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Times Online: The most famous choir in the world has been caught up in the wave of paedophile scandals sweeping Germany and Austria, with eight former choristers denouncing their teachers in the past few days. An open letter from the management of the Vienna Boys’ Choir to parents expressed regret at the incidents, which were [...]

Has at least one member of CAIR infiltrated the Michigan Militia? “A person claiming to be a member of the Hutaree posted a message online pleading for help and claiming that officials “broke into homes and took children and used the tasers on wives … AND my son who is 12.” Basically what happened here [...]

The Hill: Frustrated lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are intensifying their push on President Barack Obama to impose “crippling” sanctions on Iran. A letter signed by seemingly unlikely allies — Reps. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) and Mike Pence (R-Ind.) — is being recirculated and rapidly gathering support. With the decidedly partisan healthcare bill [...]

Washington Post: Bricks were thrown through windows of a Republican Party office in the Charlottesville area late last week in an act that seemed similar to incidents of political vandalism reported elsewhere. The damage in Charlottesville was discovered Friday morning at the headquarters of the Albemarle County Republican Committee, committee vice chairman Eric Seitz said [...]

By Abraham H. Miller in Pajama’s Media: This Passover, as in every previous Passover, the struggle for Jewish survival continues. We now face an administration that has turned a bureaucratic flap over an incomplete building permit into a diplomatic crisis with Israel. Ramat Shlomo is a Jewish neighborhood. The Arabs never protested building there because [...]

KABUL (AP) – The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to reverse the Taliban’s momentum. Those deaths have been accompanied by a dramatic spike in the number [...]

The Hill: With the long battle to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system behind them, the White House plans to press forward with another nettlesome high-priority task fraught with tensions: congressional negotiations aimed at closing the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said White [...]

ABC News: The FBI said Sunday that agents conducted weekend raids in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio and arrested at least three people, and a militia leader in Michigan said the target of at least one raid was a Christian militia group. Federal warrants were sealed, but a federal law enforcement official speaking on condition of [...]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Two female suicide bombers killed at least 38 people on packed Moscow subway trains during rush hour on Monday, stirring fears of a broader campaign in Russia’s heartland by Islamists from the North Caucasus. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who cemented his power in 1999 by launching a war to crush Chechen separatism, [...]

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HOUSTON (AP) – Former first lady Barbara Bush was hospitalized Saturday in Houston to undergo routine tests but doctors don’t suspect anything serious, a family spokeswoman said. Bush, 84, was being treated at Methodist Hospital and should be released in a day or two, spokeswoman Jean Becker said late Saturday. “She hasn’t been feeling well [...]

The Telegraph: The proposal, which would have to be approved by a new British government, is facing stiff resistance. Whitehall officials fear that a pull-out from Helmand, where nearly 250 British troops have been killed since 2006, would be portrayed as an admission of defeat. Under the plans, British forces would hand over their remaining [...]

The famous and infamous “Pat Dollard Humvee”, which should, according to Dollard, be known as the Lieutentant Almar Fitzgerald and Corporal Matthew Conley Humvee. Dollard was in the back left passenger seat, Fitzgerald sat shoulder to shoulder with him. The back of Fitzgerald’s head was blown up by a monster IED, while Dollard was blown [...]

The Hill: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) predicted Sunday that a wave of state legislatures would fight to resist federal healthcare reform that will add billions in costs to their budgets. The prediction signals that Republicans plan to take President Barack Obama up on his challenge to “go for it” and attempt to repeal the $938 [...]