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On the 23rd day of Jumada Al-Akhirah of the year 1422 (September 11, 2001), 19 mujahideen sowed the seed of Islam in America. We seek to sanctify the blood of the martyrs, as they sanctified America, with the building of a holy mosque. The mosque, Insha'Allah, will serve as a living commemoration of the effective birthplace of an Islamic America. In time, it will be celebrated as America's new Plymouth Rock. But as always, the Zionist entity, ever-strong in New York City, is determined to undermine the will of Allah. But together, we must affirm our right to build! Our...

Government-controlled mortgage buyer Freddie Mac is asking for $1.8 billion in additional federal aid after posting a larger loss in the second quarter. Freddie Mac said Monday it lost $6 billion, or $1.85 per share, in the April-to-June period. The company is required to pay a 10 percent annual dividend to the Treasury Department on money it has received from the government. That made up $1.3 billion of the company's second-quarter losses. The company lost $840 million, or 26 cents a share, in the same quarter last year. The government rescued McLean, Va.-based Freddie Mac and sibling company Fannie Mae...

This went way under the radar more than three weeks ago, but Rudy Giuliani made what, as best as I can tell, were his first public comments about the planned mosque near ground zero on the Jeff Katz show on radio...He takes a very hard line, including saying that "decent Muslims" will not be offended by the opposition because they want peace as much as others do. I had been struck by how nonvisible Giuliani, who is generally known as the face of Ground Zero, had been on this issue. (A nexis search under his name, Ground Zero and mosque...

A conservative civil liberties group has formally requested landmark status for a building in lower Manhattan that an Islamic group wants to replace with a 13-story mosque and community center. Jordan Sekulow, attorney for the American Center for Law and Justice, said the group has filed written testimony with the New York Landmark Preservation Commission to try to halt the joint plan of the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement to build a mosque to replace a building just two blocks from Ground Zero. The landing gear of one of the planes commandeered by Muslim terrorists on...

First, she plucked little known state legislator Nikki Haley from obscurity to victory in the South Carolina GOP governor's primary. Then there was a helping hand for Susanna Martinez in New Mexico gubernatorial primary, Sharron Angle in the Nevada Senate primary, and Carly Fiorina in the California US Senate primary. Now there's an endorsement for Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel. Is Sarah Palin's Political Action Committee packing the GOP with female candidates in 2010? SarahPAC made news this month, both for its fundraising prowess and its "Mama Grizzly" advertisement, which has gone viral on the internet. She's made a...

The hate preacher organising a march of Islamic extremists through the streets of Wootton Bassett today sparked outrage by comparing British troops fighting in Afghanistan to Nazi stormtroopers. As more than 182,000 people signed an internet petition objecting to the march, Anjem Choudary said he had chosen to protest in the town - renowned for honouring soldiers killed in Afghanistan - because it would attract 'maximum attention'. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today the protest march would be 'completely inappropriate'. But in remarks designed to cause maximum offence, Choudary compared fallen British heroes to Nazi stormtroopers and the September 11...

The designation this summer of $465 million in U.S. aid to combat drug trafficking in Mexico and Central America — along with the valuable cross-border dialogue that helped bring about this Merida Initiative — is a step in the right direction....But given the urgency of the problems we face, this step is disappointingly small...The Merida Initiative is stingy by any standard but especially by U.S. standardsFighting drug traffickers is not only a Latin American responsibility, it is also an American responsibility...Like all developed nations, the U.S. must confront the fact that no country can be safe while poverty, illiteracy, violence,...

Barack Obama won’t wear an American flag on his lapel, but on the wall of his Houston campaign office: a Cuban flag with a picture of Communist mass murderer Che Guevara. Video link: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=5700252&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1 ....And that flag is no fluke. Here’s another one. (Video, as again the Houston news anchors don’t even notice the big image of Che Guevara staring them in the face.) Link: http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/News/Politics/Detail?contentId=5668120&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.14.1

Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan criticized U.S. presidential candidates for making "immigrant-bashing" a "wedge issue" and called on Mexico and the United States to turn their relationship toward broader, strategic issues. "The challenge at the end of the day is whether Mexico and the U.S. are able and willing to play chess instead of checkers," the ambassador said in a message posted on the Mexican Embassy's Web site (http://portal.sre.gob. mx/usa). He bemoaned the current state of U.S.-Mexico relations, noting that his country "is not among the top-tier foreign policy priorities in the minds of most Americans...." and complained that a "small...

LAS VEGAS — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Iowa often talked tough about illegal aliens and called for them to learn English. But as she shifted the campaign westward, her language has softened...Clinton tells crowds she favors "comprehensive immigration reform," which includes securing the border, creating a path to citizenship and keeping families intact. As voters in Iowa called for action, she earned applause by calling for the deportation of any illegals who commit crimes and for insisting they learn English. But at stops in Nevada, where nearly 15 percent of the population is Hispanic, voters cheered her assertion that...

