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NAIROBI, Kenya – The government of Kenya is holding WND senior staff reporter Jerome Corsi in custody at immigration headquarters after police picked him up at his hotel just prior to a scheduled news conference in which he planned to announce the findings of his investigation into Barack Obama's connections in the country. Corsi, the author of the No. 1 best-selling book "The Obama Nation," was picked up by authorities at his hotel at 9:45 a.m. and is being detained at Nyayo House, the provincial headquarters for Nairobi. "Just as we were about to start the 10 a.m. press conference...

[B]oth Democratic and Republican nominees for President, self-professed agents of reform, followed the cattle call to back the bailout. Sen. Obama, who claims to be the messiah of change, sure is showing his true colors in two huge decisions – first by his appointment of politics-as-usual Joe Biden and now by his vote to pass this economic bailout bill and drive us deeper into debt. And, quite frankly, Sen. McCain is also disappointing me at this point. At the Republican Convention, John talked about bringing the power back to the people. So he chose Sarah Palin, and finally gained my...

In case you didn't notice, there is a concerted war on serious biblical faith in our post-Christian society. And that's why, any day now, you can expect Sarah Palin to be asked a question designed to knock her right out of the race for the vice presidency. It won't be a question about the Bush Doctrine. It won't be a question about her teenage daughter. It won't be a question about Alaska state troopers. It won't even be a question about abortion. None of those questions threaten to deliver a killer blow to her bid to be the first woman...

1. Keep spending within constitutional limits. The Tenth Amendment restricts the size of government, and that should always bear out in the federal budget and spending. That means understanding income and export taxes were unconstitutional to our founders, which if applied today would be two of the greatest economic stimulus packages. 2. Return to a pay-as-you-go government. If we don't have the money, we don't spend it. Period. No more debt. No more bailouts. No more spending. As Thomas Jefferson once wrote to Fulwar Skipwith in 1787, "[T]he maxim of buying nothing but what we had money in our pockets...

Recall, Barack's bride had already cautioned that her husband would not let Americans be complacent. Under an Obama administration, the right to opt out and be left alone – an essential ingredient of American individualism – would be frowned upon. Obama himself has called for "shared sacrifice." "At $3.5 billion a year," reported the Washington Post, Obama's "service plan would "grow the AmeriCorps program … expand the Foreign Service and create an Energy Corps to conduct renewable energy and environmental cleanup projects." Pilfering from the people so as to establish brigades that'll corral them into this or the other service...

The fact is the far-left liberals don't know how to respond to strong, conservative female political leaders. They hail Hillary, but try to impale Palin. But Sarah has sparred with these cultural combatants before and left the ring without a scratch. In fact, Sarah is so tough that a new tongue-in-cheek website, has been built exclusively for her that parallels the Chuck Norris Fact folklore website and Internet proliferation. It gives some mythical yet complimentary "facts" about Sarah Palin's life, potential, character and career. Here are three of my favorites: Fact: Sarah Palin once carved a perfect likeness of the...

Bristol Palin, the 17-year-old, unmarried daughter of Sarah Palin, is pregnant. Although she plans to keep the baby and marry the father, her immoral shortcoming is still clear for the nation (and world) to see. Is it possible that her very busy, avowedly-feminist mother, the governor of Alaska and presumptive Republican vice-presidential candidate, could have made a moral difference, had she been more available for her daughter? With this in mind, it is sobering that, among the thousands of conservative pundits praising John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate, no one is asking a very important...

Last Thursday evening at the Democratic National Convention, presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to score a political touchdown on the 50 yard line of Denver's Invesco Field stadium. Instead, he won the all-time governmental convention award for the best over-the-top political spectacle of sight, sound, speech and pyrotechnics – complete with superstar performances, Braveheart-like epic music endings and an Olympic-sized fireworks show. For a week prior to the event, newscasters, commentators and pundits were trying to guess what exactly that Greco-Roman, column-structure was that served as a stage backdrop, and what it was supposed to be representing and stating on...

