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Ohio voters approved Issue 1 tonight after a monumental abortion battle in the Buckeye State. With 48 percent of the vote counted, Ohio voted 56% to 44% for Issue 1, which will make killing babies in abortions a so-called “right” in the state constitution. The result was not surprising given how abortion advocates bought the vote. Also, Ohio voters also voted today on a ballot measure to legalize marijuana. That very likely increased turnout of liberal voters who were more likely to vote for abortion. The pro-abortion side dominated fundraising – with reports towards the end of the election showing...

Shekau, who spoke in a 30-minute video seen by HumAngle in response to the Nigerian Army’s fresh manhunt for him, vowed that the war against the government would continue even after him. Abubakar Shekau, leader of Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad otherwise known as Boko Haram, has claimed that he cannot be arrested because he was doing the work of God and ‘He will protect him’. Shekau, who spoke in a 30-minute video seen by HumAngle in response to the Nigerian Army’s fresh manhunt for him, vowed that the war against the government would continue even after him. In the...

Eva Shockey, who just recently welcomed a new hunter into the world, posted a video on her Facebook of a little girl on “America’s Got Talent,” and wrote the caption “Daughter goals.” Once you get to know this young lady, you’ll understand why. Meet Chloe Channel, an 11-year old from Pensacola, Florida, who loves to sing and apparently, is quite the deer hunter. When asked what Chloe would do with the $1-million prize if she won, well her response is priceless: Not only is this girl adorable, but she might just be the next big country music huntress; this girl...

Picture of Evil: Bloodthirsty German Al Qaeda Fanatic Poses With 2Ft-Long Knife For Beheading British Soldiers In Afghanistan [Pic in URL] By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE 09th October 2009 Warning: Abu Askar records a video while holding the knife An Al Qaeda fanatic who trains fellow Europeans to fight in Afghanistan has given a stark warning to our troops - by posing with a 2ft-long beheading knife. The bearded terrorist, identified as ‘Abu Askar the German’, belongs to one of Osama Bin Laden’s ‘foreign legions’ fighting alongside the Taliban. In a new terror video posted online he vows to 'achieve a...

He was an immense figure in the history of England. Just how immense, however, has finally been revealed after a study of his body armour exposed Henry VIII's extraordinary vital statistics. It found that by the end of his reign the 6ft 1in Tudor king had a whopping 52in waist and 53in chest - enough to make him severely obese by modern standards. The study by the Royal Armouries coincides with a forthcoming exhibition of his supersized battle dress at the Tower of London to mark the 500th anniversary of him taking the throne. Here, Philippa Gregory reveals the heavy...

WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence. According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July. "He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington," Zebari said in an interview. Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in...

(IsraelNN.com) The long-awaited and controversial movie Fitna, which graphically portrays Islam as a religion seeking to dominate the world and slaughter non-believers, finally debuted on the internet on Thursday night. Within two hours of the film's release on Britain's LiveLeak.com video site, close to two million people had seen it. More than half of them were from Holland, home to the film's producer, Dutch politician Geert Wilders. The screening of the movie had been in doubt after the world's largest website name registrar, Network Solutions, decided to block the movie's home site. The decision to censor the film bolstered concerns...

The top al-Qaida operative accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks either killed or took part in the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, Pakistan's president has alleged for the first time. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's claim, made in his memoirs released this week, could now be used to try clear one of Pearl's four convicted killers, who is appealing his death sentence, the prisoner's lawyer said Wednesday. Musharraf accused Khalid Sheikh Mohammed of taking part in Pearl's killing in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, following the journalist's kidnapping on Jan. 23, 2002. Mohammed was arrested in Pakistan in 2003 and...

Al-Qa'eda steps up propaganda war with bloodthirsty DVDs By Isambard Wilkinson and Imtiaz Ali in Miran Shah (Filed: 11/03/2006) Al-Qa'eda is flooding the unruly border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan with propaganda DVDs, in a media campaign designed to win recruits and sympathy. The films, sold for 40p each in local markets and distributed throughout Pakistan and across the Afghan frontier, depict Taliban forces attacking American, Pakistani and Afghan soldiers. Punishment killings and damage inflicted by American and Pakistani forces on both Islamic fighters and local civilians are also portrayed. The cover of 'Holy War and Nothing Else' To the...

Israel is behind all the violence in the world and is using its secret service agencies to fuel the insurgency in Iraq to direct international attention away from the Palestinian conflict, claims a senior leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror organization. "The Israeli secret services are behind everything in the world, not only in Palestine or in Iraq. So one of the objectives would be to direct the attention of the world to Iraq instead of what is happening in [Israel]," Abu Nasser, Al Aqsa's leader in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank said during an...

Credit for this goes to a New York City Police Officer who shall remain anonymous... Twas the night before Tookie's execution ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twas the night before Christmas and all through San Quentin, the crips were protesting, and liberals were ventin'. The cyanide hung by the chamber wth care, in hopes that the reaper soon would be there. The inmates were nestled all snug in their bed ; except for Old Tookie, who soon would be dead. And me with my beer mug, dressed warm in my flannel, had curled up to watch it, on the Fox News Channel. I...

An e-mail is bouncing around the Internet with photographs of alleged Bolivarian gunmen in an area of Caracas that appears to be 23 de Enero. Many appear to be teenagers, they are wearing Bolivarian t-shirts with Che Guevara's face super-imposed on Venezuela's national colors, and they are armed with Glock 9mm semi-automatic handguns. According to Pensamiento Militar Venezolano 2005, a strategic and tactical military defense document drafted under the direction of President Hugo Chávez, the core mission of these armed youths is to turn Caracas into a kill zone where escualidos will be hunted down systematically if the Chávez regime...

Oct. 28, 2005— Like the character Count Dracula and his real-life vampire bat counterparts, a small, East African jumping spider has a taste for blood, according to a recent study. The spider, Evarcha culicivora, lacks the ability to pierce skin and to sip blood, so instead it feeds indirectly on blood by choosing, as its preferred meal, female mosquitoes that have just engorged themselves with a victim's blood. The blood-hungry spider is the first predator ever identified that selects its prey based upon what the prey just ate. Similar to a protein shake, blood can be a highly nutritious drink...

Islam stands for universal peace Human dignity has been proclaimed in the Holy Quran : "And surely we have honoured the children of Adam...." (17:70) Fraternity and unity of mankind has also been proclaimed : "Mankind was one single nation....."(2:213) "Verily this brotherhood of yours is a single brotherhood..." (21:92) "Mankind was but one nation, but differed (later)." (10:19) There are other verses in the Quran on unity, integrity and solidarity of humanity. The Holy Quran marks the friends of division and conflict in the human race, which lead to human disaster and destruction : "But people have cut off...

Abortion Statistics "The United States has one of the highest abortion rates among developed countries." (Facts in Brief, Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1995, New York, NY) Reported number of legal abortions in the United States for selected years according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Abortion Surveillance Report, June 7, 2002: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5103a1.htm 1972 — 586,760 1994 — 1,267,415 1980 — 1,297,606 1995 — 1,210,883 1985 — 1,328,570 1996 — 1,221,585 1990 — 1,429,577 1997 — 1,186,039 1992 — 1,359,145 *1998 — 884,273 *At first glance, the table listed above appears to show a considerable 25 percent drop in...