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Scott Rigell, running as the favorite of the GOP establishment in the Republican primary in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, donated $1,000 to Barack Obama, according to opensecrets.com, a research group that tracks money in politics. “Rigell was one of the highest Obama donors in the zip code,” Scott Taylor told HUMAN EVENTS. Taylor, a former Navy SEAL and local business owner, is also running in the Republican primary. Taylor, whose campaign slogan is “Send a SEAL not a RINO,” said, Rigell "didn’t even vote in the Republican primary, and then gave $1,000 to Barack Obama on March 10,” 2008. “In...

A Canadian journalist has been kicked out of Iraq after the country's secret service accused him of spying on behalf of Israel. Scott Taylor, publisher of the military affairs magazine Esprit de Corps in Ottawa, was in Iraq working for the Sun chain of newspapers. Taylor said he was confronted by two Iraqi secret service agents who asked him to leave the country after accusing him of spying for the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad. In an interview with CTV News on Thursday, Taylor said he considered himself fortunate to have survived his latest encounter with the Iraqi secret service....