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Residents of Yitzhar in central Samaria say they prevented a possible terrorist attack when they used force to halt a truck that ignored numerous orders to halt, and careened around several checkpoints at high speed. Their account was disputed by the IDF, which claimed that the residents attacked an innocent driver who had lost his way. The incident occurred Saturday night, when a truck with Arabic writing on it drove through a checkpoint into Yitzhar. According to the soldiers, the truck driver had lost his way and passed the checkpoint unintentionally. He then drove on the access road to Yitzhar...

In a statement to The Daily Caller, Girl Scouts of the USA confirmed on Wednesday that its literature will no longer refer scouts to Media Matters For America as a source of information to balance bias in news reporting. “Girl Scouts constantly reviews our materials based on feedback and suggestions we receive from our members and we update our materials on a regular basis,” said the statement. “As a result of this process, upcoming reprints of journeys materials will not include links to Media Matters.”

Sign the petition to defund planned parenthood here: http://www.defundpp.net/ ‘Most difficult year in our history,’ laments Planned Parenthood President Read the article here: http://www.lifesite.net/news/most-difficult-year-in-our-history-laments-planned-parenthood-president

How about a word along those lines to Gaza? Of course not. All of the Palestinian factions know that if Israel cannot hold Hamas accountable as the entity that is, after all, putatively in control of Gaza, there will exist a perfect arrangement of plausible deniability among jihadist groups: everyone benefits, and no one can face consequences if no one can be held responsible. Pass the buck, and watch the rockets fly. "Barrage of rockets from Gaza strike Israel; sites in Gaza targeted," from CNN, August 21: Jerusalem (CNN) -- A barrage of rockets and mortars fired into southern Israel...

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the Joint Session of Congress on Tuesday was disrupted by a left-wing protester calling to stop the Israeli occupation in Palestine. The heckler was identified as Rae Abileah, a 28-year-old Jewish-American activist, of Israeli decent, who works with human rights organization CODEPINK. Abileah stood up from the gallery as Netanyahu was congratulating the United States for the killing of Osama bin Laden and shouted “stop Israeli war crimes.”

Sign the Voter ID Petition Count My Vote! The citizens of North Carolina demand fair and honest elections. To eliminate fraud and restore confidence in the political system, voters should present valid identification at the ballot box. We the undersigned hereby stand with all 31 Republicans in the NC Senate and 68 Republicans in the NC House in firm support of voter ID. We call for the General Assembly to PASS and Gov. Perdue to SIGN this common sense legislation. Go to http://www.ncstatesenate.com/2011/03/voter-id-petition/  to sign the petition!

As Palestinians accused of being behind Arab unrest, they express fear that charges would be used to justify harsh measures against them. Palestinian officials on Wednesday appealed to Arab leaders to stop inciting against them by accusing them of instigating unrest in their countries. The appeal came after the Syrian authorities claimed that Palestinians were behind the recent wave of violence that hit the country.

Wikileak documents reveals US official asked China to prevent its firms from sending dual-use commodities to Iran for use in its nuclear program Washington is trying to encourage China to make its companies aware of potential Iranian nuclear as a result of commodities the Chinese companies have provided Iranian firms involved in Teheran's nuclear program, according to a WikiLeaks document released last week. The document said that the US is trying to advance a strategy to prevent shipments of commodities "of concern to Iran," and that officials are providing information about dealings between certain Chinese and Iranian firms "in an...

On Wednesday, November 03, 2010, the day following the national elections, Barack Obama proclaimed, “They ‘shellacked’ us” meaning the conservative Republicans won a hugely significant number of seats in Congress along with a large number of state governorships that had been held for the previous four years by the Democrats; and more specifically, the liberal Democrats. Since that date, now two plus months ago, this same bunch of losers have done nothing to correct the mistakes and terribly bad moves they made to cause such a drubbing, in fact, they have done nothing but complain, label the voting public as...

