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New Mexico: FBI nabs 10 illegals from "certain countries are associated wit
2008-05-02 21:51:00
Thanks to Jihad Watch for this:ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - FBI agents on Wednesday busted 10 people they termed "special interest illegal aliens" for allegedly trying to use fraudulent documents to get New Mexico drivers licenses.A Motor Vehicle Division employee alerted police several weeks ago about what the employee believed to be a fraudulent attempt to get a license, according to an FBI news release.Albuquerque police called the FBI, which worked with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to investigate the incident.The investigation showed that several New Mexico residents had allegedly been fabricating proof of residence documents to allow people from out of the country to obtain authentic licenses.The FBI said the New Mexico residents were themselves illegal immigrants.While the FBI isn't saying which countries the 10 came from, the news release said "certain countries are associated with special national security concerns," and that using the term "special interest alien" depends ...
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Congressmen Driving Expensive Cars On Your Tax Dollars
2008-05-02 21:36:00
A video report on this HERE: NEW YORK (CBS) ? You may not realize it, but members of the House of Representatives can lease a car and have it paid for by you -- the taxpayer. And it's not just the car, but gas, registration, insurance ? the works.And as CBS 2 HD found out, there's no limit on how much they can spend.Congressman Charles Rangel was recently seen getting out of his Cadillac DeVille, which he leases for $774 per month. Then there was Congressman Jose Serrano, getting out of his Buick LaCrosse, which he leases for $317 per month. And how about this one: Congressman Gregory Meeks was recently seen waiting for Congressman John Conyers to step out of Meeks' Lexus LS460, which Meeks leases for $998 per month.All those leases are picked up by taxpayers through a little-known program available only to members of the House of Representatives.You can probably just imagine the kind of reaction CBS 2 HD got from everyday citizens outside Meeks' Jamaica, Queens office."They sh...
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Thousands Rally For Legalizing Illegal Immigrants
2008-05-01 23:42:00
CHICAGO (AP) - Thousands of chanting, flag-waving immigrants and activists rallied in cities across the country Thursday, attempting to reinvigorate calls for immigration reform in a presidential election year in which the economy has taken center stage.From Washington to Miami to Los Angeles, immigrant rights activists demanded citizenship opportunities for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and an end to raids and deportations."We come here to fight for legalization. We're people. We have rights," said Eric Molina, an undocumented factory worker who immigrated to Zion, Ill., from Mexico.Molina, his sister and his 13-year-old daughter Erika, a U.S. citizen, were among about 15,000 people who rallied in Chicago in one of the largest demonstrations of the day.Turnout has fallen sharply since the first nationwide rallies in 2006, when more than 1 million people?at least 400,000 in Chicago alone?clogged streets and brought downtown traffic to a standstill. Activis...
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Scientist Say No Global Warming For The Next 10 Years
2008-05-01 22:16:00
April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind, Germany's Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period.The study was based on sea-surface temperatures of currents that move heat around the world, and vary from decade to decade. This regional cooling effect may temporarily neutralize the long- term warming phenomenon caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases building up around the earth, said Richard Wood, a research scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, a U.K. provider of environmental and weather-related services.``Those natural climate variations could be stronger than the global-warming ...
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Barbra Walters Had An Affair With Seantor Edward Brooke
2008-05-01 22:08:00
This from the AP:NEW YORK (AP) ? After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke , whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant."Appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" scheduled to air Tuesday, Walters shares details of her relationship with Brooke that lasted several years in the 1970s, according to a transcript of the show provided to The Associated Press.A moderate Republican from Massachusetts who took office in 1967, Brooke was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the Senate. Both he and Walters knew that public knowledge of their affair could have ruined his career as well as hers, Walters says.At the time, the twice-divorced Walters was a rising star in TV news and co-host of NBC's "Today" show, but would soon jump to ABC News, where she has enjoyed unrivaled success. Her affair with Brooke, which never before came to light, had ended before he lost his bid for a third term in 1978.Broo...
