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		<title>Tampa Terror Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 04:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahmed Bedier: promoter of Jew-hate and terrorist activity. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mj.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-223950" alt="FBI Arrests" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mj-279x350.jpg" width="279" height="350" /></a>For the past nine years, a radio show has been broadcast out of Tampa Bay, Florida every Friday representing the viewpoints of radical Islamists. The subjects on the show, ironically called ‘True Talk,’ almost always revolve around two subjects: extreme hatred of Israel and/or support for those associated with terrorism.</p>
<p>During the month of March, different anti-Israel and terror-related content made its way over the airwaves with the blessing of one of the show’s co-hosts, Ahmed Bedier.</p>
<p>On March 14th, over half of Bedier’s radio show consisted of a recorded speech given by Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi discussing strides being made by the boycott movement against Israel. Khalidi has previously been identified in different news reports as “a PLO spokesman” and “a director of the Palestinian press agency, Wafa” (Wikalat al-Anba al-Filastinija), which Khalidi himself has described as “the PLO’s news agency.”</p>
<p>According to the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987, signed into law by then-President Ronald Reagan, “The PLO and its constituent groups have taken credit for, and been implicated in, the murders of dozens of American citizens abroad… [T]he Congress determines that the PLO and its affiliates are a terrorist organization and a threat to the interests of the United States, its allies, and to international law…”</p>
<p>Bedier took calls in response to Khalidi’s speech, while lauding him as a “Middle East scholar.”</p>
<p>The previous week, on March 7th, Bedier had as a guest on the show the mother of convicted terrorist Ziyad Yaghi. According to the indictment against him, “the multiple defendants in the case,” Yaghi included, “prepared themselves to engage in violent acts and were willing to die as martyrs. They also offered training in weapons and financing and helped arrange overseas travel and contacts so others could wage violent acts overseas.” Yaghi was convicted on all counts and was sentenced to 31+ years in prison. He and his fellow co-conspirators lost their appeal.</p>
<p>According to his mom, Laila, Ziyad did nothing wrong. She called him a “goofy young man… a young man having fun.” She said that his only crime in the eyes of the prosecutors was that he was a Muslim.</p>
<p>Bedier agreed with the racism angle. But even if Yaghi was a terrorist, for Bedier it was not a problem, because<i> </i>Yaghi<i> didn’t actually carry out any violence</i>. He said it was “shocking” that Yaghi was arrested before he actually did anything. He asked, “What kind of jihad and terrorism did these guys commit?&#8230; Did they commit any violence? Did they kill anybody? Did they hurt anyone? Did they shoot anyone?” Bedier called it a “preemptive prosecution” or arresting a terrorist before the crime takes place. What he failed to understand was that a conspiracy to commit terrorism<i> is a crime in itself</i>. For Bedier, it’s just a case of Freedom of Speech.</p>
<p>The ringleader of the group was Daniel Patrick Boyd a.k.a. Saifullah (“Sword of Allah”). Boyd, a convert to Islam, received training in terrorist camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Boyd recruited and trained others to go overseas and undertake violent jihad. He had discussed attacking the Quantico, Virginia Marine Corps base, while in possession of a large arsenal of firearms. He pled guilty to one count of conspiring to “provide material support to terrorists” and one count of conspiring to “murder, kidnap, maim and injure persons in a foreign country.”</p>
<p>Yaghi’s mom said, much as her feelings towards her son, that she didn’t think Boyd “did anything wrong.” She said he was coerced by his lawyers into pleading guilty. Bedier, on the other hand, parodied Boyd as a Duck Dynasty wannabe, who probably just liked to go hunting.</p>
<p>One of the subjects brought up during Bedier’s interview of Laila Yaghi was that of Ziyad Yaghi’s intention to get married overseas, a subject that came up during the trial. Laila made light of this saying that Muslims get married at a young age, and Bedier flippantly asked if intending to get married was “against the law.” However, this subject in reality dealt with a conversation that Ziyad Yaghi had with Daniel Boyd, where Ziyad was discussing his intention to become “married” to the battlefield in jihad. Either Laila Yaghi was totally in the dark about her son’s militant plans or she was covering up for him.</p>
<p>While these things may seem to be merely show material for the station’s listeners, for Bedier it’s much more than that, as he himself has been directly involved with groups and individuals connected to terrorism.</p>
<p>Bedier was the Executive Director of the Tampa office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR has been named by the U.S. Justice Department as a co-conspirator for two federal trials dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. CAIR was using its national website to raise money for the main group on trial, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), which along with its leadership was found guilty on all charges.</p>
<p>During his tenure with CAIR, Bedier became a spokesman for Sami al-Arian, a co-founder and North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). In discussing the al-Arian case on a local Tampa TV news show, Bedier stated that, “before 1995, there was nothing immoral” about associating with PIJ. Prior to 1995, PIJ took credit for five terrorist attacks, which included a suicide bombing. The attacks resulted in the murders of eight innocent individuals.</p>
<p>Bedier has been a representative, as well, for Islamic Relief (IR). In 2006, Israel labeled IR a front for Hamas, after arresting the group’s Gaza program manager for providing “funds and assistance to various Hamas institutions and organizations.” In 1999, IR gave millions of dollars to and received tens of thousands of dollars from groups associated with al-Qaeda. Bedier is still involved with IR, attending a fundraiser for the group as recently as last month.</p>
<p>Bedier has (or more appropriately had) his own association with al-Qaeda, as his brother, Amir, was a devoted follower of Osama bin Laden. Last August, Ahmed accompanied Amir, who Ahmed has exalted as a “hero,” to a Muslim Brotherhood demonstration in Cairo against Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. This was days before Amir was shot and killed at the same location by the Egyptian military in a disbursement action against terrorists. Ahmed helped with the dead bodies, the next morning.</p>
<p>On a regular basis, Ahmed Bedier uses his radio program, found on WMNF 88.5 FM Tampa, to provide a forum for radicals, including himself, who wish to spout hatred and/or protect those associated with terrorist activity.</p>
