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I've been labeled everything from a tool of the international Zionist conspiracy to Israel's best friend to "the Arabian Knight" to "a righteous gentile." I am asked to speak to more Jewish audiences, including many chapters of the B'nai Brith, both in the U.S. and Canada, than Christian audiences, even though I am an Arab-American Christian.

I have a question for Barack Obama, the Nobel Appease Prize winner, and the man who told us during last year's presidential campaign that troops needed to be redeployed from Iraq to the "real" front in the war on terrorism – Afghanistan. In case your memory fails you, here's what he said in July 2008: "In fact – as should have been apparent to President Bush and Sen. (John) McCain – the central front in the war on terror is not Iraq, and it never was. That's why the second goal of my new strategy will be taking the fight...

Brzezinski is Stark, Raving Bonkers By Joseph Farah What is Zbigniew Brzezinski famous for besides having a name difficult to spell and pronounce? His claim to fame is introducing the nation to an obscure governor from Georgia by the name of Jimmy Carter. Brzezinski was a foreign-policy disciple of Henry Kissinger and assured Americans that Carter was well-versed in geo-politics and would be a safe bet in his challenge to President Gerald Ford. Brzezinski's payoff after Carter was swept into power was being named national security adviser. He presided over one foreign-policy fiasco after another – the Soviet invasion of...

Editor's note: The following column is not appropriate reading material for children. It is not for squeamish adults. It contains graphic details of a heinous crime. In the news business, you've got to have a strong stomach. It's like being a cop. You get to see the darkest side of a dark world. And what you see, hear and read is often unforgettable – and not in a good way. The case of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising continues to haunt me since I first wrote about it 10 years ago – before anyone else in the national press. The details of...

Farah Pandith sworn in as US special representative to Muslim communitiesPTI 16 September 2009, 01:58pm IST WASHINGTON: Farah Pandith, an Indian-American, has been formally sworn in as the first US Special Representative to Muslim communities as part of the Obama administration's efforts to reach out to the Islamic world. At a ceremony held at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department, Farah's mother held the Quran on which she took the oath administered by secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Tuesday. 41-year-old Pandith, whose family migrated from Jammu and Kashmir in the late 1960s, is the first Special Representative...

The Chinese – and soon Middle East interests – are preparing to buy up oil resources in North America even as "green" interests threaten to short-circuit U.S. access to the same energy, according to a report from Joseph Farah......" While the U.S. State Department has issued a permit for a multibillion-dollar pipeline to carry crude oil from Canada's tar sands to U.S. refineries, environmental groups are threatening to impede its construction. Some are trying to delay the project for years by putting it in the middle of the court system. Meanwhile, the Chinese are in the process of spending billions...

Many prominent young bloggers say its time conservatives altered their fortunes and cast off those intellectual dead weights who stir up irrational fear. Time to throw off those whose intellectual bankruptcy has left the conservative movement with no credibility in the eyes of the American people. No, they’re not calling for the removal of those writers and political leaders who told us that if we didn’t give the Treasury $700 billion to distribute to corporate America, the world as we know it would end, thus undermining free-market economics. Rather, the talk from young political guns Patrick Ruffini and Jon Henke...

Winston Churchill described Russia as "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." The birth of Barack Obama could be similarly characterized. The more we learn, the less we know. Those who want to accept, at face value, the president's assertion that he was born in Honolulu Aug. 4, 1961, to Barack Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham say asking questions about the president's constitutional eligibility is crazy because "you don't have any evidence to challenge it." Try going to the Department of Motor Vehicles to get a driver's license without any documents and tell the clerk he or...

... Coulter committed what many see as the unpardonable sin of attacking "birthers" – those "nuts" and "fruitloops" like me who actually want to see Barack Obama release his birth certificate and other documents he is so clearly hiding from the American public – documents crucial to knowing who our president really is and whether he is constitutionally eligible to hold office. ... to suggest that anyone has investigated this story more thoroughly than WND demonstrates real ignorance. Our senior staff reporter, Jerome Corsi, wrote the No. 1 New York Times best-seller last fall based largely on his WND...

