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Here is video of Factor Producer Dan Bank confronting "John Adams Project" lawyer Nina Ginsberg. O'Reilly explains "the John Adams Project is secretly photographing CIA agents and showing the pictures to terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay." Ginsberg said "CIA agents put a lot of people in danger, they put this country in danger, they put American Soldiers in danger." After trying to grab the microphone away from Bank's hands she said "You are making me feel threatened, get out of my face!" (Watch Video)

An academic says public education campaigns need a rethink after two girls used Facebook to alert people that they were stuck down a stormwater drain. The 10 and 12-year-old girls updated a Facebook status to say they were lost in an Adelaide drain, and a young friend called for help on their behalf. Glenn Benham from the Metropolitan Fire Service (MFS) says it is concerning the girls raised the alert on the social networking site instead of calling 000. "If they were able to access Facebook from their mobile phones they could have called 000, so the point being they...

Democrats emerged from a White House meeting saying they're confident Obama's address will move healthcare reform forward Political momentum appeared to swing sharply against the public health insurance option prized by liberals Tuesday, on the eve of President Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress. Democratic leaders in the House and Senate on Tuesday signaled they are increasingly willing to pass healthcare reform without a public insurance option, even while Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) again insisted it must be included in a House healthcare bill. Following a White House meeting with the president and Vice President Joe Biden,...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2009 – Defense Department officials have launched “AFPS News,” a weekly audio podcast of stories from American Forces Press Service. “American Forces Press Service news and feature articles are a vital source of information to troops, their family members and the American public,” said Linda Kozaryn, director of eProducts for the Defense Media Activity. “The podcasts give AFPS another outlet for our stories, which traditionally have been available only in print and on the Web,” she said. “We are excited to reach a broadcast audience via this new media tool.” AFPS, formerly a feature-article service mailed to...

ANTIOCH, California (BNO NEWS) -- The bone fragment found in the backyard of Phillip Garrido's neighbor is likely human, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. Phillip Garrido and his wife are both suspected of the kidnapping of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, before she was freed more than 18 years later. Officials had earlier said they had found a bone fragment on the property of Garrido's neighbor, but were not immediately able to say if it was human or animal. Police began searching the property of his neighbor because Phillip once lived on the property when he worked as...

Climate Change: A team of international scientists has finally figured out why sunspots have a dramatic effect on the weather. It shows the folly of fearing the SUV while dismissing that thermonuclear furnace in the sky.Mankind once worshiped the sun. Now the world studiously ignores it as nations prepare to hammer out a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, in Copenhagen in December. Something is indeed rotten in Denmark. Our own government is committed to fighting climate change whether it be though Son of Kyoto or our own growth-capping, job-killing cap-and-trade legislation known as Waxman-Markey. Despite...

A series of raids and arrests in Western Sydney last night led to a stand-off between police and a crowd of locals throwing bottles. The Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad carried out three raids on the same street at Auburn. It is investigating who shot a 23-year-old, who turned up at Auburn Hospital on Sunday night with a gunshot wound to the chest. During one of the raids, a 25-year-old man punched an officer in the face and was arrested. Police inspector Mick Reynolds says the man's arrest triggered an angry response from about 150 residents. "There was a lot...

Another conference call has materialized, revealing a concerted effort by government to use the arts to address political issues. Lee Rosenbaum, a blogger for Artsjournal.com, posted her experience with a meeting that occurred on August 27th and confessed that she also felt “uneasy” about the government’s arts effort. The meeting invitation (viewable here) went out to all “member local, state, and regional arts agencies, community-based arts organizations, and national partners of Americans for Arts.” Americans for Arts is a non-profit arts organization that has received substantial grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. As with my conference call, the...

Toronto's first Africentric school is set to open on Tuesday with 85 students. On Tuesday, when hundreds of thousands of Ontario students head back to school, a lot of attention will be focused on one particular school in Toronto's north end. It only has 85 students, but hopes are high for the Africentric Alternative School, which will open its doors near Keele Street and Sheppard Avenue West on Sept. 8 for the very first time. The Toronto District School Board voted narrowly to approve the controversial school in January 2008. It's an attempt by educators to combat the disproportionately high...

O'Reilly is acting absolutely jealous of Glenn Beck. He is doing so in his own condescending manner. He tells Glenn Beck that it isn't significant when the President of the United States hires a self avowed COMMUNIST in his administration. Billy boy says he calls it being an "equal opportunity employer". I do not believe for one second that O'Reilly truly feels that way. It seems obvious that he is dong this because it is his way of ATTEMPTING to minimize the substantial service Beck has just provided this country. This cretin - O'Reilly - actually just said that "communism...