HADDONFIELD, New Jersey — Federal authorities say one of the men accused of planning an attack on soldiers at the Fort Dix army base gave another inmate in a federal detention center an Al Qaeda recruitment video and another wrote a note referring to the fight "we weren't able to finish." The U.S. Attorney's Office made the allegations in a brief filed in U.S. District Court late Tuesday to oppose the suspects' request to be granted bail. A lawyer for one of the men said the government is misrepresenting an incident...The five men — all foreign-born Muslims in their 20s...

Hillary Clinton might be on one side of the border, then the other when it comes to issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, but Mexican officials know exactly where they stand: no licenses for illegals. All of Mexico's 31 states require foreign residents to hold a valid visa if they want a Mexican license, according to a survey published Thursday in The Arizona Republic. "When it comes to foreigners, we're a little more strict here," Alejandro Ruíz, director of education at the Mexican Automobile Association, told the newspaper. Immigrant drivers became an overnight national campaign issue when Democratic presidential hopeful...

The woman who took a stranger's driver's license and used it to buy a $419,000 townhouse in Fairfax County last year was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday. The scheme unraveled for Elizabeth Cabrera-Rivera, 40, not when she obtained two mortgages for the house in the stranger's name, or when she deeded the house to herself. It was when she refinanced her second mortgage, and the bank sent an overpayment check to the stranger, that Cabrera-Rivera was caught. She was arrested at the BB and T bank in Arlington County that figured out her scheme. The victim of the...

In anticipation of today's cloture vote, DREAM Act supporters have been telling people that the measure would give amnesty to only 60,000 illegal aliens a year; ...But even their own think tank disagrees — the Migration Policy Institute has estimated that 360,000 illegals would get amnesty right away, with another 715,000 benefiting in the future, for a total of over 1 million amnestied. Using a different data source, we looked at the same question and estimated that the total number of potential beneficiaries of the amnesty is 2.1 million. What's more, there are another 1.4 million parents and young siblings...

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Democratic White House front-runner Hillary Clinton stood up for Gov. Spitzer's efforts to pull illegal immigrants "out of the shadows" - but stopped short of backing his controversial plan to grant them driver's licenses. Clinton told a newspaper in New Hampshire, home to the first-in-the-nation presidential primary, that Spitzer's got the right idea. "I know exactly what Gov. Spitzer's trying to do and it makes a lot of sense, because he's trying to get people out of the shadows," Clinton told the editorial board of the Nashua Telegraph. "He's trying to say, 'Okay, come forward and we will give you...

Danbury - Lawyers representing a group of day laborers swept up in an immigration raid last year...filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Danbury and federal officials. The suit alleges city police illegally conducted an undercover raid with federal ICE agents at Kennedy Park, arresting the men who have become known as the Danbury 11. City police had no authority to enforce federal immigration law and relied on racial profiling rather than probable cause to randomly arrest immigrants at the downtown park early on Sept. 19, 2006, said Geri Greenspan, one of a group of Yale Law School professors and...

Investigators subpoenaed records from a prominent California legal aid group to determine whether it has violated federal rules by using taxpayer money to perform work for illegal aliens. The California Rural Legal Assistance Corp. (CRLA), which is fighting the subpoena, has until next week to explain to a judge why it should not turn over client records to the federal Legal Services Corp...investigators say they've been stymied in the probe into whether the California legal group focuses its resources on farm worker and Latino issues while limiting services to inner-city residents and others... ...a report by the Legal Services' inspector...

An illegal immigrant charged in last month's Newark schoolyard slayings was entitled to be free on bail for previous crimes at the time of the shootings, and public criticism surrounding his release reflects a "profoundly flawed understanding of the right to bail," according to a judge's report released today...retired Judge Arthur N. D'Italia reviewed the court procedures followed in consolidating and setting bail in the prior criminal cases against Jose Lachira Carranza, whose arrest record - for attacking patrons during a bar fight and for child rape - sparked outrage after the Aug. 4 killings. ...the report...concludes the judge's actions...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The nation's largest Hispanic civil rights organization is warning it may move its 2009 convention from Kansas City because of a controversial city park board member. The National Council of La Raza is already looking at other cities after the appointment of Frances Semler, an anti-illegal immigration activist, said Janet Murguia, La Raza's president. City Councilmembers have also heard concerns from members of the NAACP, which is expected to hold its 2010 convention in Kansas City. The city hasn't heard directly from officials of the national organization. Losing two national conventions could hurt the city's image...