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Sen. Tom Cotton is insisting on simple majority votes on contentious amendments to legislation to provide congressional review of any final nuclear deal with Iran, apparently stymieing the possibility of moving forward, at least for now. The Arkansas Republican sought to line up a pair of amendments that supportive Democratic senators have said could cause them to remove support for the bill. One of those, sponsored by Cotton, would require Iran to allow inspectors full access to suspicious sites. The other, led by Florida Republican Marco Rubio, would require Tehran to recognize Israel’s right to exist. “I think some of...

What a disaster this man is, this is what sitting in a radical church for 20 years will get you, not to mention being a lifelong friend of a person who bombed the Pentagon,

To be honest, I'd forgotten that Tom "Don't Let Them Touch Me!" Tancredo was still running for president. He's been largely ignored in the past few weeks as pundits and the nightly news focus on Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain. This ad, which will be on TV in Iowa starting next week, will certainly get people talking. The ad explicitly links terrorism and illegal immigration "because someone needs to say it."

Zarqawi targets Europe for terror THE most wanted terrorist in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is recruiting cell members in Britain and Europe. Terrorism experts believe his is preparing his new recruits for attacks somewhere in Europe. Zarqawi, who has a reward of $US25million ($33 million) on his head, is also thought to be using Europeans for his terror campaign against the US forces in Iraq. Rohan Gunaratna, one of the world's leading al-Qa'ida experts with access to official intelligence, said the Jordanian terrorist was an increasing threat. "He is the biggest recruiter in Europe," Dr Gunaratna, head of the terror...