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The President had yet another busy and no doubt worrying day first of all making a statement on the financial rescue legislation early morning on the South Lawn of the White House. He also met with at the White House President Valdas Adamkus of Lithuania and Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko. After his meeting with Yushchenko the President spoke about the failed bailout On a somewhat lighter and more pleasant note the President presented the 2007 National Medal of Technology and Innovation Medals. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2938 - McCain/Palin--Day 32 Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke to students of...

The Republican presidential ticket, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, will appear at a rally Monday morning in Columbus. McCain, however, will not be in town Sunday morning, as previously scheduled, to appear on ABC'sThis Week with George Stephanopoulos before a live audience at the Westin Great Southern Hotel. McCain instead will do the show from Washington. McCain and Palin will appear Monday at a "Road to Victory Rally" at the Capital Center, the athletic complex at Capital University. Doors open at 9 a.m. for the event, expected to begin about 11 a.m. Ticket Locations McCain...

WBNS TV in Columbus, Ohio is reporting a mysterious powder has been found in a "business sized" envelope in Downtown Columbus. It was delivered to a building and it came from an Ohio doctor. Supposively there was some writing that looked like Arabic writing... I have no more details to report because I'm at work. I just got this from my 14 yr. old daughter.

America was founded in order to destroy Islam? Statements like that give the anti-jihad movement a wingnut patina that, of course, ABC is happy to perpetuate in this anti-McCain hit piece, which breezes by the fact that his campaign has strongly disavowed these statements. But when McCain's campaign strongly disavows these statements, is he disavowing them all -- including the manifestly true statement that some Muslims quite obviously intend to conquer and Islamize the world? Is McCain completely unaware of the 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document, An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America," in...

The attack on the mailman was prefaced with a request to bum a cigarette. Carrier Greg Nelson later decided that the question thrown at him by a group of boys as he delivered mail Thursday on the East Side likely was an attempt to size him up. Within minutes, the youths chased, assaulted and robbed Nelson in what the U.S. Postal Service said is only the third such attack on a mail carrier in Columbus in the past 30 years. "They didn't see me as a mailman, they saw me as an opportunity," said Nelson, 45, who has delivered mail...

FBI officials have been asked to investigate an attack last week on attendees of a mosque in Columbus, Ohio, to determine if it was a hate crime. An attorney with Ohio's Council on American-Islamic Relations asked the FBI to look into the incident at the Masjid AsSahaaba mosque to determine what motivated several men to throw rocks at people leaving the mosque, the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch said Wednesday. An initial report from Columbus police identified Friday's incident as a "biased attack on Muslim men leaving the mosque after prayer during the Ramadan season." Yet the mosque's imam, Abdiiaziz Abdi, opposed...

CAIR Goes Back to School   By Patrick PooleFrontPageMagazine.com | 8/23/2007 As children all over the country prepare for the annual American rite of the beginning of school, hundreds of school children and their parents from the Columbus, Ohio Somali refugee community may be getting far less than they bargained for, as well as Ohio taxpayers. These children will be attending two publicly-funded K-8 charter schools, International Academy of Columbus and Westside Academy, schools are sponsored under an Ohio Department of Education contract with the Buckeye Community Hope Foundation and operated by a politically-connected group of Islamic extremists associated...

Heard a rumor of a fighter jet (F-16 possibly?) circling just north, northeast of Columbus, Ohio around 1400 - 1415 local. Anyone else hear anything about this?

Special Dispatch Series - No. 1168 May 19, 2006 No.1168 Columbus, Ohio Muslim Leader Says 9/11 Planned by Americans, Praises the Wanted Al-Qaeda-Linked Yemenite Sheikh Al-Zindani Dr. Salah Sultan is president of the American Center for Islamic Research (ACIR), a non-profit organization registered in Ohio and located in Columbus. On his website, he asserts that the main purpose of the ACIR is to "serve Allah (God) in the best way possible through the principles laid out in the Quran and Sunnah," to address misconceptions and extremism, to build bridges with non-Muslims, and to provide fatwas. [1] Dr. Sultan, who...

Columbus - Citing family troubles and the growing demands of being a big-city mayor, Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman plans to announce he's dropping out of the race for governor. Campaign advisor Greg Haas said Coleman plans to make the official announcement at a 3 p.m. news conference today. "The mayor based his decision on the committment he has to his family and the demands of the job of being mayor," Haas said. (snip) Others considering entering the race are state Sen. Eric Fingerhut of Shaker Heights and former trash-TV talk show host Jerry Springer. (snip) But questions about his ability...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Lawyers representing the wife of Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman, a Democrat running for governor in 2006, got a judge to delay her arraignment on a charge of drunken driving. Frankie Coleman, 55, was scheduled to be arraigned in Franklin County Municipal Court on Thursday morning. Judge Amy Salerno granted the attorneys' request for a two-week delay. Salerno said the attorneys did not give a reason for the request and aren't required to provide an explanation. Coleman's Cadillac hit a parked pickup last Thursday night in Bexley, a Columbus suburb, and she failed a field sobriety test, authorities...

