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OUTRAGE IN CONGRESS Forty-one members of Congress sent an angry letter to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, expressing their outrage over his expulsion of two top human rights activists who released a report accusing him of undermining democracy and intimidating critics. "We would like to express in the strongest terms our outrage over the decision by your government to expel from Venezuela two Human Rights Watch staff," said the letter, who signatories included Rep. Howard L. Berman, California Democrat and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, New York Democrat and chairman of the committee's Western...

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) pauses during a ceremony in Janusz Korczak Square at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, July 23, 2008. Obama began a visit to Jerusalem on Wednesday pledging staunch support for Israel and saying that if elected, he would work to reinvigorate the Middle East peace process. REUTERS/Jim Young (JERUSALEM) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA

Elderly Jews say they are outraged that Lithuania is pursuing them over their wartime role as anti-Nazi partisans Fania Branstovsky was just 20 when she joined the Jewish partisan movement fighting the Nazis in her home country of Lithuania. In the Vilnius ghetto, she and her fellow partisans carried out attacks against the occupying German forces. By the end of the war, almost her entire family — more than 50 people –— had perished at the hands of the Nazis. Yet now, over 60 years later, she is the one being branded unpatriotic, and is reportedly under investigation by Lithuanian...

A COUNCILLOR today called for more control over advertising posters in "culturally sensitive" areas of Birmingham. Coun Talib Hussain made his plea after a billboard on the corner of Sydenham Road and Golden Hillock Road, in predominantly Muslim Sparkbrook, was defaced. The hoarding, close to mosques in Anderton Road and Golden Hillock Road and visible to parents and children walking to Montgomery Primary School, promotes Matalan's new swimwear range and features three scantily-clad models. The models have been covered in thick white paint to conceal bare flesh. Coun Talib Hussain (Ind, Sparkbrook) criticised the vandalism but said it was a...

For over a year, we have been waging a relentless, nearly solitary battle in apprising the Congress and the American public about a billion dollar boondoggle and scandal: the lack of credible Arabic translators for our national security and intelligence agencies. As a result hundreds have been killed in Iraq from infiltration of our military and civilian intelligence agencies by agents of Islamist terrorists. Our FBI and CIA have been infiltrated by Muslim linguists who have successfully evaded polygraph tests and been able to pass on vital information to terror groups in the Middle East such as Hezbollah. Tens of...

As pointed out in Ben Stein's new documentary, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed": "If professors value their careers, they will keep their mouths shut." This is the perfect example of liberal bias and political correctness ruling the day on college campuses... and why the Collegiate Network established the Campus Outrage Awards. Each year the Collegiate Network highlights the five most egregious examples of political correctness run amok on American college campuses. Earlier this month, the Collegiate Network awarded Iowa State University (ISU) a 2008 Campus Outrage Award for classroom bias. ISU received the fifth place for denying Professor Guillermo Gonzalez, Assistant...

ADF attorneys represent a Christian photographer being tried under state antidiscrimination laws for declining to photograph a same-sex “commitment ceremony.” “Christians shouldn’t be penalized for abiding by their beliefs. The state cannot force unwilling people to promote a message they disagree with and thereby violate their conscience,” said Lorence. “The state’s prosecution violates our client’s First Amendment rights. The government cannot make people choose between their faith and their job.” A same-sex couple asked Elaine Huguenin, co-owner with her husband of Elane Photography, to photograph a “commitment ceremony” that the two women wanted to hold. Huguenin declined because her Christian...

A tangle with a cop and an achy heartBy Jeri Rowe Staff writer Tuesday, Apr. 1, 2008 3:00 am GREENSBORO — Alexander Kohanowich is a patriotic guy. His six grandchildren call him Pop. For at least five years, Pop has traveled around our city, showing his support for American troops overseas. He doesn't say much. He just holds his signs at busy intersections and busy events to get people's attention. Maybe you've seen him. He'll hang, say, on Westover Terrace, near Wendover. He'll face east in the morning, west in the afternoon, so drivers can see his signs clearly, without...

