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Please Excuse me for Apologizing Laurent Murawiec, Metula News Agency info # 012104/9 EV, 22 April 2009, Translated from the French by Llewellyn Brown Washington -- I spent 2008 harping on the prediction that Obama would be a complete disaster for the United States and the world. Good Lord! I never dreamt to what extent. We cannot all be Cassandras. Obama is apologizing for America’s deeds, its past, its present and the rest; he is apologizing for everything. For deteriorating relations with Russia, lack of respect for Islam, bad relations with Iran, squabbles with Europe, lack of adulation for Fidel...

Fed up with petty crime? Join the crowd. You can just sit around and belly ache about it, or you can do the double chicken wing. Meet Garett Majoue. "I don't call 911," he says. "Some people say I'm a hero. Others say I'm a dummy." You decide for yourself. (Spoiler alert: Both answers are correct. Don't try this at home.)Majoue was captain of the wrestling team at Brother Martin in the early '90s. That sets up the rest of the story. It begins in 1999 with a simple errand to Delchamps in Metairie for some ice cream. For most...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's attorney general said the arrest a group of corrupt cops along the border with California is imminent. Daniel Cabeza de Vaca told a Mexico City news conference today the cops protected a Tijuana cartel, the Arellano Felix gang, which smuggled tons of pot, cocaine and meth into the United States. Two were already arrested Saturday and charged with taking bribes to protect the gang. The attorney general said they worked at the Rosarito police department just over the border from San Diego border. The two are accused of decapitating three of their fellow officers. The news...

Dear Friend, Join our Power of 2 (Webb2) Campaign! Deliver 2 more Webb voters other than yourself to the polls. Tomorrow, Democrats from across Virginia will go to the polls to choose their candidate for the U.S. Senate. I believe they have the chance to change the course of politics in the Commonwealth and across the nation, and indeed to begin to make history. With your support, I want to lead that historic charge and am confident that with your help I will win. The need for this change is the common theme I have heard from concerned voters over...

3/2/2006 - LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- When U.S. forces get to Iraq and Afghanistan, they’re finding dry, featureless terrain with no real landmarks or points of reference to use when they travel across these wide-open and often dangerous landscapes. In the past, maps and a compass were the decisive tools used by servicemembers to track down the enemy and find their exact location in theater. That’s no longer the case. Warfighters are now turning to a 12-channel device known as the Defense Advanced Global Positioning System Receiver, or DAGR, to get vital information. A screen about...

Asian Quake May Be Serious Blow To Islamic Groups Hostile to U.S. By ZAHID HUSSAIN in Islamabad and PETER WONACOTT in New Delhi Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 12, 2005; Page A15 The massive earthquake that tore through the Kashmir region of Pakistan and India appears to have been especially costly for battle-hardened Islamist extremists hostile to the U.S. Radical groups are beginning to acknowledge heavy casualties from the 7.6-magnitude temblor. Meanwhile, U.S. aid arriving in a mountainous corner of Pakistan has marked the start of what U.S. officials hope is a significant role in the area's...

SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Police stormed a convenience store Thursday, freeing a woman held hostage for 20 hours and killing the suspect in an exchange of gunfire, authorities said. Police managed to pull the woman away from the store at about 6:30 a.m. even as the gunman was shooting from inside the building, state police 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said. "They were able to grab the hostage and pull her to safety as gunfire continued and officers returned fire, ultimately resulting the death of the suspect," Bursten said. Negotiators had made arrangements for the woman to come to the door...

Hey genealogy lovers: The far left foreign loonies with a bad translator have hacked a non-political site, CYNDISLIST.COM...a genealogy site. What is this world coming to when a site for genealogy lovers needs to be defaced?

METAIRIE, La. (AP) - A man sheriff's deputies had shot twice with a stun gun died Saturday, a day after he was pulled over for driving erratically, officials said. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman John Fortunato said Patrick Fleming died at a hospital. Officers had used a Taser stun gun on him twice when he fought with them - once after the traffic stop and then later at the jail. Fortunato said Fleming, 35, was hospitalized after officers zapped him a second time and his breathing became labored. Fortunato said the office would have no further comment Saturday. There was...

Islamic terrorists executed 59 year-old Margaret Hassan who had lived in Iraq for thirty years, married an Iraqi and become a citizen herself, and who had devoted her entire life to helping the Iraqi people. For weeks the terrorists tormented this woman physically and psychologically before putting a bullet through her blindfolded head.

