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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities have identified a Coptic Christian in southern California who is on probation after his conviction for financial crimes as the key figure behind the anti-Muslim film that ignited mob violence against U.S. embassies across the Mideast, a U.S. law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday.

First of a three-part series, excerpted from "Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement is fundamentally remaking our two-party system" The Tea Party movement has become one of the most powerful and extraordinary movements in recent American political history. It is as popular as both the Democratic and Republican parties. It is potentially strong enough to elect senators, governors and congressmen. It may even be strong enough to elect the next president of the United States -- time will tell. But the Tea Party movement has been one of the most derided and minimized and, frankly, most disrespected movements...

Dearborn principal fires coach for allegedly allowing religious pressure A high school principal in Dearborn has dismissed a longtime wrestling coach after complaints from Muslim parents that the coach's former assistant -- an evangelical Christian pastor -- was trying to convert Muslim students into Christians. But the pastor, Trey Hancock, head of Dearborn Assembly of God, said today that he never mixed his religion with sports. And the coach, Jerry Marszalek, said that Hancock "never did that ... he knew the difference between church and state." Imad Fadlallah, head of Fordson High School, decided this month not to renew the...

Press release for Three Ex Terrorist Event -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to: see below Date: 2007-01-25, 7:40PM EST Press release for Three Ex Terrorist Event Below is National Press Release. Please all those withing 100 miles of Ann Arbor please support these brave men and advise your Pastors and Rabbis in the Ann Arbor area to announce the event and request support at thier Churches and Synagogues. Death Threats Against Anani: A Prelude to Upcoming Michigan Event Three Former Terrorists to Speak on World's Greatest Threat ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire- USNewswire/ -- Three former terrorists will give "Terrorism: The World's...

The facts of the disgrace of Mark Foley, who was a Republican member of the House from a Florida district until he resigned last week, constitute a disgrace for every Republican member of Congress. Red flags emerged in late 2005, perhaps even earlier, in suggestive and wholly inappropriate e-mail messages to underage congressional pages. His aberrant, predatory -- and possibly criminal -- behavior was an open secret among the pages who were his prey. The evidence was strong enough long enough ago that the speaker should have relieved Mr. Foley of his committee responsibilities contingent on a full investigation to...

http://www.townhall.com/action/ProtectOurConstitution4.htmlJust got an email from NewsMax. They are assisting Townhall in a drive for signatures on a petition for Judge Roberts. It reads: Our friends at TownHall.com are fighting to help Judge Roberts. Please take a moment to read their letter below and help them in this effort. They deserve your support! Thank you. NewsMax.com

Phew — that was close. The creators of "24," Fox Television's thriller-diller starring Keifer Sutherland as counterterror super-agent Jack Bauer, almost put together a compelling TV series rooted in the onerous reality of the war on jihad terrorism. But thanks, apparently, to a few helpful suggestions from the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR), they managed to steer clear of all political and historical relevance. This couldn't have been easy. After all, CAIR didn't even come to their rescue until after the show's season had begun with a couple of episodes that featured a typical Islamic sleeper cell embedded in...

Films featuring steamy homosexual sex scenes were shown at an independent film festival in Delaware on the event's "Kid's Day," while children were entertained in another part of the building. The Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival in Rehoboth Beach, Del., took place Nov. 11-14. The seventh annual event set an attendance record with 22,660 moviegoers. On Nov. 13, which the festival dubbed "Kids Day," children were shown independent children's films in an upstairs screening room of the Movies at Midway multiplex while explicit sex scenes were screening in other theaters. Also, other non-festival children's movies, including "The Incredibles" and "Polar...

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Indiana's Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson charged into the stands and fought with fans in the final minute of their game against the Detroit Pistons (news) on Friday night, forcing an early end to the Pacers' 97-82 win. The game was stopped with 45.9 seconds remaining when a pushing and shoving between the teams spilled into the stands after fans began throwing things at the players near the scorer's table. "It's the ugliest thing I've seen as a coach or player," Pistons coach Larry Brown said. After several minutes of players fighting with fans in the...

Friends, the campaign to stop Arlen Specter from getting the Chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee is turning up the heat each day. NotSpecter.com has sent tens of thousands of faxes to Capitol Hill - and they're being noticed. Many groups are doing great work on this issue - but I'd like to bring your attention to one in particular - RightMarch.com. Not only are they putting pressure on Capitol Hill - now they're actually funding radio ads attacking Arlen Specter - all over the country. We strongly encourage you to read their message, and then click through and add your...

Much talk is percolating about provisional ballots today. I experienced first hand what the provisional ballot is, what the democrats are trying to do with them, and what it will mean to our election process. Provisional ballots will destroy the integrity of the “One man, one vote” rule, if there ever was one. When you were a teenager, did you ever try to get a fake ID to go into a bar? If I could find someone to print up fake IDs, I could vote wherever I wanted, as many times as I wanted on a provisional ballot in the...

Bush is coming to the Detroit area once again. Oh, you haven't heard it in the news? What a surprise! Here are the details: Wednesday, Oct. 27th, 6pm, Pontiac Silverdome Tickets available from 8am - 8pm at GOP campaign offices Oakland County at Farmington Hills Victory Center, 28124 Orchard Lake Road, Suite 100 (248)381-8282; Rochester Victory Center, 1633 Star Batt Drive, Rochester Hills (248)245-0180, Oakland County Republican headquarters, 30701 Woodward Ave., Suite 310 in Royal Oak (248)655-0501. See you there!

----- Original Message ----- > This is from our daughter in DC. I thought I would pass it along, > thinking you might like to read it. This gives me shivers--we really > need to pray for W. > > "Dad, I'm at the 8:00am service at my church, St. Johns at Lafayette > Square, across from the White House. (I wanted to go early because I was > going with Alice and Brent for breakfast at the Cracker Barrel in > Manassas.) Much of the service was uneventful--nice, but > uneventful--until it comes to the part of the service...

Public School Must Pay for Censoring Christian Student 10/21/2004 By Anne F. Downey, Esq. Panel discussion bans traditional Biblical viewpoint on homosexuality. A federal district judge has ordered Michigan’s Ann Arbor Public Schools to pay $102,738 in attorney fees and costs in a case involving a high school’s refusal to let a Christian student express her views on homosexuality. In March 2002, at Pioneer High School’s “Diversity Week” program, Elizabeth “Betsy” Hansen, then a senior, was told she could not express her Roman Catholic viewpoint at the school’s “Homosexuality and Religion” panel discussion. The school also discriminated in limiting members...

Sinclair to Air "A POW Story" BALTIMORE (October 19, 2004) - Sinclair Broadcast Group (Nasdaq: SBGI) announced today that on Friday, October 22, 2004 at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. central time) certain television stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. will air a special one-hour news program, entitled A POW Story: Politics, Pressure and the Media. In order to minimize the interruption of normally scheduled programming in those markets where Sinclair owns and/or programs more than one television station, the news special will be broadcast on only one of those stations. A complete list of stations which will be airing...