Senior Obama Advisor Valarie Jarrett celebrated MLK Day by using the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta for a rabid political speech damning Republicans and shilling for her boss: "Teachers, and firefighters, and policemen, whose jobs are now in jeopardy because Congress--well let me be specific--because the Republicans in Congress," Jarrett told the crowd. According to the CBS affiliate in Atlant...

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To vandalize an old Who song, meet the new boss...worse than the old boss. As Rodrigo Veleda reveals, quoting from Le Parisien, Abdelhakim Belhaj, Tripoli's new military governor and a key figure in Libya's National Transitional Council, the rebel coalition is also a leader of the al-Qaeda affiliate Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. The Arabs certainly know whom he is, even if NATO and the ...

Congressman Peter King( R-NY)chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security has announced a third hearing on Islamic radicalization in America.

 The hearing which will focus on the Somali al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab’s ongoing recruitment, radicalization, and training of young Muslim-Americans in the US and will convene July 27th. The first hearing King conducted focused on the g...

The CIA is reported to have used unmanned drones to target leaders of al-Q'aida's affiliate in Somalia for the first time, attacks coinciding with the unveiling of a new US counterterrorism strategy shifting the war on terror away from costly battlefields and toward expanded covert operations.

It's about time someone told these racist swine where to get off. Newly elected Republican Governor Paul LePage was asked by local CNN affiliate WCSH about criticism he received from the NAACP for refusing to attend an event at the state prison it's sponsoring on behalf of Martin Luther King Day. His response is a real classic: "They are a special interest. End of story...and I'm no...

I'm grateful to a commenter for explaining that the reason why Labour NEC Member Christine Shawcroft is shown in the list of the Hard Left "Labour Representation Committee's" (LRC's) National Committee with NUM Nottinghamshire Ex and Retired Miners' Association next to her name when she is not a retired miner. Apparently you don't have to be a member of the affiliate that nominates you. In which c...

A disclosure that bombs packed in air freight packages and addressed to Chicago synagogues began their journey in Yemen suggests that al-Qaeda's local affiliate has withstood a crackdown, retaining the ability to strike beyond the country's borders

Another day brings another bizarre email piece of muppetry from Compass. Why are they running a "Labour Leadership Ballot"? They are not an affiliate so have no nomination rights. I presume that like all the other campaigning groups within the Party they have supporters of different leadership candidates in their ranks - in Compass' case quite likely all five. What does measuring the support do? W...

Denials from David Cameron that he has links with an extreme right-wing group are questioned in today’s Guardian: David Cameron has been accused of being “completely dishonest” about his links to a controversial Conservative party affiliate whose leadership has described the NHS as the biggest waste of money in the UK and suggested that