<p>The show and Bedier’s actions outside the show are evils in our democratic society that need to be exposed.</p>
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		<title>The Hip-Hop President</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nation's existential crises take second place to frivolous campaign stops. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/obamasunglasses.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-144052" title="obamasunglasses" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/obamasunglasses.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>Wazzup, President Obama? You&#8217;ve got room on your schedule to schmooze hip-hop radio DJs, debate Nicki Minaj&#8217;s rap lyrics, hobnob with big donor celebs Jay-Z and Beyonce, and hang with Hollywood gossip TV anchors. _</p>
<p>We see your passion on the golf course, basketball court and beach. We see you late night on Letterman and Leno. We see your boundless energy on the campaign trail. We see your Twitter donation solicitations from dusk till dawn.</p>
<p>But when it comes time to play leader of the free world in times of international crisis, it&#8217;s &#8220;see ya, wouldn&#8217;t wanna be ya.&#8221; He&#8217;s all swag, no cattle.</p>
<p>I know I&#8217;m not the only one who was flabbergasted by Obama&#8217;s bloodless Rose Garden appearance following the planned two-part 9/11/12 jihadi attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.</p>
<p>Late as usual, the president ambled up to the podium 15 minutes behind schedule on Wednesday morning. Teleprompter-less, he spent the majority of his fleeting five-and-a-half-minute appearance with eyes downcast on his script.</p>
<p>With a grim Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looking over his shoulder, Obama delivered a flat, obligatory tribute to the murdered Americans. And then he read these words, drained of any iota of outrage, as if reading a local weather forecast. Or a fifth-grade book report. Or a dinner menu:</p>
<p>&#8220;The United States condemns (pauses, looks down) in the strongest terms (pauses) this outrageous and shocking attack (monotone). We&#8217;re working with the government of Libya to secure our diplomats. I&#8217;ve also directed my administration to increase our security at diplomatic posts around the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Punctuated with noncommittal &#8220;uhs&#8221; and a pedestrian lilt, he read some more:</p>
<p>&#8220;And make no mistake (eyes looking down). Uh. We will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people (eyes down, flipping page).&#8221;</p>
<p>In a bland and unconvincing recitation, Obama stated perfunctorily: &#8220;No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.&#8221; Looking down at his script again, he hurried along: &#8220;We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act.</p>
<p>And make no mistake, justice will be done.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>The Day Somali Music Died</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Somali Islamists have banned songs.]]></description>
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<p>Islamist insurgents have ordered Somali radio stations to stop playing music, a ban that went into effect last Tuesday. This order follows <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/13/somalia-radio-music-ban" target="_blank">the Islamists’ ban</a> on musical ringtones, movies, men without beards, football, women’s beauty salons, and bras. Those not adhering to the new ban risk a grave threat to their physical well-being, which includes getting assassinated or undergoing Sharia-based punishments. Such punishments include having your limbs amputated, your eyes gauged out, your tongue cut out, and your ears cut off.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/13/somalia-radio-music-ban" target="_blank">majority of radio stations</a> in southern and central Somalia stopped playing music and jingles on Tuesday. In Mogadishu, the capital, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/13/somalia-radio-music-ban" target="_blank">only the government-controlled Radio Mogadishu</a>, which is protected by African Union peacekeepers, and the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/13/somalia-radio-music-ban" target="_blank">UN-funded Radio Bar-Kulan</a>, whose studio is in Nairobi, resisted the order.</p>
<p>In order to understand this phenomenon, it is critical to keep in mind that for the totalitarian radical, <em>experiencing any kind of joy</em> means succumbing to the false consciousness that, in the utopian mindset, must be purged from the earth. Earthly joy distracts from the constant vigilance that is necessary to engage in revolutionary battle.</p>
<p>This is why Lenin refused to listen to music, since, as he explained, “it makes you want to say stupid, nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.” For Lenin, violent revolution was the priority — a priority endangered by the emotions music could induce.</p>
<p>Sayyid Qutb, one of Islamism’s godfathers, could relate to this vision all too well — and he serves as a perfect example of Islam’s rejection of the joyous celebration of <em>this </em>world and <em>this</em> life. In his work <em>Milestones</em>, Qutb demonizes the pursuit of individual interests and sensual pleasures — but above all sexual pleasure — and of personal happiness and fulfillment. The word “desire” reverberates through <em>Milestones</em> as a diabolical entity.</p>
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		<title>Assault at Muslim Capitol Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>If Ahmed Bedier’s United Voices for America (UVA) was a peaceful organization, with the series of events which occurred earlier this month, you wouldn’t have known it. On the day termed by the group “Muslim Capitol Day,” one of UVA’s members, Bassem Alhalabi, attacked two individuals, this author included. A warrant was issued in his name, culminating in his arrest. This, among other things, leaves into question the true intentions of the UVA.</p>
<p>United Voices for America – United Voices for short – was the brainchild of the former Executive Director of the Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Tampa), Ahmed Bedier. According to Bedier, UVA was created to lobby Florida’s legislature on such issues as education reform, health care reform, and stimulation of the economy. Given Bedier’s long history of extremist activity, though, one would need to be skeptical about such motives.</p>
<p>Bedier began working for CAIR in February 2003, the same month that Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leader Sami al-Arian was arrested by the FBI. This was no mere coincidence. Bedier was just coming off a stint as Outreach Director of a radical mosque, the <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6125">Islamic Society of Pinellas County</a> (ISPC), and CAIR needed someone in the Tampa Bay area to defend al-Arian, one of the founders of CAIR’s parent organization, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). Bedier fit the bill.</p>