You decide: who is REALLY scary? The MonsterJenjis John Kerry One is an acromegalic ghoul that lumbers around, muttering incoherently, burning down villages and mindlessly massacring terrorized civilians in a manner reminiscent of Lurch. The other at least had the intelligence to finally realize "We Belong Dead." Phantom of the Opera Wacko Jacko Chirac One is a heartless, hideous monster who haunts the Paris Opera House — a corruption of a man — so obsessed with the crystal chandeliers and fine wine that he is blind both to the fact that his actions are resulting in the deaths of innocents and...

WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida may attempt to attack Veterans Affairs hospitals as an alternative to more heavily guarded U.S. military installations, the FBI and Homeland Security Department warn in a new nationwide terrorism bulletin. Although U.S. authorities say there is no credible intelligence regarding a specific threat against such hospitals, the bulletin said there have been persistent reports of "suspicious activity" at medical facilities throughout the United States. That includes "possible reconnaissance activities" this year at unspecified military medical facilities in Bethesda, Md., and Aurora, Colo., the bulletin said. Even though later investigation of these two incidents uncovered no links to...

A local duo charged in connection with a home invasion in Monongalia County have posted bond. At about 2:40 a.m. Sunday, Mon County Sheriff's Department deputies arrested 24-year-old Jonathan Brent Lowe and 22-year-old Robert James Thrasher. Police said they apprehended the men following an attempted armed robbery along Bethel Road. On Monday, court authorities announced Lowe and Thrasher had each posted $10,000 bond. On the day of the incident, victims told police the suspects gained entry into their home by kicking in the residence's front door. After Lowe and Thrasher entered the home, police reported, the men kicked open a...

Chief Warrant Officer William Whealy congratulates Sgt. Ryan Cooley upon graduating from the Military Intelligence School Friday on Fort Huachuca. (Mark Levy-Herald/Review) FORT HUACHUCA - The U.S. Army Intelligence Center graduated its first group of rapidly deployable National Guard and Army Reserve students Friday, intelligence specialists trained to provide "actionable intelligence" to troop commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 77 students from the 97B and 97E classes at the Military Intelligence School are the first to complete a new program to mobilize, train and deploy in a matter of weeks officers needed to fill a void in intelligence-gathering capabilities...

A former member and longtime critic of the Church of Scientology has been ordered by a Marin County judge to pay the church $500,000 for speaking out against the controversial religious movement. Superior Court Judge Lynn Duryee issued that order in a breach-of- contract lawsuit against Scientology defector Gerald Armstrong.

Around the world on CNN and their local television stations, terrorists and tyrants around the world are paying attention during this election season more than ever before. The attack on the World Trade Center has changed our world forever, and it has changed how our commander in chief must act to protect this nation. If he waits until an enemy is ready to launch Weapons of Mass Destruction, he has waited too long, and there will be thousands too many dead Americans. The bad guys are most certainly hoping that John Kerry becomes the next commander in chief. Why are...

Bad guys get help Even after the mass murders of 9/11, some people still have trouble accepting the fact that evil is a formidable presence in this world. There are hundreds of thousands of children the world over who are being sold into sexual slavery, and little is being done about it, even by the U.S. government. I first encountered this story in 1991 when I traveled to Thailand and bought an 11-year-old girl for less than $200. The negotiation was captured on tape and reported on the program I was then anchoring, "Inside Edition." On the streets of Bangkok,...

My vote for the most misunderstood and unfairly maligned bad guys go to two characters from the "Planet of the Apes" series (so selected from the recent marathon "Apes of Wrath" festival on A&E).The top guy on the list is Dr. Otto Hasslein, who was trying to preserve the future and humanity, regardless of what the spineless POTUS thought of the political ramifications of execution Zira and Cornelius, along with their baby. He did exactly what I'd have done.As runner up, I name Dr. Zaius, who obviously knew that Taylor would appear in the future from secret scrolls, and that...

Police Officer Shot Near Nob Hill, Suspect KilledLocation: Albuquerque, N.M. Source: KRQE News 13 An Albuquerque Police officer was shot Monday evening and the suspect killed, as nearby diners in the Nob Hill business district ducked for cover and shop owners rushed to lock their doors. APD Sgt. Carol Oleksak is in serious condition after suffering a gunshot wound to the torso and suffering a unspecified head injury. Shortly after 7:30 p.m. the suspect walked up to Oleksak's patrol car in the Walgreens parking lot near the intersection of Girard and Central and released a barrage of bullets. According to...

Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that most Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism?