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While doing a toilet-pun-filled segment about French actor Depardieu urinating in public, Anderson Cooper, the original Tea Party slanderer and actual "teabagger" himself, loses all control when the jokes move to poopoo. Wonder why?

Immigrants chase riot police during clashes on the outskirts of Bari, southern Italy. Scuffles broke out in Bari between immigrants held at a local center and police, leaving scores injured. The immigrants occupied the railway station and hurled objects at police vans. The immigrants had been at the center for several months and were reportedly protesting lack of progress in processing their requests for asylum.

From Killer's Own Words: "...The Islamic Ummah should view our enemies; the US/EU globalists, as a greater threat than we would ever aspire to be. The reason is that we do not wish to destroy Islam but simply to isolate it primarily outside Europe." "Assuming we will ever seek common ground, which is unlikely at best, the problem will be the authentication process. How can the Ummah, the enemy of our enemy, know they are really dealing with a Justiciar Knight and not a CIA or EU agent? How can it be proved that the individual seeking to become a...

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) - The mothballing of the space shuttle will be mourned by many astronauts, but Russia is relishing the prospect of serving as the only carrier to the International Space Station. That honor will earn Russia hundreds of millions of dollars in fees for ferrying U.S. and other astronauts to the orbiting laboratory in its Soviet-vintage Soyuz spacecraft.

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Despite the objections of his neighbors, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has ordered city officials to proceed with a plan to erect a six-foot wall around the mayor’s mansion. The wall — which would flank the sides of Getty House in Hancock Park — recently drew the ire of local residents in February when Villaraigosa filed a request for a local variance that prohibits any fencing that exceeds 42 inches in height. A proposed design for the wall includes “embedded” security features...

He stands up to leftist hecklers and Americans finds someone who would not just bs about "the high road" but would fight for them.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy has joined David Cameron in condemning multiculturalism as a failure. Cameron launched a scathing attack earlier this months on 30 years of multiculturalism in Britain warning that it fostered extremism. His damning verdict came just months after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that multiculturalism in Germany had failed. Now Sarkozy has joined the growing number of European leaders who have adopted identical views on multiculturalism Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355961/Nicolas-Sarkozy-joins-David-Cameron-Angela-Merkel-view-multiculturalism-failed.html#ixzz1DfaAdN6p

Last night, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sat down for a rare, extended interview with Steve Kroft of '60 Minutes.' In what CBS has called Assange's "most extensive television interview to date," the Australian national defended his organization's mission, discussed the roots of his own anti-authoritarian philosophy, and compared WikiLeaks' core principles to "those of the U.S. Revolution."

<p>BOR: So you, conservative Sheriff, death threats against you. Has Sheriff Dupnik ever said "Hey, leave Sheriff Arpaio alone you leftwingers!" Has he ever said that?</p> <p>SA: No, wait a minute! I was down in Tucson, when one of his top Pima county officials had 300 demonstrators cut my head of a pinata {effigy} and showed it to all the kids. That was a year ago.</p>

JANUARY 11--Prompted by a viral video showing a wild, all-female brawl outside a Florida gas station, cops have launched a probe to identify and possibly arrest the combatants, some of whom had clothing ripped off during the melee. VIDEO INCLUDED

Here's a remarkable video of Tucson Democrat hatchet man Sheriff Dupnik on Fox with Megan Kelly. Using his office for partisan political attacks and jeopardizing the assassination prosecution. Lawyering up, when asked about talk of Loughner's prior death threats. And yet admitting that they were only "fairly recent" and therefore clearly before the crime and arrest of yesterday. What are the professional standards of that office? [Great job Megan!]

Californians will welcome 725 new laws on Jan. 1. Here's a glance at some of the laws taking effect when you ring in the new year: ■SB 782 prevents landlords from evicting tenants who are victims of domestic or sexual abuse or stalking. ■AB 715 makes a change to the California Green Building Standards code. The change will require new California buildings to be energy efficient. ■SB 1399 allows California to medically parole state prison inmates with physical incapacitating conditions and ultimately shifts some of the cost of care to the federal government. ■AB 97 bans the use of trans-fats...

New Yorkers endured a crippled transit system, completely overwhelmed emergency responders and unpassable roadways yesterday after one of the city's worst blizzards ever dumped a staggering 20 inches of snow. Abandoned vehicles and buses littered highways and main drags -- and ambulances couldn't make it out to calls that stacked up well past 1,000 at one point. Virtually all modes of transportation -- from air travel to the subways -- left people stranded. --clip-- Still, he tried to convince the public all was well.... "This city is going on. It's a day like every other day," Bloomberg said, suggesting people...

CRETE, Neb. – A worker entered the lunchroom of a cold-storage facility in eastern Nebraska and started firing a handgun, wounding three employees before going outside to shoot himself in the head, authorities said Thursday. Saline County Attorney Tad Eickman identified the gunman at the Americold Logistics plant near Crete as 26-year-old Akouch Kashoual of Lincoln. He said Kashoual entered the lunchroom around 9:50 p.m. Wednesday and started shooting, before going outside the plant to shoot himself in the head. Eickman didn't give any information about Kashoual's motive.

Republican Carl Paladino, aided by a 4 -1 margin among Tea Partiers, trails New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic candidate for Governor, 49 - 43 percent among likely voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Only 18 percent of New York State likely voters consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement, but they back Paladino 77 - 18 percent. Cuomo leads 87 - 8 percent among Democrats while Paladino leads 83 - 13 percent among Republicans and 49 - 43 percent among independent voters, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University survey, conducted by live interviewers,...

If you’re trying to understand what burning a Quran would look like to a Muslim, consider this: “For Christians, Jesus is the word of God. For Muslims, the Quran is the word of God. Imagine someone burning Jesus,” says Emad El-Din Shahin, a religion professor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. - - clip - - The Quran teaches Muslims to respect the sacred books of Christians and Jews as well, says Chris van Gorder, a religion professor at Baylor University in Texas. “To burn a holy Quran for a Muslim is to throw down a gauntlet,” he...

A U.S.-based {Massachusetts} Bible organization says because there are Christians who "speak and act with respect for any sincerely seeking the truth of God," it will give away two Qurans for each one that would be burned by Rev. Terry Jones. - - clip - - "Since it is uncertain whether Rev. Jones is actually going to burn the Qurans, we wanted to update you on our plans," said a statement from MassBible.org, which explains, "The Bible is interwoven in art, literature, music, culture, and politics. To ignore it, or to fail to recognizer its many voices and interpretation, is...

After defeating their rivals in Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, Muslim extremists are focusing their attacks on Christians in Gaza City. Christians in Gaza City have issued an appeal to the international community and a plea for protection against the increased attacks by Muslim extremists. (June 18, 2007)

- Officials still investigating cause of fire that destroyed voting devices - A day after a fire destroyed virtually all of Harris County's electronic voting gear, officials were still determining the cause of the warehouse blaze and furiously exploring ways to accommodate voters come early November. Houston's fire marshal's office hasn't made a ruling on whether Friday's early-morning fire was accidental or deliberately set, said Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman, who hopes to hear something on the cause early this week. "It would break my heart to think someone would do something like this to the election process," she said,...

It has been widely reported that Michael Enright, who has been arrested for attacking the Muslim cab driver, worked as a volunteer for "Intersections International" (II). It has also been reported, in some of those sources, that II was in favor of the Ground Zero Mosque(GZM). What has not been reported is that this leftist and globalist organization (II), is not merely in favor of the GZM, but lists on its website both the Cordoba Initiative (CI) and the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) as "partners." Both CI and ASMA are central to the GZM project and the political/Jihadist...