“While George Bush and his Muslim hating cronies high-five each other over Abu's murder, I would like to share with you another side of this very complex man. As many of you know, as part of my official capacity as Speaker of the House, I completed a tour of the Middle East last month. During my time in Iraq, I met with Abu and several of his freedom fighting colleagues. While they have been branded as misogynistic and backward thinking by many on the right in our country, I found the exact opposite to be true.

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Non-Muslims are excluded from the secretive court which is registered as a charity to receive British tax benefits.

Although the court has no official legal standing, scales of justice adorn a sign outside a former pub building which has been converted by the Islamic Institute of Great Britain.

Last night the Sharia courts were blasted by both Christian and Muslim groups for their non-democratic attempts to establish their legal system.

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A cameraman for the NBC affiliate in Houston was captured on home video sporting a Mexican flag on his camera while covering a rally in the Texas city that supported illegal immigrants, drawing angry shouts from counter-protesters.

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On the last day of official campaigning, opinion polls showed Sarkozy enjoyed a commanding lead over Royal, who accused the former interior minister of lying and polarizing France.

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At a time when federal officials are stressing the need to beef up U.S. border security, the State Department has hired a firm to recruit veteran law officers who will serve as "mentors" and train Iraqis to guard their borders.

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"It’s all about the numbers in the victimhood bullying game," says Christine at the Vigilant Freedom blog (thanks to all who sent this in). In "Audio from CAIR’s Meeting on 6 Imams at ADAMS Center," she presents a transcript of CAIR's cofounder and executive director Nihad Awad exhorting Muslims to play the victimhood game more effectively.

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Samuel Stupp has a bunch of mice that used to drag their hind legs behind them when they crawled around his Illinois lab, but they have miraculously regained at least partial use of their rear legs.

Astonishingly, their severed spinal cords have been repaired, at least partly, without surgery or drugs.

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How do you get rid of the body of a dead astronaut on a three-year mission to Mars and back?  When should the plug be pulled on a critically ill astronaut who is using up precious oxygen and endangering the rest of the crew? Should NASA employ DNA testing to weed out astronauts who might get a disease on a long flight?

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ABC reported yesterday on Lt. Eva Crouch, who served for 18 months in Iraq only to come home to a court battle. Prior to leaving, she had been her daughter ’s primary custodian and an active parent. More shocking, is that she LOST in Family Court and her ex-husband was awarded custody.

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"I'm concerned this is where UBL (Usama Bin Laden) and his operatives want to go," he writes. "If they can arrange to set off a mushroom cloud, they make history. ... My deepest fear is that this exactly what they intend."

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During the last 10,000 years climate has been seesawing between the North and South Atlantic Oceans. As revealed by findings presented by Quaternary scientists at Lund University, Sweden, cold periods in the north have corresponded to warmth in the south and vice verse. These results imply that Europe may face a slightly cooler future than predicted by IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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"It bothers Americans when we're told how unpopular we are with the rest of the world. For some of us, at least, it gets our back up -- and our natural tendency is to tell the French, for example, that we'd rather not hear from them until the day when they need us to bail them out again."

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A former Target employee who was turned down for a private security license and planned to "cause havoc" was identified Monday as the man suspected of killing two people in a crowded mall parking lot before he was slain by police.

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Terrorist attacks worldwide shot up 25 percent last year, particularly in Iraq where extremists used chemical weapons and homicide bombers to target crowds, according to a new State Department report.

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Conservatives dominate talk radio—but no more thoroughly than liberals dominate Hollywood, academia and much of the mainstream media.

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“Bernstein reaches conclusions that stand in opposition to what Senator Clinton has said in the past and has written in the past,” said Paul Bogaards, a spokesman for Knopf, which publishes the book on June 19.

With the thoroughness for which he is famous, Bernstein spoke to more than 200 of Clinton’s friends, colleagues and adversaries. He stops short of accusing the New York senator of blatantly lying about her past, but has unearthed examples of where she has played fast and loose with the facts about her “personal and political life”, according to Knopf.

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