A Marine Corps veteran is being sued by his Cypress-area homeowners association because the flagpole on which he flies the United States and Marine Corps flags does not meet his subdivision's design guidelines. Mike Merola and his lawyer, Lee Thweatt, say this is a classic case of overreach by a nitpicking homeowners association. Lakeland Village Community Association says it is seeking to enforce its rules evenly on all residents. Standing in his backyard in a black T-shirt bearing an eagle and the American flag, the 60-year-old Merola called that argument "a lame excuse." After his application to erect a 20-foot...

After a college footballweekend that was essentially nothing more than a media pile-on against the NCAA for its head-scratching treatment of five Ohio State players who violated the rules, I've got a bone to pick with the association, too. The 2010-2011 bowl season has been downright awful.

The nuclear-weapons treaty President Obama has negotiated with the Russians may help him make America's erstwhile Cold War adversary happy, but it won't help protect us from the rogue nations that threaten the United States today. Today, the Senate will begin debating the the New START treaty. Democrats want to jam it through with a flock of lame ducks. If ratified, it will force the U.S. to agree to strategic-nuclear-weapons parity with Russia, the direct descendant of a nation that threatened our country's existence for decades. Who would have thought in the year 2010 the United States would be renewing...

IFI Update: Same-Sex "Civil Unions" May Be Called This Week 11/28/2010 12:36:00 PM By David E. Smith, IFI Executive Director -Illinois Family Institute During the first half of the Illinois Veto Session in Springfield (Nov. 16-18), IFI's two lobbyists and I spoke to dozens of lawmakers about the ramifications of passing same-sex "civil unions" legislation (SB 1716) in Illinois. Many lawmakers are unaware that section 10 of this bill states that any partner in a civil union shall be legally considered a "spouse" and "family." It isn't just conjecture to say that the proponents of this bill are trying to...

A group of high school students attending a conservative leadership conference in Washington, D.C. said they were ordered by a security guard to stop singing the national anthem during a June 25 visit to the Lincoln Memorial.

After getting frustrated out of the lemons his problems gave him, David Miller made his own corporate lemonade. Due to the frustration of always having to call technical support to solve his own frequent hardware problems, he started taking the initiative to educate himself.

ACLU Sues To Stop Arizona's Immigration Law A class-action suit filed by civil rights groups argues that the measure will lead to racial profiling and violates the Constitution. By Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times May 17 Several civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to halt a controversial new Arizona law that requires local police to enforce federal immigration regulations. The lawsuit is at least the fourth filed since Republican Gov. Jan Brewer last month signed the law, which makes it a state crime to lack immigration paperwork in Arizona and requires police to determine the status of people...

The administration in Washington is trying to force on Israel a peace settlement with the Palestinians. It is almost a year now that a certain ritual has marked the public discourse between Washington and Jerusalem. Israel gets a good slap in the face and a few days later someone in Washington announces that the U.S.-Israeli relationship is rock-solid. The Israeli prime minister is demeaned in Washington and a day later he declares that the U.S.-Israeli relationship is firm as ever. Anybody who has been involved in fostering the U.S.-Israeli relationship over the years, so important to both countries, knows that...

SANTA CLARA — Seizing on the issue of illegal immigration, Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner stepped up his campaign Friday to persuade California Republicans that he is the true conservative seeking the party’s nomination for governor. At a news conference just prior to former eBay CEO Meg Whitman’s speech to the state GOP convention, Poizner called for the elimination of all public services for illegal immigrants that are under the control of the state and pledged to lobby for federal changes so that schools could turn illegal immigrant children from their doors. “We should move that forward,” he said of the...

We are the United STATES of America and it is about darn time that the STATES stand up to the power grab and centralization that is going on in the Federal Government. At a minimum, the Governors need to state that they will sue the Federal government if the bill is illegally passed through reconciliation or slaughter. Perhaps Texas should dust off the plans to divest from the union. If we cannot count on the integrity of the constitution to be upheld by the federal government, I expect the STATES to step up to the plate.