Every day, identity politics raises its ugly head in America and snarls threateningly, as various interest grops complain about something somebody said or did that might reflect ill on some particular category of person. This trend threatens to destroy freedom of speech entirely, through largely private sector means, by pressing the constant, intimidating threat of government action. In short, it follows the political premises of fascism. How appropriate, then, that today's instance involves a TV program called Big Brother. An autism group is demanding an apology from the CBS television network over a statement made by a contestant on the...

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee enjoys the first victory on Super Tuesday for the Republicans as he takes all 18 delegates in the state of West Virginia, winning 52% of the vote, although rumors abound regarding the McCain campaign's possible instruction to their delegates to switch to his side. Mitt Romney finished second with 47% of the vote, followed by McCain at 1%. Rumors are circulating that the McCain campaign instructed their delegates to defect over to Mike Huckabee's side as to avoid a Romney victory. Nationally, McCain is significantly ahead of Huckabee and can afford giving the state's 18...

Regardless of how noble the ends might be, government-funded programs often fail to achieve their stated objective. One such example has resulted in federally funded support of jihadists at Tufts University. In 2006, Tufts' Hillel received part of a $1.6-million Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grant to promote "inter-faith and intercultural dialogue." The program's intentions are noble and its goals laudable, since it is best to resolve conflict through dialogue. But this past fall, Tufts' Interfaith Initiative, "Pathways," used its federal money to sponsor a dinner and dialogue by Edina Lekovic on "Women, Faith, and Women." The problem is that...

http://home.peoplepc.com/psp/newsstory.asp?cat=TopStories&referrer=welcome&id=20080125/47996cd0_3ca6_15526200801252003174801 MADRID, Spain - A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy's parents over damage to his luxury car, the government says. Enaitz Iriondo, 17, died instantly in August 2004 when businessman Tomas Delgado's Audi A8 crashed into him at 100 mph near Haro in northern Spain, an Interior Ministry traffic report said. The speed limit was 55 mph. snip

Outrage of the Week! Friday, January 11, 2008 This week's outrage comes courtesy of columnist Bernd Debusmann of Reuters News Service, and an article he recently penned. This story, masquerading as a legitimate news article, might as well be an anti-gun organization's press release. Debusmann premises his piece on the argument that the American gun culture is "fading slowly," that gun ownership is declining, that support for stricter gun controls has been growing steadily, and that those in favor of stricter gun control laws represent a majority of the public. The source for this information is, not surprisingly, Josh Sugarmann...

Pro-life Women Jailed for Having Begged an Abortionist to Quit a Decade Ago One faces five months in jail while another has been sentenced to serve eight months behind bars. LINCOLN, Nebraska, January 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-life activists Shari McKee and Melissa Abbink were jailed on December 28th, 2007, for speaking to Lincoln abortionist Winston Crabb on two occasions in front of his home 10 years ago. Abbink faces five months in jail while McKee has been sentenced to serve eight months behind bars. According to Operation Rescue, in February, 1998, both were charged with violating the "focused picketing"...

We couldn't believe this despicable story when we first heard it and neither could the folks at television station WFXT in Boston, MA. Local Boy Scouts in Boston were collecting care package items to send to the troops during this holiday season - that is until city officials stepped in, called law enforcement and shut down their care package collections for the troops. The mean, cold-hearted woman who shut down the Boy Scouts efforts is a city official named Marsha Weinerman of Boston, Massachusetts who was appointed to her post July 1, 2006. You can contact Ms. Weinerman at this...

The man who shot and killed a Phoenix police officer before he himself later was fatally shot by authorities was an illegal entrant, a federal official said Wednesday. Erik Jovani Martinez, 22, was in the country illegally last year when he was arrested and convicted on theft charges, said Vinnie Picard, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He said Martinez was deported on March 3 last year, and at some point re-entered the country illegally. Mayor Phil Gordon called Martinez a "poster child" for failed federal efforts to tighten border security. "I have a message for the federal government....

