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EDINBURGH, Scotland — Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing him to die at home in Libya despite American protests that mercy should not be shown to the man responsible for the deaths of 270 people. Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said Abdel Baset al-Megrahi's condition had deteriorated from prostate cancer. Al-Megrahi had only served some eight years of a life sentence, but MacAskill said he was bound by Scottish values to release him.

BAGHDAD — A series of explosions targeting government and commercial buildings struck Baghdad Wednesday, killing at least 75 people and wounding more than 312, Iraqi police said. The blasts in the capital followed a string of attacks in Iraq this month that have claimed hundreds of lives and raised concerns about the ability of Iraqi security forces to keep the lid on violence in advance of an American withdrawal.

Praise the Lord. Folks in New jersey are even speaking out. Check out this video of a townhall with Congressman Rothman (D-NJ) To his credit this is one of 10 townhalls he has planned with his folks.http://www.northjersey.com/multimedia/video/52913557.html

For those of you that followed the story last week. Glenn Beck reported on todays show that the Obama Administration contacted their show this afternoon, telling them that they have taken the web page down and are changing the wording.

Breaking on Fox. Body now in US for further confirmation.

JERSEY CITY -- Jack Shaw, a Jersey City political consultant who was among 44 people charged in a federal corruption probe, has died. Two officials with knowledge of the investigation said Shaw was found at home with several bottles of pills nearby. One of the officials said Shaw, 61, had an unspecified medical condition, and authorities are not jumping to conclusions about the cause of his death.

A group of students assembled a gnome village in front of the high school Thursday morning in an apparent prank days before graduation.Now police are trying to reunite the 75 colorful garden ornaments with their rightful owners.School staff found the pointy-hatted curios decorating the school's landscaping when they arrived at work.Police Lt.Steven Ang said the eight students involved - all captured on the school's security cameras wearing dark hooded sweatshirts to conceal their identities - put some thought into the gnome feng shui"They were strategically placed in the landscaping - neatly and professionally," he said.

Catholic churches in southern New Jersey are taking extra precautions since the Diocese of Camden received a letter saying biological agents would be placed in holy-water fonts and ventilation systems, a diocesan spokesman said Tuesday. The diocese received an anonymous letter last week threatening to put biological contaminants in Catholic churches in New Jersey, said Andrew Walton, a spokesman for the diocese. The letter, which was mailed May 1 and has a Bellmawr postmark, was received in the Camden office May 4 and opened May 5. The letter has been turned over to the Camden County Prosecutor's Office, which is...

The secretary of state's long-shuttered presidential campaign is still trying to pay off a steep debt, and has launched a new fundraising pitch urging donors to give money and compete for the chance to win one of three "exclusive prizes." One of those is a day with Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton is so eager to pay off her campaign debt, she's resorted to selling her husband -- for a day, anyway. The most exclusive prize? A day of "adventure" in the Big Apple with former President Bill Clinton. The other prizes are nothing to sneeze at either. One lucky winner...

Doctors from across the country have come to Washington to try to save a federal regulation that gives added protection to medical workers who choose not to perform certain procedures, like abortion, that they morally object to. "It is open season on healthcare professionals of conscience," said David Stevens, CEO of the Christian Medical Association. "Discriminate at will." Though a number of "provider protection" laws have been on the books for decades, some doctors complained they weren't being enforced. So just before he left office, President Bush enacted a federal regulation calling for better enforcement and mandating that some medical...

In the continuing saga of "bright blue scrotum"-gate, the person who was responsible for posting the doctored video to YouTube has been fired. The news was first reported by FTVLive. John Sanders, who was interviewed about the clip Friday by Breitbart.tv's B-Cast, was a correspondent for WBAL-TV in Baltimore. WBAL-TV released this statement today: "WBAL-TV management has learned that a former WBAL-TV employee posted a video regarding Fox News' John Gibson and Attorney General Eric Holder on his personal YouTube page without the prior knowledge or consent of anyone at WBAL-TV or Hearst-Argyle Television. This video was not approved by,...

Welcome To The Glenn Beck Television Thread! All Posters And Lurkers Are WELCOME! M-F 5:00-6:00 PM (EST) All this week, The Road To Socialism on the Glenn Beck Show

Welcome To The Glenn Beck Daily Television Thread! All Posters And Lurkers Are WELCOME! Fox News M-F 5:00-6:00 PM (EST)Come join us, duct tape and M&M's required.E-mail the show: glennbeck@foxnews.com Glenn Beck Program: http://www.glennbeck.com/

Welcome To The Glenn Beck Television Thread! All Posters And Lurkers Are WELCOME!M-F 5:00-6:00 PM (EST) E-mail the show: glennbeck@foxnews.com Glenn Beck Program: http://www.glennbeck.com/

Glenn Beck Show5:00-6:00 M-F Fox News.We had a pretty good turn out for the first thread yesterday. Come join us and let your voice be heard.

Here we go folks. Fox News 5:00-6:00 PM Monday-Friday The first Daily Talk Show Thread for Glenn Beck.Come on in and share your views.

This evening Glenn Beck is presenting a special called, God In America.Saturday Feb.7th - Fox News 9:00-10:00 PM I use to tune in when Beck had his show on that other channel and he was always interesting.Thought FReepers might be interested in following along with the show.

John P. Pryor, 42, of Moorestown, the dedicated leader of the University of Pennsylvania's trauma team and a decorated major in the Army Reserve who wrote eloquently about the painful parallels between battlefield deaths and urban homicides, was killed on Christmas by enemy fire in Iraq while serving as a combat surgeon.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Catholic Campaign for Human Development suspended funding a nationwide community organizing group after it was disclosed June 2 that nearly $1 million had been embezzled. Funding was suspended for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, popularly known as ACORN, because of the financial irregularities, said Ralph McCloud, executive director of CCHD, the U.S. bishops' domestic anti-poverty and social justice program. "We're not funding them at any level," McCloud told Catholic News Service Oct. 15. The suspension covers all 40 ACORN affiliates nationwide that had been approved for $1.13 million in grants for the funding...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A federal grand jury ended its session Tuesday without indicting a Democratic state lawmaker’s son in an investigation of someone hacking Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail. That doesn’t mean the investigation is over.