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Intel Used by Obama Found Iran Long-Range Missile Capacity Would Take 3-5 Years Longer – Fox

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 04:58 PM PDT


German FM calls Ahmadinejad ‘a disgrace’ for denying Holocaust

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 03:44 PM PDT

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier condemned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's latest denial of the Holocaust on Friday, calling him a disgrace to his country. ...


Reformist leaders attacked as thousands march in fresh Iran protests

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 03:36 PM PDT

Hard-liners attacked senior pro-reform leaders in the streets as tens of thousands marched in competing mass demonstrations by the opposition and government supporters. ...


Lutheran World Relief to Host Book Discussion with Roger Thurow, Co-Author of ENOUGH: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 01:11 PM PDT

Contact: Emily Sollie, Lutheran World Relief, 410-230-2802, esollie@lwr.org  BALTIMORE, Sept. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- The following is submitted by Lutheran World Relief: WHAT: Book discussion and signing with Wall Street Journal reporter Roger Thurow, co-author of Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. Thurow, a veteran foreign correspondent, teamed with fellow Journal agriculture reporter Scott Kilman to document how decades of economic and political interests, Source: Lutheran World Relief


G20 to coordinate exit strategy rhetoric: sources – Reuters

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 12:41 PM PDT


Cap-and-Trade’s Cost to Americans: $1,761 per Household – NewsMax

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 12:41 PM PDT


Netanyahu aide: Palestinians to blame for failure of Mitchell meetings

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 12:33 PM PDT

Officials in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bureau accused the Palestinians on Friday of thwarting the efforts of the U.S. Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, during meetings in Israel and the West Bank to reach a deal on resuming peace talks. ...


Senate Delays Confirming Illegal Alien Advocate At DOJ

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 12:25 PM PDT

Amid growing controversy, the Senate is delaying the confirmation of a renowned illegal immigrant advocate who served on the board of a day laborer center to head a crucial division of the Justice Department.

President Obama's pick to run the agency's civil rights division, Maryland Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, has too many skeletons in his closet to breeze through the confirmation process and will have to wait at least six months while lawmakers further scrutinize his controversial past. 

An Ivy League graduate of Dominican descent, Perez has long fought for the rights of illegal aliens in the U.S. by supporting Mexican and Guatemalan-issued cards as valid identification in this country, favoring discounted tuition at public colleges and providing advice to illegal aliens on how to deal with police.

Perez actually served as president of the board of a controversial, taxpayer-funded advocacy organization (Casa de Maryland) that helps illegal immigrants by operating day laborer facilities and offering free legal services. Based in the state's Tacoma Park area, Casa de Maryland, proudly advertises its day laborer centers—in Baltimore, Wheaton and Silver Spring—which are all partially funded with public money from counties and cities. 

Last year Casa de Maryland received a $1.5 million donation from Venezuela's ardent anti-U.S. leader, socialist Hugo Chavez, who is a close ally of State Department terrorist nations like Iran, North Korea and Cuba. The Chavez-controlled Citgo Petroleum Corp. made the donation to support illegal aliens in the U.S. and the connection between the South American strongman and future Justice Department official is more than unsettling.  

The ties are certainly worrisome considering that the Justice Department's high-profile civil rights division represents the government, Congress and presidential cabinet officers in a wide range of litigation, annually handling thousands of cases dealing with significant policy issues. One Washington newspaper editorial points out that Perez's cornucopia of leftist positions should give senators pause. 


Netanyahu aide: Palestinians to blame for failure of Mitchell talks

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 12:06 PM PDT

Officials in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bureau blamed the Palestinians on Friday for the total failure of meetings over peace talks held by the U.S. Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, in Israel and the West Bank. ...


Putin Applauds ‘Brave’ U.S. Decision on Missile Defense – NY Times

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 11:36 AM PDT


IAEA urges Israel to allow nuclear inspection – Ynet

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 11:36 AM PDT


Obama Ties Immigration and Health Care Battle (Legalized Illegal Immigrants Could Get Health Care) – Washington Times

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 11:36 AM PDT


UN body urges Israel to allow nuclear inspection

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 11:22 AM PDT

Arab states in the United Nations nuclear assembly on Friday won narrow approval of a resolution urging Israel to put all its atomic sites under the world body's inspection and join the Non-Proliferation Treaty. ...