Schumer Disparages U.S. Military; Democrats Attack David Petraeus September 6, 2007 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The Petraeus Report is coming out next week. The Democrats are not waiting for the Petraeus Report. In fact, they're not even going to call it the Petraeus Report. They're calling it the "Bush Report." Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi are calling it the "Bush Report" in an effort to discredit it. You know, I guess a couple weeks ago I detected -- and I was certain that I was right about this -- that there had been some adults somewhere in the Democrat Party who...

BOISE, IDAHO -- So what are people in one of the nation's most conservative states saying about the gay-sex scandal surrounding their much-revered, oft-elected Sen. Larry E. Craig? Family-values organizations, powerful in Idaho, want his head. Politicians, most of them Republicans like Craig, want more facts. Gays, a seemingly small group here, are embarrassed and yet strangely appeased by the spotlight on a politician who consistently has voted against gay-rights legislation.The state's entire congressional delegation is Republican, and the party holds overwhelming majorities in both houses of the Legislature. Idahoans sided staunchly with the GOP in at least the last...

A “distorted” Channel 4 documentary about Muslim extremism that enraged community leaders and resulted in a fruitless police investigation will now be the subject of an Ofcom inquiry. West Midlands Police made a formal complaint over a Channel 4 Dispatches film that participants and race crime prosecutors claim was edited in a misleading manner. Undercover Mosque, broadcast in January, featured footage shot at a number of mosques, including one at which a preacher praised the Taleban for killing British soldiers. Channel 4 said that the programme revealed how a message of hatred and segregation was being spread by some Islamic...

Teen Girls Accused Of Setting Kitten Ablaze. COTATI, Calif. -- A three-month-old kitten is fighting for his life after allegedly being set afire by two teenage girls last week. The male shorthaired kitten, named Adam, received second- and third-degree burns over 75 percent of its body and was being treated at an animal hospital in Cotati, in Northern California's Sonoma County, officials said. The kitten has undergone two surgeries and had its tail and the tips of its ears amputated. Two girls have been charged with cruelty to animals in connection with the case. They were arrested last Friday after...

The media has totally ignored this incredible comment from a Powerful US Senator. Yesterday Barbara Boxer said on the Ed Schultz Show that impeachment “should be on the table” and “this is as close as we’ve ever come to a dictatorship.” How can she get by with this? These idiots plainly have NO IDEA what a dictatorship is, and this just continues to ratchet up the rhetoric to dangerous levels. The transcript and MP3 of Barbara Boxer's outrageous statement yesterday was posted on a Moonbat's Blog. (CAUTION- This link could cause projectile vomitosis) http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001615.html

Democrats are outraged, outraged, that President Bush has spared Scooter Libby from 2 1/2 years in prison. The President, yesterday, reduced Libby's sentence to probation and a hefty fine, causing apoplexy on the left and generating an outpouring of outrage not seen since terrorists were forced to wear panties on their heads. Mr. Libby was convicted in March on charges of perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice. Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff had told the FBI and a grand jury that he had not leaked the ..

Now, he's really gone too far. Republican Party Chairman and Florida U.S. Senator Mel Martinez needs to get out of politics before he single-handedly (well, actually with the help of President George W. Bush and other Senators like Jon Kyl) destroys the Republican Party forever. Today's Wall Street Journal Washington Wire reports that--despite the GOP's jilted lover stalking of the Hispanic vote (including such tactics as the Illegal Alien Amnesty Bill)--more Hispanics than ever identify themselves as Democrats rather than Republicans. A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll finds that they identify 51% to 21% as Democrats to Republicans. But, instead...

STANLEY, N.C. -- A man who admitted shooting a teenager has been charged with the crime. ...William Todd Emory was arrested, taken to jail and booked Wednesday evening. The charges now accompanying his mug shot include six counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and one count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflict serious injury. The weapon was a 12-gauge pump shotgun....Emory told police he shot Delmer Doss, 17, because he says Doss was breaking into his truck...."He says he was just walking down the road,” Doss’ mother said. Then...