Was Sen. Barack Obama a citizen of Indonesia at any point in his life? That question has been circulating on the blogosphere with increased fury the past few days, ever since a photograph emerged of Obama's school registration papers as a child in Indonesia – the world's most populous Muslim nation – showing the presidential candidate listed as a "Muslim" with "Indonesian" citizenship. An investigation into Indonesian citizenship law and a review of Obama's biography and travels suggest the Illinois senator at one point may have been a citizen of Indonesia. That would not necessarily disqualify Obama to run for...

California's Supreme Court has made its contribution to the ongoing debasement of our law, our language and our culture by legalizing same-sex marriage. California now has law in the tradition of Groucho Marx who said, "Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes." When the court says there is no difference between couples consisting of a man and a woman, a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, and that it's irrelevant that only one combination can produce children, whom are you going to believe? The court or your own eyes? This decision shouldn't...

I disagree not only that the issue supersedes all others, but also with the assumption that McCain is right about the conduct of the war. Need I remind everyone it was John McCain who nearly single-handedly stripped our troops of the interrogation tools they needed to defeat the enemy and prevent attacks on innocent Iraqis and our own soldiers? More than anyone else in American politics, McCain led the fight to stop coercive interrogations, an absolutely essential weapon in our arsenal in the conduct of this war and future wars. McCain calls it torture. But it is not. Coercive interrogations...

He's a Muslim. He was sworn into office on the Koran. He doesn't say the Pledge of Allegiance. His pastor is an anti-Semite. He's a tool of Louis Farrakhan. He's anti-Israel. His advisers are anti-Israel. He's friends with terrorists. The terrorists want him to win. He's the Antichrist. By now you've probably seen at least some of these e-mails and articles about Barack Obama bouncing around the Internet. They distort Obama's religious faith, question his support for Israel, warp the identity and positions of his campaign advisers and defame his friends and allies from Chicago. The purpose of the smear...

Melanie Morgan off KSFO airwaves © 2008 WorldNetDaily Melanie Morgan (courtesy San Francisco Chronicle) WND exclusive columnist Melanie Morgan, renowned radio personality, national conservative leader and co-author with Catherine Moy of "American Mourning, A Story of Two Families," has announced her departure from talk radio powerhouse KSFO 560 AM. Citadel Broadcasting, which owns KSFO, decided not to renew Morgan's contract as part of the company's announced across-the-board cost-cutting, and her last broadcast on the station was today. "It has truly been an honor for me to work at KSFO for the past 14 years. What I loved most about my...

The 24 states holding primaries in next week's Super Tuesday have lost 1,568,600 manufacturing jobs in the seven years since President Bush took office, according to statistics provided WND by the Alliance for American Manufacturing, or AAM.

So the question is: who won the Christmas culture ad war? My answer will probably surprise you: Ronald Reagan. One of my pastors recently shared with me a video of Reagan, who reminded us on Dec. 23, 1981, of the real reason for Christmas season – during a time when political correctness wasn’t as much a part of the packaging. In a nationally televised Christmas proclamation from the White House, Reagan declared: At this special time of year, we all renew our sense of wonder in recalling the story of the first Christmas in Bethlehem nearly 2,000 years ago. Some...

As I write this, my wife Gena and I are on the road in New Hampshire with GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and his wife Janet. We've traveled around visiting more great Americans from Boscawen to Tilton, Berlin, Littleton and Londonderry, experiencing just how large the Huck-a-boom is mushrooming. Ed Rollins, Mike Huckabee, me and Gena Joining us for part of the trip was Mike's new national campaign chairman Ed Rollins, who masterminded President Ronald Regan's landslide victory in 1984. Ed has likened Mike in lots of ways to "The Gipper," saying "I was with the old Reagan, and I...

