Pat Dollard | Young Americans

Creeping Sharia:
Roland Emmerich has admitted that he feared a fatwa would be placed on him if he filmed a scrapped scene for 2012.
The filmmaker is well known for decimating famed landmarks on movies including The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day. He stated that while he decided to destroy the Christ the Redeemer statue in [...]

WND:
TEL AVIV – A ship seized by the Israeli navy near Cyprus today had been carrying enough weapons and munitions for the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group to fight Israel for at least one month, announced Rani Ben-Yehuda, the deputy commander of Israel’s navy.
The cargo ship originated in Iran and was headed for Syria, the Israeli [...]

You know, maybe he wasn’t such a bad guy after all, considering he apparently beat on that communist whore wife of his.

Bloomberg:
The Islamic Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip can now launch rockets capable of reaching the Israeli metropolitan area of Tel Aviv, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said at a Jerusalem briefing.
“We know they have tried to, and have obtained missiles that reach 60 kilometers (37 miles),” Ayalon said today. “Tel Aviv and its vicinity [...]

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian security forces using batons and tear gas stormed anti-government marches in Tehran on Wednesday during state-sanctioned rallies marking the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy, witnesses and state media reported.
Witnesses told The Associated Press that security forces — mainly paramilitary units from the Revolutionary Guard — swept [...]

Times Online:
Five British soldiers have been shot dead after a rogue Afghan policeman turned his weapon against a British training team inside a checkpoint in Helmand Province.
The soldiers, three from the Grenadier Guards and two from the Royal Military Police, died in the village of Shin Kalay in Nad-e’Ali district of Helmand Province yesterday afternoon. [...]

Times Online:
Hamid Karzai vowed to crack down on corruption and reach out to his political rivals, a day after he was declared the winner of Afghanistan’s fraud-ridden presidential elections.
Flanked by his two vice-presidents, Mr Karzai made a subdued acceptance speech this morning in which he attempted to reassure the international community that he would be [...]

Caracas (AFP) - Residents of the Venezuelan capital face cuts in water service for as much as 48 hours per week, after the government imposed rationing to stem a 25 percent shortfall in the city’s supply, officials said Monday.
Officials said cuts in water service were to be staggered throughout Caracas through the duration of the [...]

Heritage Foundation
This Friday, the tax payer funded Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) is hosting a briefing for Members of Congress and their staff on their new study: Online Town Hall Meetings: Exploring Democracy in the 21st Century. The CMF study consisted of 21 townhall meetings where Members of Congress and CMF provided a moderator: “spoke via [...]

KABUL (AP) - Afghanistan’s election commission proclaimed President Hamid Karzai the victor of the country’s tumultuous ballot Monday, canceling a planned runoff and ending a political crisis two and a half months after a fraud-marred first round.
The Obama administration—which has been waiting for a government deemed legitimate to emerge in Kabul before announcing whether to [...]

Keith Moon and Abdullah Abdullah
Excerpted from The Guardian:
The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, today pledged to stand by the next Afghan government as Afghanistan’s western backers pushed for a swift coronation of Hamid Karzai as president following the decision by his closest challenger to withdraw from the runoff vote.
After meeting Karzai and his main rival [...]

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Citing security concerns, the U.N. suspended long-term development work in two key areas along Pakistan’s volatile border with Afghanistan on Monday, a blow to international efforts to counter the country’s rising militancy.
Underscoring the militant threat, an explosion near a bank killed four people and wounded more than a dozen in the capital’s [...]

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - An explosion outside a bank near Pakistan’s capital killed at least 34 people Monday, the latest in a wave of attacks by militants since the army launched a new offensive against them last month.
The growing violence in the country prompted the U.N. on Monday to suspend long-term development in Pakistan’s volatile [...]