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As co-host of ABC’s The View, Rosie O’Donnell has used her daytime perch to push an array of extreme left-wing and anti-American views. Soon after her debut in September 2006, O’Donnell used the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to insist that "radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam." In a similar vein, she advised her audience: "Don’t fear the terrorists. They’re mothers and fathers," while suggesting that "the Patriot Act has robbed us of us our civil liberties in this country, that fear has taken over from faith in democracy, in the Constitution?" In March, O’Donnell even suggested...

Japanese warship 'to guard whalers' A STANDOFF between Japanese whalers and environmentalists has escalated, with a conservation group claiming the Japanese Government has sent a warship to Antarctic waters to protect its fleet. The Washington-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said it had received a tip-off that a Japanese naval ship had been sent to the region to defend its whalers from protesters. The group said it was concerned the warship would try to seize its vessel and those of the two Greenpeace crews shadowing the whaling fleet through the Southern Ocean. "The Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research has made an...

PITTSFIELD -- Employees of a firm that produces body armor for American soldiers are doing important work in defense of the country, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said during a visit to the company yesterday. Kennedy, a leading Democratic critic of the war in Iraq, visited Protech Armored Products, which in the last year has grown substantially to fill $40 million in orders from the Pentagon for protective armor plates used by soldiers as inserts. He stayed for more than an hour, meeting privately with company officials, touring the plant and then addressing employees. "It's an honor to be here,...