‘That’s A Racist’ Parody of ‘That’s Amore’

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 10:39 AM PDT

Contact: Rippin' Richie, 864-884-9518; www.popandlock.com MEDIA ADVISORY, Sept. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- Musician Rippin' Richie isn't offended by accusations of racism from Jimmy Carter and others on the left. "These accusations are too ridiculous to be taken seriously, so It's hard for me to be offended." Jimmy Carter and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd are among those that have implied that resistance to Obama's radical socialist agenda is due to his skin color. R Source: CCN


Stock Market Resumes Rally after One-Day Break

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 10:26 AM PDT

The stock market shifted back into rally mode Friday after analyst upgrades boosted investor optimism about the economy.


Conservative Christians assail Obama agenda – Reuters

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 10:21 AM PDT


Fed eyes wide-ranging bank pay rules to combat risk – Reuters

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 10:21 AM PDT


Psychiatric Defense Likely in NY Wife Beheading

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 10:17 AM PDT

A man accused of beheading his wife at the television station they founded to counter stereotypes of Muslims is likely to claim emotional distress was behind the killing in hopes of avoiding a murder conviction.


Obama Administration Calls for Study on Removing Dams from Snake River to Help Salmon

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 10:15 AM PDT

The Obama administration is recommending that the Corps of Engineers study the possible removal of the four lower Snake River dams in the interest of helping salmon.


‘Mitchell meetings did not advance trilateral summit’

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 09:48 AM PDT

A senior Palestinian official said on Friday that U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell has ended his latest shuttle without agreement on terms for renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians or for setting a trilateral summit. ...


Author Slams Wall Street Journal for Bias

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 09:10 AM PDT

Contact: Trisha Ramos, Living Waters, 800-437-1893 MEDIA ADVISORY, Sept. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- This weekend The Wall Street Journal pitted atheism against God (Sept. 12-13th 2009, page W1). The full-page piece was adorned with huge graphics of Charles Darwin going head-to-head with God. Best-selling author Ray Comfort said, "The problem was that both perspectives were pro-atheistic evolution. It was a farce in the guise of "Man vs. God." The newspaper is free to publish anything they Source: Living Waters


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Florida Prayer Case Reveals ACLU Agenda to Criminalize Christianity

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 09:04 AM PDT

Contact: Liberty Counsel Public Relations Department, 800-671-1776 SANTA ROSA COUNTY, FL, Sept. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- Yesterday after an all-day hearing, Santa Rosa County, Florida, Principal Frank Lay and Athletic Director Robert Freeman were cleared of criminal contempt charges that arose from the simple blessing of a meal. When they heard the decision, tears of joy and cheers swept through the throngs of people who had waited outside in the rain for over ten hours. A mi Source: Liberty Counsel


Political Writer Irving Kristol Dead at 89

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 09:00 AM PDT

Irving Kristol, the political writer and publisher called the "godfather" of neo-conservatism, has died. He was 89.


Goldstone: Holocaust shaped view on war crimes

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 08:46 AM PDT

Judge Richard Goldstone, the head of a United Nations commission that this week charged Israel with committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip during its offensive there last winter, believes bringing war criminals to justice stems from the lessons of the Holocaust, according to a lecture he delivered in Israel in 2000. ...


Bush Interior Sec. Criminally Probed

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 08:29 AM PDT

A Bush cabinet member who headed a notoriously corrupt federal agency long infested with cronyism and incompetence is being criminally investigated for illegally using her position to help a major oil company that later hired her. 

Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton, once Colorado Attorney General, helped her current employer—one of the world's largest oil producers—get three lucrative government deals when she headed the massive agency with a $16 billion annual budget and more than 70,000 employees. Over the years the oil shale leases on federal land will earn the company (Shell) hundreds of billions of dollars.

A few months after Shell secured the coveted government deals in 2006 Norton resigned her cabinet post and subsequently got hired by Shell as in-house counsel. The Interior Department's Office of Inspector General found sufficient evidence of wrongdoing to make a formal criminal referral to federal prosecutors. They must now determine whether Norton illegally used her office to help a company that she was negotiating her next job with. The facts certainly support that theory.

Federal law prohibits government officials from discussing employment with a company if the parties are involved in dealings that could benefit the firm. Norton may have also violated a blanket federal law, known as denial of honest services, which states that government officials can be criminally prosecuted for violating the public's trust. In Norton's case, she obviously steered government business to friends or a favored company.

This sort of fraud is nothing new at the Department of Interior, which has a documented history of waste, ethical failure and abuse that dates back a decade. In 2007 the agency's longtime inspector general told a congressional panel that "short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior" and that "ethics failures on the part of senior department officials—taking the form of appearances of impropriety, favoritism and bias—have been routinely dismissed with a promise not to do it again." 