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Former Terrorist Walid Shoebat At Colorado University
2008-05-01 15:25:00
Breit Bart has the video.Two former terrorists, Walid Shoebat and Kamal Saleem, came to speak on Islamic extremism and their personal reformation to Christianity at the Glenn Miller Ballroom Tuesday night.The hall began by reciting the pledge of allegiance, and then Kamal Saleem took the stage. After several minutes of microphone trouble, Saleem began to discuss his upbringing.He spoke of wanting to become a warrior of jihad when he was only six years old. As he paced across the stage, he told of his days as a teenager when he fought a battle against Israeli troops. He carried a friend on his back, and they were the only ones to survive.At the end of Saleem's speech, he took the last moments to give thanks to everyone and ended the speech by saying, "God bless America." Applause broke out, and Saleem received a standing ovation from most of the hall.Shoebat, a less energetic speaker, took the stage next. He talked of hostility toward his speeches, and suggested, after someone tried...
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David Blaine Sets World Record Holding Breath 17 Minutes
2008-05-01 15:14:00
This is just crazy.
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Video: Hillary Clinton On Oreilly
2008-05-01 14:46:00
Part 2 tonight...
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Photos Of 12 Year Drinking liquor On Myspace
2008-05-01 14:15:00
The mom is believed to have gave it to her. Ridiculous!Investigators from the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services are checking a Sayler Park home to see if two girls living there are being adequately supervised by their mother.The probe was requested by Hamilton County Muncipal Court Judge Bernie Bouchard after he was presented pictures Monday by the girls' father which had been posted on 'My Space' showing them allegedly drinking alcohol.The identifies of both parents, who are separated, are not being disclosed to protect the girls, aged 12-years-old and 16-years-old."The picture that I saw is worth a thousand words ? and some criminal charges in my opinion," said Judge Bouchard.The image shows the 12-year-old girl holding a can of beer up to her mouth.Another photo depicts the 16-year-old with a liquor bottle in her hands.The mother of both girls says nothing improper was going on and that the girls were just showing off."My 12-year-old, she had a can of beer,...
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France: 60 To 70% Of Prisoners Are Muslim
2008-04-29 17:58:00
SEQUEDIN, France -- Samia El Alaoui Talibi walks her beat in a cream-colored head scarf and an ink-black robe with sunset-orange piping, an outfit she picked up at a yard sale.After passing a bulletproof window, El Alaoui Talibi trudges through half a dozen heavy, locked doors to reach the Muslim faithful to whom she ministers in the women's cellblock of the Lille-Sequedin Detention Center in far northern France.It took her years to earn this access, said El Alaoui Talibi, one of only four Muslim holy women allowed to work in French prisons. "Everyone has the same prejudices and negative image of Muslims and Islam," said Moroccan-born El Alaoui Talibi, 47, the mother of seven children. "When some guards see you, they see an Arab; they see you the same as if you were a prisoner."This prison is majority Muslim -- as is virtually every house of incarceration in France. About 60 to 70 percent of all inmates in the country's prison system are Muslim, according to Muslim leaders, sociol...
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Cigarette Smugglers Funnel Money to Terror Groups, Report Finds
2008-04-29 15:11:00
WASHINGTON ? Cigarette smuggling is generating millions of dollars every year that can be reaching terrorist groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda, according to law enforcement sources. In a single case, $100,000 was sent to Hezbollah.A 15-page report congressional report, obtained by FOX News, includes intelligence from law enforcement as well as New York State?s Department of Taxation and Finance.The report reads in part: Cigarette smuggling is generating millions of dollars every year that can be reaching terrorist groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda, according to law enforcement sources. In a single case, $100,000 was sent to Hezbollah.?This is a very serious homeland security issue, one that has gone unnoticed for far too long,? said Rep. Peter King, (R-N.Y.), the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, who called for the investigation.?Cigarette smugglers are able to generate millions of dollars in illegal profits with a great deal of th...
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Barack Obama's Muslim Childhood
2008-04-29 14:53:00
A great article from Daniel Pipes at Frontpagemag:As Barack Obama's candidacy comes under increasing scrutiny, his account of his religious upbringing deserves careful attention for what it tells us about the candidate's integrity.Obama asserted in December, "I've always been a Christian," and he has adamantly denied ever having been a Muslim . "The only connection I've had to Islam is that my grandfather on my father's side came from that country [Kenya]. But I've never practiced Islam." In February, he claimed: "I have never been a Muslim. ? other than my name and the fact that I lived in a populous Muslim country for 4 years when I was a child [Indonesia, 1967-71] I have very little connection to the Islamic religion.""Always" and "never" leave little room for equivocation. But many biographical facts, culled mainly from the American press, suggest that, when growing up, the Democratic candidate for president both saw himself and was seen as a Muslim.Obama's Kenyan birth fa...
