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November 20, 2009
Following Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas, last week, pundits advanced all sorts of theories as to how a member of the U.S. armed forces could have possibly been so influenced by al-Qaeda’s image of Islam that he took up arms against fellow soldiers. It soon became known that Hasan received inspiration (and e-mail instructions) from a charismatic al-Qaeda-linked cleric named Anwar al-Awlaki, currently in hiding in Yemen, whose sermons were readily available on militant web sites. What this means for us now is that potential jihadists in the U.S., who know only English, may still be effectively radicalized.
Al-Awlaki himself is a fluent English speaker with an American accent, and his sermons were made readily available through this increasing network of websites, all without the need for editing or sub-titles. This is a frightening development, as al-Qaeda is now able to get its message out to those people who were formerly out of reach linguistically.
posted by : Left Coast Conservative on November 20, 2009
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November 20, 2009
Hundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world's leading climate scientists during the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and leaked online, it emerged today. Climate change sceptics who have studied the emails allege they provide "smoking gun" evidence that some of the climatologists colluded in manipulating data to support the widely held view that climate change is real, and is being largely caused by the actions of mankind.
The files, which in total amount to 160MbB of data, were first uploaded on to a Russian server, before being widely mirrored across the internet. The emails were accompanied by the anonymous statement: "We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps. We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code and documents. Hopefully it will give some insight into the science and the people behind it."
posted by : Left Coast Conservative on November 20, 2009
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November 20, 2009
Only a Bernie Madoff could believe the Senate’s health care bill will extend coverage to 31 million Americans while cutting deficits by $127 billion over 10 years. It would be the first profitable entitlement. But that’s what Majority Leader Harry Reid, citing Congressional Budget Office estimates, tells us the 2,074-page bill — said to cost only $849 billion over a decade — would do. We are not impressed by this sleight-of-hand accounting that says you can expand coverage and cut costs.
posted by : Left Coast Conservative on November 20, 2009
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November 20, 2009
posted by : Left Coast Conservative on November 20, 2009
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November 20, 2009
posted by : Nancy Kennon on November 20, 2009
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November 20, 2009
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November 20, 2009
posted by : Nancy Kennon on November 20, 2009
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November 20, 2009
posted by : Nancy Kennon on November 20, 2009
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November 20, 2009
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said at a workplace symposium in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that the Obama administration is committed to cracking down on employers who employ illegal immigrants, but DHS policy states that the illegal aliens who work for them will only be arrested and detained based on DHS 'priorities.' (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)
On the same day, Republicans said that while some businesses are being investigated, most illegal workers are not being removed.
posted by : Nancy Kennon on November 20, 2009
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November 20, 2009

Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won't get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers. The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular national program begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to thousands of letters addressed to Santa each year. Replies come with North Pole postmarks.
posted by : Nancy Kennon on November 20, 2009
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November 20, 2009
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November 20, 2009
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November 19, 2009
posted by : Nancy Kennon on November 19, 2009
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November 19, 2009
Edwin Meese III, the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation as well as the United States Attorney General between 1985 and 1988 released the following statement today on the proposed trials of terrorists in New York City, including confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
“It is clear that foreign terrorists and terrorist groups have committed acts of war against the United States, and that our national security requires that we respond accordingly. This means that President Bush’s prudent actions and the military response which he led should continue as our answer to these attacks.
posted by : Left Coast Conservative on November 19, 2009
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November 19, 2009
The National Security Agency (NSA) worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7, an agency official acknowledged yesterday during testimony before Congress.
"Working in partnership with Microsoft and elements of the Department of Defense, NSA leveraged our unique expertise and operational knowledge of system threats and vulnerabilities to enhance Microsoft's operating system security guide without constraining the user to perform their everyday tasks, whether those tasks are being performed in the public or private sector," Richard Schaeffer, the NSA's information assurance director, told the Senate's Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security yesterday.
posted by : Left Coast Conservative on November 19, 2009
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November 19, 2009
The Council on American-Islamic relations (CAIR) is an organization created with the intent to fund Hamas. It was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Terror funding trial case. In one key piece of Wiretap evidence presented in the case CAIR's executive director, Nihad Awad, was found at a Philadelphia meeting of Hamas leaders secretly recorded by the FBI. Participants hatched a plot to deceive Americans and disguise payments to Hamas as it launched a campaign of terror attacks. In other words, THEY BROKE THE THE LAW.
posted by : Left Coast Conservative on November 19, 2009
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November 19, 2009
Before surrendering to authorities on Wednesday afternoon to begin serving a measly 28 month sentence for providing material support to Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman (the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993), Maoist sympathizer, terrorist enabler and traitor Lynne Stewart took time out for an interview with Marxist Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! network. It was a spectacle reminiscent of the way the state-controlled newspaper Pravda would conduct its fawning interviews of Josef Stalin during the days of the old Soviet-Union. Stewart remains defiant, and her interview with Goodman shows that she is just as dedicated to the cause of America’s enemies in 2009 as she was in 1993.
posted by : Left Coast Conservative on November 19, 2009
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November 19, 2009
posted by : Nancy Kennon on November 19, 2009
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November 19, 2009
posted by : Nancy Kennon on November 19, 2009
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