The wife of Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman has been charged with two counts of operating a vehicle while intoxicated after crashing her car into a parked truck Thursday night in the Columbus suburb of Bexley. Police arrested Frankie Coleman after she failed a field sobriety test. At the Bexley police station, Coleman failed a blood-alcohol content test. Her results measured .271, more than than three times the legal limit of .08. Coleman was the only person involved in the crash and was not injured. "She ran into the side of a parked truck," said Sgt. Bob Cull of the Bexley...

A Tennessee prison inmate and his wife were found Wednesday night at a Columbus motel, NBC 4 reported. The pair were captured at the Best Value Inn, located off Sinclair Avenue, NBC 4 reported. Jennifer Hyatte and her husband, George, were taken into custody at about 10 p.m., NBC 4 reported.

Fugitive Couple Apprehended. George Hyatte, Jennifer Hyatte.

Gun-control agitators were overjoyed when the City Council in Columbus, Ohio, unanimously passed an ordinance this month banning ownership of semi-automatic firearms. Councilmen said the ordinance will reduce gun violence, but the ban is much more likely to enable violent crime. Semi-automatic firearms are hardly the public-safety threat they're made out to be. They are used in a tiny fraction of crimes and always by criminals who don't obey gun laws. As always, taking weapons out of the hands of law-abiding citizens will make them more vulnerable to gun-toting criminals. Moreover, the assault-weapons ban passed by Congress in 1994 never...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The National Rifle Association said Monday it is pulling its 2007 national convention out of Columbus because of the city's ban on assault weapons. The City Council passed a ban July 12 outlawing the sale or possession of semiautomatic rifles with pistol grips and detachable magazines.

11250 Waples Mill Road    ·Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683www.NRAILA.org CITY COUNCIL DRIVES FREEDOM AND NRA OUT OF COLUMBUS Monday, July 18, 2005 Council’s Decision to Ban Guns Prompts Exodus              Columbus, OH -- As a direct result of the Columbus City Council decision to ban semi-automatic firearm ownership for law-abiding citizens, the National Rifle Association (NRA) announced it will move its 2007 Annual Meeting and Convention from Columbus, OH.  Speaking at a press conference at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre stated that the NRA would return to Columbus when the Legislature enacts a preemption law...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The National Rifle Association announced Monday that it would not hold its 2007 national convention in Columbus as planned. The announcement came one week after City Council passed an assault weapons ban, NBC 4's Kyle Anderson reported. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said Columbus residents were misled, if not lied to, by supporters of the ban, which was passed unanimously by City Council last week, Anderson reported. He said holding the convention in Columbus would severely restrict the exhibit. NRA officials said the group would return once the state legislature enacts a pre-emption that would overturn...

Ban Could Cost City Convention The recently-enacted assault weapons ban in the city of Columbus might wind up costing the capital city the 2007 National Rifle Association convention. City leaders were holding their breath Friday night, wondering if one of the biggest conventions planned to hit Columbus will cancel. The NRA announced in May that it chose Columbus over two other cities for its 2007 convention. But now the organization is planning another announcement scheduled for Monday that could change its plans. On Friday, the NRA would neither confirm nor deny that it plans to leave Columbus. There is speculation...

Columbus plan likely would face court test The Columbus City Council will try to pass an assault-weapons ban by the end of July that officials think can withstand legal challenges that shot down two earlier proposals. And though the National Rifle Association said such a ban could force the organization to consider moving its national convention out of Columbus in 2007, the proposal’s sponsor said the ban would be in the city’s best interest. "They’re not going to dictate the policies of this city," said Columbus City Councilman Michael C. Mentel, who sponsored the legislation. He expects the council’s full...

Report: Coleman To Run For Governor Mayor To Seek Democratic Nomination, Paper Reports POSTED: 6:04 pm EST January 31, 2005 UPDATED: 6:09 pm EST January 31, 2005 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman will run for governor of Ohio in 2006, according to The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mayor Michael Coleman A report on the newspaper's Web site said that Coleman will seek the Democratic Party's nomination for governor and will announce his intentions at a Tuesday press conference. The mayor's spokesman would not comment on the report, NBC 4 reported. U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland announced earlier this month that...

Our Mission at the Columbus Africentric School is to develop an African-centered holistic education system for students, parents, staff, and community addressing the needs of the total self with the use of Ma'at and the Nguzo Saba as our guide Ma'at, the dynamic principles of Right, Truth, and Justice was the source of harmony with self, universe, and the Creator. Eqyptian men and women knew that they must practice the Declarations in everyday life if at death they hoped to be divinely judged and successfully enter the Afterlife. The seven principles of Ma'at include: Truth: Congruous in thought, words, and...

It is being reported in the morning edition of the Columbus Dispatch that President Bush will be coming to Columbus today, Nov. 2, to help GOTV. The article is not yet posted on the Dispatch's online site. It appears to me that Pres. Bush is taking no chances with Ohio and doing everything he can to end Kerry's chances here.

Here's an update on Project Longface. Notice that the swift boat proudly flys the French flag at the pointy end. Next to that is a flag of surrender. Here's a story and pictures of it on our local NBC news website.