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Video Rev Wrght At NAACP And National Press Club
2008-04-28 22:28:00
Infidels are cool has video of both speechs:Click here for NAACP speechClick here for National Press Club Speech.It is also worth mentioning that there was a protest outside his National Press Club speech. You can see many pictures and read all the details here.
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Brooklyn: Man Held Captive In Mosque
2008-04-28 22:08:00
Read it all.A tree grew in Brooklyn .No longer.It has been uprooted by the Masjid At-Taqwa and other radical mosques that have sprouted up like huge mechanical mushrooms throughout the borough.If you tarry in front of the Masjid At-Taqwa in the Bedford-Stuyvesant district and dare to take a photo, you might get hauled away by a group of angry Muslims in Islamic attire to the basement of the facility where a group of twenty ?security guards? in karate suits will interrogate you.This sounds preposterous.But it happened on a weekend in late April at 3:00 in the afternoon.Ali Kareem, the head of security for Siraj Wahaj?s mosque, conducted the grilling. A small, muscular man with a wispy black beard that has been dyed red with henna, Kareem demanded to know the reason why a trio of kafirs had dared to photograph the building on a public street without securing his permission.He further insisted on securing our identities and obtaining our motives for such a violation of Islamic space.Bei...
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Bangkok: Thousands Of Fake Passports Seized!
2008-04-28 03:58:00
A Terrorist dream...BANGKOK - Thai authorities have seized more than a thousand fake Asian and Western passports and arrested a man in one of the biggest anti-counterfeiting operations in recent years, police said on Sunday.Mohammed Karim, a 56-year-old from Bangladesh, was nabbed in a Bangkok townhouse late on Saturday where they found a sophisticated passport making operation and more than 1,000 finished and unfinished documents, Police Major-General Chaktip Chaichinda said."He admitted that he made fake passports," Chaktip told Reuters, adding that his partner, a Myanmar national, escaped arrest.The passports were for several countries including the United States, New Zealand, France, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Malta. Police seized two computers, a scanner, three printers and rubber stamps for several countries."This guy is rich. He has a BMW. He said he made about 300,000-400,000 baht per month (around $10,000)," Chaktip said.The passports were sold to a group of Thai and Bu...
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NYC: Sharpton Leads Group Shouting "Kill The Police" After Acquittals
2008-04-27 11:57:00
What a nut job. Pajamas Media has a great article on this. Michelle Malkin has much more.NEW YORK - Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after the Rev. Al Sharpton promised to "close this city down" to protest the acquittals of three police detectives in the 50-shot barrage that killed a groom on his wedding day and wounded two friends."We strategically know how to stop the city so people stand still and realize that you do not have the right to shoot down unarmed, innocent civilians," Sharpton told an overflow crowd of several hundred people at his National Action Network office in the historically black Manhattan neighborhood. "This city is going to deal with the blood of Sean Bell."Sharpton was joined by the family of 23-year-old Sean Bell ? a black man ? and a friend of Bell who was wounded in the 2006 shooting outside a Queens strip club. Two of the three officers charged were also black.The rally at Sharpton's office was followed by a 20-block march dow...
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Flordia: Islam Being Taught In A Public School
2008-04-26 16:18:00
Thanks to Weasel Zippers for pointing out this story. You can view video on this story HEREYou can bet if this was Christianity and not Islam the ACLU would be all over it.SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- Some high school students in a Seminole County public school got a lesson in Islam. Outraged parents at Lake Brantley High School called Channel 9 after an Islamic group visited the classroom.Parents say the discussion violated the separation of church and state, because, they said, the discussion touched on specific elements of Islam and the Koran. Students in one particular class at Lake Brantley High School didn't have a choice about whether they wanted to be involved.It was just the second day of a new class at Lake Brantley High School called "Family Dynamics," but students said guest speakers were there to talk about something else."She said, 'Mom, three Muslim ladies came in and talked about Islam today in school,'" said parent Lisa Wagner.Wagner's daughter was one of about 35 i...
