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The prosecution of a Somali teenager accused of leading a pirate attack on an American cargo ship off the coast of Africa was taken off the fast track Thursday after a lawyer said more time will be needed to translate some Somali recordings into English. Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse appeared briefly in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where he was brought after his arrest aboard the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama in April. Authorities say Muse was the only surviving pirate of a group that he led in an attack off the coast of Africa on the cargo ship, which was carrying humanitarian...

'Bro', 'Brother', 'Dude', 'Cool Daddy', 'CAT", are all names that I've personally been called in the past to clearly annotate that I was the different one in the room, the meeting, on the team, or at the social event. President Carter's words are being parsed, "segregated" and dismissed as poorly timed, when in actuality they apply all the time. President Bush's latest off the cuff comments about then Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, as recanted by Matt Latimer, were yet another confirmation of just how pervasive and true the point that President Carter was trying to make was. I don't know...

Two weeks ago a group of four men, Steve Hoyland Jr. with friends Bruce, Ken and Erik, set off on an overnight offshore fishing trip. They left at noon on a Tuesday and went about 120 miles out into the Gulf. They were having a great night of fishing, catching big snapper, grouper, ling and kings. About 3 am, two of them went down below to catch some sleep. The two remaining on deck were catching fish and drinking beer, enjoying the warm tropical night air. All at once, Bruce got a big run on his line. This thing went...

Economy: As if Big Labor hasn't been repaid enough for its help in electing Democrats, a new report shows that protectionism — the unions' signature issue — costs 585,000 of the rest of us our jobs.It's not enough that unions got the cream of the $80 billion in auto industry bailouts or the center cut of the $787 billion stimulus package or a smorgasbord of regulations — from union transparency laws to court-ordered supervision — rescinded by grateful Democrats in Congress and the White House. But the biggest payoff has been in the form of protectionist measures being applied across...

President Bush was often criticized by his detractors for alienating America's allies. Yet Obama seems to be getting a pass for doing the same thing. In an earlier post, I mentioned Obama's poor treatment of the UK's Gordon Brown. Apparently, the UK is not the only ally that the president has chosen to snub. Today, on the anniversary of the soviet's attack on Poland, Obama announced his intention to scrap plans to build a missile shield based in Poland and the Czech Republic. According to Reuters writer Gabriela Baczynska, Obama means to shelve the plans in order to improve ties...

The Washington Post published an article, bringing up a thesis that McDonnell wrote in 1989 while in law school. The thesis contained some rather incendiary language, and the Rag jumped on him for it. It painted him as an extremist who will impose a theocracy on the Commonwealth, replete with the worst kind of fear mongering. Deeds himself has been hammering McDonnell over this thesis, with a seemingly endless stream of attack ads. And despite the rhetoric from the Democrats (remember then-Senator Obama's position on attack ads when he had a comfortable lead in the 2008 campaign?) on how ineffective...

A paw print discovered in Wheaton could be that of a cougar, wildlife experts said today — a day after another expert doubted that it was. Wheaton police said today that evidence technicians successfully lifted a paw print from a creek bed after a resident reported seeing a large, black or dark-colored cat there. The castings were taken to Brookfield Zoo, where several experts examined the castings and photographs of the paw prints. Results of the examination, however, were inconclusive, police said. The mammal curator ruled out the print being from a canine or fox, but said it was consistent...

Jenny Hatch working the Food Basics Booth at our Stake Preparedness Fair One of my main goals with this blog has been to encourage families to use whole foods on a day to day basis. Since september is national preparedness month and many people are storing food for the first time, I thought I would share a round up of my videos and blog posts, carefully prepared to help the novice cook use whole foods. At the end of this post are a couple of links to government web sites where all you ever wanted to know about preparedness is...

Nothing succeeds like failure. Here's a press release from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition: Expansion of Community Reinvestment Act Would Promote Economic Security and Financial Inclusion for For ... whom? Can't you guys at least finish your titles? I'm imagine in your "Who? Whom?" equation, I'll end up a Whom, but I don't think the end of your sentence was going to be "for Steve Sailer's Family." So, what's in Barney's Bill, H.R. 1479, the "Community Reinvestment Modernization Act of 2009"? - Extension of the CRA from mortgages to small business loans. - Inclusion of credit unions (my vague impression...

FREEPERS, join me in emailing Polands largest newspaper to express your embarrassment at Obama's cancelation of the missle shield in Europe. Let the Polish people know we still stand in "Solidarity" with them and appreciate their support in Afghanistan & Iraq. Email Rafal Zakrzewski at: publicystyka@agora.pl If you have time, read the bio of Editor-in-Chief: Adam Michnik and his fight against socialism. He was detained many times during the "Solidarity" movement, spent a total of six years in Polish prisons for activities opposing the communist regime, member of the Round Table Talks 1989, member of the first non-communist parliament 1989-1991,...