<p>As “unofficial spokesman” for al-Arian, Bedier held press conferences for al-Arian; he spoke at rallies for al-Arian; he organized the showing of a puff film belittling the government’s case against al-Arian; he defended al-Arian in the media; and he allowed the radio show he co-hosts, <em>True Talk,</em> to be used as a forum for al-Arian’s Islamic Jihad colleagues to speak and spew their hatred for Israel and the United States.</p>
<p>Besides shilling for al-Arian’s cohorts, Bedier has also <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34026">used his radio show to promote Hezbollah</a>. In July 2006, during Israel’s war in Lebanon, all three of Bedier’s radio show guests lauded Hezbollah, describing the terrorist group with such terms as “heroic.”</p>
<p>In May 2008, one year after the U.S. Justice Department named Bedier’s group, CAIR, a co-conspirator in the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas, he announced on his radio show that he was leaving CAIR and starting a new group. That group was UVA.</p>
<p>On Thursday, March 11, 2010, Bedier took his “lobby” group to Tallahassee for its 2nd Annual Florida Muslim Capitol Day. But while the group claimed that it was in town to discuss issues of importance to all Floridians, the event was overshadowed by two assaults that were perpetrated by one of UVA’s members, the first of which was an attack on this author.</p>
<p>I flew up to Tallahassee to join a group of concerned leaders, who were speaking out about Bedier and UVA. Over the years, I had written extensively about Bedier and his terrorist ties, so it was important for me to attend. While I was there, I had the pleasure of giving a PowerPoint presentation about Bedier at a government briefing held in the city’s IMAX Theater.</p>
<p>Following a meeting with a government official, our group found itself in the Rotunda (lobby) of the Capitol Building. While there, I thought I had recognized someone I had written about in the past, Bassem Abdo Alhalabi.</p>
<p>Alhalabi is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Florida Atlantic University (FAU). He arrived at FAU in August 1996.</p>
<p>Prior to that, he had been an <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32348">assistant to Sami al-Arian at the University of South Florida</a> (USF), at a time when al-Arian was creating a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist network within the Tampa suburb of Temple Terrace. Alhalabi co-authored materials with al-Arian and used al-Arian as a reference, when he later applied for a position at FAU.</p>
<p>Apart from being a university professor, Alhalabi is also a director and co-founder of the Islamic Center of Boca Raton (ICBR), a radical mosque that has ties to several terrorist-related individuals.</p>
<p>One of the co-founders of the mosque, Syed Khawer Ahmad, at the time an FAU student, was the creator of and webmaster for the official website of the Islamic Association, a.k.a. Islamic Society, the social services apparatus of Hamas in Gaza. The <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2637">former imam of the mosque</a>, Ibrahim Dremali, was placed on the federal no-fly list. And a member of the mosque, Rafiq Sabir, was convicted in May 2007 of providing material support to al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>The man who appeared to be Alhalabi was speaking to another individual, and so I got closer to take a picture with my camera. Evidentially, I was correct about his identity, as Alhalabi recognized me as well, and he soon made his way over to me.</p>
<p>Alhalabi put his finger in my face and asked me if I knew who he was. “Do you know who I am?” When I answered in the affirmative, he forcefully grabbed my arm, stated “I need to talk to you,” and began pulling me towards the hallway of the Rotunda. I said to him “Let go of me,” but he refused. Alhalabi just kept asking me loudly, “Why do you keep writing about me?”</p>
<p>I began shouting for Mark Campbell, the cameraman who I was with just minutes before all of this took place. I wanted him to get evidence of the assault on film. Mark came, but Alhalabi released me before Mark could get the camera rolling. Thankfully, another individual got a photo of Alhalabi grabbing my arm.</p>
<p>When it looked like things were getting too heated and Alhalabi could do something beyond the aggression he had already exhibited, his UVA colleague jumped in and ushered Alhalabi away.</p>
<p>I filed a police report and stated my wishes to press charges. Accompanying me were the witness with the photograph and the cameraman.</p>
<p>One of the officers, who had questioned Alhalabi, said that Alhalabi stated he had not touched anyone. It was a lie, as the photo (and potential Rotunda surveillance footage) proved, and later he would be charged by the Capitol police with battery.</p>
<p>Campbell left to get ready to attend UVA’s next event.</p>
<p>When we arrived in Tallahassee, our group had been told that we were allowed to be present at UVA’s events and we were, as well, allowed to videotape them. We were even told we could ask questions, as long as we acted in a respectful manner and did not make any attempt to disrupt anything.</p>
<p>I balked at going, as I felt I had already <em>had</em> <em>enough excitement for one day.</em></p>
<p>It was about an hour following the attack on me, and Campbell was inside UVA’s event. With the camera running, he caught Alhalabi walking by. Alhalabi spotted him out of the corner of his eye and did a ‘double take,’ realizing that Campbell had been the individual accompanying me earlier.</p>
<p>Alhalabi then quickly moved to the side of Campbell and put a blue UVA folder filled with papers in front of the camera lens to stop Campbell from taping. A few moments later, Alhalabi violently lunged for and grabbed Campbell’s camera, jerking it, whilst startling a young Muslima standing next to him. The police seized Alhalabi, just as he appeared to be motioning to hit Campbell with his folder.</p>
<p>The entire scene was caught on tape.</p>
<p>Campbell, as I had done earlier, filed a police report and stated his intention to press charges. And once again, the police charged Alhalabi with battery – his second charge in one day – in one hour.</p>
<p>On Friday, March 19th, a <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/press_releases/PR-Bassem_Alhalabi_2.php">warrant was issued in Alhalabi’s name</a> for his attack on me. The charge concerning the attack on Campbell is still pending.</p>
<p>According to an official from the Leon County State Attorney’s office, Alhalabi was given the choice of either turning himself in or being subject to arrest. Alhalabi chose the latter, and was <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/Bassem_Alhalabi_Battery.html">apprehended in Boca Raton on Monday, March 22nd</a>, by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office. He spent the day behind bars and was released on March 23rd, at 2:15 in the morning, after paying the bond that was set at $500.</p>
<p>This was not the first time Alhalabi found himself on the other side of the law. In June 2003, he was found guilty of illegally shipping a $13,000 military-grade thermal imaging device to Syria, a state sponsor of terrorism.</p>
