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AARP has championed high taxes, Big Government and bureaucratic boondoggles since the first day it opened for business in the 1950s. The group loves taxes—all kinds of them—and opposes tax cuts. It says, “Stable and reliable public policies and programs require an adequate and consistent source of revenues” and Congress should reconsider “any tax changes yet to take effect.” Amazingly, AARP even favors taxes on death. Of course, “estates” are what is left over after a lifetime of paying taxes. Death taxes are greedy government’s final grab. Yet AARP says, “Congress should retain an estate tax as an important component...

CAIR vs. the FBIBy Joe Kaufman and Beila RabinowitzFrontPageMagazine.com | August 22, 2003 In March of 2003, the Miami office of the FBI held a joint press conference with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) concerning the FBI’s search for suspected terrorist Adnan El Shukrijumah.  According to the FBI, El Shukrijumah was “identified by senior members of the al-Qaeda organization as a very, very, very serious threat to the United States interests, both here and abroad.”Before the event, the FBI issued a press release, claiming CAIR had “approached the FBI and offered their assistance in reaching out to the...