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A bipartisan group of House members is blasting the Obama administration for its plan to send $400,000 to foundations connected to the children of Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi. The group of more than two dozen lawmakers, led by Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), said that the State Department proposal to provide funds to nonprofit groups led by Gadhafi's son and daughter sends the wrong message to families of victims of the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing. Gadhafi last month celebrated the return to Libya of the only person convicted in the bombing, Abdelbaset al Megrahi, who was released by the Scottish government...

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has cancelled a planned visit to Canada next week. Officials confirmed Saturday that Gadhafi had scrapped plans to land in Newfoundland this Tuesday to refuel his plane. One report said hotel reservations for the leader had been cancelled and his advance team had left. The planned visit had caused a stir in Canada, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper ordering Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon to greet the despot upon his arrival to express this country's outrage over the reception Libya recently gave to the newly released Lockerbie bomber. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, an alleged former Libyan intelligence officer,...

Among the points made by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in his speech were: * Swine flu was created as a moneymaking exercise by drug companies who are now working on a man-made "fish flu" * JFK was assassinated by Israel because he wanted to investigate their nuclear reactors * A UN inquiry should investigate the assassination of Abraham Lincoln * The UN should be moved to Delhi or Beijing – to make the trip less arduous for most countries * Modern day piracy in Africa is the fault of western imperialism * Immigration to Europe should be unrestricted until it has...

Libya's Moammar Gadhafi said Thursday, in a rare appearance before a U.S. audience, that he evolved from a firebrand revolutionary into a seasoned ruler over four decades in power, contributing to his decision six years ago to dismantle his country's weapons of mass destruction... Clad in a black suit and a transparent black robe, he fielded questions for an hour Thursday at the Council on Foreign Relations, a prestigious think tank. Under Gadhafi, Libya had long been a pariah state, sponsoring terrorist groups and trying to undermine pro-Western governments in Africa. The nation gradually emerged from its isolation in recent...

There are no (non-profane) words for this, via CBS2 Chicago (h/t Andy McCarthy): The Obama Administration plans to give $400,000 in funding to a Libyan charity run by the Gadhafi family, and U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) wants the grant withdrawn. The money would be divided between two foundations run by the family of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. A $200,000 share is set to go to the Gadhafi Development Foundation, which is run by Gadhafi’s son, Saif, and another $200,000 are to go to Wa Attassimou, an organization run by Muammar Gadhafi’s daughter, Aisha. Kirk says the grants should be...

AM looking at the man who murdered my husband -- and he's in the city we loved and lived in together. I never thought I would live to see this day. Here I was in Midtown Manhattan, less than a mile from the United Nations, watching Moammar Khadafy address this world body one month almost to the day after his agent, a convicted mass murderer, was released from a Scottish prison and flown home to a hero's welcome. It's a scandal. Tony Hawkins, my late husband who died on Pan Am Flight 103, was born in London but lived the...

"@markknoller WH/Gibbs confirmed Qadhafi was not invited to the Obamas reception for world leaders this evening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 9/23 4:19 P.M."

Is anyone else catching this? Qadaffi is raving like a mad man while addressing the UN. I cannot even transcribe what he is saying, it is utterly incoherent. I hope someone posts the transcription.

US winemakers seek to reduce alcohol content By Tom Leonard, in New York Last Updated: 2:47am GMT 11/01/2008 Winemakers in California are attempting to reduce the alcohol level in their notoriously powerful reds and whites. Californian "monster" wines regularly contain 15% vol alcohol and some are as high as 17%, alarming some of their own producers despite the praise of critics. The winemakers have responded by picking grapes earlier and employing other tactics designed to produce the more "balanced", lower alcohol wines that are popular in Europe. They say the move has in part been prompted by demand from American...

Television bounty hunter Dog Chapman set free on bail in Hawaii By Associated Press Saturday, September 16, 2006 - Updated: 12:08 PM EST HONOLULU - TV reality star Duane “Dog” Chapman and two co-stars accused of illegal detention and conspiracy in the bounty hunters’ capture of a cosmetics company heir in Mexico posted bail and were released Friday. Chapman was released on $300,000 bail after spending the night in a federal detention center and his co-stars on the popular A&E show “Dog The Bounty Hunter” were freed on $100,000 bail each. Chapman, his son, Leland Chapman, and associate Timothy Chapman,...

Kerry Lashes Out At Bush (AP) NEW YORK A defiant Sen. John Kerry on Friday lashed out sharply against President Bush and his team of advisers, calling them "the Katrina Administration" and "the most incompetent people I've ever seen." The Massachusetts Democrat and 2004 presidential nominee also suggested Republicans hope to scuttle comprehensive immigration legislation pending in the U.S. Senate in order to prevent immigrants from becoming voters. Kerry made the remarks via teleconference at a breakfast gathering of the National Action Network, an advocacy group founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who competed against Kerry in the 2004 Democratic...

A poll carried out in the Palestinian Authority shows 65% support for Al Qaeda terror attacks on the United States and European countries - the biggest donors to the PA. The poll comes at a time when US and European funding of the Palestinian Authority is at an all-time high. With elections due to be held next month and the Hamas terror group gaining significantly in municipal elections and polls, the survey further illustrates the desire of a majority of PA Arabs to establish an Islamic state, similar to Iran. A whopping 79.9% of Palestinians would like the PA to...

Walter V. Robinson is the Boston Globe reporter who originally reported the Bush AWOL story based largely on misrepresenting the casual remarks of Brig. Gen. Turnipseed. He has a history of such things, apparently. Here is a court decision upholding a libel suit against him, brought by a Republican Candidate he slandered in one of his stories: John R. Lakian v. Globe Newspaper Company & another n1 n1 Walter V. Robinson. No. N-4200 Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 399 Mass. 379; 504 N.E.2d 1046; 1987 Mass. LEXIS 1172; 13 Media L. Rep. 2368   November 6, 1986, Argued   March...

<p>I would like to say a kind word about George W. Bush: He's usually not as dumb as he pretends to be.</p> <p>Acting dumb is Bush's style. He likes to sandbag people. He plays dumb, people underestimate him and, all of a sudden -- wap! He nails them.</p>

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya made clear on Saturday it wanted to come in from the cold after decades as a pariah state, and the United States and Britain promised to reward its decision to abandon banned weapons programs. Almost 15 years to the day since its agents brought down a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Muammar Gaddafi's state opened the prospect of an end to sanctions and a return of U.S. oil firms with a pledge on Friday to stop seeking weapons of mass destruction. Britain said it had been close to an atomic bomb. Some U.S. officials cautioned that...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Rabies cases leapt nearly 63 percent in China in the first nine months of the year as the people's mad affair with pet dogs deepened, the China Daily reported on Tuesday. Rabies, "mad dog disease" in Chinese, killed 1,297 people up to the end of September, far exceeding the 1,003 deaths the Health Ministry reported for all of 2002, the newspaper said. This is the fifth straight year that China has seen a big jump in rabies infections. "Experts from the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention are blaming the trend in pet ownership, the shaky...

READ THE STORY OF MOJO AND MAD DOG MIDI - ME AND YOU AND A DOG NAMED BOO They'll remember that day well…when it all went to hell The accident nearly took them from the war But they both said there was just no way…and that they'd fight another day 'Cause after all that is…what they had gone there for Mojo and his pal Mad Dog, too Swore a bed ain't where they're gonna be Mojo and his pal Mad Dog, too Said they'd soon be back…you will see They sat down with doc…and told him it's a crock...