<p>Alhalabi’s violent actions and sinister pursuits show that he, no doubt, is a threat to society. Indeed, these things are indicative of the organization he has come to represent, UVA, a group that has as its leader, Bedier, someone who has a similar terrorist-related past, someone who proclaimed at UVA’s 2009 Tallahassee event, <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34474">“We want the government to fear us.”</a></p>
<p>UVA uses political lobbying as a cover for bullying and intimidation, and in the case of myself and Mr. Campbell, violence. It claims to be a peaceful group with concerns about such important issues as education and health care, but the reality is that it is nothing but a dangerous ruse – a radical Islamic front – dressed in an innocuous name, using innocuous language.</p>
<p>While United Voices for America has met with some of Florida’s Representatives, the vast majority have thankfully kept away, in part as a result of information provided to them by people such as this author. With emissaries like Bassem Alhalabi and Ahmed Bedier, it is not hard to understand why the group would be shunned.</p>
<p><em>Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of </em><a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/"><em>Americans Against Hate</em></a><em>, the founder of </em><a href="http://www.cairwatch.org/"><em>CAIR Watch</em></a><em>, and the spokesman for </em><a href="http://www.youngzionists.org/"><em>Young Zionists</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, the Director of </em><a href="http://www.militantislammonitor.org/"><em>Militant Islam Monitor</em></a><em>, contributed to this report.</em></p>
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<p><em>This past weekend, after President Obama addressed the annual retreat of  Republican Members of the House, I, along with my Salem Radio colleague Hugh  Hewitt, and John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, were also invited to address  them.</em></p>
<p><em>This is an abridged and edited version of my  remarks:</em></p>
<p>Thank you for this honor.</p>
<p>I have never been as proud to be a Republican as I have this past year  with your unanimity in opposing Obamacare and the other bills that would  transform   America . Please  know &#8212; you need this feedback &#8212; that your having been able to stand together  and do this has been a luminous moment in Republican Party  history.</p>
<p>I would like show you some of the large themes involved in your present  work.</p>
<p>First theme: It is harder to sell truths than to sell falsehoods.   It is very  easy to say, &#8220;Vote for us and we will give you, we will give you, we will give  you.&#8221; It is much harder to advocate what is right and to say, &#8220;Vote for us, but  no, we won&#8217;t give you&#8221; &#8212; even though that is the more moral and the more  American position. So you have the far more difficult  task.</p>
<p>John Rosemond, who writes books on child rearing, says that the most  important vitamin you can give to a child is Vitamin N, his term for the word  &#8220;No.&#8221; You have given America Vitamin N.</p>
<p>America needs it terribly because of  another way in which God has stacked the deck against the fight for goodness in  human history: Every change for good must be constantly renewed, but changes for  the worse are often permanent. Goodness must be fought for every day, over and  over. That is why every American generation has to be inculcated with American  values. But once the change for bad is made, it is close to irreversible. The  Democratic attempt to vastly expand the state&#8217;s power would likely be a  permanent change for the worse in American life. When they&#8217;re candid, they admit  that the health care bill is their way to get to single-payer medicine and, more  importantly, to a government takeover of another sixth of the American economy.</p>
<p>You have to know how important your work is, and how many of us know  this.</p>
<p>Second theme: You are not fighting liberals. You are fighting the Left.  Democrats were once liberals. But you are not fighting liberals any longer. You  are fighting the Left. And as leftists, they do not like to confront reality,  even if it means rewriting it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll give you two examples.</p>
<p>This Jew battled to keep the cross in the  Los Angeles  County seal. Liberals and leftists in   California  fought to remove the smallest image &#8212; a cross &#8212; from the county seal. Through  my radio show, on a day&#8217;s notice, we gathered about a thousand people to  demonstrate at the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors when the board voted.  The vote went along ideological lines: three liberals to two conservatives, to  remove the cross.</p>
<p>I remember testifying before the supervisors and telling them, &#8220;You are  rewriting our county&#8217;s history. This county was founded by Christians. That&#8217;s  why there&#8217;s a cross. Had it been founded by Wiccans, I would fight to keep a  broom on the seal. But it wasn&#8217;t founded by Wiccans. It was founded by  Christians. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s named &#8221; Los  Angeles .&#8221; It is not &#8220;Los Secularistos.&#8221; If it were &#8220;Los  Secularistos,&#8221; I would expect an empty seal. But it is not empty. It was founded  by Christians. It&#8217;s not even a religious issue. You&#8217;re rewriting my history. And  it&#8217;s frightening to see you do that.&#8221;</p>
<p>The other example is what is now happening with Scott Brown&#8217;s victory in   Massachusetts .  Everybody knows why he was voted in. It was, after all, Scott &#8220;41&#8243; Brown. We all  knew why he was elected. But if you read left-wing commentators, this history is  being rewritten. They say it had nothing to do with opposing Obamacare. Nothing  to do with it! In the Soviet Union , it took 10  years to write Trotsky out of the Russian Revolution. But this is a rewrite of  history in one week! Scott &#8220;41&#8243; Brown&#8217;s victory was not about opposing  Obamacare.</p>
<p>In fact, the Left argues that the  Massachusetts voters were for the health care bill, but  simply &#8220;wanted to send a message&#8221; to  Washington . I must say the voters of   Massachusetts  are not only not bright, they must be truly stupid if they are for Obamacare and  send the man who will undo Obamacare as a protest on behalf of Obamacare. This  is what we are told by the Left.</p>
<p>Third theme: Most people on the Left are True Believers. This is critical  to understand. They are willing to lose Congress; Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid  are prepared to lose both houses to get this through. Why? Because losing an  election cycle means nothing compared to taking over more of the American  economy.</p>
<p>I can give you an example from our side. There are many folks on our side  who, if they could pass an amendment against abortion, would happily sacrifice  both houses for a period of time. Understand that just as strongly as some are  pro-life or religiously Christian or Jewish, that is how strongly many leftists  believe in leftism. Leftism is a substitute religion. For the Left, the &#8220;health  care&#8221; bill transcends politics. You are fighting people who will go down with  the ship in order to transform this country to a leftist one. And an  ever-expanding state is the Left&#8217;s central credo.</p>
