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The New York Post slams Democratic senator Barack Obama for his unjustified attack on John Howard BARACK Obama, all of 25 months removed from the Illinois state legislature, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the US on Saturday, and immediately began trading harsh words with the leader of one of America's oldest and most reliable allies. In the process, the freshman senator revealed truly breathtaking naivete ... Prime Minister John Howard's standing in this debate derives from the fact that Australia once again has troops deployed with US forces in a war zone, as it did in both world...

I've caught Obama fever! Obamamania, Obamarama, Obama, Obama, Obama. (I just pray to God this is clean, renewable electricity I'm feeling.) Only white guilt could explain the insanely hyperbolic descriptions of Obama's "eloquence." His speeches are a run-on string of embarrassing, sophomoric Hallmark bromides. In announcing his candidacy last week, Obama confirmed that he believes in "the basic decency of the American people." And let the chips fall where they may! Obama forthrightly decried "a smallness of our politics" — deftly slipping a sword into the sides of the smallness-in-politics advocates. (To his credit, he somehow avoided saying, "My fellow...

Feds Seeking Links Between D.C. Sniper and Radical Islam By ORI NIR FORWARD STAFF WASHINGTON — Federal authorities have begun investigating whether Washington sniper John Allen Muhammad may have been motivated not only by personal fury or greed, but also by a militant strain of Islam. Various press reports say federal agents are chasing down possible ties between Muhammad and Islamic terrorist organizations, while some pundits and at least one Jewish organization are pointing to a tantalizing series of reports suggesting Muhammad was influenced by militant religious ideology. Among the leads being pursued are indications that Muhammad may have been...

The sniper made a big deal of the phrase "Word is Bond". MSNBC went with the origin of the phrase being from a rap song. But it goes deeper than that. The phrase "Word is Bond" is associated with the The Five Percent Nation : The Five Percent Nation (or The Nation of Gods and Earths) is an offshoot of the NOI that was founded in 1964 by Clarence "Pudding" 13X, who broke with Elijah Muhammad, changed his name to "Allah," and refashioned the theology of the Nation of Islam. He taught that the black man was God and that...