You can learn the answers to those questions by reading the astonishingly arrogant, presumptuous, finger-pointing, condescending lectures by Bush administration officials to the people of Taiwan for their audacity to hold a referendum on membership in the United Nations. Several members of Bush's State Department this week launched blistering attacks on Taiwan's plan to hold a national referendum at the time of the presidential elections next March to gauge support for membership in the U.N. But, according to Raymond Burghardt, chairman of the U.S. government's American Institute, a kind of faux embassy in Taiwan, the idea of the Taiwanese people...

Not long after I arrived at the post, a gaggle of Code Pinkos straggled down the sidewalk wearing Pepto Bismol-pink getups. They looked like bums with bad taste. I immediately felt my nuclear energy ramping up. One Code Pinko began barking like a dog with distemper, daring to ask what I do to support the troops. "We confront traitors like you every day," I said (well, I yelled). "Your group sent $650,000 to terrorists' families when our soldiers are getting killed by them!" She called it "humanitarian aid." Right. Roadside bombs have a certain human touch, don't they? The Pink...

Though I have formally endorsed no candidate, I made no secret of the fact that my favorites are Tancredo and Rep. Duncan Hunter – both, admittedly, long shots to get the Republican nomination. Bu I feel compelled to offer some more encouragement to Tancredo for his decision to boycott the recent Spanish-language debate. And he was the only candidate to do so. Tancredo got it right. "If they can't understand the English language, then, of course, they shouldn't be citizens," Tancredo explained. "They shouldn't be voting. And we shouldn't be pandering to them." That's what I like about Tancredo. Simple....

Timeless principles consistent with where Huckabee remains today and relevant to the recent headlines. Also nine years ago, Huckabee said the1998 Jonesboro shootings were driven by "the winds of spiritual change in a nation that has forgotten its God." "Government knows it does not have the answer, but it's arrogant and acts as though it does," Huckabee said. "Church does have the answer but will cowardly deny that it does and wonder when the world will be changed." He gets it. And the message of values grounded in the Word of God are timeless. The winds of spiritual change that...

And we must not fear conservative curriculum courses like world religion, ethics, Intelligent Design, and the most overlooked yet embedded text in Western culture and civilization – the Bible – which even our Founders expected us to teach. Provide Further Support For Educational Options If states continue to oppose conservative curricula and impose overarching liberal educational revisions and law like California recently enacted in SB777, which will in the end reverse discrimination against religious students and students with traditional family values, public schools should continue to expect an increased exodus. (A petition drive has until Dec. 20 to repeal SB777.)...

"The Golden Compass" is more than enough proof to demonstrate the Christmas culture wars are alive and well. We've drifted so far way from the innocence of Christmas movies like Jimmy Stewart's "It's a Wonderful Life." We've shifted from celebrating a savior to crying out for more secularism. I respect artistic ability and one's right to freedom of speech, religion and creativity, but that does not mean I or millions of others have to agree with or tolerate it. It is also my American right to say, "My name is Chuck Norris, and I disapprove of this movie." And it's...

The honesty and transparency themes are driving much of voter sentiment in this election. It helps explain the surprising success of Republican candidate Mike Huckabee. And we see similar dynamics with the Democratic candidates. Consider a "The Economist/YouGov'' poll out last week. When Democratic voters were asked which phrases they would use to describe their candidates, results included the following: * Honesty: Obama 54 percent, Clinton 35 percent. * Moral: Obama 54 percent, Clinton 34 percent. * Religious: Obama 29 percent, Clinton 19 percent. * Says what he/she believes: Obama 60 percent, Clinton 39 percent. Clinton's growing image of untrustworthiness...

We just started a cross-country tour called "Honoring our Heroes for the Holidays" that will take us to New York City at the World Trade Center site. We are collecting more than 100,000 cards of love and support that we did not show our veterans of more recent wars, which I will take to our soldiers in Iraq. Our first stop on Monday was in Santa Nella, Calif., at The Remembrance Memorial for California Korean War Veterans. The names of 2,495 California veterans are engraved there. Our people were overwhelmed with the service of these veterans who gave their lives...