<p>And finally, theme four: I have a motto that I offer to you because this  is the ultimate moral case for us: &#8220;The bigger the government, the smaller the  citizen.&#8221;</p>
<p>We have to learn to make our complex beliefs simple &#8212; though never  simplistic. And this is our powerful response to government doing more and more  for people: &#8220;The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.&#8221;</p>
<p>And here&#8217;s how we explain it: The bigger the government, the less I do  for myself, for my family and for my community. That is why we Americans give  more charity and devote more time to volunteering than Europeans do. The  European knows: The government, the state, will take care of me, my children, my  parents, my neighbors and my community. I don&#8217;t have to do anything. The bigger  question in many Europeans&#8217; lives is, &#8220;How much vacation time will I have and  where will I spend that vacation?&#8221;</p>
<p>That is what happens when the state gets bigger &#8212; you become smaller.  The dream of  America was that the individual was  to be a giant. The state stays small so as to enable each of us to be as big as  we can be. We are each created in God&#8217;s image. The state is not in God&#8217;s image,  but it is vying to be that. This is the battle you&#8217;re fighting. You are fighting  a cosmic battle because this is the most important society ever devised, the   United States of  America .</p>
<p>You  can easily forget the big picture &#8212; how could you not? You&#8217;re there every day,  battling. You are in dense jungle &#8212; excuse me, rainforest &#8212; you are in a  rainforest/jungle, fighting, and I am, because of the nature of my work, in a  little helicopter above the jungle telling you what it is you are fighting.    America really is the last, best hope  of mankind.</p>
<p>That is how important I consider the fights that are going on now,  especially with regard to the takeover of health care. How can they, with a  serious face, tell us that Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security are going  bankrupt, and therefore the solution is to take over more of health care? How  does one say that with a straight face? How does one look a fellow American in  the eye and say, &#8220;Yes, we have failed in almost every way that government has  significantly intruded, and that&#8217;s why we need more government  intrusion&#8221;?</p>
<p>It  is mind-boggling. But that is what has happened. People get smaller and pettier,  as the government and state get bigger. That&#8217;s what you are fighting. And that&#8217;s  why I came to tell you this is the proudest moment in my life as a Republican.  Thank you for doing what you are doing.</p>
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<p><em>On Sunday, The New York Times Magazine featured an article on Charles Johnson, whose website &#8212; littlegreenfootballs &#8212; had for years been very popular among conservatives and among all those who believed that Islamic terror and Islamic religious totalitarianism were the greatest expressions of contemporary evil. The reason for the article was that Mr. Johnson has made a 180-degree turn and is now profoundly, even stridently, anti-right. This is my letter to him.</em></p>
<p>Dear Charles:</p>
<p>As you know, over the years, I was so impressed with your near-daily documentation of developments in the Islamist world that I twice had you on my national radio show &#8212; both times face to face in my studio. And you, in turn, periodically cited my radio show and would tell your many readers when they could hear you on my show.</p>
<p>So it came as somewhat of a shock to see your 180-degree turn from waging war on Islamist evil to waging war on your erstwhile allies and supporters on the right. You attempted to explain this reversal on Nov. 30, 2009, when you published &#8220;Why I Parted Ways With The Right.&#8221;</p>
<p>You offered 10 reasons, and I would like to respond to them.</p>
<p>First, as disappointed as I am with your metamorphosis, I still have gratitude for all the good you did and I respect your change as a sincere act of conscience. But neither this gratitude nor this respect elevates my regard for your 10 points. They are well beneath the intellectual and moral level of your prior work. They sound like something Keith Olbermann would write if he were given 10 minutes to come up with an attack on conservatives.</p>
<p>1. <em>Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, etc.). </em></p>
<p>Associating the American right with fascism is done only by leftist ideologues and propagandists, not by serious critics. It is akin to calling everyone on the left a Communist. As for the specific examples, forgive me, but in 28 years as a talk show host and columnist, I had never heard of Robert Stacy McCain or of Vlaams Belang. Nor did the BNP or SIOE register on my intellectual radar screen.</p>
<p>I looked them up and found that McCain is a former editor at the Washington Times charged with racist views. So what?</p>
<p>The BNP is the British National Party, a racist group that in the last U.K. general election received 0.7 percent of the popular vote. So what?</p>
<p>SIOE stands for Stop Islamisation of Europe. I perused its website, and while there are ideas I disagree with (e.g., the group does not believe that there are any Muslim moderates), the desire to stop the &#8220;Islamization&#8221; of Europe is hardly fascist; it is more likely animated by anti-fascism.</p>
<p>Vlaams Belang is a Flemish nationalist political party that won 17 out of 150 seats in Belgium &#8216;s Chamber of Representatives. From what I could gather from a cursory glance at the party&#8217;s platform, it is an ultra-nationalist Flemish party, many of whose language protection and secessionist ideals are virtually identical to those of the Party Quebecois, a party passionately supported by the left.</p>
<p>In any event, what do any of these groups have to do with mainstream American right institutions such the Hoover Institution, the Heritage Foundation or the American Enterprise Institute; or with mainstream conservative publications and websites such as the National Review, the Weekly Standard, Townhall.com or Commentary; or with mainstream American conservatives such as Bill Kristol, Thomas Sowell, Hugh Hewitt, Charles Krauthammer, George Will, Bill Bennett, Michael Medved, Dennis Prager, as well as Sean Hannity, Bill O&#8217;Reilly and Rush Limbaugh?</p>
<p>2. <em>Support for bigotry, hatred, and white supremacism (see: Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Robert Stacy McCain, Lew Rockwell, etc.). </em></p>
<p>I agree with the late William Buckley that some of Pat Buchanan&#8217;s views could be construed as anti-Jewish; I don&#8217;t know who McCain or Lew Rockwell represent among mainstream conservatives; and to label Ann Coulter a white supremacist (or bigot) is slander.</p>
