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The Muslim cleric behind plans to build a mosque close to the Ground Zero site has blamed politicians such as Sarah Palin for fuelling a "growing Islamophobia" that led to the burning of Korans on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The Reverend Terry Jones abandoned his "international burn a Koran day" in Gainesville, Florida on Saturday but there were isolated instances in Tennessee and New York of the Muslim holy book being set alight. "What has happened is that..certain politicians decided that this project would be very useful for their political ambitions," Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said,...

President Barack Obama is pledging a relentless fight to rebuild the economy as millions of families struggle. Obama is telling union officials in Washington, "We are not giving up, and we are not giving in." The president spoke in personal terms Wednesday about the plight of people who have not been able to find work in the deep, enduring recession. He spoke of spouses who must have uncomfortable conversations about not being able to afford their homes any more or not being able to save money for college funds. The president spoke to the AFL-CIO Executive Council.

Mexico is gearing up for a possible influx of deportees after a controversial Arizona immigration law took effect Thursday, even as a US judge blocked key provisions of SB 1070. The country is stocking immigrant shelters with food and beds and is sending human rights observers to border crossings to make sure repatriated Mexicans are not mistreated. A Phoenix federal judge issued a temporary court injunction on Wednesday, halting the requirement that police check the immigration status of suspected illegal immigrants. But the judge left intact the law's prohibition on stopping a motor vehicle to pick up day laborers and...

Sovereignty - Three Critical Questions for Political CandidatesAll tests which the Obamunists fail -- and so do many Republicans. Please share this with leaders of the electoral action organization of your choice. In addition to asking a candidate whether he or she is pro-life, for restoring constitutional government, for cutting budgets and taxes, for protecting our borders, how he interprets the 1st and 2nd Amendments, etc., these questions must be asked our political candidates: Are you a member of any organizations supporting globalist, transnationalist, or communitarian ends, or have you received money or services from them? Do you pledge...

The unlawful federal government's takeover of the financial, banking and insurance industries was just a prelude to the planned complete unconstitutional Marxist takeover of all of America. Your nearly trillion dollar per month spending habits have bankrupted our country. You're running up our taxes and the national debt, saddling future generations with enslaving burdens of taxes and debt that they can never repay. You've taken over car manufacturing companies, illegally wiping out the stockholders, bondholders and distributors and awarding the remaining assets to the labor unions or other political cronies of your choice. You are wasting trillions of our hard...

Last night, Barack Obama said he had recently read an article about Winston Churchill during the London blitz. "Churchill said, 'We don't torture,' when the entire British -- all of the British people were being subjected to unimaginable risk and threat," Obama said. "And then the reason was that Churchill understood, you start taking short-cuts, over time, that corrodes what's -- what's best in a people. It corrodes the character of a country." It was, perhaps, the most powerful anecdote of the night, and an apparently powerful moral condemnation of President Bush, an admitted admirer of Churchill who kept the...

Moving quickly to release Chinese Uighur terrorists into the United States, Obama administration officials have -- for the second time -- overridden objections of federal agencies responsible for national security. The first time -- as I reported on April 20 -- the White House overrode the inter-agency panel it created from all the national security agencies to review all the cases of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners. That panel found that the seventeen Uighurs -- members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement captured at an al-Queda training camp in Pakistan -- were too dangerous to release in the United States.

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NBC's "Today Show" aired unsubstantiated claims on Tuesday that U.S. troops had desecrated the Koran on at least two occasions, in a report that echoed a now retracted Newsweek story that has inflamed the Muslim world and led to deadly riots. The "Today Show" broadcast also covered an allegation that U.S. troops had gang raped an Iraqi woman. Commenting on the impact of Newsweek's blunder, NBC Middle East correspondent Richard Engel said the magazine's Koran desecration story was just one of several circulating throughout Iraq. "There's one rumor spreading today in local newspapers," Engel said. "It's been on the local...

Kick-off, Monday, March 17th – Help Reclaim Democracy!Action Details >> WAR IS NOT INEVITABLE! We Must Stop It Now. We call upon the American people to take nonviolent direct action to stop this war! Congress has the constitutional power to stop this war and has been silent. WE DEMAND THAT CONGRESS REPRESENT the Will of the People, REPEAL Bush’s war authorization and RE-ALLOCATE our money to schools, jobs, health care and other human needs. While war is imminent we cannot rest, March 17 will begin a WEEK OF NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION. From March 17-24 we will take action in the...