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On Saturday, a police officer in Filer, Idaho responded to a call about two dogs running around without leashes on a suburban street. Thirty-eight seconds after exiting his patrol car, Officer Tarek Hassani determined that one of the animals was too aggressive and fatally shot it in the front yard of its owner's house. A video ...shows the 7-year-old black labrador convulsing and whimpering before moving out of the dash cam's line of sight. The dog, named “Hooch,” belonged to Rick Clubb, who says he suffers from Parkinson's disease and that Hooch was his trained service animal. At the time...

It feels strange visiting a country like Morocco and listening to people extol the virtues of a political system my country waged a revolution against. Morocco has a king, and he’s a real one too, not some kind of a figurehead. But I went there, I listened, and after almost ten years of visiting Middle Eastern countries wracked by tyranny, terrorism, botched revolutions, and wars, I was perhaps a bit more willing to hear what they had to say than I might have been a decade ago. A monarchy is a tough sell for Americans. The founders of our country...

As Iran has just begun it's warm-weather crackdown on women's dress in the regime with the Iranian Fashion Police out in full force, it might (or it just might not) bring up the age-old theological question- What do women and mass transit have in common? Quite a lot, according to Iranian Mullah Hojatolislam Hassani. In last Friday's sermon (Friday is the Islamic Holy day), Gateway Pundit reports that the Islamic hardliner divided women into three groups-- The first group... he said are the women who are badly veiled who are like buses who everyone and anyone can ride. The second...

LONDON - Yemen’s former ambassador to Syria, Ahmed Abdullah al-Hassani, alleged Wednesday that Al Qaeda cells within the Yemeni military and security forces planned the 2000 bombing of the US warship Cole. Hassani, who said he has applied for political asylum in Britain, also told a press conference in London that “it is very likely the head of the regime (President Ali Abdullah Saleh) knew in advance of the Cole explosion.” However, Hassani provided no evidence to support his claims and said he had not been in contact with US officials investigating the bombing since leaving Damascus to travel to...