Female genital mutilation, commonly associated with parts of Africa and the Middle East, is becoming a growing problem in Britain despite efforts to stamp it out. London's Metropolitan Police, Britain's largest police force, hopes a campaign beginning on Wednesday will highlight that the practice is a crime here.

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Senior U.S. intelligence officials tell ABC News new intelligence suggests a small al Qaeda cell is on its way to the United States, or may already be here.

The White House has convened an urgent multi-agency meeting for Thursday afternoon to deal with the new threat.

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The ACLU will fight to the death any sign of religion, except Islam.  Baffles the mind how anti-Christian this group is, they aren't even trying to hide it anymore...

(CNSNews.com) - Decisions by public schools and colleges to provide special prayer times or to make other allowances for Muslim students have raised eyebrows -- but not all groups that oppose expressions of religion in the public domain are speaking out.

In one instance, the University of Michigan is preparing to spend $25,000 to install two footbaths at its Dearborn campus to accommodate Muslim students wanting to wash their feet before prayers.

Muslims initially were willing to raise the money to cover the cost, but the Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union -- often a foe of faith in the public square -- said there was no constitutional reason why the university could not fund the project.

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Air Force Airman Jonathan Schrieken, 22, is fighting for his life after being shot in the heart while standing outside his home near McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey on July 4th by a gunman intending to make an antiwar statement.

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it was nonmusicians at this concert who made the most passionate pleas about demanding action for the environment. "Get rid of all these rotten politicians that we have in Washington, who are nothing more than corporate toadies," said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the environmentalist author, president of Waterkeeper Alliance and Robert F. Kennedy's son, who grew hoarse from shouting. "This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors." (Hat tip HotAir.com)

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USAF has been steadily injecting new equipment and forces into this vast and explosive region

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For the first time the leading candidates for the presidency will hold a televised debate devoted solely to LGBT issues.

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What's a campground or RV park without Internet access these days? People say they want to get away from it all, but that doesn't necessarily mean they want to live without e-mail.

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Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip last month after routing forces loyal to the secular Abbas, has been criticized by al-Qaida's number second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, who had accused it of serving U.S. interests.

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Thousands of Argentines cheered and threw snowballs in the streets of Buenos Aires on Monday as the capital's first major snowfall since 1918 spread a thin white mantle across the region.

Wet snow fell for hours in the Argentine capital, accumulating in a mushy but thin white layer late Monday, after freezing air from Antarctica collided with a moisture-laden low pressure system that blanketed higher elevations in western and central Argentina with snow.

"Despite all my years, this is the first time I've ever seen in snow in Buenos Aires," said Juana Benitez, an 82-year-old who joined children celebrating in the streets.

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Synthetic biology is an emerging field which involves the engineering of biological organisms. One of the first applications has been developed by a team of researchers from the MIT and Boston University who built viruses to combat harmful ‘biofilms’. These bacteriophages — or phages — could soon be used to destroy bacterial biofilms in hard to reach places such as the insides of food processing machines. These phages are not allowed for use in humans in the U.S., but they could be approved for future phage-containing drugs for use in livestock.

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"I say to (Britain's Queen) Elizabeth and (former British Prime Minister Tony) Blair that your message has reached us and we are in the process of preparing for you a precise response," Zawahiri said in an audio recording posted on an Internet website often used by Islamic militants.

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Okay, well, my parents knew exactly where I was every moment when I was eleven (and for many years after). If it was during the school day, you can bet that the school would have called home if I wasn't in class. If I lit a cigarette in front of my parents while I was a minor, my folks would have snapped my neck.

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Also, a sharp mind in Washington tells me, "if the abortion group isn't willing to produce the invoices they paid the law firm (which will have every [bad word]ing lawyer's name on the bill), they should go to hell."

A state lawmaker who opposed a bill giving Texans stronger right to defend themselves with deadly force pulled a gun and shot a man he says was trying to steal copper wiring from a construction site, police said Monday.

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Is Harry Potter becoming a Gay Icon?

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Last weekend, Bend gas station owner Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some drinks and snacks - and a parachute.

Attached to the lawn chair were 105 balloons of various colors, each 4 feet around. Bundled together, the balloons rise three stories high.

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Ward Churchill speaking at the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair...

"There is no point in arguing about the best ways to combat global terrorism or about the dangers to our freedoms from certain surveillance and capture-and-hold programs versus the need to protect innocent Americans, if the person you are debating does not hold the same, basic assumptions you hold – namely that Christianity and Western Civilization are worth defending. We all need to understand that there are millions of “Ward Churchills” out there, and that resistance to our attempts to defend America and Western Culture comes not only from principled disagreement or attempts to gain political advantage, but also comes from people who want our country and our culture to fail."

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When tree hugging enviromentalism destroys a state's computer system...

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Force readiness has dropped by 17 percentage points

Three decades ago (during the Carter Administration), when Steven Pennington entered the Air Force, the service was facing such deep budget problems that squadrons were running out of toilet paper. It was the nadir of the infamous “hollow force” era, the post-Vietnam hangover that saw military readiness fall to calamitous levels.

“In some ways, the problem is worse now,” charged Pennington, now a colonel serving as the Air Force Operations Group commander at the Pentagon.

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