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Important questions linger about what went down in Paris If the November attacks on Paris have the fingerprints of a foreign intelligence service on them, mimicking the DRS relationship with GIA, where dimwitted jihadists don’t realize they are being set up, the list of potential suspects presents itself at once. It’s long been understood by Western security services that ISIS and the Syrian regime are partners as well as enemies. Both seek to crush moderates, to make the struggle for Syria binary: Regime versus ISIS. Assad’s secret police, the cold-blooded mukhabarat, have penetrated Islamist groups with their agents for decades,...

Prominent Conservatives, Civic Leaders Urge President Bush and Congress to Back Enforcement First on Immigration WASHINGTON, June 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Leading conservatives and civic leaders have signed an "open letter" on immigration declaring that "border and interior enforcement must be funded, operational, implemented, and proven successful¾and only then can we debate the status of current illegal immigrants, or the need for new guest worker programs." The signers include William Bennett, Robert Bork, William F Buckley, Ward Connerly, Newt Gingrich, David Horowitz, David Keene, John Leo, Herbert London, Rich Lowry, Daniel Pipes, Phyllis Schlafly, and Thomas Sowell among others. Hudson...

Hi. I was just wondering about something. I am from rural Oregon and most of the people I know here don't really tolerate questions, so, I figure this is a good place to ask. (I'm 17) I am obviously against abortion, b/c why should a woman have the right to choose whether or not she can have a child. That's stupid, women should be seldom seen and never heard... that's what my dad says anyway. But I am confused. It looks like to me that most Christians here (my home town) are for the death penalty, aka capital punishment. It...