COPENHAGEN – Police foiled an attempt to kill an artist who drew cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that sparked outrage in the Muslim world, the head of Denmark's intelligence service said Saturday. Jakob Scharf, who heads the PET intelligence service, said a 28-year-old Somalia man was armed with an ax and a knife when he attempted to enter Kurt Westergaard's home in Aarhus shortly after 10 p.m. (2100 GMT) on Friday.

The American people need to send a stronger message to Washington...we are not paying any more tax money until you stop passing laws we do not want. We need to get everyone who has withholding tax to change it to zero NOW! Stop paying any federal taxes until Congress starts listening to us. We can bankrupt them in a month if we act fast and furious.

This is the "Crown Jewel" of socialism. Bachmann is asking people to come to DC next Thursday at noon for a housecall on Nancy Pelosi to tell her what she can do with this ILLEGAL healthcare BILL. Join Bachman to parade up and down the halls to confront Congress. This is our liberty and tyrrany moment!

Several years ago we witnessed a strange and unexpected event between a dog and a cat. A fairly good sized German Shepherd spotted a much smaller, black house cat and broke into a dead run after the cat. The cat, startled by the dog and now instantly charged with adrenalin, struck off down the street as fast as he could go, in a black blur. Now a dog chasing a cat is hardly news, but it was what the cat did that drastically altered the outcome of the chase. About a few seconds into the chase, the cat, without regard...

(IsraelNN.com) A top official in the Obama Administration has at last admitted what intelligence agents and Israeli government officials have been warning about for years: Iran intends to build a nuclear arsenal. In media interviews with American television news networks scheduled to air Sunday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said bluntly, "The Iranians have the intention of having nuclear weapons." The statement was made just days after the discovery of a covert uranian enrichment site in Iran.

Last night in St. Louis, Missouri, a reverend and member of SEIU was assaulted at a town hall. The incident, along with a town hall in Tampa, Florida, has been all over the radio and cable news shows. GOP operatives are rushing to paint it as SEIU "thug" violence. That couldn't be further from the truth.

Dr. John David Manning says it as plainly as it can be said.

Conservatives Decry Anti-Bullying Courses As 'Gay Agenda' By On Top Magazine Staff Published: May 28, 2009 Alameda Unified School District officials approved a new anti-bullying effort that includes teaching respect for gay men and lesbians on Wednesday, drawing a rain of protest from social conservatives who decried the curriculum as “formal instruction in concert with the gay agenda.”Officials in the California district decided in a 3 to 2 vote to add lessons about gay men and lesbians into an existing anti-bullying curricula. The six 45-minute lessons will be offered to students as early as kindergarten.At lower grades, students will...

Two top attorneys who argued Bush v. Gore on opposite sides have now joined forces to strike down Prop 8 in federal court, filing for a preliminary injunction against same-sex marriage ban until the case is resolved, which would immediately reinstate the right for all Californians to marry. Theodore B. Olson and David will officially announce their case tomorrow morning in downtown, according to the American Foundation for Equal Rights. Olson, a former U.S. Solicitor General represented President Bush, against Al Gore, who was represented by Boies. The pair is representing two gay men and two gay women who were...

The US got tough with Pakistan as terrorists moved to within 60 miles of the capitalAMERICA made clear last week that it would attack Taliban forces in their Swat valley stronghold unless the Pakistan government stopped the militants’ advance towards Islamabad. A senior Pakistani official said the Obama administration intervened after Taliban forces expanded from Swat into the adjacent district of Buner, 60 miles from the capital. The Pakistani Taliban’s inroads raised international concern, particularly in Washington, where officials feared that the nuclear-armed country, which is pivotal to the US war against the Taliban in Afghanistan and against Al-Qaeda, was...

