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In a major development in his probe of Barack Obama’s eligibility for Arizona’s 2012 presidential ballot, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has dispatched his lead Cold Case Posse investigator and a deputy detective to Hawaii. The mission to Obama’s purported birthplace comes as the Hawaii Department of Health continues to resist efforts by Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett to verify that the Honolulu agency has a valid birth certificate on file for Obama.

A chunk of an $11 million stimulus grant meant to provide low-income Detroit residents with clothing for job interviews reportedly aided just two people -- far short of the 400 job-seekers the money was meant to help.

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Monday, 18, December, 2006 (28, Dhul Qa`dah, 1427)   Mail Article   |     Print Article   |     Comment on Article   US Court Throws Out Case Against Saleh KamelBarbara Ferguson, Arab News   Saleh Kamel   WASHINGTON, 18 December 2006 — A significant decision by a New York judge last Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Saleh Kamel and Albaraka Investment Bank.The accusations alleged they had been involved in support of the Al-Qaeda group suspected of backing the 9/11 terrorist attacks.Khaled Al-Nahdi, assistant to CEO of Dallah Albaraka Group, said in a statement on Friday that Judge Richard Conway Casey, of the Federal...

10. “bell hooks” Born Gloria Watkins, spells new name in lower case. Has written, “It is difficult not to hear in standard English always the sound of slaughter and conquest” and “I am writing this essay sitting beside an anonymous white male that I long to murder.” hooks is a distinguished professor of English at City College in New York. 9. Amiri Baraka Born Everett Leroy Jones in 1934, adopted current name after converting to Islam in 1968. Former poet laureate of New Jersey. Has written: “… the white woman understands that only in the rape sequence [by a black...

Concerning Somebody Blew Up AmericaIn the second stanza of the poem, Amiri Baraka puts Bret Schundler in the company of David Duke and Jesse Helms. Bret Schundler was Mayor of Jersey City for a decade. Jersey City is just one station away from Newark on the PATH subway. Amiri Baraka spoke in Jersey City at least once while Schundler was Mayor. For the previous forty years, the entrenched political organization let the African-American neighborhoods of Jersey City die and rot. Under the leadership of Bret Schundler, major redevelopment projects stopped and reversed this decay. So why would Baraka lump Schundler...

Amiri Baraka, the new Poet Laureate of New Jersey (yes, there is one) is under fire for composing a ghastly poem full of loathing for U.S. President George Bush, "Israelis" (by which he means "Jews") and whites in general. On Wednesday, he took the podium at a Newark literary festival and embraced the conspiracy theory that Mr. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon knew in advance of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. We at the National Post are commemorating his artistic achievements with a poem of our own. Unlike the Poet Laureate, we apologize in advance for any pain...

In the spirit of Amiri Baraka, each American state ought to have at least one poet who can speak for its Jew haters Frankly, I did not know we had our own poet laureate. I thought it was a national thing. But jeepers creepers (see, I can rhyme, too) we've got one right here in New Jersey, and Amiri Baraka is his name. This "poet," who used to be named Leroi Jones until he became a Muslim, has written something that has caused quite a stir. Here... why not let him tell it, since he's a poet and I'm not:...

American poet Amiri Baraka, who was stripped of his title of New Jersey's poet laureate for writing a poem saying Israel had advance knowledge of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, was invited to the Jerusalem Foundation's Mishkenot Sha'ananim center to take part in this fall's International Poets Festival. Baraka set off a furor last year with his poem "Somebody Blew Up America," which states that Israel was involved in the terror attacks. It includes the lines: "Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed/Who told 4,000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers to stay home that day?/Why...

"Somebody Blew Up America" By Amiri Baraka Somebody Blew Up America They say its some terrorist, some barbaric A Rab, in Afghanistan It wasn't our American terrorists It wasn't the Klan or the Skin heads Or the them that blows up nigger Churches, or reincarnates us on Death Row It wasn't Trent Lott Or David Duke or Giuliani Or Schundler, Helms retiring It wasn't The gonorrhea in costume The white sheet diseases That have murdered black people Terrorized reason and sanity Most of humanity, as they pleases They say (who say?) Who do the saying Who is them paying Who...

Black liberals need to respond to insult of Rice by Baraka Gregory Kane -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally published Mar 19, 2003 Gregory Kane -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REMEMBER when Mayor Martin O'Malley used all those colorful cuss words a few years back in speaking about Baltimore State's Attorney Patricia Jessamy? Remember the uproar? Remember how all those black folks gathered out in front of City Hall with signs and accused O'Malley of insulting all black women? How dare the mayor use such language about a black female government official, they fumed. On Saturday, at one of the state's public colleges, another man said something even...

This is the follow-up piece as it appeared in the New York Sun print edition on Tuesday, February 25. The director of the Yale University group that invited poet Amiri Baraka to speak on campus said yesterday his visit would answer "fundamental questions about his work," Pamela George, the director of the Afro-American Cultural Center and an assistant dean of Yale College, responded to accusations from university members and student that her group was endorsing hatred of Jews by bringing him to Yale. "While we do not endorse the extreme statements by Amiri Baraka that have occasioned concern in the...

This is an editorial in this morning's print edition of the New York Sun. Hate at Yale Tonight the Afro American Culture Center at Yale is scheduled to host the poet laureate of New Jersey, Amiri Baraka, for a "tea." An invitation says, This is an opportunity to hear this brilliant man speak and your chance to meet the man, and the growing legend in person. It is sure to inspire, provoke and motivate you." The leaders of Yale's student Jewish group, Hillel, say they are "appalled" at the invitation. Mr. Baraka became notorious for his poem "Somebody Blew Up...

McGreevey Explains Away Year One After getting elected on a promise to look out for the people's money, Gov. James E. McGreevey has spent much of his first year explaining away junkets, helicopter rides and a mysterious $110,000-a-year aide. Even poetry has proved poor politics for the Democrat: He has been accused of racism for trying to remove New Jersey's poet laureate over a Sept. 11 memorial verse critics called anti-Semitic. "This administration seems to create their own problems and then rather than solve them, try to cover them up," said Carl Golden, a Republican political analyst and former aide...

Imamu Amiri Baraka vows to "go to the Supreme Court" if the New Jersey Legislature and Governor James McGreevey carry out their threat to revoke his appointment as the Garden State's poet laureate or block the $10,000 stipend that goes with the title. It isn't the money, he says. "Right now the most important thing to me is to disprove this lie that I'm anti-Semitic." Now why would anyone think a cold thing like that about Amiri Baraka? And yet a lot of people do think it, especially since his recent appearance at the Dodge Poetry Festival, where he read...

LeRoi Jones, aka Amiri Baraka, has been asked to resign as poet laureate of New Jersey. He refuses. Hmm. The governor wants him gone because of what have been interpreted as anti-Semitic statements in his poem - if one wants to call it that - "Somebody Blew Up America," written after Sept. 11, 2001. The governor has it all wrong. Jones should not be asked to resign. Those who appointed him should resign - if they have read his work over the last 35 years. It is an incoherent mix of racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, black nationalism, anarchy and ad hominem...