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Chief of the U.S. Military: Shut down Guantanamo Bay Published on 25 May 2009 by admin in General News, In The Media Admiral Mike Mullen stated it simply, “I’d like to see it shut down.” Mullen believes Guantanamo has significantly damaged the reputation of the United States, even going so far as to say (in other articles) that it has been a powerful recruiting tool for Islamic terrorists. Rand couldn’t agree more. Rand believes America can fight terrorism and maintain its moral integrity without resorting to offshore prison camps, “prolonged detention”, and other, highly questionable legal measures. For Rand, national...

Election '08: Barack Obama's economic blueprint sounds like one his communist father tried to foist on Kenya 40 years ago, with massive taxes and succor shrouded as "investments."As a Nairobi bureaucrat, Barack Hussein Obama Sr. advised the pro-Western Kenyan government there to "redistribute" income through higher taxes. He also demonized corporations and called for massive government "investment" in social programs. Writing in a 1965 scholarly paper, Obama's late father slammed the administration of then-President Jomo Kenyatta for moving the Third World country away from socialism toward capitalism. He chafed at the idea of relying on private investors — who earn...

"Rep. Patrick Kennedy has reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of prescription drugs... "

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had taken sleep medication and a prescription anti-nausea drug that can cause drowsiness. Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports. His initial statement said: "I consumed no alcohol prior to the incident."'Later, however, he issued a longer statement saying the attending physician for Congress had prescribed Phenergan on Tuesday to treat Kennedy's gastroenteritis.Kennedy said he returned to his Capitol Hill home on Wednesday evening after a final series of votes...

FONTANA (SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY) -- A son of convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams, who is scheduled to be executed next month at San Quentin state prison, is being sought on suspicion of sexually molesting a 13-year-old girl in San Bernardino County, authorities said today. Lafayette Jones, 36, a convicted sex offender, is wanted on a $600,000 warrant that a Superior Court judge issued Tuesday, Fontana police spokesman Sgt. Bill Megenney said. "We believe he is either hiding in the area of Los Angeles or may possibly have left the state," Megenney said. Jones faces charges of lewd and lascivious acts...

By Adam Entous WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) will propose $3.2 billion for next year to combat the spread of AIDS (news - web sites) globally, one of the few increases in what is expected to be a tight foreign aid budget, administration and congressional sources said on Friday. AP Photo Administration officials said Bush was fulfilling his commitments on AIDS funding, but critics charged the funding levels were inadequate. In his 2003 State of the Union address, Bush pledged $15 billion over five years to help combat the spread of HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS,...

By the time John Kerry's father, Richard, published his only book, The Star-Spangled Mirror, in 1990, he should have been a mellow man. Nearly 30 years had passed since his retirement from the Foreign Service, where he'd filled mid-level posts in Washington, Berlin, and Oslo. His central issue, the cold war, had followed him into retirement with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall and rise of glasnost in Russia. When the 75-year-old Kerry wasn't working on his book, he could be found building model ships and sailing off Cape Cod. If he had any reasons for professional bitterness, they should...

By the time John Kerry's father, Richard, published his only book, The Star-Spangled Mirror, in 1990, he should have been a mellow man. Nearly 30 years had passed since his retirement from the Foreign Service, where he'd filled mid-level posts in Washington, Berlin, and Oslo. His central issue, the cold war, had followed him into retirement with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall and rise of glasnost in Russia. When the 75-year-old Kerry wasn't working on his book, he could be found building model ships and sailing off Cape Cod. If he had any reasons for professional bitterness, they should...

Young Kennedy keeps up family tradition By Howie Carr Recent Columns by Howie Carr Sunday, February 29, 2004 The question now is not if, but when Robert F. Kennedy III will run for Congress. He's only 19, but in Leominster the boy showed his true mettle as he became the first of his generation to hear those words that all Kennedy males must listen to as their rite of passage into adulthood: ``Mr. Kennedy, you have the right to remain silent. . . .'' A week ago tonight, Bobby the Third made his bones, and now, let the word go...

Feb 4, 2004 Daley Aide Resigns in Chicago Scandal Over Trucking Contracts By Mike Robinson Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) - Mayor Richard M. Daley's budget chief resigned Wednesday in response to a controversy over $40 million a year in payments to politically connected trucking companies that received city business. "My continued service could distract your administration from moving forward on the work that has begun and to which I have been so committed," William F. Abolt, city director of management and budget, told Daley in a resignation letter. City Hall has been reeling since the Chicago Sun-Times disclosed in...

