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TOLEDO, Ohio -- Two cousins from the Chicago area who admitted they wanted to kill American soldiers in Iraq as part of a plot centered in Ohio were sentenced to prison terms Monday. Both men apologized in federal court, saying they became misguided after the U.S.-led invasion overseas. "I was caught up with the fervor of world events," said Zubair Ahmed. "At that time, I was looking at U.S. troops as my enemy." U.S. District Judge James Carr sentenced Ahmed, of suburban North Chicago, to 10 years, and his cousin, Khaleel Ahmed, of Chicago, to eight years, four months. Both...

Here is a video of Obama speaking to Organizing for America about the way that they plan to use the oil spill in the gulf to redo the American economy. Does anyone really believe that Obama is trying in good faith to stop the spill or mitigate the damage it is causing?

Associated Press - June 7, 2010 2:44 PM ET WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - A manager of the Agriprocessors Inc. meatpacking plant has been found innocent of child labor violations uncovered during a 2008 immigration raid has been . Sholom Rubashkin was charged with 67 counts of child labor violations involving teenagers from Guatemala and Mexico who worked at Agriprocessors Inc.'s plant in Postville in 2007 and 2008. Rubashkin, whose father owned the operation, was described as the CEO and co-vice president of the company. The Black Hawk County District Court jury, which found Rubashkin not guilty Monday, began deliberations Friday...

Tonight we can see a concerted effort by the New York Times and other Mainstream media attributing their stories to the New York Times, to destroy the political career of Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic candidate for the US Senate from Connecticut. I assume the claims are accurate, and Blumenthal lied about serving in Vietnam and about being captain of his swim team at Harvard. We know that Blumenthal is despicable, as we saw him work hand in glove with ACORN to coerce private businesspeople into returning their compensation bonuses. My question is this: The New York Times is an agenda-driven...

Who is this man? He was identified by Dana Loesch (as the person who called the SWAT team on the Tea Party Demonstrators at Quincy, Illinois. http://thedanashow.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/picture-6.png?w=501&h=376 http://www.flickr.com/photos/39436131@N07/4561699425/in/set-72157623953865592/ Apparently the person who made the identification is named Doug Edelman. Thanks to penelopesire for posting the picture on Free Republic.

The House of Representatives will vote today, perhaps as early as noon, on a 1,300-page bill proposed by Barney Frank that would nationalize the financial services industry and give the President permanent bailout authority without additional congressional input. The bill was described by US Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-MN), who was a guest on the Don Wade and Roma morning radio show on WLS Radio, Chicago. According to Bachman, the bill would nationalize the entire financial system, representing nearly 20 percent of the US exonomy, and would give the economic Czar the power to regulate salaries down to the level of...

Here is a letter, posted on Politico, written by the Chairman & CEO of Comcast. Since Comcast is acquiring NBC, which -- as part of GE -- has been President Obama's biggest cheerleader, some may have had concerns that he was losing a tool. Not so. As this letter makes clear, Roberts is willing to degrade himself even more than Immelt in order to get his share of the golden goose. http://www.politico.com/static/PPM143_091203_wh_healthcare_letter.html

Obama we adore you. Your being is supreme. We know you stand for change, but what precisely does that mean? You have a massive fan base flaunting T-shirts of your face, And schools of intellectuals are focused on your race. “What progress” loudly preach your proud promoters with delight. “His policy is lacking, but at least he isn’t white.” And really this is perfect, for now we clearly see: Opponents of your politics are racist SOBs. But this can’t be the change we need, for it is no new news, The liberals have always pulled the race card when they...

Mary Robinson, U.N. Commissioner and former president of Ireland, is being awarded the Medal of Freedom by Obama. Well, isn’t that just dandy. Who is Mary Robinson? You may remember her role in presiding over the infamous Durban I Conference. At the time she joined Rashid Khalidi at Columbia University (no, you can’t make this up), this report summarized the objections to her hiring, given her record in overseeing the infamous Israel-bashing event: Columbia has “become a hotbed of anti-Israel haters,” said the president of the Zionist Organization of America, Morton Klein. “It’s especially astonishing that a school with such...

Now that the activation orders for Major Cook have been revoked, following his filing of a legal case challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to be President, I wonder if anyone is aware of whether this case has become widely known within the military, and if so what is the general military response to this development?

William Moorehead, the Oak Park resident sent to prison in 2007 for stealing more than $1 million from various federally supported public housing concerns, apparently ran with a powerful inside crowd connected to both Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and a then-state senator named Barack Obama. Published news reports show that Moorehead was once a "longtime business partner" and legal client of Allison Davis, who until recently was the business partner of Daley nephew Robert Vanecko. Davis is also often referred to as Obama's mentor, a role he reportedly fulfilled as the future president's first law firm boss. At one...