Nationwide ArenaColumbus, Ohio THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. (Applause.) Thanks for coming. (Applause.) Thank you all for being here. (Applause.) Thank you all for coming. Laura and I are honored so many of you came out to say hello. You've lifted our spirits. (Applause.) I also want to thank Governor Schwarzenegger for coming. (Applause.) It's such an honor to have him here in Columbus and campaigning on my behalf. You know, he and I share some things in common. We both married well. (Laughter.) We both have trouble speaking the English language. (Laughter.) We both got big biceps. (Laughter and...

The adoring crowd jammed to the rafters at Nationwide Arena was sending waves of adulation down on a beaming President Bush even before Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed he was there to "pump you up" for Election Day.

In the last days of the 2004 campaign, President Bush hit the campaign trail once again today, makiing stops in New Hampshire and Ohio. President Bush and First Lady Laura were joined in Columbus, Ohio this evening by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was there to pump up the crowd for Tuesday's election. Enjoy your daily dose of Dubya!

Bush Rejects Bin Laden Tape, Hits Kerry Fri Oct 29, 2004 08:28 PM ET By Steve Holland COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - President Bush vowed on Friday the United States will not be intimidated by a pre-election warning from Osama Bin Laden and called Democrat John Kerry "shameful" for accusing him of bungling the search for the al Qaeda leader. The bin Laden tape eerily offered a flashback to the Sept. 11 events that changed Bush's presidency on a day he was recalling the emotions of the moment. It also served to remind Americans that the man Bush once wanted "dead...

Arnold is on CSPAN right now at the Columbus, OH Rally. Crowd is pumped!

I was one of the fortunate ones to attend the President's campaign event in Columbus today. Pres. Bush was outstanding; he was on stage for 90 minutes. The first part of his presentation included many of the campaign things he has previously said. The President obviously received the best response when he spoke of things related to national security, including 911, the military, first responders, and the action/approach he has taken to protect America. Comments about keeping families strong and the tax cuts were also received well, as was the rest of his speech. The second part was when he...

<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The battle for middle-class voters in November's presidential election reached full pitch yesterday as Sen. John Kerry campaigned here, promising universal health coverage and an expansion of after-school day care.</p> <p>"The wealthiest people in America are getting a huge, walk-away-with-the-store tax break," said Mr. Kerry, who is worth millions. "But a whole bunch of kids who need to have after-school adult input aren't getting it."</p>

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal magistrate on Wednesday ordered a man charged with plotting to blow up a shopping mall to be transferred to a federal psychiatric facility to determine if he is mentally competent. The evidence Magistrate Mark Abel used to determine why Nuradin Abdi should be sent to the facility was not disclosed publicly. Authorities have accused Abdi, 32, of plotting to blow up a mall with admitted al-Qaida member Iyman Faris, who is now imprisoned for never-acted-on plans to sabotage the Brooklyn Bridge. The indictment against Abdi, a Somali national, was unsealed Monday. The FBI said no...

The investigation into an alleged plot to blow up a shopping mall in central Ohio is widening. A federal prosecutor says a third man is under surveillance in connection with the plot, but officials have apparently stopped short of arresting him. Authorities have named two other Columbus men they say were involved -- Somali native Nuradin Abdi and admitted al-Qaida operative Iyman Faris Abdi was recently indicted and will be in court Wednesday afternoon. Faris was already serving a prison term on charges of scouting targets for al-Qaida. U.S. Attorney Gregory Lockhart says a terrorism task force watching the third...

Kerry Raises $1M On Day One Of Ohio Visit Candidate To Spend 2nd Day In Columbus POSTED: 12:05 AM EDT June 16, 2004 UPDATED: 12:18 AM EDT June 16, 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- John Kerry brought his campaign to a blue collar neighborhood park Tuesday, telling about two thousand supporters gathered in a steady rain that his policies will put the economy on the road to recovery. Kerry told the crowd of more than 1,000 people at Westgate Park that President George W. Bush's economic policies have failed, costing Ohioans jobs. "They deserve a president of the United States who...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- High-ranking officials said the arrest of a Columbus terror suspect won't be the last in Ohio's capital city, NewsChannel 4's Elenora Andrews reported. The FBI and Ohio's terrorism task force say they are still tracking terror in the city. A key federal official told NewsChannel 4, "There is more to come" in Columbus, Andrews reported. Ohio's top law enforcement officials said the arrest of Nuradin Abdi, 32, who was accused of planning to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall, should serve as a wake-up call. "Understand that we are at war with terrorism, we are at war...

Attorney General John Ashcroft announces four-count terrorism indictment against a Somali held in Ohio. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Somali citizen held in immigration custody in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been indicted in an alleged al Qaeda plot to bomb an Ohio shopping mall, Justice Department officials said Monday. Nuradin Abdi, 32, of Somalia was indicted on four charges of providing material support to al Qaeda, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced. Another law enforcement official said Abdi had a relationship with Iyman Faris, an Ohio truck driver convicted last year of providing material support for al Qaeda. "It is alleged that...

Ashcroft to announce shortly about Somali's plan targeting mall in Ohio.