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein says the public emotion surging around efforts to overhaul the nation's immigration policy is the greatest she has seen since her 1992 election. The Democrat said the topic hasn't translated into the 30,000-plus phone calls to her office that would mean "something is really going on" in the nation?s most populous state, but the enthusiasm of opinion is fervent. "We're dealing with an issue about which people have very strong, very deeply set views," Mrs. Feinstein said. She said most of the nearly 8,000 calls her office has fielded have been "very hostile and very negative"...

A 21-year-old Sydney man has created the first known computer game based on the recent shooting spree at Virginia Tech university in the US, sparking a wave of criticism. The game follows Cho Seung-hui's killing spree at Virginia Tech in April, in which he killed 32 people before turning a gun on himself. The game's creator, Ryan Lambourn, who lives in Sydney's west, says he won't remove the game from his own website or seek to have it removed from amateur game sharing site Newgrounds.com.

  FOR COLOMBIA, A CHILL ON HILL By ROBERT D. NOVAK May 10, 2007 -- COLOMBIA'S President Alvaro Uribe re turned to Bogota this week in a state of shock. His three-day visit to Washington to win over Democrats in Congress was described by one U.S. supporter as "catastrophic." Colombian sources said Uribe was stunned by the ferocity of his Democratic opponents, and Vice President Francisco Santos publicly talked about cutting U.S.-Colombian ties. (snip) dictator Hugo Chavez can only exult in Uribe's embarrassment as he builds an anti-U.S. bloc. (snip) A truer portent of the Colombian reaction to the rebuff...

Just when you think you have heard it all, along comes a story that is almost too ridiculous to be true. But it is. The idiocy of federal bureaucracies apparently is never-ending. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which might easily be called the Department of Political Correctness, has decided to take on the Salvation Army. Yes, the Salvation Army, that phenomenally successful assistance organization which began in Great Britain over one hundred and forty-years ago. The Salvation Army, which has helped thousands of people in countries all over the world, is being sued by the EEOC. As most people...

As we in the Western world have come to expect, many Muslims and Islamic organizations claim "outrage" at almost anything and everything they can find. They rioted, burned buildings and vehicles over cartoons that parodied their prophet Muhammad. Then Muslims rioted, burned buildings and vehicles and even murdered a nun when Pope Benedict XVI quoted a 14th century Emperor who was critical of Islam. Like the Left, apparently, they have little to do-except riot or protest and attempt to silence all of those who have the unmitigated gall to disagree with their tenets of belief. Political correctness has completely taken...

MUSLIMS in Cambridge have demanded a public apology from a student who printed anti-Islamic material in a magazine. The material included a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed which sparked worldwide outrage last year when it was published in Denmark. It is thought this is the first time the cartoon has appeared in a publication in England. Asim Mumtaz, president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, said: "I'm horrified and shocked. In such a seat of learning, I am horrified that things could stoop to this level. "I'm actually shocked that intelligent people know how offensive this cartoon is and that they...

Coats — A Harnett County man is charged with brutally beating and trying to rape a 75-year grandmother. John Martin Meeks, 30, of Coats, was arrested Wednesday and charged with attempted rape, burglary and assault. .....

LIMA, Peru, Jan. 10 — A ruling by an international human rights court telling Peru’s government to honor 41 leftist rebels killed in a 1992 prison raid has provoked public indignation, and the government is considering withdrawing from the court. The ruling has reopened scars of a rebellion that raged from 1980 to 1998. Javier Velásquez, leader of the governing APRA party in Congress, said after meeting with President Alan García on Monday that the authorities were mulling Peru’s withdrawal from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which issued the ruling. The court serves to uphold and promote human rights...

