Apr 272010
 
FBI: U.S. Citizen Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Al Qaeda

Syed Hashmi, aka “Fahad,” pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiracy to provide material support to al Qaeda, announced Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Hashmi, 30, was arrested on June 6, 2006 at Heathrow Airport in London, shortly before he was to board a flight to Pakistan. [Read more...]

Apr 272010
 
Civil Rights Groups Protest Arizona Immigration Law, File Suit Over Federal Program

Civil rights and immigrant-advocacy groups teamed up Tuesday to condemn the recently passed Arizona immigration legislation as racist, as they filed a lawsuit seeking more information about a separate federal immigration program. Civil rights and immigrant-advocacy groups teamed up Tuesday to condemn the recently passed Arizona immigration legislation as racist, as they filed a lawsuit [Read more...]

Apr 272010
 
Rick Sanchez Forwards CAIR's Implication That Opponents of Islam are Nazis

MRC On Tuesday’s Rick List, CNN’s Rick Sanchez unquestioningly forwarded Islamic advocacy group CAIR’s admitted speculation about a Virginia license plate containing a supposed coded message of white supremacy/neo-Naziism, which they found on a pickup truck that also had an anti-Islamic message on it. The group thus tied by implication opposition to the Mohammedan faith [Read more...]

Apr 272010
 

FOX Obama also offered fresh, stern criticism of a new Arizona law that allows police to question anyone about their immigration status if they have reason to suspect they are in the country illegally OTTUMWA, Iowa — President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned of harassment against Hispanics under Arizona’s tough new immigration law, saying such [Read more...]

Apr 272010
 
( IN Depth Piece by JP ) Panthers deem flap over voting 'error' and History

~Washington Times In its first public comments about a controversial voter-intimidation case, the New Black Panther Party said it did not break any laws and praised a decision by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s Justice Department to dismiss a civil complaint in the matter. A written statement by the party, issued Friday during a [Read more...]

Apr 272010
 
Lawmakers Accuse GM, Administration of Misleading Public Over Loan Repayment

A handful of lawmakers are accusing General Motors of misleading the public by continuing to claim as part of its advertising blitz that the auto giant has repaid its government loans “in full.” General Motors has been running ads on all the major networks claiming the company repaid its $6.7 billion U.S. government loan “with [Read more...]

Apr 272010
 

MRC On Saturday’s Good Morning America, reporter Mike Von Fremd downplayed the violence of protesters against Arizona’s new immigration law. He spun, “Riot police were called in to try and control demonstrators protesting outside the capital. Most were peaceful. A handful threw bottles at police and were arrested.” Yet, ABC derided March’s Tea Party rallies [Read more...]

Apr 272010
 
Obama Sends in the Clowns

With a potential political bloodbath looming in November, liberals are understandably desperate. They see it all slipping away and it shows. The grassroots groundswell of opposition to Obama’s neo-Marxist, secular-humanist agenda intensifies daily despite the left’s best efforts to silence dissent. Commensurate with plummeting poll numbers and evaporating public trust, Democrats, media elites and the [Read more...]

Apr 272010
 

NEW YORK (AP) – Regulators on Friday shut down seven banks in Illinois, putting the number of U.S. bank failures this year at 57. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over four banks in Chicago: New Century Bank (CBAO), with $485.6 million in assets; Citizens Bank (CZMO)&Trust Company, with $77.3 million in assets; Broadway Bank, [Read more...]