<p>3. <em>Support for throwing women back into the Dark Ages, and general religious fanaticism (see: Operation Rescue, anti-abortion groups, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Tony Perkins, the entire religious right, etc.). </em></p>
<p>&#8220;The entire religious right&#8221; wants to throw &#8220;women back into the dark ages?&#8221; As a religious (Jewish) conservative, perhaps I am a member of that group, and I find the charge absurd. The one example you give &#8212; anti-abortion &#8212; is invalid. To those who regard the unborn as worthy of life (except in the almost never occurring case of it being a threat to its mother&#8217;s life), opposition to abortion is no more anti-woman than opposition to rape is anti-man. The only people who wish to throw women into the dark ages are the people you, Charles, used to fight. That is why your change of heart has actually hurt the battle for women&#8217;s dignity and equality.</p>
<p>4. <em>Support for anti-science bad craziness (see: creationism, climate change denialism, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, James Inhofe, etc.). </em></p>
<p>So, Charles, all those scientists who question or deny that human activity is causing a global warming that will render much of life on earth extinct are &#8220;anti-science?&#8221;</p>
<p>Has the possibility occurred to you that those who are skeptical of what they consider hysteria cherish science at least as much as you do? In fact, they suspect that &#8212; for political, social, financial, psychological and/or herd-following reasons &#8212; it is the &#8220;global warming&#8221; hysterics who are more likely to be anti-science.</p>
<p>Activist scientists, liberal media and leftist interest groups brought us the false alarm of an imminent heterosexual AIDS pandemic in America , the false alarm about silicon breast implants leading to disease and the nonsense about how dangerous nuclear power is. They were anti-science, not us skeptics who have been right every time I can think of.</p>
<p>5. <em>Support for homophobic bigotry (see: Sarah Palin, Dobson, the entire religious right, etc.). </em></p>
<p>This charge is particularly ugly. It appears that you have decided to fight all the &#8220;hate&#8221; you allege to be on the right with your own hate. Why exactly is it &#8220;homophobic bigotry&#8221; to want to maintain the millennia-old definition of marriage as the union of men and women? The hubris of those who not only want to change the definition of the most important institution in society but believe everyone who ever advocated male-female marriage was a bigot &#8212; meaning everyone who ever lived before you, Charles &#8212; is as breathtaking as it is speech-suppressing.</p>
<p>6. <em>Support for anti-government lunacy (see: tea parties, militias, Fox News, Glenn Beck, etc.). </em></p>
<p>What you call &#8220;anti-government lunacy&#8221; most Americans regard as preserving the greatest protector of individual liberty &#8212; limited government.</p>
<p>7. <em>Support for conspiracy theories and hate speech (see: Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Birthers, creationists, climate deniers, etc.). </em></p>
<p>I am no fan of Alex Jones, who, coincidentally, has attacked me on his website as a &#8220;Jewish propagandist.&#8221; But please. The amount of hate speech in one Keith Olbermann commentary dwarfs any 12 months of Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck. In any event, the real irony here is that before your inexplicable change, it was you who devoted years to documenting the greatest amount of hate speech on earth today &#8212; that coming from within the Islamic world. If you still hated hate speech, you would still be doing that important work.</p>
<p>As for believing in conspiracy theories, your new team wins hands down &#8212; from multiple assassins of JFK to the American government being behind 9-11 (it was even believed by a high-ranking member of the Obama administration) to the war in Iraq waged on behalf of Halliburton.</p>
<p>8. <em>A right-wing blogosphere that is almost universally dominated by raging hate speech (see: Hot Air, Free Republic , Ace of Spades, etc.). </em></p>
<p>From what I have seen, your examples do not justify your charge. Moreover, for every right-wing &#8220;raging hate&#8221; speech website, there are probably three on the left. The major conservative sites are overwhelmingly rational and devoid of &#8220;raging hate.&#8221; Given my longtime respect for you, Charles, it pains me that it is your list of 10 reasons for abandoning the right that is a prime example of &#8220;raging hate.&#8221;</p>
<p>9. <em>Anti-Islamic bigotry that goes far beyond simply criticizing radical Islam, into support for fascism, violence, and genocide (see: Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, etc.). </em></p>
<p>I saw Pamela Geller&#8217;s site (The New York Times Magazine article about you cited it &#8212; Atlas Shrugs &#8212; and mentioned nothing remotely approaching your charges against her or her site) and I&#8217;ve interviewed Robert Spencer. Your charges against them only cheapen the words &#8220;fascism,&#8221; violence&#8221; and &#8220;genocide.&#8221;</p>
<p>10. <em>Hatred for President Obama that goes far beyond simply criticizing his policies, into racism, hate speech, and bizarre conspiracy theories (see: witch doctor pictures, tea parties, Birthers, Michelle Malkin, Fox News, World Net Daily, Newsmax, and every other right wing source). </em></p>
<p>The charge is a lie. Period. Those who cannot argue with the right always accuse it of racism. It used to work, Charles. But it is increasingly obvious to all but fellow leftists that the charge is specious. Opposition to President Obama has nothing to do with his race. Indeed, he continues to be more popular than his policies.</p>
<p>When you were on the politically and morally right side, Charles, you provided massive evidence for your positions. Now you throw verbal bombs. What happened? If you would like to tell me on my radio show, you are invited to do so. I miss you.</p>
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		<title>Air America Radio closing, filing for bankruptcy &#8211; AP</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES – Air America Radio, a radio network that was launched in 2004 as a liberal alternative to Rush Limbaugh and other conservative commentators, on Thursday shut down abruptly due to financial woes. The network once boasted hosts such as Al Franken and Rachel Maddow, but struggled from the outset, including multiple management shake-ups, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>LOS ANGELES – Air America Radio, a radio network that was launched in 2004 as a liberal alternative to Rush Limbaugh and other conservative commentators, on Thursday shut down abruptly due to financial woes.</p>
<p>The network once boasted hosts such as Al Franken and Rachel Maddow, but struggled from the outset, including multiple management shake-ups, a bankruptcy in 2006 and sale for $4.25 million the following year.</p>
<p>Air America ceased airing new programs Thursday afternoon and said it will soon file to be liquidated under Chapter 7 bankruptcy. It began broadcasting reruns of programs and would end those as well Monday night.</p>