Five nurses who travelled to Libya to care for sick children were facing death by firing squad last night after being found guilty of deliberately infecting 426 young patients with HIV.Their conviction, after seven years in jail and two trials, prompted an international outcry and raised the stakes for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi as he tries to regain favour with Europe and the US. Legal appeals are expected to lead to fresh diplomatic negotiations aimed at a face-saving arrangement for the Libyan leader, who faces domestic pressure for vengeance against an alleged foreign plot to infect children with the virus. The...

America, Not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on By Dennis Prager Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, has announced that he will not take his oath of office on the Bible, but on the bible of Islam, the Koran. He should not be allowed to do so -- not because of any American hostility to the Koran, but because the act undermines American civilization. First, it is an act of hubris that perfectly exemplifies multiculturalist activism -- my culture trumps America's culture. What Ellison and...

"A black firefighter who was served dog food in his spaghetti by fellow firefighters will be paid more than $2.7 million to settle a lawsuit alleging racial harassment within the Los Angeles Fire Department. The award, approved on an 11-1 vote Wednesday by the Los Angeles City Council, is the latest in a recent string of settlements of lawsuits by firefighters claiming discrimination and harassment and retaliation against those who complain..." It is believed to be the largest payout for misconduct in the department's history, which was long considered among the nation's finest, but has often been the target of...

The construction worker accused of killing indie actress .Adrienne Shelly tied a sheet around her neck, dragged the unconscious woman to a bathroom - and strung her up while she was still breathing, sources said yesterday. Then 19-year-old illegal immigrant Diego Pillco fled the West Village building and calmly went to work at another job site - leaving her to die in what originally appeared to be a suicide, the sources said. "This woman did not die from a strike to her head," Assistant District Attorney Marit DeLozier said as Pillco was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court. Pillco "fought with...

Video of lavish Myanmar wedding sparks outrage by Griffin Shea Fri Nov 3, 2:45 AM ET A video of the lavish wedding Myanmar's military ruler Than Shwe threw for his daughter has sparked outrage in one of the world's poorest countries. In the 10-minute clip posted on the Internet, Thandar Shwe is shown covered in layers of pearls, diamonds and other gems, while her groom splashes champagne across rows of glasses at the July wedding. She and her groom, Major Zaw Phyo Win, are also shown in a bridal suite the size of a ballroom, standing before a gold-braid bed...

Union Leader Calls Santorum 'The Anti-Christ' POSTED: 6:48 pm EDT October 17, 2006 PHILADELPHIA -- A local union official on Tuesday described Republican Sen. Rick Santorum as "the anti-Christ" on issues affecting working people. Pete Matthews, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 33, made the remarks during a luncheon speech before union retirees. Santorum is running as the incumbent against Democrat Bob Casey. Both have been engaged in a hard-hitting campaign that could be crucial for the Republicans to keep control of the U.S. Senate. "I kind of refer to him as the anti-Christ,...

<p>FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON NOT CAPTURING BIN LADEN: 'At least I tried. That's the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed'...</p>

ROSELAND -- Eighty-two-year-old Louis Krueper Sr. stood handcuffed and bleeding after being thrown out of Thursday's Roseland Town Council meeting and arrested. Ten to 12 angry people tried unsuccessfully to persuade Town Marshal Mike Howell to loosen the handcuffs, which had apparently cut Krueper, who said the blood-thinning medication he takes may have caused him to bleed more heavily. Howell arrested Krueper for alleged disorderly conduct after President Dorothy Snyder had ejected Krueper and Joseph Rosplock from the town council meeting. The ejections came after the men made a couple of brief comments about removing an antenna tower set in...

/begin my translation Behind Story: Tense Diplomatic Exchanges Between N. Korea And China (After Security Council Resolution) N. Korean Ambassador waited out for 2 hours at China's Foreign Ministry...China's Vice Premier waited out for 6 hours in Pyongyang(Hong Kong = Yonhap News) Chung Juho Correspondent: N. Korean government vehemently protested at China, conveying their outrage, after UN Security Council passed a resolution against N. Korea in July 15, according to reports. Zheng-ming, a monthly news magazine in Hong Kong, reported on Aug. 8 in its latest edition, tense diplomatic moments between N. Korea and China, right after the resolution against...

