JARRATT, Va. (AP) – John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that left 10 dead, was executed Tuesday as relatives of the victims watched, reliving the killing spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area for three weeks in October 2002. The 48-year-old Muhammad looked calm and stoic, but was twitching and blinking, tapping [...]
The Blotter: A senior government official tells ABC News that investigators have found that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan had “more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI” than just radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki. The official declined to name the individuals but Congressional sources said their names and countries of [...]
COLUMBIA, S.C (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that South Carolina can’t issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase “I Believe.” U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie’s ruling said the license plate was unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment ban on [...]
Fox News The Army psychiatrist suspected of killing 13 people at Fort Hood reportedly warned senior Army physicians in 2007 that the military should allow Muslim soldiers to be released as conscientious objectors instead of fighting in wars to avoid “adverse events.” According to The Washington Post, Major Nidal Malik Hasan was supposed to make [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to add tens of thousands more forces to Afghanistan, though probably not quite the 40,000 sought by his top general there. By ANNE GEARAN and STEVEN R. HURST The White House emphasized that the president hasn’t made a decision yet about troop levels or other [...]
PINE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) – A town official says a gunman at an upstate New York high school has taken the principal hostage. Pine Plains Town Supervisor Gregg Pulver tells CNN that students at Stissing Mountain High School are safe. The school is about 90 miles north of New York City. The school remains on [...]
Telegraph UK Toby Harnden There was one world leader absent for today’s commemorations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Surprisingly enough, it’s President Barack Obama, who found time last year to give a campaign speech there last year, which Der Spiegel summed up as “People of the World, Look at [...]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – A badly damaged North Korean patrol ship retreated in flames Tuesday after a skirmish with a South Korean naval vessel along their disputed western coast, South Korean officials said. The first naval clash in seven years broke out just a week before President Barack Obama is due to visit Seoul, [...]
Politico: Conservatives say they pushed Dede Scozzafava out of the House race in New York’s 23rd District a week ago because of her left-of-Republican social views — and not because she is a woman. But the growing schism between the Republican Party’s ascendant right wing and its shrinking moderate core has clear gender undertones — [...]
CNS News: United Nations – Confident that governments will reach a climate change deal next month, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is heading to Washington Tuesday to ensure that the United States is on board. Ban plans to meet with key senators and White House officials to discuss how governments are approaching the climate negotiations “and [...]
Rasmussen: Fifty-eight percent (58%) of likely voters say it is at least somewhat likely the next president of the United States will be a Republican, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. The number has been trending in this direction since Democrat Barack Obama took office in January and is up 14 points [...]
CNS News: Richmond, Va. – The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday’s scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad. The Court did not comment Monday on why it refused to consider his appeal. Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection at a Virginia prison for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at [...]
The LA Times: An Army hospital spokesman said today that Nidal Malik Hasan is now conscious and able to talk. The 39-year-old Army major and combat psychiatrist is accused of unleashing a bloody massacre Thursday when he opened fire at a processing center at Ft. Hood Army military base, killing 13 and wounding 29. The [...]
Democrat Senate: Democratic Senators Daniel Akaka, Jon Tester and Mark Begich held a press conference today calling on Republican Senator Tom Coburn to release his hold on a veterans’ health bill. The bill offers assistance and improves benefits to wounded veterans and their caregivers. In addition, the legislation will provide assistance to caregivers who, at [...]
Ace Of Spades: Obama on Fall of Berlin Wall: No One Could Have Forseen on That Day That German Ally America Would Be Led By Man of African Descent But enough of me talking about myself. How about you talk about me for a while? There is a fallacy in the theory of evolution, often [...]
This is only ten minutes of the entire 80 minute speech. I don’t find it reasonable to post all ten videos on the site here, so if you would like to see the rest of the speech, just click here. “They are sacrificing America on the altar of Political Correctness.”
The New York Times: In an odd coincidence, the House debate on Saturday to overhaul health care took place on the third anniversary of the 2006 election that gave Democrats majority control after 12 years of Republican dominance. It fell to President Obama and to Congressional leaders to persuade those Democrats still sweating the final [...]
Bloomberg: Nov. 8 — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told the military and civil militias today to prepare for war as a deterrent to a U.S.-led attack after American troops gained access to military bases in neighboring Colombia. Chavez said a recently signed agreement that gives American troops access to seven Colombian bases is a direct [...]
