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Tra Party Patriots solicit funds for Congressioinasl Accountability Project. Mailed ftom P.O. Box 1205, Merrifield, VA 22116. Mailing letter signed by Jenny Beth Martin, National Cooridnator. Who are these people? Are they a legitimate Tea Party entity?

CNSNews.com) – The incoming Republican chairwoman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday identified U.S. funding of the United Nations as a target. The comments are likely to send a chill through supporters of the Obama administration’s policy of deeper engagement with the U.N. “I plan on using U.S. contributions to international organizations as leverage to press for real reform of those organizations, such as the United Nations,” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said after GOP lawmakers confirmed she will chair the committee in the next Congress. The Florida Republican also has her sights set on the administration’s budgets for...

CAIR responds to Juan Williams' firing from NPR

Does the world need an overdue Amnesty International report to know that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza? Israel has been boasting about war crimes in Gaza, the West Bank (do we have to mention Jenin?) and Lebanon for the past four decades. The report "urged" Israel not to use "artillery, white phosphorus and other imprecise weapons in densely populated areas". Otherwise, Hamas shares equal responsibility of the massive number of deaths in the Israeli war on Gaza in December and January, according to the report. Amnesty perhaps thinks it has done justice to the Palestinians in Gaza by...

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 GOA wants to thank all of you for your hard work in opposing the extremely anti-gun Eric Holder for Attorney General. While we lost the battle on Monday (by a vote of 75-21), you guys registered your opposition loud and clear. There is no doubt that your activism truly made gun rights THE issue in this nomination battle. Every Senator who spoke against Holder mentioned Second Amendment fears. And even among many of the Senators who voted for him, there was tremendous concern regarding Holder’s stance on gun rights. As stated by The Washington Post yesterday,...

Barack Obama has often said Americans need to keep a close eye on their leaders. "I learned long ago, when working as an organizer on the South Side of Chicago, that when citizens join their voices together, they can hold their leaders accountable," he said in a campaign blog last summer. "I'm not exempt from that. I'm certainly not perfect and expect to be held accountable too." He made the same point in a September campaign speech on education. "I want you to hold our government accountable," Obama said. "I want you to hold me accountable." Okay, we will. PolitiFact,...

Members of North America’s largest protestant denomination are calling for unity to push for further investigation into the recent allegations of financial impropriety at their International Mission Board (IMB) which has an annual budget of $288,900,000.00*. The organization has been under a cloud of suspicion since admitting that more than $350,000.00 of the Central Asia region’s budget remains unaccounted for. Some believe that there may be much more money missing. Messengers at the June 2006 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in Greensboro, NC accepted a motion to require an “external audit” of the books from 1999 to 2005, and automatically referred...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2006 – In addition to ensuring humane treatment of all detainees, a new policy directive and field manual released yesterday hold all servicemembers involved in or familiar with detainee operations accountable to ensure they are enforced. DoD Directive 2310.01E, “The Department of Defense Detainee Program,” describes core policies critical to ensuring that all detainees -- lawful and unlawful enemy combatants alike -- are treated humanely and within the law, explained Cully Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, during a Pentagon briefing yesterday. But the policy also provides safeguards to ensure these standards are enforced,...

The Republican Party is a grassroots party. Success depends on rallying the base into action. Yet all too often, grassroots activists feel as though their concerns fall on deaf ears. Now, through GOPUSA, the base had a chance to speak out, and the message is clear: accountability is key. Republicans need to start acting like Republicans.With results from close to 2,700 grassroots Republican activists to a recent GOPUSA survey, a detailed picture can be drawn which reflects their mood, sentiments, and concerns. The problem is… is anyone listening? In order for there to be success in the upcoming elections, Republican...

Marie St. Fleur was a candidate for lieutenant governor for less than 24 hours before she had to drop out over unpaid taxes...leaving voters to ask how a key player in crafting the state budget could make such a mess of her own checkbook. It is a question Massachusetts voters have asked themselves before. Massachusetts, dubbed "Taxachusetts" years ago for its tax-happy ways, seems to churn out scofflaw lawmakers unable or unwilling to pay their own taxes on time. It did not take long for another candidate to reveal that he, too, has had tax problems. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The international community must find a way to hold Syrian authorities accountable for the death of a leading Lebanese reformer, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday. Rice declined to discuss the next steps, beyond saying that some kind of international mechanism must be established to ensure that Syria is held accountable. She said she was deeply troubled by a U.N. report implicating Syria in the killing last February of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. "Accountability is going to be very important for the international community," she told reporters accompanying her on a trip to her home...

Throughout the 1990s, Turkish foreign policy analysts had an easy job. After all, Turkish foreign policy was predictable. Ankara cooperated enthusiastically with Washington, whether in the Middle East or in the Balkans. Turkey aligned itself with Israel and kept at arms length from Middle Eastern neighbors such as Syria and Iran. In Europe, Ankara traded heavily with the European Union (EU) but did not allow the EU to dictate foreign policy. The European Union's frequent allegations and criticism of human rights abuses in Turkey, especially with regard to Turkey's fight against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK, Partiya Karkaren Kurdistan) terrorists, soured...

A few years ago, parents of school-age children were assured that drastic reform was about to sweep through public schools. The keystone of that reform was the notion of accountability. Educators who raised student performance could expect cash rewards. Those who didn't could ultimately lose their jobs. But today -- as parents await yet another round of reports on whether schools are improving -- the rewards-and-sanctions system is already badly frayed. There is doubt that many of the most serious sanctions can ever be enforced, and in California, mired in budget woes, the rewards program has dried up with no...