Then Sir Chuck of Norris rode forth pushing the earth down before him. Now the way would be paved! "I'll watch the border, just get things in order!" He lowered his sword and knighted Friar Mike, "I give you Sir Mike-A-Lot who we all Like a lot! He's the only one we can trust to slay the Slaughter Dragon and the wicked Slaughter Queen. Now that he's lean, he's a fighting machine!" Sir Don-of-the-Wild rode forth on his steed. "I'm ready to lead!" he said. "Sir Mike-A-Lot will protect all the tots from slaughter and make sure each has a...

Most have probably seen by now one of the top watched YouTube commercials with GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and me. It was fun to film. In between our tongue-n-cheek entertainment, however, is a very serious message: Mike is robust and resilient enough even to stand up for our Second Amendment rights to bear arms, close the borders to illegals, and put the IRS out of business. Now that's Texas tough! With his strength and success it isn't a surprise to me that the Washington Post reported last week that Mike has "surged past three of his better-known presidential rivals...

The Democratic presidential candidates had the perfect opportunity this week to demonstrate sincerity in their "we really do support the troops, we just want them to Columnlose" positioning. It would of course be more appropriate to say you support the troops and therefore want them to achieve success in their missions, but these are Democrats we're talking about – and remember they weren't too supportive of victory for the U.S. military during the Cold War or Vietnam War, either. In Cambridge, Mass., city officials banned the Boy Scouts from conducting a troop care package drive – they went so far...

Forty-five years ago this week, President John F. Kennedy announced a startling economic discovery. He tried to educate the American people about why he was cutting taxes – not that the American people or any other people have ever needed to be persuaded to cut taxes. In a news conference Nov. 20, 1962, he said: "It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now. ... Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget...

Nov. 20, 2010 To the Resistance: I'm writing this letter from prison, where I've been since the beginning of 2010. Since Hillary was elected in '08, Christian persecution in America has gotten even worse than we predicted. When the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" was signed into law, my radio program was yanked off the air along with all the others that dared discuss moral issues on Christian radio. The networks just couldn't bring themselves to air a pro-abortion program or one advocates the homosexual agenda for the government mandated "balance" because broadcasting lies went against their basic beliefs – I don't...

"When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing – they believe in anything." That's what G.K. Chesterton told us, and it's true. Because so many of us no longer believe in the God of the Bible, we no longer have any standard for truth. Some even dispute whether there is such a thing as truth. That's how crazy it can get. The latest evidence of this assault on standards and truth comes in the form of confusion about what to teach about Thanksgiving in America's government schools. For instance, the Seattle school district sent out a letter...

While the liberal press belittles our troops' selflessness, and their families try to cope with separation and loss again during the holidays, I felt the need to take a break from my endorsement series of Mike Huckabee to address an important question.Thanksgiving is a duty before it's a feeling or a festivity. It is commemorated once a year, but thanks-living was never intended to be bound up in a single day. As a friend told me, "Gratitude is a seasoning for all seasons. Thanks-living is a college from which we never graduate." Giving thanks is still a choice, especially in...

We need unity – but what we don't need is compromise. The only thing this latest endorsement shows us is that our leaders are divided. The good news is that the grass roots are not. The two best indicators of where values voters stand are those who attended the Values Voter Presidential Debate and Summit where Gov. Mike Huckabee won both contests with more votes than all of the other candidates – combined. The 5-to-1 margin in both was clear – the leaders may be divided, but the values voters are not. ... Our leaders are divided and on the...

I'm not one to go down easy – never have been. Not on my watch! I call upon the conservative army across this nation to rise up and fight the tides of compromise and liberalism by standing strong on the core issues and showing its true colors now! In the spirit of Ronald Reagan, "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our...

