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Accountability: After a long legal battle, a federal judge has ruled that White House visitor logs are public and can be released under the Freedom of Information Act. So much for the White House's vaunted claim to openness. It took the lawyers of Judicial Watch almost two years to pry open White House records on the matter of who visited the president and his advisers in the first seven months of Obama's administration. That information was solemnly promised to voters by candidate Obama in his 2008 campaign as a means of distinguishing his governing style from the supposedly ominous, secretive...

No P-3 Orion replacements as Pak-US ties low: Secy Defence Production The secretary, Lt-Gen (r) Shahid Iqbal, told Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that no proposal was under consideration to purchase alternative aircraft for those which were destroyed in Mehran Base attack and it was impossible to acquire Orion planes in the prevailing tense ties between Pakistan and the US.The Committee met Tuesday in Parliament House under Zahid Hamid to review audit objections pertaining to the Ministry for Defence Production. Officials of the Ministry for Defence Production were not sure whether the Pakistan Ordinance Factory was running in loss or profit....

A fossil touted since the time of Charles Darwin as the "missing link" between dinosaurs and birds is likely just a dinosaur, scientists have admitted in a new report in the journal Nature.. The proposal to reclassify the specimen Archaeopteryx, which has been presented since its discovery in 1861 as a key transitional link, highlights the shifting sands on which much of evolutionary theory is based, according to one expert in the field. David Menton of Answers in Genesis has a Ph.D. in cell biology from Brown University, taught anatomy at Washington University School of Medicine, lectured in anatomy, was...

As President George W. Bush's top speech writer, Marc Thiessen was provided unique access to the CIA program used in interrogating top Al Qaeda terrorists, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM). Now, his riveting new book, "Courting Disaster," How the CIA Kept America Safe (Regnery), has been published. Here is an excerpt from "Courting Disaster:" Just before dawn on March 1, 2003, two dozen heavily armed Pakistani tactical assault forces move in and surround a safe house in Rawalpindi. A few hours earlier they had received a text message from an informant inside the house....

Anti-government activists are reported to be planning to stage nationwide demonstrations against the ruling al-Khalifa family on 13 -14 February. The protests are reportedly referred to on social networking websites as ‘The 14 February Revolution in Bahrain', and organisers claim they are not associated with any pre-existing political group or movement. The gatherings are likely to focus on government buildings in the capital Manama, such as the interior ministry in the west of the city. Other potential rally venues are Exhibition Road, the Ras Ruman mosque near the Diplomatic Area in the north of the city, the US Fifth Fleet...

President George W. Bush allegedly snubbed “No Strings Attached” actor Ashton Kutcher at last week’s Super Bowl, reports BBC. Kutcher sat directly behind Bush in a luxury suite at last Sunday’s Super Bowl, but two had minimal interaction with each other. “I don’t think he’s very happy with me,” Kutcher said of Bush. “He just was not very nice to me. He just kind of snubbed me a little bit … [He was] kind of more than [ just ignoring me] … [He was], well, just curt. He just said, ‘eh’ … almost like a burp.” Kutcher said Bush turned...

* Undercover footage shows pupils being taught religious apartheid * Muslims who adopt Western ways will be 'tortured in afterlife' * Unprovoked beatings captured on camera in Yorkshire madrassa * Boy threatened with bench by senior student left in charge of class It is an assembly hall of the sort found in any ordinary school. Boys aged 11 and upwards sit cross-legged on the floor in straight rows. They face the front of the room and listen carefully. But this is no ordinary assembly. Holding the children’s attention is a man in Islamic dress wearing a skullcap and stroking his...

"You have culture telling gays to be liberal. The left is trying to coopt gays & I dont think we should let them" Where is that jump the shark icon?

I thought some of you might enjoy these videos from Joyce Shaffer. Warning: country style singing! http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=x2G3wGVAnlQ http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=x2G3wGVAnlQ

This follow up story aired today at 5pm in San Diego. I believe that there will be heads rolling at this port ASAP. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB580sKFZlo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOaE7mGnCO0

Barack Obama said the people of Egypt now feel, "For the first time in my life, I really count." That phrase sounds so familiar.

Just before noon today while Chris Plant was interviewing Brigitte Gabrielle (sp) at CPAC she received a call or text msg that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia died last night of a heat attack. Saudis with held news because of Egypt crisis. She stated that this info came to her unconfirmed.

Fox News Reports Switzerland has frozen the assets of Mubarak.

So our CIA told President Obama that Hosni Mubarak would resign today. From Rush Limbaugh: Obama went to Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan, and said: “I just want to say that we are following today’s events in Egypt very closely. We’ll have more to say as this plays out. But what is absolutely clear is that we are witnessing history unfold. The moment of transformation is taking place because the people of Egypt are calling for change. “They’ve turned out in extraordinary numbers representing all ages and all walks of life. But it’s young people who’ve been at...

Pro-Life Donald Trump Would Eliminate Dept of Education, Impose 25% Tax on China Imports if President. (A good start)

Commodity prices could squeeze economy, just as in 2008 China's central bank raised interest rates for the third time in four months, and undoubtedly not the last time, to counter the growing inflation that is besetting fast-growing emerging economies. That inflation so far is visible mainly in the price of commodities (presuming rising asset prices are not counted in the calculation.) And based on the Continuous Commodity Index, an equal-weighted gauge of prices, commodities have exceeded their old highs set in 2008 and have set a new record, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch's technical analysis team led by...

Got that? The official U.S. position is that Mubarak needs to go immediately, he needs to stay indefinitely, he needs to stay for a bit and then go, he needs to stay for a bit longer then go sooner rather than later, unless he decides to stay until September because he is standing in the way of the full bloom of a new Egyptian democracy, unless it turns out that he is all that stands between us and a Muslim Brotherhood takeover, because the Muslim Brotherhood are a radical theocratic tyranny in waiting, unless of course it turns out that...

Wikileak reports Saudi Arabia Oil Reserves may be as much as 40% less than reported.

<p>Bedbugs are plaguing New York City public schools like never before, according to the latest stats from the Department of Education.</p> <p>City schools reported 1,700 confirmed bedbug cases in just the first five months of the school year -- a rate that's on pace to triple last year’s total of 1,019 cases.</p>

Below is the speech given by Geert Wilders on the opening day of his new trial on “hate speech” charges in Amsterdam. Many thanks to Vlaamse Leeuwin for the translation: "The lights are going out all over Europe. All over the continent where our culture flourished and where man created freedom, prosperity and civilization. The foundation of the West is under attack everywhere. ...