The Pew Research Center just concluded an exhaustive scientific study of the size of the U.S. Muslim population. It was able to identify only 2.35 million Muslims — less than half the figure commonly cited by Muslim activists.

Pew, a liberal group with certainly no interest in marginalizing Islam, described its study as "perhaps the most rigorous effort to date to scientifically estimate the size of the Muslim American population."

Yet it practically apologized for its more accurate reading, being that it came in "significantly below some commonly reported estimates frequently cited by Muslim groups."

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Young adults who binge drink frequently are more likely to show disadvantageous decision-making patterns than their peers who don't drink as heavily, a new study shows.

Furthermore, the earlier a person begins to binge drink, the stronger the tie to poor decision-making skills, Dr. Anna E. Goudriaan and colleagues from the University of Missouri-Columbia report.

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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Wednesday that Republican conservatives working to block an immigration bill risk endorsing a "silent amnesty" by insisting on deportations that are "not going to happen."

Chertoff also leveled criticism at liberal immigrant rights advocates, saying they could prolong the anguish of immigrant families by withholding support for legislation that could make them legal.

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The tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda sought to enlist other countries Tuesday in targeting the United States over Washington's failure to comply with a WTO ruling that its Internet gambling restrictions were illegal.

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(From thesmokinggun.com) MAY 24--In a recent raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. military officials recovered an assortment of crude drawings depicting torture methods like "blowtorch to the skin" and "eye removal." Along with the images, which you'll find on the following pages, soldiers seized various torture implements, like meat cleavers, whips, and wire cutters. Photos of those items can be seen here.

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Democrat presidential candidates are doing the nutroots tango. Heading to the YearlyKos Convention in Chicago this August: Edwards, Obama, and Richardson. Here's the Kos press release published today  (Hat tip Michelle Malkin)

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"By framing this as a 'war,' we have walked straight into the trap that the terrorists have set -- that we are engaged in some kind of clash of civilizations and a war against Islam," said the former senator from North Carolina.

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A man once called one of the Internet's most notorious pirates of music and movies was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for blowing up a portable toilet, prosecutors said.

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Canadian researchers say they have developed the most detailed model of a human yet, a movable "4D" image that doctors can use to plan complex surgery or show patients what ailments look like inside their bodies.

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Leadership: After being told over and over by President Jimmy Carter that America's ability to influence world events was "very limited," the Soviet Union believed him and invaded Afghanistan. And al-Qaida was born.

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Manuel Flores is an illegal alien fugitive from the law. He is accused of raping and sodomizing his girlfriend's nine-year-old daughter.

Nine-year-old daughter.

Manuel Flores is free, reportedly headed back to Mexico, because federal immigration officials screwed up, according to a local Denver report. I linked to this story earlier today, but it deserves greater exposure. And it deserves the attention of DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, who has been too busy demonizing immigration enforcement proponents to make sure his behemoth bureaucracy is doing its damned job:  (Hat tip Michelle Malkin, HotAir)

(Editorial note: I intend to post this pic with every immigration-related story we post here at The Saloon until our elected representatives get the message that We The People are tired of the spoon-fed propaganda on immigration we've been getting so far and we start seeing Congress and the President enact tough legislation on the law-breakers, particularly those who employ illegals)

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The first stage in the scenario involves multiple terrorist attacks on three major U.S. cities, preferably with nuclear weapons, using an unspecified number of trucks. The scenario places priority on attacking New York City because it is the central artery of the U.S. economy and it would prove that the mujahideen are capable of recurrent attacks on the same target. The second city to attack is Los Angeles, an important West Coast "atheist" city. The third "city" to be attacked is Florida because, they argue, it is an East Coast congregation city and has the Kennedy Space Center (considering the description, the statement's authors probably meant Orlando). While those are the three primary cities for attack, the writers of the document suggest that if the mujahideen wish to expedite the collapse of the United States, they should also conduct attacks in Seattle since it is a strategic border city; Washington, DC, the political center of the United States; and cities in Texas, since the "biggest oil companies" are located

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Mercifully, 24 wrapped up this week, capping what many people would say was its worst season ever. These are people who have short memories. Sure this season had Jack showing up in a ridiculous yak beard and included Audrey Raines cowering like the boy who’d been raised by wolves, but a quick glance at our list of The 10 Most Ludicrous Moments In The History Of 24 reveals that, mathematically speaking, the current season isn’t the absolute worst.

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The enforcement side of the debate is clearly where the public passion lies on the issue. Seventy-two percent (72%) of voters say it is Very Important for “the government to improve its enforcement of the borders and reduce illegal immigration.” That view is held by 89% of Republicans, 65% of Democrats, and 63% of unaffiliated voters.…

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Liberals think it’s too harsh, conservatives think it’s far too lenient, labor unions don’t like it, and immigrant activist groups demand more and more.  And the President can’t seem to wait to sign whatever kind of illegal immigration amnesty…er, reform…that Congress sends him.  Meanwhile, the most important group largely ignored in the whole discussion, that is the American people, are stirred to anger and are deluging Capitol Hill and the White House with letter, emails and phone calls…

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Once the nation's leading civil liberties group and a reliable defender of everyone's speech rights, the ACLU is being transformed into just another liberal human-rights group that reliably defends the rights of liberal speakers.

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Hanna Yousef Tamer watches hopelessly as her year-old daughter, Mahdi, writhes on pink sheets in a crowded ward of the Ibn Al-Baladi Pediatric Hospital in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City. The feeble child cries and looks around the bustling room through hollowed eyes.

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Embedded journalists in Iraq are having their minds changed left and right by U.S. soldiers.

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