The latest disclosure came when Radio Canada announced the "Felix" awards for Quebec-generated popular music. A folk-song group calling itself "Mes Aieux" (My Ancestors) had produced what was voted the most popular song in Quebec. It's called "Dégénérations" which (when spoken) could mean either "degeneration," an apt description of what has been happening in Quebec, or perhaps just "generations," a wistful observance of changing times. The words of the song leave no doubt, however, about its message. They recall and extol the old Quebecois, who courageously broke the land and founded French Canada. The song likewise deplores their descendants who...

To the news media, reports concerning accomplishments of our troops in Iraq are about as welcome as a visit by Bill Clinton to a shelter for abused women. Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seems allergic to any reports of progress from Iraq. The Baltimore Sun reported that Pelosi's response to the success of the surge has been to call for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Funny, that was the exact same response Pelosi had when the media was filled with negative reports on Iraq. This kind of behavior is what should be expected when you let armchair...

I know of no other front-runner other than Mike Huckabee who will champion our causes of life, marriage, freedom and the courts. Here are the unacceptable alternatives: * Mayor Rudy Giuliani: wrong on the Marriage Protection Act and wrong on the Sixth Commandment: "Thou shalt not kill." * Gov. Mitt Romney: Beyond his abysmal judicial appointments (including naming homosexual activists to the courts even AFTER his conversion on every major issue), he's wrong on something even more basic: the Apostle's Creed. The creed all Christians believe states: "I believe "… in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: Who was...

Huckabee is correct, "We are not a nation which penalizes the children because of the parents' sin." But when it comes to illegal immigration, even many conservatives indirectly advocate just that. We condemn those who abort even illegitimate babies from the womb, but condone (and sometimes commend) those who abort children from our "Christian" nation if their citizenship is illegitimate. Former Alabama Judge Roy Moore challenged us in one of his articles about illegals, "Should we demonstrate Christian love and concern for their salvation, or should we oppose amnesty legislation and enforce the immigration laws? The answer is yes –...

The Huckabee surge is swelling. And why? Because, despite most of the media favoritism in air time and attention of more liberal candidates, Americans are privy to the ploys of preferred political posturing – not allowing their own oversight of the second tier of candidates. America is catching on to the reality that Mike is a well-rounded, real American patriot, who understands the plight of average citizens and has the experience and vision to lead America into the future. Speaking of surges, one of the questions that arises when I speak about Huckabee is, "Why does Mike take a tough...

I won't leave you in suspense. Though Giuliani might be savvy enough to lead people, Fred Thompson wise enough to wade through the tides of politics, McCain tough enough to fight terrorism and Romney business-minded enough to grow our economy, I believe the only one who has all of the characteristics to lead America forward into the future is ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Newt Gingrich called Mike "very effective … if Huckabee can find money, he will be dramatically competitive almost overnight." Bill Clinton called Huckabee the "only dark horse that's got any kind of chance … He's the best...

Huckabee: The threat we face is one a lot of Americans don't fully comprehend or understand. This isn't a typical geopolitical war. It is a war against an enemy that has no national borders or boundaries, and it is not a war we are fighting over a border or boundary. It is a theological war. It's not politically correct to say that, it's just the truth. We are fighting people whose religious fanaticism will not be satisfied until every one of us is dead. … It is so incredibly dangerous. More so than any enemy we face. And here's the...

Thompson, whom President Nixon once called "dumb as hell," claimed to have carefully studied the Constitution and determined that obstruction of justice by the president of the United States did not constitute "high crimes and misdemeanors." He must have been looking at one of those living, breathing Constitutions we've heard so much about. When the framers chose the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" for the Constitution, they were using a term taken from British parliamentary impeachments. There's a 600-year history of what this phrase means – and Clinton met it about a dozen times before he gave a single statement...

