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(IsraelNN.com) The Hevron Jewish Community has released a sharp, detailed report accusing the Israeli Government of breach of trust, abuse, and hostility towards the Jewish owners of Arab-stolen property in the City of the Patriarchs. Entitled "The State of Israel's Management of the Stolen Jewish Property in Hevron," the report was issued this month in honor of the 78th anniversary of the Hevron massacre. In August 1929, Arabs brutally murdered 67 of their Jewish neighbors in their homes and in the local yeshiva. The Jewish survivors were then removed from Hevron, leaving behind their homes and land to be stolen...

per RedState.com : It's official: Fred Thompson will make a Presidential announcement today at 4:30pm. For all who have waited for this for months -- here you go. He's finally putting his money where his mouth is. Word is that he is making phone calls to supporters as we speak. But then also on Drudge: August 30, 2007 Read More: F. Thompson Sources: Thompson to announce Sept. 6th Fred Thompson's campaign-in-waiting will hold a 4 p.m. conference call today with supporters to brief them on plans for the former Tennessee senator's presidential announcement next week, according to an e-mail obtained...

Major-general of the reserve of the Russian Federal Custodial Service Boris Ratnikov tells that Russia and other countries work on making special devices that turn humans into zombies. Russians have psychotronic weapon to zombie people It was already twenty years ago that mass media first mentioned the strange word combination ‘psychotronic weapon’. All information about such weapons arrived from military men transferred to the reserve and from researchers that were not officially recognized by the Russian Academy of Sciences. They usually told about some generators that could make people muddleheaded even when they were distanced at hundreds of kilometers.

Whatever our feelings about this president, it's obvious to all of us that his job, never easy, is today a crucible of frustration, vituperation, condemnation, lowered public approval and even downright opposition from some in his own party. I'm thinking that, though he has not uttered words like these, there are times President Bush might very much want to: Normally, I start these things out by saying, "My fellow Americans." Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the biggest U.S. trade unions made an unusual dual endorsement in the 2008 White House race on Thursday, backing Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mike Huckabee for their parties' presidential nominations. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which has about 720,000 active and retired members, backed a candidate from each party for the first time after a recent survey found about one-third of union members voted Republican and two-thirds Democratic. "The dual endorsement is intended to involve all IAM members in the upcoming election," said IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger. The endorsement was...

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Confidential strategy directives from the National Education Association urge the union's field representatives involved in the collective bargaining process to "attack the chief school administrator" and "mislead" their own members. The confidential NEA documents obtained by OneNewsNow carry the title "NEA Strategy Directives to Field Representatives for Difficult Negotiations." The documents recommend strategies for field representatives who are engaged in negotiations with school districts that are reticent to certify the powerful teacher's union. One strategy the NEA calls "Block the boss" calls on field reps to "Attack the chief school administrator. Charge him with poor mismanagement, poor working conditions and...

You've got to hand it to U.S. Sen. Larry Craig. The Idaho Republican has established his legacy. He will forever be known as the political leader who gave new meaning to the term "layover". By now the nation has heard the conservative lawmaker's strained denials when he faced the press on Tuesday and said: "I am not a crook." No, wait a minute. That was Nixon. Craig said, "I am not gay." http://www.spokesman.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=11289 Video: http://www.spokesmanreview.com/media/video/?ID=1228 Download song in MP3

Here is an interesting site. You have to register and as is always the case some of the answer choices leave something to be desired, but overall it is fun. http://www.politichoice.com/candidate match I scored out 87% Republican My top three matches of the leading candidate in order: Fred - 85.3% Mike H. - 81.5% Mitt - 80.7% Nothing surprising there. I would probably pick Mike as my first choice if I thought he could win and Mitt would be my second choice, but I like Fred I just have concerns over the fire in his belly. Any of the 3...

Fidel Castro is an ingrate. That must be what Sen. Christopher Dodd is thinking now that Cuba's communist tyrant has endorsed a Democratic ticket of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. "The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate," he wrote in a column Tuesday in Cuba's Communist Party newspaper, Granma. He also had nice things to say about two of his favorite stooges: Jimmy Carter, for trying to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba during his feckless presidency; and Bill Clinton, for his part in...

Archbishop Elden Curtiss Omaha, Nebraska, Aug 30, 2007 / 10:34 am (CNA).- Creighton University has been in the news lately, but not because of a new research breakthrough or one of its athletic team’s good records. The Jesuit-run university is in the limelight because of what seems to be a pattern of disagreement with the Archdiocese of Omaha within which it is located.The most recent development in the relationship between the two Catholic institutions is the invitation, and then a last minute retraction by the university for the pro-assisted suicide speaker Anne Lamott to speak.  Creighton University officials said they...

