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SPRING HILL — The JROTC member at Springstead High School who said she confronted a Muslim student last week because the girl did not stand for the Pledge of Allegiance fabricated that part of the story, school officials said Monday. Heather Lawrence, a 16-year-old junior at the school, has said she was walking by another homeroom Wednesday morning when she saw a girl with the traditional Muslim head scarf sitting during the pledge. Later, Lawrence said she confronted the girl, told her she should stand during the pledge and, according to her own account and a school report, said, "Take...

Is the White House dinner tonight celebrating Ramadan and honoring the contributions of American Muslims the latest exhibit in President Obama's charm offensive toward the global Islamic community? Sure, but it wasn't Obama's idea. Turns out that the Ramadan dinner was an innovation of George W. Bush, who hosted one every year he was in office and who also used the event to recognize the contributions of American Muslims. Check out this Voice of America piece on Bush's final iftar, the nightly dinner at which Muslims break their Ramadan fast, in 2008: This was the president's eighth Iftaar dinner in...

The visit of Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to South America in July was mainly aimed at stemming Iranian influence on the continent; a phenomenon that Lieberman understood well. His visit underscored the urgent need to balance the influence and infiltration of Islamic fundamentalism and Iranian interests in the region. Disenfranchised and marginalized regions are prime targets for fundamentalists and fanatics of all kinds. Central American countries such as Nicaragua, and South American countries like Venezuela and Bolivia are targets today due to their histories and their cultural, economic and political environments. Central and South America were attractive to the...

IS PRESIDENT Barack Obama sliding down the slippery slope into a Vietnam-style quagmire in Afghanistan? By all accounts, the classified, 20-plus-page report that Gen Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanistan, delivered to his superiors at the Pentagon on Monday has not yet reached the president’s desk. Yet commentators yesterday warned it’s “time to get out of Afghanistan” and that “Afghanistan may be Obama’s Vietnam”. Gen McChrystal’s report is believed to prepare the way for a Pentagon request for further troop increases to protect Afghan civilians and train Afghan security forces. The Kabul government yesterday praised Gen McChrystal’s emphasis on...

Seventy years is a long time. The span between the outbreak of World War II and today is about equal to the period between the first powered flight of the Wright brothers and NASA's Saturn V rocket launch of Skylab. Men and women in their 20s today can't but relate to the Second World War as something that happened in their grandparents' generation. People in their 40s and 50s relate to WWII as something their parents may have experienced. Take President Barack Obama, who at 48 has only heard stories about how his great-uncle Charles Payne helped to liberate Buchenwald....

Obama said Islam is "part of America," and the American Muslim community is diverse, like the broader citizenry of the United StatesPresident Barack Obama has praised the contributions of American Muslims at a dinner to celebrate the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Obama joined Cabinet secretaries, ambassadors and members of Congress to pay tribute to what he called "a great religion and its commitment to justice and progress." The president also welcomed American Muslim community leaders to the event in the State Dining Room.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A majority of independent voters disapprove of how Barack Obama's handling his job as president, according to a new national poll. Fifty-three percent of independents questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday say they disapprove of how Obama's handling his duties in the White House, with 43 percent in approval. That result marks the first time in a CNN poll that a majority of independents give the president's performance a thumbs-down.

Over the past year, either you have been in constant hiberation or the most dismissive human being alive not to realize that Barack Obama and Sarah Palin have been the two most pre-eminent political figures in America. Despite the presumptuous attempt by the MSM to suppress Obama's true background and the MSM's desire to highlight and mock Palin's inconsequential political beginnings, in reality both politicians rose to prominence from relative obscurity and inauspicious beginnings, Obama from a sketchy background as a community organizer and state senator and Palin through the ranks as councilman, mayor, head of the Oil and Gas...

----snip---- There's no evidence that coaches with a conservative bent are better coaches or more likely to get jobs. Football coaches aren't the most diverse group, which may help explain their political similarities. Still, could it be that football coaches, just by the nature of the job, are more comfortable on the right end of the political spectrum? "I'd say that sounds likely—very likely," said Bobby Bowden, the longtime Florida State coach and an outspoken Republican. Mr. Bowden, a 79-year-old native Alabaman, describes himself as a lifelong conservative who—like many white Southerners of his generation—migrated from the Democratic Party to...

President Obama has decided to reduce pay increases for civilian federal workers from 2.4 percent to 2 percent, citing the economic downturn and the ballooning federal budget as reasons for the cut... President Obama’s Defense Department wants to change, not eliminate, George Bush’s so-called “National Security Personnel System” for DOD civilian workers. The NSPS strips them of all collective bargaining rights, allows bosses to set pay amounts and rates, offers no protection for whistleblowers and eliminates most effective grievance procedures. The administration wants to fix these problems and freeze the NSPS at the current level of 205,000 workers it covers......