Dear Mr. 'President': ...Simply instruct your staff to order the release of the following: * The original, long-form birth certificate, not the short-form certification of live birth, which is obviously subject to claims of fraud; * All your school records dating back to kindergarten; * Your Occidental College records and transcripts; * Your Columbia University records and transcripts including your thesis papers; * Your Harvard Law School records; * Your Harvard Law Review writings; * Your scholarly records from the University of Chicago; * Your passport history; * Your medical records; * The files from your years as an Illinois...

JosephFarah Unconfirmed reports at this moment say our Vegas billboard has been defaced or destroyed ... more to come about 2 hours ago

Did you hear about the terrorist attack in Europe that killed 15,000? I bet you didn't. It never made a single banner headline here in the U.S. It didn't lead the television news one day. In fact, it was treated matter-of-factly because the terrorist attack that victimized Europe was perpetrated by governments we've been conditioned to believe are "compassionate." I'm talking about what has been described as last month's disastrous heat wave that killed five times as many people as were killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of 2001. It wasn't really the heat that killed those people –...

“The end really began for us some weeks ago when we had Joseph Farah on our show talking about the World Net Daily 'Where's The Birth Certificate?' campaign. (FREE streaming link below) Behind closed office doors the station owner confided that she was afraid of the Obama administration sending the FCC to close her down if we continued to question his eligibility.” said Spike Harville, half of the talk show team. Just after Joseph Farah came on the show and interviewed with Mike and Spike, G. Michael Lee, Mike, was chastised by the owner, Mrs. Ruby Collins, for having someone...

Wasn't he twittering last week saying he had stunning news to report?

I bet that got your attention. For 24 hours, I have been deluged with e-mail – about 6,000 more than usual – that essentially fall into three categories: - Thank you for getting the goods on Barack Obama – I knew he was born in Kenya. - You really stepped in it this time, Farah. That document is bogus and it's going to take the whole "birther" movement down once it is revealed as such. - Don't you investigate the facts before you publish something? That document cannot be real because of X, Y and Z. Because so many Americans...

'Obama has provided nothing on which we can judge his eligibility'.

WASHINGTON – In another bid to persuade Barack Obama to release his long-form birth certificate publicly, WND Editor and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Farah today said he would donate $10,000 to the birth hospital listed on the document. Obama has resisted pleas from a growing chorus of Americans who can't understand why he would spend more than $800,000 fighting lawsuits calling for the release of the document rather than let the American people see it. "We've tried the stick," said Farah. "Today, as Barack Obama celebrates what he claims to be his birthday, I want to try the carrot approach....

WASHINGTON – Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly invited WND Editor Joseph Farah on his show tonight to discuss eligibility questions surrounding Barack Obama, then backed out when the guest insisted on sticking to facts and conducting a civil discourse with no shouting. O'Reilly producer Ron Mitchell contacted Farah Sunday night asking if he could be on the program tonight. Farah replied that he was available and that details could be worked out with his publicist, Maria Sliwa. In turn, Sliwa presented Mitchell with a short list of criteria for Farah's appearance: Though a sober and civil discourse is always...

Fox host won't agree to sticking to facts, civil discourse

Trust me for now: More coming next week on Birth-gate. You will be stunned. No more will anyone say there's "no evidence." 4:25 PM Jul 31st from web

I have a challenge to my old buddy Bill O'Reilly – put up or shut up! You told your viewers this week that challenges to Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility are "bogus." You claimed you and your news organization examined Obama's birth certificate last year and found it to be in order. Can I ask a question, Bill? Why don't you simply reveal to your viewers exactly what you saw and what you found? Fox News Channel's slogan is, "We report, you decide." Why don't you try actually reporting the story, rather than deciding for us? Here's the story, Bill, whether...

Have you noticed the way the rest of the media discusses the Barack Obama eligibility story? Everyone from Ann Coulter and Michael Medved and Neal Boortz on the right to Geraldo Rivera and Chris Matthews and CNN's heretofore unknown president want you to know there's nothing to talk about here. But yet they keep on talking about it. And they never really explain why they are talking about it and why it's not worth talking about – other than the fact that it's all been researched before and Barack Obama really is a "natural born citizen." Now, as one of...