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John Mccain Didnt Even Watch The Ad He Is Condemning!
2008-04-26 15:58:00
Apparently John Mccain didnt even watch the ad in North Carolina he is condemning! You can view the ad HEREHere is what the AP reported John Mccain said about the ad:McCain said the ad was described to him: "I didn't see it, and I hope that I don't see it."Thanks to Michelle Malkin for pointing this out.
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Border Patrol Agents To Use Paintball Guns To Fend Off Illegals
2008-04-26 15:43:00
I wish I was surprised but Im not. Also not surprising is some "human rights" advocates even oppose the use of paint ball guns on people invading our country illegally. TUCSON - Some surprising news came from the United States Border Patrol .The Patrol has purchased 1,000 guns that fire non-lethal paintball or pepper pellets. The goal of a target practice session was to hit the white rag at the end of a hall with paintballs. Border Patrol agents may soon use paintballs to defend themselves against smugglers along the border due to an increase in violence. Surveillance video from an incident last year in El Paso shows a Border Patrol agent retreating after people pelt him with rocks. Some could argue the same about being hit by a paintball without protective gear, where a projectile from a paintball gun leaves a small welt on the flesh.Small welt or not, human rights activists say it is a bad idea, even for a line of defense. SOURCE
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What Is Obamas Former Church Hiding?
2008-04-26 15:15:00
The church now has signs forbidding cameras and all reporters are chaperoned and notepads are not allowed! What in the world is going on at this church? This from Detriot Free Press:CHICAGO -- The pastor's chair sitting prominently by itself in the pulpit at Trinity United Church of Christ was draped in rust, white and black-colored mud cloth.AdvertisementBut after preaching through at least two of the three services last Sunday from the pulpit, the pastor, the Rev. Otis Moss III, sat instead in a small pew to the left of it with other assistant ministers.The pulpit was dedicated in March as sacred ground through June in honor of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's 36 years as pastor. The designation shows that Wright -- officially senior pastor since retiring in February -- looms large even when he's not physically in the church.Visitors approaching church entrances are immediately greeted by signs on the glass doors directing members of the news media to sign in at the front desk. More ...

North Carolina TV Station Refusing To Air Rev Wright Ad
2008-04-26 15:07:00
You can view the ad HERE:This from News busters:Charlotte ABC affiliate WSOC-TV channel 9, and Raleigh CBS affiliate WRAL-TV channel 5, have both refused to air the new ad from North Carolina 's Republican Party which declares that two Democratic gubernatorial candidates ?should know better? than to endorse Barack Obama since ?he's just too extreme for North Carolina,? as evidenced by his long association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright . The ad includes a clip of Wright yelling ?Not God Bless America, God [bleep] America!?A Friday Charlotte Observer article, ?2 stations in N.C. will not air GOP ad: Charlotte, Raleigh broadcasters decline controversial spot that quotes Obama's former pastor,? reported: A Charlotte TV station says it will not air an advertisement from the N.C. Republican Party that uses a soundbite from Barack Obama's retiring minister. "I just don't think it's appropriate to be on our air," said Joe Pomilla, general manager for WSOC-TV. "I think it's offens...
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New Jersey: Imam Facing Deportation Has Links To Hamas
2008-04-26 14:23:00
NEWARK (AP) -- When he faces an immigration judge in two weeks, a popular Muslim cleric fighting deportation may have to counter claims that he confessed to being a member of a terrorist group.AdvertisementAccording to Israeli military authorities, Imam Mohammad Qatanani admitted being a member of the militant Hamas organization during interrogation in 1993 in Israel."Imam Mohammed Katanani was convicted based on his own admission on charges of belonging to an unauthorized association and providing services to an unauthorized association, for being a member of Hamas and acting on its behalf," the Israeli army said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press.The U.S. State Department includes Hamas on its list of "designated foreign terrorist organizations." Anyone identified as a member or a supporter of an organization on the list can be refused entry to the U.S., according to Lucille Cirillo, spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. According to the army statement, an Isra...