<p>&#8220;The very difficult economic environment has had a significant impact on Air America&#8217;s business. This past year has seen a `perfect storm&#8217; in the media industry generally,&#8221; the company said in a statement on its Web site.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100122/ap_on_en_ot/us_air_america_bankruptcy">Air America Radio closing, filing for bankruptcy &#8211; Yahoo! News</a>.</p>
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		<title>Interview with Glenn Beck &#8211; WSJ.com</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glenn Beck didn&apos;t always believe in what he was doing. &#8220;When I was young, I used to hear people say, &apos;He&apos;s a golden boy. Look at that guy. Can you imagine what he&apos;s going to be like when he grows up?&apos; Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn&apos;t even found myself. Quite honestly, [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Glenn Beck didn&apos;t always believe in what he was doing. &#8220;When I was young, I used to hear people say, &apos;He&apos;s a golden boy. Look at that guy. Can you imagine what he&apos;s going to be like when he grows up?&apos; Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn&apos;t even found myself. Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.&#8221;&#8221;Golden boy&#8221; was no exaggeration. &#8220;I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don&apos;t know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25,&#8221; he tells me in his midtown Manhattan office, a few blocks from the Fox News Channel studio where he now broadcasts his eponymous program every afternoon.</p>
<p>via <a href='http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703436504574641192528461858.html'>Interview with Glenn Beck: &#8216;Nobody&#8217;s Watching Charlie Rose&#8217; &#8211; WSJ.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>Former Archbishop of Canterbury Cautions against Islamic Immigration</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lord Carey challenges creeping Sharia in Great Britain.]]></description>
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<p><span lang="EN">Former Archbishop of Canterbury is ruffling British cultural and religious elites by warning against uncontrolled Islamic immigration that threatens Britain’s ”very ethos or DNA.”</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">“The idea that Britain can continue to welcome with open arms immigrants who immediately establish their own tribunals to apply Sharia, rather than make use of British civil law, is deeply socially divisive,” Lord Carey warned in a January 7 <em>Times</em> <em>of London</em> op-ed. “The last thing any of us want is ghettos. And while we don’t expect groups to assimilate, there must be a willingness on their part to integrate with the rest of British society.”<span style="color: #1f497d;"> </span>Carey was appointed to his former position by Margaret Thatcher and, in retirement, has sometimes offered a corrective to the left-leaning proclivities of his successor, Archbishop Rowan Williams.<span style="color: #1f497d;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">In America, as in Britain, left-leaning religious groups, most recently the U.S. National Association of Evangelicals, are urging more liberalized immigration laws.   In Britain, the stakes are higher, with proportionally much higher levels of Muslim immigration, creating pockets of urban culture where Islamic mores prevail.  Carey has joined a coalition of British parliamentarians urging sharper controls on immigration.  But somewhat unlike the parliamentary group, the former head of the Church of England and the global Anglican Communion is specifically urging that immigrants affirm Britain’s democratic heritage. </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">Citing the monarchy, Parliament, the judiciary, the Church of England, and a free press, Carey lamented that “some groups of migrants” are “ambivalent about or even hostile to such institutions” because they embody the Britain’s “liberal democratic values.”  He specifically exampled a proposed antiwar Islamist march as evidence of the dangers that “extremists pose to British society.” </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">As in America, where left-leaning religious elites deride any concerns about immigration as xenophobic, Carey has been widely lambasted in Britain.  And he stands virtually alone as a senior churchman public urging more careful immigration, with an eye to Islam’s potentially dangerous growth. </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">In a recent BBC radio broadcast, Carey shared his desire for a “country that values its Christian heritage and democratic standards and all that this country has fought over.”  He also asserted that Britain needs a “tougher church” as “Christians are so very often so soft” and “allow other people to walk over us” because “we don’t want to upset other people.”   Britain’s retired senior archbishop declared Christians must be “more outspoken.”   The Christian and Jewish idea to ‘welcome the stranger” must be affirmed, Carey said.  But uncontrolled immigration could allow Britain to be “destabilized” and the creation of “ghettoes.”</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">“Too often in recent years the call for a rational debate on mass migration has degenerated into name-calling and charges of racism,” Carey bemoaned in his newspaper op-ed.  “Even the campaign for Balanced Migration, which I have supported, representing cross-party politicians, has barely been heeded by party leaders who have run scared of the issue.”  Britain should “welcome the contribution of both economic migrants and asylum seekers to our lively cosmopolitan culture.”  But uncontrolled borders that permit “new communities whose values are sometimes very different, even antithetical, to our own,” will stretch “almost to breaking point the enormous reserves of tolerance and generosity of the British people” and could damage Britain’s “future harmony.” </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">Carey warned that irresponsible immigration policies policies would facilitate support for the far-right British National Party  and “otherwise decent people supporting modern-day fascism.”  In somewhat veiled critique of the current British government, Carey noted the Prime Minister has emphasized “shared values” such as “tolerance, fair play, pluralism.”   But Carey retorted that those traits are not uniquely British and the nation must also look to “language, institutions and our shared history in valuing what it means to be British and what we could lose if the make-up of our nation changes too rapidly.” </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">“It is my firm view that our society owes more to our Christian heritage than it realizes and to overlook this inheritance of faith will lead to the watering down of the very values of tolerance, openness, inclusion and democracy that we claim are central to all we stand for,” Carey warned.  In his radio interview, he rejected any specific immigration policy against “</span>non-Christian populations,” which would violate Britain’s “generous spirit.”   But he did urge immigration policies that favored immigrants who affirm British “values.”</p>