“Obama is a radical communist, and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it’s true,” said Keyes, who ran unsuccessfully against Obama for the state’s open Senate seat in 2004. “He is going to destroy this country, and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.” Keyes also reasserted his belief that unless the question of Obama’s eligibility to serve as president is answered definitively, America may face the startling crisis of an executive branch run by a...

Missourian Call to Action Today!!! Could stop Obama!!! Call, email, fax, visit your Missouri State Reps today to urge them to support the Missouri Voter Bill of Rights!!! From: www.oilforimmigration.org SHOW ME State trying to get Mr. Obama to Show His Birth Certificate Posted on March 12th, 2009 by David-Crockett caolila contributed the following:call for action: ARE YOU FROM MISSOURI? Please support House Joint Resolution 34. If this passes we may be able to force the disclosure of BO’s birth certificate. http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills091/biltxt/intro/HJR0034I.htm BUT THERE IS OPPOSITION!! They are already working to discredit this as you can see here. http://www.firedupmissouri.com/missouri-birther-caucus We...

PLATTSBURGH — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is taking measures to kill, once and for all, a plan that would be burdensome on dairy farmers. The Environmental Protection Agency has been considering implementing a fee to combat methane emissions from dairy and beef cows. The fee would be about $175 per dairy cow and about $87.50 per beef cow each year. A dairy farm with 400 cows would pay about $70,000 a year for this fee. In all, New York farms could be forced to pay about $120 million per year. The North Country is home to about 146,600 dairy cows...

08A524 LIGHTFOOT, GAIL, ET AL. V. BOWEN, CA SEC. OF STATE The application for stay addressed to The Chief Justice and referred to the Court is denied.

Demand Emergency legislation that requires ALL voters to show a valid photo ID . You have to have an ID to fly , you should have to have one to vote ! Please sign the Petition. Thank You

I was just watching Fox News and they have looks at the latest Fed Data and it turns out that 92% of Banks are fine and issuing credit to safe and moderately safe credit applicants. This is a bailout for business and consumers with Bad credit! This is a bailout to encourage the issuing of more loans and credit to HIGH RISK individuals and businesses. Isn't that what got us into this mess in the first place?

Many of you have written that congressional voice mail boxes are full. Unfortunately there is not much I can do if no one is answering the phones. I suspect that is because we have concentrated on too few. We need to man the phones and start targeting EVERYONE in Congress. Phone every legislative representative in your state. If those fill up, pick another state, even a small one. Tell them it is still no deal, Leave a short message so others can leave one. Fill every in box in the country.This is the correct message now. "If you vote for...

Stop the Housing Bailout!!!         This site is dedicated to stopping the government's planned bailout of the housing market.   A bailout requires responsible Americans to pay for the acts of greedy bankers, mortgage brokers, flippers, and over-extended home-borrowers. In other words, the government wants you to pay for the blunders of others who knew, or should have known, better.          Equally as important, a bailout would permanently price out of the housing market all those responsible Americans who have been patiently saving to buy a house that they can actually afford. The current housing correction is necessary to...

The McCain Campaign announced a rally set for Monday morning in suburban Lee's Summit, Missouri. Both Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin will appear at the John Knox facility there at 0830. Tickets are not required but the facility's capacity is limited and attendees will be seated first come first served.

PROVO CANYON — A Wasatch County sheriff's sergeant died Thursday morning after collapsing during a routine traffic stop. G. Scott Hathcock, 48, of Heber City, had pulled a car over on U.S. 189 in Provo Canyon and had just stepped to the window of the car to ask for documents when he collapsed, said Summit County sheriff's deputy Josh Wall. The people in the car as well as a passer-by performed CPR until paramedics arrived minutes later, Wall said. However, medical personnel were unable to revive him and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Officials don't yet know the...

A 17-year-old South Carolina boy on an church outing was killed Saturday when he was struck by the popular "Batman the Ride" at Six Flags Over Georgia. It was the second Batman ride-related death at the Cobb County park.

