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SOMERVILLE — The Virgina man who made national headlines for alleged possession of assault rifles and other apparent weapons of terrorism after his apprehension in Branchburg back on Jan. 25, 2010, was found guilty by a Somerset County Jury of all charges against him. Arrested by Branchburg Police near a Quick Chek store on Route 22 more than two years ago, Lloyd R. Woodson, 45, of Reston, Va., was convicted today, Tuesday, June 5, of attempted armed robbery, 2nd degree; possession of a firearm for unlawful purpose, 2nd degree; unlawful possession of a rifle, 3rd degree (2 counts); possession of...

When I snapped out of my left wing trance last year, I was lost in space. I had no conservative friends and was clueless about web sites and books. I had heard something vaguely about Talk Radio. So I scanned my AM dial and found Michael Savage. (It took several months, and a chat with a rather bemused new friend, before I even realized there were other hosts as well.) Being a lifelong liberal, I'd never heard anybody like Savage in my life. He yelled; he called people "vermin." He was unbridled masculinity, not the touchy feeling kind I was...

There’s an article in the May/June Boston Review on an interesting study that seems (I wonder why?) to have gotten little attention. Neil Malhotra, of Stanford Business School, and Yotam Margalit, who teaches political science at Columbia, report on a survey of 2,768 American adults in which they “explored people’s responses to the economic collapse and tried to determine how anti-Semitic sentiments might relate to the ongoing financial crisis.” They asked, “How much to blame were the Jews for the financial crisis?”, with respondents given five categories: a great deal, a lot, a moderate amount, a little, not at all....

There’s an article in the May/June Boston Review on an interesting study that seems (I wonder why?) to have gotten little attention. Neil Malhotra, of Stanford Business School, and Yotam Margalit, who teaches political science at Columbia, report on a survey of 2,768 American adults in which they “explored people’s responses to the economic collapse and tried to determine how anti-Semitic sentiments might relate to the ongoing financial crisis.” They asked, “How much to blame were the Jews for the financial crisis?”, with respondents given five categories: a great deal, a lot, a moderate amount, a little, not at all....

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June 19, 2008 -- NAME-BRAND journalists have let Barack Obama make any claim he chooses about Iraq, Afghanistan or coping with terrorism without pinning him down for details. Yet many of his comments and positions seem stunningly naive about national security. Given that this man may become our next president, shouldn't he explain how he'd do the many impressive things he's promised? This week, Obama claimed, again, that he'd promptly capture Osama bin Laden. OK, tell me how: Specifically, which concrete measures would he take that haven't been taken? How would he force our intelligence agencies to locate bin Laden?...

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I DIDN'T support the Iraq war and I oppose the death penalty - but the nonstop outrage and criticism of the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein is puzzling. Somehow, most of our nation's newspapers and magazines overlooked the core of this story: An evil dictator was brought to justice - the people he tortured, murdered and oppressed turned around and put him on trial, then carried out the sentence. How often does this happen in our world? Pretty much never. Yet The New York Times (in news and opinion pages alike) has relentlessly criticized nearly every aspect of the...

NEW YORK At his daily briefing at the White House today, Press Secretary Tony Snow was – not surprisingly -- peppered with questions about the proposals and observations in the Iraq Study Group report. On what important matter, he was asked if the president, in light of the group’s description of a severely “grave” situation in Iraq, would now say that it would be hard to turn it around. Snow said that, actually, President Bush was “confident” that this would happen. But the whole kicked off with another classic meetup or smashup between Snow and NBC’s David Gregory. Snow accused...

Dear Editor, Perhaps I missed the point of your "9-11" survey, but the results will probably be skewed due to the polarized nature of the country's politics. If people were to really - read OBJECTIVELY - answer the poll the results would probably prove to be quite a bit more positive for the administration. Do I feel safer today than 5 years ago? A loaded question, and somewhat biased in its wording. No, how could anyone feel safer with the "Sword of Damocles" hanging over our heads. We were made VERY aware of our own vulnerability on that infamous day,...

This just in on Fox News Channel: James Doohn, "Scotty" of Star Trek, has passed away due to pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's Disease. James Montgomery Doohan (born March 3, 1920, died July 20, 2005) was a Canadian actor and linguist best known for his portrayal of Scotty in the television and movie series Star Trek.Doohan was born in Vancouver, British Columbia; his family later moved to Sarnia, Ontario where he attended high school at "SCITS," Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School and excelled in math and science.During World War II, he participated in the invasion of Juno Beach on...