Wouldn't it be nice to have as a choice for President in 2008 a seasoned military man who says what he believes? Don't you just have to love the candor and honesty of Gen. Peter Pace, the retiring chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? I can tell you he shook up Washington last week when he repeated his view that homosexual acts are immoral, are "counter to God's law" and should not be condoned in the U.S. military.

Several months ago, the Pentagon's network and e-mail system fell victim to computer hacking. After an internal investigation, Pentagon officials declared that the hack was perpetrated by the Chinese military. In particular, officials said the attack "was by China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) and that it led to the shutdown of a computer system serving the office of Defense Secretary Robert Gates." Now, a Chinese company with ties to the country's military, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and the Taliban will gain access to U.S. defense-network technology under a proposed merger.According to a story in the Washington Times, Huawei Technologies...

Unity not only gets us a pro-family President, but it could get us an administration that looks something like this: President Mike Huckabee Defense Secretary Duncan Hunter Director of Homeland Security Tom Tancredo Attorney General Sam Brownback Director of Heath and Human Services Alan Keyes If we combine the votes of these good men, we move from the back of the bus into the driver's seat and select the nominee. It's not only our best way to win the White House, from where I sit, it's the only way. United we drive, divided we crash.

When I tell you that Americans are quickly losing their ability to discern right from wrong, this is what I mean. That kind of discernment is being rapidly and systematically purged from their brains and their souls and their consciences by America's own "educational system." You attend institutions like Columbia today not for "higher education," but for advanced degrees in intellectual confusion, moral relativism and anti-Americanism. This is what has me distressed about Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia. I simply can't get the sound of the spontaneous applause for this genocidal lunatic out of my mind. I know political correctness is...

The lionesses of IraqSince the American Revolution, U.S. women have served in different capacities at wartimes. It wasn't until 1978, however, with the dissolution of the Woman's Army Corps that women regularly served in the same units as men in the U.S. Army. They were legally and officially dispatched in combat situations since only 1994 – thanks to Defense Secretary Les Aspin, who removed "substantial risk of capture" as a ground for exclusion of women in warfare. Still, they are prohibited from serving in infantry, artillery and armor branches, as well on submarines, special operations and forces (like the Navy...

Despite liberal media portrayals, the surge is working. What Gen. Petraeus shared with America is true; "monthly attack levels in Anbar have declined from some 1,350 in October 2006 to a bit over 200 in August of this year." The great news too is that our military is using the methods that are bringing the coalition and Iraqi army success in Anbar and is adopting them in other areas, including Baghdad. Though these good reports are by no means the only reports, it sure would be nice to hear a few more of them run on our more liberal news...

EuroMoney PLC, the UK-based company that arranges dozens of financial conferences around the world each year, has refused to allow WND staff reporter Jerome Corsi to attend next week's "North American PPP (Public-Private Partnership) & Infrastructure Finance Conference" in New York, even though WND offered to pay the $1,999 conference fee required to attend. "When government officials want to go behind closed doors with investment bankers and lawyers to discuss selling our public infrastructure to foreign investment leaders, investigative reporters need to be there to tell the public what is really going on,” Corsi said. "Why is it that all...

There are jewels and then there are diamonds. The conservative movement has its stars and its beauties, but I liked best the comment a Free Republic user made to describe Janet Folger: "She's our new flagship blonde." The Values Voter Presidential Debate, held Monday night and moderated by WND's Joseph Farah, was organized by Folger, and what a credit to the movement it was. This is just a public thanks to Janet and all those who sacrificed to put the event together – well done. It is noteworthy that the candidates who pretend and say that they most wish to...

They heard questions formulated not in the minds of the out-of-touch media elite. They heard questions tugging at the very heart and soul of the quiet Americans who go to work each day and attend religious services every week. It wasn't just what was asked, it was also remarkable who did the asking. Questioners included Monica Ramos, the wife of one of the jailed Border Patrol agents who heard from seven Republican presidential candidates that they would not mishandle her husband's case as the incumbent GOP president has. They also included a young woman who isn't supposed to exist –...