicians that conservative/Republican opposition to ObamaCare has been characterized by violence, there is hardly any evidence corroborating these claims. On the contrary, most of the physical violence has been carried out by liberals. (2) Despite the myth perpetuated by the Left that conservative talk radio is fomenting death threats against President Obama, there is no evidence of this. By stark contrast, liberal talkers are consistently expressing wishes of death against conservative talkers and politicians opposing ObamaCare. And when George W. Bush was president, the Left on radio and at rallies nationwide openly...

In the beginning, the congressional town halls might have been loud but they were never violent, but once the Democrats began to encourage unions and other organized groups to confront the opponents of Obamacare, that all changed. It started with the indecent in Saint Louis, where Kenneth Gladney was attached by members of the SEIU. Yesterday's rally in Thousand Oaks California was the most violent ever:

JERUSALEM – President Obama's environmental adviser, Van Jones, was the main speaker at an anti-war rally that urged "resistance" against the U.S. government, WND has learned. The rally was sponsored by an organization associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party, which calls for the overthrow of the U.S. government and its replacement with a communist dictatorship. WND previously reported Jones, special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is an admitted black nationalist and radical communist. In 2002, Jones was a keynote speaker at a rally at People's Park in Berkeley, Calif., to...

The Tucson area Tea Party Coalition held a townhall healthcare meeting at Rincon High School in Tucson on Friday (August 28th). Over 1,000 people showed up at the event ... including one violent counter-protester. The ObamaCare supporter loudly interrupted the meeting immediately after a TPD officer thanked the group for always being civil and law-abiding at their events. The event protester shouted over our panelists incessantly and, when approached, hit one of the attendees in the face with his elbow. The man who was assaulted kept his cool and TPD promptly removed the protester from the auditorium. Two local TV...

Fox News was able to break from Ted Kennedy coverage enough to give the 3am time slot back to Red Eye; for that I would like to say thank you. On the discussion board was the recent high school bombing of host Greg Gutfeld’s old stomping grounds of Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, California. Former student Alex Youshock decided to go into the school armed with pipe bombs as well as a sword and chainsaw. My first reaction was to wonder if this was a joke, sure sounds like it. I mean, who packs a sword and chainsaw? Sounds...

In a story in this week’s issue of The Catholic Review, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien talked about the violence plaguing Baltimore City. Here is the full transcript of that conversation. Catholic Review: When the summer began, you had a peace summit with other religious leaders and you were hoping this would be a summer of peace. How frustrating has it been to watch everything that’s transpired? Archbishop O’Brien: I hope some of it helped. It’s safer in Iraq and Afghanistan, I think, sometimes. Still, there are good people out there patrolling the streets and taking an interest in the neighborhoods...

Justice Department officials argue in a newly released 2006 memo that al-Qaeda captives must be confined to detention facilities with extraordinarily tight controls, citing previously unknown incidents in which detainees plotted to stage protests and create disturbances. The memo contends that al-Qaeda members held in Colorado's federal "supermax" facility developed a crude communications network to coordinate a hunger strike and other group protests. The strike, which appears to have occurred earlier in 2006, was not made public. "Even those terrorists kept in physical isolation within maximum security facilities can often find ways of communicating and thereby compromising institutional security," states...

The US military has begun notifying the Red Cross of the identities of terror suspects being held at secret camps in Iraq and Afghanistan, reports say. The Red Cross, which has lobbied the Pentagon for years to give its staff access to all detention facilities, declined to confirm the changes. The policy reportedly took effect this month with no public announcement.Correspondents say that the move represents a victory for human rights groups seeking more US transparency. The new approach is said to be part of a broad review of US detention and interrogation practice launched by the Obama administration... Despite...

...Patterns In Irrationality A first obvious common point in all the justifications for government: they all suppose that government somehow provides some kind of goods for free, without any costly counterpart. The existence of this pattern among statists is not anything new; we libertarians even have a mantra to dispel this pattern: TANSTAAFL [28]. However, what is remarkable is that all statist justifications include this pattern, albeit sometimes in a less than obvious way... ...Ultimately, what government is supposed to bring is some kind of a warranty that evil won't happen; some special sense of security.... ...A second pattern that...

Prince Andrew may be forced to scrap a trade visit to Libya after it was revealed today Colonel Gaddafi ignored a personal plea from Gordon Brown to ensure the Lockerbie bomber did not receive a hero's welcome. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was greeted by thousands cheering and waving Scottish flags when he arrived back in Libya last night following his release from a Scottish jail. The scene provoked an outcry from victims' families and the U.S. government and threatened to open up a new diplomatic rift between Britain and Libya. It was revealed today that, in a letter delivered by...

STANDISH, Mich. -- More than 200 people gathered here Thursday to voice concern that the federal government could transfer detainees from a facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the local prison, conjuring up images of terrorists holding busloads of schoolchildren hostage, firing shots in the church and poisoning the water supply. The meeting was dominated by opposition to the possibility that the Obama administration would move some prisoners to facilities within U.S. borders, including Standish... The meeting was organized by local tavern owner Dave Munson, who traveled to Washington in June to ask legislators about the possibility of moving Guantanamo...

An Atlanta jury on Wednesday found a 23-year-old man guilty of aiding terrorist groups after a trial that explored a subculture of youthful extremists who used the Internet to plot attacks and form a loose network connecting North America, Europe and South Asia. Ehsanul Sadequee, the U.S.-born son of Bangladeshi immigrants, faces up to 60 years in prison after being convicted of conspiracy to materially support terrorists. The jury found that he had discussed attacks with accused militants in Toronto and Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Along with another Georgia man convicted in June, Sadequee drove to Washington in 2005 to film the...

WASHINGTON — Recent high-profile attacks against civilians near Mosul reflect al-Qaida in Iraq’s continued desire to incite sectarian strife, a senior U.S. military officer posted in Iraq said yesterday. Army Maj. Gen. Robert Caslen, commander of Multi-National Division - North, told Pentagon reporters during a satellite-carried news conference the attacks don’t indicate a statistical spike in violence. In fact, he said, the average weekly numbers of attacks committed in and around the northern city of Mosul actually have trended down over the past six months. About 40 to 42 weekly attacks occurred in Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, in the six...

It begins so normally, on a June morning two years ago. The breakfast scramble, the packing of lunches, and driving their kids to school...At the wheel of the jeep is Eduardo Garcia Valseca, the son of a Mexican newspaper baron. Beside him is his wife, the former Jayne Rager, whom Eduardo met Bethesda, near where he lived at the time... ...now here they are settled into life on a ranch outside the picturesque Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende. In back are Nayah, 6, and bubbly Emiliano, 7; big brother Fernando, 12, is ahead on his four-wheeler. They pull...