With more of us eating out in restaurants and cafes than ever before, modern Britain likes to think of itself as a nation of gourmands. But how much do we really know about the food we consume away from home? While many of us may now be familiar with culinary terms such as "jus" and "confit", the same cannot always be said of our understanding of our food's provenance. This week an ITV documentary revealed that those "prime steaks" and "gourmet burgers" in many wellknown restaurant chains and pubs are not from traditional beef breeds like Aberdeen Angus at all.They...

A West Hills man has pleaded guilty to an audacious plan to buy as many as 100,000 Uzis in the United States and sell them to officials in Iran's government. Under a plea agreement reached this week, Seyed Mostafa Maghloubi, 49, acknowledged that he tried to obtain submachine guns and night vision goggles and ship them to Iran, in violation of U.S. laws prohibiting such transactions. According to the plea agreement, Maghloubi's plan dated to at least October 2005 when he approached an unidentified individual and said he was interested in buying the weapons and goggles. The individual, who was...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2007 - Reshaping support to Army families and rebalancing a force stretched by war will be the priorities for Army Secretary Preston "Pete" Geren. Geren spoke during an arrival ceremony hosted here today by Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. In a nod to Geren's Dallas background, the Army Band played "The Yellow Rose of Texas" during the pre-event concert. Geren, who represented Dallas in the House of Representatives from 1989 to 1997, has served as the 20th Army secretary since July 16. "Pete Geren is the right person, at the right time, to...

Mark Finklestein had some lovely things to say about the main man's appearance on the Today Show this morning. See his comments and the interview recap below, It's rare to see a leading MSM light directly confronted over the liberal media's bias. But it happened in spades this morning as Tom DeLay (R-Texas) called out Matt Lauer on the MSM's double-standard in handling Republican, versus Democrat, scandals. Video (3:29) : Real and Windows, plus MP3 audio. [links below] The "Today" co-anchor opened his interview of the former Republican congressman and Majority Leader with a laundry-list of GOP scandals. MATT LAUER:...

YUMA - Private guard watching construction equipment along the U.S.-Mexico border in southwestern Arizona allege they were shot at from Mexico. The Border Patrol says a Pinkerton Government Services security officer reported that he and two other guards heard 12 to 15 gunshots Wednesday morning, and immediately afterward they spotted a car driving slowly along Mexican Highway 2. The Border Patrol dispatched a helicopter to the rural area and the crew spotted the vehicle driving off road south of a military checkpoint in Mexico. Mexican authorities were notified of the incident. No one was injured. The Border Patrol said the...

Who Would The World Elect forthe President of the United States? YOUR VOTE You live in Country was estimated by using your IP Click on the candidate you would vote for: Democratic Candidates Barack ObamaTotal Votes:10,968 Bill RichardsonTotal Votes:261 Chris DoddTotal Votes:63 Dennis KucinichTotal Votes:2,481 Hillary ClintonTotal Votes:2,173 Joe BidenTotal Votes:184 John EdwardsTotal Votes:712 Mike GravelTotal Votes:1,462 Votes for the Democratic party: 18,304 Republican Candidates Duncan HunterTotal Votes:108 Fred ThompsonTotal Votes:459 John McCainTotal Votes:362 Mike HuckabeeTotal Votes:146 Mitt RomneyTotal Votes:397 Ron PaulTotal Votes:14,592 Rudy GiulianiTotal Votes:664 Sam BrownbackTotal Votes:66 Tom TancredoTotal Votes:86 Tommy ThompsonTotal Votes:64 Votes for the Republican party:...

Some facilities that handle the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile misplaced classified bomb components under their care, according to an Energy Department audit. The department's Inspector General also found there was confusion at the facilities over who was responsible for keeping track of weapons parts and recommended changes in how to better safeguard the parts. John Broehm, a spokesman for the department's National Nuclear Security Administration that oversees the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal, said his agency disagreed with the recommendations. He said the parts, which he declined to identify, were later found. A summary of the IG's audit -- a little-noticed...

Disgraced pastor Ted Haggard won't be fundraising for a Monument nonprofit run by a sex offender, won't be ministering to anyone and needs to get a job, his overseers said in a statement released Wednesday. "Mr. Haggard's solicitation for personal support was inappropriate," his church supervisors said. The statement came one day after the four-member team of ministers responsible for overseeing the spiritual restoration of Haggard met with him in Phoenix.

Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007 – The cross-border program with Mexico is apparently starting sooner rather than later.According to media reports, officials within the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration told members of the Teamsters union the border would open Saturday, Sept. 1.Requests from Land Line for confirmation on the Teamster’s claim remained unanswered Wednesday afternoon by FMCSA.The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association expressed outrage in response to learning the U.S. Department of Transportation plans to begin allowing Mexican trucks to bring cargo into the United States, against the will of the public and their nationally elected representatives.“We are stunned at the...