A new school year in the United States has begun with a touch of controversy. It surrounds a welcome back speech to students from President Barack Obama that was seen in classrooms around the country. In some communities, parents staged a boycott of the president's address - an example of how politically divided the nation has become. The president's message to students was simple: study hard, pay attention in class and embrace the opportunity to learn. "We can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents and the best schools in the world. And none of it will make...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Police said they arrested a suspected robber on Sunday after he returned to his victim's home to ask her out on a date. According to investigators, Stephfon Bennett was one of three men who robbed a couple on the city's north side late Sunday night, 10TV News reported. Less than two hours after the robbery, police said that Bennett, 20, returned to the home and asked the woman out. "We are not exactly sure what he was thinking at the time," said Columbus police Sgt. Sean Laird. "She recognized him right away when he returned and was...

Did the ummah (the worldwide Muslim community) ever apologize for 911? Did the ummah apologize for Madrid train bombings, London bombings, Mumbai bombings, Bali bombings, homicide bombings in Israel, jihad in Thailand, Lebanon rout, Darfur genocide, Beslan, etc? State department personnel are supposed to pray with Muslims on the newly declared "interfaith day of service" whatever that means on 911. Not only more Muslim outreach garbage but also more diffusion of religion (Islam) and State/state. We don't stop bending over backward to an ideology intent upon destroying us. It's insanity. Add another Obama isult to injury on 911, the national...

Tell President Obama: I Want a Strong Public Health Insurance Plan Call the White House TODAY at 202-456-1111 or send an email! Tell President Obama that you want to have a strong public health insurance plan and that you are depending upon his unwavering support. Tell the President: I Want a Strong Public Health Insurance Plan After taking action, please support our work! President Will Talk About Health Care President Obama plans to address Congress about health care Wednesday as members have returned to Washington to continue work on reform legislation. The August recess was a very difficult time for...

Labor: Praise for organized labor was fulsome as usual over the Labor Day weekend. But a poll showing public support for unions hitting an all-time low shows that Americans are seeing through the mist of deception.According to a Gallup poll taken Aug. 6-9, only 48% of Americans now approve of labor unions — a big drop from the 59% Gallup found last year It's no coincidence that the public has also become aware of the harm that unions cause. More than half (51%) believe unions hurt the "U.S. economy in general" while only 39% believe they help. And 46% believe...

With the resignation of green czar Van Jones despite their efforts to protect him, the mainstream media have finally been reduced to sputtering incoherence, as they've observed the un-deification of their anointed messiah and experienced firsthand their own diminishing relevance. The MSM are engaging in a colossal temper tantrum over their lost news monopoly -- a monopoly they forfeited through their bias, arrogance and self-imposed insulation. (Consider Rathergate and their shameless effort to "Swift boat" the Swift boaters, to name a few.) This is an especially hard pill for them to swallow considering that during the past year, they've been...

WASHINGTON — A White House panel of independent space experts says NASA's return-to-the-moon plan just won't fly. The problem is money. The expert panel estimates it would cost about $3 billion a year beyond NASA's current $18 billion annual budget. "Under the budget that was proposed, exploration beyond Earth is not viable," panel member Edward Crawley, a professor of aeronautics at MIT, told The Associated Press Tuesday.

Global Security: Radical chic hit its zenith in Europe Monday as Venezuelan despot Hugo Chavez strolled the red carpet to adoring crowds at the Venice Film Festival — just as he was plotting with Iran to destroy the West.It was the thuggish Venezuelan dictator's moment of glory, just two days after thousands of Latin Americans bitterly marched against him in "No Mas Chavez" demonstrations on Friday. The humiliation of that was over when the film industry crowds at the Venice premiere of Oliver Stone's "South of the Border" heaved forward to touch his clothes and the paparazzi begged him for...

A Petah Tikva municipal initiative designed to combat public dog defecation by collecting DNA samples from the city's canines has earned recognition from The New York Times Magazine as one of the most noteworthy ideas of 2008. Launched three years ago, the program was the brainchild of Petah Tikva Mayor Yitzhak Ochayon. Its implementation and success in recent months has attracted significant international attention to the project. "I have had enough of this horrible phenomenon of dog poop littering all the streets of the city," Ochayon said. "It drove me crazy even though I assigned five inspectors with motorcycles to...

Vampires and witches, time travelers and alien invaders, superheroes and a Stargate—they're waiting just around the corner as a new TV season begins. Check out the teaser trailers for all the new shows and returning favorites after the jump.