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Profoundly Unserious By Jennifer King Jennifer King The Muslim world is in an uproar over the latest perceived "offense against Islam". The "Cartoon Jihad" was jump started when Ahmed Akkari, a Danish Islamic scholar and activist, took booklets filled with unflattering cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed to the Grand Mufti in Egypt and various other Islamic leaders. Several of the most egregious cartoons had not been printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, but instead had been received by Akkari via mail. Akkari insists that his motive for publicizing the cartoons - which had been published in September to little notice...

Nobles: Dr. Ward Casscells — or Col. Casscells, depending — for doing something a bit different for the "mid-life crisis." Congressman Henry Bonilla , Dr. S. Ward Casscells, Ms. JuliAnna Potter Actually, it's unfair to describe Dr. Casscells' decision, at 53, to join the Army Reserves as a mid-life crisis, considering all the negative connotations with the term. Still, when the world-renowned cardiologist and university vice president was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2001, something happened. "After I went through that, I wanted to do things I hadn't done before," he told the American Forces Press Service. For proving the...

(Picture courtesy of MacBigot.com) While many conservatives are coming down hard on those who used the funeral of Corretta Scott King as a platform to embarrass the president, I have decided to cut them some slack. Why? I believe they simply can’t help themselves. Read More... Craig DeLuz Visit The Home of Uncommon Sense... www.craigdeluz.com

Freep this poll and make the left cry. DU is freeping this poll "Should people have made political statements at Coretta Scott King's funeral?". They believe that campaigning is part of a funeral. These polls are useless but it makes DU go into panic mode when they lose. http://www.kswo.com/

Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan today refused to "analyze" the political potshots his boss endured during the funeral of Coretta Scott King this week, saying only President Bush was "honored" to attend the marathon service. In posing questions to McClellan at the press briefing, WND pointed out some of media's observations about the jibes Bush took during the service from certain speakers. "The New York Post notes the following – and this is a quote – 'Jimmy Carter's disgraceful performance at Coretta Scott King's funeral marks him as the most shameless,'" WND noted. "While The New York Times Page 1...

Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006 1:15 p.m. EST CORE Blasts King Funeral 'Outrage' The head of one of the nation's oldest civil rights organizations is blasting former President Jimmy Carter and Rev. Joseph Lowery for politicizing the funeral of Coretta Scott King. In a press release Thursday, Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, called comments by Carter and Lowery attacking President Bush "crass" and "disrespectful." "It was an outrage for such behavior to be exhibited in the presence of the President of the United States, and it was particularly outrageous for it to occur at a funeral for...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 — When the Bushes and Clintons held hands before 15,000 mourners at Coretta Scott King's funeral on Tuesday, it looked like a prayerful moment in the life of the nation. But as almost anyone watching America's two leading political families knew, underneath the tranquil image was a drama of ambition, rivalry, love and alliance that could shape the 2008 presidential election. The scene, a riveting tableau in the six-hour celebration of Mrs. King's life and the political power of black America, offered complex layers of interconnecting relationships: father and son, husband and wife, president and former president,...

Telegram to President Eisenhower, 1957.Little Rock Ark Sep 30 The President The White House We the parents of nine Negro children enrolled at Little Rock Central High School want you to know that your action in safe guarding their rights have strengthened our faith in democracy. Now as never before we have an abiding felling of belonging and purposefulness. We believe that freedom and equality with which all men are endowed at birth can be maintained only through freedom and equality of opportunity for self development growth and purposeful citizenship. We believe that the degree to which people everywhere realize...

What is it that makes Democrats incapable of controlling their hostility, even during funerals? Especially during funerals. Rush Limbaugh just played a clip of today’s “Wellstone Funeral moment” from Rev. Joseph Lowry in which he raised the issue of weapons of mass destruction in the Coretta Scott King funeral, then talked about how not enough money is going to the poor. I know I have seen figures that indicate that Bush has spent more on some programs for the poor than Clinton did, but it wouldn’t matter if he had spent ten times more. Facts don’t matter. This is pure...