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After 18 months spent examining the deteriorating relations between the United States and the Muslim world during the Bush administration, a diverse group of American leaders will release a report in Washington on Wednesday calling for an overhaul of American strategy to reverse the spread of terrorism and extremism. The report recommends more diplomatic engagement, even with Iran and other adversaries, and a major investment in economic development in Muslim countries to create jobs for alienated youth. It calls on the next president to use his Inaugural Address to signal a shift in approach, to immediately renounce the use of...

"Former President Bill Clinton has some words of wisdom for Todd Palin, the husband of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin: “Give support,” but don’t “make her look weak.” "

No, really. Let's look at all the victories: * We kept the war fully funded. * We successfully got the surge working. * We shot down redeployment instead of victory. * We shot down abandonment instead of victory. * We won the war, in fact. * We passed FISA - finally! And without nonsensical regulation. We even got retroactive telecom immunity! * We still have Gitmo open. * We still have the PATRIOT Act up and running. * We stopped the S-CHIP bloat. * We ensured that impeaching Bush remained the joke that it is and always has been. *...

Follow the Money: If you think Wall Street gives overwhelmingly to the GOP you're wrong. Democrats have been raking in investment banker money almost 2-1 compared to Republicans. Merrill Lynch was the only big firm whose employees gave more to Republicans than Democrats. Michael Franc provides an excellent summary over at National Review. Blame Liberalism: Democrats caused our current financial calamity. I know, the liberal press echoes the liberal politicians who bawl that it's the fault of those mean, deregulating Republicans. Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters gives us the real reason why: Jimmy Carter and a Democratic congress passed laws that...

Reid: Bush ???absent??? on bailout Andy Barr 24 minutes ago Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called out President Bush Wednesday over what the Nevada Democrat is characterizing as a lack of leadership in steering the proposed $700 billion government bailout of financial companies through Congress. “President Bush has been absent from what may well be the most important debate on economic policy in a generation,” Reid said during a speech on the Senate floor. “Other than two brief statements to the press — and a press release admonishing the Congress to accept his bailout plan immediately — President Bush has...

""I am now caving," he said. "Get ready for real tough times. They're coming. There is no credit available.""

San Francisco resident Carlos Dimaano, 50, a recent immigrant from the Philippines, speaks English in his job at a community center. But when he goes home to cook dinner for his 88-year-old father, the two lapse into their native Tagalog. The men are among the almost 43 percent of Californians who speak a language other than English at home, a proportion far higher than in any other state in the country, according to census figures released today. Speaking another language at home doesn't mean they don't also speak English in the home. But Dimaano, who immigrated just a year ago,...

Current polling in the 2008 presidential election shows a very tight race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. In part because of the strong support Obama is attracting among younger voters, and as the number of Americans who are reachable only by cell phones rises, interest continues to grow in the question of whether public opinion polls that do not include cell phones are accurately measuring the relative levels of support for the two candidates.

Excellent ad. This needs to be sent far and wide. Email your friends. Send it to Drudge. Send it to Rush. Send it to Hannity.. Get the word out. Jack

With the stock market dropping, oil prices skyrocketing, and taxpayers footing the $1 trillion bill for Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae and investment bank bailouts, the Democratic ticket has adopted a new strategy in recent days to help lighten the mood of voters here in the swing states of the Midwest by getting comedic advice from senior Obama campaign strategist Sandra Bernhard and court jester/U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken...

'Dara and Sara' have been created by the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in an effort to promote traditional Muslim values in the country. Unlike their American counterparts, the toys come dressed in modest clothing. They also have pro-family backgrounds and each of the four models of Sara comes with a white headscarf. They will be sold for just a third of the price of a Barbie doll. Toy seller Masoumeh Rahimi welcomed the dolls, noting that the image of Barbie as buxom, blonde and wearing revealing clothing was "more harmful than an American missile."...

Syria has massed thousands of troops along its border with northern Lebanon in what officials in Beirut fear is a prelude to the first incursion since Syrian forces pulled out three years ago. Although Damascus insists that its forces are conducting an antismuggling operation, the Lebanese Government is eyeing the moves with unease, believing that the unusual scale of the deployment has more to do with tensions between the two countries over recent sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon. “People around here are worried. We don’t know why the Syrians have arrived like this,” said Ali, 18, a farmer in the...

The South American republic of Ecuador will next week consider what many countries in the world would say is unthinkable. People will be asked to vote on Sunday on a new constitution that would give Ecuador’s tropical forests, islands, rivers and air similar legal rights to those normally granted to humans. If they vote yes - and polls show that 56% are for and only 23% are against - then an already approved bill of rights for nature will be introduced, and new laws will change the legal status of nature from being simply property to being a right-bearing entity....

A GRIEVING family from Sheffield have been told they can't bury their stepfather on a Saturday - because he was not Muslim. Retired steel erector Harold "Charlie" Lemaire, from Woodseats, died last week aged 75 from pneumonia. His stepdaughter Jean Maltby, from Greenhill, wanted the funeral to be held this Saturday so family who live outside the city - including her brother Stephen, now living in Dorset, and relatives from the Isle of Man - could attend. But when her funeral director called City Road Cemetery to arrange a memorial service in the chapel followed by burial, he was told...

MRG of Lansing conducted this poll for the Detroit Free Press. If you click "MRG of Lansing" you get the original article. But the numbers are difficult to find. DFP tried to hide their own poll LOL.

Once again, Megyn Kelly shows her hotness in the way she tears apart this Obama Spokesman! Go Megyn! http://www.palinplanet.com/2008/09/24/foxs-megyn-kelly-vs-obama-spokesman-on-nra-ads/

Pakistani police took custody of a 12-year-old girl allegedly tortured by her husband and sent her to a women’s police station. “We picked Shahnaz after receiving information that her husband was torturing her,” Sartaj Jagirani of the Waleed police station told Pakistani daily Dawn. She would be sent to hospital for a medical check-up, he added. Her husband Abdul Latif Brohi and brother Aijaz Siyal have been arrested. Shahnaz told Dawn that her brother Ismail had sold her in Hyderabad for 80,000 Pakistani Rupees (700 Euro) when she was only five years old. She was rescued about three months ago...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- It is imperative that Congress pass the administration plan put forth by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to buy up to $700 billion in toxic debt because of the grave threat faced by a severe credit crunch, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday. Members of Congress practically begged Bernanke for a rationale for passage of the controversial plan that they can take to their constituents. In response, Bernanke replied that every American would feel "direct" negative effects if the credit crunch was allowed to continue or worsen. He said it would be difficult for consumers to get...

<p>I just saw this on Fox News by Carl Cameron.</p>