Global warming may 'stop', scientists predict By Charles Clover, Environment Editor Last Updated: 6:01pm BST 30/04/2008 Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said. Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a "lull" for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions. Melting icebergs: The study predicts the IPCC's 0.3ºC temperature rise for the next decade may not happen The average temperature of the sea around Europe and North America is expected to cool slightly...

'The Day She Died, She Knew She Couldn't Talk To Police,' Mom SaysDELAND, Fla. -- A Central Florida woman whose 17-year-old daughter was killed in a murder-suicide apparently committed by her ex-boyfriend said the teen was told by police to stop calling for help or she'd be arrested. Police said Clay Coffner shot his estranged girlfriend, Natasha Hall, in the head outside her DeLand home Friday before turning the gun on himself. Hall's mother, Sherry, said her daughter was concerned about Coffner and informed police. In fact, Hall said her daughter called police so much that on Jan. 15 they...

Looks slow, so I thought I'd post a mini-gallery of some of my recent 'Stop The ACLU Ferret' cartoons which I draw for the Sunday Funnies at Stop The ACLU.Enjoy!

Little Green Footballs reported late in the day Friday that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still on his way to GROUND ZERO Monday. (I personally never bought the partial transcript from 60 Minutes anyway...) We're rolling out the wagon to "greet" him. Liberty St. and Broadway 9am - I will be there.

It's been more than a week now since a mass murderer struck on the campus of Virginia Tech, and as the NRA joins the debate on policies and laws, there are a few things I want to point out. It wasn't 24 hours after the horrific shootings that the politicians started flapping their lips. Congressman Jim Moran suggested that somehow the tragedy was the fault of Republicans and President Bush. Barack Obama compared the evil events in Blacksburg to outsourcing jobs overseas. Senator Dianne Feinstein called for a new dialogue on gun control. Mayor Bloomberg spoke of the events in...

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's attorney general on Wednesday demanded U.S. authorities do more to stop guns and drug money from heading south and fueling the drug violence in Mexico that left more 2,000 dead last year. Eduardo Medina Mora told a business forum that the vast majority of arms used by the soldiers of drug cartels, including assault rifles and grenades, are smuggled from the United States. "It's truly absurd that a person can get together 50 to 100 high powered arms, grenade launchers, fragmentation grenades, and can transport this cargo to our country," Medina Mora said. "It's a task...

AMMAN, Jordan - A prominent Iraqi Sunni leader said Friday that the insurgency in Iraq could end if the U.S. showed determination to stop the influence of pro-Iranian Shiite militias there. "The Americans must act seriously and abolish those militias, confiscate their weapons, arrest their criminals and at the same time stop the Iranian influence which is penetrating all of Iraq, including the government," said Sheik Majeed al-Gaood, a prominent tribal leader in Anbar province, the heartland of the Sunni insurgency. Al-Gaood is a leading member of a Sunni family that plays a major role in tribal politics in Anbar....

KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 16, 2007 – Two Afghan citizens prevented a terrorist attack this morning when a vehicle loaded with explosives attempted to crash through the front gate of Camp Phoenix, a U.S. base here. “Without any regard for their personal safety, a local Afghan security officer and an interpreter immediately recognized that this was a terrorist attack,” said 1st Lt. Cathrin Fraker, a spokeswoman for Task Force Phoenix. “Together, the two prevented the driver from detonating his explosives after they failed to explode during the crash. With the assistance of the U.S. security forces, they dragged the terrorist...

MUDIQ, Iraq, Nov. 21 2006 — Iraqis now drive on safe roads thanks to the Marines who set up vehicle checkpoints here on a daily basis. That credit goes to Marines of Jump Platoon, Headquarters and Service Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment. "It's making it harder for insurgents to move any contraband through the main routes of travel," said Sgt. Robert E. Mitterando, platoon sergeant for Jump Platoon. "If you were a car thief or burglar and you saw your friend getting 'rolled up,' you'd think, 'Damn, these guys mean business. We're not playing around. If you work with...