WASHINGTON – A pair of Louisiana FM radio talkers say they got canned following an interview with WND Editor and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Farah on the subject of Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility for office.

The following was released today by Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily.com: How did a supposedly "bogus" story questioning Barack Obama's eligibility for the presidency get to the top of the news budgets of every major media outlet in the country? It didn't happen by accident Three months ago, Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com, the largest independent news source on the Internet, hatched a plan to do just that. Frustrated by the lack of coverage of what he considered to be an issue of extraordinary importance, Farah launched a national billboard campaign asking the question: "Where's the birth...

Dr. Michael Savage interviewed Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily on the July 24th broadcast of "The Savage Nation". It appears that search engines, including Google, Yahoo and Bing are collaborating with the Obama administration to censor posts about the Obama Birth Certificate/Citizenship issue. Farah tells Michael Savage that within a period of 24 hours, all of WorldNetDaily's stories about the Birth Certificate/Citizenship issue had been buried deep in the search results of all three search engines.

What a difference a day makes. It seemed like only yesterday WND was all alone hammering away on Barack Obama's eligibility issue. Today, it ranks right up there with the imminent nationalization of the health care industry and the biggest tax increase in the history of the world as one of the top stories. There isn't a news agency left in America not covering the story – or, more precisely, covering it up. The Associated Press begins its stories by explaining that the controversy has already been debunked. How? By whom? The largest newsgathering agency in the world doesn't specify....

WND Editor Joseph Farah has produced the first major DVD documentary on the critical issues surrounding the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama to serve as president – but it wasn't easy. In fact, during the course of shooting and editing "A Case of Eligibility," the award-winning filmmaking team, including veterans of many controversial movie projects, made the unusual request to keep its identity secret for fear of retribution from the administration. "That's how hot this topic is," said Farah. "That's how hot this movie is." "A Case of Eligibility" is expected to ship to customers on Aug. 4, the date...

Every day I get countless e-mails from people who are just beginning to become aware of the questions surrounding Barack Obama's eligibility for office. Because I can't answer thousands of individual questions, this column is designed to provide a basic backgrounder on the most frequent questions – questions that could all be answered in far greater detail if readers had the patience to wade through the voluminous collection of stories on the issue we offer the public free in our archives. You can find the hundreds of news stories WND has written on this subject here. You can also find...

Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WorldNetDaily and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. He is the author of Taking America Back: A Radical Plan to Revive Freedom, Morality and Justice. He is also the editor of the online intelligence newsletter Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. He has been at the forefront of the campaign to compel President Obama to release more detailed evidence of the circumstances surrounding his birth and citizenship status. Various other well-known figures, including Alan Keyes and Jerome Corsi have questioned the sufficiency of the evidence released so far. Last week, Mr. Farah was...

Talkin' about the Ark of the Covenant, the Ebay Birth Certificate, etc. Just thought y'all Freepers might be interested.

The economy is tanking. The Iranian people are revolting over a rigged re-election by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Barack Obama neither condemns the corruption nor encourages the protests. North Korea is threatening some real fireworks on Independence Day by firing a missile at Hawaii. So how's that hope and change working out for you? It's not that Obama isn't doing anything. He's doing plenty. But while national security and America's principled stature in the world are suffering, Obama is working overtime at dismantling all vestiges of a free-market economy. There's a silver lining under this dark cloud. Obama's policies – both...

Is this a crack in the media wall ??? UNDATED—The editor of the popular Web site, World Net Daily, Joseph Farah, is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can prove they were resent at the birth of President Barack Obama. KTBB news anchor Garth Maier, asks East Texans if they think there is a lack of proof that the President was born in Hawaii.