This is the photograph made public by the White House of President Obama talking with Prime Minsiter Netanyahu: http://www.smh.com.au/world/we-stand-behind-you-obama-assures-israeli-pm-20090609-c29e.html According to a 2003 editorial in the Wall Street Journal, one of the greatest insults one can make in Islam is to show the sole of your foot: As anyone who has been to the Middle East (or even to countries like India) knows, the foot and shoe are imbued with considerable significance. The foot occupies the lowest rung in the bodily hierarchy and the shoe, in addition to being something in which the foot is placed, is in constant contact...

Many evangelical Christians throughout the United States support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and seek "justice" for both sides, reads an open letter to US President George W. Bush published in Sunday's New York Times. The letter, signed by several dozen evangelical clergy and activists, urged the Bush administration not to "grow weary" in its attempt to negotiate a "lasting peace" in the region. The letter's authors sought to correct what they called a "serious misperception" that all American evangelicals objected to the establishment of a Palestinian state, and said they hoped that the awareness of a large...

After Saddam Hussein was executed, the spokesman for President Nouri al-Maliki, Sami al-Askari, announced that Saddam's last words were: "Palestine is Arab." This was an attempt to refocus attention on Israel's battle for survival against Palestinian arab terrorists, and was entirely consistent with al-Maliki's announced support for Hezbollah. Unfortunately for Maliki and the rest of the evil-doers, the cellphone video was released shortly thereafter and demonstrated that the claim about Saddam's alleged comments about Israel were a blatantly false lie, a piece of propaganda. Once again, transparancy has been shown to be critically important. If this exposure assists in discrediting...

After Saddam Hussein was executed, the spokesman for President Nouri al-Maliki, Sami al-Askari, announced that Saddam's last words were: "Palestine is Arab." This was an attempt to refocus attention on Israel's battle for survival against Palestinian arab terrorists, and was entirely consistent with al-Maliki's announced support for Hezbollah. Unfortunately for Maliki and the rest of the evil-doers, the cellphone video was released shortly thereafter and demonstrated that the claim about Saddam's alleged comments about Israel were a blatantly false lie, a piece of propaganda. Once again, transparancy has been shown to be critically important. If this exposure assists in discrediting...

You have to wonder what thoughts passed through the minds of Bethlehem's Christians as Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah commander Mahmoud Abbas appeared at the Church of the Nativity for Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. On April 2, 2002, as IDF forces swept into Bethlehem to root out the terrorists who had taken control of the city, between 150 and 180 Fatah terrorists under Yasser Arafat's command shot their way into the Church of the Nativity. For the next 39 days they held the sacred site and some 150 clergymen hostage. Three weeks into the siege, three Armenian monks escaped...

The birthplace of Jesus is facing one of the darkest chapters in its history, according to Bethlehem Mayor Victor Batarseh’s just-delivered annual Christmas address, and of course it’s all the fault of the Jews. The pro-Palestinian Middle East Online reports that the Roman Catholic mayor, a 71-year-old Marxist former “activist” in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), sees Bethlehem today as little more than “a big prison,” thanks to the Israeli security fence. “Usually around Christmastime Bethlehem used to be packed with tourists and pilgrims,” the mayor said. “Now, as you can see, the little town seems...

I was having a discussion this evening, and someone asked me which US Senators I really like. I hadn't thought about it, and to my chagrin the only one I could think of was Norm Coleman (I'm from Illinois, not Minnesota). Who are the good Senators, of either party? My criteria are: acknowledgement of the Islamofascist threat, personal integrity, opposition to earmarks, opposition to amnesty for illegal immigrants, leadership traits (whether or not in the leadership) and intelligence. Are there any attributes that I am neglecting? Anyone? Anyone? Buehler?

A...third of Palestinians want to leave because of violence and economic woes. ...."Every young man wishes to have a job and have a life. But when he sees what we have here: occupation, siege, a low standard of living, security crisis - all of this creates a desire to leave. I want to get out of this crisis." ....[A] growing number of Palestinians are openly saying they'd like to leave the West Bank and Gaza if given the chance.... Birzeit University pollster Nader Said...says...that the percentage of Palestinians willing to relocate....surges to 44 percent among Palestinians in their 20s and...

(IsraelNN.com) The government is reviving plans to demolish several hilltop communities, often called outposts, according to Mideast Newsline. The demolitions were postponed because of the Hamas and Hizbullah terrorist attacks on Israel. Kadima officials have said the party's election platform to destroy dozens of towns in Judea and Samaria is no longer a high priority item, but the hilltop communities still are on the chopping block. Sources quoted by Mideast Newsline said demolition orders could force the deployment of thousands of policemen and soldiers to encounter expected resistance. As during last summer's expulsion of thousands of Jewish residents of Gaza...