The FASCISM of "Muslims outrage"We all saw the rage, the notorious violent Arab street, they always have "issues", Don't they? One day it's a cartoon, another day it's a scarf in Paris, then a racist quarrel on Australian beaches. What? Did you think for one minute that Muslims protesting are of "botherly love", like lately after Huzbollah terrorists used civilians, especially the husbands/fathers using women and kids, so that the "outrage" will be great.) so that they would die (directly by them or indirectly) en masse are merely worried about dead or injured Arab Muslims? You have got to be...

HEARD ON MELANIE MORGAN ANOTHER New York Times columnist disses Melanie! - July 9, 2006 NY Times columnist condemns Melanie - July 4, 2006. Transcript of Melanie's appearance on "Hardball" - from June 26, 2006. LIBERALS GO CRAZY OVER NY TIMES COMMENTS - Blogger upset with Melanie Morgan...read their "outrage".

Myspace.com may be in more legal trouble now that an accused sex offender may also want to sue the site. The 19-year old Buda man who is accused of having sex with a 14-year old Austin girl, he reportedly met on Myspace.com, says he didn't know it was against the law to have sex with the teenager. Peter Solis also says he wouldn't be in this trouble if it hadn't been for the social networking website and his lawyer, Adam Reposa agrees. The 14-year old girl's mother is suing the website for 30-million dollars for lack of securiy. Now Reposa...

INVASION USAU.S. alerting Mexico to Minuteman patrols'Unbelievable that our own government....is sending intelligence to another country' Posted: May 9, 2006 11:37 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com The U.S. Border Patrol is tipping off Mexican authorities on the positions of members of the Minuteman civilian patrols. U.S. officials have agreed to the notification process to reassure the Mexican government that the illegal immigrants' rights are being observed, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin of Ontario, Calif., reports. When the Minuteman and other civilian border patrol groups help apprehend illegal immigrants, the Mexican government must be notified, according to three documents on the...

I'll keep updating my first post on this subject with reader feedback. Meantime, the Minutemen Blog has details not reported by the Daily Bulletin: Sara Carter, a reporter with the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, reports today that she found documentation on Mexican government websites that show higher ups in the United States Border Patrol have been tipping off the corrupt Mexican government as to the locations of the Minutemen along the border. This article does not report information told to the MCDC media offices that the Border Patrol chiefs have also been passing along intelligence reports to the government of...

  PUBLISHED ON JUNE 2, 2005: Catastrophe in Care Hospitals are being crippled by the costs of treating migrants--and that could be just the start of an immigrant-related health crisis By LEO W. BANKS Leo W. Banks One of the many signs on the Naco Highway. Leo W. Banks "It's not unusual to have one UDA (undocumented alien) cost $5,000, and we know we're not going to get that back," says Josie Mincher, emergency room manager at Copper Queen Hospital. Leo W. Banks "Until we have comprehensive immigration reform, we need to bear the health-care costs for undocumented workers,...

Calling on Hilton to be the kinda corp it claims to be. Few Americans would argue that American soldiers should not receive the thanks of our nation for their service, and fewer still would argue that, if returning to our country less than whole and in need of help, soldiers should not receive the support of America's corporate giants. Hilton Hotel Corporation, then, has something to answer for. Every Friday is Veterans' Day at Fran O'Brien's Stadium Steakhouse in Washington, D.C., where owners, Hal Koster and Marty O'Brien, bring soldiers — primarily amputees — recovering from their wounds at Walter...

<p>A two-year tradition for wounded war vets is about to go by the wayside. A downtown DC steak house that’s catered to injured troops every Friday night is about to close.</p> <p>Fran O’Brien’s landlord [Hilton] is forcing out the steakhouse of the same name.</p>

This is a new channel on Dish Network. They play Ducumentaries 24/7. This is the first time I have seen "Waco, The rules of engagement.