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni - 10,409 miles, 6,500 gallons, 11 days, 10 islands and nine people. Add up the numbers and it equals a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Marines here embarked on the 11-day expedition Aug. 3 to various locations across the Pacific to commemorate the Marine Corps 67th anniversary of World War II’s Guadalcanal campaign. The nine Marines were able experience to witness and experience firsthand what was left of seven historic battle sites, including Saipan, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu, Guam and Iwo- Jima.

GRANTS PASS — A kill order was issued Tuesday for the first wolves caught killing livestock in Oregon since they began moving to the state. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Michelle Dennehy said extensive efforts were made to persuade the wolves to leave livestock alone in the Keating Valley of Baker County, but haven’t worked. The two wolves have killed 29 animals in five incidents, including last week, when three sheep and a pet goat were killed. Federal hunters have been given a permit to kill the pair, and the rancher has permission to shoot them to protect...

ELCA Synod Bishops, Voting Members Respond to Assembly Actions 09-190-CD* CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Most of the 65 synodical bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) want leaders, congregations and pastors to stay in conversation following the adoption of a social statement on human sexuality and the opening of the ELCA's ministry to people in committed same-gender relationships. Many bishops wrote to their respective synods following the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. Some letters are posted on synod Web sites. "It will be good for all our leaders and members to take a bit of a breath over this," wrote...

The July 14 "transgender bill" hearing brought out the Massachusetts homosexual & transgender movement's political propaganda machine in force. From moonbat state reps to lesbian lawyers "explaining' the law, they were there to testify. And an army of men in dresses and a few women with beards came to give their "personal" stories. Most of the hearing dealt with the transgender bill. But for many people who had other issues on their minds, this was the hearing from hell. Too many bills, too much confusion, and too little time. An insulting way for government to do its work. It was...

Do you really want to start messing with the atmosphere? If not, then stop emitting so much CO2. Or so argues the U.K.-based Royal Society, the same people who brought you Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking. A new report by the Society analyzes so-called geoengineering—"the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment," or consciously tweaking Earth's climate in an attempt to stave off global warming—and finds that it is feasible and worth studying carefully, but probably not something we want to get involved in. Artificial volcanoes, mirrors in space or other climate-altering schemes might be the last, best...

300 of 500 turtles seized from Steve Santhuff diedBy Andria Simmons When some of Steve Santhuff’s rare and endangered turtle collection was returned to him last week, it should have been a victorious moment. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com Steve Snathuff received about 128 turtles back from the Department of Natural Resources, which had seized his collection of about 500 in 2005. But Santhuff is far from happy. While the Georgia Department of Natural Resources has given back 128 of about 500 turtles seized from Santhuff in 2005, along with 14 hatchlings that were birthed in the interim, more than 300 of...

Thousands attend tea party protest in ABQ A vocal crowd of over a thousand people gathered near Montgomery and Louisiana Boulevard in Albuquerque Wednesday to protest the federal government's spending habits. Retired teacher Yvonne Estrada gave up her bowling night to join thousands of other New Mexicans Wednesday who turned out to voice their concerns about the economy and the federal government's spending habits. Estrada says she's worried about where America is headed. She joined a march of several hundred people along a busy Albuquerque street during rush hour. Her sign read, "I am not your ATM." Estrada says she...

DOJ to Hire 50 More Lawyers, Gear Up for Civil Rights Enforcement Drive Posted 3 hours, 13 minutes ago By Martha Neil The U.S. Department of Justice is gearing up for a renewed emphasis on traditional civil rights enforcement after a shift in focus during the administration of former President George W. Bush to a greater emphasis on religious rights, human trafficking and individual cases in which there was evidence of intentional discrimination. Under Attorney General Eric Holder, the DOJ is planning to bring more disparate-impact cases based on statistical evidence that minorities are treated less favorably in arenas ranging...

A palate cleanser via Progress Illinois, which is shocked, shocked to find that Ted Kennedy is still loathed by conservatives in death — quite in contrast to how George W. Bush would be treated if, say, a Republican congressman invoked his name posthumously while addressing a Democratic audience. Consider this further evidence, though, in case any was indeed that slapping the Ted Kennedy seal of approval on a government program isn’t much of a selling point to anyone to the right of MoveOn.org. Which is too bad for The One, really, considering how his own vaunted salesman skills have deserted...