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Citing -- wait for it -- actual data, I explained this AM (Monday 1/31/11) on America's Morning News radio Show with John McCaslin and Amy Holmes why the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's traditional Islam resonates with the Muslim mainstream in Egypt. A cogent rebuttal of some alarming non-sequiturs put recently forth by Ralph Peters concludes the interview.

Andrew Napolitano, Geraldo Rivera, and others have recently come out of the conspiracy closet to express their skepticism in the 9/11 story that most people are use to. Seemingly, their skepticism lays in the falling of the Word Trade Tower number seven. Many of the conspiratorial arguments and concerns are dealt with in this post. There is also a posting of an interview with fireman Steve Spak. Steve had one of the best mini-documentaries refuting many of the claims presented by truthers many years ago. He pulled this video and in talking to him over the phone it was because...

Reading: This Saint was from Bethsaida of Galilee; he was the son of Jonas and the brother of Peter, the chief of the Apostles. He had first been a disciple of John the Baptist; afterwards, on hearing the Baptist's witness concerning Jesus, when he pointed Him out with his finger and said, "Behold the Lamb of God, Which taketh away the sin of the world" (John 1.29,36), he straightway followed Christ, and became His first disciple; wherefore he is called the First-called of the Apostles. After the Ascension of the Saviour, he preached in various lands; and having suffered...

Under pressure from groups like Media Matters and Color of Change, ABC News first scaled back, and then canceled, Andrew Breitbart’s planned participation in its Election Day coverage. Rather than admit they were responding to pressure, however, they decided to blame Breitbart, claiming that he had exaggerated his role in their coverage, essentially firing him for promoting their broadcast. Mediaite spoke with Breitbart Tuesday night, as he returned from Phoenix to vote, and while clearly stung by ABC’s treatment, he is stinging back. Breitbart said he spoke with ABC Executive Producer Andrew Morse Saturday morning, “after he released the incredible...

When Prince Andrew was pictured on a yacht getting touchy-feely with a woman half his age, the denials came thick and fast. They're just friends, said a source, and anyway, she's married. But now it turns out 25-year-old Alexandra Escat is in fact single - and the pair have since been seen jetting off together. The Duke of York, 50, was seen engrossed in a playful conversation with the Filipino model on a luxury yacht last week.

The Washington Post ombudsman on Sunday chided his newspaper for ignoring the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party, saying The Post remained "virtually silent" as the story developed in recent weeks. The newspaper carried a full-length news article about the case on Thursday. But ombudsman Andrew Alexander wrote that readers have been contacting him "for months" wondering what was taking so long for The Post to show interest in the controversy. "The Post didn't cover it. Indeed, until Thursday's story, The Post had written no news stories about the controversy this year," Alexander wrote. "That's prompted many...

In an fascinating development for Sarah Palin fans, readers of People magazine, and people who think it’s best to believe a woman when she claims the infant she’s carrying is her biological child, Levi Johnston has publicly apologized to the Palin family for lying about them. (Snip) Unfortunately, the media didn’t exercise the same level of skepticism a normal person would exercise when listening to gossip about his or her neighbor. Vanity Fair published a piece entitled “Me and Mrs. Palin,” in which Johnston “turns a number of commonly held beliefs about the former governor – the purportedly loving wife,

Andrew Sullivan is not a huge fan of Israel; he is entitled to his opinion. However, his latest column about the incident in the waters outside of Gaza makes up the facts. Honestly, in the case of most of the posts Sullivan writes about Israel, Andrew is living in his own reality, where truth and facts do not matter. The Atlantic columnist begins his latest example of creative writing begins with the first paragraph. Maintaining the siege and blockade of Gaza (because its citizens elected a government Israeli abhors), and strafing it with military might over a year ago, is...

Former Colorado state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff released a detailed statement tonight detailing his contacts with the White House last fall in which a top aide to President Barack Obama sought to convince him to leave the state's Senate race. Romanoff said that he received a call in September 2009 from White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina making clear that the White House would be supporting appointed Sen. Michael Bennet in the Colorado Senate Democratic primary. Added Romanoff: "Mr. Messina also suggested three positions that might be available to me were I not pursuing the Senate race. He...