To: U.S. Congress Knowing that the most sacred right in a democracy is the right to vote, and that, All new technology involve some risks, and that our right to vote should never be subjected to risk, and that, This particular method has the potential for ERROR or TAMPERING that can remain UNDETECTED since each vote LEAVES NO PHYSICAL RECORD such as a ballot paper, thus hand recounts are impossible, We, the undersigned, declare that touch-screen voting machines should immediately be declared unconstitutional. Sincerely, The Undersigned The A Bipartisan Call to Ban Touch-Screen Voting Machines Petition to U.S. Congress was...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) May 11,2005 A lawsuit aimed at blocking the Friday morning execution of serial killer Michael Ross has been filed in Bridgeport federal court. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of an inmate in the state prison in Newtown, claims Ross' voluntary execution will set off suicided among other prison inmates. The lawsuit, filed by attorney Antonio Ponvert (PAHN'-vehr), claims Ross' execution is like to cause what is known as "suicide contagion" among suicide prone state prison inmates. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a state prison inmate, Duane Ziemba, who is imprisoned at the Garner Correctional center....

SAN DIEGO - A Navy sailor who refused to board a Persian Gulf-bound ship because of his opposition to the war in the Iraq will face a special court-martial - the military equivalent of a civilian misdemeanor trial, the Navy announced Friday.

ABOUT a century ago, the legendary publisher of the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer had a motto for his paper: "The World has no friends." Now, comes Hugh Miles with "Al-Jazeera," his exploration of the Qatari all-news network, and surely one of the most friendless news outlets of all time. The condemnation of Al-Jazeera by the United States and its allies is well known. The Bush administration criticized the network for its airing of anti-American views. American bombs destroyed Al-Jazeera's Kabul office during the war in Afghanistan and its Baghdad office in the Iraq war, the latter attack killing a...

By Eyewitness News' Jen Maxfield (Brick Township - WABC, March 1, 2005) — A teacher outburst in the classroom - all caught on tape. It all started when a student refused to stand for the national anthem.Voice of Stuart Mantel, teacher: "I don't wanna hear a sound! Not a sound!"Images From The Story Students at Brick Township High School secretly recorded a video in their third period electronics class. The teacher, Stuart Mantel, was yelling at the students to stop fooling around during the nation anthem. But Mantel's angry tirade didn't end there. When one student refused to stand up...

Due to the peculiar acoustical properties involving large bodies of water, the haunting sound of taps, played mournfully on a trumpet, travels at 10 o'clock nightly from the Kaneohe Marine Base two miles across the still waters of Kaneohe Bay and into my bedroom. Taps is played to let Marines on base know "all is well" and it's time to hit the sack. But as I lay in bed on Thursday night and taps floated eerily through the screen door, I knew all was not well on the base. I had seen the headline in that morning's Star-Bulletin: "26 Kaneohe...

CLINTON, N.Y. (AP) - An upstate college is being criticized for scheduling a speaker who has compared victims of the September Eleventh terrorist attacks to one of the Nazi architects of the Holocaust. Ward Churchill will take part in a panel discussion at Hamilton College, near Utica, on February third. Churchill, who's an American Indian, is head of the ethnic studies program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The day after September Eleventh, 2001, Churchill wrote an essay in which he said the victims of the terrorist attacks weren't innocent bystanders and he compared them to Nazi Adolf Eichmann,...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (ANS) -- Several Christians and Westerners have been killed in violent attacks as anti-Christian violence spreads throughout the mainly Islamic, impoverished African nation, Barnabas Fund said Friday Dec. 19.The Barnabas Fund, which supports Christians in the Islamic world, identified Italian nun Annalena Tonneli, known as the Mother Theresa of Africa, as among those Christians murdered in recent weeks along with several other missionary workers.Sister Tonneli, who had served in Somalia for thirty years "founding a TB hospital, orphanages and schools," was killed October 5 by two armed men in front of the hospital, said Barnabas Fund in a...

December 16, 2004 -- Sixty years ago today, Allied forces in the Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg unexpectedly found themselves face-to-face with Hitler's last great offensive of World War II — the Battle of the Bulge had begun. Six months after the invasion at Normandy, the war seemed won: Americans had retaken most of western Europe; German forces were being forced back to their borders for a last stand.