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Since 2013, Rubenstein, 72, who co-founded the private equity giant the Carlyle Group, has given millions to entities that repair and upgrade historical monuments and landmarks like the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument as well as Monticello and Montpelier, the homes of US presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. But some say the restoration at the presidential homes has recast the presidents as sinister racists while downplaying their accomplishments... But a quick dive into Rubenstein’s backstory shows he’s not so pure himself. He made his initial fortune in the 1980s by exploiting a tax loophole in Alaska allowing him...

US Politicians Duped By The Brotherhood In the United States, one individual maintained a pretense of "moderation" which would later embarrass the left and the right. According to the testimony of Dr. Michael Waller to the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Abdurahman Alamoudi was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. A man born in Eritrea in 1951, he arrived in the US in 1979 and became a naturalized US citizen on May 23, 1996. From 1985 onwards he became involved in many Muslim groups. In 1990 he founded the Washington DC-based American Muslim Council (AMC), which Waller states "has...

State Treasurer and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides has ``the right message for California,'' U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said after a breakfast fund-raiser today. Clinton, D-N.Y., keynoted the minimum-$1,000-per-head event at the St. Regis Hotel and briefly addressed reporters afterward. But the purported 2008 presidential candidate departed amid reporters' shouted questions on topics such as same-sex marriage, which Angelides supports and she opposes. She said she has known Angelides since he was the California Democratic Party's chairman as her husband, Bill Clinton, first ran for president. Together they ``made the case for the kind of future we wanted our...

In the 7am half hour, Diane Sawyer introduced a taped interview with both Bushes yesterday in what looked like a New York City hotel Room. She began, MRC's Jessica Anderson noted, with the first President Bush insisting people see John Kerry's 1971 activism against the Vietnam war: "I sat down with them yesterday. They were forceful in defending their son. As for Senator John Kerry, well like Senator Kerry, the former President, now 80 years old, is a decorated Navy veteran and he thinks, he says, that every American should look at those pictures of John Kerry back in the...