Gore's Son Given Probation on Marijuana Charge Rockville, Md. -- Albert Gore III will have to complete a substance abuse program under an agreement approved Monday by a judge presiding over a marijuana possession case against the son of former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore. Montgomery County District Court Judge Mary McCormick put Albert Gore III's case on an inactive docket for a year, at which point the case will be dropped if Gore meets certain requirements. Those include submitting to 12 weeks of urine testing, community service and substance abuse counseling sessions. Gore also can't have...

<p>ROCKVILLE, Maryland (AP) --The 21-year-old son of former Vice President Al Gore must complete substance abuse counseling as part of a pretrial diversion program to settle a marijuana possession charge.</p> <p>The agreement approved by a judge Monday calls for the misdemeanor charge to be dropped after a year if Albert Gore III submits to urine testing, community service and counseling, and steers clear of criminal convictions.</p>

Md. (AP) - The 21-year-old son of former Vice President Al Gore must complete substance abuse counseling as part of a pretrial diversion program to settle a marijuana possession charge. The agreement approved by a judge Monday calls for the misdemeanor charge to be dropped after a year if Albert Gore III submits to urine testing, community service and counseling, and steers clear of criminal convictions. The younger Gore, who attends Harvard University, had no comment after the brief hearing. He was accompanied by his mother, Tipper Gore, who did not comment other than saying the issue was a ``private...

Posted on Tue, Jan. 06, 2004 Imam and Father of a Guantanamo Bay Detainee and 7 Others Held French Chechen Terrorist CrackdownFather of Guantanamo Bay Detainee Held JEAN-BAPTISTE LABEUR Associated Press LYON, France - An Islamic cleric whose son is being held at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was among seven people detained by French security agents Tuesday as part of an investigation into suspected terror networks. The imam, Chellali Benchellali, was arrested at his home in the tough Minguettes high-rise neighborhood of Venissieux, a suburb of the southeastern city of Lyon, said a lawyer for the family....

LYON, France, Jan 6 (AFP) - French anti-terrorist police detained seven people including the imam of a mosque in a series of dawn raids Tuesday targetting Islamic militant circles near the southeastern city of Lyon, police officials said. The swoop was conducted under a 2002 probe ordered by Paris anti-terrorist judges into a so-called "Chechen network", in which Islamic radicals allegedly underwent terrorist training in camps in the Russian separatist republic of Chechnya and in Georgia in 2000 and 2001. Among those detained Tuesday was Chellali Benchellali, an imam who is the father of a man detained by the US...

Father of Guantanamo Bay Detainee Held Tuesday January 6, 2004 11:46 PM By JEAN-BAPTISTE LABEUR Associated Press Writer LYON, France (AP) - An Islamic cleric whose son is being held at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was among seven people detained by French security agents Tuesday as part of an investigation into suspected terror networks. The imam, Chellali Benchellali, was arrested at his home in the tough Minguettes high-rise neighborhood of Venissieux, a suburb of the southeastern city of Lyon, said a lawyer for the family. Attorney Jacques Debray said the imam's wife and one of his sons,...

Three Students Arrested For Pot Possession in Md. In an incident which sparked international media coverage, Albert Gore III ’05 and two other Harvard students were arrested over winter break for possession of marijuana. On Dec. 19, Gore, the son of former Vice President Al Gore ’69, Yann V. Kumin ’04 and Marc G. Hordon ’05 were arrested in downtown Bethesda, Md. An officer stopped Gore, who was driving, at around 11:30 p.m. after noticing that his headlights were off, according to Joyce M. Utter, Montgomery County Police spokersperson. Utter said the officer saw the passenger in the back seat...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of former vice president and 2000 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore has been charged with marijuana possession.</p> <p>Albert A. Gore III, 21, was arrested Friday night after he was stopped for driving a vehicle without its headlights on.</p>

<p>December 21, 2003 -- The son of former vice president Al Gore has been charged with marijuana possession in Bethesda, Md. Albert A. Gore III, 21, and two passengers were arrested Friday night after he was stopped for driving a dark-colored Cadillac without its headlights on at around 11:30 p.m. Friday.</p>