A year later the inspector general published three scathing reports detailing how agency officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties rigged contracts, secretly worked for oil companies as consultants and accepted valuable gifts from the massive firms they were supposedly overseeing. 

Who could forget the Interior Department deputy secretary (Steven Griles) sentenced to jail for his involvement in the biggest lobbying scandal to hit Washington? Griles obstructed justice by concealing his unique and close relationship with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, repeatedly lying about it to Senate investigators.


Fed Plan Would Police Banks’ Pay for 1st Time

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 08:09 AM PDT

The Federal Reserve for the first time would police banks' pay policies to make sure they don't encourage excessive risk taking under a plan the Fed is drafting.


Teen Claims Retailer Wouldn’t Hire Her Because She Wore Head Scarf

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 07:53 AM PDT

A Muslim teenager claims in a federal lawsuit that she was denied a job at an Abercrombie & Fitch clothing store at a Tulsa mall because she wore a head scarf.


Supreme Knight Carl Anderson to Deliver Keynote at Project Rachel 25th Anniversary Dinner

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 07:38 AM PDT

Event to be held at St. Margaret Mary Church in Milwaukee Friday, Sept. 18 Contact: Andrew Walther, Knights of Columbus, 203-824-5412, andrew.walther@kofc.org MILWAUKEE, WI, Sept. 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- Supreme Knight Carl Anderson of the Knights of Columbus will address the celebratory gathering for the twenty-fifth anniversary of Project Rachel at St. Margaret Mary Church in Milwaukee following a 6 p.m. Mass. The Church is located at the corner of 92nd and Capital Drive. Mr. Anderson' Source: Knights of Columbus


Obama’s Approval Rating Drops Below 50 Percent Among Middle-Income Americans, Says Gallup Poll

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 07:28 AM PDT

President Obama's approval rating has dropped below 50 percent among middle-income Americans, according to tracking done by the Gallup Poll during the period from Sept. 7-Sept. 13.


Rabbi Richman on Preparing for Blessing

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 06:58 AM PDT

The Temple Institute's Rabbi Richman offers blessings for the New Year, and discusses how we can be open to receive blessing.


‘IAEA: Iran can now build nuclear bomb’ – Jerusalem Post – September 18

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 06:22 AM PDT

Experts at the IAEA are in agreement that Teheran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press on Thursday. The document drafted by senior officials at the UN’s International Atomic [...]


Jimmy Carter’s new twist on Old South race baiting – WND – September 18

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 06:19 AM PDT

Alan Keyes on why ‘Obama’s skin color doesn’t make him a black American’ As it has in so many other ways, Barack Obama’s political victory in 2008 has proven false to the hope that the election of someone of African heritage would help carry the American people beyond the tragic legacy of guilt, mutual ignorance and [...]


Dr. Barack and Mr. Obama – Victor Davis Hanson – September 18

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 06:15 AM PDT

The backlash is sharp as voters learn that Obama is not the man they thought he was. No one imagined that Barack Obama, during his first nine months in office, would be falling in the polls even faster than George W. Bush did prior to 9/11. We all knew what Obama's weaknesses were as he came into [...]


Ahmadinejad: Confronting Israel is a national duty

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 06:14 AM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday the Holocaust was a "lie" and a pretext to create a Jewish state that Iranians had a religious duty to confront. ...


A Masterstroke of Weakness – NRO – September 18

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 06:12 AM PDT

If diplomatic pusillanimity was the aim, Pres. Barack Obama's decision to abandon our current missile-defense plans in Eastern Europe must be regarded as a masterstroke. With just one announcement, the Obama administration undercut two loyal allies, rewarded Russian bullying, and diminished our ability to counter an emerging Iranian threat. If there were awards for self-defeating weakness, [...]


Barbour: Policy, not race, drives Obama foes – Washington Times – September 18

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 06:10 AM PDT

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said in an interview that rising opposition to President Obama’s free-spending policies has nothing to do with race, and dismissed rosy federal predictions that the recession is over as nothing more than “political happy talk.” “All through my political career, when the Democrats are losing the argument, they try to make the [...]


Ahmadinejad refuses to rule out nuclear weapons in interview – MSNBC

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 05:52 AM PDT


Obama Nominates Radical Abortion Advocate as an Assistant Attorney General – NewsMax

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 05:52 AM PDT


North Korea’s nuclear vows fail to sway skeptics – Reuters

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 05:52 AM PDT


Nato chief reaches out to Russia for strategic partnership on missile defense – BBC

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 05:52 AM PDT


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