<p>Other religious voices have responded negatively to Carey.  <span lang="EN">Bishop of Lincoln <a title="John Saxbee" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/John+Saxbee" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">John Saxbee</span></a>, the Church of England&#8217;s immigration spokesman in the <a title="House of Lords" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.independent.ie/topics/House+of+Lords" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">House of Lords</span></a>, demanded a &#8220;more nuanced&#8221; approach from Carey.  &#8220;Christians across the country work hard to generate a culture of hospitality rather than hostility towards those who come to live, work and worship among us,” Saxbee was quoted as saying in the <em>Independent of Ireland</em>.  &#8220;I am sure Lord Carey would not want to do or say anything which might make our task more difficult in that respect,&#8221; he harrumphed. </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN">United Reformed Church clergy and social justice activist Vaughan Jones was quoted by <em>Ekklesia</em> as more explicitly deriding Carey’s stance. </span>&#8220;Crude, populist and simplistic comments like those of the former Archbishop add nothing new or helpful to the debate,” he sniffed.  “The migrant is not a stranger to the church to be accepted or rejected at our convenience. We are brothers and sisters within a transnational and interdependent global community which transcends the Archbishop&#8217;s narrow and outdated nationalism.”</p>
<p>Traditional Religious Left voices simplistically distill immigration law as simply a question of “hospitality.”   Lord Carey, with more nuance than his ostensibly more sophisticated critics, seems to understand civil law’s supreme obligation to safeguard society.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why another book on the 2008 campaign, a year after the inauguration of President Obama? What more is there to say about a race that was covered day in and day out by newspapers, magazines, television, radio and bloggers? Is there anything more to learn about the candidates — and does it matter to an [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why another book on the 2008 campaign, a year after the inauguration of President Obama? What more is there to say about a race that was covered day in and day out by newspapers, magazines, television, radio and bloggers? Is there anything more to learn about the candidates — and does it matter to an American public now focused on unemployment and health care and terrorism?</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/books/11book.html?hpw">Books of The Times &#8211; In ‘Game Change,’ Insight, Anew, on the 2008 Campaign &#8211; Review &#8211; NYTimes.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>Danny Glover</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from the Danny Glover profile: Glover supports Not In Our Name, the Revolutionary Communist Party movement which “pledges resistance to [America's] endless war, detentions and roundups, [and] attacks on civil liberties.” Glover is a strong backer of the socialist magazine Monthly Review, which he says “challenges us to think, inspires us to action, and makes us realize that the impossible is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><strong><em>Excerpt from the Danny Glover profile:</em></strong></p>
<p><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium 'Times New Roman'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: #000000; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px">Glover supports <a style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://frontpagemag.com/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6163">Not In Our Name</a>, the </span><a style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://frontpagemag.com/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197">Revolutionary Communist Party</a> movement which “pledges resistance to [America's] endless war, detentions and roundups, [and] attacks on civil liberties.”</span></p>
<p><span style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium 'Times New Roman'; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: #000000; WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">Glover is a strong backer of the socialist magazine </span><em><a style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://frontpagemag.com/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7105">Monthly Review</a></em>, which he <a style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.monthlyreview.org/aboutmr.htm">says</a> “challenges us to think, inspires us to action, and makes us realize that the impossible is only difficult, not insurmountable.”</p>
<p>On several occasions, Glover has <a style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/mack-assails-glovers-movie-deal-with-hugo-chavez-2007-05-22.html" target="_blank">visited</a> Venezuela and made guest appearances on President<a style="COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://frontpagemag.com/individualProfile.asp?indid=2144">Hugo Chavez</a>&#8216;s television and radio talk show, <em>Hello, President</em>. Glover is a Board member of Venezuela&#8217;s &#8220;TeleSUR&#8221; news network, which Chavez created in 2005&#8230;.</p>
<p><strong><em>To view the full Danny Glover profile, </em></strong><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1119"><strong><em>click here</em></strong></a><strong><em>.</em></strong></p>
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		<title>Putin to Consider New Presidential Bid &#8211; WSJ.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Laksin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an electric four-hour solo performance on live television, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he will think about whether to reclaim the presidency &#8212; one of the strongest signals yet that he may run again for Russia&#8217;s top office in 2012. Mr. Putin, who also vowed that Russia would step up its efforts against terrorism, [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In an electric four-hour solo performance on live television, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he will think about whether to reclaim the presidency &#8212; one of the strongest signals yet that he may run again for Russia&#8217;s top office in 2012.</p>
<p>Mr. Putin, who also vowed that Russia would step up its efforts against terrorism, spoke during a question-and-answer show on television and radio that highlighted his dominance of Russia&#8217;s political scene.</p>
<p>&#8220;I will think about it, there is still enough time,&#8221; Mr. Putin said when asked whether he will run in the next election.</p>
<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t hold your breath,&#8221; Mr. Putin told another person who asked whether he was planning to leave politics.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125984321465074499.html">Putin to Consider New Presidential Bid &#8211; WSJ.com</a>.</p>
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