WASHINGTON – WND Editor and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Farah is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can prove he or she was present at the birth of Barack Obama – and he's asking Americans to donate to the cause in hopes of raising the bounty to an irresistible amount. "Barack Obama claims to have been born in Honolulu Aug. 4, 1961," explains Farah. "His entire constitutional claim to the presidency rests on this premise. Yet, he refuses to release a copy of his long-form birth certificate – the only document that could possibly corroborate his claim. Therefore, in...

WASHINGTON – WND Editor and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Farah is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can prove he or she was present at the birth of Barack Obama – and he's asking Americans to donate to the cause in hopes of raising the bounty to an irresistible amount. "Barack Obama claims to have been born in Honolulu April 4, 1961," explains Farah. "His entire constitutional claim to the presidency rests on this premise. Yet, he refuses to release a copy of his long-form birth certificate – the only document that could possibly corroborate his claim. Therefore, in...

BANGKOK, Thailand - A Russian dubbed the "Merchant of Death" for allegedly supplying weapons to Africa's bloody conflicts over power and diamonds was arrested Thursday in Thailand on suspicion of conspiring to smuggle guns to Colombia's leftist rebels. Viktor Bout, 41, whose dealings reportedly inspired a 2005 movie about the illicit arms trade, was arrested at U.S. request in his hotel room in Bangkok, said police Lt. Gen. Pongpat Chayapan. Bout had eluded arrest for years and was finally seized after a four-month sting organized by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. In New York, federal authorities unsealed a criminal complaint...

Whenever I question the timidity of today's church in America, I receive lectures accusing me of violating a biblical principle that supposedly provides a blanket condemnation of Christian resistance to tyranny. The contention that Christians should simply lay down and comply with even the most hideous requirements of government is an old argument. It was thoroughly debated by America's Christian founders when they took up arms to defend their declaration of independence in 1776 – and even before at Lexington and Concord when British troops tried to take away their arms.

I disagree with those calling for Nancy Pelosi to resign as speaker of the House. I want her to stay right where she is – the poster girl for Democratic Party dishonesty, duplicity, hypocrisy, vacillation, finger-pointing and the inability to distinguish right from wrong. Really. Why would anyone who wants to see the Congress turned upside-down in 2010 want Nancy Pelosi to step down? It doesn't make sense. I want her to stay where she is until the next election. I want Harry Reid to stay where he is in the Senate. I want Barney Frank to get as much...

I don't believe for a minute that the United Kingdom decided to ban entry to U.S. talk-radio star Michael Savage on its own initiative. First of all, Savage was not asking to enter the U.K. Second of all, while Savage is a big fish in the U.S., his program is not widely known across the pond. What would possess Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to single out Savage on a short list of 16 people worldwide who would not be welcome? I think I know the answer. But first, you have to understand the backdrop to this story. Barack Obama and...

As the so-called "swine flu" continues to be blamed for deaths and sickness around the world, Barack Obama's nominee to be "regulatory czar," Cass Sunstein, announced it is time for the government to offer taxpayer-supported legal representation to pigs who are potentially being defamed and unfairly profiled.

I have bad news for you. I have it on good authority that the congressional Republican leadership, if that is not an oxymoron, plans to give Barack Obama a pass on all of his major appointments. They'll give them a bye. They'll close their eyes, cover their ears and speak no evil against some of the most dangerous nominees for high posts in an administration in American history. I'm talking about kooks and crazies like Cass Sunstein, the so-called "regulatory czar," who once proposed what can only be characterized as a "Fairness Doctrine" for the Internet including a notion for...

Obama's war on free speech Exclusive: Joseph Farah predicts actions that would tighten state control on media Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are intent on nationalizing media in the U.S. much the same way they nationalized the U.S. auto industry and the nation's banking and financial institutions. This isn't the so-called "Fairness Doctrine." It's much worse. Here's what you can expect in the coming weeks and months: a new appointment to the position of chairman of the Federal Communications Commission who will implement a plan to create "community advisory boards" of community activists to monitor the content of talk-radio programs,...

