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Jimmy Carter says the jury made the right call in finding George Zimmerman not guilty. “I think the jury made the right decision based on the evidence presented, because the prosecution inadvertently set the standard so high that the jury had to be convinced that it was a deliberate act by Zimmerman, that he was not at all defending himself,” Carter told Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA-TV.

Will Obama, when taking the oath of office, say his full name? If so, will it finally be OK to call him Barack HUSSEIN Obama?

I just got back from the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., where conservatives began lining up behind a man who’s been sticking it to us for years. By a process of self-hypnosis, many have managed to convince themselves that McCain is actually one of us. Not for nothing did Benjamin Disraeli call conservatives the stupid party. What part of John McCain do we not get? McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Feingold, McCain-Lieberman, McCain-Edwards -- among other socialist, anti-speech, open-borders, enviro-Marxist measures he’s co-sponsored with the hardcore left of the Democratic Party over the years. If Il Duce had served with...

This may just be the year when conscientious conservatives decide sit out the election. It’s a step not to be taken lightly. The idea of a perfect conservative candidate is a dangerous illusion. As an old Democrat ward heeler once told me: “When you’re running for public office and look in the mirror, that’s when you’ll see a candidate you agree with completely.” Most of us are willing to compromise. I voted for Bush in 2000, knowing full well that his “compassionate conservatism” wasn’t conservative at all, but big government with a smiley face. In the expectation that he would...

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli troops killed a senior leader with Islamic Jihad Wednesday, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman said.

SLAMABAD, 17 May 2007 — Foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) yesterday expressed grave concern at the rising tide of discrimination and intolerance against Muslims, especially in Europe and North America. “It is something that has assumed xenophobic proportions,” they said in unison. Speaking at a special brainstorming session on the sidelines of the 34th Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers (ICFM), the foreign ministers termed Islamophobia the worst form of terrorism and called for practical steps to counter it.

They are crying voter fraud already. What losers. Talk about defying the will of the American people. This is the sixth time today that I heard the Dhimmicrats say if the Republicans win, it was a stolen election. Sheesh. They cling to voter fraud like the Palis cling to occupation (stole that metaphor from Dan G.) Insane? You damn right considering all the voter fraud recently uncovered was Democrat voter fraud.

To bank the firestorm ignited by his address in Regensburg, Germany, Pope Benedict XVI declared himself "deeply sorry" for the effect his remarks have had on the Muslim world. The words of the Byzantine emperor he quoted, Benedict explained, were "from a Medieval text which do not in any way express my personal thoughts." The pope's subject was the "profound harmony" of biblical truth and Greek thought. No conflict exists, he argued, between true faith and right reason. Contending violence is the antithesis of reason, he cited the "erudite Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus," during a siege of Constantinople, between...

As the Monitor noted back in July, “alarm bells went off like crazy when Steven Spielberg hired Tony Kushner last year to rewrite the script of a movie about Israel’s clandestine — and lethal — response to the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.” The Monitor found cause for concern because Kushner is a radical leftist whose views on the Middle East are hardly distinguishable from the hateful screeds found on the most rabidly anti-Israel websites.

Leave it to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to invent a new term in the international political debate. In a speech in the United Arab Emirates, she said it would be a mistake "to exclude Islamist parties" from the political debate in the Middle East "on the assumption they are inherently undemocratic or prone to violence." She added, "The best way to marginalize violent extremists is to make room for as broad a range of non-violent perspectives as possible." Therefore, we can assume from these two statements that Albright, the architect of appeasement of Islamo-fascism during the Clinton years,...

Did you hear the one about the Jews who paid a thousand dollars a plate to hear Bill Clinton speak — after he sold Israel down the river (by rewarding genocide bombings with more land)? Or the one about the Jews who are still loyal to a political party whose members pass out 9/11-Israel conspiracy literature at public forums?

If the president keeps his word (repeatedly given) to pick a strict constructionist of the Scalia/Thomas mold to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the left will come after said nominee with broken bottles, nail-studded clubs, brass-knuckles - everything up to and including theater nuclear weapons. Consider the following declarations of unconditional warfare: * MoveOn.org predicted Bush will choose "an extremist who will undermine the rights of individuals and families" to replace O'Connor - unlike its patron, George Soros, who would support individuals and families by legalizing drugs. * Deep in the throes of alcohol dementia, Ted Kennedy...

BERLIN - German boxing legend Max Schmeling, one of the greatest heavyweight fighters of all time, has died at age 99.

JHAD HUMOR - MUSLIM JOKES by stand-up comic Goffaq Yussef. Good evening gentlemen, and get out, ladies. On my flight to New York there must have been a Jew in the bathroom the entire time. There was a sign on the door that said "occupied." What do you say to a Muslim woman with two black eyes? Nothing! You told her twice already! How many Palestinians does it take to change a light bulb? None! They sit in the dark forever and blame the Jews for it! Did you hear about the Broadway play, The Palestinians ? It bombed! What...

It is 1 a.m. in Dallas, and I have been broadcasting since 5:00 p.m., so I will be brief. Although the autopsy may take some time, the disaster that were the exit polls tonight will long be remembered as the equivalent of the early call of Florida for Gore in 2000. This was almost a disaster as panic spread throughout the close-watchers of the campaign – and there are millions of such close watchers. Drudge bit, and the entire country swallowed. There were skeptics, and I was among them, but even I had that feeling of doom sweep over me....

Jimmy Carter says President Bush is exploiting the suffering of Sept. 11 and has turned back decades of efforts to make the world a safer place. Let me say this: If I had any doubts about Bush's efforts in Iraq, they would be gone the minute Jimmy Carter attacked them. Jimmy Carter has, to my knowledge, never been right about any foreign policy moves in his long political life – and certainly not as president. Let me tell you about what Jimmy Carter knows first-hand about political exploitation of suffering and making the world a safer place. A new documentary,...

The Orthodox Christians for Bush Committee is very pleased to share this moment and information with you. Thanks to our efforts and your voices we have been able to communicate with the Presidential Campaign in a very unique and exciting way. By articulating our thoughts, opinions, concerns and spiritual beliefs to the Campaign, the President has issued an historical statement to the American Orthodox Christian Community, which identifies and responds to our concerns for our Nation and our brothers and sisters abroad. We are sincerely grateful for his understanding and look forward to even more aggressively supporting his re-election and...