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N.C. Senator's Hard-Line Conservatism Helped Craft Republican Social Agenda

July 5, 2008

Washington Post / Bart Barnes and Matt Schudel

Jesse Helms, the North Carolina Republican senator whose uncompromising conservatism made him one of America's leading crusaders against communism, liberalism, tax increases, abortion, homosexuality, affirmative action and court-ordered busing to integrate schools, died yesterday at Mayview.

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The Decider Who Can't Make Up His Mind

July 5, 2008

washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook / Daniel Benjamin

The president's chronic failure to make decisions, and to carry them out, has hurt U.S. foreign policy.

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Teaching Arabic and Propaganda

July 5, 2008

Washington Post / Joel B. Pollak

At Harvard, the star of Arabic A is a girl named Maha. Maha Muhammed Abulaal, to be precise. She's the pouty protagonist in the melodrama that runs throughout "Al-Kitaab," the standard beginning text in Arabic classes at Harvard and other American universities.

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Supreme Slip-Up

July 5, 2008

Washington Post / Post

WHEN A NEWSPAPER gets its facts wrong, it's supposed to publish a correction, and, if someone's reputation has been harmed, a retraction and apology. It can be embarrassing, but the occasional taste of crow probably does more good than harm to the media's credibility.

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U.S. government to propose altering rules

July 5, 2008

Security & Terrorism - UPI.com

WASHINGTON, July 5 (UPI) -- U.S. government officials say they are planning to suggest altering regulations to improve U.S. competitiveness in foreign markets and lure overseas investors.

Racine FEMA Shuts Down Sunday

July 5, 2008

Local News from WISN 12 via Yahoo! News

Racine's Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster center is preparing to shut down.

Border Security Report: State Department Must Update Planning

July 5, 2008

The National Ledger - Pop Culture

Under the Visa Waiver Program, citizens from 27 countries can travel to the United States visa free. Terrorism concerns involving VWP country citizens have led some to suggest eliminating or suspending the program.

Terror Watch: FBI Agents Infiltrate Muslim Groups

July 5, 2008

OTB News

How an undercover FBI informant busted an alleged terror ring.

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US Pentagon doubts Israeli intelligence over Iran's nuclear programme

July 5, 2008

Telegraph News | Top News

Pentagon chiefs fear that Israeli plans for an attack on Iran's nuclear programme will fail to destroy the facilities because neither the CIA nor Mossad knows where every base is located

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Iran and Brazil Can Do It. So Can We.

July 5, 2008

washingtonpost.com - Oil and Gas Prices / Gal Luft

When the founding fathers declared our independence, they could not have imagined that, 232 years later, the United States would be so spectacularly dependent on foreign countries. It would be roughly eight more decades before oil gushed from a well in Titusville, Pa.

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Victory For Minutemen When Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Against The California Department of Transportation

July 5, 2008

Wake up America / Susan Duclos (noreply@blogger.com)

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FBI Has Evidence Against Conyers

July 5, 2008

Detroit News latest RSS headlines - Detroit News.Net

(WXYZ) Our reporting partners at the Detroit News are reporting that the FBI has electronic surveillance that links Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers to the Synagro scandal.The evi.

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Secretive Agency Under the Spotlight

July 5, 2008

Washington Post / Joby Warrick

Soon after accepting the post of CIA director two years ago, Michael V. Hayden set an unusual goal for his scandal-beset agency: virtual invisibility.

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FBI mulls profiling; CAIR says it's "un-American"

July 4, 2008

Jihad Watch / Robert

As one might expect, the FBI proposes a common-sense procedure -- spend more time looking for terror activity among Muslims than among Methodist grandmothers -- and CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror funding case, cries foul.

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Three Oft-Cited Reasons for Supporting Telecom Amnesty that Aren’t

July 5, 2008

The Moderate Voice / DAMOZEL

I happen to think the FISA bill is a terrible piece of legislation — and not just because of the telecom issue — but I am pretty sure it’s going to pass.  That’s not what this is about.

FBI joins probe of noose found in Yuma

July 5, 2008

azcentral.com | news

Noose found on the mailbox of a former Yuma County supervisor who is Black.

News: FBI Has Evidence Against Conyers [wife of the congressman]

July 5, 2008

Forum: News/Activism / wxyz.com

Our reporting partners at the Detroit News are reporting that the FBI has electronic surveillance that links Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers to the Synagro scandal. The evidence reportedly proves that Conyers received either a payment or payments in connection with the city-approved sludge contract.

FEMA disaster relief hits $1.3 million per day; hydrologists on the way

July 5, 2008

madison.com - RSS / TCT: The Capital Times

National and state emergency management officials are sending hydrologists into several Wisconsin counties to rectify the problem of standing water, the Federal Emergency Management Agency field

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