It was a surprise that the Senate voted heavily to defund ACORN from further contracts with a couple of federal agencies. The House this afternoon selected a nuclear option instead, not only defunding ACORN from all federal agencies, but voting overwhelmingly to go further by defunding any "ACORN-related affiliate", a term of art that by the language of the bill specifically includes: (B) Any organization that shares directors, employees, or independent contractors with ACORN. (C) Any organization that has a financial stake in ACORN. (D) Any organization whose finances, whether federally funded, donor-funded or raised through organized goods and services,...

Sen. Bob Casey, among only seven senators on Monday who opposed a block in housing funding to the community group ACORN, said he'll follow suit on votes today designed to bar the organization from other sources of federal money. Sen. Mike Johannsof Nebraska will bring amendments to the floor today that would ban ACORN from getting federal money from the Department of the Interior, environment and other related agencies. None of those agencies currently provide ACORN funding, but Johanns wants to ensure they don't in the future. Casey characterized the measures as political moves at a time the Congress is...

Spending: President Clinton said reform legislation would "end welfare as we know it." That was in 1996. The current administration appears determined to take welfare to heights we've never known.America's tried. The country has spent $15.9 trillion of other people's money on welfare since the mid-1960s. But it has failed. As noted in the Gospel of Matthew, we will always have the poor. It would be vain to argue otherwise. The evidence is hard, the facts clear. "Welfare spending was 13 times greater in fiscal 2008, after adjusting for inflation, than it was when the war on poverty started in...

I just looked at a photograph of a leader. A man that inspired millions across the fruited plains and wove a tapestry that knit together a coalition unseen in modern times. This man was from the Midwest and knew small town American values. This man knew that America's best days were ahead of it. This man fought a totalitarian empire and liberal opponents in this country that accused him of trying to start World War Three, unknowing that we were in World War Three and he was determined to win it. Millions behind the iron curtain are free today. Millions...

World’s leading economies have already spent over $10 trillion on the anti-crisis struggle. This astronomical number makes up $10,000 per each tax-payer, economists with the International Monetary Fund said. The United States and Britain take the lead in terms of the anti-crisis spending. World’s largest financial centers – New York and London - are located on the territories of these two countries: it is simply impossible to overestimate the significance, which these two centers play in the formation of the crisis. The largest bailout programs were passed in the USA and Britain, the BBC said. The States used $3.6 trillion...

First an algebraic certainty: Health Redistribution (sounds a lot like wealth redistribution hmmmmmmmm) minus lack of funds minus enough doctors to handle 30 to 47 million more patients (depending on the number de jour of our Dear Leader) minus 45% of doctors threatening retirement if Obamacare is enacted minus a half trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare and Medicade plus six billion dollars in new taxes on insurance companies = Government-run HC(health care) = rationing = death panels = the last straw of an overstretched economy and patience of Americans. Credit for the formula goes to my cousin and Oxford...

In a rare display of public emotion, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) choked up Thursday morning recalling the anti-gay rhetoric in the late 1970s in San Francisco, which culminated in the assassinations of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay S.F. Board of Supervisors member, and Mayor George Moscone. Pelosi, responding to a question about whether anti-government rhetoric posed a threat of domestic violence, said that protesters on all sides had the right to voice their opposition to legislative proposals in a heated fashion. But then Pelosi -- whose weekly press conferences are legendary for their highly scripted nature and her...

WASHINGTON - A resurgent conservative activist community that last month zeroed in on U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter has turned its ire to Democratic colleague Bob Casey over the freshman senator's vote against blocking federal funding for the community organizing group ACORN. Casey's vote Monday put him at odds with all but six of his Senate colleagues, who approved an amendment to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's 2010 spending bill to bar federal money for the organization next year. The vote came after videos surfaced showing workers in multiple offices giving tax advice to a couple posing as a...

Jaime E. Feliciano, president of the radical Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000 District Labor Council 784, has been convicted of possessing child pornography. Even before the kiddie porn charges were laid, Feliciano was already a convicted sex offender, the Sacramento Bee reported last year. The paper reported that according to court records, “Feliciano was convicted in 1993 of lewd or lascivious act with a child under the age of 14 years, which is a felony.” Two SEIU locals, 100 in New Orleans and 880 in Chicago, are ACORN affiliates. The chief organizer of Local 100 is Wade Rathke,...