It's not al-Qaida that has the Department of Homeland Security on edge. It's not Hezbollah that has the Barack Obama administration on guard. It's not Hamas that has the Feds working overtime on intelligence and security. Once again, it's the vast right-wing conspiracy. Here we go, again. A newly unclassified report from Homeland Security, sent to police stations and other law enforcement agencies around the country, says the big threat of domestic violence in the U.S. comes from "right-wing extremists." Yes, we've been here before. President Clinton's White House and FBI were out looking for right-wing extremists plotting evil deeds...

WASHINGTON – While Barack Obama is basking in praise for his "decisive" handling of the Somali pirate attack on a merchant ship in the India Ocean, reliable military sources close to the scene are painting a much different picture of the incident – accusing the president of employing restrictive rules of engagement that actually hampered the rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips and extended the drama at sea for days. Multiple opportunities to free the captain of the Maersk Alabama from three young pirates were missed, these sources say – all because a Navy SEAL team was not immediately ordered to...

CNN's Anderson Cooper should have his dirty, little gutter mouth washed out with soap. Then he should be fired. Cooper, a cover boy on the homosexual magazine "The Advocate" and listed as among the most powerful "gays" in the country by OUT magazine, made what can only be characterized as an obscene and disgusting comment during CNN's biased coverage of Wednesday's "tea party" protests around the country. "It's hard to talk when you're tea-bagging," he said. That was a revolting attempt at "inside humor" by Anderson Cooper. "Tea-bagging" is known in the homosexual subculture as a practice involving a particular...

Sometimes I get confused watching these mega-church preachers. Are they reading the same Bible I'm reading? Do they really have an intimate relationship with the same Jesus I know? Is the Holy Spirit actually working within them – providing the kind of discernment He promises believers? These questions came to mind while watching Joel Osteen and his lovely wife, Victoria, on CNN's "Larry King Live" last week. Is this the new face of American Christianity? Is this why Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected? Is this the Good News? Or is this some other religion altogether? Admittedly, Osteen...

Barack Obama devoted his Saturday weekly address to Passover and Easter greetings to Jews and Christians. That was nice. But listen to what he said. "These are two very different holidays with their own very different traditions," he explained. "But it seems fitting that we mark them both during the same week. For, in a larger sense, they are both moments of reflection and renewal. They are both occasions to think more deeply about the obligations we have to ourselves and the obligations we have to one another, no matter who we are, where we come from, or what faith...

"Fatetur facinus qui judicium fugit." If your Latin is a little rusty, that means, "A person who flees judgment confesses guilt." It is a principle of the law that can be traced back at least to Black's Law Dictionary, published in 1718 and immensely influential to America's founders. It is almost a self-evident principle, but because we live in an age in which much of what was previously self-evident has become obscured, it's worth mentioning again – particularly with regard to Barack Obama's determined effort block any effort to ascertain whether or not he is actually constitutionally eligible to serve...

WASHINGTON – When Barack Obama called for "all nations" in the world to "come together to build a stronger, global regime" to respond to threats like those posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, WND's Editor and CEO Joseph Farah had heard enough. Farah was stunned once again that no major news agencies in the world even deemed to question the administration about what he meant. It sounded to Farah like Obama was, once again, raising the specter of some form of global governance unaccountable to the American people – a direct threat to U.S. sovereignty and independence....

America achieved its independence and freedom in the 18th century in large part because colonial pastors stood up for biblical principles, preached them, lived them and refused to back down from them – even in the face of death. The American War of Independence has been accurately called a "pulpit revolution" for this reason. It was inspired by great men of God who recognized evil and called it by its right name. What a difference two centuries, combined with affluence and the corporatization of the 501(c)3 church culture has made.

Farrah Fawcett has been hospitalized and is in bad shape, sources close to family and friends tell RadarOnline.com exclusively. She has been battling cancer for three years and recently returned from Germany, where she had experimental stem-cell treatment. Sources tell RadarOnline.com that she is critical but stable in a Los Angeles-area hospital. Long-time love Ryan O’Neal has been by Farrah’s bedside, as has troubled son Redmond, who bolted from rehab earlier this week. Farrah was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006 and later pronounced cancer free at a press conference. It is not known whether she will survive.