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President Of Mexico Has Family Members In America Illegally
2008-04-24 22:51:00
Just another sign of what a wonderful friend we have in Mexico . Here is video from Yahoo on this.Mexican President Felipe Calderón defended immigrant workers and their contribution to the U.S. economy Tuesday in Dallas, but also said Mexico needs to produce jobs that will keep its people home and end the painful separation of families.{...}Mr. Calderón, who has said he has relatives working in the U.S. illegally, drew heavy laughter when he suggested that only after the U.S. overhauls its immigration laws would he reveal their whereabouts. Mr. Calderón is from the central Mexican state of Michoacán, where many families have both legal and illegal relatives in the U.S."We admire you ... we thank you ... we miss you," he told the group to rousing applause.SOURCE
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Great Obama Video!
2008-04-24 22:34:00
Ill let this one speak for itself...
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California: Hundreds Of Illegal Immigrants Riot At Detention Center
2008-04-24 22:30:00
LANCASTER, Calif. - Hundreds of illegal immigrants awaiting deportation rioted at a county-run detention center and had to be subdued with tear gas, authorities said Wednesday.The riot Tuesday started as a fight between detainees from rival gangs and spread to the detention center's outdoor yard, said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Nearby sheriff's stations sent additional deputies to separate the detainees. The brawl was diffused "within minutes" after tear gas was used, said sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.Fights among incarcerated gang members periodically break out at state jails, prisons and immigrant detention facilities, sometimes sparking riots.The federal Department of Homeland Security contracts with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to staff and manage the Mira Loma Detention Center in Lancaster, which holds about 900 detainees who are in the process of being deported or awaiting resolution of their cases in immi...
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Mexican Offical Stealing White House Blackberries
2008-04-24 22:26:00
Oh yes Mexico is our friend. Whether he was up to no good or simply desperate to play BrickBreaker, a Mexican press attaché was caught on camera by Secret Service pocketing several White House BlackBerries during a recent meeting in New Orleans, FOX News has learned.Sources with knowledge of the incident said the official, Rafael Quintero Curiel, served as the lead press advance person for the Mexican Delegation and was responsible for handling logistics and guiding the Mexican media around at the conference. He took six or seven of the handheld devices from a table outside a special room in the hotel where the Mexican delegation was meeting with President Bush earlier this week.Everyone entering the room was required to leave his or her cell phone, BlackBerry and other such devices on the table, a common practice when high-level meetings are held. American officials discovered their missing belongings when they were leaving the session.It didn't take long before Secret Service of...
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"Virtual" Border Fence Plan Being Scrapped Deemed Worthless
2008-04-24 22:22:00
President Bush and many other Republicans have blabbed about this like it was a wonderful plan. Most of us knew all along this was a joke. Here is video from Lou Dobbs on this:
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Indiana Republican Meets With Nazis.. SICK!
2008-04-24 22:12:00
Thanks to Hot Air for this:Lest I be accused of playing the conservative version of ?name that party,? let?s acknowledge again up front that this tool is indeed running as a Republican , although of course not as the Republican Party nominee. (He?s also, god help us, an Annapolis grad.) There?s nothing here that you wouldn?t already have gleaned from yesterday?s post but watch a minute or two anyway for the hallucinogenic experience of a candidate for the U.S. Congress standing before a giant portrait of Adolf Hitler, blackshirts on either side, droning on in apparent obliviousness to his surroundings. It plays like sketch comedy gone horribly wrong ? a politician following his instinct to pander to whatever audience is placed in front of him, no matter how loathsome that audience might be.Why do I say ?apparent obliviousness,? incidentally? Skip ahead to around 4:50 and watch for 60 seconds. He claimed he didn?t realize who it was he was addressing. Didn?t he?
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North Carolina Republicans Release Rev Wright Ad.. John McCain Doesnt Like
2008-04-24 22:00:00
I just dont understand McCain! Here is the ad:Here is John Mccain denouncing the ad:
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Nancy Pelosi Quotes Bible Verse That Doesnt Exist On Earth Day
2008-04-24 21:57:00
Apparently she has made this quote several times. Thanks to Gateway Pundit for this.In her April 22 Earth Day news release, Pelosi said, "The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, 'To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.' On this Earth Day , and every day, let us pledge to our children, and our children's children, that they will have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and the opportunity to experience the wonders of nature."To bad thats not in the Bible Nancy.
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