Sarah Ferguson caught selling access to ex-hubby Prince Andrew for 500k pounds2010-05-23 15:10:00 Sarah Ferguson has been caught on camera selling access to her former hubby, Prince Andrew, Britain's trade envoy, for 500,000 pounds. The sting operation by British tabloid the News of the World saw the Duchess of York setting a price tag on an introduction to Prince Andrew, promising to open the door to lucrative international deals for the 'client'. Fergie told the undercover News of the World reporter: "Andrew said to me, 'Tell him 500,000 pounds.' "He knows that he's had to underwrite me up to now...

Considering that some of the staffers within proximity of the alleged slurs were reportedly pointing cameras toward the crowd, this would seem like easy money if the story is true. As Michael Moynihan pointed out earlier this week, the anecdote has been presented as fact all over the journalism world.

When the buider and I laid off the corners to excavate for my house we oriented the longest side toward the south southwest. By placing most of the windows on this sunniest side, we hoped to capture some of the free heat of every cloudless winter day. This orientation was to have an unexpected consequence each Advent; one that we could not have anticipated. As sun moves southward toward the winter solstice, our apparent sunrise actually becomes earlier; closer to the time listed in an almanac. In the summer the rising sun is blocked for several hours by a hill...

Veterans In Politics Talk Show Introduces Andrew Martin and Nevada Whistle Blower LIVE on www.AllTalkRadio.net Our Listeners for the month of October are 117,361 thousand: Thank You: November 7: Andrew Martin 1st Vice Chairman for the Clark County Democrat Party and Democratic candidate for Nevada State Assembly District 13: Nevada Whistle Blower within the Clark County School System: "Veterans In Politics" is a weekly radio show produced by the Veterans In Politics International and hosted by Steve Sanson and co-hosted by Jim Jonas on www.alltalkradio.net. The "Veterans In Politics" show is live every Saturday 2:05 PM Pacific Time you can...

Prince Andrew may be forced to scrap a trade visit to Libya after it was revealed today Colonel Gaddafi ignored a personal plea from Gordon Brown to ensure the Lockerbie bomber did not receive a hero's welcome. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was greeted by thousands cheering and waving Scottish flags when he arrived back in Libya last night following his release from a Scottish jail. The scene provoked an outcry from victims' families and the U.S. government and threatened to open up a new diplomatic rift between Britain and Libya. It was revealed today that, in a letter delivered by...

Andrew Sullivan has decided that he now knows the truth about neoconservatism: "We patiently listened as neocons told us that the Palestinians are too dysfunctional a people ever to have democratic rights or their own state, but that the the ancient sectarian warfare of Iraq can be transformed in a few years!"

A public school teacher in Mississippi marked down an eleven-year-old’s Christmas poem assignment and told the boy to rewrite it because he used the word “Jesus,” which, the instructor explained, is a name not allowed in school. Liberty Counsel, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, reports that sixth-grader Andrew White of Hattiesburg, Miss., chose to write the poem on the assignment “What Christmas means to me.” After White turned in his rough draft, however, his teacher circled the word “Jesus” and deducted a point from his grade. The teacher then explained that he needed to rewrite the poem...

Hey, Cuomo, stand up and fight. I’m talking to Andrew Cuomo, the attorney general of New York. Stand up and fight. For the last two weeks, as the Caroline Kennedy coronation has been going on, the man whose career she is destroying has been silent. It’s as if he fell off the face of the earth. The story is that Caroline Kennedy has announced that she wants to be a U.S. senator from New York. She has no experience, no preparation, no training. She has never stood before the voters. She has never even visited vast stretches of the state...

Forget those canned presidential candidate visits. A different kind of political visit will occur next week, as his Royal Highness Prince Andrew touches down on Arizona soil Tuesday. The details are sketchy, but Notebook hears the prince will be touring Honeywell's facility in Phoenix as well as the offices of Godaddy.com, a Web site where you can register domain names. Prince Andrew — fourth in line for the British throne — is actually best known for his former wife, Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York. You might know her as the redhead in those Weight Watchers commercials. On hand for...

Prince Andrew angers Palace with US attack By Andrew Pierce Last Updated: 2:44am GMT 06/02/2008 The Duke of York has angered the Queen and senior politicians with his extraordinary attack on the White House on the eve of his trade mission to the United States. Downing Street and the Foreign Office were also dismayed by the timing of his comments so close to the Super Tuesday primaries. The Duke of York is about to embark on a 10-day mission to the US as British trade envoy The duke's criticism, in a newspaper interview, of President Bush's post-war strategy for Iraq...