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Screen shot 2015-03-13 at 09.38.36.jpgThe U.S. State Department clearly has a firm grasp of the reality of the jihad threat. Of course, it is bound as a matter of policy to deny and downplay that threat, so gaffes like this are bound to happen. “Internet gaffe by US government as UK extremist’s sharia law photo used in free speech ad,” by Martin Beckford and Abul Taher, Daily Mail, March 15, 2015: The US government has made a bizarre internet gaffe by posting a British Muslim extremist’s photograph of veiled women calling for sharia law, citing it as an inspirational example...

TV ads are touting heroismALSO: Imaginative buzz; What friend?; Too many for TV Saturday, March 25, 2006 By Gordon Russell and Frank Donze - Staff writers TV commercials that attempt to spotlight politicians' acts of heroism in the anarchy of post-Katrina New Orleans have become a staple -- some might say an unfortunate one -- of the current campaign. Mayor Ray Nagin, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu and Audubon Nature Institute chief executive Ron Forman, among others, all have sought to score points by reminding voters that they were here, doing the Lord's work, in the darkest of days. But none...